St. Jude Children’s Hospital Benefit Auction
Celebrating 52 years of helping kids!
1962 – 2014
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Hi all, I’m Gerald Hebert and I have been the
coordinator in this event for the last 2 years and it has been great, but
because of health issues, I have decided to step down and let someone younger
and eager take my place. I have enjoyed
sending the many benefit checks to St. Jude, and they tell me they were really
surprised at how much we were able to raise with this small event. I want to thank ipigeon (Fred, Fred, and
Sharon) for all their help also. The new
coordinator will be John Tierney of Maryland.
I wish him all the luck and please help him as you have helped me in
this great cause. His address and info.
is here;
John Tierney
27600 Dawn Acres
Lane
Mechanicsville, MD
20659
240-299-5478
Welcome
to our St. Jude event page. We are hosting this event to raise money that will
help St. Jude Children's Research Hospital find new treatments for childhood
cancer and other catastrophic diseases. You can help St. Jude continue its
lifesaving work against pediatric diseases with your donation. Check back often
to see our progress. Thanks for helping us reach our goal for the kids of St.
Jude! Our goal for this event is
$25,000!
We
would like to offer the benefit, with your help, to make sure the wonderful
staff at St. Jude Children’s Hospital have no financial problems to continue helping
the thousands of children and their families that go there every year to
receive treatment for cancer and other life threatening diseases. It has been a lifelong dream of and my wife
and me to make a large contribution to this cause. But without a big lottery win, or huge bonus,
that has not been a reality, so our monthly pledge has been all we can do until
this idea came to me. So with your help,
support, and prayers we can make some worthy contributions for the cause! If we help only one child, it will be worth
the effort.
Please
feel free to donate at least one pigeon from your best stock to a worthy cause! If you will send us photos, pedigrees, and a
small description of the pigeon, and what it and it’s family has done in the
pigeon racing game, we will upload it and give you credit for the donation on a
special page for the auction. We expect
a large amount of donations, so please limit the donation to one per week, so
everyone can have a chance to show their support. Other items could be training
baskets, timing clocks, or any other pigeon related items. Even monetary donations will be accepted!
Please feel free to bid on the pigeons every week, it is one of the best
charities out there, with so much that has been done and so much that needs to
be done for these poor children. And it is 100% deductible. Please contact
John Tierney to send a monetary donation straight to St. Jude to get the
address, etc. so this event gets the credit.
If
by any chance you are not set up or don’t have a friend who can take the
pictures or scan the pedigree, you can
ship the pigeon to me (John Tierney), and we will do all that is needed to make
sure your donation gets put into the benefit.
You will not be compensated for the shipping to us if you do that, as we
will use the shipping money to ship to the winning bidder after the
auction. If you do your own pictures
etc., you will be compensated for shipping.
We are not doing this for a profit, all the money will be sent directly
from the auction to the hospital on a weekly basis. All the shipping money will be sent to me,
so that I can compensate each shipper.
Each
week there will be a full report listing all the donation items, from whom
donated each item, and a total of all that was sent to the hospital. This will be on a special page set up for
this benefit. If you can also send us a
picture of yourself, it will be shown on that page next to your name. It could be a club event if you would like,
and each club make a donation every week, that way it would not be so much of a
burden to any one individual to get what is needed done for the auction.
Why
support St. Jude?
The
support of caring people like you helps ensure that St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital will continue its lifesaving mission of finding cures and
saving children. St. Jude founder Danny Thomas believed that "no child
should die in the dawn of life," and your donations help bring us closer
to the day when every precious life can be saved.
How do your donations help?
How is St. Jude making a difference for sick children?
How are donations used?
Donate now to help St. Jude save the lives of
children in communities everywhere.
Celebrating 50 years of finding cures and saving Children!
Then
St.
Jude On February 4, 1962, Danny Thomas opened the doors of St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital, forever changing the way the world would treat pediatric
cancer.
It
was the culmination of more than 10 years of work by Danny and his friends and
supporters. As a struggling entertainer, Danny had prayed to Saint Jude
Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes, asking him to “show me my way in
life.” Danny had vowed to build a shrine in honor of the saint if his prayer
was answered.
View our interactive timeline and
experience 50 years of St. Jude.
With
his prayer answered and his vow fulfilled, Danny challenged the medical staff
of the newly opened hospital to make his dream that “no child should die in the
dawn of life” a reality. He tasked them with finding the cures for these
life-threatening diseases and asked the American public to support the hospital
so no family would ever pay for their child’s care.
At
the time, there was little hope for a child with cancer. The survival rate for
acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer,
was 4 percent. The medical staff, led by the hospital’s first director and CEO
Donald Pinkel, M.D., took up the challenge.
By
1971, research at St. Jude helped push the survival rate for ALL from 4 percent
to 50 percent. Advances also helped improve the outcomes of other diseases such
as retinoblastoma (eye cancer), osteosarcoma (bone cancer) and medulloblastoma
(brain cancer).
With
its unique approach of placing basic research scientists and doctors under one
roof, St. Jude could quickly turn laboratory discoveries into treatments.
Now
Originally
opened as place to give hope to the hopeless, St. Jude now provides more than
just hope to thousands of families. The research at St. Jude has helped to push
the overall survival rate of childhood cancer from less than 20 percent to 80
percent, helping ensure that fewer children lose the battle against cancer. For
ALL, the survival rate of this life-threatening disease is now 94 percent.
For
families in their time of need, the emotional and financial support provided by
St. Jude is unrivaled. Thanks to support from public contributions, no family
ever pays St. Jude for anything.
St. Jude has also become a world-class institution that has set the standard
for pediatric cancer care. Its efforts have been recognized by some of the
nation’s top publications including U.S. News and World Report, FORTUNE,
The Scientist and Parents.
St.
Jude faculty and staff include Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators;
Pew Scholars; members of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of
Sciences; and a Nobel Laureate. St. Jude also serves as the national
coordinating center for collaborations, including the Pediatric Brain Tumor
Consortium and the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
Even
with the success St. Jude has had in treating pediatric cancer, there is still
much work to be done. “Danny’s dream was that ‘no child should die in the dawn
of life,’” says St. Jude Director and CEO Dr. William Evans. And with eyes on
that goal, St. Jude faculty and staff continue to rise to the challenges of a
new century, marrying the latest technology with a vision and determination to
succeed for children and families everywhere.
Initiatives
like the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – Washington University
Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, launched in 2010, offer great promise for
driving the future of pediatric cancer research. The project has already
generated exciting new discoveries for retinoblastoma and leukemia, and more
are on the horizon.
The
discoveries and groundbreaking work of St. Jude in its first 50 years have made
for a remarkable journey—from one man’s vision to one of the leading pediatric
cancer centers in the world. But St. Jude always has its eye on the future and
the exciting possibilities that await the doctors, scientists, families and
children of a new generation who continue to benefit from Danny’s dream.
