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Public Employee Press
Divisions raise
funds, for hospital Maybe you caught
Marlo Thomas on the Today show in November making the pitch for holiday
giving to the St. Judes Childrens Research Hospital. Or perhaps youve
seen one of the many heart-wrenching television ads featuring the hospitals
cherubic children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. When
they saw the St. Judes children on TV, David Catala and Yesenia Jessie
Colon of DC 37s Blue Collar Division and Myrtle London and Marlene Nurse
of the Hospitals Division decided the institution would be a great place to help
with the funds from the divisions annual holiday giving tree. DC
37 Executive Director Lillian Roberts applauded the generosity of the givers,
who raised a total of $400 for the charity from the staff and local presidents.
This is the true spirit of the holiday, she said. People always
receive more than they give when they dedicate their hard-earned dollars towards
helping others. The hospital, founded by the late entertainer Danny
Thomas (father of Marlo) in 1962, is located in Memphis, Tenn. He pledged that
all of the knowledge gained from the facilitys cutting-edge research would
be freely shared with the rest of the world. St. Jude treats children from across
the United States and from more than 70 countries. The hospital, renowned for
its advances in research, maintains an International Outreach Program to improve
the survival rates of children with catastrophic diseases. | |