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Over a cake baked for the occasion of the Eagles' anniversaries, Patty Taylor, left, and Helen McClain, of the Eagles Auxiliary hand off a check for $300 to Pharaoh Hudson to help him pay for a trip next June to Boston, Massachusetts to the Congress of Future Medical Leaders. - Scott Hunter photo
To celebrate their anniversary, the Eagles Auxiliary and the Eagles Aerie made a donation Saturday to a young student raising money for a trip to Boston this summer.
On the 77th anniversary of the Eagles and the 75th anniversary of the auxiliary, Pharaoh Hudson received their check for $300.
He and his family are trying to raise enough money to get him to Boston and cover expenses for the trip. Hudson received in the mail a notice that he had been nominated for an "award of excellence for outstanding academic achievement, leadership potential and determination to serve humanity in the field of medicine." The certificate said he had been nominated by Mario Capecchi, Ph.D., who is a 2007 Nobel Prize laureate in physiology and medicine.
The sophomore at Lake Roosevelt High School has close to a 4.0 grade point average, his mother said.
Proud of her son's recognition, Micki Bearcub Hudson set up a gofundme.com page to raise about $3,800 for the trip and the tuition, which is at least $1,300.
They'd raised $670 by Tuesday.
The event happens June 26-28, 2024, but the tuition has to be paid by Jan. 17, so they're going to "start ramping up our fundraising," his mother said.
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