Hello I am Hogan Bingel, a Junior at The Connelly School of the Holy Child. I am honored to participate in the 2021 Students of the Year program, a seven-week  initiative in which select high school students from around the country participate in a fundraising competition to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society ("LLS").  After watching past Holy Child team's fight for a cure, I was inspired to continue their legacy. I am eager to continue the fight this year as a co-canidate for TEAM BELIEVE IN A CURE. 

I am proud to be raising money critical to finding cures for blood and other cancers in honor of my dad's younger sister, Elizabeth Bingel and cousin, Noel Smith. Elizabeth spent her whole, brief life fighting lekumia. Elizabeth hardly pased her first birthday before her lekumia beat her and left my father without a sibling. I carry on Elizabeth as my middle name in rememberance of her. My cousin, Noel Smith endured a long battle with brain cancer before passing away in 2010, leaving his pregnant wife a widow and his daughter fatherless. These losses had a major effect on my family, no one else should have to keep enduring the pain cancer brings to a patient and their families. 

I encourage you to join me in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. By donating to LLS, you support the many facets of LLS’s mission work from investing in groundbreaking research, providing education and support to patients, and advocating at the state and federal level for legislation to help those living with cancer. My appreciation for your support cannot be overstated — each and every dollar donated to LLS brings us closer to our goal to end blood cancer and makes an impact for cancer patients and their families.

As a global leader in the fight to end cancer, LLS is committed to doing more for blood cancer patients and families than any organization in the world. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns drive critical support for its mission, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide since it was founded in 1949. Since the 1960s, survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled.

Every facet of LLS’s mission – research, education and support, and policy and advocacy – work in harmony to put blood cancer patients and their families first. LLS has helped millions impacted by cancer throughout its more than 70-year history, even funding breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures that is now helping patients with other cancers and diseases. That is why at LLS we say that beating cancer is in our blood.

Please visit my website as often as you can and share it with everyone you know who would also like to join us in the fight against cancer. Together, we have the power, the passion and the resolve to achieve a world without blood cancer. All donations are tax-deductible.

On behalf of cancer patients and their families everywhere, I sincerely thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit lls.org