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Alum to bike 1,000 miles for charity
2:15 p.m., Aug. 13, 2003--Jeff Dietz, AS 98, will bike 1,000 miles to raise money and awareness for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Children With Diabetes, HIV/AIDS Fund, American Cancer Society Camp Can-Do, Camp Dreamcatcher and the American Lung Association Asthma Camp.
Dietz will leave Wilmington on Saturday, Aug. 27, and return to Delaware in mid-September. He plans to average 85 miles a day during the trip. Four days into his trip, Dietz will co-present a session on diabetes and exercise at a Children with Diabetes Conference in Baltimore.
In the summer of 2001, Dietz biked more than 4,000 miles and raised $3,500 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. That trip began in San Francisco and ended 45 days later in Wilmington.
Inspired by his niece Allie who was diagnosed with type-I diabetes at the age of 5, Dietz founded the Fun Day For Kids Foundation in 2002 to develop camps to benefit children with diseases. In the summer of 2004, the foundation will open Camp Possibilities in Oxford, Pa., for children with diabetes from low-income families.
For more information contact Dietz at 655-7876 or e-mail him at [jeffedietz@yahoo.com].
Donations can be made online at [www.camppossibilities.org] beginning Aug. 16.
Article by Dean Geddes-Key, AS 2005
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