Matt and Leslee Holliday, pictured above, have received a much-deserved honor: a wing named for them in the fourth-floor inpatient cancer unit at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. As the founders of Homers for Health, the Hollidays helped raise $3.7 million since 2012 for the hospital. “We had no idea Homers for Health would grow into the program it is today,” commented former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday.
Kudos to Variety’s Man and Woman of the Year 2017: Warner Baxter and Carol Voss. The honor is extended to St. Louisans who enrich our community in big and meaningful ways. Baxter, CEO of Ameren Corporation, has long supported the University of Missouri higher education system and is board chair of the St. Louis Regional Chamber. Voss co-chaired STL250, the yearlong program to honor the city’s founding, and has chaired numerous galas to benefit local charities.
Bravo for Edward Jones and its associates, who contributed more than $976,000 to the Arts and Education Council in 2016. A&E benefits nearly 70 organizations in the bi-state region that enrich our community. Over the past 38 years, Edward Jones has invested more than $9 million in this effort!
Congratulations to Kenny Bland, Â our master bridge columnist. He has achieved Emerald Life Master status from the American Contract Bridge League.
Three WashU students have designed a plan for addressing food insecurity through the U.S. Postal Service—and they won an international design competition for it. First Class Meal, an ingenious food distribution program, was developed by master’s degree candidates Anu Samarajiva, Lanxi Zhang and Irum Javed. They proposed adapting failing USPS branches to collect, store and distribute food, possibly even by postmen delivering mail at the same time. The trio’s plan was picked from more than 80 submissions across the globe.
