In 1991, after her father died, actress Marlo Thomas planned to carry on his work at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital just long enough to see the facility through a period of transition. But it didn't take long for Thomas to feel the same calling that had inspired her father, entertainer Danny Thomas, to establish the Memphis-based pediatric hospital in 1962, with the dream that "no child shall die in the dawn of life." … Back to Article
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