The Impact of Your Legacy
Thanks to individuals like you, HHF is the nation's nonprofit leader in funding scientific research grants to improve the lives of the millions living daily with hearing and balance conditions. HHF fostered the development of cochlear implant technology, more effective hearing aids, and successful ear surgeries. Today the need for permanent cures remains urgent.
Your legacy gift supports the top-tier scientists in HHF's two primary research programs, the Hearing Restoration Project and Emerging Research Grants, to sustain their groundbreaking investigations.
The interconnected nature of hearing and balance research demonstrates that if we fund more basic science, we accelerate the design and deployment of more effective treatments.
Collette Ramsey Baker Society
Collette Ramsey Baker created our organization in gratitude for her restored hearing.
The Collette Ramsey Baker Society was named after HHF's founder, who after living with a substantial hearing loss for many years, had her hearing restored by a then-novel surgery. In gratitude, Collette Ramsey Baker created a nonprofit organization to support hearing treatments and science called Deafness Research Foundation (now HHF). The Collette Ramsey Baker Society was established to recognize and thank individuals who generously include HHF in their estate plans. Through these planned gifts, members of the Collette Ramsey Baker Society provide support that enables HHF to remain the country's largest nonprofit funder of life-changing hearing and balance science—like the innovative research that helped Ms. Ramsey Baker regain her hearing.
We Honor Our Generous Members
An asterisk (*) indicates the individual is deceased.
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Patricia Abell*
Starr Adams
Kedar K. Adour
H. Ajamian
Michael Amos
Lisa Angelina
Mark J. Anton*
Robert W. Appleman*
Beverly W. Armstrong*
Nancy J. Astle
Heidi Aston
Max Auguste
Jewell Margaret Baggett-Strehlau
Eleanor S. Bailey*
Frank Baker
Thelma Barklow
Stephen Barnett
Rose L. Bender*
Margaret Bennett
Phyllis Bernstein*
Sabina Bilder
V.W. Biskey
Maura E. Black
Jerome G. Block*
Kent W. Bloom
A. Blumenschein
Golde Bodek*
Victoria Bogan
Berniece Irene Booth*
Lola B. Borchers*
Marjorie Boselly*
Martha K. Bosshart*
Nancy Bradford*
Russell Bratburd
Dr. Carl A. Brown
Roger Bryan
Keith A. Burden*
Mildred C. Bussler*
Daryl A. Byrd
Christine A. Cagle
Wallace E. Calhoun
Lewis Callaghan
Christopher W. Canino*
Wanda Carroll
Mary K. Cervantes
Gladys Chinn*
Jane P. Church*
Victor C. Cirillo
E. Garfield Claxton*
William Claxton*
Sarah Burkes Clem*
Mrs. P. Clements
Alan Clements
Gertrude W. Cole*
William C. Concannon
Edward Conklin*
A. Blanche Connor*
Elizabeth Chafee Conway*
Jennifer Jean Cottreau
Mr. and Mrs. Hewitt Covington*
Leonard F. Coyle*
James V. Cresce*
Agnes B. Cross
Mabel-Alyce Cundiff*
Joseph F. Cusick
Aileen Bogle Daniels*
Charles P. Daspit*
Wally O. Deer
Chris and Frank De Francesco
Joan De Graaff
Linda and Gordon Degroot
Luis J. Del Pino
Renee D. Delachaux*
Russell Delisi
Peter De Lucas
Francesca Demane
Orlando B. DeMeio
Patricia Burke Deutsch*
Robert H. Devoe
Kenneth Devore
Mary Dike
Dr. Bernice M. Dinner
Noemi Disla
Carrie Dodd*
Nelson C. Doland, Jr.*
Michael Dorsch
Enda Dower
Eardley Living Trust
Robin Edwards
Ronald R. Eisner
Jerome Ellenberg*
Eileen Elliott
Robert A. Emnett*
Laura Estephan
Rosalie Falbo
Adele G. Faloon*
Bert B. Farber
Diane Colleen Fashing
Frances R. Fee*
Lasalle Felheim
Louise S. Ferguson*
Abraham Fink*
John Fisher
J. Fitzgerald
Louroe Fogo
Claire Freeman*
Christana Freerks
Marj Frieberg*
Dr. Orel Friedman*
Lorraine H. Frost*
Everette W. Frost*
Dr. Meredith M. Garcia
Elizabeth L. Garmatz*
Adalene Garretson*
Anthony Geisert
Grace Gergen
Kerry R. Gifford*
Eleanor O’Rorke*
Mrs. W.H. Oldham
Theresa Oles
Mr. Lee Oltcher
Robert H. Ossoff
James J. Pappas, M.D.
Michael Y. Parker
Carin L. Parsons
Ruth Uppercu Paul*
Arthur Pearson
Barbara Peck
Tom Phillips
Evelyne T. Pontone*
Jan Price
Rose Price
Joan M. Pristas*
S.T. Proctor, Jr.
Ann Pruitt
Jerrold Radway
Eileen Raynor
Mrs. Neil G. Ricci
Priscilla Richtmyer
F. Rittenberg
Albert M. Robbins
Carmine Roberto
Catherine Robinson*
Ruth F. Roeper*
Gretchen Rollman*
Richard F. Rosenwald
Vincenette Rotolo*
M. Rowe
Eileen M. Ryan*
Anne P. Ryan*
Katharine H. Ryder*
Jane Sabin
Frederick Sack
Mildred Salomon*
Otto W. Schaefer
Bernard Schapiro
S.B. Schechter
Milton J. Schloss, Jr.
