DECEMBER 2003

NOVEMBER 2003

Hello everyone! It’s been a while since my last update and much has happened. Most recently the Robert Urich Golf Tournament to benefit Sarcoma Research at the University of Michigan was a huge success. It was held, again, at the Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, California. We raised over $400,000.00 in one weekend. The University is more than pleased that we were able to top last year’s efforts. We auctioned off some great prizes including a trip to Salzburg, Austria. Of course “The Sound of Music Tour” was included. To be a guest on final taping of “Friends” was a very popular item, not to mention a walk on guest appearance on “Will and Grace”.

The local fires were worrisome. Although, we weren’t very near the fires, it rained ashes the entire day of the tournament. We thought we were going to have to hand out masks.  Flights were cancelled due to the heavy smoke.  Emeril’s chefs didn’t make it in, nor did any of the food he was going to have flown in for the gala. We were sending folks out on grocery store runs all afternoon and Emeril was chopping and tossing like crazy back in the kitchen. He somehow managed to dazzle a crowd of 300 with an extraordinary gourmet dinner! He is an amazing and gifted guy! Some of the celebrity friends that made it memorable were Chris O’Donnell, Miguel Ferrere, Wayne Gretzky, Bruce Jenner, Craig T. Nelson, D. B. Sweeney, Harry and Linda Bloodworth Thomason, Jermaine Jackson, Reggie Smith, Emeril Lagasse and many more.  My “Sound of Music” sisters Angela Cartwright, (Brigitta) and Charmian Carr, (Liesl) were there to support the event. Angela was one of our official photographers and Charmy brought one of our Keynote speakers, Tracy Talley. Tracy is a Synovial Cell Sarcoma survivor. Click the link for photographs from this years event. URICH GALA & GOLF CLASSIC

Angela and I are forging ahead with the projects we are producing. We are enjoying the creative process and look forward to many years of collaboration.  

On a personal note, my daughter Emily got married! We are thrilled for her and wish her all the happiness she deserves. Allison started kindergarten and is flourishing. She is in the same Kindergarten classroom, with the same teacher that Ryan had. He, by the way, is on a field research trip in Hawaii. His job is to study the effect that people have had on the islands. Tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it! He’ll be there for six weeks and will get a semester’s worth of credits towards graduation with a degree in Biology.

We spent the better part of this summer in Canada, again at Camp Urich. Debbie Turner and her family came to visit as did Judy Rice and Donald Deal from NYC.  Robert was very much missed but we managed to enjoy ourselves at the lake.

I’d like to thank everyone for all of the emails I’ve received on the web site! It’s impossible to answer them all, but I do read every one of them!