A Purple Blanket with Interlocking Hearts Connects Foundations of Two Transplant Recipients
I haven’t looked at the purple blanket since Cyndi and I brought it home from the hospital after Marisa passed away, but I think often about its remarkable significance. Marisa was a patient for 161 [...]
The ETEA’s remarkable generosity benefits Marisa’s foundation
On the same day a six-alarm fire gutted James Monroe Elementary School, Marisa emailed her teacher a story she wrote for the school newspaper. Her dispatch, of course, never appeared in print because the James [...]
What Marisa told Henrik Lundqvist on Christmas Day and how her hockey stick ended up inside the St. Joseph ice hockey team’s conference championship cup GalleryWhat Marisa told Henrik Lundqvist on Christmas Day and how her hockey stick ended up inside the St. Joseph ice hockey team’s conference championship cup
What Marisa told Henrik Lundqvist on Christmas Day and how her hockey stick ended up inside the St. Joseph ice hockey team’s conference championship cup
Two days after Marisa’s untimely passing, the St. Joseph High School ice hockey team played a nonconference regular-season game and held a moment of silence in her honor before the puck was dropped. The home [...]
Herbert Hoover Middle School helps Marisa’s legacy grow on ‘Graduation’ Day
As Herbert Hoover Middle School Principal Brian McGrath stood at the podium acknowledging an eighth grader who was not in attendance at today’s promotion ceremony, the faint cries of a baby pierced an eerie silence [...]
GMC Baseball Coaches Association Establishes Marisa Tufaro Memorial Arts Scholarship
The first annual Marisa Tufaro Memorial Arts Scholarship was made possible through a donation to The Marisa Tufaro Foundation on behalf of a member of the Greater Middlesex Conference Baseball Coaches Association who wishes to [...]
Marisa Tufaro Memorial Scholarship established through the benevolence of Woodbridge High School
Jordan Vazquez and Alex LaGrippo were recipients of Woodbridge High School’s first annual Marisa Tufaro Memorial Scholarship. The scholarships, which Woodbridge High School, through its remarkable benevolence, fully funded in Marisa’s honor and memory, were [...]
GMC All-Star Basketball Games Benefit The Marisa Tufaro Foundation
All proceeds from the Greater Middlesex Conference Basketball Coaches Association’s 24th annual Senior All-Star doubleheader were donated to The Marisa Tufaro Foundation. The girls and boys all-star games, featuring the league’s top high school upperclassmen, [...]
Snapple Bowl Players and Cheerleaders to Honor Marisa at 24th Annual Game, “Spirit Night” Fundraiser to be Held One Week Prior
The MyCentralJersey.com Snapple Bowl, a charity all-star football game between the top graduated seniors from Middlesex and Union counties, which has raised nearly $600,000 since its inception in 1994 for the Edison-based Lakeview School, a [...]