WHEATON LIONS CHARITIES CONFERS COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FOR QUALIFIED VISUAL AND/OR HEARING IMPAIRED HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
Our 85th Year Helping the Wheaton Visually and Hearing Impaired Community  

Wheaton Lions Charities, Ltd., and the Wheaton Lions Club has again awarded scholarships to qualifying high school seniors residing within the boundaries of School District 200 who are challenged by visual or hearing related conditions, including type 1 diabetes. The scholarship money is to be used toward college, technical school or similar educational program to enhance a career of their choice. Winners this year are Richard Dykstra, Michael Cantieri and Victoria Klopf, and each received $1,500. 

Richard will attend Universal Technical Institute; Michael will attend Rochester Institute of Technology; and Victoria is a junior at Illinois State University and received the Tom Yule Memorial Scholarship as a tribute to deceased member, Tom Yule. 

Wheaton Lions Club is a local service club affiliated with The International Association of Lions Clubs which has over 45,000 clubs located in 197 countries and represented by over 1.3 million men and women members.  The Wheaton LIONS raise money to primarily assist the visually and hearing impaired who otherwise would not be able to obtain needed service for their impairment and in recent years provided scholarships to assist qualified students to attend college.

The Wheaton LIONS Club meets nearly every Tuesday at noon at the Masonic Temple on Wesley Street in Wheaton.  The Wheaton Lions Club began its charter on October 23, 1923. For further information about the LIONS scholarship selection, please call Bill Davis at 630-668-1167.

The Wheaton LIONS have long maintained their LIONS Eye Care Program within the community, working with local schools and local eye physicians, for the purpose of screening needy individuals, especially children, who have visual impairments. This program includes eye exams, glasses and other apparatus like magnification devices. The Wheaton LIONS also strongly support the Deicke Center for Visual Rehabilitation.  Funding for these and other causes come primarily from activities such as the annual Lions Nite Walk in June, a golf and steak fry each summer, Candy Day collections in October, and a Christmas time auction.

Individuals interested in joining may obtain further information from the club’s website www.WheatonLions.org or by calling Membership Chairman, Jim Ellingson at 630-665-9471.  Prospective members are invited to attend our weekly luncheon meetings held on Tuesdays at Noon to 1:00PM in the Masonic Building, 120 W. Wesley, Wheaton, IL 60187.

Central DuPage Hospital Vascular Surgeon Volunteers to Treat Soldiers Injured in Iraq

Dr. Joseph R. Schneider of the Vascular and Interventional Program of Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) in Winfield, Ill. has volunteered to serve in the surgery rotation of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. This medical center is where many of the soldiers injured in Iraq are treated.

Dr. Schneider will volunteer October 18 – November 2, 2008. He joins 32 other members of the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) in relieving the limited number of vascular surgeons in the military who are filling positions in military hospitals in the United States and abroad.

“We are lucky to have hundreds of physicians who go above and beyond at CDH,” says CDH Medical Staff President John Born, MD. “Dr. Schneider embodies this spirit to go the extra mile that our patients, and our servicemen and women need and deserve.”

“Our members understand how important expert surgeons are to the military in saving the lives and limbs of these young military heroes,” said K. Wayne Johnston, SVS immediate past president. “We were contacted by SVS member Col. David Gillespie, the vascular surgery consultant from the Office of the U.S. Army Surgeon General and a professor of surgery at Walter Reed Medical Center, and our members quickly responded to the call. I am proud to represent a specialty that unselfishly contributes where they are needed.”

Injuries incurred in the Iraq war are unique in that they include blast injuries from IEDs (improvised explosive devise) and high-velocity injuries from crashes. Vascular surgeons repair the damaged arteries and veins by using both minimally invasive and open surgical techniques.

About the Society for Vascular Surgery
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) is a not-for-profit association that seeks to advance excellence and innovation in vascular health through education, advocacy, research and public awareness. SVS is the national advocate for 2,600 vascular surgeons dedicated to the prevention and cure of vascular disease. Visit the Web site at www.VascularWeb.org.

Click the link below to view the Wheaton Chamber of Commerce’s November/December 2008 Advantage Newsletter.

November/December 2008 Advantage Newsletter

The Deicke Center for Visual Rehabilitation is changing its name.  As a special friend of our organization, we cordially invite you to join us for a brief ceremony and open house celebration when we will reveal our new name, new look and expanded scope of programs supporting the cause of low vision.

Date:  Thursday, October 23, 2008
Time:  4:00 p.m. Name Unveiling Ceremony
           4:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Open House
Location:  219 E. Cole Ave., Wheaton

Our open house provides an opportunity for you to meet our staff and patients and will feature demonstrations of the latest adaptive technology for individuals with vision loss.

We look forward to sharing information with you about what led to our name change and why we selected the name we did. I can assure you the name we chose is as unique as the low vision programs and services we offer.

For more information, contact Tracy Williams at 630-690-7115.

The Theosophical Society in America and The Henry S. Olcott Memorial Library, located in Wheaton, Illinois, received a $25,000 grant awarded by the Illinois State Library (ISL), a Department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). The grant requires matching funds and will enable theosophical material to be more accessible nationwide with full and updated bibliographic records.  In addition to increased sharing of resources, the Olcott Library will benefit by migrating its server to the DuPage Library System’s care and maintenance through the MAGIC (Multi-type Automation Group in Cooperation) consortium.

For more information, contact Ruthann Fowler, Public Program & Outreach Coordinator, at 630-668-1571, ext.331 or www.theosophical.org.