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Broad Ripple’s close proximity to Butler University has put the district on the area’s social scene. Broad Ripple is home to many of Indianapolis’ premier locally owned restaurants, independent art galleries, eclectic boutiques and specialty shops.

Broad Ripple High School, one of the earliest Indianapolis Public Schools, is located within the district. Some notable Hoosiers raised in or near the Broad Ripple neighborhood include late night talk show host David Letterman, professional football player Rosevelt Colvin, Indiana Pacers guard George Hill, New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson, and astronaut David Wolf.

The Broad Ripple Art Fair takes place on the grounds of the Indianapolis Art Center in the Broad Ripple Village Cultural District. This renowned fair attracts visitors and residents from all over the region and state making Broad Ripple a mecca for tourism.

The Broad Ripple Magazine, published by the TownePost Network, is an active community partner, sponsoring in part, several of the district’s festivals and special events. The Broad Ripple Magazine is direct-mailed to residential homes in Broad Ripple, Meridian Kessler, Meridian Hills, Williams Creek and Nora neighborhoods. The publication is strategically distributed throughout the district in designated, heavy-traffic locations. Active members of the Broad Ripple Village Association, the Broad Ripple Magazine has a favorable reputation amongst business owners, civic leaders and current customers throughout the district. The magazine supports local organizations and volunteers in encouraging a spirit of community cooperation, economic development and beautification of the community. We are also members of the White River Yacht Club, a 75-year social club located in Broad Ripple.

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6 Adopted Fathers

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COMINGHOMEDAN WAKEFIELD

ADOPTED FATHERS

I didn’t really get to know my own father until I was in my 40s. I was living in Venice, California, for a year starting my first novel when I came back to stay with my father while my mother was in the hospital after a serious heart attack in 1967. As a child, my father had seemed to me distant,

reserved and often stern, polite but formal in a Southern gentlemanly kind of way. I was a little bit afraid of him. That week I spent with him while my mother was in the hospital, we got to know each other for the first time – having dinners and drinks at night, staying up late and telling stories. We

laughed, talked and found out we enjoyed each other’s company – which I think came as a bit of a surprise to both of us.

He told me about a woman from Terre Haute who he had dated before he met my mother, and how this girlfriend sometimes drove down to see him in the coolest car of the era – a Stutz Bearcat! I wish now I had asked him more about his own childhood as the son of a stern Baptist minister in Shelbyville, Kentucky, and what it was like to be raised by relatives after both his parents had died by the time he was 13.

Not feeling comfortable with my father when I was growing up, I began to seek out and “adopt” fathers I admired and felt at ease with when I was a teenager, though I didn’t think of it that way at the time. My great good fortune was being named Shortidge High School’s sports correspondent for The Indianapolis News and The Star.

It was my duty (and pure pleasure) to write up or phone in the results of our football and basketball games and track meets, and as an extra bonus, I got to serve as assistant to the real sportswriters when they came to our home court or field for a big game. That meant I got to run up and down the sidelines of a football game with a clipboard and pencil, keeping track of statistics as I followed behind the professional reporter, or actually sitting at the scorer’s table at basketball games alongside the “real” sportswriter. I felt like “Somebody” – a person in his own right, just as if I were on the field or the court or the track. I too was a “player” but in my own way.

My first “boss” was one of my sportswriter heroes before I even met him – Corky Lamm, who not only covered games for The News, but also wrote columns for the paper that


he illustrated with his own drawings. He was a talented artist as well as writer, and I’d followed his work ever since I was about 8 or 9. I devoured every day the sports pages of The News and Star. Before I had ever heard of Hemingway, Corky Lamm was my Hemingway. Unlike Hemingway, I could never imagine Corky with a hangover! He was sharp-minded, alert and quick – quick not only in his movements but also in his wit. He challenged my rookie opinions of sports and life and invited me to challenge him back. As well as his role as a mentor of my writing and helping me understand the games I was learning to write about, Corky was the first adult male to speak to me as if I were an adult. He never “talked down” to me, but told me what it was really like to be a newspaper sportswriter, explaining the downside as well as the rewards of his job (which came by way of personal satisfaction and pride in your work, not in the fatness of paychecks).

He spoke of his own frustrations with his job as well as its pleasures. He told me his boss was going off to cover big games whenever he felt like it instead of running the department. I was reading a book on sports writing, and I said, “I thought the job of the sports editor was to make the assignments, edit the copy and make sure the sports page was balanced and attractive rather than covering games.”

Corky was driving me downtown to the office when I said this, and he banged one of his fists on the steering wheel and said, “Out of the mouths of babes!”

I knew he was telling me I was right, that I had learned the duties of editors and reporters, and I understood the way a sports department was supposed to be run. I didn’t take it as an offense that he grouped me with “babes” or children since I knew it was a compliment – it meant that I knew what I was talking about even though I was just a kid.

I read his columns like a textbook, seeing how his prose was as sharp and exact as he was in person.

