The fund was created in memory of our daughter Sam, who was a great kid and a great artist.  She understood that drive is the key component of success and she worked very hard to reach her goals. She was holding down a near full-time position at Whole Foods in Marlton NJ while working as an apprentice at Tru Blu Tatu in Bristol, PA.  Most days we only saw her when she was going to sleep or waking up to leave again.

Our lives changed forever when we lost Sam suddenly on March 12, 2013 at the age of 19.  She was in a terrible car accident and her injuries were too severe for her to pull through. To this day, it doesn’t seem real.  We expect her to come bounding up the stairs and hurriedly shove a pack of Wildberry Pop-Tarts in her mouth before running back out to her next job or (rarely) to go and hang with her friends.  She was a force of nature, and the silence left by her absence is deafening.