{"id":389552,"date":"2010-03-04T15:21:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f93\/husband-keeps-wife-s-memory-alive-csun-endowment-40350\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T15:21:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:21:26","slug":"husband-keeps-wife%c2%92s-memory-alive-with-csun-endowment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389552","title":{"rendered":"Husband Keeps Wife\u0092s Memory Alive with CSUN Endowment"},"content":{"rendered":"
03.04.10 10:08 AM<\/p>\n

Diane Davis spent the last five years of her life fighting for the rights of those who had undergone laryngectomies\u0097providing support, education and friendship. She died in August 2009 after a 14-year battle with throat and neck cancer.<\/p>\n

However, her legacy and memory will forever remain alive thanks to her husband, Joel Davis, who recently made a $10,000 donation to Cal State Northridge to establish the Diane Davis Endowment for Communication Disorders and Sciences Education.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Diane Davis<\/p>\n

\n\u0093Hopefully this memorial endowment honoring her memory and the involvement in the club that she so loved and nurtured will inspire CSUN\u0092s graduate clinicians to be more knowledgeable in laryngectomee issues,\u0094 said Davis after his presentation last week of the gift to College of Health and Human Development<\/a> Dean Sylvia Alva, Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences<\/a> Chair Stephen Sinclair and Language, Speech and Hearing Center<\/a> Clinic Coordinator Janice Woolsey.<\/p>\n

The endowment will be used to support the creation of experiential and academic learning opportunities for CSUN students who wish to work with patients who are overcoming speech and language deficits like laryngectomees. A laryngectomy is the removal of the larynx and separation of the airway from the mouth, nose and esophagus.<\/p>\n

The Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences<\/a> is one of the largest academic programs of its kind in the United States, training one in every four master\u0092s level speech pathologists in California. Completion of a bachelor\u0092s and master\u0092s degree enables students to practice in audiology or speech-language pathology in medical, rehabilitative or private practice settings\u0097helping laryngectomees learn new ways to communicate and educating others who work with these patients.<\/p>\n

\u0093This is an example of how allied health fields really do make a difference in the quality of people\u0092s lives,\u0094 said Dean Alva. \u0093We are really touched by the gift.\u0094<\/p>\n

Davis underwent laryngectomy surgery in 2005, becoming one of approximately 50,000 laryngectomees in the United States, according to the International Association of Laryngectomees. The Thousand Oaks advertising and marketing executive was the president of The Laryngectomee Connection, a support group to help improve the lives of laryngectomees based in Mission Hills.<\/p>\n

Joel Davis said he chose to make the endowment to CSUN because of the department\u0092s reputation and influence on the speech pathology community.<\/p>\n

\u0093I thought this was the kind of place where we could leave a thumbprint,\u0094 Davis said.<\/p>\n

The department has pledged to conduct community service each year in memory of Diane Davis. The first project is to distribute wallet-size cards to laryngectomees, paramedics and others that provide instruction on how to perform life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Davis said this project is particularly touching because his wife nearly died when a paramedic did not know how to administer CPR to her.<\/p>\n

\u0093This could be life-changing,\u0094 said Russ O\u0092Neil, a member of Davis\u0092 laryngectomee connection who attended the presentation. He said CSUN could play a pivotal role in \u0093transforming\u0094 the lives of laryngectomees.<\/p>\n

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