TKE DFW Alumni Association

Why We Support St. Jude

Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) joined the fight against childhood cancer in 1972 when St. Jude founder and Frater Danny Thomas (Gamma-Nu), asked his fraternity to help him with his cause by adopting St. Jude as their national philanthropy.

Today TKE continues to honor Danny Thomas by supporting St. Jude!

TKE made the largest commitment by any men’s fraternity to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital—pledging to raise $10 million for St. Jude within 10 years, which will be recognized by the naming of the hospital’s Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy Research floor.

You can support by making a donation or joining our team! Can we count on your support?

When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was considered incurable. Since then, treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than 80 percent.

And because St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes, every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.

Thank you for supporting us and the lifesaving work happening at St. Jude today. Let’s cure childhood cancer. Together.