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By LISA G. CURRIE
Rappahannock New* .Staff Writer
Each year during April, American Cancer Society Month, county residents remember the society as faithful volunteers remind them, taking donations to support the non-profit organization.
The money collected is directed to various fields including research and education, with the amount collected in the county returning to directly the county.
Besides the monetary donations to science, the American Cancer Society has various support and educational programs designed to help those stricken with cancer—a disease over 26,400 Americans will develop this year alone.
But for some, such as Carol Hales of Huntly, the society is more than a four-week session in taking donations—it’s a full-time volunteer position. Mrs. Hales is Rappahannock County’s Reach for Recovery representative.
Each year she visits dozens of mastectomy patients, both in the hospital and at home, to offer support through education and appearance.
In the early 1950s, a mastectomy patient, Terese Lasser, realized there needed to be more done for women who had just undergone such surgery.
She formed the group that sends women—once mastectomy patients though well-dressed, poised and self-assured, in appearance and attitude—to visit other mastectomy patients offering an immediate role-model,
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