Evelyn Launder Dies

Evelyn H. Launder, founder of Pink Ribbon Cancer Awareness, died today from a non-genetic ovarian cancer.  She was 75.  Launder started out her foundation at first as a small campaign handing out pink bows at her department store to make women more aware of cancer.  It eventually evolved gaining over $330 million in donations and having congress name october as Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
-NB 11/13/11




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