The message for your group:
Hello Everyone,
Just back from a lovely vacation on Martha's Vineyard. I think long walks on sunny beaches is much better than any drug!
Even though it is summer and we have been swamped with a multitude of things, the CML Society has been working hard to firmly establish ourselves here in Canada.
We are excited to announce a couple of upcoming activities. Hope you are able to join us for some or all of these exciting events.
September 22, 2006 - Light the Night in Montreal - Presented by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and Bristol Myers Squibb. The CML Society will have a tent set up donated to us by the LLS (a value of usually $10,000 worth of sponsorship money). The purpose of the tent is to help raise awareness of the CML Society as well as CML in general. We do recognize that this date falls on Rosh Hashanah. We did not pick this date, and for those of you who know me well, know that it is troubling to me that this event is happening on a very special day for our Jewish friends. I spoke with Robin Markowitz at the LLS and she has prepared a letter which I will send in a separate e-mail regarding the holding of this event on this very special day. The following day is a Saturday and we will be holding a special meeting of the CML Society, we had to pick this date to correspond with the Light the Night Event to take advantage of the people who will be traveling to Montreal at that time.
Saturday September 23, 2006 - Special fall meeting of the CML Society which will most likely include patient representatives from every province in Canada who are interested in helping us to establish the CML Society from coast to coast. This will be held in Montreal at the Royal Victoria Hospital
Wednesday September 27, 2006 - Montreal, Royal Victoria. Special lunch meeting featuring Dr. Francis Giles from MD Anderson, Houston Texas. Dr. Giles is actually a Canadian, born in Ontario but raised in Dublin Ireland. His parents were/are Irish. We hope he speaks to us about his recent work on vaccines.
Thursday, September 28th, 2006 - Toronto Ontario, Dr. Francis Giles, as mentioned above. Meeting at 4:00 PM or early morning meeting on the same day. For everyone in Ontario, please write back to me and let me know your preference. Either 4:00 PM or early morning, let's say 8:00 AM.
Please e-mail me to confirm your presence for these events. It is very IMPORTANT for you to confirm to me no later than tomorrow evening (August 23rd, 2006) your availability for the Montreal and Toronto meetings featuring Dr. Francis Giles. We are working with him to firm up his agenda and need to do so this week. My deadline is late Wednesday evening.
The Meeting in Montreal will be chaired by Cheryl-Anne and Suzan as well as Dr. Pierre Laneuville. The meeting in Toronto will be chaired by Cheryl Anne and Dr. Jeffrey Lipton.
French version of this memo will follow later on today.
We are looking forward to an excellent turn out for these events.
Looking forward to seeing you soon.
Sincerely,
Cheryl-Anne Simoneau,
President & CEO
The CML Society of Canada