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...said. Contrast that to today’s EWC, with catered banquets and corporate sponsorships and endorsements. (Such progress wasn’t proof against the experience of Gisela Mohring ’00. An EWC public-relations chair who went on to work in public relations for Dana Farber, Mohring is saddled with the memory of chasing Oksana Baiul’s escaped and frantically urinating chihuahua through the locker rooms of the Bright Hockey Center...
...from trying to move the crowds out of their way, those drivers were beeping in support of theJimmy Fund—the Longwood-based charity that was holding its 13th annual marathon walk on behalf of its parent, the Dana Farber Cancer Center. The Jimmy Fund looks to receive “unrestricted funds,” for which Dana Farber finds the “most pressing current use.” That use is never a secret. At each of the route’s mileposts - from the Hopkinton town green to the finish line set into...
...years no one outside of Dana Farber and practically no one inside it knew anything about the original “Jimmy” of the eponymous Fund. They knew that there had been a 1948 broadcast—when the Dana Farber Center, then known as the Children’s Cancer Research Foundation, was one year old—of the Ralph Edwards Show from the bedside of a boy identified only as “Jimmy” to protect his privacy. Edwards was conducting a radio-thon to buy Jimmy a TV so that Jimmy...
Smith is one of Boston's leading businessmen. Chairman and CEO of Harcourt General, Inc. and the Neiman Marcus Group, Smith has spent much of his life working in the non-profit sector, serving as chair of the board of both the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Facing History and Ourselves Foundation...
Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the U.S. and the Helsinki and Turku Universities in Finland are already trying Glivec on a rare abdominal cancer called GIST (for gastrointestinal stromal tumor). More common malignancies, such as cancers of the breast and colon, arise as a result of several genetic accidents and so are unlikely to respond to Glivec. But at the very least, the drug's preliminary successes have given cancer researchers promising avenues to pursue. And sometimes that...