Make-A-Wish and World Wish Month

As Chris’ battle against leukemia was getting more difficult, his mother, Linda, reached out to a friend who was a police officer in their community to see if he and his crew could help grant Chris’ one true wish.

Make-A-Wish founder Allan Schmidt fastens a DPS helmet on Chris Greicius on April 29, 1980, when Chris’ wish to be a police officer came true.

Local police officers and other volunteers stepped up to grant Chris’ one true wish – sparking a movement that would go on to transform the lives of more than 615,000 children with critical illnesses worldwide.

After Chris’ wish came true, his mother, Linda, and some of those involved shared the belief that more children like Chris needed the hope and joy of a wish to support them in their fight against a critical illness. More than 40 years later, this group of original WishMakers proudly call themselves co-founders of the global phenomenon known as Make-A-Wish.

“It’s not what the highway patrol and all these people did for little Chris. It’s what little Chris did for us. I don’t know of a day that goes by that I don’t think about him,” said Jim Eaves, co-founder of Make-A-Wish.