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                      In Memory of Eric Charles Marder

              February 15, 1971 to September 20, 1999

 

 The Eric Marder Scholarship Fund was created in memory of

my son, Eric.   The fund provides college scholarships to children with primary immune deficiency diseases.  Eric’s Fund was created shortly after Eric’s death and is administered by The Immune Deficiency Foundation.  ALL donated funds go directly to the kids; no expenses are deducted.

 

     My goal is to raise money for Eric’s endowment fund.  Please help me help more kids.  Every penny received goes to the kids.  For more information about Eric’s fund and the charity that administers it (The Immune Deficiency Foundation) – or if you know a kid that needs help, please contact me, Eric’s mom, Anne Marder Bishop at  annie3907@verizon.net  or 941-377-4999.  To make tax deductible donations, make check payable to the Immune Deficiency Foundation and in the “memo” portion of the check put:  Eric Marder Scholarship Fund, and mail to Eric Marder Scholarship Fund, 1912 Rolling Green Circle, Sarasota, Florida 34240.  All donators receive a detailed yearly report of scholarships given..

 

   HISTORY:   At five years of age, Eric was diagnosed with Common Variable Immune Deficiency.  In 1976, this was a rare, mostly unheard of, immune disease.  For the rest of his young life, Eric was in and out of the hospital.

 

            At an early age, perhaps because his physical endurance was limited and he frequently couldn’t participate in physical education at school, Eric became interested in cooking.  He would often cook with me, his mom.  When he was 14 Eric sold homemade chocolate chip cookies door to door.  At 16 he won first place in a cooking contest and received a $250 bond.

 

            Eric was a graduate chef of The Culinary Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.  While attending college, he had many problems.  One day while waiting for the subway to go to the Culinary Institute, Eric suffered a grand mal seizure.  When he came to, he refused the ambulance and proceeded to get on the subway and go to school.  After graduation, Eric held many jobs in the food industry, and at the time of his death he was a chef in an assisted living facility.  He was promised his own kitchen (a lifetime dream) to take effect October 15, but he died shortly before that, on September 20, due to complications from  extremely low platelets.  All the kids who receive these scholarships have tremendous drive – and maintain good grades.

 

Each year Eric’s fund gives out many scholarships to children with primary immune deficiency diseases. All the kids who receive these scholarships have tremendous drive – and maintain good grades. An endowment fund was also started in 2001.