Friends of Lotus
Friends of Lotus help underwrite everything: from Lotus Blossoms, to arts workshops throughout the year, to the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival.
Every gift counts; every gift makes a difference to thousands of people — of all ages — who experience Lotus programs each year.
Use the “Donate” button on this page to make an on-line donation now. To give monthly via automatic payments, visit this page. For more information about tax-deductible donations: 812-336-6599.
The Lotus Giving Circle
Patrons whose significant individual donations help underwrite our essential programming and activities.
Lotus Visionary ($5,000+)
Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF Fund
The Family of Michael and Joseph Fitzgerald
The Raymond Foundation
Lotus Global Voice ($2,500-$4,999)
Sandra Clark Women of Lotus, Adopt-A-School
Candice Foss & Armen Vartian Lotus Board, Candi Blossoms, Women of Lotus, Endowment
Charles Grannon Women of Lotus
Jan Grant & David Lawler Deborah’s Quilt, Women of Lotus
Lee Williams & Carol Simmons Adopt-a-School, Endowment, Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music, Women of Lotus, Hertling Fund
Lotus Benefactor ($1,500-$2,499)
Jane Clay Adopt-a-School, Women of Lotus
Bob Costello
Michael & Judith Fitzgerald
LuAnne & Bill Holladay Lotus Buds, Modus Lotus, Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music, Endowment
Deb Hutton Adopt-a-School, Women of Lotus, Lotus Endowment
Judy Klein & Malcolm Dalglish Medical Friends of Lotus, Great Wylie Street, Endowment, Lotus Board, Adopt-a-School
Deborah Klein Women of Lotus
Sherry Knighton-Schwandt Endowment, Adopt-a-School
Dan & Beth Lodge-Rigal Adopt-a-School
Kristina & Jason Simmonds BlossSimmonds, Medical Friends of Lotus, Lotus Board
Lotus Encore ($1,000-$1,499)
David & Anne Baas
Lisa Baker, DDS
Ruth & Douglass Boshkoff Confucius, Lotus Board, Hertling Fund, Endowment
Duane Busick
Gordon & Stephanie Dyott Adopt-a-School, Friends of Norm
Dan Enslow
Jennifer Hileman
Terry Howe
Charles & Sharon McKeen Medical Friends of Lotus
Kevin Montague Endowment
Sarah Ryterband Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music, Endowment
Paul Sturm Adopt-a-School, Endowment
Paul & Charlotte Zietlow Adopt-a-School, Confucius, Women of Lotus
Lotus Main Stage ($500-$999)
Marsha Bradford & Harold Dumes Women of Lotus, Adopt-a-School
John Byers
Jim Calli & Ann Marie Thomson Medical Friends of Lotus
Fred & Beth Cate
Fred & Sandra Churchill
Beth Ellis
Brad Etter
Lorraine & Rick Farrell
Melody Gongwer Medical Friends of Lotus
Selma Grant Adopt-a-School
Russ & Shelli Herndon
Mark Hood & Christine Haack
Michael Litwin
George Malacinski Women of Lotus
Miah & Jonathan Michaelsen Adopt-a-School
Dee Mortensen & Dean Lawler Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music
Sarah & David Noggle Adopt-a-School
Merrill & Deborah Piston-Hatlen
Karen Pitkin
Laura Plummer & Mike Nelson Adopt-a-School, Women of Lotus
Robert Poortinga Endowment
Andy & Barbara Qualls
Judith & A John Rose
