Linda and grizzled copper miner
Somewhere in Arizona
Sometime in the 1980s
One more attempt to separate you from your money.
Okay, gang; here is a chance to really make a
difference. The Marsha Rivkin center has
established a fund to honor Dr. Rivkin, on the occasion of his retirement
after 47 years as an active oncologist. The money will be used to fund innovative
research into the causes and cures of ovarian cancer. Any contribution over $1500 will be
recognized by a plaque on an honors wall in the Rivkin Center office
complex. I propose to start a sub-fund
honoring Linda with a contribution large enough to get us on the board. I urge all of you to make a contribution – it
doesn’t matter how much or how little.
Send checks to Gaynor Hill and make them payable to the Rivkin Center
Innovation Fund. Down in the lower left
corner write "In honor of Linda Joyce Beck".
The address is Marsha Rivkin Center, 801 Broadway #701, Seattle WA 98122.
You also can contribute on-line:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.marsharivkin.org/how-you-can-help/donate/
In the online form, is it the "Saul Rivkin Innovation Fund"?
ReplyDeleteAs you faithful blog readers will surely know, I am re-reading Nessa Carey’s superlative book The Epigenetics Revolution. I have just finished Chapter 11, which is by many lengths the winner in the contest regarding how best to explain cancer and cancer research with a manageable number of simple words. For those of you who just check my blog every so often to see the latest pictures of Linda, reading this stuff will be tough going: but I urge you to give it a try. You will need to read the whole book, though – if you try to high-grade by reading just Chapter 11 you will be buried alive. Also, you must ignore the precise meaning of things like NAMH2b (I made that up). They are either genes or proteins, and for us non-biologists she might as well have written “there is one gene that ….”, or the like. I have been reading this sort of thing for nearly three years now, and it took me two tries to wring the last dollop of meaning out of Chapter 11 – but it was worth the effort.
ReplyDeleteI went so far as to write her what I’m afraid was actually a fan letter -and found out that she is writing another book on more or less the same subject. I can't wait.