Events
As part of its efforts to increase funds and awareness for epilepsy, CURE hosts and co-sponsors a number of benefits throughout the year. Each year CURE hosts its Annual Benefits in Chicago specifically targeted toward finding a cure for epilepsy, an event which has over the years drawn such noteworthy keynote speakers as President Barack Obama (2005), former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999 and 2003), President Bill Clinton (2001), Meet the Press Host Tim Russert (2007), U.S. Senator Richard Durbin (2008), Chief Washington Correspondent for ABC news George Stephanopoulos (2008), former “Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw (2009), national political consultant David Axelrod (2008 and 2009), former CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric (2010), Vice President Joe Biden (2011), and Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Carole King (2012).
Additionally, CURE was the recipient of The 2008 Northwestern University Dance Marathon Award.
On October 25, 2009, 60 Minutes featured a segment on epilepsy and CURE. CBS Correspondent Katie Couric interviewed the Axelrod Family about their struggle with epilepsy as well as the dire need for focus on epilepsy research.
Read more about this topic: Citizens United For Research In Epilepsy
Famous quotes containing the word events:
“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Just as a mirror may be used to reflect images, so ancient events may be used to understand the present.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)