Reposted from the
Scott Carter Foundation website as written by
Amanda.
Hollywood is coming to Holland Hall! On Saturday, October 29, 2011 the world wide movie premiere of the “
The Wayman Tisdale Story” will take place at the Walter Arts Center at Holland Hall. The film celebrates the life and legacy of three time All-American, Gold Medal Olympian, NBA Star, World Renowned Jazz musician and Tulsan, Wayman Tisdale. The event is free and open to the public.
“
The Wayman Tisdale Story” features never before seen interviews with Wayman Tisdale as he tells his own life story from childhood to his battle with Cancer. The film also features interviews with Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins, Toby Keith, Marcus Miller, Dave Koz, A.C. Green, Jonathan Butler, Steve McKeever, Billy Tubbs and the Tisdale family. Emmy nominated documentary director Brian Schodorf produced and directed the film and will be speaking at the premiere. The Los Angeles Times says “
The Wayman Tisdale Story is a must-see film for all audiences.” View the trailer
here.
The Scott Carter Foundation is excited to join forces with filmmaker Brian Schodorf to host the first public screening of “
The Wayman Tisdale Story“. The event will be just like a Hollywood premiere–complete with a red carpet, photo ops, and the viewing of the hour long documentary. “
The Wayman Tisdale Story” has been featured in multiple film festivals and has won numerous awards. It also features the song “Cryin’ for Me” which was written and performed as a tribute to Tisdale by Toby Keith.
Wayman Tisdale passed away in 2009 after a two-year battle with Cancer. He suffered from Osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer, that also took the life of Tulsan, Scott Carter at age 13 in 1993. According to the American Cancer Society, each year about 800 new cases of Osteosarcoma are diagnosed in the United States. About 400 of these are in children and teens. Osteosarcoma is not a common Cancer and more research is needed. To date, the Scott Carter Foundation has raised $1.7 million for Children’s Cancer research. Read more about the Foundation
here. “
The Wayman Tisdale Story” premiere will take place at 7:30pm on Saturday, October 29 at the Walter Arts Center at Holland Hall, located at 5666 East 81st Street (Tulsa, Oklahoma). Doors open at 6:30pm. The event is free and open to the public. The Tisdale family, Director Brian Schodorf and the Carter family will be available for interviews. A copy of the movie is available upon request.
We are grateful to the family, board and community supporters of the Trey Foote Foundation for the fundraiser and osteosarcoma awareness event last night at the Fort Vancouver Reserve. This remarkable evening was organized over 9 months by the students of the International Air and Hospitality Academy (special thanks to Tim Kossow). This event was both seamless and fun, and we can't thank enough the generous attendees to making the night such a success. 
Congratulations to the 2012 Participants of the OHSU Pediatric Cancer Nanocourse whose peer-reviewed commentary, "A Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Roadmap: Guiding Research Toward a Cure" is published in the journal, Pediatric Blood & Cancer. 
On Saturday Jan 10th was the Alex's Lemonade Stand "Lemon Ball". What a fabulous event, and a terrific community of supporters. In attendance was not only Charles, but also our collaborator DR. David Langenau from MGH (fish rhabdomyosarcoma expert) and his wife, Brenna. Dave and Brenna are pictured here. 
To see a Portland family's lemonade stand for childhood cancer research, click here for the story and video. 
We are grateful to all the families across the world that contributed to the laboratory patient wall at OHSU. These families, touched by cancer, remind us not only of why innovation and time are of the essence, but also that cancer does not define these families, and there is childhood to return to once cancer is a uniformly curable condition.
We had a VIP visitor on Friday, Josh. Josh's life has by chance been touched by Ewing's sarcoma and he is now a survivor. Josh told his story in his own words for our StoryCorp project with the Northwest Sarcoma Foundation: to hear his interview, or his mother April's perspective via her interview, click here. 
reposted from levinstory.com
Last night in Tulsa was the Scott Carter Foundation Big Show! that precedes the annual golf tournament fundraiser. Scott was a young boy who had osteosarcoma, but without regard for himself he was passionate that other children like his friend Addie should have better available treatments. He created an effort to raise money for childhood cancer research, and in his memory Scott's family and community annually raise funds that support the training of new research scientists, which have included Charles more than a decade ago, as well as our own lab's recent graduates: Koichi Nishijo, Jinu Abraham and Nicolle Hofmann. We are grateful to the Scott Carter Foundation for their support of our trainees and our research on sarcomas, including osteosarcoma. 
It was a pleasure to spend the past few days with liver biologist and fellow Capecchi lab alumnist, Ed Schmidt, and his lab, colleagues and family for a backcountry Montana retreat (hiking and camping trip, complete with pack donkeys). And yes, when scientists go camping we do talk a lot of science :) but the kids also get a special set of 'guides' to nature. 
