Barbara Dooley Day

WHEREAS, every year one out of two men and one out of three women will be diagnosed with cancer; and

WHEREAS, cancer research dollars are critical to finding the cure for this killer, which strikes so many individuals; and

WHEREAS, local dollars are necessary to obtain millions of federal and private research dollars to fund cancer research; and

WHEREAS, because of today’s research dollars, chemotherapy will be obsolete within a few short years; and

WHEREAS, Barbara Dooley, Birmingham native and cancer survivor, is committed to the cause of finding the cure for cancer; and 

WHEREAS, Barbara Dooley is being honored today by the Southeast Cancer Foundation and ROAR as Alabama’s Champion in this life-saving research:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert Bentley, Governor of the State of Alabama, do hereby proclaim February 11, 2012, as

Barbara Dooley Day

in the State of the Alabama.

     

Given Under My Hand and the Great Seal of the Office of the Governor at the State Capitol in the City of Montgomery on the 6th day of February 2012.

 

                                                                      Robert Bentley, Governor