I gave Corky my own work to read – not only my accounts of games, but columns I

wrote for The Shortridge Daily Echo, and he encouraged me, giving me compliments as well as criticism. It meant more than praise and encouragement from teachers – he was a pro! I was proud to introduce him to my parents, and they were happy to see that such a good man had taken me under his wing.

Even after I left to go to college in New York and after graduation when I wrote for little magazines my parents had never heard of, Corky assured them I was on the right path, that they didn’t have to worry and they could be proud of me and what I was doing. It meant a lot to them as well as to me, for they trusted Corky; they knew he was the best of men and that he only spoke the truth.

Through Corky’s help, I got a job one summer during college on The Star sports desk. It was great to be among those men with their ties loosened, their collars open, cigarettes hanging from their lips or mashed out in overflowing ashtrays as they pounded away on the old Royal or Smith-Corona typewriters, and the teletype clanked and rang with announcements of new stories that spewed out in long rolls of paper.

It was just like the newsrooms in the movies where Clark Gable was the intrepid reporter (except there were no long-legged “dames” since this was the sports desk in 1952 before

the era when Lesley Visser broke the gender line of sports reporting for The Boston Globe – as well as mens’ hearts (for envy or love).

Visser would have been a fit companion for Gable in his era. (Historical digression: after moving on from The Globe to CBS, Lesley Visser became the first NFL TV analyst, covered every major sports event in America from the Final Four to the Kentucky Derby, and in 2015 was elected to The Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame.)

Working on the sports desk of The Star that summer in college, I found my second “father.” In age, he was more like my “older brother,” but he knew so much more and was so much more accomplished than me, I thought of him as another “ideal fantasy father,” the kind you could hang around with, have a beer with and confess your hopes, dreams and frustrations.

He was Bob Collins, a short, stocky fireplug of a man who had starred as fullback for Cathedral High School. He later became the Sports Editor of the Star and wrote popular and sometimes controversial columns. He was the first local writer who understood the greatness of Oscar Robertson and the Crispus Attucks basketball team that became the first team from Indianapolis to win a state championship.


It also become the first black high school team in America to win a state championship in 1955 – and added another one, for good measure, in 1956.

In that era of segregation, Collins’ praise of Attucks and appreciation of their artistry got under some white skins and brought Collins death threats, which fazed him not at all.

During that summer I worked on the Star sports desk, he gave me books to read – Budd Schulberg’s novel of Hollywood cut-throat wheeling and dealing, “What Makes Sammy Run?” and Kenneth Roberts’ great historical saga of the American revolution, “A Rabble in Arms” (the title came from a British general’s sneering description of Washington’s army as “a rabble in arms, flushed with success and ignorance”).

Collins spoke to me of books and literature, of sports and history – he was a one-man college education. We corresponded when I went back to Columbia, and one of my greatest thrills was when he visited me in Greenwich Village a few years after I graduated. I gave him a book to read – a new novel called “Rabbit, Run” by a young writer named John Updike. It was about a basketball player in a small town in Pennsylvania, and he admired it as I did. I felt in some small way I had made a token thanks for the books he had turned me onto, the worlds he had opened for me.

In my final week of my summer job at The Star, Collins assigned me to cover my biggest story yet – the championship game of The Industrial Baseball League. As best I remember, the game pitted The Allison Jets against The Link-Belt Warriors. I have no idea now who won. All memory of the game was wiped out when I handed in my story to Collins, and before even reading my copy, he wrote at the top of the page “By Dan Wakefield.” I felt I had just been knighted – I was a pro.

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MEET THE MURPHYSAN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW CEO OF IU HEALTH AND HIS FAMILY

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On May 1, Indiana University Health will welcome Dennis M. Murphy as its new CEO. IU Health is one of the largest healthcare systems in the state with 17 hospitals and health centers and also one of the state’s largest employers with over 30,000 employees.

Murphy succeeds Daniel F. Evans, Jr. who held the position for 13 years. Murphy brings to the position remarkable experience, an optimistic vision for the future of IU Health and a passion for improving the health of the citizens of Indiana.

Before choosing healthcare administration as his career, Murphy studied and prepared for a completely different career path. At the age of 14, Murphy attended the St. Lawrence Seminary High School with plans on

becoming a Catholic priest.

Raised in a strong Irish Catholic family in a Irish-Polish emigrant neighborhood in Chicago, he came to realize that he had a desire to serve his fellow man, but he also wanted a family. He would spend some of his summer vacations visiting the family’s farm in Ireland. “It was important for me to give back, and I figured out that I was still able to give back, just in a different way,” explained Murphy.

Murphy’s educational background includes a degree from where else? The University of Notre Dame in pre-professional studies with a focus in political science. Afterwards, Murphy attended and earned a master’s degree in healthcare administration from Duke University.

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Chief Operating Officer (COO) in 2013 and was named president in September 2015. Prior to moving to Indiana and joining IU Health, Murphy was the COO and Executive Vice President for the renowned Northwestern Memorial HealthCare system located in Chicago, which like IU Health, is closely affiliated with a medical school.

