To the Ediitor:

The 12th annual Festival of Friends has been enormously successful thanks to countless Morgan Memorial Hospital friends and supporters and their incredible generosity! Initial estimates indicate the 2012 Festival has raised close to $25,000 for future equipment donations to MMH. With close to 200 dinner guests served, over 100 silent auction items donated and purchased, and a superbly festive cocktail event, the Festival has many, many thanks to extend:
Our dinner hosts who provide spectacular dining experiences:
• Mael Bowman
• Gary Cecil and Sheila Palmer
• Melissa Howe
• Bob and Rose Mary Hughes
• Hoyt and Brillo Jackson
• Joseph and Connie Kullman
• Bill and Susan Kurtz
• Ed and Pam Latham
• Pat Leming
• Jim and Lorene Malanowski
• Linda McNeal
• Garry and Lissa Phelps
• Bill and Renee Pritchard
• Bill and Bobbie Rushing
• Dick and Kathi Russell
• Lee and Sandy Sanford
• Rick and Cindy Starling
• Alan and Sue Ellen Verner
• Jan Wilbanks
• Mark Wilson
• Individual members of the Morgan Memorial Hospital Authority
Our physicians who made our cocktail party possible:
• Dr. Subodh Agrawal
• Dr. Ross Campbell
• Dr. David Fletcher
• Georgia Imaging Associations
• Dr. Pamela Hall
• Dr. Shahzad Hashmi
• Dr. L. Ken Lewis
• Dr. Harvey Ouzts
• Dr. Shane Smith
• Dr. Dennis Spencer
• Dr. Rose Ann Weaver
• Dr. Dan Zant
• Cerner
The multitude of local businesses, service providers, artisans, and generous individuals who donate their products and services to our immensely popular silent auction.
Ben Whidby and Whidby Jewelers for continued support with dazzling jewelry donated for our raffle.
Skip Lewan and his magical saxophone for crooning the tunes all evening.
Our marketing team: Chris and Robyn Cook and the creative staff of Madison Studios.
Our local news media, Morgan County Citizen and Lake Oconee News, who provide up to the minute coverage of the event.
Megan Morris, director of development and community relations, who provides expertise and business savvy for a seamless event.
Dozens of hospital auxiliary members and friends who tirelessly gave their time and energy soliciting hosts, stuffing invitations, collecting silent auction items, typing, printing, bartending, setting up and taking down, and generally carrying the torch, all while smiling and endorsing the good work done by our Morgan Memorial Hospital staff for this community.
Each one of you have assisted in bringing this event together this year and in years past which have laid the foundation for this incomparable fundraising success which allows us to say – only in Madison!

Jodie Schmidt
President,
MMH Auxiliary
Via e-mail

Printed in the August 30, 2012 edition