FAIRFAX COUNTY
ADMINISTRATIVE RESOURCE TEAM

April 27, 2005

Fairfax County Administrative Resource Team
Department of Community and Recreation Services
12011 Government Center Parkway, Tenth Floor
Fairfax, VA 22035-1115

April 27. 2005

Dear Mark:

The members of the Administrative Resource Team and the Department of Human Resources would like to thank you for your outstanding presentation at the ART conference on April 22. We had an overwhelming response to the conference, and that is due in large part to your exciting presentation on stress in our daily lives and how we can develop strategies for managing that stress.

From the moment you were approached about the possibility of being our guest speaker, your enthusiasm conveyed your commitment to making this conference vital and interesting to participants. Within the first few minutes of your presentation, you had captured the audience's attention and had encouraged them to become active, eager participants. The [team] artwork was an excellent way of getting the audience to creatively express their feelings of stress and tension. The important benefit, of course, was for them to realize that art could be a positive outlet for these feelings.

Again, thank you so much for such an entertaining and informative presentation.

Sincerely,

Marian M. Matthews
Administrative Associate