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Danny's daughter Marlo Thomas grew up supporting the mission of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and she became its national outreach director in 1991. [13] Although it was named after Danny Thomas's patron saint, St. Jude is not a Catholic hospital and is a secular institution not affiliated with any religious organization. [14] [7]
As a "starving actor", Thomas had made a vow: If he found success, he would open a shrine dedicated to St. Jude Thaddeus, one of the patron saints of hopeless causes. [ 23 ] In the early 1950s, after becoming a successful actor, his wife joined him and began traveling the United States to help raise funds to build St. Jude Children's Research ...
The American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC) was founded by Danny Thomas in 1957 to be the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Its sole mission is to raise the funds and awareness necessary to operate and maintain the hospital.
Richard Shadyac Jr. will step down as CEO of ALSAC, the fundraising arm of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in March. The charity, founded by Danny Thomas and fueled by the entertainment ...
It was the very spirit Danny Thomas envisioned when he opened the doors to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 60 years ago this year: people of diverse backgrounds, races, ethnicities and ...
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Pinkel met the Lebanese-American entertainer Danny Thomas in 1961. The latter was spearheading the foundation and construction of a children's research hospital, called after St Jude, the patron of the hopeless, to be based in Memphis, Tennessee.
One another way that Thomas feeds her life is through her work as the National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which was founded by her father Danny Thomas in 1962.