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Bay State Chapter | |
The Bay State Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation (JDF) shares with all of the other JDF chapters in the US and around the world the clear mission to fund research to find a cure for diabetes and its complications.
We are located at 20 Walnut Street, Suite 201, Wellesley Hills, MA, 02181. To reach us, call (617) 431-0700 or (800) 640-0987; fax us at (617) 431-8836; e-mail is JDFBaySt@aol.com.
There are many ways for you to help find a cure for diabetes. Please contact us to become involved in any of the events and programs detailed here, or just call us for more information.
Bay State News and Announcements
| 15th Annual Main Event Gala to honor Talbots CEO |
On Saturday, June 14, the Bay State Chapter will cap off our most successful year ever with a celebration of our 15th annual Main Event Gala honoring Arnold B. Zetcher, President and CEO of Talbots, now celebrating its 50th Anniversary as a leading specialty retailer of women’s and children’s clothing. Once again, the Boston Marriott Copley Place will host this elegant black tie affair.
Mr. Zetcher, who joined Talbots in 1987 as president and assumed the title of CEO the following year, oversees all aspects of the company’s impressive operations. Well known for its classic approach to fashion, this Hingham-based company has become a good friend and active supporter of JDF. Recently , Talbots designated JDF chapters across the nation as the charitable beneficiaries for all new openings of its Talbots Kids & Babies stores. To date 14 JDF chapters have benefited from this relationship, including the Bay State Chapter.
The selection of Mr. Zetcher as this year’s honoree reflects the esteem in which JDFI and the Bay State Chapter hold Talbots for its generous support and the pride we feel from our partnership with this company known worldwide for its superior standards of quality and service.
Spectacular entertainment will be provided by the 16-piece Winiker Orchestra. This well-known local musical institution recently brought down the house at President Clinton’s inaugural gala.
We will reprise last year’s popular silent auction filled with over 100 unique and special items. This year’s Grand Prize Sweepstakes is a trip for two to Paris on American Airlines. So don’t miss what promises to be a truly memorable and fun evening.
To order your tickets, to place a gala journal ad, or for corporate sponsorship information, please call (617) 431-0700.
| Gala Auction Items Needed |
The auction held during last year’s Main Event Gala was great fun and alone raised over $26,000 for research in one night. We are actively searching for great items to auction off and great volunteers to help make this year’s auction an even bigger success. Please contact Dawn Sadler at 431-0700 if you want to help and/or if you can provide or secure auction items such as:
Bay State Special Programs
| Call For A Cure! |
Call For The Cure with
the JDF Bay State Chapter Phone Card™
Every call saves you money and brings us closer to a cure for diabetes.
The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation -- Bay State Chapter -- is offering you a chance to do well by doing good, every time you place a call outside of your home! This full-featured prepaid & rechargeable telephone calling card gives you a great rate, and through your $10 purchase and continued use, you will be helping JDF fund more research to find the cure for diabetes.
Cost Effective. The JDF Bay State Chapter Calling for a Cure Phone Card™ will save you money over MCI and AT&T calling cards: 40% or more on an average 3 minute call and up to 79% for a quick 1 minute call.
Examples of Calls Within the USA
JDF CALLING FOR THE CURE CARD |
AT&T Calling Card* |
MCI Calling Card* |
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1 Minute Call |
$ .33 |
$ 1.12 |
$ 1.10 |
3 Minute Call |
$ .99 |
$ 1.68 |
$ 1.60 |
5 Minute Call |
$ 1.65 |
$ 2.24 |
$ 2.10 |
* Rates quoted based on average cost/minute of calls placed during weekdays, evenings, and nights/weekends, including 1st minute surcharge. JDF Bay State Chapter Calling for a Cure Phone Card™ rates are the same regardless of when or where you call.
Help find a cure for diabetes. JDF will receive 30% of the $10 purchase price for each card and 24% of the dollar amount added to the card for as long as you use it. Every time you use the JDF Bay State Chapter Calling for a Cure Phone Card™ you’ll be advancing research that will find the cure for diabetes.
Stop searching for loose change. Most prepaid calling cards go in the trash once the time is used up. Usually just when you need to make an urgent call you need to buy another, search for change, or call collect. With the JDF Bay State Chapter Calling for a Cure Phone Card™, you’ll never be in that position. You can add more time -- from 30 up to 150 minutes at a time -- quickly and conveniently by following the directions on the card and charging it to your Visa or MasterCard. And you will continue to receive the same low price of 33¢ per minute.
