Contents at a Glance
New Text module
New Amazon
New Flickr Photos
New eBay
New Guestbook
submit
-
Reply
-
Henrry
Dec 10, 2009 @ 8:55 pm | delete
- Other prominent men and women were recruited to sit on the board, including Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs Robert Mead (the founder of the American Society for the Control of Cancer), and other women with time and money. The advisory committee of scientists included the President of the American Medical Association, and leading representatives from the Rockefeller Foundation, and Harvard, Cornell, and Columbia universities.
Missy used the pages of The Delineator as the public solicitor to encourage American women to give what money they had. Young college women took up collections to give to the fund, as did little girls who found out about the campaign, sending in their nickels and dimes. Marie Curie had been receiving letters from all over America for many years from cancer sufferers, who had had their cancer ?cured? by enterprising doctors, like Dr. Abbe. One woman, the first to be treated at the hospital in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, wrote to Marie about her radium treatment: ?What it done for me none but God can tell.? Madam Curie received letters like this all the time; she was always moved by what people said to her, and she answered the letters when she could.
Perhaps the finest expression of appreciation to Marie Curie, however, was from the American doctors. Those on the board took it as their personal responsibility to ensure that the campaign to raise the $100,000 was more than a success. They wanted not only to buy the gram of radium, but also to ensure that Madam Curie had a modern, well-equipped laboratory. In each city where Marie Curie was to visit, a fund-raising quota-system was set up: New York had a quota of $10,000; Boston and Philadelphia each had a quota of $5,000. Each doctor on the board participated. Dr. Abbe, for example, wrote to Dr. John G. Clark of Philadelphia (both of them were members of the prestigious Philadelphia College of Physicians): ?I have by personal appeal to my patients raised over 20,000 dollars myself. . . .?
-
New Orbitz!
by MarieCurieVN
MarieCurieVN
Hello world. This is my bio. I can edit it later!
- 0 featured lenses
- Winner of 2 trophies!
- Top lens »
Feeling creative?
Create a Lens!
