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Mecklenburg Community Church - or "Meck," as members call it - launched a full-fledged

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2008

Mecklenburg Community Church - or "Meck," as members call it - launched a full-fledged

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2008

Terrence Meck The Palette Fund honors the late Rand Harlan Skolnick who served as the president and CEO of his family's business, Solgar Vitamin and Herb Co. This is the second year the fund has awarded grants to support nutrition, wellness, and programs for cancer patients and for gay youth.

Promoting Healthy EatingPromoting Healthy Eating Melanie Grayce West 2011

Mr. Meck likes to work with organizations that use new models to approach a problem.

Promoting Healthy EatingPromoting Healthy Eating Melanie Grayce West 2011

"Rand so believed in the power of education," says Mr. Meck.

Promoting Healthy EatingPromoting Healthy Eating Melanie Grayce West 2011

"He loved the program," says Terrence Meck, 33 years old, who was Mr. Skolnick's partner and now serves as president and executive director of the Palette Fund.

Promoting Healthy EatingPromoting Healthy Eating Melanie Grayce West 2011

Contributory factors were his suppressed homosexuality and fear of exposure, his disastrous marriage, and the sudden collapse of the one enduring relationship of his adult life, his 13-year association with the wealthy widow Nadezhda von Meck.

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While the foundation supports other programs that educate children about nutrition, Mr. Meck says Wellness in the Schools not only changes a school menu but the minds of everyone involved.

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In the years before Tchaikovsky came to Carnegie, in addition to the considerable income he was making as a conductor and composer, he'd been receiving $3,000 a year from a Baroness von Meck, a patron with whom he corresponded only by letter, Mr. Francesconi said.

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"There isn't 10 years of research showing that this model does work," said Mr. Meck of Wellness in the Schools, "but clearly with the rate of obesity, rate of diabetes, looking at the future of our youth…we need to start taking risks to start combating this problem."

Promoting Healthy EatingPromoting Healthy Eating Melanie Grayce West 2011