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MEDIA ADVISORY: FRED FUNK AND MORE WHAT: 2005 Friends for ALS Research Celebrity Golf Classic WHEN: Monday, October 24, 2005; registration: 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.; shotgun start: 11:45 a.m. EVENT: PGA pro Fred Funk, who won the 2005 Players Championship, will host the Friends for ALS Research Second Annual Celebrity Golf Classic. The full-day event will include a golf clinic with Funk, a performance by world-renowned trick shot artist “Chuck the Hit Man,” and dinner, silent auction and awards. Last year’s event, hosted by golf pro Tom Watson, whose caddy Bruce Edwards died of ALS, drew nearly 300 people and raised $400,000. Family and friends of long-term care pioneer and community activist Harvey Wertlieb are hosting this event to raise money for the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins and New-York based Project ALS. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis claimed Wertlieb’s life three years ago. Shortly after his diagnosis, Wertlieb—with his wife Linda—endowed the Wertlieb Educational Institute in Long-Term Care Management at George Washington University’s School of Public Health and Health Service. The school is the first of its kind dedicated to advancing long-term care as a profession. So important were continuing education and research to Wertlieb that after his death, his family donated his brain and spinal cord tissue to Johns Hopkins in hopes that studying it might solve some mysteries of ALS. WHERE: Woodmont Country Club, Rockville, Md. CONTACT: Ken Frager 443-287-2283, kfrager2@jhmi.edu See also www.friendsforalsresearch.com, www.alscenter.org and www.projectals.org. |
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