Murphy’s resume also lists being Vice President of Ambulatory Services and Financial Planning for University of Chicago Hospitals and a decade of service at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, as Administrator of the Department of Medicine.

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strategies and system-wide initiatives.

While serving as the Executive VP and COO at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, they opened a 328-bed women’s hospital, and he was credited with implementing strategic plan initiatives that resulted in lowering costs and improving outcomes, improved overall patient satisfaction and advocating for the continued development of clinical research and education programs while collaborating with private physicians and the medical school affiliates.

Since joining IU Health, Murphy has played an instrumental role in the expansion of IU Health Plans, giving patients access to high-quality, comprehensive care focused on improving their health. He has also led the design of the IU Health system’s new organizational structure and Lean improvement efforts.

“This job appropriately allows me to grow much more into a strategic leadership capacity,” said Murphy. “I view my role as being a steward of an organization with a reputation for providing high-quality care, a strong leadership team, solid partnerships and an impressive record of success. Our hospitals have been here for over 100 years. Our job is to ensure that they’ll be here for the next 100 years to

provide care for patients and populations who come to us. Indiana does not rate well on a number of health measures, and ‘as the leading healthcare provider in Indiana,’ we must improve the health of patients throughout the state.”

After accepting the position with IU Health, Murphy moved his family from Chicago to Westfield where he resides with his wife, Kristy, and their three children, Dennis, James and Ella.

“For us as newcomers, the move has been fantastic,” Murphy expressed. “People have been incredibly warm and welcoming. On the first day that we moved into our house, we had neighbors from all over the neighborhood come over to greet us. That kind of reception made us feel at home and allowed us to acclimate quickly here. It has meant a great deal to me to know that my family feels comfortable and is enjoying living here. This relocation has been a wonderful experience both personally and professionally.”

Murphy has become personally invested in the American Lung Association, a cause dear to him due to several family members having suffered from lung disease and died at relatively young ages. Murphy acted as the Vice Chair for the association’s main fundraiser in 2015 and is the Chair of this year’s Evening of Promise Gala. Their mission is to raise awareness and funds to fight lung

cancer, the leading cause of cancer death.

Kristy feels similarly in that it has been a great move for the family. She also has an extensive background in healthcare administration and fully supports the demands of her husband’s position. She has become involved with local charities such as the Women for Riley and fundraising in general for IU Health.

As a family, she mentioned that the entire family volunteers for Gleaners Food Bank when possible. She also emphasized the importance of balancing her family’s and husband’s schedules and how she and Dennis prioritize to put their family first.

“When Dennis comes home, the whole house lights up. He’s extremely engaged – he’s not on his phone or the computer. Conversation and connecting are important, and it’s incredible – he’s able to extract things from the kids or learn about their days in a matter of minutes and takes a very sincere interest in all of us. You’ll find him shooting basketball with James, playing volleyball with Ella and working out with Dennis when he’s home from college. We make time for family meals as much as possible, which is over 50 percent of the time.

“When I’m downtown volunteering or there for meetings, we make time for lunch. It’s important to find pockets of quality time when we can. The kids’ school activities and sporting events are scheduled on his calendar. And when there are evening work events, they tend to include spouses, which is nice. We read an article that said it’s not so much about balancing or separating work and personal life, but integrating the two. It’s what we practice. It’s all very cohesive and helps keep us connected as a family.”

The Murphy children are acclimating quite well to their new schools and community as well. Their eldest son, Dennis, has had the least amount of time here because he is currently a freshman attending the University of Iowa studying Mechanical Engineering. Their son, James, is enjoying eighth grade and has a passion for basketball. By virtue of his Chicago roots, he is also a big fan of the

The Murphys in IU Health-North’s Serenity Garden: Kristy, Dennis; (back row) Dennis, Ella and James

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Their daughter, Ella, is in fifth grade and is active in volleyball and gymnastics. All three children exude great pride in their father and agreed that the time that they spend together as a family is the most rewarding part of their days.

As a runner, one of the things Murphy has come to appreciate about the area is the connectivity of the local trails and pathways, such as the Monon Trail. “I really enjoy that the local trails connect and are easily accessible,” Murphy said. “When I get home after work, I can run on the trail and not have to worry about vehicular traffic.”

The Murphys have found some favorite local shops, restaurants and eating establishments. Don’t be surprised to see them at local standbys Bub’s Burgers or The Local.

When asked how he has adjusted to the numerous roundabouts, Murphy noted that they strike a nostalgic chord. Murphy shared a humorous story of a harrowing experience driving out of the airport in Ireland for the first time. “My family, being from Ireland and having living relatives there, we naturally go back and visit them,” Murphy said. “As soon as one lands in Ireland and leaves the airport, they are immediately introduced to a

roundabout. Even for those familiar with the function of a roundabout, it presents an immediate challenge driving through one because they drive on the left side of the road. I was driving the wrong way for the first five minutes of my first trip back as the driver.”

