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The New York Times - January 26, 1984
Walter H. Waggoner
Contributors for the last 26 years, the James and Barbara Brown family of Great Neck, L.I., gave $25 to be applied "to a case involving an elderly person, particularly someone suffering from Alzheimer's disease."
A note added, "This illness is presently affecting a member of our own immediate family and we empathize with the difficulties it can bring."
Mary R. Hardin of Manhattan donated $25, her first gift to the fund, in memory of her father, John H. Hardin, who died six years ago of Alzheimer's disease.
"I hope it will help in some small way to alleviate the suffering of both victims of this disease and their families," she said in a letter.
Other donors, citing an article in The New York Times about Sam and Mary T., a couple afflicted by Alzheimer's disease, asked that their gifts be used specifically to help that family.
Harvey and Astrida Easton of Brooklyn contributed $30, and Dorothy A. Forman of Mount Kisco, N.Y., $15. Mrs. Frederick E. Donaldson of New Canaan, Conn., gave $25 and wrote, "I am in the same situation, coping with the problem."
Victims of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, will benefit by a $50 donation from Thomas K. O'Leary of Brooklyn, who asked that his gift "be used especially to help an AIDS patient or in AIDS research."
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