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“Congratulations on your first 25 years and continued success in your second 25!”
Mark L. Eberhard, Ph.D.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
“Congratulations and warmest greetings on reaching this important anniversary!”
Ian Smith
World Health Organization
“ I wish all well and send congratulations! Well deserved.”
Trudy V. Murphy, MD Trudy Trudy V. Murphy, MD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
“Sincere congratulations on 25 years of success and here's to 25 more!”
Cindy Chia Chu
World Health Organization
“One of my most unforgettable experiences was in India, where the Task Force was having a Child Survival meeting. My job was to edit the proceedings. As any medical editor knows, physicians seem congenitally incapable of making advance copies of their speeches. Therefore, my task in New Delhi was to attend all speeches; then go up afterwards and get the speaker's copy of his or her speech; xerox it; and return it to the speaker. The xerox machine was located in the center of a huge workroom; all around the perimeter of the room were Indian workers, many women in beautiful silk saris, each working at her cubicle. The huge copy machine itself was reminiscent of that run by "Xerox Annie" at CDC during Dr. Sencer's directorship. There was always a line to use it. I never had much time to wait because there was always another speech to catch. Also, there were always power outages and the machine would be down. It was getting near the conference end and I still had a huge pack of papers to copy and I was getting nervous about it. But one day I walked into this huge workroom and, miraculously, no one was in line. In fact, no one was in the room. Not believing my luck, I set my stack of papers down and began to xerox. But then I started thinking. WHY was the xerox machine empty? In fact, why was the entire room empty? Having survived a bomb scare in New York when working on AIDS for Dave Sencer, that thought crossed my mind. Just then, I caught movement behind me. A beautiful Indian woman in her silk sari, be-jeweled toes, was scurrying out the door. So I called out to her. "Excuse me, but where IS everybody? Has something happened?" She stopped in her tracks and looked at me. "Dr. Foege is speaking," she said, and left. Needless to say, my paper copying again got put on hold. I went out into the conference hall. All along the back, standing, were all the hotel workers, men and women, standing, rapt, listening to Bill Foege.”
Anne Mather
Former Task Force consultant
“A few weeks ago, we had a great adventure moving Dr. Foege's standing desk from 750 to my house via Betsy Brogan's truck. This was the piece that was advertised as a "wooden piece of wood" in the Taksforce furniture sale. I don't think any of us could envision how it would actually get from there to here when we first saw it, but it did and I want to thank all of you who helped. I would like to think that we at the Taskforce are optimistic and determined (rather than crazy) and that's how we got the job done. I was anxious for Larry to see it when he got home, but I happened to be out walking the dog, so wasn't here when he arrived. So we were standing in the room where it is sitting and I said, "Well, what do you think?" He looked at me carefully and said, "Your hair looks nice!" (Usually that would be a safe answer to that question.) I know my husband can be really focused and not notice every little detail about the house, but it was still a little surprising that he didn't notice a 6' X 5' solid oak "wooden piece of wood" that had not been there in the morning. But he is thrilled to have it, too, since Dr. Foege was the director of CDC when he was an EIS officer. We still don't know what we will actually do with it, but I love having it just the same. Anyway, that's the story of Foege's desk in it's new home.”
Karen Torghele
Current Task Force employee
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