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WESTACOTT PAINTING AWARD AT NBAA

White Plains, NY - On September 10th, in what has become an annual tradition, the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) honored a member company for using its business aircraft to help Corporate Angel Network transport cancer patients in need of medical treatment. This year's awardee, the International Paper Company, has been part of Corporate Angel Network since 1983 and during that time has flown more than 200 patients to distant treatment facilities. Many of these patients could not have received the critical treatment needed without International Paper's generous support.
To commemorate International Paper's outstanding contribution to Corporate Angel Network, John Zimmerman, Founder, Chairman and CEO of AVDATAINC of Wichita, KS, arranged for the noted English aviation and maritime artist Peter R. Westacott to create an original painting depicting one of the company's plants with three of its Falcon Jets flying in formation overhead.
Jack Olcott, NBAA president, presented the painting to Wayne Dodds, Director of Aviation and Chief Pilot for International Paper, at the President's Luncheon during the NBAA'a annual meeting and convention, held this year in Orlando, FL. Peter Westacott, who is now also the President and COO of AVDATAINC, unveiled the painting as part of the ceremony.

International Paper's longtime support of Corporate Angel Network has also included services above and beyond the invaluable provision of empty seats for cancer patients. John T. Dillon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, has personally endorsed the program several times and appears on the Network's video, giving a huge boost to ongoing publicity and public relations efforts. In addition, immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, International Paper took part in a Corporate Angel Network-coordinated mission to fly blood samples from the northeast to several labs in Florida, the only place where necessary testing could be accomplished, so that the donated blood could be used during the national emergency.
Corporate Angel Network (www.corpangelnetwork.org) is a public charity that arranges free air transportation aboard corporate and fractionally owned aircraft for cancer patients traveling to treatment. For further information or to become a participant, please call 914-328-1313 or see the organization's website: http://www.corpangelnetwork.org.
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Photo caption: Wayne Dodds, Director of Aviation and Chief Pilot, International Paper, and Gregg Gammack, Regional Marketing Manager, Flight Safety International, visit Corporate Angel Network's booth at the NBAA show to admire the Peter R. Westacott painting awarded to International Paper by the NBAA and AVDATAINC for the company's outstanding service to cancer patients through its support of Corporate Angel Network.

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