This document summarizes Direct Relief's activities in fiscal year 2010. It provided $243 million in medical aid, including testing millions of women for HIV, providing medicines for the uninsured in the US, and assisting with emergencies domestically and internationally. The top three emergency responses were the Haiti earthquake ($54 million), Pakistan flooding ($1.7 million), and the Chile earthquake ($630,000). It also discusses initiatives to increase healthcare access, ensure safe childbirth, provide HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, and strengthen the US safety net.
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I have a Dream that Testers extend their horizon and toolsets and not only test for functional correctness but make a step towards what developers need in order to fix critical issues. I am talking about architectural, scalability and performance metrics such as # of JS Files on a page, Page Size, # of SQL Statements, # of Log Messages Written.
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Obesità e stress ossidativo: una relazione pericolosa. CreAgri Europe
Una quantità eccessiva di grasso corporeo è responsabile dell'aumento della produzione di radicali liberi. Negli individui sovrappeso e in particolare negli obesi, la costante sovrapproduzione di radicali si trasforma in stress ossidativo, responsabile di un invecchiamento precoce di tutti i tessuti, esponendo l'organismo in a maggiori rischi di sviluppare malattie cardiovascolari e fenomeni infiammatori estesi.
Direct Relief’s annual report on Fiscal Year 2014: During this period—July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014—Direct Relief responded to more requests for assistance, fulfilled its humanitarian mission more expansively, and provided more assistance to more people in need than ever before in the organization’s 66-year history.
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Obesità e stress ossidativo: una relazione pericolosa. CreAgri Europe
Una quantità eccessiva di grasso corporeo è responsabile dell'aumento della produzione di radicali liberi. Negli individui sovrappeso e in particolare negli obesi, la costante sovrapproduzione di radicali si trasforma in stress ossidativo, responsabile di un invecchiamento precoce di tutti i tessuti, esponendo l'organismo in a maggiori rischi di sviluppare malattie cardiovascolari e fenomeni infiammatori estesi.
Direct Relief’s annual report on Fiscal Year 2014: During this period—July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2014—Direct Relief responded to more requests for assistance, fulfilled its humanitarian mission more expansively, and provided more assistance to more people in need than ever before in the organization’s 66-year history.
Nonprofit community health centers and clinics that provide preventive and primary healthcare services for 24 million people – or one in 13 persons in the U.S. – report that the first year of the Affordable Care Act’s implementation had uneven effects, particularly between facilities in Medicaid expansion and non-expansion states.
The findings were released today by Direct Relief in The State of the Safety Net 2014, an annual report that examines issues and trends within the extensive network of nonprofit, community-based health centers and clinics, which are the principal point of access to healthcare and the medical home for persons with low incomes, without health insurance, and among the country’s most vulnerable. Such facilities include Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), nonprofit community-based health clinics, and free and charitable clinics.
Key Findings – 2012 State of the Safety NetDirect Relief
A quick glance at the most striking facts and information found within the 2012 State of the Safety Net report.
For more information visit http://www.directrelief.org/usa/state-of-the-safety-net/
Child and Maternal Health in Kenya 2011 ReportDirect Relief
This report evaluates access to maternal and child healthcare and health outcomes in Kenya using geographic information systems (GIS), statistical analysis, and a comprehensive review of existing literature.
It seeks to aid in identifying distributions of health facilities and services relative to key maternal and child health indicators (e.g., safe delivery, care and treatment of birth injuries, antenatal and postnatal care, immunization, and nutrition).
It also seeks to contribute a portfolio of geospatial maps for identifying, analyzing, and monitoring health needs in one of the world’s poorest, most densely populated, and most vulnerable regions. In addition to identifying and analyzing information currently available, the report highlights limitations of both Kenya’s existing data sets and overreliance on distance as a measure of “access” and “use.”
This report responds to a request from Direct Relief International (DRI) to identify healthcare access and health outcomes in Kenya as part of its multi-organizational collaborative project to enhance health services in an integrated and efficient manner.
Along with the African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF), Marie Stopes International (MSI), and district-level health ministries in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, DRI is attempting to determine critical gaps in health infrastructure.
These simplified slides by Dr. Sidra Arshad present an overview of the non-respiratory functions of the respiratory tract.