Makes the perfect gift. The JDF Bay State Chapter Calling for a Cure Phone Card™ is great for anyone away from home -- college students, grandparents, or vacationers. You’ll have peace of mind knowing they can always make a call. With the holiday season coming up, its also a great stocking stuffer.
Control business costs. Manage your employee’s phone costs. Prepaid limits protect you from fraud and abuse. And unlike some other calling cards, with the JDF Bay State Chapter Calling for a Cure Phone Card™ you can lose no more than the time remaining on the card.
It’s a powerful business center. The JDF Bay State Chapter Calling for a Cure Phone Card™ gives you access to several easy-to-use valuable enhanced services -- all for no extra fee -- you only pay for the time you use. Following simple voice prompts you can speed dial frequently called numbers at the touch of a button, send and receive voice mail and faxes, set up conference calls, and you can make call after call without hanging up. You can even use the card to call to any phone from any phone around the world (international rates will differ).
Thanks go to our partner -- Homisco/VoiceNet -- which specializes in developing and maintaining basic and advanced voice processing applications.
To order or for more information call (617) 431-0700
| Mail Order Pharmacy |
An Open Letter to JDF Friends and Family:
As Chairperson of the JDF Bay State Chapter’s FIFTY 50 Pharmacy program I am writing to ask you to join me in trying the FIFTY 50 Pharmacy for yourself. FIFTY 50 Pharmacy is a full service pharmacy where you can order aspirin, band aids, or anything else available at your local pharmacy. However, it was founded by a person with diabetes and specializes in diabetes supplies.
For introducing our members and friends to their service, FIFTY 50 is giving JDF 50% of all of its profits (therein the company name). In other words, if you would buy your diabetes and other pharmaceutical supplies through FIFTY 50 instead of your current supplier, half of the profits from every order you place will come back to JDF to invest in research. Just by paying a bill we would have paid anyway, we can each increase our contribution to finding a cure for diabetes!
FIFTY 50 has already contributed over $2.1 million to JDFI, with an additional $2 million pledged over the next two years. Indeed FIFTY 50 has become the largest corporate donor to JDFI!
I signed up with the FIFTY 50 Pharmacy
last year and am truly satisfied. But I can’t put it any
better than Jim Portner from the JDF Dallas Chapter:
"The life of a diabetic is hard enough, it is wonderful to be able to remove just a little bit of the daily aggravation. What used to be a chore - to keep a regular stock of supplies, to worry about insurance, to unexpectedly get caught without this or that, has been completely eliminated. FIFTY 50 handles everything - insurance prequalification, insurance billing, transferring of prescriptions from your old pharmacy, they even monitor usage and provide ‘automatic’ shipment so that you never find yourself running out of anything at a critical time. FIFTY 50 has eliminated absolutely every inconvenience. The staff are truly dedicated to providing unparalleled service and support to each of their customers."
Anyone can use FIFTY 50 Pharmacy -- your friends, family, or neighbors -- and every time they do they will be helping to find a cure for diabetes. There’s no cost to join and it only takes a simple phone call to sign up. Please read the enclosed brochure and give FIFTY 50 a try. I believe you’ll be glad you did. If you try it and like it, please tell a friend (or 5!) and drop me a note. If you don’t like it, please be sure to let me know.
On behalf of the JDF, thank you for your support.
Sincerely yours,
L. Dan Lobdell
| How Would You Like To Donate $91 Million To Cure Diabetes? |
The federal government is the largest funder of diabetes and biomedical research. We work tirelessly to educate our elected representatives about the costs -- human and economic -- of diabetes and the importance of finding a cure as quickly as possible. Become a JDF Government Advocate. You will periodically receive brief Legislative Updates and Alerts to provide you with the information necessary to contact your elected officials in Washington and seek their support for our efforts to find a cure for diabetes. Contact us if you’d like to help make the system work.
| Memorials and Tributes |
Honor someone you love or remember someone you miss by supporting the vital research needed to find a cure for diabetes. Your donation to JDF in memory of a friend or loved one or in honor of a joyous event -- a birth, wedding, graduation, anniversary -- will help advance our search for a cure. We will send you a receipt and acknowledge your gift to the individual or family that you specify the same day we receive your donation.
| Recap of Recent Events |
No Small Feat! 1996 Walk For The Cure Raises $185,000!
