Caitlin Macnamara ‘14
Committee Chair
My mom lost her mother, my grandmother, to breast cancer when she was 20 years old. My mom would travel back and forth from college on the weekends to spend time with her mom and help take care of her. I can see the pain that my grandmother’s death caused and is still causing, for my mom. I Relay for her and for all the other people who have lost a loved one to cancer.
I also Relay for my friend Esma. Esma was one of my good friends from high school. She would change her hair color and style all the time. She told us she wanted to go to beauty school. It wasn’t until after I had graduated from high school that she told us she had brain cancer, and not until a few weeks later that I realized she wasn’t changing her actual hair but was just switching wigs. She died nine months later, a week before our first Relay for Life event at Washington College.