Dear Family, Friends & Colleagues;Thank you all so much to all who supported my shave last year to raise funds for research to find a cure for childhood cancer research with the St Baldrick's Foundation. Last year with your generous support, the Foundation raised over $36,000,000. Since 2005, the St. Baldrick’s has granted more than $178 million to support the development of childhood cancer treatments that are as unique as each child. Born and incubated in the Insurance / Reinsurance Industry, the St Baldrick’s Foundation has become the largest nongovernmental funder of childhood cancer research in the world. So from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!! Your generous support has allowed the St Baldrick’s Foundation to have significant impact in the Childhood Cancer Community. Attached please our latest impact report for your review. This is how your donations have been making a difference.This year I will be shaving my head in memory of my friend Mikey Weinstein. I had the honor to meeting Mikey years ago at the Rockaway's St Baldrick's event. I was also honored to join Mikey a few years later in ringing the opening Bell at the NYSE in honor of the St Baldrick's Foundation. Mikey battled his cancer for more than half his life and doing so with a level bravery that most adults could never muster. Sadly, Mikey’s battled ended last year. And while Mikey is gone he is not forgotten. I hope we can make him proud of our continued efforts to find a cure so that one day no child will ever have to fight the same battle against this horrendous disease. For more information about my friend Mikey, please click on this link; https://www.stbaldricks.org/kids/mypage/1870This will be my seventeenth year and twentieth time braving the shaves in solidarity with children battling cancer benefitting the St Baldrick's Foundation, and sadly it will not be my last. I have committed to shave my head each year until we find a more humane cure for every child diagnosed with cancer. . While cure rates are better than they were 40 years ago, there has not been much improvement in the cure rates over the last decade. In the United States, childhood cancer continues to kill more of our children then Aids, Asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and congenital anomalies combined. Although we have accomplished much in our first fifteen years, losing just one child to this horrible disease is more than any of us should be willing to accept. And while we are curing more kids today, the cure is often worse than the disease. We need to find a more humane cure that leaves the child cancer free and undamaged from the cure.Thus I again humbly ask that you support my efforts to raise money to fund lifesaving research. With help and support from all of you, the day will come when Childhood cancer will be nothing but a bad memory. But until then I commit to shave my head once a year( and sometimes twice) until we find a cure.This year's event will be at the St Agnes Parish Center on March 19, 2016. If you would enjoy seeing just how bad the grow out makes me look or the mound of hair left in the wake of my shave, please join us in a fun way to raise funds for the serious mission of finding a cure for childhood cancer!!!Thank you again for your generous support!!!!A very grateful John