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Academy offers ways to show off 50 years

You can help the Academy celebrate its golden anniversary this year:

• The Academy is offering several new ways to wear your Academy pride on your sleeve or your chest or your coffee mug.
  
  Among the new apparel items celebrating the Academy's golden anniversary are: a cotton sweatshirt guaranteed to keep you warm, a clipper jacket in unisex sizes from extra small to double extra large, and men's and women's long-sleeved denim shirts. All of these items feature the Academy's 50th anniversary logo.
• The 50th anniversary lapel pin is available now for $10. Sales benefit (1) the AAFP Foundation's Resident Repayment Program, which pays interest on educational loans for family practice residents who commit to practice in underserved areas or to teach family medicine, and (2) AAFP's annual Feed the Need program, which helps homeless and hungry people in the Assembly's host city. Production of the pin is supported in part by a grant from SmithKline Beecham.
• Order your copies of Caring for America: The Story of Family Practice, the commemorative book to be published in April. Through text and photographs, the 128-page book will chronicle the history of family practice, present vignettes on a diverse selection of today's FPs, and provide a brief history of the AAFP. You can order copies for $40 each; proceeds benefit the AAFP Foundation General Endowment Fund. The book is funded in part by a grant from Glaxo Wellcome Inc.
• Family Physicians Care for America Week, Oct. 20-26, is your opportunity to publicize the specialty and your practice through community projects. A free planning kit with a how-to section, project ideas, and publicity materials is available on request. This program is supported in part by a grant from Zeneca Pharmaceuticals.

To order gift items or for more information on ways to celebrate the Academy's golden anniversary, call this new toll-free number--(888) 50-YEARS [509-3277]--for recorded information and links to appropriate staff.

• FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department.