room, she decided to do something special for them. She worked with her Oncologist, Dr. Gabriel Sara at Roosevelt Hospital in NYC and funded Cleopatra's Touch. It consists of providing women with cancer the opportunity to be beautified by specialists during the course of their therapy. It includes a haircut, makeup, nail polishing, and a massage—a true Agnes touch. The Rush Ticket Program at Met Opera in NYC initiated in 2006 by Dr. Agnes Varis and her husband, Karl Leichtman, is supported by generous grants from the Agnes Varis Trust among other donors. Death Agnes Varis died at her home in New York City on July 29, 2011, aged 81. The cause of death was cancer. The lower portion of Central Park is dedicated to Varis. Embedded there is a plaque, with a Pericles quote, "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone, but what is woven into the lives of others." References 1930 births 2011 deaths American manufacturing businesspeople American women in business Brooklyn College alumni New York University Stern School of Business alumni People from Lowell, Massachusetts Deaths from cancer in New York (state) American people of Greek descent 20th-century American philanthropists 20th-century American women 21st-century American women