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A Publication of Gundersen Medical Foundation Year-End 2015 Year-End 2015PATHFINDERSA publication of Gundersen Medical Foundation Strengthen your future—and ours— with a charitable gift annuity To secure a guaranteed income stream during your retirement, consider a charitable gift annuity with Gundersen Medical Foundation. Fund it with cash, CDs or appreciated securities. A simple contract with the Foundation is all you need to complete the gift and start receiving benefits, such as: • Favorable rates and fixed payments for life Your Age Fixed Rate • Tax deduction and tax-free income on the 60 4.4 gift portion of annuity payments 65 4.7 • The satisfaction of supporting our mission 70 5.1 for many years 75 5.8 80 6.8 To learn more, contact Chief Development Officer Robyn Tanke, CFRE, at (608) 775-4711 or 85 7.8 [email protected]. 90+ 9.0% Rates are not subject to change or market risk and are very attractive compared to many other investments. Annual rate of return is based on your current age. PATHFINDERS Pathfinders is published by Gundersen Medical Foundation for friends and supporters of the 4 Foundation. We welcome comments or suggestions from our readers for future stories. Editor: Jill Blokhuis, MS, CFRE Director of Development Operations Photography: Brooke Doval, John Kerrigan, Marsha Ledman, Kristin Royalty and John Sake Gundersen Medical Media 2 Dr. and Mrs. A.C.V. (Van) Elston III 9 Copywriting: Linda Duffy Design: Vendi Advertising To learn more about the Foundation’s medical education, research and community health outreach programs, or to inquire about making a charitable gift, please visit us at gundersenhealth. Contents org/Foundation or call the Foundation office at (608) 775-6600. 2 Setting the Standard: 10 Meet a Board Member A Lifetime of Service 11 Teaming up to Fight Cancer Development Department 4 Changing Lives through Expressions of Caring Chair Research 12 Sigurd B. Gundersen III, MD Vice Chair 27 The Miracle Connection 9 Linking the Past to A. Erik Gundersen, MD the Future Executive Director - Foundation Operations 31 Happenings Jack Schwartz, CFP® Administrative Support Chelsey Dehning, Mary Lichtie, Dawn Meyer, Betty Sacia Strengthen your future—and ours— Associate Director of Development Mandy Nogle Associate Director of Development Grants YOUR GENEROSITY CHANGES LIVES with a charitable gift annuity Deb Ward, CFRE Chief Development Officer As 2015 draws to a close, it’s natural to pause and reflect on the accomplishments of To secure a guaranteed income stream during your retirement, consider a charitable gift annuity with Robyn Tanke, CFRE the year. For many of us, this time offers an opportunity to celebrate successes and Gundersen Medical Foundation. Fund it with cash, CDs or appreciated securities. A simple contract with the Data System give thanks to those who have had a positive impact on our lives. Foundation is all you need to complete the gift and start receiving benefits, such as: Bonnie Bathalon, Tiffany Carlson, Tax deduction and tax-free income on the Kristine Darling Director of Development Though you may not ever get to meet them, there are thousands of people in our gift portion of annuity payments community (and beyond) who are thankful for you right now. That’s because your gifts • Favorable rates and fixed payments for life Your Age Fixed Rate Sara Gundersen Battison, CFRE • The satisfaction of supporting our mission Director of Development Operations in support of Gundersen Medical Foundation make a genuine impact. • 60 4.4 Jill Blokhuis, CFRE for many years 65 4.7 Grant Writer Your gifts lead to breakthroughs in medical research, highly-trained staff offering the Katie Berkedal To learn more, contact Chief Development Officer best care, and state-of-the-art equipment and facilities. Your gifts provide hope and 70 5.1 Senior Director Community Engagement healing. Simply put, your generosity changes lives. Robyn Tanke, CFRE, at (608) 775-4711 or 75 5.8 David Amborn, CFRE [email protected]. Special Events Manager 80 6.8 Debbie Kroner We are thankful to have been chosen as the stewards of your generosity, and we 85 7.8 Special Projects pledge to continue striving to make a positive impact on our community. Jeannie Gordon 90+ 9.0% Strategic Marketing Consultant Brady Lowe Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals® On the cover: Research scientists Ann C. Falkenberg Olson, PhD, RN; Associate Director of Development Paraic A. Kenny, PhD; and Sunny Guin, PhD, recently joined Gundersen Medical Heather Gilles Foundation’s team of researchers. Program Specialists Rates are not subject to change or market risk and are very attractive compared to many other investments. Rena Cash, Ashley Zibrowski Annual rate of return is based on your current age. If you do not want to receive future fundraising requests supporting Gundersen Medical Foundation, please call the Foundation between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday (either the local number 608-775-6600, or toll-free number 800-362-9567, ext. 56600) and if you receive a