Focus on Volunteers
Below are all the Focus articles related specifically to our volunteers. All Focus articles are also available.
Help Fight Cancer: Start a Prouty Team!
Challenge your friends and co-workers to walk, bike, row, or golf to help fight cancer.
January 21, 2013
Poetry, Meditation, and Massage. You Call That Cancer Care?
To address the physical, emotional, and social effects of cancer we offer a wide range of support services to help people cope and recover.
December 31, 2012
In this season of giving we invite you to support the Norris Cotton Cancer Center with a tax deductible donation.
November 26, 2012
Forty percent of the population is eligible to donate blood, yet only 10 percent actually do. If you're a donor, what would you tell those who could donate blood - but don't?
November 09, 2012
On November 12th from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Auditorium G, 4th floor atrium, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center will host the second annual Poems of Illness and Healing for the public. Patients, family members, and staff will read original work, sharing insight into how their lives have been touched by cancer and other life-limiting illnesses.
October 15, 2012
October 01, 2012
Running for a Reason in Manchester
September 04, 2012
May 29, 2012
Running for a Lifetime—and for Cancer
Residents of southern New Hampshire have a running opportunity to support Norris Cotton Cancer Center on May 5 at the Total Image 5K/10K Road Race.
April 16, 2012
Prouty Registration Opens for 2012
Get ready to Prouty! Registration for the 2012 Prouty—the bike, walk, and row event hosted by Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center that brings much-needed funding to support research and patient services at the Cancer Center—has opened.
January 23, 2012
A Profile of Susan Whelihan, Artist and Friends Program Manager
Ever since Susan Whelihan's father gave her a Strathmore drawing pad and "a fancy set of scented markers" when she was in third grade, art has been, she says, "a significant part of my life and identity."
August 27, 2011
Friends Volunteer Spotlight: Gretchen Fairweather and Kilborn Church
The Friends of Norris Cotton Cancer Center is pleased to honor the volunteers who come to the Cancer Center on a weekly basis. These volunteers give of their time and talents to make the lives of our patients as pleasant as possible.
October 28, 2010
July 30, 2010
Breast Cancer "Conquerors" Enjoy Serious Fun
Happy hour at Molly's Restaurant in Hanover. Most of the nine women gathered at the long, rectangular table order margaritas, only two dollars a drink. "You can't beat the price," one of them laughs. In fact, there is a lot of laughter among this group of friends, teachers, moms, writers, grandmas, businesswomen, and sisters in life experience. They have dubbed themselves TGIF—thank goodness for Fridays, and Mondays, and every day of life after cancer.
June 04, 2010
The Prouty: Always More than a Bike Ride
"One of the reasons I do the Prouty," says Alfred Griggs,"is that I find on my early spring training rides I have a chance to think about family and dear friends who've had cancer. This is what probably means the most to me, as it just gives me some time alone, getting ready for the Prouty, and thinking about why I do it."
March 31, 2010
