The Official Maureen McCormick Fan Club
News Brief Email
July 31, 2003

Reminders:
Don't forget to sign Maureen's birthday card that will be given to
her on her birthday on August 5th 2003. Maureen's card can be signed
by going to her fan club website at www.ttinet.com/mmfc or
www.bradyworld.com

Hey Fans:
Fans, What would you like to see on the fan club website? Send all
your letters to lennonparker@... WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU! :)

Brady Bunch Calendars:
Check out bradyworld.com for the 2004 Brady Bunch calendars. The
official fan club is going to be doing a 2004 Maureen calendar with
exclusive photos. If you want one email lennonparker@... and
we'll add you to our want list. Prices TBA

Tribute:
Dear fans, This is very hard for me to share with you and to type up
but the fan club has suffered a loss in one of our staff members who
has worked with us since day one and other sites such as Brady World.
TJ Radwell died July 29th 2003 at 2:30am due to complications. TJ was
one of our staff writers, fan club promoter and an informant.

The fan club is putting together a tribute page to him on Maureen's
site. If you have any memories of TJ or anything you would like to be
part of the tribute please send it to me at lennonparker@...
Also, if you would like to mail anything to TJ's family email me at
the address above and I'll send you an address.

TJ was a great guy and was one of my best online friends I've ever
had. TJ is what I would call the die-hard Brady Bunch fan and loyal
Maureen fan. He did more work for Maureen's fan club site than any
other fan I know.

Wendy Winans of bradyworld.com speaks very well of him. She said the
following to me this morning. "He was indeed a big supporter of the
Brady Bunch and was always quick to help with news and information."

For those of you who didn't know TJ I found something on Maureen's
site that I thought would be nice to share. In 1999 Maureen's
mom "Irene" came up with an idea called "We Can Make The World A
Whole Lot Brighter" where fans send in stories on how they do good
things in the world. One of those fans was TJ! Below is what he said
and in away it's like a letter from him to you. This just shows his
kindness. Also, below his letter is a link to other fan stories like
his.

Hi, my name is T. J. Radwell, III, and I wanted to tell you how and
why I try to make the world brighter, online and off. My life has NOT
been "The Brady Bunch." When I was born, I was given two weeks to
live due to a bad heart, bad lungs and a Birth Defect called Spina
Bifida, a disease in which the back bone is not formed properly while
the baby is growing in the womb One or more of the vertebra doesn't
form the way they are supposed to. I have club feet, a curved back,
and only four fingers on each hand. To compound that, my father was
an abusive alcoholic and is now divorced from my mother.


I cannot work due to doctor's orders, and am on oxygen at night.
Nevertheless, the fact that I am still around with all these problems
33 years later is nothing short of a miracle, as I never had any
operations to correct the bad heart or lungs. I figure God has kept
me here for a reason, and I'm going to do whatever he wants me to do.
I do volunteer work at a nonprofit Christian organization called the
Urban Family Council, (http://www.urbanfamily.org/) where I do
clerical work. (Yes, I have eight fingers and I'm a clerk. Tell me
God doesn't have a sense of humor!) I also run their Disability
Network. We recently went to the CBS affiliate in Philadelphia to try
to get them to stop airing the "60 Minutes" episode where Dr. Jack
Kevorkian killed a man disabled with Lou Gehrig's disease.


They aired the episode, but we got a lot of good publicity in the
Philadelphia newspapers! While the disabilities limit me physically,
when I'm online I can go anywhere with just the click of a mouse, and
I can help people just by doing a Net Search. Last year I helped out
a friend in Colorado promote her website for the Columbine High
students that were killed in Littleton, CO. The address for the
website is:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/1286/ColumbineHigh.html Every
signature in the guest book is going to be given to the people of
Littleton. I forwarded it to everyone I knew (Including the
McCormick's) and forwarded it to CO media websites. She was
interviewed and it was picked up by CNN. Now I'm trying to help out a
singer promote her CD...Maureen McCormick. No, I don't know her. I'm
doing this all on my own. I've been E-mailing Maureen McCormick and
her family ever since I found her official website a couple years
ago. (That was a dream come true after a 30 year crush!) I've
developed a pen-pal like relationship with her mother, Irene.


I've been E-mailing stuff pertaining to her daughter, and the last
thing I sent them was an article with the fact that the album Maureen
did with Chris Knight (Peter) is now worth $150.00. Irene
answered, "Gee I wish we had more than one of those Chris and Maureen
albums. Perhaps Maureen's newer album will become a collectible too,
especially since it is not being sold in the stores. Wish we could
get that word out." Well, that's what I want to do! I've been posting
to every Brady Bunch, country music and Autograph collecting website
on the Net about it.


Of course, I'm also helping the rest of them: The autograph
collectors because they get 2 autographs with the CD, the Brady Bunch
fans, because they can see and hear what Maureen is doing now, and
the country music fans, because they hear a great country singer who
they wouldn't think of! So, since I've been given this lifetime
instead of the 2 weeks I was only supposed to have, I'm going to try
to help as many people as I can, and make my life count for
something.

T.J.

* For other fan stories check out http://www.ttinet.com/mmfc/info.htm

Thanks very much for reading this. A MMFC 2003 Ezine is in the works!
Lennon Parker
MMFC President

Check out the Official fan club by clicking on www.ttinet.com/mmfc