Adam’s achievement: Marathon caps $1M fundraising success
St. Jude patient Adam Cruthirds is embraced by members of his fundraising and support team after he completed the annual St. Jude Memphis Marathon. (Mike Brown/St. Jude.)
Tom Charlier
Tom Charlier is a senior writer at ALSAC, the fundraising and awareness organization for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
More than 26,000 runners participated in the St. Jude Memphis Marathon races, but few generated the kind of outpouring that occurred when Rhodes College senior and former St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital patient Adam Cruthirds took his final steps of the full marathon.
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