voicemail message, please identify yourself and state that you do not want to receive fundraising requests. As an alternative, you can e-mail us with the same request at © 2015 Gundersen Medical Foundation [email protected] . We will honor your request not to receive any fundraising communications from us after the date we receive your decision. DONOR PROFILE SETTING THE STANDARD: A lifetime of service Dr. and Mrs. A.C.V. (Van) Elston III have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to service, which was inspired by their own parents and nourished by the belief that each of us can make a positive impact on our community. Van Elston and Mary McIntyre met Mary managed her family’s 560-acre demonstrated an especially deep in junior high in Lancaster, Wis. dairy farm, The McIntyre Century commitment to the mission of After high school, both went on to Farm. In 1986, as the only female Gundersen Medical Foundation. The earn degrees from the University of in her program, Mary earned an Elstons were the driving force behind Wisconsin-Madison: Mary earned a associate degree in Dairy Herd the development of a playground degree in nursing while Van earned Management from (what was then) built on the Gundersen Campus in a degree in applied math and Western Wisconsin Technical College. La Crosse in 1977 (see page 3). engineering physics. In 1960, the high school sweethearts married and During his 33 years at Gundersen, Additionally, when Van retired from began to follow careers that put into Van served in several roles. Early on, the Foundation in 1999, the Summer practice their desire to help others. he helped establish a cardiology Research Fellowship program was program, including creating and named in his honor. Moved by the Inspired by a Lancaster family staffing a children’s intensive care desire to support the intellectual practitioner and family friend, unit. Later, Van organized a technical development of the next generation Van decided to pursue a medical pacemaker clinic and helped develop of medical professionals, Mary degree. He graduated from the an echocardiography laboratory. From established an endowment in Van’s University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988–1999, he served as the director name that would support a summer 1964 and completed his first year of of medical research for Gundersen nursing fellow as part of that program. internship and a pediatrics residency Medical Foundation before retiring at Gundersen Medical Center. After from the Foundation in 1999 and the By emphasizing the value of completing a pediatrics residency Clinic in 2002. education and community at the University of Colorado where engagement throughout their he began to focus on cardiology, Service as a way of life lives, Van and Mary have served Van went on to complete a pediatric Despite their busy careers, the as role models for their own cardiology fellowship at Johns Elstons have always considered children (Katharine and Susan) Hopkins Hospital in 1969 before community involvement “a natural and grandchildren (Sarah and returning to Gundersen. part of life,” attributing this service- Allison), along with so many others oriented attitude to their parents in our community. In recognition From 1960–1968, Mary worked in and grandparents. “Our parents were of their lifelong commitment to the nursing field even while the always active in the community; it’s service through both personal and couple started a family. As the just what they did,” remembers Mary. professional endeavors, the couple children grew, Mary, an accomplished was honored in October 2015 with musician, became involved with the Over the years, the Elstons have the highest award the Foundation can development of music programs donated their time and provided bestow: the Founders Award. u in La Crosse schools and made a financial support to many community career change. From 1980–1994, organizations; however, they have 2 | GUNDERSEN MEDICAL FOUNDATION A tribute honoring the power of play In 1977, the Elstons partnered with the La Crosse Lutheran Hospital Foundation to build a handicapped accessible, imaginative playground on the Gundersen campus. The playground was designed to positively impact all children seeking care at Gundersen, while also serving as a memorial for their son, A.C.V. (Vanny) Elston IV, who died at age 5 after a five- month struggle with leukemia. “We wanted to provide a fun-filled play space where children could dream, imagine, and heal while playing and relaxing with their families,” says Mary. The Elston Memorial Playground opened in 1979, was updated in 1994, and was recently reopened after renovations this fall. “The renovations include a complete redesign and rebuild of the playground space,” says Van. “A variety of low energy, visual, sound, and motion devices are part of it, so all children, even those limited in some capacity, can enjoy the space.” u < Van and Mary Elston attended a rededication of The Elston Memorial Playground which was reopened after recent renovations in October.
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