We know that her legacy will live on. Naples philanthropist Lavern Norris Gaynor gave to community Harriet Howard Heithaus, Naples Daily News
Most people would call installing a camera on the Naples Pier a brilliant marketing tool, luring 2 million annual visits to its panorama of billowing surf, wood-planked jetty and pearly beaches.
But Lavern Norris Gaynor, driving force behind putting the pier online, had a different motivation.
She wanted to bring that view into the homes of the aging Naples population who could no longer walk their city pier. They could glimpse the waves, see the happy beachgoers and watch the sunset from their wheelchairs or sickbeds.
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MailOnline reports that Gordonstoun, a leading independent boarding school in Scotland, had originally released the historic reports with permission from Buckingham Palace in anticipation of his birthday in June this year, when the late royal would have turned 100. The report cards date back to 1947, when the school’s headmaster was asked to write a record of Philip’s school career a few weeks ahead of his engagement to the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, in 1947. The notes cover the years 1934 to 1939, at which point Philip left the school to embark on his career at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth.
But Lavern Norris Gaynor, driving force behind putting the pier online, had a different motivation.
She wanted to bring that view into the homes of the aging Naples population who could no longer walk their city pier. They could glimpse the waves, see the happy beachgoers and watch the sunset from their wheelchairs or sickbeds.
Gaynor, who died April 12, at age 97, had that kind of mind and heart, said Judy Bishop, director of Naples Backyard History. I have never met a more giving, caring kind person in my life. And it s not because she’s given a lot of money, even though she has supported causes generously. She lives it. She s been very conscientious in everything she supports, said Bishop, who met the woman everyone knew as Lal, 12 years ago.
Cumbrian charity remembers lifelong contribution of Prince Philip
A Cumbrian charity has remembered the lifelong contribution of Prince Philip.
HRH the Duke of Edinburghâs longest charitable commitment was with The Outward Bound Trust, which is this week marking his lifelong support for the development of young people through learning and adventure in the wild.
The educational charity has three residential centres in Cumbria at Eskdale, Howtown and Ullswater and was founded in 1941 by HRH Prince Philipâs teacher and mentor Kurt Hahn.
The Duke of Edinburgh, who died on Friday aged 99, became involved at the organisationâs inception as a supporter before joining its board as a patron in 1953 until his retirement in 2019.