DILLON’S ARMY
To Our Wonderful Family, Friends and Community:
We would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous support of the
3rd Annual Dillon Papier Charity Golf Tournament
2009
Tournament Sponsors
Acacia Group
Calvert Group
Foster's Grille
Intelsat
Kristin's Friends, Inc.
Pace Management
Hole-in-One
Cabinetmaster Architectural Woodwork, Ltd.
Romala Stone
Food Sponsors
Dietz and Watson
Dunkin' Donuts of Urbana
Honest Tea
Trader Joe's
Gift and Apparel
Host Hotels & Resorts
Monument Bank
Beverage Cart
Exit Realty Plus, Cliff Hageman Team
Putting Contest
Wal-Mart Distribution Center 7045
Closest to Pin
Consolidated Printing
Zamora
Long Drive
Lombardi Contracting, Inc.
Hole Sponsors
Acker & Sons, Inc.
Allied Realty Corporation
American Carpet Outlet
Bresee Brothers Construction
Bruce Toone & Associates
David W. Smith Life Insurance
Dr. Bob Testen
Durkan
Echo Communicate
Goldberg Group
Gold's Gym
IBEW Local Union 26
Junk to the Dump
Meade Family, Go Dillon!
Mid-Atlantic Repairs
Phoenix Date, Inc.
Emma's Closet, LLC
Glenn & Margaret Groves
Gold's Gym of Frederick
Junk to the Dump
McFadden Auto Brokers, Inc.
Mid-Atlantic Home Repairs, LLC
Music & Arts
Phoenix Data, Inc.
Rampart Enterprises
Shepherd Family
Thank You Urbana Community for
Contributing to the NNPDF Dillon Papier Donation Jar at Dunkin Donuts, Urbana
Urbana Dance Studio
Wireless Warehouse
Ace Sponsors
Building Consultants, Ltd.
Echo Communicate
Foster's Grille
Joe and Lucy Hayden
Jones Lang Lasalle
The Galloway Family
The Motter Family
Volunteer Staff of Intelsat
Eagle Sponsors
Ara Parseghian Foundation
Cut Color & Curl
GreatSeats.com
Kimball International, Inc.
Systems Connection of MD, Inc.
The Meade Family
Urbana Rec Council
Birdie Sponsors
Access-Ability Consultants, Inc.
Branden Grable Family
IDL Tools International
Irwin Industrial Tools
Jordon Grable Family
Ronald Wofsheimer
Par Sponsors
Bill Keiper
Chris Curley
Kerry Nickerson
RWG Construction
The Timberlake Family
Tracy Koneski
Urbana Dance Studio
When you are considered so unique that only 500 people worldwide are classified with your label, typically wonderful images come to mind: Olympic athlete, astronaut, multimillion-lottery winner. Who could have imagined that our adorable son Dillon would be diagnosed with Niemann-Pick Type C Disease – a disease so rare that only 500 people worldwide have the same diagnosis?
Although it was a difficult decision to go public with our personal heartbreak, we understood that Dillon’s only hope for a timely cure would be to promote awareness of his battle that would hopefully lead to the necessary funding for critical research.
Many of you have not only provided extremely generous donations but have also organized your own fundraisers in honor of Dillon. There have been bake sales; several Bowie Baysox Benefits; Grandma Maris’s Birthday Celebration; Nanny’s 85th Surprise Party; Hildy and Del’s double birthday fondue bash; our neighbor’s holiday event and surprise trip to Florida for Orioles Spring Training; Nanny Rose’s Red Hat Ladies donation; Jessica’s Greensboro Grasshoppers Baseball Benefit; Pop-pop and Grandma Jan’s Holiday Event; Starman and Goldsmith Family Newsletters; Daybridge’s monthly events; William’s 5th Birthday Party; business donations; your affiliated associations, synagogue and church donations; articles in local papers; and donations from music events to highlight a few.
At the end of the year, we even had over 20 children and adults from one family share in the holiday spirit by giving up one gift each to collectively send an extremely generous donation in honor of Dillon and the other children.
After a year of tireless commitment and dedication, our incredible neighbors hosted the 1st Annual Dillon Papier Charity Golf Tournament, which raised an astonishing $50,000 for research. They exceeded their goal by $40,000 — a gift beyond words.
We are ecstatic to announce that in our first 14 months of fundraising, you have raised over $95,000 for the National Niemann-Pick Disease Foundation toward Type C research in honor of Dillon.
It has been an amazing year because of your support. Words alone can not express our gratitude for your overwhelming outpouring of love and support through this past year. Your continued thoughtfulness, kindness and generosity provide us strength and encouragement each day, and the greatest gift of all – “The Gift of Hope.”
