Crews film star-studded fundraiser for kids with cancer
Norcross — A TV cameraman zoomed in on Madison Winn on Tuesday night, the long arm of a boom mic lurking near her left shoulder. Winn, a brain cancer survivor, delivered her story in front of several hundred gathered in the Wesleyan School's gymnasium, getting a round of applause as she finished.
"It's not about me, it's not about these guys right here," Tanner Smith said to the crowd afterward. "It's about stories like that."
Smith, a former basketball standout at Wesleyan and current player at Clemson University, founded "Tanner's Totes" when he was just 12 years old. Inspired by what he saw when visiting hospitals during his father's cancer treatments, Smith decided to give back. Tanner's Totes has delivered bags full of goodies to children with cancer ever since.
A Special Moment: Everyday Health Chronicles the Story of Tanner's Totes
By Will Vandervort, IPTAY Media Photos by Rex Brown
ATLANTA, GA - The cameras were not even on, but fortunately for the kids at the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite Hospital, Tanner Smith was on.
Though he was handing out his now famous Tanner's Totes in front of the glitz and glamour of a Koops Production crew shooting for ABC, Smith, a starting guard on the Clemson men's basketball team, took extra time to visit with each child whether the cameras were rolling or not.
Smith talked to the patients at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta as if they were his own family or dearest friend. He listened to them as he shared a few laughs and hugs along the way.
The officers for Tanner’s Totes, Inc., an IRS approved 501c3 publicly supported non-profit corporation, would like to recognize the men and women of the Marketing Sales Program from Clemson University. Through the direction of Dr. Adam Rapp these students were able to organize a community supported charity golf tournament to raise funds for Tanner’s Totes. This is the second consecutive year our company has been the beneficiary of their hard work. Overall, through donations, entry fees, raffle prize receipts and other ingenious avenues, the total amount donated from the 2nd Annual Tiger Paw Classic Golf Tournament was
For years, Clemson guard has cheered young cancer patients.
By Steve Hummer (Atlanta Journal Constitution/ Sunday, February 6, 2011 Pictures Courtesy of Jason Getz with the AJC
A day like Saturday seemed almost surreal to Tanner Smith. He was back home in Atlanta, playing in the building that was a favorite childhood haunt, against a Georgia Tech team that he once cheered for so feverishly.
“I love [coming back]. It brings back all those memories of going to Georgia Tech games with my dad,” he said last week in anticipation.
His father, Craig Smith, can’t count the times they went to games at Alexander Memorial. Nor can he ever measure the value of spending time with his only child in a place that was raucous and rollicking and so essentially frivolous. A place that wasn’t a hospital.
Craig does, though, remember the refrain between the two whenever they were in their seats.
“Dad, you think I’ll ever play here?”
“I don’t know, son. Maybe, if you work hard enough.”
Norcross — A TV cameraman zoomed in on Madison Winn on Tuesday night, the long arm of a boom mic lurking near her left shoulder. Winn, a brain cancer survivor, delivered her story in front of several hundred gathered in the Wesleyan School's gymnasium, getting a round of applause as she finished.
Though he was handing out his now famous Tanner's Totes in front of the glitz and glamour of a Koops Production crew shooting for ABC, Smith, a starting guard on the Clemson men's basketball team, took extra time to visit with each child whether the cameras were rolling or not.
The officers for Tanner’s Totes, Inc., an IRS approved 501c3 publicly supported non-profit corporation, would like to recognize the men and women of the Marketing Sales Program from Clemson University. Through the direction of Dr. Adam Rapp these students were able to organize a community supported charity golf tournament to raise funds for Tanner’s Totes. This is the second consecutive year our company has been the beneficiary of their hard work. Overall, through donations, entry fees, raffle prize receipts and other ingenious avenues, the total amount donated from the 2nd Annual Tiger Paw Classic Golf Tournament was
A day like Saturday seemed almost surreal to Tanner Smith. He was back home in Atlanta, playing in the building that was a favorite childhood haunt, against a Georgia Tech team that he once cheered for so feverishly.