Learning objectives:
1. Enlist the non-respiratory functions of the respiratory tract
2. Briefly explain how these functions are carried out
3. Discuss the significance of dead space
4. Differentiate between minute ventilation and alveolar ventilation
5. Describe the cough and sneeze reflexes
Study Resources:
1. Chapter 39, Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 14th edition
2. Chapter 34, Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, 26th edition
3. Chapter 17, Human Physiology by Lauralee Sherwood, 9th edition
4. Non-respiratory functions of the lungs https://academic.oup.com/bjaed/article/13/3/98/278874
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Estas diretrizes visam melhorar a qualidade dos cuidados pós-natais essenciais e de rotina prestados às mulheres e aos recém-nascidos, com o objetivo final de melhorar a saúde e o bem-estar materno e neonatal.
Uma “experiência pós-natal positiva” é um resultado importante para todas as mulheres que dão à luz e para os seus recém-nascidos, estabelecendo as bases para a melhoria da saúde e do bem-estar a curto e longo prazo. Uma experiência pós-natal positiva é definida como aquela em que as mulheres, pessoas que gestam, os recém-nascidos, os casais, os pais, os cuidadores e as famílias recebem informação consistente, garantia e apoio de profissionais de saúde motivados; e onde um sistema de saúde flexível e com recursos reconheça as necessidades das mulheres e dos bebês e respeite o seu contexto cultural.
Estas diretrizes consolidadas apresentam algumas recomendações novas e já bem fundamentadas sobre cuidados pós-natais de rotina para mulheres e neonatos que recebem cuidados no pós-parto em unidades de saúde ou na comunidade, independentemente dos recursos disponíveis.
É fornecido um conjunto abrangente de recomendações para cuidados durante o período puerperal, com ênfase nos cuidados essenciais que todas as mulheres e recém-nascidos devem receber, e com a devida atenção à qualidade dos cuidados; isto é, a entrega e a experiência do cuidado recebido. Estas diretrizes atualizam e ampliam as recomendações da OMS de 2014 sobre cuidados pós-natais da mãe e do recém-nascido e complementam as atuais diretrizes da OMS sobre a gestão de complicações pós-natais.
O estabelecimento da amamentação e o manejo das principais intercorrências é contemplada.
Recomendamos muito.
Vamos discutir essas recomendações no nosso curso de pós-graduação em Aleitamento no Instituto Ciclos.
Esta publicação só está disponível em inglês até o momento.
Prof. Marcus Renato de Carvalho
www.agostodourado.com
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2. LISTS
DIRECT RELIEF PROVIDED MORE HELP
TO MORE PEOPLE THAN EVER BEFORE
IN FISCAL YEAR 2010—$243 MILLION IN
MEDICAL AID. Testing millions of women
for HIV. Providing medicines for uninsured people in the U.S. Helping people in
emergencies here at home and around the world. Challenges. Emergencies.
Partnerships to help. Here's this year's top lists for each.
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LINDSEY POLLACZEK
1. RAPID HIV TESTING OF PREGNANT
WOMEN Every 48 seconds, a child is infected
with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. It is essential
HIGH-IMPACT to focus resources on where this infectious disease
exists to save those who have contracted it and
PARTNERSHIPS can transmit it and those who are most likely
to contract it. Deciding who to treat requires
CHALLENGING
knowing who is sick. Rapid test kits are donated by
Abbott—16 million tests to prevention programs
throughout the developing world since 2002—
HIV/AIDS and distributed by Direct Relief to 69 developing
countries eligible for the program.
2. ANTIRETROVIRALS FOR HEALTHY LIFE
According to a 2008 UNAIDS report, an
estimated 33.2 million people are living with
HIV/AIDS. Africa has been the hardest hit by the
HIV/AIDS pandemic, as the continent is home to
68 percent of those infected. Antiretroviral drugs
(ARVs), which significantly delay the progression of
HIV to AIDS and allow people infected with HIV to
live relatively normal, healthy lives, are available on
LINDSEY POLLACZEK
average to only 44 percent of those who require
the drugs. Direct Relief partnered with the
OGRA Foundation in Kenya and the Ministry
of Health and Child Welfare in Zimbabwe to
distribute ARVs to more than 6,000 HIV-infected
people annually.
3. FIGHTING OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION
OUR MISSION IS TO IMPROVE THE
Cryptococcal meningitis and other serious
fungal infections are frequent complications in
patients infected with HIV. Through the Diflucan®
HEALTH AND LIVES OF PEOPLE AFFECTED Partnership Program, Pfizer's antifungal medicine
BY POVERTY, DISASTER, AND CIVIL UNREST. is made available by Direct Relief—$74.1 million
in distributed Diflucan this year—to governments
and nongovernmental organizations in developing
countries free of charge for the treatment of
opportunistic infections associated with HIV/AIDS.
