Below we profile four Wharton alumni who,
for a number of different reasons, have chosen
to become involved in community service.
In the first profile, “community” refers to peo-ple
who have been diagnosed with cancer. In
the second profile, “community” is one country’s population
of children orphaned by civil war. And in the third profile,
“community” refers to the thousands of foster children in this country who need supportive and stable homes. The effort,
experience and managerial expertise that these alumni bring to their tasks are making a dramatic difference in the lives of others.
Richard Bloch, W'46: Leading the Charge Against Cancer
Four months ago, the columnist Ann
Landers ran a letter from a woman urging
people who have been diagnosed
with cancer to read a book called Fighting
Cancer
Janice Gleason, WEMBA'85: Reaching out to Africa's Orphans
In 1995, Janice Gleason traveled to
Rwanda to visit Rosamund Carr, a
friend of Dian Fossey, the American
researcher who, until her death in
1985, had brought worldwide atten-
tion to the plight of endangered
mountain gorillas in Rwanda, Zaire
and Uganda.
Hugh Dugan and Kerry Moynihan, WEMBA'91: Networking for Foster Children
When SOS Children’s Villages-USA —
a private, non-profit organization that
provides homes for abused and
neglected children — was looking for
people to serve on its board of trustees,
it turned to Hugh Dugan, U.S. dele-gate
to the United Nations in New
York.
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