Glenda Schulz Adopt-a-School, Kat Domingo Memorial, 722 Friends of Lotus, Endowment
Rob & Karen Green Stone Medical Friends of Lotus
Dorothy & David Sharp
Jo Throckmorton & Jillian Kinzie
Lisa & James Townsend Adopt-a-School
William Verhagen
Lotus Showcase ($250-$499)
Mark Adams
Deborah Allmayer Adopt-a-School
Sandra Bate Adopt-a-School
Cindy Blorstad Adopt-a-School
David & Margery Byrne
Patty & Danny Callison Women of Lotus, Adopt-a-School
Geoff & Karen Conrad
Rick & Diana Dupree Lotus Board, Endowment
Sunni Fass
Harriet & Bill Fierman Endowment, Mary’s Book Club
Kimberly Gray Lotus Board, Women of Lotus, Gray Blossoms, Endowment
Laura & Anthony Hammack Adopt-a-School, Women of Lotus
Steve Hedges Adopt-a-School
Jan Holloway
Joan & Robert Hongen Endowment
Brandi Host Endowment, Brandi’s Blossoms, Lotus Board, Lotus Buds, Women of Lotus
Mary Hubbard Adopt-a-School, Modus Lotus
Chris & Victoria Huntington Legal Friends, Endowment
Katherin Liell Legal Friends
Lance Like Legal Friends
Tamara Loewenthal Friends of Old Time & Celtic Music, Lotus Buds, Women of Lotus, Adopt-a-School
Nancy Lorey
Keith Lyle
Loraine Martin Adopt-a-School, Modus Lotus
Bridget & Eart McDaniel
Tom & Susan McGlasson
Michael & Laurie McRobbie Women of Lotus
Eric & Patricia Orth Medical Friends of Lotus, Mary’s Book Club
Shawn Reynolds & Pam Eddy Adopt-a-School
Eliot & Pamela Smith
Sarita and Ashok Soni
Sharon Stefanek
Doug & Kristin Varella Adopt-a-School
Doug Wissing Endowment
Jeremiah Young
Jeremy Zeichner Adopt-a-School
Lotus Friends ($100-$249)
Nina & Michael Alexeev
Steve Arbuckle Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music
Julie Auger & Yves Brun
Kathy Avers Women of Lotus, Kat Domingo Memorial
Lynn & Tom Bagley
Jessica Barley Adopt-a-School
Cem & Vicki Basman Adopt-a-School
Jennifer Bass & Michael Hamburger Adopt-a-School, Endowment, Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music
Sarah Baumgart & Bill Lozowski
Raglind Binkley
Mirka & Michael Berkvam
Boyan Boiadjiev & Kayleigh Lebak
Chris & Dave Bolis
Ellen Boshkoff Endowment
Mark & Katy Bradford Friends of Norm
Allison Carroll Endowment
Jim Caughlin & LeAnne Ellis Medical Friends
Pam & Jef Davidson & Family Adopt-a-School
Cynthia De Los Santos – Chan In memory of Kat Domingo
Melinda & Sterling Doster
Michael & Sarah Dunn
Kathleen Durkel
Mark Feddersen Adopt-a-School
Bob Flynn, Yvonne Wittmann, and Family
Sally Gaskill & Massimo Ossi
Billy Giles
Henry Glassie & Pravina Shukla
James & Connie Glen Kat Domingo Memorial
Barbara Goetze Kat Domingo Memorial
Sharon Grimble
Geoffrey Grodner & Lorelei Meeker
Phillipa Guthrie Adopt-a-School
Kathy & Chris Gutowsky Lotus Buds
Rajih & Darlene Haddawi
Stephen & JoEllen Ham
Melinda Hamilton Adopt-a-School, Kat Domingo Memorial
Steve Hendricks
Ed Herrmann Legal Friends
Sandra & James Hertling Hertling Education Fund
Monty & Janna Hocker
Linda Hunt & Timothy Morrison
Chris & Victoria Huntington Legal Friends of Lotus, Lotus Board, Endowment
Peter Jacobi
Martha Jacobs Endowment
Tina M. Jernigan
Jerry & Laura Jesseph
Diane Jung
Maureen Kavanaugh & Bradley Snyder
