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Article: Free Wheelchair Mission Founder Honored with Medallion for Entrepreneurship Award.
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- March 3, 2005
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SANTA ANA, Calif. -- The Beta Gamma Sigma Award Recognizes Those Who Successfully Combine Innovative Business Achievement with Service to Humanity
Free Wheelchair Mission founder Dr. Don Schoendorfer has been chosen by Beta Gamma Sigma, the national business honor society with more than 520,000 members, to receive its 2005 Medallion for Entrepreneurship award honoring his incredible work serving the disabled poor in developing countries. Schoendorfer, who earned a Ph.D. from MIT in Mechanical Engineering specializing in biomedical engineering, has developed and distributed thousands of the most rugged and cost-effective wheelchairs in existence -- a $3 plastic ...