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Pittsford residents awarded by Rochester School for the Deaf - Brighton, NY - Brighton-Pittsford Post
Pittsford residents Lowell Patric and Dr. Thomas Pearson received achievement honors from the Rochester School for the Deaf at a special awards presentation on Oct. 12.
Patric won the 2011 Perkins Founders Award for individuals who have provided outstanding service to Rochester School for the Deaf as a benefactor, volunteer, Board member, or community leader.
The award is named in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Gilman H. Perkins, whose loving concern for their deaf daughter Carolyn, led to the formal establishment of RSD in 1876.
For 23 years, Patric has been a part of the leadership on RSD's Board of Directors, including two years as president, a member of the Finance Committee, Past Chair of the Finance Committee and Treasurer.
He is the founder and current Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Karma Culture, a startup company that manufactures and distributes a vitamin and additive enriched wellness water.
Pearson, meanwhile, received the 2011 Lyon Founders Award for his "professional contribution to the education of students who are deaf and hard of hearing."
The award is named for Mr. Edmund Lyon, a friend of the Perkins family, who played a key role in establishing RSD as a premier center for education of deaf and hard of hearing children and their families.
Pearson has been a Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry since 1997, and Director of the Rochester Prevention Research Center since 2005.
As Director of NCDHR, Pearson emphasized the need for a bilingual faculty and staff, the hiring of American Sign Language-fluent deaf and hearing colleagues, the creation of opportunities for summer internships for deaf students, the inclusion of deaf community members at all levels of the research process, and the completion of the world's first health survey of deaf persons.
Pittsford residents Lowell Patric and Dr. Thomas Pearson received achievement honors from the Rochester School for the Deaf at a special awards presentation on Oct. 12.
Patric won the 2011 Perkins Founders Award for individuals who have provided outstanding service to Rochester School for the Deaf as a benefactor, volunteer, Board member, or community leader.
The award is named in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Gilman H. Perkins, whose loving concern for their deaf daughter Carolyn, led to the formal establishment of RSD in 1876.
For 23 years, Patric has been a part of the leadership on RSD's Board of Directors, including two years as president, a member of the Finance Committee, Past Chair of the Finance Committee and Treasurer.
He is the founder and current Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Karma Culture, a startup company that manufactures and distributes a vitamin and additive enriched wellness water.
Pearson, meanwhile, received the 2011 Lyon Founders Award for his "professional contribution to the education of students who are deaf and hard of hearing."
The award is named for Mr. Edmund Lyon, a friend of the Perkins family, who played a key role in establishing RSD as a premier center for education of deaf and hard of hearing children and their families.
Pearson has been a Professor of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry since 1997, and Director of the Rochester Prevention Research Center since 2005.
As Director of NCDHR, Pearson emphasized the need for a bilingual faculty and staff, the hiring of American Sign Language-fluent deaf and hearing colleagues, the creation of opportunities for summer internships for deaf students, the inclusion of deaf community members at all levels of the research process, and the completion of the world's first health survey of deaf persons.