During the fundraising event President & CEO International Bank of Commerce - Eagle Pass, Texas Hector J. Cerna thanked everyone in attendance and stressed the importance of continuing the fight against Cancer.
Cerna then opened up the night's silent auction.
The event also featured live musical entertainment from the Red Floors, a local music group comprised of State Representative Poncho Nevarez, Eagle Pass Main St. Program’s Joe Cruz, and Carlos Herrera, Willie Garza, and Jorge Valdez.
IBC Bank holds numerous fundraising events to bring awareness to the fight against Cancer, collects monetary donations and holds auctions in which they match the funds raised. These funds are them matched dollar for dollar and then donated to the MD
Anderson Foundation to help in their efforts to end Cancer.
To make a donation, please visit your local branch or online through https://gifts.mdanderson.org
The event was highly attended by local public dignitaries including City Manager George Antuna, City Councilman Rudy Villalpando and members of the city administration, Maverick County Hospital District Board Trustees President Jesus Casas, and Secretary Aaron Valdez, IBC Staff and Administration and many local community members.
In 1907, Monroe D. Anderson, a successful banker and businessman from Jackson, Tenn., moved to Houston, where he and his partners in Anderson, Clayton and Co. oversaw what would become the world’s largest cotton merchant. In 1936, he established the MD Anderson Foundation with $300,000 and the commitment of two other trustees, John H. Freeman, and William B. Bates. Anderson died in 1939, leaving a fortune to the foundation. The foundation’s purposes, according to the charter, include “the establishment, support, and maintenance of hospitals, homes, and institutions for the care of the sick” and “the promotion of health, science, education and advancement and diffusion of knowledge.” Its first major step in fulfilling those goals occurred in 1941 when the Texas legislature appropriated
$500,000 to establish a cancer research hospital in the state. Thanks to the foundation’s proposal to match those funds and its stipulation that the hospital would be located in Houston and bear its founder’s name, the institution now known as The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was born.