Gerda Schulman
James L. Schulz
Howard F. Schum*
Mrs. Frank A. Sharpe
Esther Shaw*
Marjorie E. Shay*
Edythe B. Sheinbaum*
Moira Shek
Beverly Shulman
Winston S. Shyatt*
Robin B. Simkins
Karen Skelly
Sadye Slayer
Janet A. Sloane*
Ruth R. Smith
Elizabeth A. Smith*
Elvera W. Smith*
Florence G. Smith*
Laura Snure
Angela Solicalcio*
Margaret Neumeyer Sommer*
Gloria H. Spadaro*
Gladys Raiter Spargo*
George Spatz*
Jacqueline Spencer*
Frances B. Sperry*
Amber Spooner
William Springer
Irene E. Stallings*
Melvin D. Steiner
Philip E. Stephenson
Norma M. Stravato*
John Stewart Strehlau
Nancy C. Sutton
Edwin Sved
Alexander Szeremeta
James A. Taylor
Patricia Tellep*
Ollie J. Thomas
George N. Thomas
Tara Lashay Thompson
Margaret Tolson
Geno Tozzini
Helen and Richard Trcka*
David Treworgy
Anne Van Heukelom
Erika Verbeck*
Hermann E. Vogelstein
Loretta Vogt*
Evelyn M. Waddell
Frank Wagner
Roger A. Waha
Ken Waitzmann
Celeste Waldauer*
Jonathan Wallace
Peggie K. Wallace
Ken Warner
Marjorie H. Warren*
Matthew Watson
Kenneth Weismann*
Donald Wesler
Mrs. Odell West
Carol E. Whittier
Hettie Wiedeman*
Harry Wiederhorn*
Marguerite M. Wilke*
Da’Monique Wilkins
Eluned Williams*
Floyd T. Winningham
Stanley Wittelshoefer*
Doug Wolfe
Elizabeth Woodward
Josephine B. Wootton*
John A. Wootton*
Marjorie Youngloff
Edward S. Zehler*
H.J. Zoffer
Michael Zubeck
Anna May W. Gillett
Elizabeth Giorgianni*
Vincent Giuliano*
Dorothy H. Gleiser*
Betsy R. Glick
Cynthia B. Godfrey*
Irving Arnold Goldberg*
Debra Goldman*
Morton Goldsmith*
Bernard S. Goldstein
Maurice Gomila
Irene Goodman
Sharon Graham
Elsie Greenhut*
Florence Grillella
Martha M. Guckert*
Lynn R. Gussack
Ronald Gustafson
Dr. Mark L. Haerle
Shirley J. Hagens*
Elaine Hall*
Eileen B. Halvorson*
Millicent Halvorson*
Sue N. Harl
Shelley Harrison
Margaret Hauenstein*
Sophie Haut*
Sonia Heifetz
Mrs. R.B. Heilig
Sid M. Henry
Harriet Paulk Hessam
Tawab Hessam
M. Irene Hettick*
Timothy Higdon
Mary F. Hodge
Sarah T. Hodge
Donald Hodges
Erma B. Holl*
Mary U. Hollidge*
Nancy Lynne Hollis
Charles N. Hooper
Earl V. Horning*
Earl C. Hull*
Jessie W. Ingram*
Muriel B. Jackson
Thomas M. Jackson*
Helen A. Jackson*
Lois Jacob
T.A. Jacobs
Ruth C. Johnson*
Nancy Jones
Elizabeth P. Jordan*
Josef E. Josephs*
Pearl G. Kaufman
Elizabeth M. Keithley
Marie Kelsey
Marion Kennedy*
Alfred M.F. Kiddle*
Doris J. Kizer*
Keith O. Kizer*
Janet Knowles*
Betty Knox*
Janice and Cary Kopcynzski
Frank Kovachik
Harry J. Krokus, Jr.*
Marie F. Labozzetta*
Katharine L. Lahee*
Libby Geller Lynch Landman*
Shirley J. Lane
Betty Larson
Lois V. Leach*
Theresa H. Leask*
Tom Lebel
Yishane Lee
Dr. Sally Lee
Julia Lee*
Jack Leishear
Maria Leitgob
Miriam P. Leslie*
Jane Ludington
Norton M. Luger*
Audrey L. Lundell*
Douglas Lynch
Elizabeth S. and Michael Maholchic
Mary Mahoney
Lauren Marcus and Jay Grushkin
Gail Marino
Stephen Maroon
Joan Marsi*
Frank F. Martin
Elizabeth L. McAnulty*
Mary B. McCandless*
Waverly L. McCoy
Florence D. McCoy*
Madge R. McCracken*
H.R. McLane
Debbie and Mark McLaughlin
Alison McLean
Heinrich A. Medicus*
Margaret Mellody*
Helen H. Merriam*
Michael W. Miles
Jane P. Miller
Alyse M. Mills*
Robert Cleo Mitchell*
Ron Mix
Heidi Monnier
Murray S. Monroe
Harriet B. Morrison*
David M. Morse
Ruth Mulcahy
Lucille Nester*
Lucille E. Nestler*
Stan Neumann
Shirley B. Nielson*
Kellie Nix
Michael C. Nolan
Charles H. Norris, Ph.D.
Harold B. Norris*