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Throughout the week of April 12 - April 16, there will be a booth in Lobby 10 where you can cast your votes from 9 am to 5 pm. It is one penny per vote, and the candidate that receives the most donations wins the Big Screw and and all of the money donated for a chosen charity.
Thursday Total
Charles Vest $25.56 $145.04
Make a Wish Foundation
Rob Miller (6.170) $49.49 $141.58
Habitat for Humanity of Boston
Dean Randolph $39.65 $131.67
Hospice of Cambridge
Karen Nilsson $58.81 $ 58.93
American Cancer Society
John Belcher (8.02) $27.11 $ 35.79
Angell Memorial Pet Hospital
Ron Roscoe (6.101) $20.11 $ 35.27
The New England Home for Little Wanderers
Duane Boning (6.001) $ 4.69 $ 34.60
Pine Street Inn
Sarah Tobacco (5.12) $ 3.40 $ 21.48
Alliance for Animals Metro Action Clinic
Haynes Miller (18.03) $ 8.77 $ 10.98
Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees
Ernest Cravalho (2.006) $ 4.89 $ 4.89
Webly Jean-Baptiste (18.085) $ 2.00 $ 3.86
Robert Weinberg (7.012) $ 1.12 $ 2.66
Write-ins $43.68 $ 90.70
| Year | Winner | - Charity |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | George C. Verghese | - Doctors Without Borders |
| 2002 | Steven B. Leeb | - Pine Street Inn |
| 2001 | Hale Bradt | - MIT Community Service Fund |
| 2000 | Neal Dorow | - Josiah Seale Family c/o Shepherd Center |
| 1999 | Carl D. Martland | - Audubon Society |
| 1998 | C. Michael Mohr | - Greater Boston Food Bank |
| 1997 | Neal H. Dorow | - MIT Community Service Fund |
| 1996 | Wesley L. Harris (Unified) | - American Heart Association |
| 1995 | Matthew H. Braun | - Boston Food Bank |
| 1994 | Robert D. Logcher | - Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts |
| 1993 | Eliot S. Levitt | - AIDS Action of Massachusetts |
| 1992 | (not held) | |
| 1991 | Pascal R. Chesnais | |
| 1990 | Anne Glavin | |
| 1989 | Gerald Sussman | |
| 1988 | Jeffrey Schiller | |
| 1987 | Emmett A. Witmer | |
| 1986 | Arthur Mattuck | |
| 1985 | Shirley M. McBay | - Aid for Ethiopia fund |
| 1984 | James Kirtley | |
| 1983 | Gerald Sussman | |
| 1982 | Fran Brister | |
| 1981 | Ted Shifrin | |
| 1980 | Tim Grove | |
| 1979 | F. R. McFeely | |
| 1978 | Luise Keohane | - American Cancer Society |
| 1977 | John Dickey | |
| 1976 | Judith Bostock | |
| 1975 | Tom Hill | |
| 1971 | Ken Browning | |
| 1968 | Kenneth Wadleigh | |
| 1967 | Arthur Mattuck |