Iris Kiesling
Sylvia & Jack King
Susan Klein & Robert Agranoff Adopt-a-School
Alison La Rosa Montez Adopt-a-School
Tim & Sara Laughlin Endowment
Fritz Lieber Endowment
Caroline Lipson-Walker & George Walker
Rebecca Manring Women of Lotus, Hertling Fund
Pat & Jane Martin Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music
Nan McEntire Hertling Education Fund
Lee & Maria McKinley Medical Friends of Lotus
Robert Meitus & Carrie Newcomer Kat Domingo Memorial
Marta & John Miller
Louise & Rick Miracle Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music
Gilbert Mordoh Kat Domingo Memorial
Patricia Muller & Jill Jolliff Endowment, Lotus Board
Pat Newforth Adopt-a-School, Women of Lotus
Harold & Denise Ogren Endowment
Rita Paschke & Jack Wittman
Gary & Anne Palmer Adopt-a-School
Elizabeth & David Plant Lotus Buds, Women of Lotus
Sue & Lew Polsgrove Hertling Education Fund
Ron & Frona Powell
Luis Puga
Margaret Radke Endowment
Linda Raymond
Jessica Reed
Stanley Ritchie & Elisabeth Wright
Lauren Robel
Tim & Sharon Roualet
Kathy & Al Ruesink
Jerald & Nancy Ruff
Carol Seaman Women of Lotus
State Senator Vi Simpson Adopt-a-School
Steve & Esther Smail
Rex & Nancy Stockton Endowment
Tracey Stohr Adopt-a-School
George Stohner
Ruth & Verlon Stone Adopt-a-School
Gracia Valliant Adopt-a-School, Women of Lotus
John & Linda Whikehart
Anne & Bob Wrenn Medical Friends
Tom Zeta & Laura Pinhey
Lotus Donor (up to $99)
Marielle Abell Friends of Old Time & Celtic Music
Danise C. Alano Martin & Mat Alano Martin Lotus Buds, Women of Lotus
James Alexander & Wendi Chitwood Adopt-a-School
Joann Alexander Adopt-a-School
Colin & Lynn Allen Adopt-a-School
Jenny Anderson Adopt-a-School
Virginia Anderson Adopt-a-School
Sue Aquila Women of Lotus
Jan & Keith Arbogast
Bob Arnove & Toby Strout Women of Lotus, Greater Wylie Street
Sue Artmeier Adopt-a-School
Anne Auer Women of Lotus, on behalf of Girls Camp of Rock
Hayden Bangert Adopt-a-School
Julie Bauters Friends of Norm
Katie Becker Women of Lotus
Wendy Bernstein Hertling Fund
Tom Bewley
Stephanie Biehn
Myron & Susan Moses Bloom Adopt-a-School
Joseph & Mary Bonanno Adopt-a-School
Susan Bookout & Deandra Wallace Women of Lotus
Jennifer & Chris Borland Adopt-a-School
Gail Bray Women of Lotus
Evelyne Brancart Adopt-a-School
Anne & Jim Bright Adopt-a-School
Bonnie Brownlee Adopt-a-School
Lauren Bryant Women of Lotus
Paula Bryant Women of Lotus
Doris Jean Burton Adopt-a-School
Adriana Calinescu Adopt-a-School
Bruce Cassal Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music
Mark & Susan Ciancone Medical Friends of Lotus
Christine Clothier Women of Lotus
Andy Cobine Adopt-a-School
Kenya Cockerham Women of Lotus, Adopt-a-School
Mary Alice Cox & Jim Koch
Jesus & Char Dapena
Ann Deutch & Tom Hougham Endowment
Bob Duffy & Katy Benedict Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music
Judy & Jerry Farnsworth Women of Lotus
William Fatout
Margaret Fette Women of Lotus
Rob Fischman Adopt-a-School, Friends of Old-Time and Celtic Music
Holly Folk
T. Michael Ford Adopt-a-School
Lisa Gershkoff Adopt-a-School
