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NEWS FROM THE FORSYTH INSTITUTE 140 The Fenway Boston, MA 02215 618-262-5200 www.forsyth.org Contact: Forsyth: JoAnne Vose 617-262-5200 x276 Kennedy: Brent Carney 617-565-3170 MEDIA ADVISORY December 5, 2003 SEN. TED KENNEDY TO ATTEND CEREMONY HONORING HIS FATHER DEC. 9 Mayor Menino, City Councilors Consalvo and Ross, State Rep Teahan to attend Boston--Senator Edward Kennedy, (D-MA) will participate in a ceremony commemorating his father, the late Joseph P. Kennedy, at The Forsyth Institute, on Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 11:30 AM. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, City Councilors Robert Consalvo and Michael Ross, State Representative Kathleen Teahan and other invited guests are expected to attend. At the ceremony, the Senator will unveil a plaque displaying photographs of his father and of a school bus the senior Kennedy funded to transport thousands of schoolchildren to Forsyth in the early twentieth century. "We are pleased to honor Joseph Kennedy and his family for their generosity at a critical time in Forsyth’s history and to recognize the Kennedy family’s ongoing tradition of support for the public’s health, said Dominick P. DePaola, President and CEO of the Forsyth Institute. Forsyth, now a renowned scientific research organization, was originally founded in 1910 to provide free dental care for children. In the early 1920s, the senior Kennedy funded transportation to Forsyth to express gratitude when the Senator’s brother, the late president John F. Kennedy, survived a childhood bout of scarlet fever. Then-Mayor Thomas Curley subsequently allocated city funds to bus public school students to Forsyth for dental care. Between 1914 and 1965, more than half a million Boston area schoolchildren were treated at Forsyth—including Mayor Menino. Today, Forsyth is known for its scientific work on a vaccine for dental cavities, for bioengineering teeth and bone; for discoveries in the areas of molecular genetics, immunology and oral microbiology; and for clinical research focused on preventing and treating periodontal disease. Forsyth is capable of integrating basic and translational research aimed at developing drugs and products and enhancing patient care. But the Institute has not lost sight of its roots. Recently, it established the Forsyth Center for Children’s Oral Health to develop a comprehensive "wellness" model of care aimed at keeping children fee of oral disease for life. * The Forsyth Institute is an independent, nonprofit research organization focused on oral, craniofacial and related biomedical science. ### |