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3. DIRECT RELIEF’S Our Top 12 Corporate
Supporters for Haiti
TOP 3 EMERGENCY in alphabetical order
Abbott
RESPONSES IN Amgen Foundation
Baxter International
2010—$56.3 BD
Covidien
Eli Lilly & Company
MILLION IN TOTAL FedEx
GlaxoSmithKline
ASSISTANCE Johnson & Johnson
Family of Companies
Merck & Co., Inc.
P&G
1. HAITI EARTHQUAKE Teva Pharmaceuticals
$54 MILLION For the full list of generous
companies, see page 7.
2. PAKISTAN FLOODING
$1.7 MILLION
3. CHILE EARTHQUAKE
$630,000 HAITI WHAT THE BIGGEST
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RESPONSE IN OUR 62-YEAR
HISTORY LOOKS LIKE
➔ $54 miLLion in mediCaL assistanCe
to 53 haitian heaLthCare providers
➔ $2 miLLion in Cash to rehaBiLitation
proGrams For the disaBLed
➔ $500,000 to FUnd smaLL, Grassroots
INTERACT WITH THE ASSISTANCE MAP AT haitian nonproFits that are heLpinG their
DirectRelief.org CommUnities reCover
“[The support] could not have come
at a better time. We visited IDP camps
yesterday, and the conditions here are
dire. This is a life-saving donation,
believe me.”
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>>>$1 million in support for Pakistan
– Jill McGrath Jones, ARC Pakistan Program Director
Our Top 12 Corporate
PAKISTAN FLOODING Supporters for Pakistan
in alphabetical order
To support ongoing relief efforts in Pakistan after record flooding that killed more than 1,600 people 3M
and affected 20 million others there, Direct Relief has provided $2.6 million in emergency medical aid Abbott
Alcon Laboratories, Inc.
to several long-time partners in Pakistan. This support includes three in-country shipments from Abbott
Allergan, Inc. & The Allergan Foundation
Laboratories in Pakistan to the American Refugee Committee (ARC) and Marie Stopes Society-Pakistan— Baxter International
quickly delivering specifically requested antibiotics, anti-infectives, anti-inflammatory drugs, and nutritional Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation
products to the patients who need them. Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation
Covidien
Partners in Pakistan report that several areas are still underwater after late summer drenching rains
Eli Lilly & Company Foundation
and flooding, and skin and chest infections are increasing. ARC is operating a total of 23 health facilities Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies
and four mobile teams throughout Pakistan. The healthcare teams are providing a range of crucial services, Merck & Co., Inc.
including maternal and child healthcare, malaria treatment, and psychological support for trauma survivors. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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4. STRENGTHENING
THE SAFETY NET FOR
20 MILLION PATIENTS $200 MIL
MEDICIN
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Direct Relief USA is the only nonprofit licensed to SINCE 2
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distribute pharmaceuticals in all 50 states, bolstering the
medical resources of 1,100 clinics nationwide so they
can care for the ever-growing number of uninsured
MARGARET MALLOY
and underserved people.
HOW DIRECT Working with county Medical
RELIEF IS Reserve Corps (MRC) and FedEx,
Direct Relief equips medical reservists here
READYING YOUR at home with custom “grab and go”
emergency preparedness backpacks.
COMMUNITY FOR
EMERGENCIES
PUERTO RICO
Direct Relief USA plays an integral part in California’s Standardized
1. HURRICANE PREP PACKS Emergency Management System through partnership with the California
Emergency Management Agency (Cal EMA). This allows us to further
2. EQUIPPING COUNTY represent clinics, health centers, and public health officials by anticipating
MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS and addressing their material resource needs during an emergency.
At the request of Cal EMA—due to our expertise in medical product
3. PUBLIC EMERGENCY
distribution and our relationships with the country's leading pharmaceutical
AGENCY PARTNERSHIPS and medical manufacturers—Direct Relief leads the distribution of donated
medical resources to front-line providers during an emergency for the
Business and Utility Operations Center (BUOC). The BUOC engages private
PREP PACKS provided to 30 industry during emergencies, and includes representatives from Target,
clinics in five states CONTAIN MEDICAL Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowes, the California Utilities Emergency
ITEMS TO TREAT 100 PATIENTS FOR Association, San Francisco Helicopters, the California Resiliency Alliance,
3-5 DAYS and the California Grocers Association.
