Tam Driscoll sets fundraising record for Lymphoma Society

By Mara Stine

The Gresham Outlook, Oct 29, 2009, Updated Oct 30, 2009 (1 Reader comment)

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Tam Driscoll met her goal, raising $58,000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society through Team in Training.

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She did it!

Tam Driscoll, who works in Gresham City Hall, is this fall’s top fundraiser in the nation for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training.

So far, she’s raised more than $58,000, putting her past her goal of $55,000 – the amount needed for Driscoll to work with researchers on one of three studies on non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the same type of cancer that killed her sister, Nancy Driscoll, in June at the age of 56.

The amount Driscoll raised is a record for the society’s Oregon chapter, Driscoll said.

Second-place fundraising honors went to a California woman who raised $43,000 for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Driscoll’s fundraising efforts were part of her training for the Nike Women’s Marathon on Sunday, Oct. 18. The weekend also included a Friday, Oct. 16, fundraiser party in which Driscoll was the guest speaker.

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