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Article: Dana-Farber's Jimmy Fund turns 40. (Jimmy Fund, organization devoted to fundraising for Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute )
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- May 18, 1988
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DANA-FARBER'S JIMMY FUND TURNS 40
BOSTON, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jimmy Fund, the venerable organization devoted to fighting childhood cancer at Boston's Dana- Farber Cancer Institute, will observe its fortieth anniversary on May 22. The celebration will begin with Jimmy Fund Night at Fenway Park on May 19.
Arguably one of the most widely-recognized names in New England, few people now remember how the Jimmy fund came into being.
In 1947 Sidney Farber, M.D. and the Variety Club of New England established the Children's Cancer Research Foundation -- the world's first organization devoted exclusively to childhood cancer research and ...