As many of you know, we've had the challenge of battling cancer in our own family. Kate was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer four years ago and passed away peacefully on April 15th, 2025. Thanks to the care of an amazing team of doctors and nurses, she was able to lead a mostly normal life. Her survival was unusally long for this disease, and largely due to breakthrough drugs that have been devloped by studies at Dana Farber, Memorial Sloan Kettering, John's Hopkins and other cancer research hospitals.

I am honored to have shared this journey with Kate--she was so strong. She fought every day through the challenges confronting her with such a joyous outlook. And she had so much to live for. We miss her deeply.

I hope you will consider helping Dana Farber keep up this important fight and, hopefully, one day there will be an early diagnosis breakthrough, or perhaps even a cure for this deadly disease. Last year we raised over $20,000 to support Dana Farber, and every dollar went directly to cancer research. I hope you will join my ride again.

Love, John

Note: gallery has some receent photes of us, the last photo was taken in Turo, MA at the end of last year's Pan-Mass