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Originally Posted by Dolores
Bringing this Lithgow matter up to date, here is some news just received today from Richard Bond at hirambondco@ureach.com:
The Harvard Community was made aware of the hurricane disaster in the Dominican Republic by campus activists and asked for relief goods. The institutional response was that most of the student discards were spoken for by local charities. The institution was reapproached and the result was that 600 second hand student twin bed mattresses are being collected for shipment to Yuna by way of Puerto Plata. The activist who made the arrangements has requested anonymity but the gift is being made in memorial to Arthur Lithgow. Arthur Lithgow was an actor/director in the United States who was born in Puerto Plata. Coincidentally? His better known son is John Lithgow a Harvard '67 alumnus Arthur Lithgow's granddaughter Phoebe Lithgow is a member of the class of '04. |
Today, 11 June, Richard Bond updates this previous post with this information:
Verification of the story above may be obtained by calling the
Boston Dominican Consulate. 1-617-482-8121
What basically happened was that there had been a local service
nonprofit which would have received the second hand mattresses.
They would have distributed those mattresses to metro Boston
families relocating from homeless shelters. That nonprofit had
gone bankrupt and closed its facility.
That facility's closure made the mattresses available for the
timely Dominican hurricane relief alternative. Rob Gogan of
Harvard University Recycling has made arrangements to turn over
the mattresses on June the 15th and 17th.
We are hoping that John Lithgow will do a pro bono TV spot to
help raise awareness and funds for shipping the mattresses and
other relief goods being held by the Consulate.
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