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Community Day School Students Raise Funds for Benjamin Gilkey Pediatric Cancer Fund

The third-grade students presented a $1,400 check to Laura Gilkey, Benjamin's mother.

By Staff April 20, 2022

Community Day School’s third-grade students present Laura Gilkey with a check that represents the funds they raised for the Benjamin Gilkey Fund for Innovative Pediatric Cancer Research.

Community Day School’s third-grade students present Laura Gilkey with a check that represents the funds they raised for the Benjamin Gilkey Fund for Innovative Pediatric Cancer Research.

A group of third-grade students at Hershorin Schiff Community Day School recently raised $1,400 to support the Benjamin Gilkey Fund for Innovative Pediatric Cancer Research, an initiative of the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Foundation Family. The class presented a check on March 25 to Laura Gilkey, the mother of Benjamin Wilson Gilkey, who lost his battle to pediatric cancer when he was nine years old—also a third grader. The Benjamin Gilkey Foundation for Pediatric Cancer research was founded shortly after Benjamin died in 2017 and exists to fuel the passions of investigative physician researchers within the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Institute. The Community Day School students also showed Gilkey the loquat fruit tree they planted in the school's “Remember Me Orchard,” in memory of Benjamin’s legacy.

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