This previous Thursday, November 20, it was the annual Dr. Theodore A. Atlas Basis’s “Teddy Dinner” on the Hilton Backyard Inn on Staten Island, New York.
The dinner, an annual celebration that brings celebrities from all walks of sports activities and leisure, is a fundraiser and night time of celebration for the inspiration Atlas began in honour of his late father, a legendary physician on Staten Island.
The dinner, which is a must-attend occasion for a lot of within the sports activities and leisure world within the New York space, has drawn large stars through the years. This 12 months’s occasion was no totally different with the likes of actor Tony Danza, comic Tracy Morgan, and world champion boxers Michael Moorer, Iran Barkley, Vito Antuofermo, and others, to call just some.
Atlas, at all times humble and appreciative, mentioned, “l’d prefer to thank the folks of Staten Island and from throughout the nation and clarify to them how necessary they’ve been to us as we now enter these late ‘rounds’ of this combat.”
Atlas, by no means removed from an excellent boxing analogy, in contrast the inspiration’s work to a ‘combat’.
“The folks they assist are sometimes battling for his or her lives”, he mentioned. “Whether or not it’s the younger boy who was identified with a uncommon mind illness that the inspiration bought a van for, or the 10-year-old lady that travels from Florida to New York for her most cancers remedies, or the mom and her kids who have been impacted by home violence and have been sleeping on the ground.”
Boxing Corridor of Fame member Atlas made a reputation for himself coaching and dealing the corners of a few of the finest fighters on the earth. As properly, he was a much-respected ringside analyst on ESPN for many years.
However it might be the work he does by means of the inspiration, in honour of his father, that simply is likely to be his best legacy.
“So sure, it’s each bit as a lot a combat as Ali-Frazier was,” Atlas provides. “The massive distinction is that they aren’t fought out in glamorous or well-known locations similar to Caesars Palace or MSG, and the bruises are sometimes not as straightforward to see, as a lot of them are on the within in addition to the skin. All the folks we combat for want their very own nook to select them up from the stool and off the canvas to reply the subsequent bell.”
The inspiration works year-round to offer help to all weak folks by means of applications to help basketball, psychological well being, mentorship, meals pantry and hampers, scholarships, anti-bullying, transportation, and lots of, many others.
That is an incredible basis that does nice work for the folks of Staten Island and past.
As the inspiration closes in on 3 a long time of serving to those that battle to assist themselves, what can folks say besides – Thanks, Teddy and the Theodore A. Atlas Basis.
* If organizing a dinner for a whole lot wasn’t sufficient work for the inspiration, they have been all up and again to work 2 days later, on Saturday morning, handing out 2000 full turkey dinner meals to the much less lucky.
These are good folks doing good work! They minimize out the pink tape and get straight to help for the needy, by means of the inspiration and a military of valued volunteers.
It doesn’t get significantly better than that!
