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Akron Zoo enhances accessibility with new sensory features
by Craig Webb, Akron Beacon Journal The Akron Zoo has added some new amenities to help make visits more enjoyable for all guests. A new guest Comfort Station, along with a new program dubbed Sensory Explorers, were dedicated March 2.Pam Holtz, Chief External Affairs...
Moggie’s Guest Comfort Station and Sensory Explorers Speech
Guest Comfort Station and Sensory ExplorersAkron Zoo | March 2, 2026 Margaret Reymann SkinnerVice Chairman | Charles and Salome Reymann Foundation Good Morning! I am Margaret Reymann Skinner, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Charles and Salome Reymann...
Fundholder Spotlight: The Charles and Salome Reymann Foundation
The Fire
The Reymann family fondly remembers two of our uncles, known for their high jinks, rambunctiousness and boisterous personalities, Charles and Salome’s sons, Clete and Clem, born March 21, 1922. When recalling family lore, many have referenced recollections as “before...
‘Touching on the past.’ Nonprofit comes home to family estate in Ellet
by Mark J. Price, Akron Beacon Journal Who says you can’t go home again? After years of operating from a post office box, storing records in family basements and meeting in borrowed spaces, The Charles and Salome Reymann Foundation has returned to its ancestral roots...
Our Journey Home
October 25, 2025 was truly a "grand" day for The Charles and Salome Reymann Foundation as the Reymann family, Foundation members, Foundation partners, and community friends and neighbors, celebrated the completion of Our Journey Home with the official Grand Opening of...
A Journey for a Miracle
Reymanns love to spin a yarn. One of my favorite childhood memories is looking forward to the stories I would hear at family gatherings from my great-uncles and grandfather about their youth. Stories of home cooked meals, feats of sportsmanship, or good fortune, and...
Alice Luse
At an early age, Alice Maher Luse learned the joy of service to others. Growing up in a loving family of seven children, her impressively accomplished parents were excellent role models of service to the country. Alice’s mother, Margaret (Midge), was a Lieutenant in...
Chris Reymann
Meet Chris Reymann. He’s one solid guy, in every sense. Chris, son of Barbara and Thomas Reymann, was recruited to the board by Chair Steve Reymann, which further proves that the Reymann Foundation knows how to tap talent within the family tree! Chris and his brothers...
Mary Michael Lawson
An abiding personal commitment to the Reymann Foundation’s mission led Mary Kennedy Lawson to lend her time and talents to serve on the Board of Directors. Currently operating as the Secretary, her scope also encompasses duties on the Marketing & Communications...