September
2006
Hearts of Hope Gala
For all of you who purchased books at the HOPE launch party a few weeks ago in downtown Chicago, thank you! If you recall, all proceeds were donated to The Children’s Memorial Foundation for Education and Research. The foundation has recently found a home for the signed telescope displayed at the party. It has been recently donated to the Page Nicole White Pediatric Cancer Foundation. It will be auctioned off at the “Hearts of Hope” gala.
Here are a few of the folks who contributed signatures to the telescope - who are also profiled in the book.
Charles Schwab (founder and chairman of Charles Schwab & Co.); Dr. Marshall Nirenberg (Nobel Laureate awarded The Nobel Prize in 1968 for cracking the genetic code); Paul Orfalea (serial entrepreneur and legendary founder of Kinko’s); Jack Cakebread (founder of Cakebread Cellars Napa Valley); Dr. Jerry Linenger (NASA astronaut and MIR astronaut/cosmonaut); Tom McCoy (Advanced Micro Devices’ Chief Administrative Officer); Dr. Nawang Rabgyal (past-Director of the Office of Tibet-in-exile and Secretary to his Holiness the Dalai Lama); James Washburn (detective, cold case unit, the Chicago Police Department)