Today in 1962, on what later would become World Cancer Day, Danny Thomas, the Founder of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, created a legacy that endures through the decades.
We are proud to honor the mission he founded to advance cures for catastrophic pediatric diseases.

ALT Danny Thomas at the groundbreaking of St. Jude in 1962.

ALT Danny Thomas and a St. Jude patient during the first year of opening St. Jude.