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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Cass & Company is challenging and urging any and all Domestic placement Firms and Nanny agencies to get involved either by walking/running in the Susan B. Komen race or making a donation to the research for the cure. The walks take place all over the US and the world from June to December. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, however, involvement is year round. Cass & Co makes a pledge each year to the cause and to get involved by walking and by donating a portion of it profits to the Susan B. Komen Foundation. Elaine Mullen Cassinelli, president, and all the staff of Cass & Co urged all of those who serve the clients of the domestic industry, friends and colleagues to make a pledge or walk/run for the cure in a city near you. 

Elaine and her group of Nursing school classmates (1966) raised awareness and funds and will be walking in a city, that the 12 classmates live (with 2 of them survivors), in as many cities that they live in : Denver, Chicago , Los Angeles, Maui, Portland, Annapolis, Boston, Providence, Colorado Springs, Cape Neddick ( Me.), Ft Myers (Florida) and more until they cannot anymore. We are now a team that supports this effort to get out the word that too many women and some men are affected by this disease and way to many need the support of the Domestic industry that serves them. 

The following article first appeared in the Chicago Herald on October 1st:

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Former classmates team up to walk, fight breast cancer 

October '04 - Daily Herald - A group of nursing school classmates are part of a growing contingent in Saturday's Race for the Cure, to benefit the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Namely, they are participating as a team. 

They call themselves the MAH66, named for the Mount Auburn Hospital School of Nursing in Cambridge, Mass., which they all graduated from in 1966. 

"I am just so moved by their commitment," said Janet Nelson of Arlington Heights, a 10-year breast cancer survivor and team captain. 

Nelson met her classmates at O'Hare International Airport Thursday. They had come in from Massachusetts, Colorado, California, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Maryland to do the 5K walk Saturday at Grant Park in Chicago. 

This will be the second Race for the Cure the team has done. Last year they all met in Denver and participated there. 

"To have all of my friends there, walking with my name on the back of their shirt, was one of the most touching experiences I've ever had," Mary Ann Maloney of Cambridge, Mass., a six-year survivor, said of their first walk together. 

Two years ago, at their 35-year reunion, the nurses discovered two of their classmates had died of breast cancer and several others were survivors. 

"We have made a commitment to travel to different states, where different classmates live, each year to do the walk," Nelson said. 

When they gather Saturday at Grant Park, they will be among 8,000 participants who will be running or walking the 5K lakefront route, or the one-mile fun walk. This is the eighth year the Race for the Cure has taken place in Chicago. 

Registration takes place from 6:30 to 8 a.m. Saturday at the northwest corner of Balbo Street and Columbus Drive. The event starts at 8:30 a.m. Participation runs $35 the day of the event, and $30 for those over 65 and under 18. 

Since its inception, the Susan B. Komen Foundation has raised more than $600 million in the fight against cancer, while its Race for the Cure has become one of the largest series of 5K runs and fitness walks in the world. 

Many of the walkers will be wearing pink T-shirts designating them as survivors. On Saturday, they will start their day at a complimentary breakfast, before receiving gifts, including a signature pink hat, goody bag and a "salute to the survivors" photo. 

"It's just so emotional to see this sea of pink shirts, and all these people supporting you," said Nelson, a former home health nurse and now American Cancer Society volunteer in Palatine. 

The race's tagline is "working to eradicate breast cancer, every day, every step." Specifically, Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation supporters raise funds to advance research, education, screening and treatment. 

"It's a real sisterhood," Nelson said. "Once you've been through (breast cancer) you walk a different side of life." 

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