Coming from the Heart
Ed Boullion was working the counter one day at his power equipment store, Boullion Sales, in Dexter, Michigan, when Chuck Derry, a producer at Channel 7 in Detroit and one of his regular customers, came in to get some parts.
Boullion started telling him about a project that he and some of his associates had been working on for about a year to raise money for recreational activities for patients at U-M C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.
Derry was intrigued. “What’s the name of this program?” he asked.
“We don’t have a name,” Boullion responded, “but we probably should. We’re going to start making fundraising appeals and we need something to put on the business cards and stationery.”
“Here’s what I think,” said Derry. “Everything you talk about and what your program does is from the heart. It sounds like it’s ‘From the Heart’ to me.”
And so it has been ever since, with one small alteration.
“We changed it to Michigan from the Heart a few years ago,” says Boullion, “because so many students have an interest in starting From the Heart programs in their area. We suggested that when they start a program, they name it after their school.” —JM