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2003 Run for Vision is a Winner!
TBI's Run for Vision 2003 held on Saturday, October 18 in the Baltimore
Marathon was a great success for our organization and those we serve.
Because we expanded this year's run to include a Run for Mobility,
allograft tissue transplant recipients as well as cornea recipients
will benefit from this network-wide event. Tripling the number of
runners over 2002 increased revenue with this year's revenue projected
to be $85,000. Pledges and gifts are still coming in, and proceeds
could reach $100,000.
John
Grande, Chairman of the Frederick N. Griffith Foundation, served
as Master of Ceremonies at the Run for Vision post-race event held
Saturday evening. As part of the program, Grande Financial Services
sponsored several awards. Winners included Tom Buckley Executive
Director of the New England Eye & Tissue Transplant Bank as
the Fastest Marathoner, and the Creeping Substitution from TBI's
National Processing Center as the Fastest Relay Team. The See-Biscuit
team received the Most Creative Team Relay Name Award, while See-Biscuit
team members John and Traudy Grande won the Fund Raising Award.
Board member Tim Askew took home the Run for Vision Team Spirit
Award for his appearance as Elvis, and Tim Fischer, Executive Director
of the Indiana Lions Eye and Tissue Transplant Bank received the
First Timer Award for his outstanding half-marathon effort.
A
big round of applause to all our participants for their athletic
and fund raising accomplishments. And special thanks to all Run
for Vision sponsors for their generosity in helping to bring restored
vision and health to transplant patients throughout the United States
and the world.
Premier
Sponsors
Casad Surgical Supply
Larry and Sue Askew
The Creeping Substitution Team
Stewart and Jan Braunstein
Natalia Leimkuhler
Karen Ort Sullivan
Platinum
Sponsors
LifeCell
Software Consortium
Tutogen
Mercantile Safe Deposit &Trust Company
Rosenberg, Proutt, Funk & Greenberg, LLP
Kenneth A. Bourne, Jr.
John J. Grande
Traudy F. Grande
Joe and Kathi Terlizzese
Frijouf, Rust & Pyle
Forman C. Frost, Jr.
Pleasant Valley Tree Farm
Frederick and Bea Griffith
Melda Mohler
Claiborne Rankin
Advanced Medical Optics
Alcon
Aramark
Marathoners
Tom Buckley - New England Eye & Tissue Transplant Bank
Jim Gilpin - Representing New England Eye & Tissue Transplant
Bank
Jim Leimkuhler - TBI
Jim Wagner - San Antonio Eye Bank
Sean Hackett - Wilmer Eye Institute
Half
Marathoners
Tim Fischer - Indiana Lions Eye & Tissue Transplant Bank
Tom Cogdall - Representing Medical Eye Bank of Florida
Wade Zwiener - Representing Medical Eye Bank of Florida
Relays
OCETB
- Representing the Orange County Eye and Tissue Bank
Larry Hierholzer
Jill Bye
Bill Machesney
Allen Ward
Fight
for Sight - Representing the Northern California Transplant Bank
Amy Vastine
Karri Gose
Tami Bryant
Lisa Folda
Creeping
Substitution - Representing the National Processing Center
Chuck Cropley
Andy Gonzales
Jim Forsell
Kent Neller
Dayton
Fliers - Representing the Lions Eye Bank of West Central Ohio
Angie Burnham
Kevin Burnham
Jason Amos
Mike Delorme
See-Biscuits
- Representing TBI Board of Directors and the Frederick N. Griffith
Foundation
John Grande
Traudy Grande
Karen Sullivan
John Grande, Jr.
Running
Elvises - Baltimore Chapter - Representing the National Processing
Center
Tim Askew
John Linehan
Steve Whitehurst
Steve Spurrier
Team
New England - Representing the New England Eye and Tissue Transplant
Bank
Glenn Greenleaf
Larry Jasinski
Kim Cook
Susan Buckley
Wilmer
Residents - Representing the Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins
Medical Institutions
Mike Lai
Howard Fine
Michael Emerson
John Park
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