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The deadline for submitting a proposal is January 31st, 2012.

Please follow the instructions “How to Apply for a Grant” on our website.

We truly appreciate this gift and are honored that the Family Charity Fund selected us for their program.

A special thanks to Darlene Krouse for making this possible.

We would like to thank Prinicipal Wahab, Mrs. McKinney, Ms. Lowenstein and all of the students for this privilege.

Following is a press release from Coleman Tech Charter High School about their program. We encourage all of our GIST friends to support the Coleman initiatives.

Coleman Tech Charter High School Students Write a Book To Help Support GIST Research
While other students are reading books, students at Colemant Tech Charter High School are busy writing them.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRLog (Press Release) - Dec 06, 2011 -
Coleman Tech students wrote the ebook entitled A Teenage Tribute which has over 25 short stories and poems and is available for sale on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Smashwords. This book can be read essentially from any ereader that has access to the book. The cost is only $2.99.

When asked how the project came to be, Mrs. McKinney, physics teacher at Coleman Tech and Ms. Lowenstein, English teacher at Coleman Tech stated that they worked with a group of students who agreed to write short stories with the theme of “Relationships” to be compiled into a book that would be sold electronically. Ms. McKinney noted that, students not only had to write their story, but they had to electronically peer edit and upload documents using cloud computing methods, which is a hallmark of Coleman Tech Charter High School. Students were then asked to do the bulk of the editing, develop a title, design the cover art, set a sales goal, and make a website. She also noted that, the entire process had allowed students to take part in the major steps of publication and marketing, including the use of social media to aid in publicity. Students will also learn how to track sales and create graphs of profit, all necessary tools of any business venture, making this more that just a book, but a project-based learning opportunity. Though this project is a huge undertaking for any writer, much less a group of teenagers, it is only one of many projects that CTCHS has planned this year.

The proceeds from the sales will be given to support the GIST Cancer Awareness Foundation which raises awareness and money for research of a unique type of cancer: gastrointestinal stromal tumor. Throughout the school year, students will continue to learn about GIST and other types of cancer and explore current research in order to properly educate themselves about this dangerous disease and to also better provide awareness to their community.

For more information on Coleman Tech Charter High School and Coleman Tech projects, please email info@colemantech.org

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Coleman Tech Charter High School (“Coleman Tech”) is a California Charter School. The charter was first approved by the Board of Education for the San Diego Unified School District (“District”) on June 1, 2010.

Uncle Ed will be sorely missed by all of us.

We want to thank Uncle Ed’s bride of 53 years, Aunt Eileen, and the Kivior family: Ed and Rhonda, Kathy, Jane Ellen & Steve, and Jill & Alan for remembering our Foundation at their time of sorrow.

We appreciate the memorials donated by the family and friends of Uncle Ed:

Lorraine & Charles Boyle
Marybeth & Jim Hannan
Dominick Fontecchio
Marie McBride
Debbie & Ken McBride
Lisa & Jim McBride
Betty & Lou Ciaverelli
Rose & John Basiak
Lillian Freudenberger
Janet McBride
Fr. Robert McBride
Chester & Eleanor Bennett

Thank you

Dorothy & Brian

We need your urgent help with writing letters of support for Dr. Kim so that we can overturn this decision.

Following are basic instructions from Phyliss Gay of GIST Support International on how you can assist our community:

Write a letter and explain why the NIH pediatric GIST clinic and specifically
why Su Young Kim, MD is so important and vital to the proper continuation of
this clinic and the research that is ongoing for wild type Gastrointestinal
Stromal Tumors. Use this link if you need information about Su or the clinic:
www.pediatricgist.cancer.gov/
The more information that you can use to personalize the extreme professionalism
and devotion and help that you have received from Su Young Kim the better. Try
to make letters concise so they will actually get read but contain enough
information to get the message across.
The more letters they get the better , so we are asking that each person mail
their own letters.
Please send a copy of each email letter to Phyllis Gay at 5alive@suddenlink.net.

We will copy and actually resend a big packet together so that they are also
aware that we know how many letters they actually received.

Contact information for Dr. Harold Varmus, Director of the NCI. Dr. Varmus can
be reached by e-mail at harold.varmus@mail.nih.gov or by telephone at
301-496-5615.

Letter 1: send to via snail mail:

Harold E. Varmus, MD
Director
National Cancer Institute
31 Center Drive
Building 31 Room 11A48 MSC 2590
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-2590

Also please email the same letter to him at: harold.varmus@nih.gov
If you feel inclined also you can phone and leave message at: 301-496-5615.

Letter 2 : send via snail mail to:

Lee Helman, MD
Pediatric Oncology Branch
Head, Molecular Oncology Section
Senior Investigator
National Cancer Institute
Building 31, Room 3A11
31 Center Drive MSC 2440
Bethesda, MD 20892-2440

Also email Lee Helman same letter at: helmanl@nih.gov

If you want to call and leave a message as well: please call: 301-496-4257

We would like to thank the following for their donations in Mary’s memory:

Shani & Michael Weiss
Thomas Pontrello

We thank John & Martha for their generosity and for remembering Richard & Vickie.

Darlene is a GISTer from California and GCAF thanks her for the donation.

Barbara Livermore and her support team did a great job this year and we are looking forward to next year’s event.

Congrats to Barbara and the Livermore family for a wonderful event.