On the plaque which will hang in the Clinical Trials Building, donations of $500 will be listed as members of Dr. Tom Petty’s 500 Club, $1,000 or more will be listed as Sustaining Members, those of $5,000 or more as Premier Members and those of $10,000 or more as Founding Members of The Long Beach 500 Club.
Gifts given earlier, in the initial drive, will be added to those given later so that you will get full acknowledgement for your total donations, and your status upgraded as appropriate. If you wish a signed acknowledgment of your standing in this very special club please let us know. We will be delighted to mail you a certificate suitable for framing.
Joining Tom Petty in the Long Beach 500 Club this month were, Robert Chang, MD, Amy Walker, Jeanne Rife (in memory of her husband John), Reta Long, Eli Lilly & Co. Salter Labs. Chad Therapeutics, Inc. Pharmacia & Upjohn, Alvin and Jean Hughes, and Craig Murga.
COPD is the 4th leading cause of death around the world and the only one which continues to rise rather than decline. Fifteen to 20 million Americans have COPD! Yet it receives the least research money of any of the major diseases and far less than HIV, which gets the most research money, in spite of afflicting far fewer people in the United States. We also need more financial support and more outspoken advocates in fighting this disease. All of us thank those of you who give so generously to this neglected condition.
Here is our roll of honor to date. It will continue to be updated as more of you continue to join us, or to make additional contributions.
| Founding Members | ||
| Alvin Grancell | Mary Burns | |
| Sustaining Members | ||
| Fred Burdette | Richard Casaburi, PhD, MD | Thomas L. Petty, MD |
| Marjorie Dickenson | Billie Gaynor | The Margaret Gray Memorial |
| Emily Hansen | Keven Hettich | Little Company of Mary Sisters |
| Reta Long | Edmund Roth | The Mary Nicolas Lynch Memorial |
| Long Beach 500 | ||
| Robert Chang, MD | John & Alice Moore | Jeanne Rife |
| Thomas Storer, PhD | Amy Walker | Women’s Fellowship of Neighborhood Church |
| The Robert McDonald Memorial | Eli Lilly & Co. | Salter Labs. |
| Chad Therapeutics, Inc | Pharmacia & Upjohn | Metro-Med |
Mary Burns and Rich Casaburi also donated, to this special cause,
the recent generous honorariums they received from the Teijin Company of Japan.
And speaking of Teijin, after the ATS conference in San Francisco several Japanese pulmonologists and representatives of Teijin, a company that supplies most of the oxygen in Japan, came to Torrance. Mary had the privilege of hosting them as they visited the area. Japan is committed to improving their oxygen service and the pulmonary rehab that they offer their patients.