Fall 2004

Donations to Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind Foundation Provide Training, Technology, and Employment

The newly formed Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind Foundation was created for the sole purpose of supporting the mission and activities of the Lighthouse for the Blind, Inc. All gifts made to the Foundation will support Lighthouse programs.

Community support of the Foundation provides the technology and training that help blind and Deaf-Blind people achieve independence. Generous private donations help fund the purchase of assistive devices such as screen-reading programs, computer Braille displays, and electronic travel and communication aids.

The following sixty-seven community donors to the Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind Foundation recently gave $97,853.94 to fund the technology, training, and employment that promote independence and self-sufficiency of people who are blind, Deaf-Blind, and blind with other disabilities:

Kirk Adams * Anonymous – two donors Patricia Audette  Dr. Jim Bemis  Barbara Boettcher-Rys  Carmen Calhoun  Theresa Copeland  Io Dolka  Douglas Donnelly  Priscilla Droge  Margarita Eng  Judith Galeota  Juan Gutierrez  John Hansen  Martin Hanson  Msgt. Matt Hemming  Barney Hyde

Michael Irons  Jane Itzkow  George Jacobson * Orville Jacobson  Keith Jephcott  Maurice Keating  Amy Koehl * Larry and Darlene Kosoff  Jiyoung Lee  Leib Margulis  Jan McIlroy  Patricia Moed  S. Bernice Money  William Monroe  Jennifer Moore * Carol Murphy  Maurice Nelson

Juanita Nordin  Monica Noyes  Sydney Powers  Dr. Jeffrey Robertson  Ruth Sceva  Cor Segers  Katherine Simpson  Irma Smith  Mary Stalter Radsch  Theodore Teufel  Harold Trumbull  Barbara White  Daniel White  Betty Wishart  Yvonne Worthy-Robbins  Oard Yoder

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bruin Plastics Company Inc. 
Cascade Designs 
Elizabeth A. Lynn Foundation 
Employees Community Fund 
Mercer Island Rotary Club Foundation 
The Picsha Foundation 
Precision Swiss 
Rajpaul Foundation 
Regence BlueShield (employer matching gift)
The Seattle Foundation 

(* indicates Lighthouse employee)

Community Rallies ‘Round Deaf-Blind Retreat

This year, generous gifts from the community helped make our twenty-sixth Deaf-Blind retreat a truly outstanding experience.

The theme for this year’s retreat was “Go For It!” Sixty-four Deaf-Blind people from throughout the U.S. and one hundred and twenty-nine volunteers took part in this unique opportunity to go the distance and challenge themselves.

Seventy-four community members, including foundations, corporations, and individuals, donated $17,826 to the Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind in support of the retreat. We offer our sincere thanks to the following donors for making this exceptional experience possible:

Bank of America (employer matching gift)
Everett Central Lions Club 
The Ludlow Foundation 
Pinkerton Foundation 

(* indicates Lighthouse employee)
(** indicates Lighthouse board member)

Seattle Lighthouse Donors Honor Loved Ones

Many financial supporters of the Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind Foundation choose to honor their loved ones by making special gifts. Recently, we have been privileged to receive gifts in the names of the following individuals:

In Honor
Gary and Linda Moore
In Memory
Gilbert Earle
Mary Gale
Bessie Rose Luark
David Mollet

Will Power

The Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind Foundation is honored to be remembered in the wills of dedicated, thoughtful, and forward-thinking donors. These individuals have expressed their commitment to creating opportunities for blind members of our community by including support of Lighthouse programs in their estate plans and wills. The Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind Foundation recently received the following gifts as a direct result of this generosity and foresight:

Legacies in Memoriam

For information on making planned gifts to the Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind Foundation, please contact Director of Public Relations and Resource Development Kirk Adams at 206-436-2110 or kadams@seattlelh.org.

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