Once you have a chance to meet the Murphys, you will quickly find that they

are an exceptional family that exudes a strong sense of family and a compassion for their neighbors and friends. This is certainly not surprising given Murphy’s Irish Catholic heritage.

By all signs, IU Health and the citizens of Indiana will be in great hands as Murphy takes the helm of one of our state’s most important healthcare providers.

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KIM DODSON: A HERO FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY

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As the Executive Director of The Arc of Indiana, Kim Dodson has learned how to be innovative and take risks, all for the cause of helping people with special needs lead lives of purpose.

Fate is what brought Dodson to her current position – it was literally an accident while she was a junior at Purdue University that steered her career course. Dodson was involved in a car crash that claimed the life of her fiancé. After recovering from her own injuries, she changed her major from investment banking to pre-law. During the course of an internship for a Congressman, Dodson was introduced to lobbying.

During the 1997-98 Indiana legislative terms, Dodson worked for a law firm as a lobbyist representing amusement parks. It was during that time that Dodson met Emily Hunt, a young woman badly injured in an amusement park accident that claimed the life of Hunt’s grandmother and rendered Hunt a quadriplegic. Hunt was lobbying for

increased safety inspections at amusement parks. Dodson was representing the other side. After a hearing on this issue, Dodson returned to the law firm and told her boss that they needed a compromise. The managing partner said no. Dodson quit two months later (the law firm no longer exists).

That summer, the reports of abuse and neglect leaked out about the treatment of patients with special needs at state-run institutions. Without any history of people with disabilities, she felt called to help in this effort as it greatly offended her. Dodson called The Arc of Indiana. Then-Executive Director John Dickerson was looking for a lobbyist. Now 17 years later, Dodson is the Executive Director.

Current legislation that The Arc of Indiana is pursuing includes Senate Bill 11, which is also known as the ABLE Act (Achieving a Better Life) which created a 529-type account for people with special needs. The other is House Bill 1219, which is called the Diploma Bill, as it requires all school corporations to offer the general diploma to all students; many students with special

needs are not able to earn the Core 40, and not all schools in Indiana offer the general diploma, leaving many of these students without diplomas.

Another focus of The Arc of Indiana is post-secondary education for the special needs community. In 2011, while lobbying for The Arc of Indiana, Dodson had a frank discussion with the House Ways and Means Committee Chair. The two discussed Medicaid and Medicare.

“He asked me if I thought it really works,” recalls Dodson. “‘No, it doesn’t’ was my answer.”

This precipitated an off-the-record conversation that would impact the innovative approach for The Arc of Indiana for years to come.

The Arc of Indiana has been seen as a different type of human services organization since it’s more innovative and business-minded that others. Dodson was challenged to think about things differently. The legislature consisted of a more conservative


group of legislators, and The Arc of Indiana embarked on a campaign to move away from “entitlement” programs and moved to positively change the public view of people with special needs.

“We wanted the families to view support differently,” says Dodson. “One means of doing this is to showcase the talents of people with special needs.”

The Arc of Indiana created their platform, Blueprint For Change. Gathering together 20 of the best minds in the country in the special needs field, The Arc of Indiana listened and learned. “We asked, ‘What’s worked? What’s failed?’” says Dodson. “How can we be more innovative with people with special needs?”

The entire goal is to lessen dependence on government services for those with special needs, yet the statewide unemployment rate was 82% for Indiana’s special needs workforce. Once we allowed them to dream of the possibilities, The Arc of Indiana initiated their Indiana Response Team, consisting of Indiana families, professionals and educators. One member of this team was Jeff Huffman, whose son Nash has Down syndrome. Nash was entering high school at the time, and Huffman dreamed of options for his son after graduation.

Huffman listened to the national panel of experts closely, and later, while driving through his hometown of Muncie, he noticed the abandoned Roberts Hotel. Huffman thought, “Wouldn’t it be cool to teach job skills to people with special needs in the atmosphere in which they’d be used?”

Huffman shared his idea with Dodson. ”He brought up hospitality as a possibility,” says Dodson, who thoughtfully considered this over the next 10 days. At the time, the economy wasn’t strong, but hospitality was growing. She researched success stories of the hospitality and food services sector for people with special needs.

Dodson called Huffman and asked, “What are you thinking?”

Huffman’s reply was, “If this can be done, The Arc of Indiana can do it.”

The business plan was underway, basing it entirely on research of the successes and failures across the country. The Arc of Indiana looked to create a model that worked.

They had a greater chance of success if they acquired a few characteristics: a strong university presence, a supportive business community and a mayor who would embrace the mission. Muncie fit the description perfectly.

Huffman was convinced the Roberts Hotel could be renovated and serve as their training center. During the process, the Roberts property sold. “It was a blessing in disguise,” says Dodson. The City of Muncie was so committed to the idea, it provided land for the project, allowing a new hotel to be built from the ground up.

No other city had the synergy like Muncie to pull this off. Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler had been a champion of Arc of Indiana in the statehouse for their issues. Familiar with the needs of the special needs community, he helped make the Erskine Green Training Institute a reality.

