Barry Davis's
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge
Website To Benefit
The Jimmy Fund
The PMC began in 1980 by a Newton, MA resident name Billy Starr. Billy had lost his mother, a cousin and an uncle to cancer in the 1970's. Billy wanted a way to remember these loved ones, and as an avid athlete, found a way. Billy and several of his friends use to ride their bikes from Newton to Provincetown on a Saturday afternoon in his younger years.
So, he invited friends of his to join him on a bicycle ride from Springfield to Provincetown over a September weekend and raise money for the Jimmy Fund. Pictured above left, the 36 bicyclists rode 220+ miles to Provincetown after an overnight stay at Camp Clark, a Boy Scout camp near the Sagamore Bridge.
Billy and his 35 friends all got lost along the way using crude hand drawn maps. But in the end, these 36 PMC pioneer's raised $10,200 for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston through its' Jimmy Fund. Billy presented then Jimmy Fund president, Ken Coleman (picture left...Ken (L) and Billy (R).
Pictured left is Dr. Sydney Farber. Dr. Farber was the pioneer in cancer treatment in children. The founder of the Sydney Farber Cancer Hospital for Children in 1948, Dr. Farber's vision in treatments for pediatric leukemia, lead researchers to find more effective chemo-therapy treatments that are used today.
About The PMC