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5. ADDRESSING
KEY HEALTH
1. ASTHMA
CHALLENGES 2. DIABETES
3. HYPERTENSION
AT U.S. SAFETY 4. CARDIOVASCULAR
NET CLINICS 5. VACCINATIONS/FLU
PROTECTING
THE UNINSURED
FROM FLU
This year, the CDC recommends everyone six months of
age and older get a flu shot. That’s why DIRECT RELIEF
HAS TEAMED WITH CVS TO PROVIDE 166,000 FLU
VACCINE VOUCHERS WORTH $5 MILLION TO SAFETY
NET CLINICS THROUGHOUT THE NATION WHERE
CVS OPERATES RETAIL PHARMACIES. We’re helping
360 clinics located in 38 states and Washington D.C.
provide free flu shot vouchers to their uninsured patients.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CVS VOUCHER
PROGRAM AT DIRECTRELIEF.ORG/USA
HAWAII
16.7%
Percentage of
population that
is uninsured
2010 U.S. 15%
13.7%
14.3%
CENSUS Percentage of
people living in
50.7 million poverty
11.3%
americans are
uninsured—up WORKING
from 46.3 million
10%
‘01 ‘02 ‘03 ‘04 ‘05 ‘06 ‘07 ‘08 ‘09 IN 72
in 2009 COUNTRIES
INCLUDING THE U.S.
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6. 5
Volunteers assemble Personal
Care Packs in Direct Relief’s
Santa Barbara warehouse.
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THINGS YOU CAN DO
DONATE @ DIRECTRELIEF.ORG
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will send a tribute card
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4. FUNDRAISE ERS
this holiday season.
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YOUTH FOR
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Youth for Direct Relief fields chapters at ten Santa Barbara County
schools. These students have raised over $97,000 for Direct Relief
YOU CAN DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT!
If your employer has a matching gift program, you can
since 2007, largely through their annual Flowers for Relief bouquet
double or even triple the impact of your gift. Many
delivery service that benefits Direct Relief with 100 percent of its
companies sponsor matching gift programs and will match
proceeds.
the charitable contributions of their employees. Here’s how
At the Association of Fundraising
it works: contact your Human Resources department to
Professionals National Philanthropy Day
determine if your gift is eligible for a match. Then, request
Luncheon, former Youth for Direct Relief
a matching gift form from your employer and send it
President Katy Villanueva was honored
completed and signed with your gift to Direct Relief. If you
for Youth in Philanthropy for her work
make your gift online, simply request the form from your
helping to raise awareness and funds for
employer and mail it to us. We will take care of the rest.
Direct Relief.
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7. A CHAMPION OF
WOMEN AND GIRLS
In Somaliland, as in many developing countries, pregnancy is a high-risk
health condition and delivery can be life-threatening to both mother and
child. To help women and their babies survive childbirth in her country,
Edna Adan Ismail founded a hospital in 2002 with her own funds that
serves as a center for care and training.
Direct Relief has supported the Edna Adan University Hospital since
2005 with more than $1 million in medicines and supplies, and joined with
the Fistula Foundation to build a surgical block at the hospital with three
new operating theaters that have just opened. These facilities will vastly
increase women’s access to needed surgeries and interventions when
complications arise during delivery.
Among her many
accomplishments, Ismail was the first
EDNA
girl in her country to read, the first
nurse-midwife, and the former First
Lady. She also is a deeply committed
MATT MACALLA
advocate for abolishing the practice
ADAN
LINDSEY POLLACZEK
of female genital mutilation, which
disfigures girls at a very young age.
This dynamic woman was featured DIRECTRELIEF.ORG
in Half the Sky, by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl
ISMAIL
WuDunn, for her groundbreaking work in championing the rights and
health of women and girls in Somaliland and throughout the Horn of Africa.
Never one to think small, Ismail plans to train 1,000 new midwives
which would vastly improve the chances that a woman in Somaliland
would have trained support present when it came time to deliver her
baby. This, ultimately, would save lives.
To give women and their babies the best chance to thrive, Direct
MIDWIVES
Relief supports training and equipping midwives through programs in 16 SAVE
countries around the world, and stands behind extraordinary people
like Edna Adan Ismail. FAMILIES
During childbirth, many
women around the world
SHOP FOR rely on midwives to help
HOLIDAY them deliver, because
GIFTS health facilities are too
expensive or too far
EARLY— away. When properly
CHECK trained, midwives make
OUT OUR the difference between
ONLINE GIFT a safe delivery and a
compromised situation.
