Fans of Buddy Jewell Benefit St. Jude's Children's Hospital with Fundraiser

St Jude's Children's Hospital has always been a favorite charity among many of Nashville's local Country Music entertainers, but one fan club has gotten involved and is taking charitable giving to a higher level and has began an online fundraiser on behalf of their favorite musician.

Fans of Buddy Jewell have created a beautiful calendar featuring their own photographs of Buddy Jewell and are donating all of the proceeds, in Buddy's name, to St Jude's Children's Hospital.

Wow! These fans are not only supporting their favorite musician they are supporting their musicians charity! What a great new trend setting concept.
"Charitable giving on behalf of your favorite musician!"

A note from Fans of Buddy Jewell about their Fundraiser

We have all been touched somehow by cancer either through a loved one or a friend and even a child. We also know how close St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is to Buddy's heart. This year, we as fans have a terrific opportunity to give Buddy a wonderful Christmas gift, a donation to St. Jude in his name and a wonderful gift in return to us, his fans... a beautiful color 2007 Buddy Jewell Calendar.

Keeping track of important dates is easy when you have 12 months of Buddy! Each month is filled with lots of color photos. These beautiful 12-month wall calendars are printed by CafePress in full bleed dynamic color on 100lb text weight, high gloss paper.

All money above the cost of the calendar will benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. So won't you please help us support the children of St. Jude in Buddy's honor.

About St Jude and Danny's Dream

More than 50 years ago, Danny Thomas, then a struggling young entertainer with $7 in his pocket, knelt in a Detroit church before a statue of St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes. Thomas asked the saint to "show me my way in life."

Throughout the next years, Thomas' career prospered through films and television, and he became a nationally known entertainer. He remembered his pledge to build a shrine to St. Jude.

Danny's Dream... St. Jude Children's Research Hospital-opened its doors in 1962 and is now recognized as one of the world's premier centers for study and treatment of catastrophic diseases in children. Focusing on pediatric leukemia's, solid tumor forms of cancer, infectious diseases and biomedical research, during its first decade of existence, the hospital's curative therapies and research successes spread its fame worldwide and helped save the lives of innumerable children everywhere.

Today's basic and clinical research at St. Jude includes work in bone marrow transplantation, gene therapy, chemotherapy, the biochemistry of normal and cancerous cells, radiation treatment, blood diseases, resistance to therapy, viruses, hereditary diseases, infectious diseases, and psychological effects of catastrophic illnesses.

St. Jude has treated children from across the United States and from more than 80 foreign countries.

Through striking improvements in the care of pediatric leukemia's and numerous forms of solid tumors, Thomas' "little hospital in Memphis"-which now has daily operating costs of $1,220,004-has brought about improved health care for children all over the world.

From a promise of "Show me my way in life and I will build you a shrine" to the fulfillment of his dream, Danny Thomas lived to see his little hospital become a beacon of hope for the catastrophically ill children of the world. Today, Danny's children, Marlo, Terre and Tony, carry on their parents' work and remain a driving force in fulfilling their father's mission. Danny is gone, but his dream lives on.

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Article Written & Submitted by Mary Maggart