Retired nurse Elizabeth Kendall has donated $1 million to her former employer, the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Radiation Oncology, School of Medicine officials announced yesterday. The donation will establish the John C. and Elizabeth Kendall Fellowship Fund in Radiation Oncology at Penn. "The fund will be used to train nurses, technicians and physicians in cutting-edge technologies and novel radiation therapies to fight cancer," Penn Radiation Oncology Department Chairman Stephen Hahn said in a statement. The fund was announced at a reception in University City that many attended, including Robert Goodman, the first to chair the department of radiation oncology from 1977 to 1991. "This gift is such a great honor to the department, and a great honor to the Kendall family . the likes of which I've never seen from a former employee," Goodman said in the same statement. Kendall began working as a nurse at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania directly after graduating from Penn's School of Nursing in 1968.
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