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Notes from around the Cancer Center
 Candle
Lighting 2000
More than 400 people attended the U-M Cancer Center's Candle
Lighting for Hope and Remembrance, on Friday, Sept. 22, under
the front entrance canopy to the Center. Candles were lit
in honor of cancer survivors and in memory of those who have
died from the disease. Ten special candle lighters, representing
health care providers, clergy, family members and friends,
led off the ceremony by saying a few words about the people
they were honoring and remembering.
White carnations representing hope (see above) were given
to all guests as they left the ceremony.
Bereaved guests displayed momentos and photographs of their
loved ones and added their loved ones' names to the Cancer
Center memorial book (pictured at left).
For more pictures from the Candle Lighting 2000, please visit
the Photogallery.
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Marcy Waldinger, Cancer Center administrator;
Sara Savarino, King's Keyboard House
in Ann Arbor; and
Suzanne Mahler, Healing Arts Program director
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New Survivors' Art Gallery Opens
Center Holds Healing Arts Dedication
Ms. Savarino and the Nagels spearheaded the "88 Keys" program,
which allows individuals to "purchase" keys of the Center's
baby grand piano, either in honor or memory of a loved one.
The evening's program included piano performances by Professor
Louis and Dr. Julie Nagel; a sing-along with music therapist
Megan Gunnell (pictured below); singing bytalented high-school
performer Diana Lawrence; and a poetry reading by breast cancer
survivor Michael Samuelson, who authored Voices from the Edge:
Life Lessons from the Cancer Community.
For more pictures from the Healing Arts dedication, please
visit the Photogallery.
Sweet Brownies!
More than 15 Brownies from troop 1282 in Canton
visited the U-M Cancer Center on Dec. 4, to deliver gift bags
they had created for the children in the chemotherapy infusion
area. Mike Fcasni started the annual project in 1999, following
his wife's death from cancer. Mike wanted to start a new Christmas
tradition for his family so he invited his daughters' Brownie
troops to his house to trim the tree, bake cookies and create
the gift bags. The project has grown to include more than
70 Brownies and their families creating 140 bags for the Center
and the Ronald McDonald House.
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