Coast to Coast Kickoff!

One of our biggest supporters, the Dean of the School of Medicine, Dr. Laurencin, threw us a Kick-off at the Health Center. Ever since we introduced ourselves at the Valentine's Day Ball for Lea's Foundation, he's been a tremendous help to our cause. He's treating the top four fundraisers of our class to dinner, and he connected us to the UCONN Foundation so that we can get more publicity in the UCONN community. (There's also an article coming soon under the UCONN Foundation. We'll keep you posted!)

Also, Dr. Laurencin's blog has featured the Coast to Coast riders twice, and at our Kick-Off he mentioned starting some "interblog" communication throughout the summer. As a start of this communication, here's a link to Dr. Laurencin's blog, featuring a nice entry describing Coast to Coast dated May 18th:

http://libraryweb.uchc.edu/vp/archives/2010/05/index.html



Here we are debuting the official 2010 Coast to Coast Lea's Foundation jerseys. Pretty nice, huh?




We had a raffle in the cafeteria. We would like to thank the companies that donated items to us!

EMS in Manchester gave us two kayak rentals. When I handed the kayak rentals to the winner of the raffle, she was ecstatic that the rentals come with paddles, life jackets, and the EMS employees will even tie the kayaks onto your car!

Coach handbags at the West Farms mall gave us some pretty nice bags. The managers of the store pooled their money together to get us some nice items for our auction.

Also, Max's Oyster Bar (probably my favorite restaurant, with the most amazing Happy Hour deals) gave us a $50 gift certificate.

Here we are getting ready for the raffle.






This is a picture of us chatting with Ms. Dieli, who won a Coast to Coast jersey from our raffle!