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The Beginning Never Ends

By Terry DeVassie, 2013 Chairman, The Ohio Masonic Home Foundation Board of Trustees Ever since the vision of a place to care for aging fellow Master Masons, their wives, widows and orphans, The Ohio Masonic Home has been working diligently through the strong leadership of those that could see more than that which was right in front of them. Since 1890 to this very day, leaders have continued to take carefully planned steps to create an entity unique to any other facility in Ohio. The Ohio Masonic Home and the Ohio Masonic Home Foundation are working hand in hand to continue to look beyond today for greater avenues of care, which you are seeing being transformed right before your eyes. With the new “Aspired Living” philosophy, just recently launched, we are moving in a direction of care for our residents in addition to the traditional methods successfully used over the years but to allow The Ohio Masonic Home to engage in the ability to allow those we care for to rise to a greater level of quality of living. Instead of just taking care of those that need our love and care and telling what to do we are now creating opportunities to create a desire of things to achieve that before were not thought possible. This new philosophy embraces the concept that aging is a part of living and through the many diverse charitable entities we support at The Home and through the fund raising efforts of the Foundation we can create a level of doing through an attitude that, “I Aspire to do that which I thought not possible for me to do until now”. For example, we all like recreation, whatever that may be to each of us, so…Aspire to have fun doing that which one likes to do the most. God’s gift to us each day is a brand new 24 hours. Our new philosophy is to provide those opportunities to “Aspire” to do those things that fill that special gift each and every day, whatever that might take to accomplish. The Ohio Masonic Home Foundation is responsible for providing the opportunity for Masons and non-Masons alike across this state we call Ohio to support our efforts of caring for those on our campuses, as well as those that “Aspire” to continue to live in their homes to age gracefully through the efforts of the I-Care program. The charitable causes that the Foundation directly supports, in addition to the I-Care program are; Memory Care, Resident Care and Masonic Financial Assistance Care in addition to the Foundation’s College Scholarship program. The multi faceted tasks of the Foundation is to respond in providing the funds, and a very close and clear vision of the use of those funds, by way of the financial contributions our supporters of The Ohio Masonic Home have made, so that they realize that we are and will continue to be, good stewards of their gracious and unselfish gifts. We, the Trustees of The Ohio Masonic Home Foundation, “Aspire” to see these great visions we are embarking upon to continue and that these efforts will provide the foundation for even a greater vision of addressing the needs of those we care for today and those that will seek the love, care and compassion of The Ohio Masonic Home in the future. This is just the beginning and may it never end.

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