The Arc of Indiana now had everything they were looking for. Architect Wayne Schmidt was selected nearly the moment

Dodson met him. “We knew we were doing something very special,” says Dodson. “We wanted shared passion for the project, not just experts in their field. Our architect had never built a hotel but had history with post-secondary education, and Wayne is one of the most big-hearted people I’ve ever met.”

For the hotel restaurant, Dodson knew the downside of a basic hotel restaurant. They needed name recognition and a destination for patrons. Scott Wise of Scotty’s THR3E Wise Men was their target. This would prove to be the easiest influential meeting of Dodson’s career.

Less than two minutes into her pitch, Wise interrupted with, “I’m in.”

Dodson said, “But I haven’t shared everything that is required by your restaurant.”

“I said, ‘I’m in!’ 100%, we will do this,” said Wise. End of meeting. Wise was hand-picked. So was the construction team, and the Marriott hotel chain was the best option of those on the table since Marriott has a strong history of hiring people with special needs.

To give the project wings, the State of Indiana supplied a grant of $5 million to build the hotel and training center. This unprecedented endowment from the State happened in 2013, and all of the credit goes to the Republicans in the House.

Additional donors include Ball Memorial Foundation who put up $3 million. With the carryover in hospitality training into specific healthcare skills, partnering with Ball Memorial Hospital is a foregone conclusion. Ball Bros Foundation, Muncie Community Foundation, the Shafer Foundation and The AWS Foundation all have been generous supporters.

The name, Erskine Green, comes from Carl Erskine, a pioneer championing the rights of people with special needs to barriers and perceived limitations. Erskine’s son, Jimmy, works at the Applebee’s in Anderson where he has a great sense of pride with his work and his ability to earn a paycheck. Steve


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Green was so inspired by Erskine’s efforts of advocacy that when Green’s daughter Jessica was born with Down syndrome, Green helped in any way he could to ensure all of his children have the same opportunities.

“I stand on the shoulders of those that have come before me,” says Huffman. “Erskine and Green have touched so many lives, many of whom they will never have the pleasure to meet.”

The first class of the Erskine Green Training Center has exceeded expectations. The goal is to educate 80 students per year. “Two years ago, that seemed ambitious,” shares Dodson. “Now with increasing demand, it may not be enough.”

“Our family is truly blessed to be recipients of 60 years worth of love, grit, perseverance and passion from parents, siblings, advocates and legislators who have tirelessly worked on behalf of those with intellectual and developmental disabilities,” says Kerry Fletcher, President of the Board of Directors for The Arc of Indiana. “Our mission is to change the culture that surrounds those with intellectual and developmental disabilities in school, the workplace and the community.”

The Arc of Indiana is fielding calls from across the country to help institute similar programs replicating theirs. By conservative projections, the hotel will be debt-free by the end of 2019. By January 2017, The Arc of Indiana will have their next business plan for additional training opportunities for people with special needs prepared, sustained by the profits from the hotel. Additional job skills means getting more people to work.

“Through the Training Institute, the legacy of Erskine and Green will continue,” says Dodson.

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THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY’S BOY OF THE YEARLUKE CANTERBURY


As the Canterbury family traveled to Texas for a business trip, their third of four boys complained of pain along his right side. “Luke is a tough kid,” shares Angie, Luke’s mom. “He would cry about the pain he was experiencing but toughen up and jump back into the pool to play with his brothers. We initially thought he was experiencing growing pains.”

Later that evening with their son in tremendous pain, Angie took him to a local emergency room. “The initial diagnosis was that he was constipated,” says Jamie, Luke’s dad. “In the E.R., they don’t do complete blood work and analysis.”

Prior to this medical emergency, the only other time the Canterbury family had been to an emergency room was when Luke shoved a bean up his nose.

It became evident later that night that Luke’s issue was potentially far more serious. As the Canterbury family drove home, Luke was inconsolable. “The original E.R. doc called to check on Luke and suggested we

take him to the closest children’s hospital. We were near St. Louis but decided to head straight home instead.”

After driving nine hours straight to their general practice doctor with a screaming child in the car, Luke was transported by ambulance to the emergency room at Riley Hospital for Children. The resulting diagnosis was Burkitt’s Lymphoma, Stage 4. The Canterburys received this news on June 27, 2014. Luke was 4 1/2 years old. These sort of tumors develop rapidly and are capable of doubling in size every 12 hours. One of Luke’s tumors was wrapped around his spine. He was moments away from paralysis.

Burkitt’s Lymphoma is unique in that the tumors are highly treatable and are composed of soft tissue. However, given the severity of the location around the spinal cord, surgery was necessary to decrease the pressure and prevent further complications. The surgery was not without risk, and since Luke had begun chemotherapy immediately following this procedure, his tissues were

not healing optimally post-surgery.

“The open wound on Luke’s back from surgery was a concern, for he developed sepsis, and we were not sure if he was going to make it,” shares Angie. Luke would have many more scares throughout his treatments.

