St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital When I was in about first grade, we started collecting pop tops. I didn’t know understand why exactly, but when my teacher explained it, I can just remember thinking how wonderful of a project it was. That year, I remember feeling so good when I could drop a pop top in the bucket. The fundraiser was to raise money for the Ronald McDonald house. I thought that it was so special to help families have a place to stay when a loved one was in the hospital. Ever since then, I’ve tried to keep every pop top that I found in hopes that I could make someone else’s time of struggle easier. The people who stay at these houses often have patients in St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, where many people have found that miracles do happen.…show more content… ("Fifty Fabulous Years") Danny Thomas was born Muzyad Yakhoob (Thomas and Davidson 9) on January 6th, 1912, in Deerfield Michigan. (Greyfield) His parents were Lebanese immigrants. (Simone “A History of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital”) Danny Thomas was the fifth born out of ten children in his family. He had four older brothers, one younger sister, and then four younger brothers. (Thomas and Davidson 20) Danny Thomas had many names during his lifetime, but as you can probably tell, most of the fame came from his final name created in almost an instant. When his father changed religions, he Christianized the family names. Muzyad Yakhoob, Danny Thomas’s birth name then changed into Amos Jacobs. More confusion came with his baptism at St. Alphonsus Church, because his mother thought that should be his name now. That name got into some legal papers, but his name remained Amos Jacobs. (Thomas and Davidson
