Annual Meeting 2003: Becoming a Health Statistic – Clean Air Under Fire

Becoming a Health Statistic
Clean Air Under Fire

GASP Annual Benefit Dinner

Group Against Smog & Pollution Presents

Devra Davis
Renowned epidemiologist, former Scholar in Residence at the National Academy of Sciences and National Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board member

&

Nicholas DiPasquale
PA Department of Environmental Protection, Deputy Secretary of Air, Recycling and Radiation Protection


Saturday, November 8, 2003
5:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Rodef Shalom, Freehof Hall
4905 Fifth Ave. (across from WQED in Oakland)
Free parking in rear of building. Entrances off Morewood and Devonshire.

5:30 – 6:30 pm

  • Hybrid vehicle test drives*
  • Silent auction
  • Reception, book signing, cash wine bar

6:30 – 7:30 pm

Dinner

7:15 – 8:15 pm

8:15 – 8:30 pm

Silent auction winners

8:30 – 9:00 pm

Annual business meeting


*You must show a valid driver’s license to drive

Becoming a Health Statistic

Dr. Devra Davis, author of When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution, will highlight scientific and personal sides of the smog emergency that sickened or killed many Donora residents and the relevance now – 55 years later, when…

  • Pennsylvania’s smog and soot annually trigger an estimated 370,000 asthma attacks and cause 5,000 deaths — PennEnvironment
  • According to a study in March of 2000, more than 1200 cancers in Pittsburgh can be attributed to diesel exhaust — STAPPA & ALAPCO


Read Devra Davis’s October 22 commentary in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Think global warming, act locally.

Clean Air Under Fire

Deputy Secretary, Nicholas DiPasquale, will speak about the increased role being taken by Pennsylvania and other states, in light of federal backsliding, in making progress toward healthier air. Topics will include the pollution strategies related to ozone and particulates and new Pennsylvania initiatives promoting the use of renewable and indigenous energy.

Honorary Committee:

  • Thomas Buchele, Director, Environmental Law Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Law School
  • Jeanne Clark, Communications Director, Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future
  • Cliff Davidson, Director, Carnegie Mellon University Environmental Institute
  • Ava DeMarco, Co-Founder, Littlearth Productions
  • Fiona Fisher, President, Rachel Carson Homestead
  • Josh Knauer, Founder, The EnviroLink Network and Director of Advanced Development, MAYA Design
  • Marie Kocoshis, former President, Group Against Smog & Pollution
  • Mary Kostalos, Professor, Chatham College Biology Department
  • Richard LeGrande, President, Allegheny County Transit Council
  • Herbert Needleman, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics
  • Paul O’Neill, Former Chair, Alcoa and former Secretary, U.S. Treasury
  • Gene Ricciardi, President, Pittsburgh City Council
  • Joel Tarr, Professor of Urban and Environmental History and Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Stephen B. Thomas, Director, Center for Minority Health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health

Reservations

  • $35 GASP member for dinner and lecture

  • $40 non-GASP member for dinner and lecture

  • $100 GASP Friend
    Includes two for dinner and lecture, one signed copy of When Smoke Ran Like Water

  • $275 GASP Supporter
    Table for 8 and program recognition for a non-profit organization only

  • $500 GASP Patron
    Table for 8, program recognition and one signed copy of When Smoke Ran Like Water

  • $1000 GASP Sponsor
    Table for 10, program recognition and 10 signed copies of When Smoke Ran Like Water

    Please make reservations by Wednesday, November 5. Call GASP at (412) 441-6650.

Meal Choices:

  • Vegetarian
  • Chicken marsala
  • Beef in mushroom wine sauce

Catered by Ugly Duckling Gourmet Edibles

Free parking is available. Enter the Rodef Shalom parking lot from either Morewood Ave. or Devonshire St.

Special thanks to the following for financial support:

  • Respironics, Inc.
  • Giant Eagle
  • Cummins Bridgeway, LLC
  • Maurice Falk Medical Fund

Funds raised support the work of GASP, a 501c(3) non-profit organization.