Avon 3 Day Walk: May 3-5, 2002. The Johns Hopkins Breast Center had a huge team of survivor volunteers, family members and friends doing this event this year. We also organized a cheering squad which appeared at every pit stop and cheering station along the 62 mile route from Baltimore to Washington, DC! The cheerleaders wore pink OR scrubs and the walker wore a white Hopkins shirt one day, a pink shirt another, and navy blue on the the third day.

The first breast cancer survivor volunteer to register for our team, called "Lillie's Ladies" was Betsy Wells. Betsy helped in inspiring others to sign up and before we knew it, we had more than 48 walkers registered. Additionally there were 31 cheer leaders from our survivor volunteer team! Just 2 months before the big event, Betsy became ill and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. We decided to make her our "virtual walker" and arranged for her to come to the Baltimore Convention Center on Thursday May 2nd for the kick off at the Hopkins booth. She was greeted by many walkers and cheerleaders, all that evening wearing pink OR scrubs from Hopkins. It was an emotional evening for everyone and reminded us of the the importance of this event and that we are doing the walk to raise research dollars for breast cancer with the ultimate goal to find a cure.... Here are the photos from this event! A special thanks to Patti Weiss, our team captain for the walkers. And also a special thanks to Judy Matthews and Pat Williford out co-captains for the cheering squad! Ladies, you are awesome!

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 3daywalk1 - This is a group photo of part of our walkers and cheerleader team taken the night before the event began. Back row, center in white, is Betsy Wells, our virtual walker! We had signs made that said, "We are walking for Betsy Wells!" "We are cheering for Betsy Wells!"
 Cheerleaders - Cheerleaders rooting our team on as they pass!
 4500 walkers - A view of the 4500 walkers in the big tent on Saturday night.
 Dr. Nancy Davidson - Dr. Nancy Davidson on the far left with Dr. Antonio Wolff on the far right and part of Dr. Davidson's research team in the middle. The research work currently done in the lab by these individuals is funded by an Avon research grant.
 Photo2 - Another photo of Dr. Davidson, Dr. Wolff and the research team!
 Davidson on stage - Dr. Nancy Davidson on stage talking to an audience of 5000 participants about the Avon 2.2 million dollar grant awarded to Johns Hopkins.
 Duffle - Dufflebags, suitcase, and back packs galore! It takes a lot of work to move 4500 walkers and more than 500 volunteers from one location to another!
 Pat Williford - Pat Williford, our co-captain for the cheering squad, cheering on our team!
 co-captains - Judy Matthews and Pat Williford, our co-captains for the cheering squad!
 Cheerleaders2 - See our cheerleaders in pink OR scrubs in the center of the Avon walkers as they approach the finish line in DC!