2009 JDRF ‘Fore the Kids’ Outing a huge success

Another incredible JDRF fundraiser concluded Monday evening at Franklin Hills CC.   I’m still waiting on the final numbers, but they raised a bunch of money for Type 1 diabetes research.   Some of the notables on hand: Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz, who kicked off the outing with a passionate speech about JDRF along with a few positive words about his Lions.   Word of advice: don’t cross this guy.  He looks like an MMA fighter and he’s all business. Here’s Schwartz delivering the opening remarks (don’t cross him!):

• Channel 7 sports director Don Shane, served for the second year in a row as master of ceremonies of the dinner afterwards and can really swing the golf club, FWIW.  Here’s Shane mastering the dinner ceremony:

• Former Michigan football quarterback and db Rich Hewlett, probably best remembered for getting the starting nod against Ohio State in 1979.  Hewlett held his own golf outing benefitting JDRF last year at the U-M Blue course, attended by Cathy Schembechler and Lloyd Carr.

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