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<div class="">Thank you, Sean. </div>
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<div class="">Here is the link to the CaringBridge site. </div>
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<div class="">Please feel free to post memories and words of encouragement and appreciation for Ron. Photos would be greatly appreciated as well. If you post photos on the site OR send them via snail mail, please make sure to label them with information about
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<div class="">There is also a link to a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/assist-rons-with-medical-expenses" class=""><b class="">fundraising page</b></a> on the CaringBridge site. Assistance with medical expenses would be very helpful to Ron and his family.</div>
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<div class="">All the best,</div>
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<div class="">On behalf of the Executive Council at ATHEN, I am are saddened to inform our community about the health of one of our longtime members and leaders in the field of access technology.<br class="">
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<div class="">Ron Stewart, one of the founding members of ATHEN (Access Technology in Higher Education Network), a member of the Executive Board at AHEAD (Association on Higher Education and Disability), and a life-long advocate for accessibility, has recently
gone into hospice care with significant health complications.</div>
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<div class="">Should you decide to call or visit, please know that he is slipping in and out of awareness and may not remember all details. Any cards, letters, photos, or flowers would be welcome at the care facility (please make sure to label photos). Your
voice, your presence, your thoughts and messages of love and support will all be welcome.</div>
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<div class="">Melanie Thornton and Wink Harner will be setting up a Caring Bridge page to help Ron’s family with funeral and legal costs. Contributions above actual costs will be directed to create a scholarship in Ron’s name. Details will follow with links
to the Caring Bridge page as soon as possible.</div>
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<div class="">Please note that Ron no longer has a cell phone. You may use the care facility phone line to reach him. Here is his contact information:</div>
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<div class="">Ron Stewart</div>
<div class="">c/o Jefferson Lodge</div>
<div class="">664 SE Jefferson Street</div>
<div class="">Dallas OR 97338</div>
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<div class="">Phone: 503-623-8104</div>
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<div class="">Thank you for the support, encouragement, and love you can send his way.</div>
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<div class="">Yours truly,</div>
<div class="">Sean Keegan and ATHEN Executive Council</div>
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<div class="">For more information, contact:</div>
<div class="">Wink Harner</div>
<div class="">Adaptive Technology Consulting & Training</div>
<div class="">Alternative Text & Media Production</div>
<div class="">The Foreign Type</div>
<div class="">Cell: 480-984-0034</div>
<div class=""><a href="mailto:foreigntype@gmail.com" class="">foreigntype@gmail.com</a></div>
<div class=""><a href="mailto:winkharner1113@gmail.com" class="">winkharner1113@gmail.com</a></div>
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