On Sunday, September 29, 1996 over a thousand walkers, led by TV celebrities Suzanne Bates and Mike Dowling, left Boston’s City Hall Plaza in hot pursuit of a common goal: to cure diabetes and its complications. The Walk raised over $185,000 for diabetes research, making it the largest Walk in the Bay State Chapter’s history. Thanks to all of our Walkers and volunteers for going that extra mile, or two!
Kudos to our top individual and team fund raisers. The Marshalls team is #1 with a combined $42,918 from sneaker sales and pledged walkers. The Jones & Bartlett team, a perennial leader, followed with $17,495, and right on their heels was Team Ben with $13,218. In his first year as a walker, Ben Rosenthal was the #1 individual fund raiser with an incredible $10,738, followed by Kathy Ferlito with $4,375 and Kevin Jones with $ 4,009. Great job guys! Save the date ...1997 Walk For The JDF Cure, Saturday, September 20, 1997.
A special thanks to all of our 1996 Walk sponsors: American Airlines; Boston Building Trades; Cellular One; Eli Lilly & Company, Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream; Hard Rock Cafe; LifeScan; MediSense, Inc.; National Amusements; NATCO; Quality Beverage, LP; Ryder Truck Rentals, Stoneham; Sedgwick; Sheraton Boston Hotel & Towers; and The Stop & Shop Companies, Inc.
Gift Wrap 1996: Success in a Pretty Package
400+ thank yous go to those many dedicated volunteers who "Wrapped Up A Cure For Diabetes" this past holiday season on behalf of JDF. Led by Nancy Jones, Susan Greeley, Cindy Pacino, Kathi Osborn, and June Connors, and with the help of this always cheerful team of wrappers, Gift Wrap 1996 raised over $74,000!
In addition to our tireless volunteers, this great success, and our sincere thanks, are owed to: our good friends at the South Shore Plaza, Burlington Mall, and The Shops at Prudential Center; Bags & Bows, A Division of Chiswick, principal supplier and sponsor of this year’s event; and Paul Stewart, NHL referee and a member of our Board, who spent several days meeting the public and signing autographs to raise money and awareness for us. We would also like to thank our friends at Neiman-Marcus for their support and NYNEX Mobile Communications, in Burlington, the official Gift Wrap Cellular Phone sponsor.
| With A Little Help From Our Friends |
We want to express our sincere gratitude to the following companies and individuals for finding fun, creative, and mutually beneficial ways to benefit JDF through their normal course of business:
Talbots and JDF in Fashion
All this year, celebrating their 50th Anniversary, Talbots is donating a portion of opening sales at their new Talbots Kids & Babies stores to local JDF chapters. On Saturday, February 15, Talbots , the leading specialty retailer and catloger of women’s classic apparel, opened their largest location in New England at the South Shore Plaza. Talbots’ donation of $2,000 to the Bay State Chapter from this store opening brings their total donation to JDF for 14 such openings to $18,000.
Tax Seminars Raise $6,000 for the Cure
Proceeds from the ninth annual year-end tax seminars hosted by the Boston accounting firm of Gray, Gray & Gray raised over $6,000 for the Bay State Chapter. Shown accepting a check is (center) NHL referee and chapter board member Paul Stewart, , accompanied by Gray, Gray & Gray Managing Partner Neil D. Krug (left) and Senior Tax Partner Michael D. Koppel (right). Gray, Gray & Gray is one of New England’s leading independent accounting firms.
Children’s Diabetes Association Golf Tournament Hits the Green for JDF
As we welcome the new golf season, we thank the friends and family of Paul, Sharyn and Nicole Reilly for designating JDF as the beneficiary of the proceeds from their 2nd Annual golf tournament, held last October 7 at the Franklin Country Club. A capacity crowd had a great time and raised nearly $4,000 for research.
Tenth Anniversary Christmas Extravaganza
On Sunday, December 8th, Mike Smith and Frank Campbell hosted their annual Christmas Extravaganza at the Norwood American Legion Hall. This family event featured a visit from Santa, Mike’s magic show, and a raffle. As usual, it was the best place to be that day, and this good time had by all raised $1,800.
We would like to express our gratitude to these people and companies for producing and supporting events like these of which JDF was the charitable beneficiary. This is an effective way to create greater awareness of diabetes and of JDF and to raise funds for research. We actively encourage such "third party" fundraising events and only ask that if you’d like to hold such an event, please contact our office in advance. Thank you very much!
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