The Canterbury family set up camp at Riley for two months, with either Mom or Dad staying every night with him in the hospital. “We’d bring all the boys to the hospital every evening for dinner with all of us eating together, then one of us would go home with the other boys and one of us would stay with Luke,” shares Angie. She homeschools their boys and frequently had one of Luke’s brothers have a sleepover with them at Riley.

Given the time spent at Riley, the Canterbury family created many meaningful relationships with the doctors, nurses and therapists. Alissa Moody, Luke’s pediatric physical therapist, was brought up in conversation right away when discussing the quality of care Luke received at Riley.


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After the spinal surgery and subsequent treatments, Luke needed to learn how to roll over again, to sit up and to walk. The pressure on his spinal cord had been alleviated, and long-term damage had been prevented, but the cost was learning how to become mobile again. The recovery was painful, yet Luke worked very hard through his intense physical therapy.

“What Luke was doing was extremely painful, and I cried with him,” shares Moody.

When asking Luke about his experience, he says, “I got lots and lots of shots.” Luke had a port, and when he was able to finally go home, he says, “I slept between Mommy and Daddy.”

The Canterburys would return with Luke to Riley for two to three weeks at a time following the initial two month stay for additional chemotherapy treatments. “During the main stay at the hospital, Luke was angry. It was super tough for him,” says Angie.

Today, you wouldn’t know Luke had ever been sick, except for a low immune resistance. He runs around and plays with his brothers like any other rough and tumble boy his age. Hugh is 13, Levi is 8 and Wade is 3. Luke is now 6 years old.“Dealing with a situation like this changes your perspective on life,” says Jamie. “Our family has become even closer because of this.”

When asked what being the LLS Boy of the Year means to Luke, he replied, “It means I beat cancer!”

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Working with children under ideal circumstances can be challenging, but choosing to work with kids coping with extreme medical adversity is another thing entirely.

Alissa Cobb Moody grew up hearing about an uncle she had never met. Her mom’s brother, Randy, had died at the age of 19 before Moody was born. “I have always felt a passion for helping children with cancer. It’s my way of honoring my uncle,” shares Moody. Each year, her family plants a tree in Randy’s honor. The tree line has grown to be quite impressive.

Moody became a physical therapist focused on pediatrics. In her career, she has only worked with kids. For 10 years, she worked at Riley Hospital for Children. Luke Canterbury, who is nominated for the LLS Boy of the Year, was one of Moody’s patients.

“She was simply amazing,” shares Angie Canterbury, Luke’s mom. “Luke went through such an extremely painful healing process, and Alissa cried along with us.” Luke, who has recovered from Burkitt’s Lymphoma, Stage 4, is now 6 years old and thriving.

Alissa was also the PT for another young man, Michael Treinen. Michael passed away in 2008, just six days prior to his 20th birthday. Michael had an incredible spirit. He played three sports and insisted that a stationary bike be placed in his room at Riley Hospital for Children during his treatment. Alissa was able to get Michael a bike, but it was rather shabby and had taped handles. Michael didn’t care; he rode it daily anyway. He’d vomit from his chemo treatments and get back on the bike to stay in shape. Alissa credits his devotion to exercise as his stress management, which kept Michael mentally tough through treatment.


While on the bike, Michael was inspired to help ensure that every patient on the oncology and stem cell transplant units have access to an exercise bike. His mom, Kelly, is the Principal of Promise Road Elementary School in Noblesville and started a weekly fundraising campaign where students and faculty would pay a dollar to wear jeans to school on Friday. These dollars allowed the Treinen family to help outfit Riley Hospital for Children with a slew of new bikes that were used on the oncology unit and throughout the inpatient hospital at large. Michael’s full name is Michael Thomas Treinen, his initials MTT. Each stationery bike was given a license plate with “Moving Through Treatment,” MTT, to honor Michael.

Alissa’s mom has repeatedly said how if her brother, Randy, had been around today, she thinks the treatments available now would have saved his life. But unfortunately, even with today’s treatments, young children are lost in great numbers to leukemia and lymphoma.

Alissa now has two young children and has taken a hiatus from work to be with her kids. She is honored to be able to give back to the LLS through her Woman of the Year campaign. She was nominated by Kelly Treinen. Alissa didn’t hesitate to say “Yes!”

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The phone was ringing at Kristi Meinert’s house. The caller was from the adoption committee in southern Indiana where Kristi had recently traveled to interview. She had wanted to adopt a young girl, but the agency wanted her for someone else: they had a boy with special needs who needed a home. Kristi wasn’t sure what she would do until she saw his picture.

Kristi, guidance counselor at North Central High School and mother of 10, has always wanted to adopt.

As a graduate of NCHS, Kristi stayed at home with her oldest childre,n Gabi

and Zander, before becoming a guidance counselor. She has worked at NCHS for 13 years, and her agenda includes working directly with over 350 kids: helping students plan their schedules, guiding students through the college admission process, helping eighth graders navigate the high school and coordinating Advanced Placement and ISTEP.

