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Letter to the Foundation

September 7, 2001

Dear Foundation Member and Friend:

Since I last wrote to you, the Board of Trustees adopted a mission statement explaining the focus of our efforts, which you will find enclosed.

First grant of $10,000 awarded

In accordance with the mission statement, the Foundation's first grants will be made on a matching basis to enable doctors from University Hospitals to attend the Comprehensive Cancer Care Conference at Arlington, Virginia October 19-21. In order to do this the Foundation is providing you, members and friends, with the opportunity to match the gift. Your name will be included on the grant.

Honor Roll

Donors of matching gifts of $500 or more will be placed on our newly formed Honor Roll and their names will be recognized on the grant.

Comprehensive Cancer Care Conference in Arlington, Va. October 19, 20, and 21

The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (www.cmbm.org) is sponsoring the fourth Comprehensive Cancer Care Conference in Arlington, Va.. It is supported by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the National Cancer Institute among others. The conference will bring those who are conducting the most innovative research on complementary and alternative therapies for cancer together with the most distinguished mainstream oncologists to evaluate promising therapies and how they can successfully be integrated into comprehensive cancer care.

You may attend the Conference - open to cancer survivors, their friends and family.

Just recently I was asked to participate on a panel with the founder of the Sandra Komen Foundation and two physicians, all of whom have had cancer, to be held at the Conference on October 20th. The topic will be "What cancer patients want and need." Enclosed is a brochure for the Conference which is also open to cancer patients, survivors, their family and friends. If you register before September 15, the fee for non-physicians is $125. Please let me know if you are attending, and I will share with you airline reservation information and hope to meet with you at the Conference. Fourteen hundred people are expected.

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2ND ANNUAL TEA PARTY, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 11 AT BREEZY BLUFF

Please mark your calendars for November 11 when the second annual Tea Party for the Foundation will be held again at Breezy Bluff. Merrill Lynch is once again sponsoring the event and we will have an interesting and informative program. At that time you may renew your annual membership to the Foundation. Invitations will be in the mail shortly. I am looking forward to being with you again. All of you helped me go through this ordeal, and I am happy that I am alive. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Helen Moss

 

Enclosures: Mission Statement
Conference Brochure
Donation form