Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta Goes Pink for The Beverly Foundation

Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta Goes Pink for The Beverly Foundation

		Local Breast Cancer survivors and FHLBank Atlanta employees join former WSB-TV Anchor JaQuitta Williams (far left) at the "In the Pink" Celebration of Life Luncheon. (PRNewsFoto/Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta) ATLANTA, GA UNITED STATES

ATLANTA, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The "In the Pink" Celebration of Life Luncheon, an annual event sponsored by The Eric R. Beverly Family Foundation, was held Thursday, Oct. 9, 2008 at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta) to honor breast cancer survivors and their friends. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081015/CLW103 ) The event, organized by Cecilia Houston-Torrence -- FHLBank Atlanta's Community Involvement Officer, Wendy Bowman-Littler -- the Atlanta Business Chronicle's Living in Atlanta Editor and The Eric R. Beverly Family Foundation was themed "The Pink and the Powerful: A Celebration of Life." Approximately 50 "pink and powerful" women were in attendance including celebrity breast cancer survivors, Monica Pearson, longtime WSB/Channel 2 evening news anchor and JaQuitta Williams, former WSB/Channel 2 news anchor who also acted as Mistress of Ceremonies. The keynote speaker, Danielle Beverly, is a three-time breast cancer survivor and co-founder of The Eric R. Beverly Family Foundation. The room was brought to tears, laughter and joy as speakers recanted their stories of struggle, strength and survival. "Just hold tight, keep the faith," said Beverly. "The sun will come out tomorrow." "Breast cancer does not define me," said Monica Pearson, an 11 year survivor. "I'm going to live my life as long as God lets me: have fun, ride my motorcycle and enjoy my husband!" Addressing her fellow survivors as "Breast Friends," Williams concluded the event with a giveaway for the longest celebrating survivor in attendance - Rhonda Hurd, an FHLBank Atlanta employee who is a 14 year survivor. About the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta The Bank is a cooperative financial services organization that provides funding, community development grants, and other banking services to more than 1,200 member financial institutions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The Bank is one of 12 district banks in the Federal Home Loan Bank System (the FHLB System), which since 1990 has contributed more than $2 billion to affordable housing development in the United States. Some of the statements made in this announcement, including, without limitation, those statements that relate to the Bank's dividend guidance for the second quarter of 2008, are "forward-looking statements," which include statements with respect to the Bank's beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions, and future performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which may be beyond the Bank's control, and which may cause the Bank's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements may not be realized due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation: the Bank's actual net income results, which drive the determination of actual dividend payments; legislative and regulatory actions or changes; future economic and market conditions; changes in demand for advances or consolidated obligations of the Bank and/or the FHLB System; changes in interest rates; political, national and world events; and adverse developments or events affecting or involving other Federal Home Loan Banks or the FHLB System in general. Additional factors that might cause the Bank's results to differ from these forward-looking statements are provided in detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at http://www.sec.gov. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, since the statements speak only as of the date that they are made. The Bank has no obligation and does not undertake to publicly update, revise or correct any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this announcement, or after the respective dates on which such statements otherwise are made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by law.