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SUPERNOVA ($10,000 or more)

 

Anonymous
The Gertrude & William A. Bernoudy Foundation
Centene Charitable Foundation
The Danforth Foundation, Inc.
Dr. William H. Danforth
The Sara & Fred Epstein Family Foundation
William H. & Margaret Wolf Freivogel
Greater Saint Louis Community Foundation
Robert R. & Mary Lee Hermann
Kenneth S. & Nancy Kranzberg
The Pershing Charitable Trust – Mary B. Langenberg,
     William L. Polk, Jr. & Carolyn Kerckhoff Polk
Missouri Foundation for Health
Roy R. Pfautch
Emily Rauh Pulitzer
Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation – Mabel L. Purkerson
Michael & Noemi Neidorff
Sage Charitable Foundation – Richard K. Weil
Rex A. & Jeanne C. Sinquefield
Jack C. Taylor
Richard K. & Josephine Weil
Virginia V. Weldon

 

 

SUN ($5,000 to $9,999)

American Public Media – Minnesota Public Radio
Van-Lear Black, III & Marion B. Black
Robert W. Duffy & Martin R. Kaplan
Julian I. & Hope R. Edison Foundation, Inc.
Robert N. Fox & Maxine K. Clark
The Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation
Charles P. & May B. Reay
Jane Smith Shapleigh
Stupp Bros. Bridge & Iron Co. Foundation –
     Robert P. & Anne C. Stupp
The Trio Foundation of Saint Louis
George H. Walker, III & Carol Walker
The Phoebe Dent Weil Charitable Fund – Phoebe Dent Weil

 

 

STARLIGHT ($2,500 to $4,999)


AT&T – Mark Stacye & Debra Hollingsworth
John H. & Penelope P. Biggs
Daniel A. & Connie H. Burkhardt
Leo & Kay Drey
Rotonda Foundation – Roxanne H. Frank
Joan Goodson
Hermann Companies, Inc.
     – Robert R. & Mary Lee Hermann – In Honor of Bob Duffy
Dorothy J. Martin
Elizabeth H. O'Herin
The Clemence Lieber Foundation
     – Steven L. & Mary Schoolman
Mary Strauss

 

 

SEARCHLIGHT ($1,000 to $2,499)


Anonymous
Stephen F. & Camilla T. Brauer
Charles & Marion Burson
William R. Bush
Martin & Marjorie B. Cohn
Katherine W. Drescher
David W. Mesker & Dorothy Haase
Jill Evans Petzall & Claude Evans
John H. & Alison N. Ferring
S. Wesley Fordyce
Fox Family Foundation – Ambassador Sam & Mrs. Marilyn Fox
Christopher E. & Patricia W. Heffern
Lotsie & Rick Holton
     – Ricky & Kristen Holton – Rob & Katie Holton
Interco Charitable Trust
Marjorie M. Ivey
Estelle W. & Karen S. Kalish Foundation – Karen S. Kalish
Lawrence P. & Cheryl Katzenstein
William A. Kerr Foundation – John H. K. Sweet & John Forti
Steven W. Lawler & Lynda A. Morrison
Mont & Karen Levy
Joseph O. & Carolyn W. Losos
Love Family Charitable Trust – Andrew & Peasy Love
The Lowenbaum Partnership, LLC – R. Michael & Lecie Lowenbaum
Charles A. & Roz Lowenhaupt
John C. & Constance McPheeters
     Alex & Jenny McPheeters
     Lizzy and Dave Rickard
     Katherine McPheeters
Anna M. Navarro & Harriet Blickenstaff
Lois N. Orchard
Pelopidas, LLC – Rachel Keller & Travis Brown
J. Joseph & Annie C. Schlafly, III
Robert G. & Tatjana Schwendinger
     – In Honor of Dick & Josephine Weil
Hugh Scott, III & Ann C. Scott
Raymond G. Slavin & Harriet Baron
Frank & Teg Stokes
Jessie L. Ternberg
Gregory J. & Pamela F. Trapp
     – In Honor of Dick Weil and in celebration of the 5th
       Anniversary of The Beacon

Tricorbraun – Kenneth S. & Nancy Kranzberg
Peter G. & Susan D. Tuteur
Benjamin & Susan Uchitelle

