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An Independent Newspaper Serving Broken Sound & Bocaire

VOL. 17 NO. 5 www.seabreezepublications.com MAY 2023

Greg Wheaton Announces More Than 190 Physicians

Retirement After 32 Years Nominated by Community

as Broken Sound Club’s for 25th Anniversary

Director of Tennis “Honor Your Doctor” Luncheon

If anyone can be said to Breaking a 25-year
have “aced” a chosen career record for the number of
with skill, grace and the attendees and monies raised,
appreciation and admiration Palm Beach County’s
of all who have come to finest healthcare providers
know him, an unquestioned were celebrated at the 25th
example would be Greg Anniversary “Honor Your
Wheaton. Doctor” Luncheon. Presented
Over the past 32 years, by the Rotary Club Downtown
Greg has been the official Boca Raton, the awards event,
face of tennis at Broken attended by more than 300
Sound Club as its Director of guests and physicians, was
Tennis from the time he first Greg Wheaton…at left, when he joined Broken Sound, and held March 29th, the day
stepped on one of its courts today, handsome as ever. before National Doctors Day From left: Boca Raton Mayor Scott Singer, Dr. Jeffrey Stein,
in 1991 at the age of 33. at Boca West Country Club. In Dr. David Taub, Dr. Jeffrey Miller
He has seen the club’s facilities grow to include 23 Hard-Tru courts and a beautiful appreciation, each nominated
tennis stadium—where members have competed for the past 22 years in the annual Broken doctor received a crystal globe on a pedestal engraved with his or her name.

Greg Wheaton Announces Retirement on page 3 More Than 190 Physicians Nominated on page 4

People You Should Know…

Broken Sound’s Sal and Wendy Caragliano:

An Inspiring, Loving, Patriotic Family

Sal and Wendy Caragliano moved from Great Neck, N.Y. to
Broken Sound Club in 2008 after he retired from a successful
career in logistics and real estate.
In that same year, Gina’s childhood sweetheart, the
handsome, athletic Ben Harrow, having graduated from
West Point Military Academy after starring on its Division I
Lacrosse team, asked for her hand in marriage.
Ben had graduated in 2005 from West Point and earned a
coveted commission as an Infantry Officer. After graduating
from the United States Army Ranger School, he was assigned
to a 15-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi
Freedom with the 1st Cavalry Division. He completed the Sal and Wendy, together with their son, Sal
Special Forces Qualification Course, becoming a Green Beret Sal and Wendy Caragliano Jr. and wife, Ariana.
Officer in 2010 and charged with commanding Special Forces
Operational Detachment Alpha 7215 on his first deployment to Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan. Sal organized those fund-raising
Captain Ben Harrow then took command of ODA 7211 on his second deployment with the 7th tournaments with the cooperation of Broken Ben and Gina Harrow and their children,
Special Forces Group to the Panjawai District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Sound’s management for six consecutive Peyton and Marchesa
With Ben assigned to duty in Afghanistan, reporting to the family about the horrors his years, and the idea sparked a similar
wounded comrades were experiencing and being sent stateside for treatment—and the aftermath tournament held at Bocaire.
of the 9/11 Twin Towers tragedy still filling the daily headlines here at home—Sal Sr. decided to But what had started as an act with a purely objective and patriotic motivation by Sal
launch a series of annual fund-raising golf tournaments at Broken Sound Club with all proceeds suddenly turned ironically and, unfortunately, personal.
being shared between the 9/11 First Responders “Tunnel 2 Towers” Fund and a fund for the
wounded veterans from Afghanistan. People You Should Know… on page 6

St. Andrews and Bocaire members are invited to join
Broken Sound’s Magic Hands Knitting Club for weekly
friendship, fun and charity meetings. (See page 8)

Correction: Last month’s Boca Club News described Broken Sound’s newly
reopened clubhouse as 100,000 square feet in size. We have been informed that,
after its architectural makeover, it is now 130,000 square feet. Correction noted.