Price Family Endowment

Harvey Price was 15 years old the first time he saw her — the only girl sitting in the back row of his homeroom class in 1955 at Waco High School

“And I thought to myself, ‘That is somebody I want to get to know,’” he said of Lanell, who had moved to Waco that year to live with her aunt and uncle

For three years, the pair were best friends, trading their sandwiches at lunchtime Harvey’s was always goose liver and onions And Lanell’s was always bologna and mayonnaise

After high school, they went their separate ways They married other people and had their own children

But six decades later, after their spouses passed away, a high school reunion publication brought them together

And when Harvey landed at the airport in Dallas, it was like no time had passed

“I saw him coming through the gate, and he was just like the boy I remembered from high school,” Lanell said

In 2013, the couple were married at the McLennan County Courthouse, less than half a mile from the old Waco High School where they met

Now in their 80s and wanting to leave behind a lasting legacy, they established the Edith Lanell and Harvey L Price Jr Endowment Fund for Clinical Research through a planned estate gift to Children’s Health

After high school, Harvey pursued a career as a physical therapist and worked with pediatric patients Later, he

went back to school to study pulmonary and respiratory care and did research studying sleep disorders His work brought him opportunities to study and train at Stanford University and to do research for the National Institutes of Health

“Anybody I’ve ever met in research has this gleam in their eyes because they know they’re touching the unknown, and that is exciting Research is the frontier of discovery, and we wanted to be able to support that through our funds,” Harvey said

Growing up a couple of hours from Dallas, the couple were aware of the mission of Children’s Health to make life better for children in the North Texas

community and beyond Lanell and her first husband also lived in the Dallas area and volunteered as Mr and Mrs Santa Claus for several years at Children’s Health in the 1990s

“We had a real affection for Children’s Health and knew that the team there led incredible research,” Harvey said

The couple’s generosity will support unrestricted clinical research, which helps fund the uncharted journey of scientists to discover breakthrough treatments and allows Children’s Health to be on the cutting-edge of pediatric medicine

Year-round, there are worthy clinical research projects at Children’s Health with the potential to change lives that require funds to move forward Philanthropic support for launching meritorious projects is crucial to fostering these initiatives and innovations

“We wanted to create something that would live on after us and help others This gift makes us very proud,” Harvey said “We didn’t care about having our name engraved on a wall, but it does give us a sense that we were here, and that we made a difference ”

Clinical research puts theories and basic science research into action that can benefit patients at the bedside. Children’s Health is a leader in clinical research, and significant breakthroughs have been made at Children’s Health because of our ability to conduct this research.

• Targeting myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) in pediatric tumors

MDSCs are immature myeloid cells that have the ability to suppress immune responses and expand during cancer, infection and inflammatory diseases • Tumor sequencing for high-risk pediatric oncology patients • Anesthesia patient safety for pediatric

COVID patients • Fetal congenital heart disease • Neonatal and pediatric

ECMO monitoring • Sport-related concussion recovery in adolescents • Brain injury in extremely preterm infants • Exploring the cellular landscape in pediatric obesity • Evaluating and strengthening communication and practice intervention methods among providers in pediatric ambulatory clinics Currently, there are more than 1,200 active research studies at Children’s Health, with nearly 13,000 patients enrolled For many of these children, it is their last hope at treatment for their illness, and philanthropic support remains the essential catalyst for facilitating new and innovative ideas for clinical research at Children’s Health