Snowflake Giving Campaign
for the Holidays
It’s snowing at the Brain Injury Association of Ohio’s State Office as
friends and supporters respond to the Association’s holiday giving
campaign!
Click
here to view the progress of the campaign!
Early in December, BIAOH members, support group
attendees, and others within our advocacy community received a mailed
invitation to join the campaign by returning a donation along with the
“snowflake” enclosed in each card. Participants were asked to add their
own names to the snowflake, or the name of a special person they wished
to recognize.
The inspiration behind BIAOH’s holiday giving
campaign was a refrain from an Emily Warburton poem celebrating the
wonder and uniqueness of each individual through a metaphoric comparison
to the singular beauty and design of each snowflake. To those within
the advocacy community for children and adults with brain injury, it’s
easy to relate this imagery to the unique needs of those who have
experienced brain injury without losing sight of the “snowflake”
qualities shared by all and as expressed in the poem:
We are each of us a snowflake
A falling
star in flight
A traveler
through the universe
In search
of our own light
Unique in
form and beauty
No two of
one design
Transitory
dancers
On the
window pane of time
 The
first snowflake BIAOH received bears the Gratitude at Work Foundation
logo, and the signature of Matthew Garretson. Garretson’s firm,
specializing in structured settlements and related services, established
the foundation for the purpose of “Advocating for the rights and
treatment of individuals with profound injuries.”
 Since
Nov. 29th when BIAOH representatives Peggy O’Neill (Community
Support Network Coordinator based in Cincinnati), Jon Fishpaw (Board
President), and Suzanne Minnich, (Executive Director) accepted the
$2,500 Gratitude at Work donation from Matthew Garretson (see photo taken
at the firm’s home office in Cincinnati), a flurry of snowflakes and
contributions arrives each day with the mail.
 “Each
donation, large or small, results in adding a snowflake to the glass
windows and door of our office”, according to Michelle Corpron, BIAOH’s
Administrative Assistant, who worked with volunteers to coordinate
mailing the snowflake-themed holiday giving materials. (Shown, with
snowflakes in the background are daughter-and-mother volunteers, Katrina
and Diana
Korb.) “It’s fun to see both who is sending the snowflakes
with their contributions, and the people they are honoring,” Corpron
continues. (See a listing of contributors and honorees, in the order
gifts were received below.) For example, on the front of one snowflake
was a tribute to the memory of a 33 year old woman, and on the back was
the notation, “Survived 18 productive years with brain injury.”
BIAOH’s “snowflake” giving campaign will run
through the end of January 2008, so there’s still time to participate.
Consider making the gift of a BIAOH snowflake to a special person over
this holiday season! It may turn out to be their favorite gift,
particularly since it supports the “help and hope” BIAOH offers through
its programs and services throughout Ohio.
Thank you to the following donors:
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Donor |
In Memory or Honor of… |
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Gratitude at Work |
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Jean Folk |
In Memory of Daryl |
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Vernon Clark & Heather Krebs |
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Darryl Dieckman |
In Honor of Gayle Dieckman |
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Robert Palmer |
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Marilyn Anderson |
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Charon Bauman |
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Kelly Goretzki |
In Honor of Evan Goretzki |
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Marcy Martelli & Victoria Kepich |
In Honor of Liz Martelli |
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John & Sandra Kreider |
In Honor of John Kreider Jr. |
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Robert & Helen Harris |
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Jane Crooks |
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Jim McKee |
In Honor of Jack Thoma |
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Lyn Geiser |
Kathy Blair |
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Ken & Rosemary Parrish |
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Dr. John Corrigan |
Pearl Johnson |
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Benton & Tracy Kraner |
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Richard & Jean Patton |
In Honor of Linda Patton |
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Dr. Maureen Murphy & Aldo Franchi |
In Memory of Nikole Koller |
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Ross Dorsett III |
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Lyla Kepler |
In Honor of Lee Bennet |
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Paul Giacalone |
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Vickie Bidwell |
In Honor of Caleb Young |
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Leonard & Janet Nussbaum |
In Honor of Lee Jacob Nussbaum |
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Ted & Nancee Homan |
Keith Homan |
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Florence Holder |
In Honor of Florence Holder |
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Deborah McQuain |
In Honor of Gary McQuain |
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Carol Shaw |
In Honor of Paige Weaver & Willie
Crum |
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William & Judy Newbold |
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Dug & Sarah Miller |
In Memory of Steve Rust |
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Jean & Adolph Mysza |
In Honor of Brian Mysza |
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Bella Morgera |
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Diana Pollock |
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Judith Kuti |
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Kelly R. Scott |
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Margarete Souslin |
In Honor of Gretchen Stevens |
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Karen Meyers |
In Honor
of Camille Meyers |
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Paul Whitaker |
