The efforts of small organizations and individuals have a big impact on cancer research. In 2005, local chapters of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (FOE), a nonprofit organization with groups throughout the United States and Canada, donated $100,000 to support the mission of Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI).

Through bake sales, raffles, dinner events, and teddy bear sales, FOE members across North America raised funds for more than a year. Grand Madam President Pat Lazenby, a resident of Layton, Utah, selected HCI as the organization’s fund recipient after her son died of cancer.

A special ceremony took place at the International Conference of the FOE in Calgary, Canada where Ray Olson, HCI Development Office director,accepted the $100,000 gift in front of more than 2,500

FOE Past State Madam President Kathy Straley and FOE Grand Madam President Pat Lazenby present a check for $100,000 to Development Director Ray Olson.

delegates. After this event, Pat Lazenby and Kathy Straley visited Huntsman Cancer Hospital, where the check was re-presented. “If we can just stop one more person from dying of cancer, what a breakthrough that would be,” says Straley, a 24-year member of the FOE.

With a mission to unite fraternally in the spirit of liberty, truth, justice, and equality, to make human life more desirable by lessening its ills, and by promoting peace, prosperity, gladness, and hope, the FOE is an admired supporter.