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| Webcast team |
Many thanks to these talented individuals who volunteered to work many long days in order to bring you this webcast! |
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| Yihui Dong Yihui is TransWeb's 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. |
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| Steve Gardner
Steve Gardner is a guest contributor for this webcast, kindly providing his photos. Steve and his wife Hope lost their son Christopher in 1995 when he was just 13 and donated his organs and tissues. Soon thereafter, they began speaking on behalf of the Alabama Organ Center in an effort to help promote donation. Steve has been doing photography since he was with the U.S. Army in Japan in the 1960's, and is attending these Games with Team Alabama. |
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| Jim Gleason 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 swimming and badminton). |
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| Marilyn
Indahl Marilyn Indahl (marilyn@indahlphoto.com) is the photo editor of the City College News and does freelance photography for The Minnesota Score Magazine and Sun Focus News. See more of Marilyn's work at SportsShooter.com. This is her second webcast. |
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| Eleanor Jones Eleanor Jones (egjones@umich.edu) is the full time editor and webmaster for www.TransWeb.org: All About Transplantation and Donation. She has been responsible for every webcast that TransWeb has ever mounted, including pre-Games organization, web team recruitment, and fundraising. On-site she is the webcast editor/manager of the team. |
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| Randy Milgrom Randy Milgrom (www.milwrite.com) is the owner/operator of MilWrite Communications, an Ann Arbor-based corporate communications company focused on high-end executive messages in the form of speeches, stories, and presentations. Also a freelance sports journalist, essayist, and fiction writer, Randy is currently hard at work on a novel he hopes to finish by the end of this year. His passions include being with his family, trying to hit golf shots, and doing work as a Board member of the Common Bond Basketball Club (www.commonbondbasketball.org), a youth basketball program currently engaged in raising funds to secure its own facility in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area. Randy is making his fifth appearance on a TransWeb webcast team. He was a member of the 2000, 2002, and 2004 U.S. Transplant Games teams, and he also wrote stories for us in Nendaz, Switzerland, at the 2001 Winter World Games. |
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| Jeannette
Quirk Jeannette is the office manager for the reference department of the University of Michigan Law Library. In London, she will try her hand at a wide gamut of web team roles. This is her debut webcast. |
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| Matthew
Quirk Matthew Quirk (matthew.quirk@umich.edu) joins us for his fifth webcast (the first having been the 2000 U.S. Transplant Games in Orlando). Matthew works his particular brand of magic on graphics (including animation, multimedia, etc.) for Michigan Multimedia at the University of Michigan. In this webcast he volunteers digital photo editing and technical troubleshooting to make everything run smoothly. |
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| Dave
Stringer 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 webcast veteran Randy Milgrom. Former webcast writer John Bacon was one of Dave's students. This is his third webcast. |
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| David
Tuman David Tuman (emagdnim@umich.edu) is an Aerospace Engineering student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a photographer and assistant photo editor for The Michigan Daily, the Michigan student newspaper. See more of his work at www.pbase.com/psirusmeister. |
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| Bill Walton 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 Claudia, 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. |
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