PANCREATIC CANCER SYMPOSIUM - PHILADELPHIA

Hello, World Family!
Falcon here. I received this notice this morning, and I wanted to pass it on to everyone in the Falcon and Dove family. As you know, our beloved Randy Pausch, the CMU professor who, among other many talents developed the computer program Alice (that Dove did as a grade school student) was struck down by this cancer. This horrible cancer knocks down many wonderful souls every year, and any additional information that can be shared to help those directly affected by this... patients, family members, friends, caregivers...should attend this event to gain a greater understanding and updates on the progress being made to overcome this illness.

This is a FREE event; there is also one in Atlanta about 10 days later. Check the enclosed information below, and feel free to check out their website.

Stay strong, Brothers and Sisters!
Falcon and Dove

PANCREATIC CANCER SYMPOSIUM - PHILADELPHIA
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown

The Pancreatic Cancer Symposium – Philadelphia is a complimentary educational event for patients/survivors, their caregivers, family members and friends. Advance registration is required.

Click here to view the agenda –includes speakers from Thomas Jefferson University, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Fox Chase Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and Beth Israel Medical Center.
WHEN
Saturday, April 4, 2009
8:45 am - 5:00pm

LOCATION
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
1201 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network has arranged for rooms at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown at a special rate of $239/night for a single/double, $259/night for a triple, and $279/night for a quad occupancy plus applicable taxes and service charges. For reservations, visit our website at http://www.pancan.org/phillysymp09/, or by calling 215-625-2900 and tell them you are with the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network group. These special rates are only available until Thursday, March 3, 2009. Limited rooms are available!

For any additional questions, contact us: symposium@pancan.org.

Randy Pausch-The Last Lecture

Hey Brothers and Sister!
If any of you watched the ABC network tonight at 10pm, you saw a show on Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University professor facing the difficulty of pancreatic cancer with a Tigger smile, and the courage of Aragorn. His new book, The Last Lecture is out today. We hope you get a chance to pick up a copy, read it, and hopefully, find some wisdom to give your own life some extra sparkle.

If you don't know about Randy, please go to You Tube and put his name in the search. You will get one of his many interviews, but also his last lecture last fall at CMU. Please watch it, and you will understand what a special spirit he is. Not a flawless one, and that is really his greatest gift for us all: his honorable nature that is human, not super-human. Although, I think his courage is extraordinary.

We here at Falcon and Dove have our own Randy Pausch story. He created a program called Alice, (you can download it for free) that is designed to help girls with learning the basics of computer information technology, and get more of them in the computer fields as they go through school. Dove has the program (and an Alice tee-shirt), and loved it! It was great that CMU made the program available to Home School students. Now, everyone can get it, so if you have kids...go for it! It's a lot of fun: storytelling creative software.

Randy, we would like to say thanks. It is a simple word, but the most appropriate. Thanks for caring about students, thanks for sharing your journey, thanks for taking time away from your family to share that sacred time with all of us.

Our prayers are with you and your family.

Oh, and by the way...the cancer didn't win, you did. Rest assured, my Brother, you have won.

Peace,
Falcon and Dove