The Fourth Annual Celebration Of Life Dinner will be held on November 15, 2008 at the Birchwood Club in Highland Park, Illinois. More details to follow. We are looking forward to a fun and warm (not temperature) evening where we can meet, greet, be brought current on the Foundation's activities, and enjoy a fine dinner, entertainment, and each other's company. It is an informal event, because Gabe was a relaxed and unceremonious young man.
The Gabe W. Miller Memorial Foundation has only one fund raising event, the Annual Celebration of Life Dinner, held on a Saturday night before Thanksgiving each year.
The 1st Dinner was held at Lou Malnati’s in Buffalo Grove, because pizza and pasta were among Gabe’s favorite “food groups”. Mentalist, Sidney Friedman, wowed the crowd with his amazing acts of ESP and mental agility.
The 2nd Dinner, held at Ristorante Bella Via, also had pizza on the menu and featured entertainment by a Chicago-land favorite, the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band.
The Third Annual Celebration Of Life Dinner was held at Carmen's Restaurant in Evanston. The featured entertainer, Dennis DeBondt, magician / humorist par excellence, wowed the crowd. The camaraderie was joyous and heartfelt.
Notwithstanding the seriousness of purpose of the Foundation’s work, the goal of our Annual Event is to have a great time, to remember Gabe and to celebrate the special life that was his. He would not have wanted it any other way.
We evoke Gabe’s memory and the work of his namesake Foundation through Alan’s speech and videos, Gabe Miller: A Caring Man, produced by the Foundation and shown at the 1st Dinner and Profiles In Service I: How They Help Us, a video by Fulton Market Films and the Foundation, showcasing hospice and bereavement social workers, shown at the 2nd Dinner. And, Profiles in Service II, how a social worker specializing in child/youth work uses rap music as a pathway to communication, also produced by Fulton Market Films and the Foundation, shown at the 3rd Annual Dinner, proved to be very interesting and entertaining.
If you are not already on our invitation list, please send your contact information to info@gabesfoundation.org, or go to Contact Us to receive your invitation.
We look forward to seeing you there!