 

 

SPOTLIGHT ($500 to $999)


Mary Randolph Ballinger
Donald F. & Claudia L. Busiek
Dorothy M. Carpenter
Charles & Katherine Claggett
John C. & Sally D. Danforth
Arnold W. & Hazel A. Donald
Barbara Smith Eagleton
Howard Elliott, Jr. & Susan Elliott
David C. & Betty Farrell
Health Capital Consultants, LLC – Robert J. Cimasi
Michael & Sheila Humphreys - In Honor of Bob Duffy
Frank Jacobs & Marylen Mann
Robert L. Joiner, Jr. & Diane Anderson-Joiner
Melvin R. & Harriet S. Kaplan
Sung Ho Kim & Heather Rae Woofter
Daniel H. & Seena B. Kohl
Donna K. Korando - In Memory of Jim Heidenry
Ann T. Liberman
Christine Gempp Love Foundation – Christy Love
Jane S. Mackey
Susan McCollum
Richard H. Miles & Patricia D. Whitaker
Raymond W. & Cynthia S. Peters
Mabel L. Purkerson
Bruce A. & Lily T. Seymour
Glenn Johnson Sheffield
Martha Shirk – In Memory of William F. Woo
Alvin J. & Ruth L. Siteman
Stephen W. & Linda Skrainka
Thomas H. & Mary D. Stillman
Terry & Phyllis Weiss
Richard Weiss & Sally Altman - In Memory of Helen M.
     & Richard M. Weiss

 

 

FLASHLIGHT ($250 to $499)


Lisa S. van Amburg
Paul M. Arenberg
R. G. Systems – Jack G. & Anne H. Bader
Morton R. Bearman
William B. & Nancy S. Burchfield
Joe Carpenter
Central Reform Congregation – Rabbi Susan Talve
Charles & Barbara Cook
Eric S. Friedman & Miriam G. Wilhelm
Lawrence K. & Karen M. Goering
Ronald K. & Jan C. Greenberg
Endsley T. Jones & Lois H. Pierce
Donald Jones & Patricia Vogelsang
Helene B. Keller
Robert Koff & Linda Riekes
Thomas K. & Linda B. Langsdorf
Leslie J. Laskey
Cynthia Keller Maasen
John W. Mackey
Thomas C. & Georgianna A. Melzer
Sacha Millstone
Michael & Mary Morgan
Restaurant Pi (Pi Camion, LLC) – Chris Sommers
Marie Oetting
Robert C. & Sharon W. Pettus
Paul T. & Judith Z. Putzel
Patricia J. Rice
Andrew & Ivette Rothschild
Jon McCotter & Kem K. Sawyer
Robert M. Sears & Erica B. Leisenring
Stephens & Associates, Inc. – Howard V. & Kate Stephens
Susanne Franza Valdez
Stanley G. Vriezelaar
Al & Glenda Wiman
Christy N. Wise
John J. & Marian A. Wuest

 

 

LANTERN ($100 to $249)


