Page 5 - LGS Today Newsletter Fall 2021

Honoring Donors and Their Families
Helping to restore sight is an amazing legacy for any person to leave.
Each year, Lions Gift of Sight hosts a program to commemorate the legacy that is eye donation. We honor donors who have given sight by contributing to the knowledge of research scientists studying diseases like macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and glaucoma. We honor donors who have
given sight by adding to the knowledge and skills of the next generation of eye doctors. And we honor
donors who have given sight to a specific
person through a corneal transplant. Collectively, these donors have helped countless individuals to see.
On May 23 we held a virtual recognition event paying tribute to donors from 2019 and 2020. The program featured a University of Minnesota doctor and a research scientist, a story and thank you from a corneal recipient, and, most precious of all, a slide show of donor pictures.
Please visit our website for a link to this beautiful program:
https://LionsGiftofSght.umn.edu/Recognition-Program.
The above photos represent but a small sampling of the memorable pictures sent to us by the families and friends of donors from the years 2019 and 2020. To see many more, view our Recognition Program using the link above.
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Directors Association con- vention in August. They heard from many funer- al directors who proudly shared stories of their time as enucleators, each know- ing precisely how many gifts of sight they had re- covered. Patty and Giselle (remotely) presented a one-hour education ses- sion following a touching Service of Remembrance, which LGS was pleased to sponsor. Honored were Minnesota funeral direc- tors who have passed away in the past two years.
It takes a village to restore sight and advance ophthal- mology through eye do- nation. Funeral directors, many of whom are Lions, are invaluable members of that village. We thank them for their service.