06-MAR-B-9

 

CORRESPONDENCE WITH SENATOR DEWINE’S

OFFICE REGARDING THE MMHOF AND

INITIATIVES FOR MEDICAL MISSION SUPPORT

 

Thanks, Jill!

 

I have recovered the letter, and will add the enclosures, including an article about the Senator's involvement in humanitarian missions that ran in the GWU Progress which I had enclosed with the original on May 13, 2005.  I had already prepared a letter subsequent to our recent meeting, and have been awaiting the further collection of the enclosures attached in it.

 

I had hoped it might be possible to invite the Senator to be recognized at the Gala for Physicians for Peace in Norfolk, Virginia, Saturday May 13, 2006, honoring him for his consistent efforts to support humanitarian efforts through volunteer medical missions?

 

I will forward the letter to you I had prepared after our celebration this weekend in Toledo and enclose the prior letter I had sent with its enclosures. I will forward the packet to your home address, as it seems the previous one went missing in the Capitol Hill mailings.

 

Thanks!

 

Glenn W. Geelhoed

 

 

 

>>> "Craig, Jill (DeWine)" <Jill_Craig@dewine.senate.gov> 3/22/2006 10:48 AM >>>

Dear Dr. Geelhoed,

 

I work for Senator Mike DeWine and he asked me to contact you about a

letter you mentioned to him at the Medical Mission Hall of Fame event

last week. We cannot locate this letter and I am writing to ask if you

would mind resending it. The mail process is quite slow on Capitol Hill,

so could you email it or send it to my home address? My address is 314

E. Capitol St., N.E., Apt. 307, Washington, D.C., 20003.

 

Thank you very much and I apologize for this inconvenience.

 

Sincerely,

Jill Craig

(202) 224-6741

 

Senator Michael DeWine                                                                  May 13, 2005

Ohio

 

Dear Senator DeWine:

 

I was delighted to receive your commendation (enclosed) on the occasion of the recent induction of this year’s recipients of the Medical Mission Hall of Fame in Toledo Ohio.  Thank you for your support to the ongoing interest we share in the development of those who are deprived of so much that we in the developed world take advantage of—above all opportunity for the use of individual freedom.

 

As you might also note in the attached enclosure, (GWUMC Progress #2) I had noted you participated in the first of GWU’s medical mission’s which I had not personally led after setting up each of the last ones in the past couple of years.  As you know from this direct experience in the kind of laboratory of the developing world that Haiti represents, the burdens of deprivation are severe, but we are able to begin to help in the process of enhancement of opportunity for the Haitian people.  It would have been a privilege and a  pleasure to accompany you in the recent Haitian medical mission, but I was in Southern Sudan during the same time period initiating similar medical/surgical relief programs and longer term institutional development in Old Fangak on the White Nile among this similarly devastated group of Nuer and Dinka peoples.

 

I very much appreciate not only your certificate of commendation but your personal involvement and assistance in the ongoing efforts in international assistance to those who are most in need.  Please feel free to call upon me for any help I might be able to offer in support of our common goals.

 

Yours truly,

 

Glenn W. Geelhoed, MD

 

 

 

Enclosures:

 

Signature sheet of contact numbers

GWU Progress re MMHOF

MMHOF

GWU Progress re Sen. DeWine and Haiti Medical Mission

Haiti and Health

Senator DeWine commendation