Fund Raiser and Dr. Appointment

The fund raiser held by the Psychology Department on Friday was an outstanding success. There were so many wonderful goods and services provided and so many great people who bid and donated to the cause. The entertainment by our own "et al" and "et cetera" (Rebecca Brand, Sherrie Brunell, Jennifer Simonds, Kristi Klein and Lesa Ellis) was wonderful and the poems by Holly Arrow and Sara Hodges were great. President Dave Frohnmeyer, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Joe Stone, Associate Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, Gary Seitz, Head Women's Basketball coach, Bev Smith and owner of Ritta's Burrito's, Ritta Dreier, were the guest celebrity auctioneers and put on a great show as did the Institute Director, Bertram Malle, Bill Harbaugh from Economics and several of the graduate students. Our heartfelt thank you to everyone for all of the cash contributions, item donations, hard work and organization involved. Words really can't express how we feel...I know that I am still overwhelmed by all of this. A special thank you to Becky Goodrich and Marjorie Taylor, who spent many hours organizing this event. One of the great items auctioned off was this quilt of the brains by Marjorie Taylor. The Lewis Imaging Center purchased it.....what talent! The grand total was around $7,000. WOW!

Marjorie's impressive needlework

Saturday was spent moving all the furniture out of my office and getting that room ready for Brian to move into. Since being laid off at Sony, he has decided to go back to school and work toward his degree in Romance Languages.....maybe to interpret in the future. Dave and Brian worked on building a fence around Kyla's raised beds to keep those pesky deer, turkeys and cats out. It is looking pretty good and all the vegetables are popping up. Kyla and Jed came out with Emmy and had dinner with us that evening.

Today Kyla, Jed and Emmy had lunch with all the folks at the graduate school and then a doctor appointment with Dr. Kokkino. He ran all the tests that were needed by Dr. Chang in San Francisco and is supposed to send the results to her. Kyla was pretty tired in the afternoon and also after the Friday night fundraiser. When she becomes fatigued, she has more trouble with word recall but we hope it will get better in time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KRISTI! WE LOVE YOU.