Dear Friends and Family,

I created a CaringBridge site to keep you up to date on Debbie Dale. CaringBridge is a nonprofit organization that helps friends and families stay connected.

You can visit Debbie 's CaringBridge site at http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/debbiedale.

If your e-mail program does not allow you to click on the above link, just copy and paste the address into your web browser's address (or URL) location.

Please visit our CaringBridge site anytime. You can use the site to check in on Debbie , read the journal entries and send us messages by signing our guestbook. When you register with CaringBridge and sign our guestbook, you will automatically receive e-mail notifications each time our journal is updated. Or, you can subscribe to receive these notifications even before you sign the guestbook. (Of course, you can unsubscribe from these e-mail updates at any time.)

Please print and save this e-mail for future reference.

CaringBridge is a free, nonprofit web service that connects family and friends to share information, love and support during a health care crisis, treatment and recovery.

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Debbie Dale is an absolutely fantastic, warm, kind, wonderful human being that I had the pleasure of meeting and working with while I was studying computer science at Cal State San Marcos. She worked in the school athletics department (Assistant Director of Athletics) serving as a mentor and a guide for many of the campus athletes from the program's inception in the late 1990's until the mid 2000's. She also got me the job of Webmaster of Athletics (and campus police) for the majority of my time at San Marcos.

Many have considered Debbie as the heart and soul of the Cal State San Marcos Athletics Department - and over the years has undoubtedly put in more hours than anyone else in the entire department. Debbie is famous throughout campus for her spirit, good humor, optimism, and enthusiasm.

Recently, Debbie was diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer and is in need of our support.

I've created this website to help spread the word among her friends so that we can all provide a bit of positive energy in any way that we can.

I've created a short tribute, dance video for Debbie. Visit the video page to check out the youtube and high res versions.

Please leave a positive comment on the feedback page. If you have ideas to support Debbie or would like to contact me you can fill out this site's contact submission form.

- Mike Shannon