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Nan Worthing |
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Effie Parker |
In Memory of Robert W. Parker &
Richard C. Parker; In Honor of Matthew Parker |
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Matthew Parker |
In Honor of Jeannie Folk and Matthew
Parker |
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Paul Wiehl |
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Jennifer McMahon |
In Honor of Janet Heilman |
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Katie Riley |
Jim Riley |
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Connie Prescher |
In Honor of Rex Prescher |
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Barbara Bolek |
In Honor of David |
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Claire Hoffman |
Kurt Hoffman Dover |
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Pamela Tolliver |
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Bethany DuPuy |
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Dr. Bob Stinson |
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Rodney & Cheryl Roberts |
Brooke Gebhart |
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James & Theresa Cartell |
In Honor of Tyson Michael Cartell |
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Janelle Welker |
In Honor of Nicholas Welker |
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Pat Heyne |
Todd A. Heyne |
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Bethany Maish |
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Nina Paul |
In Honor of Max Paul |
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Kevin Dixon |
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Donna Owens |
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Vicky Wilson |
In Honor of James Wilson |
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Kathy Reinbach |
In Honor of Geny Date |
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Peggy and Bill Keener |
In Memory of Rose Mary Fee |
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Jerry Bollie |
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Diane May |
In Honor of Allen McDaniel |
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James D. Salts |
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Brenda Asterino |
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Mark & Clara Landes |
In Honor of Derek Landes |
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Jeff Renault |
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Jody Thompson |
Lcpl John P. Besancon USMC/ OIF |
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Jennie Horner |
In Honor of Bobbie Boyer |
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Keith Horner |
In Honor of Nick Welker |
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Emma Horner |
In Honor of Gregory Trentman |
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Susan & Edwin Phelps |
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Melonie Buller |
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Gayle Rohler |
In Honor of Patients & Survivors
affected by brain injuries who were cared for at Dodd Hall -
OSU Hospital |
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Jean Berger |
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Marcia Hiles |
In Honor of Keith & Cath |
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Juliet Michael |
In Honor of Amy Packard |
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Michele & Brian Myers |
In Honor of Brian |
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Diana Korb |
In Honor of Katrina Korb |
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The Lynn Fund at BIA, presented by
Cliff and Sally Oiler |
In Memory of Lynn Chiaverotti |
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Guillermo Guerrero Jr. |
Emma Jean Washington |
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Kristin Hildebrandt |
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Champain County Residential Services,
Inc. |
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Lisa Holtsberry |
In Honor of my sister, Maria Edington |
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Delores Lewandowski |
In Honor of my husband, Bob |
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Erica Hawkins |
In Honor of Linda Wilbert |
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Douglas Poad |
In Honor of Paula Poad |
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George & Christine Veronie |
In Memory of Rose Mary Fee |
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David Petty |
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Louis Amer |
In Memory of Mary Kay Amer |
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Larry & Diane Thomas |
Jim |
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Marilyn Stafford |
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David Bertsche |
In Memory of Debera Bertsche |
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Marcus Golembiewski |
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Michelle & Jon Fishpaw |
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Stephen Thoma |
In Memory of Timothy Thoma |
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Suzanne Minnich |
Aunt Sis & Uncle Red (Iris & Duane)
Welker and their many Welker cousins in appreciation of
their WWII service |
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Ken & Betty Ervin |
In Honor of Forrest Ervin |
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Stephanie Oswald
|
In Honor of Stephen Scholl |
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Donna Haley |
Mary Jan Leiby |
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Bonnie S. Nelson |
In Honor of Jenny Cooper |
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Donna Clark |
In Memory of Jeffrey Black |
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Dr. Terry Ransom-Flint |
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Tomy Mitchell |
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Additional snowflakes from:
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Sender |
In Memory or Honor of… |
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Carolina Ann Thomas |
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Help Me Grow of Franklin County |
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Rebecca & Chad Cotterman |
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Mike Littlepage |
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