Tee Up For Tots, Inc.
From The President: We are beginning our 11th year of fundraising and despite the economic turn down we are still optimistic. Just because the economy goes down does not equate to less children being diagnosed with pediatric cancers. In fact due to the advances in early detection more and more children are being diagnosed. Obviously, this translates into the need to ramp up pediatric cancer research as well as the need to assist more and more families who unfortunately will enter the cancer family lifestyle. Last year, 2008 was our 10 year anniversary, which was celebrated in May with over 150 donors, sponsors, Tee Up For Tots (TUFT) committee members and special guests. It was a joyous evening honoring all of you who have supported TUFT over the years. It was also inspirational with Dr Ghishan, Director of the Steele Children’s Research Center(SCRC) words of hope, educational as Dr Manny Katsanis, Section Head of the Pediatric Oncology Department at the SCRC gave a very exciting power point presentation of a new cancer treatment that just went to clinical trials that will retard or completely eliminate cancer cell activity from reoccurring for cancer patients in remission. The research for this new treatment was funded through the Courtney Page Zillman Doctoral Fellowship Program over the past several years. Dr Kartik Krishnan also gave us an update on a special research program TUFT is funding which results of the research program being available to us mid 2009. This anniversary year also brought change to our main event, The Tee Up For Tots Charity Golf Tournament. The event was held at the Hilton El Conquistador Country Club where two 18 hole golf courses were played instead of just one. The TUFT Planning Committee and Day of Volunteers had to negotiate and logistacaly handle totally new terrain to maintain the same level of quality and organization that we are known for. I am so very proud of each and every one of our staff who made this transition seemingly effortless. I’ve said this famous quote before, “there is nothing stronger than the Heart of a volunteer”, for which this was clearly demonstrated on this day. This was our best year ever putting well over 108,000 net dollars towards research and cancer family assistance. This would simply not be possible without the support of our sponsors, donors and volunteers. From myself and our little angel Courtney Page Zillman to all of you I extend a heartfelt thank you. Sincerely,
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