Kelly Ripa to ovarian cancer. In 2001, she appeared on a celebrity version of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", hosted by Philbin. She won $250,000 for Tomorrow's Children's Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to speeding the healing of children with cancer and serious blood disorders. Ripa is also an active participant in Mothers Against Drunk Driving. According to Ripa, her involvement with MADD is motivated by her sister, Linda, who was almost killed by a drunk driver in 1999. In 2007, Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos founded Milojo, the production company, named for their children Michael, Lola, and Joaquin. It
Alice Lightner Hopf Alice Lightner Hopf Alice Lightner Hopf (1904-1988) was an American writer who wrote science fiction under the name of A. M. Lightner and youth textbooks under the name of Alice Hopf. Two of her non-fiction works received awards from the National Science Teachers Association: "Biography of a Rhino" (1972) and "Misunderstood Animals" (1973). Alice Martha Lightner was born on October 14, 1904, in Detroit, Michigan to Frances (née McGraw) and Clarence Ashley Ligthtner. Her father was an attorney, who was a founder of the Detroit Public Library and her mother was a playwright. After graduating from Vassar College in 1927,