Many thanks to these talented individuals who volunteered to work many long days in order to bring you this webcast!

  
   
 
Doug Armstrong (darms@umich.edu), a volunteer firefighter, registered nurse, paramedic, and transplantation research study coordinator manager is a veteran "webcaster" from the 1998 U.S. Games in Columbus, the 1999 Winter World Transplant Games, the First Family Pledge, the 1999 World Games in Budapest, and the 2000 U.S. Games. Doug brings his experience in radio and two years in Up With People to the webcast. Doug contributed the audio coverage of these Games. 		 
   
 
Kyle began working part-time at TransWeb two summers ago, while a student at Huron High School. He recently completed his first year of college at the University of Rochester, where he is studying Chinese and Political Science. For this webcast, he is assisting the technical production and taking photographs. 		 
   
 
Pam's son passed away several years ago, and since then she has become involved in organ donation awareness in Pennsylvania. At these games, she is the donor family liaison for Team Philadelphia. She will be our donor family correspondent. 		 
   
 
Yihui is TransWeb's full-time technical person; her role includes providing guidance on all technical issues, from web database design to interface and multimedia implementation, as well as technology assessment and selection, troubleshooting, and project-wide archiving. For the webcast she has developed and implemented the site design and developed all page templates. Onsite, she is publishing everything you see on this site, as well as setting up our local network. 		 
   
 
Linda (leyer@centurytel.net) is a school librarian and a freelance sports and human interest photographer in Sterling, Michigan. She takes most of the photos for the high school yearbook and also has her own business creating greeting cards and other cool things in Sterling. This is her first webcast experience. 		 
   
 
Maureen (mefox@umich.edu) & Bob Fox (rtexfox@umich.edu) are long time U.S. Games veterans. Maureen has been a kidney and pancreas transplant coordinator at the University of Michigan Transplant Center for more than a dozen years and her husband Bob is a University of Michigan director of intramural sports. Maureen and Bob have been active for many years with Team Michigan and with TransWeb's webcasts of U.S. and World Transplant Games. Aside from lending us their considerable experience and high spirits, Bob and Maureen were writers and photographers for the webcast. 		 
   
 
Bob (rgarypie@umich.edu), a longtime TransWeb board member and veteran of all previous TransWeb webcasts, manages the TransWeb webcast team. He is active in virtually every donation initiative in the state of Michigan, and is a tireless fundraiser for many donation efforts. This is his 9th webcast. 		 
   
 
Jim Gleason a heart transplant recipient, author of A Gift from the Heart, is an executive at Unisys. In addition, he is an enthusiastic one-man support network for transplant recipients, working tirelessly to help others by connecting them with people all over the country. Jim writes for the webcast when he's not competing in the games himself in table tennis and badminton and celebrating his 36th wedding anniversary with his wife Jay and their daughter Mary, who travelled to the Games. 		 
   
 
Andrew Green (agreen@calvertschool.org) is currently enrolled in Calvert School. He is entering 6th grade and received a citizenship award at the end of this year. He performed excellent on the exams in all subjects and has been placed in the top Math and Creative Writing groups since he has been at Calvert. At the year's Awards Assembly, he was recognized for a perfect score on the midterm history exam and showing outstanding effort. Andrew has two pets, Black Magic the guinea pig, and Dumbledore the turtle. He has many friends, though almost all of them are from school. At this year's Transplant games, he will be serving as the youth correspondent for TransWeb as well as many other jobs. He will act as the transporter of the photographer's memory cards. He also will be helping at operations and help the TransWeb employees as best he can. 		 
   
 
Gary Green is responsible for all internet activity as the Director of New Technologies at the National Kidney Foundation, based in New York City. Gary was formerly the director of the U.S. Transplant Games from 1990 - 1994 at NKF, where he has worked for 25 years. His interest in sports led him to become the women's fencing, women's cross country, and women's track coach at Johns Hopkins University for fifteen years. Gary has been a volunteer photographer for TransWeb webcasts for the past three years, and is also a councillor of the World Transplant Games Federation. Many thanks to Gary for his support of this webcast. 		 
   
