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With volunteers like Alyssa, EWC recovered from its fiasco and stepped up its fundrasing efforts by sending a cadre of walkers and supporters to the Jimmy Fund’s marathon...
This advice had been one portion of the briefings issued by the experienced walkers that morning, as an improvised contingent of EWC members and other Eliot residents gathered and poised themselves long before dawn in the House’s stone breezeway. It was so early it was late, as the group exchanged knowing nods for the silent, evasive greetings of young Eliot men on their long and chilly walk home. To wear two pairs of socks, to smear Vaseline on feet to cut down on friction—these had been part of the warning as well...
Beyond the walkers, the EWC contribution to the marathon—organized by Jen M. Rodriguez ’03—ncluded volunteers staffing one of the ten water and first-aid stations along the route. Jen was among them, as was Kris. Later they were joined by co-Master Anna Bensted at the Natick station who helped them pass out oranges, bananas, chocolate-chip cookies...
...Jimmy, his identity was protected under patient-confidentiality rights. Given the grave nature of his disease, EWC had always assumed that Jimmy passed away soon after the radio broadcast.There was no reason to believe otherwise until 1998–just before the organization’s 50th-anniversary celebration–when Jimmy’s sister called the Dana Farber Center with the news that her brother was very much alive. He was a truck driver in northern Maine named Einar Gustasson...
...Evening With Champions: Friday and Saturday evening shows, and also a Saturday matinee after which Jimmy Fund kids are invited with their parents and siblings to a much-loved “Kids’ Party.” For Kris Mendez, this is the most memorable event the EWC holds since it is the most immediate. “I can still see their faces,” he said. “That’s where it struck me that this isn’t about ‘poor kids with cancer.’ It?...