Thank You Saint Johns University!

On Monday September 11th, 2006, while most of the country was spending time in quiet reflection of 9/11/01, some very special students of St Johns University in Queens took it upon themselves to help our cause. The day was a huge success due to the participation student body, faculty and staff of SJU. First, Artists4Hope would like to extend our thanks to Elsie Wong and Marcus Cheung of the Chinese Cultural Association, whom without their help, this event would not have been possible. Several students helped with promoting the event and made sure that other students were made aware of our goals. Thanks go out to: James Pormentilla, Leena Thomas, Rachelle Ocampo, Yoosup Shim, Grace Yeon and Rachel Yuen. Special thanks to Idil Kirmica for promoting the event on such short notice and personally making this cause known to all.
Thanks to our staff who set up and managed this event on short notice. Our Director of Operations, Wilson Tam, a brother of Lambda Phi Epsilon Alpha Delta Chapter - SJU. Thank you for making sure the event went as smooth as it did. Thanks as well go to Jones Chan, Public Relations for setting the whole ball in motion and making all the contacts, without that this wouldnt have happened.

Gratitude towards Tony Curiale

On our blog site, you can click on a link that sends you to newyorkfire.com. New York Fire is one of the first websites that we looked into for a business connection. Ever since June of this year, we connected with newyorkfire.com as a venue for people to buy our shirts and to improve the chances of exposure.

Newyorkfire.com is run by Tony Curiale whose father, Ray Curiale, is a retired firefighter from Engine 55 in New York City. The basis of the recent donation was from Tony, he was very successful in selling our shirts and donated $3 of every shirt to the Meso Foundation and he was gracious enough to include profits from some of his own merchandise in this donation. We, Artists4Hope, would like to thank Tony for his greatest efforts in helping us with our cause and our mission to create awareness of this particular disease. We hope to continue our partnership in expanding our reaches.