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...average gift, ranging from netbooks to handheld video game systems, costs around $300, according to Les G. Friedman, Mikey’s father and the CEO of Mikey’s Way. He added that the foundation also gives televisions and gaming systems to equip the hospitals’ permanent playrooms...
This year Mikey’s Way will serve eight hospitals, and each donation run will cost between $8,000 and $10,000 in private donations...
...Cancer research [and] all those foundations that deal with tomorrow are wonderful. But these kids are suffering today,” Les Friedman said. “My dream would be to do 52 Mikey’s Way Days a year...
...first stops for networking has been at Harvard, with Friedman’s friends. Friedman’s former roommate Mark A. Isaacson ’11, a Crimson editorial columnist, said that he and other friends plan to work next fall to give Mikey’s Way a sustainable presence on the Harvard campus through creating a Harvard chapter of the foundation and possibly partnering with the Cancer Society...
Friedman, who is remembered as an optimist by his friends, did not talk much about Mikey’s Way or his own battle with cancer during his time at Harvard. Emily S. Shire ’11, a friend of Friedman’s and an inactive Crimson magazine editor, said that she did not know about his cancer until nearly the end of their freshman year...