Meeting of 50-Year Medalists

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tomjef Posted: Wed, May 13 2009 12:42 AM

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On Saturday, May 9, 2009, there was a meeting of 50-Year Medalists at Joslin. Dr. George King talked to us for about a half hour. One thing he told us was that he can identify the medalists in a crowd of people if he is told that there are one or more medalists in the crowd.

After his talk, Dr. King passed the microphone to each medalist, in alphabetic order, so each medalist could talk for three minutes. There were about 50 who had indicated a desire to speak, and the three-minute limit was determined because of the scheduled luncheon. No one used more than three minutes, and the noon-time deadline was only missed by eight minutes. I suspect this may also be a characteristic of medalists, all of whom learned many years ago about the importance of schedules.

Tom Beatson

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whalen replied on Wed, May 13 2009 9:35 AM

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Dear Tomjef-

What a wonderful achievement and congratulations to you!  It is very inspiring to know that this can be done.

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Dee replied on Wed, May 13 2009 6:46 PM

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What an awesome accomplishment.  Congratulations and continued good health to you.  Dee

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Spirit replied on Wed, May 13 2009 6:58 PM

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I raise a glass (of water) and toast your success!  I'll even raise a glass of champagne after iIfigure out the carb content!  Congratulations to the 50 year medalists!

Spirit

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AnnetteUK replied on Sat, Jul 4 2009 2:48 PM

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I was right there with you Tom and it was super meeting the "short list'

Hearing a 3 minute speech by a number of medalists describing their life experience with JD all sounded the same.. we had all traveled down the same road in the 1940's - 50's etc.

It was the first time I had not felt very alone  with JD ..

Thank you  Joslin!!!

~Annette~

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AnnetteUK replied on Sat, Jul 4 2009 2:50 PM

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What would we do without you Leah

~Annette~