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July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011
grants & transfers:
1%
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6/30/11
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campaign. They have also been generous donors to public media, museums
and have served on the Board of the United Way Washington County East and
its Pillars Club and David has been on the Board of Directors of the St. Croix
Valley Foundation since 2006.
Perhaps what David is best known for in the Valley is his medical
volunteerism, which started in 1994 when he spent a month in Bhutan with
his physician’s assistant. In 1995 he went to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where
he cared for casualties caused by the war, usually victims of land mines and
gunshot wounds, perpetrated by the Taliban. In 1996 he went to Tanzania
for the first time, to help Stillwater native Dr. Mark Jacobson at the Selian
Lutheran Hospital in Arusha, Tanzania. Since then David has remarked
how greatly the clinic and hospital have grown and improved over the years,
especially in technology and training in the areas of arthroscopy and total knee
replacement. David travels to Arusha each year in January or February for
two to three weeks. Each time, he and his physician’s assistant, Russ McGill,
take in as many supplies as they can physically carry.
In about 1996, David and Marilyn established a medical scholarship at the
St. Paul Foundation with David’s elderly aunt, Laura Rathert, who wanted to
leave a legacy in her home state. Two students each year from Stillwater are
chosen to receive the scholarship because David and Marilyn know
first-hand how difficult it is to pay for medical school. In 2011 they moved
the scholarship to the St. Croix Valley Foundation so that the fund would be
closer to home.
David has received many honors for his leadership, including an award for
being Volunteer of the Year from the Minnesota Orthopaedic Society, where
he served as president in 1995. But David and Marilyn believe it’s important
to walk the talk, and have always stepped up to the task, whether it’s helping
with the Stillwater Library capital campaign, serving as members of the
United Way’s Pillars Club, or helping to fund the new Heritage Initiative at the
St. Croix Valley Foundation. They have both given time and treasure to their
community, and much wisdom to the organizations they care about. u
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