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Direct Relief supports
DRI.CONVIO.NET/ programs in 16 countries
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WHETHER THROUGH TRANSPORTATION Belmora LLC GlaxoSmithKline Midmark Corporation
CASH OR MATERIAL FedEx Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation Golden State Medical Supply, Inc. Miltex
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Henry Shein Omron Healthcare
SUPPORT, DIRECT RELIEF TRAVEL GEAR Calmoseptine, Inc. Hospira, Inc. Orthofix Spinal Implants
IS GRATEFUL FOR THE Magellan's
Carlsbad Technology, Inc. J. Jamner Surgical Instruments, Inc Nisim International
GENEROUS SUPPORT OF MEDICAL MANUFACTURERS Cera Products, Inc. Johnson & Johnson Nourish America
Abbott Chattem Inc. Life Uniform Company Pfizer Consumer Healthcare
THESE COMPANIES Alcon Codman & Shurtleff Marlex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Sage Products
BENEFITING Allergan, Inc.
Amgen Foundation
Covidien
C. R. Bard, Inc.
McKesson Medical-Surgical
McNeil Consumer &
Schering Plough Corporation
Sunstar Americas, Inc.
PEOPLE IN HAITI: Ansell Healthcare Eli Lilly & Company Specialty Pharmaceuticals. 3M
Baxter Ethicon, Inc. Merck & Company, Inc. Wisconsin Pharmacal
BD FirstLine Gloves, Inc. Microflex Zym Drink Tabs
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8. Leave a Legacy
Leave a Legacy
A bequest or planned gift to Direct Relief can extend your generosity beyond your lifetime. Your commitment and
dedication will help people in the U.S. and around the world affected by poverty, disaster, and civil unrest live better,
healthier lives far into the future. With such a gift, you will be included in the Legacy Society, which recognizes visionary
and caring individuals who have included Direct Relief in their estate plans.
For more information on planned giving, visit http://www.legacy.vg/directrelief/giving/1.html, or contact Jill Muchow Rode, CFRE,
Director of Development, at jrode@DirectRelief.org or (805) 964-4767 x181.
Legacy Society Members
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Adams Ms. Patricia Clancy Mr. Joe Hughes Ms. Audrey E. Martinson Mrs. Nancy B. Schlosser /
Ms. Jane H. Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Ted Ewing Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Bruce McBroom Nancy B. & C. William Schlosser
Family Foundation
Dr. and Mrs. Gilbert L. Ashor Gary and Peggy Finefrock Ms. Beverly A. Jones Mr. Michael Mendelson
June H. Schuerch*
Mrs. Miriam Bailey Mrs. June Breton Fisher Mrs. Marvel Kirby Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Miles
Ms. Connie J. Smith
Mr. Merle E. Betz, Jr. Ms. Sandra Garcia Mr. J. Michael Koelsch Patricia M. Mitchell
Mrs. Fred Smithcors
Mr. Joseph F. Bleckel Kate and Dick Godfrey Dorothy Largay and Jo Anne and Donald E. Petersen
Wayne Rosing Mr. and Mrs. Donn Tognazzini
Mr. Don Bullick Mrs. Raye Haskell / Mr. Juan Posada
The Haskell Fund Mr. Kenneth Loh Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence B. Wallin
Mr. William S. Burtness Richard and Maryan Schall
Ms. Carol Carson Stan and Betty Hatch Frank* and Marilyn Magid
* deceased
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CHAIR Dorothy F. Largay, Ph.D.
VICE CHAIR Thomas J. Cusack
SECRETARY Patrick Enthoven
TREASURER James H. Selbert
Frederick Beckett • Jon E. Clark • Lawrence Dam • Patty DeDominic
Gary Finefrock • Paul Flynn • Dorothy Gardner • Raye Haskell
W. Scott Hedrick • Priscilla Higgins, Ph.D. • Angel Iscovich, M.D.
Ellen K. Johnson • Donald J. Lewis • Robert A. McLalan • Mari Mitchel
Rita Moya • John Romo • Mary Louise Scully, M.D.
Ayesha Shaikh, M.D. • George Short • Gary R. Tobey
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD
Lawrence R. Glenn • E. Carmack Holmes, M.D.
S. Roger Horchow • Stanley S. Hubbard • Jon B. Lovelace
Donald E. Petersen • Richard L. Schall • John W. Sweetland
PRESIDENT & CEO Thomas Tighe
HONORARY BOARD
PRESIDENT EMERITUS Sylvia Karczag
Chair EMERITUS Jean Hay
DIRECTOR EMERITUS Dorothy Adams
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