Lynne Gilliatt Adopt-a-School
Madeleine Gonin Women of Lotus
Joan Greene, in memory of Kay Leyrer; Adopt-a-School
Charlotte Griffin
Kris Grube Adopt-a-School
Elizabeth Gwynn & Lee Mysliwiec Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music
Linda Handelsman Friends of Old-Time and Celtic Music
Sophia Hauserman & Gene Arnholt
Chris & Kristine Hawk Adopt-a-School
Bill Hays
Anne Hazeltine Adopt-a-School
Ledger Heavilon
Audrey Heller Women of Lotus
Israel Herrera Cardenas
Janna & Monty Hocker
Kate Hoerchler Adopt-a-School
Richard & Lois Holl
Susan Leyrer Holland Adopt-a-School
George Huntington Adopt-a-School, Lotus Board
Mark Hurley Adopt-a-School
David & Susan Jones
Olga Kalentzidou & Stephen Ball Adopt-a-School, Women of Lotus
Kaley & Matt Kaul, Adopt-a-School
Katherine & David Kearns
Ellen Ketterson & Val Nolan Women of Lotus
Barre Klapper Adopt-a-School
Jay Ladin
Grey Larsen & Cindy Kallet Endowment
James & Catherine Laughlin Medical Friends of Lotus
Brad Leftwich Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music
Deborah Lemon Adopt-a-School
Charles & Zelda Leslie Adopt-a-School
Guy & Connie Loftman Legal Friends
Cindy Lott Adopt-a-School
Tom Lovell Endowment
Chris Mandeville Adopt-a-School, in memory of Darrell Spears
Emilia Martins Adopt-a-School
Antonia Matthew Women of Lotus
Portia Maultsby Adopt-a-School, Women of Lotus
Tammy Minger Legal Friends of Lotus
Suzanne Mittenthal
Kimberley Morstatter Adopt-a-School
Beth Moses Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music
Alisha Mustafa Modus Lotus
Kate Myers Adopt-a-School
Laura Newton Women of Lotus
Deborah Norris Adopt-a-School
James & Anna Ochoa-Becker
Cindy Oswalt
Paul Papier
John Peterson Endowment
Bob & Peggy Petranoff Adopt-a-School
Vicki Pierce Adopt-a-School
Ellen Plummer Endowment
Larry Polley Adopt-a-School
William & Prema Popkin Adopt-a-School
Jane Potter
Jonathan Racek & Catherine Uber Racek Adopt-a-School
Lislott Richardson Adopt-a-School
Mark Richardson Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music
Shana Ritter Adopt-a-School
Alvin & Erna Rosenfeld Adopt-a-School
Mary Beth Roska Friends of Old-Time & Celtic Music
Heidi Ross Women of Lotus
Susan & Sarah Sandberg Women of Lotus
Scott & Ruth Sanders Adopt-a-School
Lucy Schaich Adopt-a-School, Women of Lotus
Jeremy Shere Adopt-a-School
Michael Shermis Women of Lotus
Annette Sisson & Jimmy Davis
Won & Kathy Simmonds Adopt-a-School
Ann Smith Women of Lotus; In memory of Kat Domingo
Tracy & Jamie Smith Adopt-a-School
Kayla Snell Adopt-a-School
Kim Stahl Adopt-a-School
Kathy Starks-Dyer Women of Lotus, Adopt-a-School
Peg Stice Women of Lotus
Douglas & Lynn Swany Adopt-a-School
Bobbi Tannehill-Liell Women of Lotus
Lynne & Charles Thompson Kat Domingo Memorial
Yolanda Treviño Endowment, Lotus Board
Holly & Tom Underwood
Marcia Veldman & Steve Cotter
Jo Ann Vogt Women of Lotus
Maria & Ron Walker Adopt-a-School
Teri Watkins Adopt-a-School
Jacque Watson
Mary Jo Weaver Adopt-a-School
Linda & Terrell Williamson Adopt-a-School
Rosalind Wolen
Eva Zagorski Women of Lotus