 
Colleen was for many years the director of transplant athletics for NKF and director of the US Transplant Games. She is now the councillor to the World Transplant Games Federation and joins TransWeb as a writer and special correspondent, taking photographs and conducting audio interviews.		  
   
 
Eleanor Jones (egjones@umich.edu) is the full time editor and webmaster for TransWeb. She is a veteran of every webcast that TransWeb has ever mounted and is the spiritual energy behind all things TransWeb. When she's not busy with TransWeb, Ellie, her husband Bruce, and their cat, Dexter, enjoy renovating their 1920's Ann Arbor home. She was responsible for most of the pre-Games organization of this webcast and is the webcast editor. 		 
   
 
John Landers is the manager of Team Arizona, as well as being a transplant recipient and is a member of a donor family. He has written a book about his experiences as a heart transplant recipient entitled "Dying for Life: The Journey to Transplant". He has been active in many previous U.S. Transplant Games and will be writing for the webcast. Read about his unique perspective on the Games. 		   
   
 
Randy Milgrom (www.milwrite.com) is the creator of MilWrite Communications, an Ann Arbor-based business communications business. He is also sports editor of the Michigan Alumnus and a frequent contributor to the Ann Arbor Observer on public school issues, college sports, and other topics. His essays and other short pieces have appeared in The Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press Magazine, and Crain's Detroit Business, among other publications, and his short fiction has twice won national awards in the annual Writer's Digest Writing Competition. His passions - aside from being with his family - are writing, running, playing basketball, and trying to hit golf shots. Now Randy makes his third appearance on a TransWeb webcast team. He was a member of the 2000 US Transplant Games team, and also wrote stories for us in Nendaz, Switzerland, at the 2001 Winter World Games. 		 
   
 
Peter Ottlakan (ottlap@hotmail.com) a native of Gyula, Hungary was a member of the webcast team at the 1999 World Transplant Games in Budapest (where he was a godsend, getting us where we needed to go and tirelessly translating for us in every kind of situation). In Nendaz, at the 2001 Winter World Transplant Games, Peter served as a volunteer photographer, a role he is reprising here in Orlando, at his first U.S. Transplant Games. 		 
   
 
Matthew Quirk (matthew.quirk@umich.edu) joins us for his third webcast (the first having been the 2000 U.S. Transplant Games in Orlando. Formerly in computer technical support, Matthew has now spent many years working his particular brand of magic on graphics (including animation, multimedia, etc.) for Surgery Graphics at University of Michigan. In this webcast he volunteers digital photo processing and technical troubleshooting to make everything run smoothly. He was voted "Most Valuable Player" of the webcast. 		 
   
 
Cheri Smith (cheriosmith@netscape.net) is a commerical photographer and owner of Larime Photographic of Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was the lead photographer for the 1999 Winter World Transplant Games and has kindly volunteered to join us again this year in the same capacity. 		 
   
 
Jason Sprawka (jasonsprawka@hotmail.com) has just completed a degree in sports management and is a veteran of the 1998 and 2000 US Transplant Games webcast. Jason is the producer of the webcast, taking care of all kinds of logistics associated with creating this web site. 		 
   
 
Dave is the former director of the English department at Huron High School in Ann Arbor. He now enjoys writing full time and works with Randy Milgrom. Former webcast writer John Bacon was one of Dave's student. This is his first webcast. 		 
   
 
Bill Walton's first games were the 1998 Games in Columbus. At that time he was cheering for his son, who was a competitor. Unfortunately, Bill's son passed away, but his corneas gave sight to two others. Bill's wife, a heart recipient, is competing in the Transplant Games for Team Virginia. Bill is taking part in the donor family activities. This year, Bill will also be an audio correspondent for TransWeb. 		 
   
 

Last updated on: Friday, 05-Feb-2010 14:57:12 UTC