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Christmas Cards Now on Sale! Congratulations to the Christmas Card Design winners!
Miriam Kelleher aged 7 is from Melbourne Luciana Romanski aged 8 is from Sydney Both seen here wearing their prize-winning designs on custom-made tshirts! We’re delighted to say that the printed Christmas cards are now available for sale. How to order these beautiful cards: See the back page
Call for Nominations: Fragile X Association Achievement Award 2013 The Fragile X Association Achievement Awards celebrate perseverance and successes. They were established several years ago because it was felt that many people with Fragile X constantly struggle against many obstacles and that their perseverance and successes are not always sufficiently recognised.
The Awards are intended to provide inspiration and encouragement to the people nominated and to other families. Those nominated for the Award do not have to shine in open company – any significant individual achievement is important!
Nominate someone you know for a Fragile X Association Achievement Award Nominations open until Friday 29 November See the back page for details
Contribution to the Fragile X Association by the Estate of Miss Zena Sachs On behalf of the Fragile X Association the Board wishes to acknowledge the very significant financial contribution made to the Association by the Estate of the late Miss Zena Sachs. The Association has recently received a final contribution from the Estate, providing a total bequest of $116,000. This exceptionally generous donation has been of tremendous benefit in providing the cornerstone and foundation of the Endowment Fund, which was established to secure the future financial position of the Association. Zena Sachs, who died on 31 July 2011 aged 97, was born in Darlinghurst in 1913, the youngest child of a large family of Jewish immigrants. Miss Sachs was one of very few women to study law in the 1940s, and she was one of four admitted to the Bar in 1950. She had had no connection with intellectual disability whatsoever until the grandson of her great friend Dr Leonie Star, a former President of the Fragile X Association, was born. She then became a faithful contributor to the Association even while giving generously to the many other charities she supported. Dr Star notes that Miss Sachs “was an unassuming woman with an acute intelligence, a ready and often sharp sense of humour, an interest in knowledge of all kinds ... and whose outstanding intellect was as sharp when she died at 97 as it had been throughout her life. She was loved by many.” Robyn Iredale, President Page 1
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