The Alzheimer's Memory Walk '06

Today, I captained the Lowenthal Coalition of Teams in the Alzheimer's Association's Annual Memory Walk. The Coalition was composed of members of the usual Lowenthal Service Group, but this year also included members of the Business Leaders of Tomorrow special interest floor, as well as the Alpha Phi Omega chapter at Alfred University. This was the first time Lowenthal partnered with a group outside RIT for the walk. The entire event itself pulled in over $62,000 for the Alzheimer's Association. Our team had 22 members and raised over $2900. I raised $2325 of that amount personally. This made it 3.75% of the total raised by the walk. This was a tremendous increase over the amount I pulled in last year, $1800. Next year, I'm setting the personal bar at $2500. I think it would even be fun to try and generate a large amount of money for an account, and set up a perpetuity to make an annual donation automatically. Setting goals is so important for motivation when it comes to this sort of thing. It's always a pleasure to serve this worthy cause in memory of my father. It also gets the name of the E. Philip Saunders College of Business out there as serving the community.

I want to take a moment and give a special thanks to my committed team! That lunch after the walk was well deserved. Excellent work!