Big Bob writes: As I sit here in my office at Dane, stripping the walls of four years of business cards, and memories, I want to thank all of you who supported me, took my calls, and overall made me feel very comfortable in my position.

Gene, who was and is a great friend to me and continues to be, I thank you for your invaluable support and help in my efforts with the Muscular Dystrophy Association. You will never really know the impact you had on me and of the kids I work with.

I leave Dane with a feeling of accomplishment. I did my best to help the company and Ed accomplish the goals he wanted. I hope I had a positive impact.

I am now starting again to recruit people to help me for telethon 2007 this Labor Day weekend, SEPT 2ND AND 3RD. I would love the FREE SPEECH COALITION again be my banner. I will let you know how to contact me shortly, and look forward to doing as well as we did last year, just $1.00 more.

Again, thanks for all the good, and bad times, I guess they all go together.

Be well, Bob Blisten