A Highland Park High School teacher has cancer and could use help from the Park Cities community to raise money for a bone marrow transplant. Here is a message BubbleLife received about the situation:
"Larry Jackson, the HPHS Social Studies Department Chair and AP Macroeconomics teacher of fifteen years, needs our help. After being diagnosed with follicular lymphoma in November of 2011, then learning his lymphoma had changed to a more aggressive acute leukemia, Larry is scheduled for a bone marrow transplant on June 1. His colleagues have opened an care fund account at Bank of Texas- Preston Center with the immediate fundraising goal of $5000 to assist with the cost of the transplant. Donations can be made at the following website: fightwithlarry.
Mr. Jackson is a man with many titles: "faithful and generous husband", “loving father, protector, and faithful supporter”; “Papa” to 10 grandchildren, son, brother, friend, teacher, and devout Christian. His illness does not allow him to do the things in which he once found great joy, such as play with grandchildren, read, teach, walk, and engage in stimulating conversations or an occasional debate. Please forward this urgent plea to friends and graduates of HPHS to get the message out about the fund Mr. Jackson's colleagues have established for his care."