The biggest part of Kristi’s job is managing students’ challenges: relationship issues, anxiety, abuse and even homelessness. “There are a lot of tears,” she says. “There’s so much that you can’t fix. There’s a lot of sad, so I use a lot of humor,” says Kristi.

But when Kristi returns home for the day, her house is anything but sad.

Her oldest daughter, Gabi, a NCHS graduate, enters the living room of their small but cozy Broad Ripple bungalow. Gabi

recently earned her degree in anthropology and is an avid rock climber. Gabi loves the big family. “I always say it’s kind of normal. I love having everyone around,” she says.

But everyone is not always around at the same time. Kristi’s oldest son, Zander, is off teaching Saturday Science at NCHS. Later, Kristi will pick him up and buy groceries on the way home.

After her first two children, Kristi began the adoption process. Kristi soon found herself answering that call from the adoption agency in southern Indiana. It was about Philip, and judging by his case file, she was certain he had autism. Kristi thought she would travel south just to interview but not commit.

“And then I saw his picture, and it was over,” says Kristi, remembering the moment she decided she wanted him. Phillip runs from

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the basement to wave hello, taking a quick break from video games.

Now a teenager, Phillip was only 2 ½ years old when he joined Kristi’s family, and she immediately began intervening to help him progress academically and socially. He is now performing on grade level and is on track to attend college. Switching to a gluten-free diet made an amazing difference for Phillip.

“It’s like a light switch came on,” says Kristi who was astonished to see her once quiet son begin communicating.

But Kristi was not done yet. Ten years ago, Kristi decided to adopt again, and the family journeyed to Kansas City to meet a sibling group of three. In just a short time, Ebony and brothers Jamal and Quinn moved to Indy and turned Kristi’s family into a family of six kids.

Daughter Ebony was 8 when Kristi adopted her. Now she sits at the dining room table, enjoying a cup of coffee. She will graduate from NCHS with an honors diploma and attend IU.

As time went by, Kristi divorced and remarried Graham, whose young kids Guerrin and Chloe made them a family of 10.

Kristi and Graham soon had another daughter, Piper, who was born with Down syndrome. “As soon as I saw her eyes, I knew,” says Kristi. “Down syndrome wasn’t foreign to me.” Her best friend’s son had grown up with the condition.

They started aggressively treating Piper’s conditions, doing continual and comprehensive therapies and doctor’s visits. Piper, who is 5 and loves hugs, reads at the top of her preschool class.

Finally, two years ago, Phoebe was born. For now, Phoebe is enjoying puzzles and having tea parties. And the family is now a family of 12.

As the kids grow up, the house grows less crowded. Zander and Ebony are both graduating, and Gabi is out substitute teaching and working at REI. Gabi plans on returning to school and earning her nursing degree. Throughout her undergrad, she “lived” on campus.

“Except she was home four days a week,” laughs Graham.

“This is still home,” replies Gabi, taking a sip of her coffee. “I love having everyone around. The quiet [at school] is terrible.”

Kristi and Graham don’t have a problem staying busy, even with a few kids off to college. Between hockey, basketball, book club, Science Olympiad, internships and therapy – not to mention laundry – the schedule remains hectic as they ferry the kids back and forth in their 14-passenger van.

Now that the kids are getting older, Kristi is hoping family outings to the zoo or the pool won’t take hours to prepare. “I’m exhausted by the time we get into the van,” she says.

“We don’t screw up too often,” laughs Graham, reviewing their busy schedules. Graham had just returned from picking up Quinn from a pancake breakfast. Soon, he will be off to the high school to retrieve Zander and then off to hockey for son Guerrin.

FAMILY Zander, Gabi, Phillip, Kristi (holding Phoebe), Graham (holding Piper), Guerrin, Jamal, Ebony, Quinn, Chloe

Kristi at work with NCHS


While the family stays busy, they still find time to be together. Everyone attends the annual DADs Hayride for children with Down syndrome. The family also gathers most nights for a homemade organic meal, sometimes around two dining tables. “We have all these kids with all these different

moms and dads and backgrounds. Pretty much anyone will eat anything you put in front of them,” says Kristi.

Work is never really over for Kristi and Graham. If she has a five minute break, she’s researching something for daughter Piper

or simply sitting on the couch and catching her breath. But even as the family begins to spread out, Kristi is looking forward to everyone’s company during the summer. The noise, the chaos, the fights over bikes and toys and the busy lifestyle is just what everyone loves.

“It’s a fantastic mess,” says Graham, who grew up with four siblings and is used to fights and messy floors. ”Sometimes you just step over the mess and ignore it,” he says, peering over at a bookshelf full of toys and a puzzle on the coffee table.

Kristi, who grew up an only child, quickly adds, “This is never boring, right?”

“For me, it’s what it’s supposed to be,” says Graham, who occasionally breaks up fights among the boys. “I did buy boxing gloves and headgear,” he laughs.

