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The History of the Pink RIBBON
By Laurie | October 1, 2008
It is the first day of breast cancer awareness month, so Pink for October is starting it off with their first contest. Each Monday and Thursday at 12 am (GMT) they will post a word. Today’s word is: RIBBON. Players are then asked to find a picture that represents the word as well as a description. Here’s my first picture:
Isn’t it fabulous? Now that’s creative use of candies and the pink ribbon! Have you ever wondered about the history of the pink ribbon? Me too! Here is the explanation from Wiki:
In the fall of 1991, the Susan G. Komen Foundation handed out pink ribbons to participants in its New York City race for breast cancer survivors.[1]
The next year, Alexandra Penney, who was the editor in chief of Self, a woman health magazine, was working on the second annual National Breast Cancer Awareness Month issue. Evelyn Lauder, who was the senior corporate vice president at Estee Lauder, was invited to be the guest editor of the NBCAM issue edition in 1992. Penney and Lauder came up with the idea to create a ribbon and to enlist the cosmetics giant to distribute it in stores in New York City. Evelyn Lauder then promised to spread the ribbons in the entire country, but a color for the ribbon was not decided on at the moment.
Charlotte Hayley, who battled breast cancer, produced peach color ribbons. She sold them with a card saying, “The National Cancer Institute annual budget is 1.8 billion US Dollars, and only 5 percent goes for cancer prevention. Help us wake up our legislators and America by wearing this ribbon”.[2] Her message spread fast. This made Penny and Evelyn Lauder interested in Hayley’s concept. They saw the initiative to adapt to Hayley’s idea by working with her. But Hayley rejected the offer saying that they were too commercial.
After discussing opportunities with Lauder, Hayley and the lawyers, they came up with a “new” color. The new color of the ribbon was pink and became an international symbol for breast cancer awareness.
Before I close this post, I want to remind you all to also check out Boobie-Thon this week. They are taking donations for Susan G. Komen, and are collecting pictures of… um… BOOBIES! You might even find mine over there. Yup… I submitted a photo. You can also donate to my 3-Day walk at http://08.the3day.org as well as enter my giveaway for a CHI flat iron on the post below, or a Lean Cuisine lunch tote on Our3Day.com. There is more to come… Happy October!
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I didn’t know about the pink ribbbon! =) Great info! It’s great to at least learn something new each day!!!! =)
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Posted by: Jeannie on October 3rd, 2008 at 7:45 amOh I send my boobies in, too! And offered Mike $50 if he could identify them. Haha.
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Posted by: corrin on October 3rd, 2008 at 7:00 pmLMAO — do update me on that. I’d be pretty mad if D couldn’t pick my out. There are some… um… interesting photos on there.
Posted by: Laurie on October 3rd, 2008 at 7:11 pmThanks Jeannie! We’ll see what I come up with later tonight!
Posted by: Laurie on October 3rd, 2008 at 7:12 pmThat’s really original! Nice entry.
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