Letter - JERRY LEWIS

I knew we could count on the wonderful folks of Glendale! Thank you

for helping the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon raise a record $54,610,289 in

pledges and contributions.

Hundreds of celebrities and nearly a million volunteers worked Labor

Day weekend to help “my kids.” Yet, all our hats are off to you Glendale

residents for phoning in pledges to the Telethon on KCAL-TV, for

supporting fire fighter “Fill-the-Boot” drives and other local MDA

events. Your caring gives tremendous support to children and adults in

California and to families across the country.

Thanks to you, MDA maintains 230 clinics, including the clinics at

Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center in Downey, at University

Medical Center in Loma Linda, at USC’s Hospital of the Good Samaritan, at

UCLA, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and at Children’s Hospital of

Orange County, all in the Los Angeles metro area. These havens of help

are staffed by top medical experts dedicated to giving life-enhancing

care to people challenged by muscle-wasting diseases.

Thanks to you, MDA will continue to accelerate worldwide research

seeking treatments and cures for devastating neuromuscular disorders

which affect people of all ages, both sexes and every nationality. You’ll

be interested to know that the breakthroughs being pioneered by MDA

investigators may also soon lead to therapies for heart disease, cancer,

AIDS, Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, and cystic fibrosis.

For more information or to get involved, call your local MDA office at

(714) 550-0161, MDA national headquarters at (800) 572-1717, or visit

www.mdausa.org.

JERRY LEWIS