we stand for, while also making sure that the new logo would inspire people to become involved. After much discussion,
we decided we’d like a statue of a woman embracing an hour glass, since our overarching focus is detecting breast
cancer in time. Knowing what we wanted and finding a sculptor with the sensitivity to
translate our vision into bronze, proved to be far more difficult than we imagined.
Initially scouring art schools and university art programs yielded nothing, and a thorough search of the Internet was more frustrating than productive. It was then that 1 in 8 CEO Ken Vrana, remembered an article he’d read years earlier, about an amazing sculptor named Alan LeQuire. Retelling the story, Ken smiles, because he saves everything that he feels one day might come in handy. The question now was, did he still have the article and, if so, how in the world could he find it in his voluminous archives?
After only a few days however, find it he did and a phone call to Nashville-based Alan LeQuire not only proved to be worthwhile, but during that initial phone call, LeQuire mentioned that he’d be especially interested in executing the sculpture as his own mother had had breast cancer.
