What:
This event is part of a nationwide educational and fundraising program founded in 1999, which is inspirational, motivational and empowering. The luncheon focuses on women leaders committed to the MS cause who ask their friends and business associates to join them for lunch and make a charitable contribution to join the movement to create a world free of MS. Men are also welcome to join us at this event to honor the women in their lives.
When:
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Reception 11:30-12:00
Luncheon 12:00 - 1:30pm
Where:
Fitzpatrick Hall at the Jefferson Center
Roanoke, VA
Our Featured Speakers:
Bobbi J. Doorenbos (pictured below) began her career as one of the first female F-16 fighter pilots in the country, and has spent time in both the Iowa and District of Columbia Air National Guard units. Her deployments have included three trips to the Middle East supporting operations in Iraq, drug interdiction missions near South America, and numerous Combat Air Patrol missions in the United States following the attacks on September 11th 2001. As a result of her diagnosis of Relapsing-Remitting MS in 2005, she left the cockpit and went on to obtain a Masters Degree in Strategic Intelligence, and later served President George Bush in 2007-2008 as a White House Fellow, assigned to the Department of Agriculture. She is currently a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force, working in the field of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance at the Headquarters of the Air National Guard, and lives in Annapolis, MD. Bobbi is currently a Board Member at Turnfirst.org, which is a non-profit website that provides help and support to newly diagnosed patients with MS.
Pat Doorenbos participated in the 2009 MS Bike Ride with the Grateful Tread team, raising over $40,000, and has attended the past several Dinner of Champions in Harrisonburg. She raised over $6,000 for the American Lung Association and rode the Transamerica Bike Trek from Seattle to Atlantic City in 1989 with 300 cyclists raising a total of $2 million dollars. She was the psychiatric nurse on the MV Explorer on Semester at Sea and participated in a 100 day educational voyage around the world the fall semester of 2005. Pat has been a psychiatric nurse for 37 years and former EMT. She and her son Todd have gone to Honduras the past several years to build churches with Trinity Episcopal of Staunton. In preparation for a simpler life and retirement she is downsizing personal belongings and uses the money to benefit events that include my Bobbi and Todd's active participation and community service. She volunteers at Artisan's Hope with the Mennonite Center Committee. Pat enjoys yard work, Yoga, baking bread, and adventure.
Tickets:
$75 - minimum contribution for one seat
$100 – Partner—one seat, supports a research publication
$150 – Navigator – one seat, supports a Pilot Grant
$250 - Associate* – one seat, supports an MS Fellow for one day
$500 - Pioneer* – Two priority seats, supports an MS research project for one day
$1,000 – Leader* –Two priority seats, supports an MS research project for two days
* donor receives acknowledgement at the event
Attire:
Business casual
Table captain opportunities and event sponsorships are also available.