Daughter Ebony quickly chimes in. “I would be so bored if I didn’t have all these people to be around. I worry when I go to campus and I’m not going to have Phillip or Quinn or Jamal bugging me,” she says.

Soon, everyone is gathering around the dining room table, smiling and hugging for a family picture. In no time, they’ll be on their separate ways, to practices, dates, work, sports and school.

But perhaps Kristi did not realize what was beginning when she took that call from the adoption agency. Perhaps she did not realize that her third child Philip would be just the beginning of a blended family full of friendship, love and wonderful chaos. Perhaps she did not realize that she was starting one great fantastic mess.

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Lisa Lorentz, assistant manager, and Kelly Trimble, manager


Writer and Photographer / Stephanie Duncan

After moving to the Nora-based location in 2011, assistant manager Lisa Lorentz wants to spread the word about Global Gifts’ new location, hoping to attract new people to the store. Nestled in the shopping center of Nora Plaza, Global Gifts isn’t immediately noticeable from the street, but Lorentz is excited to serve the Nora neighborhood with a one-of-a-kind shopping experience. Global Gifts is a not-for-profit fair trade store, serving more than 40 countries with impoverished communities.

Located at 1300 E. 86th St. #17 in Indianapolis, Global Gifts is a store that provides handmade gifts like jewelry, scarves and accessories that are exclusively from fair trade producers and artisans. Global Gifts itself has been serving Indianapolis residents since the 1980s, but Lorentz says most people aren’t aware of the relatively new location.

Still, Lorentz is positive and jumps at the opportunity to educate new customers about Global Gifts’ unique mission. “We have really unique gifts that you won’t find in other stores," she says. "You’re supporting an organization that makes an impact on an individual person.” The store provides an outlet for people in these impoverished countries to sell their items, giving them opportunities to have long-term employment and better their communities.

This store is just one of four locations: downtown on Massachusetts Ave, Bloomington and a newly opened store in Columbus, Ohio. Global Gifts first started in the basement of the Indianapolis First Mennonite Church, becoming a separate storefront in 1988. They are a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization and are able to operate with help from mostly volunteers.

“The big a-ha moment for people when they come in is that we are non-profit and have volunteers,” Lorentz says. The Nora location only has three employees: two full-time and one part-time. The rest are volunteers. Lorentz says having a big staff of volunteers helps keep the costs of running the business low and also allows the store to keep sustainable relationships with the artisans.

The Global Gifts mission statement is to provide vital, fair income and employment for people of limited opportunity; market ethically produced and ethically obtained handmade products; educate the public about the cultures and traditions associated with the items sold; and help consumers spend their shopping dollars in ways that benefit impoverished people around the world.

Global Gifts

Figurines made from "Tagua" (ivory-like nut harvested from palm trees indigenous to South America) that help provide an alternative to traditional ivory and protect the Earth’s animals and environment. Tagua is used for jewelry as well.


Everything Global Gifts sells is intended to sustainably improve the lives of the producers. They do that by adhering to fair trade principles like a fair wage, safe working conditions and providing business training. One way they do this is by searching for the most fashion forward, desirable quality items in the fair trade world to keep customers coming back to the store.

Some of these items include products made by the Imani Workshops in Kenya. The Imani Workshops provide artisans who have been affected by HIV/AIDS with job training, employment opportunities and healthcare. They create handmade jewelry, accessories and paper goods. Global Gifts just became the U.S. Fair Trade wholesaler for Imani Workshops.

Other unique gifts include paper products made by a company, Mr. Ellie Pooh, where the paper is made from elephant dung. This company started in order to find a way to prevent the slaughter of elephants in rural communities of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is home to 1/10th of the population of Asian elephants that remain in the wild. Elephants interfere with the rural agriculture community, and Mr. Ellie Pooh was created in order to make the elephants a sustainable economic resource. Elephants are vegetarian, so their waste is cleaned, processed and made into acid free, linen-like paper that can be used for art, notebooks, cards and gifts.

Lorentz said the Mr. Ellie Pooh paper is a hit with children. When they have Girl Scout troops visit, Lorentz likes to give them a piece of the paper in order to divulge the unique story behind it. “The first thing they do when I tell them what it’s made of is they smell it!” she says. Lorentz says educating customers is important because those stories will stick with them well past their visit.

In addition to selling items including greeting cards, bags, jewelry, toys and wall hangings, the store hosts events to explain and promote the fair trade philosophy. They have events like Community Shopping Nights where they donate 10 percent of proceeds to various local organizations like FACE animal clinic, Habitat for Humanity and the Indiana Recycling Coalition. They also host events for Fair Trade month that celebrate the unique cultures that their products come from.

For more information about Global Gifts, visit globalgiftsft.com.

nora HoursMONDAY-THURSDAY 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m.FRIDAY 10 a.m.-8 p.m. SATURDAY 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m.SUNDAY 12-5 p.m.

Stephanie Duncan is a storyteller. Broad Ripple native, IU Journalism grad, professional photographer and former IU women’s rugby player, she can be seen photographing sports games, weddings and product photography for Lids.


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