Partners in Collaboration:
We Love 'Em All
Dick McCready (right) accepts the award for himself and Dorsey Baldwin
from Packard's Jeff Rothstein.
Close to 100 Packard supporters, patients, volunteers, event planners and staff—also scientists abuzz from the Packard symposium going on upstairs—gathered this spring in a club room of the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront hotel to honor special friends. A video “letter” from Baltimore Ravens’ coach and Packard supporter, John Harbaugh, set the tone for this year’s Partners in Collaboration reception and award ceremony—warm, full of hope and celebration. “Thanks to every one of you who help the Packard Center,” Harbaugh said. “You’ve led us to where we are today, with 10 years of strong, successful research in ALS and the best yet to come.” Creative SupportSuccessful businessman Dick McCready and his good friend, Dorsey Baldwin—two kind Center supporters with creative energy to spare—well deserve their kudos. McCready is a longtime Packard board member. Baldwin is a Baltimore restaurateur and retired McCormick Spice vice president. McCready was instrumental in getting Packard research off and running, more than a decade ago, creatively raising $1.3 million with a charity tie-in to Cal Ripkin’s besting Lou Gehrig’s record. Later, Baldwin and McCready co-chaired “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” a hugely successful event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Baltimore Colts 1958 NFL championship. Some $150,000 went to the Packard Center. Help from Mama
“Coast to Coast Mama” Anne Campbell spent 50 days last year bicycling more than 3,600 miles across the United States—from Oregon to New Hampshire—to raise money for the Packard Center’s research. The focused, determined mother-of-three raised $26,000 in honor of Rob Spear, a good friend and business partner who developed ALS. Works Both Ways
Michael Radcliffe’s family rallies ‘round.
Bud Clark, Baltimore County Bar Association president. | | When lawyer Michael Radcliffe learned he had ALS, he, his family and his colleagues with the Baltimore County Bar Association (BCBA) quickly rallied to hasten research. Their 140-member Team Radcliffe was the largest and certainly one of the most enthusiastic in Packard’s 2009 Fiesta 5K race. Radcliffe and his family brightened the Partners in Collaboration event with their care and concern for each other, listening as bar association President, C. William “Bud” Clark eloquently told why Packard had become their “charity of the year.” Both Radcliffe and the BCBA are honorees. | | |
Volunteer of the Year
Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Rita Sattler has been dedicated in her work to discover the cause and find treatments for ALS. Since coming to Hopkins, she’s worked closely with Packard Director, Jeff Rothstein, advancing work on the role of excitotoxicity, a toxic process in ALS, and on drug discovery. After she began volunteering for Packard three years ago, with that same dedication, she saw a shift in her thinking. “Like other researchers, I used to gripe about not getting enough money from funding agencies. Why don’t they give us more? But now I realize how hard it is to get support for science.” She’s one of Packard’s most determined volunteers—and now its Volunteer of the Year. | | |
