Donor Stories

In Memory of GREG CHELCUN....

Greg Chelcun was a teacher at the Stevens Point High School and a founding member of the Stevens Point Area Education Association Foundation (SPAEAF), which joined the Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin in 2006 as an endowment fund to help provide funding to students seeking a secondary education.

Greg was also a Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin board member for a short time, before becoming ill in 2007 with a genetic cancer which eventually took his life in February of 2009.

While we in Greg's family were learning about his illness, and vigorously supporting his strong fight against the cancer, we all decided to begin an education and research support campaign. The Community Foundation was the most natural and logical choice for our seedling ideas, and supported us in the beginning and through the evolution of our efforts. We created the Chelcun Family Fund for Stomach Cancer Research to help provide for these efforts.

Recently, the Foundation has helped us with a fund, for the Greg Chelcun Memorial Scholarship, under the wings of the Stevens Point Area Education Association Foundation. We know that Greg's memory will be honored by these efforts, and others will be helped, supported, and educated through our programs, supported by the Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin.

To learn more about Chelcun's continuing fight againt cancer...

Please visit their website at www.bestronghearted.org

More stories to come...