The Trudy and Don Steen Family Campus
its impact and acknowledging the legacy spent in and around hospitals, getting Don
that Don had built over the years in his treatments for his disease. In doing so,
industry and in his community. Led by she and Marc also counted their blessings
Bill Wilcox and Ken Newman, the Friends as a family that had the means to seek
of Don Steen gift raised additional funds treatment in places far from home without
for an initiative that would have meant so having to worry about lodging, meals or
much to the man for whom it was named. other expenses.
“I was blown away by the number of
“We met so many people who were
his friends and business associates who struggling through their treatments,
contributed, and the amount they were and also struggling financially,” Trudy
able to raise,” Trudy remarked. “I was very, said. “They had the cost of hotels, eating
very pleasantly surprised by how it turned out and parking, and sometimes they
out. These were lifelong friends of Don’s, had to leave their children at home in
both business-wise and personally. For another state.
them to do this was very impressive.”
The journey to wellness from a
“Don would have thought that Hope
Lodge was the perfect way to help
diagnosis of cancer can be a long people. It’s hard enough to go through
one, fraught with many hurdles. Trudy cancer treatments without having to deal
remembers her husband’s own cancer with all these other things too,” she said.
journey and reflects on the months they The whole Steen family believes
Trudy Steen, Marc
and Shanna Steen
Trudy and Don Steen
healing — is incredibly thoughtful.
that this facility will not only help alleviate Providing something like Hope Lodge
concerns, but will also further support for people really helped us make this
healing, foster wellness and provide decision as something we wanted to
a unique sense of
community for people
get behind,” Marc said.
Marc sits on the ACS Hope Lodge
going through a steering committee, contributing his
similar journey. time and expertise in guiding the facility.
“This opportunity
to help solve a
problem for
people — not
Through this initiative, he is able to put to
work not only his business acumen, but
also his experience as a family member of
someone undergoing cancer treatment.
just in providing It’s something that will always be top of
them a place to mind and close to his heart, and is yet
stay, but also another way to honor his father’s legacy.
a nurturing
“We all are very honored to be
environment in a part of something this impactful,”
this place of Marc commented.
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THE COMPASS / BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE FOUNDATION NEWS / SUMMER 2019