CID ULTIMATE PICNIC, “ROARING 20s”
WILL BE HELD ON MAY 10, 2008

ST. LOUIS, January, 2008 — CID - Central Institute for the Deaf will hold its annual signature fundraising event, the Ultimate Picnic, on May 10, 2008. The date was announced by CID director of development, Christy Maxfield, CFRE. This year’s theme is the “Roaring 20s.”

 “We are appreciate our committee members who contribute their time, talent and hard work to make the event a success,” Maxfield said. “Every year, CID is also fortunate to have exceptional support from members of the St. Louis community who attend. Their participation helps children with hearing impairment learn to listen, talk, read and succeed in a predominantly hearing world.” 

CID 2008 Ultimate Picnic committee chairs include Bette Hesse and Doris Deveraux, decorations, and Laura Lyon, graphics. The other steering committee members are Kathryn Armstrong, Doug Bentele, Kevin Berghoff, Breann Chastain, Bob and Ellen Clark, Jack Cusumano, Jeff and Leanna Fenneberg, Carolyn Gaidis, Cynthia Hayes, Patti Jayne, Ken Kotiza, Chad Lane, Ruth-Ellen Lichtenfeld, Noel Mangano, Dawn McCormick, Alexandra McCormick, Betty Mendelson, Laurie Miller, Karen Monette, Jessica Nieva, Cassandra Pinkston, May Brown Reay, Wendy Ripes, Valencia Rodgers, Barbara Scharff, Sara Weaver and Anabeth Weil.

 This year’s CID Ultimate Picnic will feature cocktails, a performance by CID children, dinner and music. During the evening, guests will have the opportunity to bid on silent and oral auction items donated by generous members of the business community. Ticket prices are $150 per person; $500 for premium couple. $3,000 and $5,000 table sponsorships are also available. Please contact Christy Maxfield at cmaxfield@cid.edu 314/977-0225.

CID’s mission is to teach children who are deaf and hard of hearing to listen, talk, read and succeed. We partner with families and collaborate with universities, educators and other professionals worldwide to help children communicate to achieve their fullest potential.

CID teachers use the auditory-oral method to prepare children with hearing impairment to participate and succeed in mainstream educational settings without the use of sign language. CID school children have come from 48 U.S. states and 28 countries. CID’s Joanne Parrish Knight Family Center serves children and their families from birth to 3 years old. CID preschool-kindergarten and primary programs serve students ages 3 to 12. CID also offers a peer program that integrates hearing children into classes with hearing-impaired preschoolers, a program for hearing preschoolers with language delays, educational tools, in-service training and continuing education workshops for professionals and practicum experiences for local university graduate students in deaf education and audiology. CID teachers serve as faculty in the Washington University School of Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS), a program closely affiliated with but financially independent from CID.

“Since 1994, the CID Ultimate Picnic has raised more than $2 million to help educate our CID school children,” said Robin M. Feder, CFRE, executive director of CID. “Each year, proceeds go a long way toward giving children with hearing loss from birth through age 12 the opportunity to learn to listen and talk, read, write, do academic work and converse like other children.
        "We are extremely grateful for all of our volunteers and sponsors from the community whose generosity makes it possible for CID to turn no child away because of his or her family’s inability to pay full tuition.”

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