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EVENT:
Jane Golden, director of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program will be presented with the Second Annual Excellence in Community Service Award by Jefferson’s Safety Awareness and Public Health Education (SAPHE), a Thomas Jefferson University student organization. 

Ms. Golden is an artist who has made her mark on Philadelphia communities in more than 2000 murals she has created that dot the city landscape.  She has forged alliances between community groups, city officials, private funders, volunteers, artists and ex-graffiti writers to brighten Philadelphia.  The program has provided hope, inspiration and motivation to scores of misguided and misunderstood youths.

DATE:  Friday April 8, 2005

TIME:   Noon - 1 p.m.

LOCATION:
Jefferson Alumni Hall
1020 Locust St.
Philadelphia

PERSONNEL: David Nash, M.D., MBA, Chair of Health Policy,
 and Dr. Raymond C. and Doris N. Grandon Professor of Health Policy
 Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University,
 will present the award.

BACKGROUND: JEFF Safety Awareness and Public Health Education (SAPHE) is composed of students in the Master of Science in Public Health program at the Jefferson College of Graduate Studies.