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CRSI Board Member Rosemary Saunders Featured in ABLE Magazine

5/4/2022

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Long-time CRSI Board Member Rosemary Saunders was recently featured in the Spring issue of ABLE Magazine. Saunders has been a dedicated CRSI board member and wonderful supporter of the individuals we serve since 1996.

View Saunders' full interview below, or click here to view the full issue of Riverside Miami County Board of Developmental Disabilities' Spring 2022 issue of ABLE Magazine.
Rosemary Saunders Interview in ABLE Magazine
Rosemary Saunders Interview in ABLE Magazine
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2020 BBCO Golf Tournament Replaced with Day of Giving on Aug. 19th

7/1/2020

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To our valued supporters:
 
Nearly four decades ago, Bill Butler’s vision to support individuals with disabilities led to the first Annual Bill Butler Champaign Open. With your overwhelming dedication to our mission, we’ve raised over a half-million dollars to support the individuals we serve with basic necessities not covered under current funding and without you that wouldn't be possible!

After much deliberation, we have decided that we cannot continue with the Bill Butler Champaign Open as planned on August 19, 2020. The needs and safety of people are the foundations on which we have built our mission and core values around, and in this unprecedented time, we feel it best to honor those we serve.
​Instead, we will be hosting a Day of Giving on the same date (Aug. 19th). Our goal has not changed, and with your help, we know we can continue to make this day a success and ensure the needs of those we serve are met.
 
Please consider joining us in this mission! This is an unprecedented opportunity to continue moving forward during these unprecedented times with a unique way to give back.
 
We thank you for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you in 2021 for the next Bill Butler Champaign Open.
 
Be safe and be well!!
 
Sincerely,
 
CRSI Management
CRSI Board of Trustees
And the BBCO Committee
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Sisters Share Sorrow & Hope as They Donate Plasma Together

6/16/2020

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Rosemary shows a cell phone picture of her son Edward Kaufman.
Rosemary Saunders donating plasma
Sisters Rosemary and Margaret donating plasma.
​DAYTON, Ohio - Rosemary Saunders worried as she grew older about her adult son Ed with Down syndrome. Who would look out for him when she was no longer around?  Then COVID-19 came and turned the world upside down. 

The coronavirus has been capricious in the way it divides families. It took Ed's life on April 3 but spared Rosemary and her sister Margaret.  Eight weeks later, on May 28 the two sisters traveled from their homes in Pleasant Hill to donate COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma (CCP) side-by-side at the Dayton Community Blood Center.

Since early April, CBC has been collecting the antibody-rich plasma from COVID-19 survivors to help patients critically ill with the virus at local hospitals and outside the region.
 
"We do what we can do," said Rosemary as she turned to Margaret, "to make a good situation out of a bad situation."
Rosemary's son Ed Kauffman was 50 years old and diabetic, "but a pretty healthy and a happy boy," she said. He loved bowling, playing in the Riverside Bell Choir, and serving on the Champaign Residential Services, Inc. board.
 
"Ed and I talked about how one of us is going to probably have to live without the other," she said. "I tried to prepare him, so he'd know how to live without me. All that talking to him, now I had to learn to live without him. It's part of life. We lose people."
 
It was in late March that Ed began to show symptoms. "He had a great team and was doing pretty good for the first five days," said Rosemary. "It was up and down, and we knew it was out there, and we wanted to be careful.
 
"It took a bad turn. By the time we got him to the ER they had to sedate him and put him on the ventilator right away." He was transferred from Upper Valley Medical Center to Miami Valley Hospital, then placed in isolation.
 
"I never got to see him," said Rosemary. "The nurses tried to help me talk to him, comfort him, to hear my voice, but that was the most that we could do."

Rosemary knew she was exposed to COVID-19, but her symptoms were mild. "I self-isolated for two weeks and didn't have a test until April 17." A day and a half later she learned she was positive.
 
Meanwhile, Rosemary's sister Margaret Brown was working at SpringMeade Healthcare Center, a nursing care facility in Tipp City. "We knew what we were getting into," she said. "I had a fever, dizziness, body aches. I stayed home and got tested on March 26."
 
She got the results on April 5, two days after her nephew's death. "I was positive. I was in isolation for two weeks."
 
She learned that fear of COVID-19 outlives the infection. "People don't want to be around you," she said.
 
She read about participating in the CCP program on the CBC website. She printed out the doctor's form and called her sister.  Soon they were scheduling their plasma donations at CBC.
 
"They said we'll get you guys down here together so you can drive together," said Margaret. "I had never donated blood." Margaret finished her donation before Rosemary, then sat with her in the Donor Café.
 
"We wanted something good to come out of this for someone," said Margaret. "Something positive."
 
CBC COVID-19 CONVALESCENT PLASMA PROGRAM
To be eligible to give CCP donors must have a diagnosis of COVID-19 through RNA testing.  Potential donors can review the CCP eligibility criteria and doctors can complete and submit the form to qualify donors at www.GivingBlood.org. 
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Edward Kauffman, 9/7/1969 - 4/3/2020

4/10/2020

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Edward Kauffman
Edward Kauffman
It is with a heavy heart that we announce the loss of our ex-officio board member, Edward Kauffman. He was a member of CRSI's board for 20 years, and his presence will be greatly missed.
 
We are sending our deepest condolences to his family and friends.
 
For information on services and to send memories to the family, please follow the link below:
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailycall/obituary.aspx?n=edward-charles-kauffman&pid=195904799
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Public Invited to Celebrate CRSI’s Retiring CEO

11/29/2019

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A celebration to honor Than Johnson, retiring from CRSI after 36 years, will be held from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10, at CRSI (building in the back), 1150 Scioto St., Urbana.

Scott DeLong, the staff and board of CRSI are hosting the reception and invite the public to join them in celebrating his career and wishing him well on his retirement.

Johnson is a life-long resident of Champaign County. The Johnson Family Maple Syrup farm still is active after over 200 years of operation.

Johnson and his wife Kathy have three sons and five grandsons. He is a graduate of Wilmington College with graduate studies at Miami University.

He started his career as a teacher and coach. His immersion into the field of developmental disabilities started in the 1970s as supervisor and houseparent of the Preble County Board of DD residential program.

In 1976 he served as one of the founders of CRSI, an honor he holds today as the last surviving trustee of the original CRSI Board of Trustees.

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CEO Honored by Clark State

2/23/2016

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Than Johnson
CEO Than Johnson is among four Clark State Board of Trustees recently designated as Trustee Emeriti. He, along with Cathy Balas, Alicia Sweet Hupp and Fred Leventhal “all served as agents of change and growth for the college during their tenures on the board,” according to a press release from Clark State. The four were honored at the school’s 54th annual Charter Night on February 16.
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