WELCOME TO TED'S BIRTHDAY PAGE

Over the past few years the Tedheads of the Ted-Neeley E-Mail List, and the First Ted Neeley (FTNL) list, have given Ted some wonderful presentations/presents for his Birthdays each year. Below are a few of them:

TED'S BIRTHDAY 2009

FTNL voted to donate  to "Rubicon Theatre Company's "It Takes A Village" Campaign" for Ted's Birthday and for Christmas this year. A plaque, containing our final tally of $1010.00, and the list of donor names was presented by me to Jim O'Neil at RTC on 2/12/10 (poor Karyl Lynn Burns could not be at RTC, as she had been recovering from a major bout of Stomach Flu that she caught from Jim), and a second plaque will be presented to Ted during his Fourth Leg of the current JCS AD Tour. A "copy" of the completed plaque is below:

Though the plaque is complete, donations are ongoing for RTC's "It Takes A Village," and names of those donating in honor of Ted will continue to be added to the donation sections of RTC's season programs for their entire 2009-2010 season. Below is the PSA that Ted recorded for this campaign. You can see just how close it is to his heart, (as it is to ours as well). Please help save this TREASURE of a Theatre from this lack of an economy we have in the USA.

TED'S BIRTHDAY 2008

FTNL voted to donate  to "Angels On Stage" for Ted's Birthday and for Christmas this year. Below is a shot taken during the presentation of the plaque to Ted (see below for the final version) on 2/27/09 by me and Heidi Oller (who suggested this organization when we were brainstorming donation possibilities), when the Third Leg of the JCS road tour played PlayhouseSquare here in Cleveland. A list of names and a tally was e-mailed to DeAnna Pursai (Angels' Founder), and FTNL has a banner on the Angels Website donation page (see link above). Though the plaque is complete, donations are ongoing for Angels, and names of those donating in honor of Ted will continue to be added to the Angels banner on their website.

Below are some pictures of Angels On Stage founder DeAnna Pursai's meeting with Ted at the JCS M&G in Cupertino, CA during the 2007-2009 Second Leg of the tour. FTNL list member Jessica Miyasaki (in second shot with Ted and DeAnna) is lucky enough to live close to AOS, and has attended several of their events/fundraisers.

TED'S BIRTHDAY 2007

With the kick-off of the JCS AD Tour, the 2006 list project for Ted's Birthday got waylaid, and members just "did their own things" for that year.  For 2007, we more than made up for it! Ann Stickford came up with the great idea of International Tedhug Day, which had everyone giving hugs to anyone they chose on 9/20 (Ted's birthday):

... and for his combination Birthday/Christmas presents (the ideas came from Deborah Adams and Connie Peterson, and the presents were completed by Roslyn Brown and by Me) FTNL's Roslyn completed a beautiful scrapbook (presentation picture below) which included this great FTNL Avatar group picture designed by Helen:

FTNL Scrapbook presented to Ted by Debbie Bitker on 1/6/08, and his response, in autograph form.

... and I completed this plaque for our Christmas FTNL group donation to Rubicon Theatre Company:

FTNL Group Donation Plaque for Rubicon Theatre Company. A pre-completed plaque copy was presented by me to Karyl Lynn Burns at RTC Christmas week of 2007 (the completed plaque was mailed to Karyl Lynn and James O'Neil in April, 2008), and the other completed plaque was presented to Ted by me in April, 2008, when the JCS road tour played Pittsburgh, PA (photos above)

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TED'S BIRTHDAY 2005

Lynne Freels (admin@medmatrx.com) - a.k.a. Homesickmoose - VERY generously again offered to make a plaque for Ted (in card form), showing the total donations that our Tedhead Family made to The Katrina Hurricane Relief Fund, and/or any other fund of their choosing. Below is the information to donate:

I just wanted to reiterate the following, for anyone who may have missed this post ...

Please feel free to donate money, volunteer time, and blood (especially O negative) to the disaster relief fund of your choosing. 

**Let me know what you donated**, so that I may total what was given in each category on the preliminary 

Powerpoint slide that is now available for download from the 'Files' folder. The title of the slide is "62.ppt".

Feel free to forward any suggestions on rephrasing, as well as worthy charitable organizations.

Below is the "plaque/card" I will forward to Ted on Tuesday.  Thanks, Lynne, for another great idea, and another SUPER job!

TED'S BIRTHDAY 2004

Lynne Freels (admin@medmatrx.com) VERY generously offered to make a plaque for Ted (in card form), showing the total donations that our Tedhead Family made to The Carl Anderson Memorial Fund, and The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  I presented the card/plaque to Ted in Ventura on his birthday during BeckettFest. Thanks, Lynne. Below is the final copy:

TED'S BIRTHDAY 2001

On 9/29/01, per Kathy's suggestion, I e-mailed a copy of the partial donation list to Ted in order to let him know that we remembered him this year for his birthday.  Below is the copy of the final list, which I framed and snail-mailed to Ted this afternoon (11/7/01).  REMEMBER:  Donations don't have to stop because Ted's list is officially closed, 9-11 funds still desperately need our help.  I can forward any further donations  to Ted via e-mail if requested by any of you.

Hi Ted,

 This year, for your birthday, we’ve decided that the best thing we can do in your name is to do our part to help those in need because of the World Trade Center/Pentagon attacks.  Below is the completed list of “Tedheads” who are donating to various funds this year in your name.  We thought it was the least we could do to help others, and to honor a man who does so much for all of us.

 With much love,

Cindi J

DONATION LIST FOR TED'S BIRTHDAY