Story Of Hope: Christie Contributes
June, 1988
In 1913, an organization from Los Angeles set up two tents on a small plot of land in Duarte, California. A fledgling medical center was born. Its purpose was to help people with the incurable disease of tuberculosis.Seventy-five years later, the tents have become 50 buildings, the small plot of land has grown to 93 acres and the medical center has 500 support chapters throughout the country.The center's name? The City of Hope.•Thanks to modern medicine, tuberculosis is no longer an incurable di...
