^^^^^^WARM GREETINGS  FROM^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ivan Suzman         48/12         [log in to unmask]
Portland, Maine    Land of lighthouses   64    deg. F
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On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 04:09:26 -0400 Ivan M Suzman <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>  Dear Edie and many other friends,
>
>  It's 330 A.M. Here is a brief update on today's TV appearance,
>which I am scheduled to make, playing golf for a CURE for Parkinson's
>Disease.
>
>  Today, Tuesday Sept 8, I expect to hear from Dave Eid, the Sports
>News Director for CBS-TV's Portland station, WGME-TV. Dave has PD
>going on in a member of his own family..  I talked to Barb, one of the
>sports commentators, on the phone, Sunday evening, Sept. 6th, and she
>told me that Dave is considering setting up a "line-feed" NATIONWIDE.
>I hope that he does this.
>
>  It seems a "line-feed" allows a local broadcast to be sent out (over
>a modem line??) to any other CBS TV station. WGME-TV is 207 797-9330.
>Sports news is 207 797-9099.
>
>   Even  when no line-feed is set up, the videotaped sports news
>segment to be filmed at Riverside Golf Course later today can still be
>requested by any CBS TV station for broadcast in your local area.  If
>you call your local CBS TV stations, and request the Sports Editor to
>get the story aired, this will help all of us PWP's.
>
>    The National Weather Service forecast from Gray, Maine calls for
>scattered showers both today and tomorrow, with temperatures cooling
>to the 60's..  Because this is to be an OUTDOOR film shoot, there is
>some uncertainty as to whether the weather will allow the golf course
>shots to be completed this afternoon.
>
>  After I talk with Dave Eid, I will post a further update.
>
>   Darwin and Hilary have already jumped in to be my biographer--as
>Barb Mallut would say--"GEEZ!"
>Meanwhile, keep your golf posts coming--the more locations that write
>me, the bigger the story I can build about us to Dave Eid, and the
>more support he would then have to set up a line-feed for this unique
>Parkinson's golfing adventure.
>
>   As Maryhelen Davila posted, this opportunity could not come at a
>better time to increase awareness, and help us all push for full
>funding of the Udall Act, now under careful consideration in Congress.
>
>   Ivan Suzman   48/12  :-)
>
>^^^^^^WARM GREETINGS  FROM^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Ivan Suzman         48/12         [log in to unmask]
>Portland, Maine    Land of lighthouses  64  deg. F
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>On Mon, 7 Sep 1998 19:37:46 EDT "Edie Luther." <[log in to unmask]>
>writes:
>>Ivan - We are in the process of scheduling a CBS Baltimore interview
>>to be
>>aired
>>the last week of Sept,  This interview is to promote the Walk-a-Thon
>>scheduled
>>for October 3, l998,   I will ask that your story be picked up by our
>>tv
>>affiliate.
>>Richard Scher wanted to interview me, my husband and another PWP.  As
>>my pd is mainly inside (Most of the time I do not look like I have
>pd,
>>even
>>though I have had it for over 20  years),  I have asked a  young
>onset
>>pwp to do the interview with another young onset pwp who shows the
>>symtoms,
>>Most people have a misconception of this disease, that it only
>strikes
>>the
>>elderly,
>>Edie Luther 64/20
>>