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Cancer Crusade Opened
By Prominent Speakers
” “We^want victory, and we will get it if we march along shoulder to shoulder without any hesitation to the goal that lies in front of us,” President Colgate W. Darden, Jr., of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, told an audience of approximately 175 of the leaders of the 1950 Cancer Crusade from all over Virginia, who assembled at the Monticello hotel, Charlottesville, Friday evening, March 31, at the State kickoff meeting.
The educational and fund-raising crusade will continue through the month of April.
A highlight o^, the evening’s program was the presentation of the 1950 medal of the American Cancer Society to Dr. Edwin P. _ Lahman of the University of Virginia “in recognition of his important contribution to the control of cancer.” Dr. Lehman is professor of surgery and gynecology nad director of that department at the University of Virginia as well as chief surgeon and gynecologist for the University of Virginia hospital. At present he is serving on the executive committee and the board of ti ustees of the Virginia division, American Cancer Society, as well as on the executive committee of the national organization. The presentation was made by Ed Phillips, of Richmond, president of the Virginia division.
Mrs. I. M. Hufford, of Alexandria, state commander of the Field Army of the ACS, presided, and the Rt. Re'. Monsignor Leo J. Ryan, vicar-general. Diocese of Richmond, gave the invocation. The assemblage was welcomed by Gus Tebell, mayor of Charlottesville.
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