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FRIENDS IN DEED
Good neighbors form a volunteer army for the National Fund for Muscular Dystrophy
A HUGE ARMY of volunteeis marched from door to door recently, asking for help m the fight against muscular dystrophy. This is a disease which wastes bodies and lives. Mostly, it attacks children, but it can strike anyone from a babe of one year to an adult of seventy. Its effect is a crippling and relentless physical deterioration. There is no cure— yet. But there is hope. Your help, said the neighbors-on-the-march, is the key to the cure. Your dollars, they added, wiU provide medical research, technical education, direct patient service, therapy, and public information. This volunteer army, The Neighbors Fund for the National Foundation for Muscular Dystrophy, was backed by a Star Campaign Committee. Garry Moore served as National Honorary Chairman, with Steve Allen, Lee Ann Meriwether, Jayne Meadows, Bill Cullen, Henry Morgan and Mary Healy representing the world of radio and television, and with Ann Higginbotham, Editorial Director of TV Radio Mirror and Photoplay, representing the magazine world. The Fund set out to raise $250,000, and, said Hon. Paul G. DeMuro, NFMD's National President, "It must be done." The goal was met, but there is still much to be done. It is estimated that muscular dystrophy has presently victimized more than 100,000 men, women and children in the United States, and more than 65,000 of these are children. If you weren't able to give all you would have liked when your neighbor called — or if you were not at home — you can still mail contributions to: National Foundation for Muscular Dystrophy, 250 West 57th Street New York 19, N. Y. Be a friend in deed.
Celebrities joined the neighbors army. Editor Ann Higginbotham went on TV with plaque for Garry Moore, Star Committee chairman.
Atlantic Chapter, Far Rockaway, L. I. Bergen County Chapter, New Jersey Massachusetts Division, Boston, Moss.
NEIGHBORS FUND FOR NATIONAL FUND FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY
Appreciation Awards GRAND PRIZE • MINK COAT One Second Prize for each of the nine Eastern Region Chapters participating as followsBronx Chapter, Bronx, N. Y. Brooklyn Division, Brooklyn, N.Y. Gotham Chapter, New York, N. Y.
Middlesex Chapter, New Nassau-Suffolk Chapter, Queens County Chapter,
Jersey Long Island Long Island
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Second Prizes for the above chapters: Four fashion originals, costume jewelry, luggage, all-expense paid Florida vacations, Arthur Murray dance lessons. Singer sewing machines, television sets.
In addition, there ore forty assorted Appreciation Awards for distinguished volunteer work. All prizes were donated by manufacturers for award to the 12,000 good neighbor volunteers who participated in the Neighbors Fund campaign to receive contributions from 250,000 neighbors anxious to help find the cause, treatment and cure for muscular dystrophy.