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Hercules Donates Laundry Equipment to Ronald McDonald House By Frank Lovece

Sept. 21, 2009 — We don’t usually write laundry-indus- recently named Humanitarian of the Year by the New try trade stories, but we’re invoking the kids-with-can- York Association of Realty Managers (NYARM) for his cer exception. That’s the one that says that if a company work as volunteer treasurer of Children’s Happy Faces. with some connection to The donation, which your usual beat does includes a lifetime service something to help kids with contract, “came together cancer, you write about it. at the dinners we’d have at The company in the golf outings,” says May, this case is the Hercules referring to the annual Chil- Corp. of Hicksville, N.Y., dren’s Happy Faces charity a longtime laundry-room golf events, the next of which service provider for co-ops, take place at the Sleepy condos and others. Found- Hollow and Trump National ed 50 years ago this year, courses on Oct. 6. “It was a Hercules last week donated no-brainer,” May says. “It 12 new industrial-strength was just one of those things front-load washers and that fit.” nine similarly commercial- The Maytag washers grade dryers to the Ronald and dryers are environmen- McDonald House of New tally friendly, high-efficiency York, a major pediatric models rated “Tier 3” by the oncology facility and a pro- Consortium for Energy Ef- vider of low-cost accom- ficiency. “That’s the highest modations to the families tier you can get,” he notes of of gravely ill children the CEE’s “Super Efficient being treated in the Former New York Met Bud Harrelson with Home Appliances Initia- many nearby hospitals. Hercules Corp.’s Andrew May (l) and Mark Eisler (r). tive.” Bud Harrelson, Bud Harrelson (below). Harrelson, who lives one of the New York in Hauppague, N.Y., near Mets’ most storied shortstops, who Hicksville on Long Island, says, “I’m played on the 1969 World Series team happy I made this connection. It’s a and was a coach of the 1986 champi- small world sometimes. Some things are onship squad, helped host the ribbon- meant to be. If you say no, you’ll never cutting ceremony with Hercules know.” president Andrew May and sales vice The local Ronald McDonald house president Mark Eisler, and New York accommodates 84 families, and is filled City Ronald McDonald House presi- to capacity almost every night. “It’s dent and CEO William T. Sullivan. a great organization; it really is,”says The idea originated, says May, May. “Families get uprooted from their “at [charity-benefit] golf outings with homes” when they need to spend days David Lipson of the Children’s Happy Faces Founda- or weeks in another city where their children are being tion,” a Long Island philanthropic organization that treated for life-threatening illnesses. “I’m very, very works closely with Ronald McDonald House and the glad to be able to help” with something one might call, Make-a-Wish Foundation. Lipson, director of the mort- we suppose – being that humor is the best medicine – gage division of Century Management Services, was the make-a-wash foundation.

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