Anonymous
Batya Abramson-Goldstein
Robert O. Appleton, Jr. & Susan Frelich Appleton
Joyce L. Armstrong
S. Thomas Alexander, III & Laura L. Rogers
Felicity Barringer – In Honor of Margie Freivogel
Philip H. & Beverly J. Barron
C. Perry Bascom & Sally C. Greenwood
Roger N. & Teresa S. Beachy
Derex I. Beard, Jr. & Donna Rogers-Beard
Barbara Bennett & Karl Wilson – In honor of Gloria Ross
Christine A. Bertelson
Robert Bliss
Bernard A. Bridgewater, Jr. & Barbara P. Bridgewater
E. Wardwell Buckner
Judith G. Ciampoli
Laura T. Cohen & Mary Ann Kroeck
Patti & J.B. Cohn - In Memory of Helen Weiss
Ryan M. & Loretta J. Colvin
J. Michael Dorsey & Carolyn J. Buck
Richard B. & Helen Sloane Dudman
Marjorie C. Eddy
Rory Ellinger & Linda Locke
Richard G. & Judith Engelsmann
Harry L. Esserman, Jr. & Joan M. Esserman
Ed Finkelstein & Rose Jonas
William M. Fogarty, Jr. & Joanne Fogarty
Gary P. & Christy B. Fox
Martin E. Galt, III & Marianne S. Galt
Brendan P. Gates & Lisa N. Roney
John & Dora R. Gianoulakis
Richard V. & Mildred F. Gilpin
Jane Goldberg
P. Wayne & Jane B. Goode
Rebecca E. Goldstein
Grace Guggenheim Productions, LLC
Sheila Greenbaum & Gary Wasserman
Esley I. Hamilton
Jeanne Hartz
Susan C. Hegger
Elizabeth Heller
Heller Studio – Julie Heller Rosenfeld
Stephen B. & Carol S. Higgins
Gregory & Jane Johnson Hoeltzel
Michael R. & Martha A. Hogan
Jessica L. Holzer
Repps B. & Stacey E. L. Hudson
Thomas C. & Judy R. Johnson
Ellen Edmondson Jones
Mary L. Gaertner
Mark K. & Margaret A.R. Holly
Robert & Nancy Klepper
Dennis R. & Margaret R. Koch
Charles P. & Anne S. Korr
Peter Jay & Catherine Krane
Frederick Kraus & Gayle Jackson
Albert & Naomi Lebowitz
Lance LeComb
Ronald M. Levin & Anne C. Goldberg
Sally S. Levy
Carl & Lynn Lyss
Lowe S. & Judith MacLean
James V. & Gay Maloney
Franklin S. & Tresa McCallie
John F. & Anne McDonnell
Michael E. & Mary G. McMurtrey
R. Dean & Sue V. Mills
Birch & Catherine Mullins
Mary Neal
Wilhelm & Ingrid Neuefeind
Scott & Nita Nordlicht
Aaron D. & Nancy J. Novack
Jim O'Bannon & Ellie Chapman
Timothy F. & Kara Graziano O'Leary
Laura Rand Orthwein
Joseph F. Ortmeyer & Michael F. Isaacson
Jeffrey H. & Judy Pass
John R. Pease
Arthur P. Perry, Jr. & Carolyn S. Perry
Alan & Sunny Pervil
Susan Plassmeyer
Ellen E. Post
Norman W. Pressman & Wendi S. Alper Pressman
Robert H. & Jean B. Quenon
Peter H. & Patricia D. Raven
Charles M. & Marian Jones Rice
David E. & Orli Robertson
James B. Rule
Edward F. Schlafly, Jr. & Christy Schlafly
Milton & Sondra Schlesinger
Vincent C. & Lois B. Schoemehl
Martin Schweig & Terrie C. Liberman
Hugh Scott, Jr. & Julia Price Scott
Edward C. Simmons, III
Dale I. & Merle S Singer
Jill T. Smith
Kathy & Robin Smith
Gene & Barbara Spector
Sally & Bernard Stein
Nina N. Swartz
Carolyn Hewes Toft
Paul Wagman & Elsy Cardona
James V. & Mary E. Wertsch
Bruce I. & Ellen S. White
Karla Wilson
James M. & Kathryn K. Wire
William P. & Regina B. Wischmeyer
John & Carol Wolf
David A. Yepsen
Mark H. & Karen L. Zorensky

 

 

SPARKLER (up to $99)


Michael R. Allen
Paul G. Anderson
Annette Appell & Cheryl Tadin
Richard L. & Elizabeth Aurbach
Malcolm J. & Judy A. Barnett
Elizabeth Beckerle
John & Dianne Berendzen
Catherine S. Bollinger
William A. Bowersox
James E. Braibish
Ross & Christine Brewer
James Chickos & Linda Snider
Ian & Joanne Cruickshank
Roger N. & Diane R. Davenport
Jason Deem
Sally Bixby Defty
Laszlo & Louise Domjan
Mary Ruth Donnelly
Thomas E. & Elizabeth J. Douglass
Charles M. & Carolyn J. Downs, III
Lucie C. Garnett
James T. Gates
Philip G. & Margaret C. George
Nikki Goldstein - In Honor of Grace, Sally Altman's
     & Dick Weiss' New Granddaughter

