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Annual Report 2003
Years of Experience

Sonja Moyer (shown above left and in th e newspaper article from the 1960s) has made quite a mark on Grand View in more than four decades of service. Now, she and her sister Louise Histand (right), will continue to contribute through gift annuities.
	Annual Report 2003
	Letter from the Chairmen
	Medical and Radiation Oncology Services
	Introducing IMRT
	90 Years of Experience
	Plans Announced for New Outpatient Center
	Named Best Employer for Working Parents
	Forty-Three Years of Service Leaves Quite a Legacy
	Ways of Giving
	Nine Decades of Service
	Missions & Values Statement

Forty Three Years of Service Leaves Quite a Legacy

On August 15, 2003, Sonja Moyer retired after 43 years of service to Grand View Hospital, leaving behind a legacy of hard work, innovation, and unwavering loyalty. For nearly half of the 90 years that Grand View has been in existence, you could find Sonja helping to guide the Hospital through tremendous changes. Most people know Sonja for her leadership of the Purchasing Department, a function she created in 1966 with the encouragement of William Waite, former hospital administrator (1961-1976).

Few people know that Sonja began her career at Grand View in the Campaign Office, the precursor to the Development Office, where our fundraising efforts are now coordinated. Fewer still are likely to know that Sonja and her husband, Ardie, took a bold step to help secure Grand View’s future and their own financial planning by establishing a charitable gift annuity.

“Grand View has meant so much to me throughout my career,” she said. “I wanted to give something back. It has been a family affair. At one point, my father and my sister worked here and my mother volunteered.”

Sisters! Sisters!

f03legacy2 When Sonja set up her gift annuity, she told her sister, Louise Histand, about it. It turns out that Sonja isn’t the only one in her family with some heartfelt ties to the Hospital. Louise had graduated from the Grand View Hospital School of Nursing in 1953 and has always been grateful for the training she received. “The hands-on experience was great, the doctors really cared about teaching the nurses, and you felt a real confidence about going to work with a Grand View background!” she recalled.

Louise accumulated four or five years of service with Grand View, but she found her calling when she went to work with older patients at Souderton Mennonite Home. She never lost her affection for Grand View, however, and when she learned about Sonja’s gift annuity, she decided to fund an annuity as well.

Sonja and Louise have very personal reasons for supporting Grand View in this wonderful way. In the end, however, their motivation came down to recognizing the contribution they could continue to make to a much-needed institution. As Louise said, “We would be sunk without a hospital like this in our community!”