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News Release

October 13, 2008

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
e-mail: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu

Attn. Photo Editor

VFW Auxiliary Continues Support of Neag Cancer Center

FARMINGTON, CONN. – The Department of Connecticut Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars presented the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center with a check for $2,075 during a recent visit to the University of Connecticut Health Center.

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/aux_check.jpg
Caption: Dr. Carolyn Runowicz, director of the Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UConn Health Center, accepts a check for nearly $2,100 from the Department of Connecticut Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW. Also pictured are, from left, Kevin Claffey, assistant professor of cell biology at the UConn Health Center, and Judy Barnes of the Connecticut VFW Ladies Auxiliary, and from right, Dr. John Taylor, a Health Center urologist and researcher, Dixie Hild, National VFW Ladies Auxiliary president, and Bessie Kibner of the Connecticut VFW Ladies Auxiliary. The Auxiliary has donated more than $13,000 to the cancer center over the last six years.
Photo Credit: Janine Gelineau, UConn Health Center

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