Cheryl Green
J. Michael & Kathryn T. Haggans
Jean C. Hamilton
Harvey A. & Judith A. Harris
James R. & Lorraine Glass Harris
A. B. & Nancy B. Hoffman
Glenda Crank Holste
Helen Houlle
Anna Jackson
David P. Juedemann & Hannele Haapala
Lawrence & Jane Kahn
Rea Beck Kleeman
Alan C. & Joanne Kohn
Robert E. Kohn
David T. Konig & Judith W. Mann
Peggy Kruse
Dass & Buddy Lebman
Allen Levin & Joyce Gang
Joy Lieberman
Bruce M. Lindsey & Marilee S. Keys
Earla Lockhart
William L. & Margaret O. C. Luth
Todd Lynch
Alan A. & Emma L. McClelland
Sanford N. & Priscilla R. McDonnell
Daniel J. & Jill A. McGuire
Tom P. & Jane Conant Mendelson
Jeanne M. Meurer
Laura Lewis Meyer
Cathryn K. Mollman – In Memory of Clay Mollman
Patrick L. & Mary A. Moore
Charles A. Nester, Jr. & JoAnn M. Nester
Eric J. & Susan M. Nuetzel
Matthew J. & Barbara H. Orland
Mike A. Owens & Lyda Krewson
Jeffrey H. & Judy Pass
Gerald W. & Janice M. Paul – In Honor of Jo Mannies Gierse's Birthday
Philip Slein Gallery
Marshall E. Poger & Marianna B. Riley
Beverly D. Rehfeld
Thomas R. & Suzanne Rhodenbaugh
Mary Kathleen Rice
Jason A. Rosenbaum & Lauren Todd
Barry Rosenberg & Barbara E. Levin
Warren Rosenblum & Nicole Blumner
Edna U. Rosenheim
Fred W. & Marie L. Rottnek, Jr.
Michael A. Ruberton & Carol L. Schlef
Ina L. Sachar
Daniel Schesch
Walter D. & Marie L. Schmitz
Richard & Mary Ann Shaw
Susan Shender
Steven C. Shepley
Ray Simon
William R. & Catherine W. Smith
Sally &  Bernard Stein
James V. & Susan S. Stepleton
Michelle C. Swatek
Peggy Walter Symes
Stuart J. Symington, Jr. & Janey S. Symington
Richard B. Teitelman – In Honor of Gloria Ross
Cody D. Thomas
Frederick K. & Odile H. Tompkins
Thomas C. & Marjorie L. Treeger
Robin L. Turner
Judith A. Ugalde
Bronze Fox Studio – Harry & Anne Weber
Joan Weeks
Frances M. Weintraub
Marilyn R. Werner
Cornelia V. Williamson
Bonnie E. Wilson

 

 

FOUNDATIONS  & INSTITUTIONS


American Public Media – Minnesota Public Radio
The Gertrude & William A. Bernoudy Foundation
Centene Charitable Foundation
Central Reform Congregation – Rabbi Susan Talve
The Danforth Foundation, Inc.
Julian I. & Hope R. Edison Foundation, Inc.
Fidelity Charitable
The Sara & Fred Epstein Family Foundation
Rotonda Foundation – Roxanne H. Frank
The Clifford Willard Gaylord Foundation
Greater Saint Louis Community Foundation
Hermann Companies, Inc.
     – Robert R. & Mary Lee Hermann
Interco Charitable Trust
Estelle W. & Karen S. Kalish Foundation
The Pershing Charitable Trust – Mary B. Langenberg,
     William L. Polk, Jr. & Carolyn Kerckhoff Polk
Love Family Charitable Trust – Andrew & Peasy Love
Christine Gempp Love Foundation – Christy Love
The Lowenbaum Partnership, LLC – R. Michael & Lecie Lowenbaum
Missouri Foundation for Health
Philip Slein Gallery
Restaurant Pi (Pi Camion, LLC) – Chris Sommers
Mabel Dorn Reeder Foundation – Mabel L. Purkerson
R. G. Systems – Jack G. & Anne H. Bader
The Clemence Lieber Foundation
     – Steven L. & Mary Schoolman
Schwab Charitable Fund
Stupp Bros. Bridge & Iron Co. Foundation –
     Robert P. & Anne C. Stupp
Tricorbraun
The Trio Foundation of Saint Louis
The Phoebe Dent Weil Charitable Fund – Phoebe Dent Weil

 

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