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February 14th, 2008

TCU wins national award for “Frogs For the Cure”

TCU is the winner of the 2007 Community Service Award in Corporate from Susan G. Komen for the Cure for its ongoing commitment to the foundation, said the chair of a committee dedicated to raising breast cancer awareness.

Ann Louden, chair of the “Frogs For the Cure” committee and herself a breast cancer survivor, and Super Frog accepted the award for TCU in a Feb. 7 ceremony.

“We thank you for honoring our efforts, and we challenge you to plan your own ‘Frogs for the Cure,’ ” Louden said in her acceptance speech. “You can’t have Super Frog, but you most certainly can have the plan.”

“The fact that TCU has been involved has been important to me because it’s something I’ve been through,” Louden said. “But it will continue to be important because it will continue to impact many more people.”

Louden said the award was for TCU’s ongoing support of the Tarrent County affiliate of Susan G. Komen. For example, when a tornado caused destruction in downtown Fort Worth in 2000, TCU opened its campus for the foundation’s annual Race for the Cure to insure that the event still took place.

Louden said she estimated about 20 TCU representatives attended the ceremony, many of them wearing pink “Frogs For the Cure” t-shirts. Staff from the TCU Bookstore also came and distributed merchandise at the event. Nancy Brinker, the founder of the Komen Foundation, was the keynote speaker at the ceremony.

The first “Frogs for the Cure” event was held in Fall 2005, Louden said. Since then, Louden said that TCU has raised $40,000 for the Komen foundation.

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