Community September 01, 2008
Topping Off Ceremony
Four, specially-painted white beams were signed by Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) employees, construction workers, and students from Meadowside Elementary School in Milford in support of a classmate who has been treated for cancer at YNHH.
Six-year-old Nick Branca of Milford, who was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer when he was 3, was at the topping off ceremony with his parents.
Nick, wearing a hard hat, gave the signal to the construction workers to raise the girders, including "his" beam.
Article originally appeared in Yale-Hew Haven Hospital Smilow Cancer Center Newsletter
http://www.ynhh.org/cancer/why_ynhh/cancer_center.html#newslette
