When Dick and Helen Post moved to Vero Beach from New Jersey in 1991, they brought with them a decades-old philosophy of philanthropy. Sadly, it was tragedy that inspired their insatiable spirit of giving. Married in 1956, they soon had two little boys, John Jeffrey, born in March 1957, and his younger brother, Robert Darrell, born in 1959. When John was 4 years old he became ill, and the Posts were advised to take him to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York for a bone marrow test.
"When the doctor came out to see us with the results, she said, 'You know, Sloan-Ketting has a beautiful little chapel. Shall we go in there?'" So instead of standing in a bustling corridor or crowded waiting room it was in that quiet chapel the POsts learned that Johnny had leukemia, and there was absolutely no hope. He died nine months later on March 18, 1962.
Read the entire article in the September 1999 issue
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