Event Information

The Grand Rapids Oral Deaf (GROD) Charity Golf Classic is an annual benefit to raise funds for hearing impaired/deaf students at the Grand Rapids Oral Deaf Program. The money is used to provide special audiological equipment, purchase books for the literacy library, fund the preschool music program, and furnish playground equipment, among other needs.

This golf outing is a shot gun start, 4 person
scramble format.

Quail Ridge Golf Club
8375 36th St SE
Ada, Michigan 49301
616-676-2000

• Friday, May 2, 2008
• Entry fee: $100 per golfer
• 11:30am - registration and box lunch
• Free use of driving range
• 1:00pm - Shot gun start
• Golf bag attendants and cart service
• Individual contests such as "straightest
  drive" and "closest to pin"
• Hole-in-one prize of a 1 year car lease
• Giveaways
• Beverage cart on the course
• Dinner after event
• Raffle $2/ticket or $10/6 tickets

Team and individual registrations are due Friday, April 18. Click here for registration form. Registration and payment can be mailed to:

Grand Rapids Oral Deaf PTO
c/o Shawnee Park School
2036 Chesaning Drive
Grand Rapids, MI 49506

Contact our PTO President at president@GrandRapidsOralDeaf.org.

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About GROD

The Grand Rapids Oral Deaf Program (GROD) is a program dedicated to teaching children with hearing loss to listen and speak. The GROD Program is located within the Grand Rapids Public School System and serves the entire Kent Intermediate School District. The GROD Program, established in 1899, is nationally recognized for its excellence in auditory-oral education. Several children attending the program have moved to Kent County from other states because of the program's superior reputation and history of success. The mission of GROD is to enable children with hearing loss to gain the skills needed to perform in the classroom at the same level as their normal hearing peers and to become independent, speaking members of mainstream society.

• The GROD Program has a record of mainstreaming over 75% of their students into their neighborhood schools by the age of six.
  
  
• It is estimated the GROD Program saves taxpayers more than $1 million dollars every year in special education expenditures through early mainstreaming.
  
  
• The National Alexander Graham Bell Association has selected GROD as its Program of the Year twice - in 1979 and 1997.

The GROD Program services children from many different cultures, incomes, and with multiple disabilities, starting with an infant/parent home program and progressing to in school instruction. In addition to highly trained hearing impaired teachers, the GROD Program also employs a physical therapist, occupational therapist, social worker, translator and audiologist to meet the needs of our diverse student body.

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Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Advanced Bionics
Harry’s Auto Service Center

Silver Sponsors

Huntington Bank

Bronze Sponsors

Home Acres Building Supply
Hughes Management LLC
PACK-PRO The Packaging Professionals
Quail Ridge Golf Club
Waltz-Holst Blow Pipe Co., Inc.

Hole Sponsors

BDR, Inc.
Berends, Hendricks, Stuit Insurance Agency
Buer Well Drilling
Bulman Products
Creston Industrial Sales
Dematic
Eenhoorn LLC
Founders Bank & Trust
Great Lakes Shipping Co.
M & K Quality Truck Sales Orion Construction Inc.
Paragon Relocation Resources, Inc.
Phonak Hearing Systems
Prime Cote, Inc. Asphalt Maintenance Company
Ron Meyer & Associates Excavating, Inc.
Shawnee Park HI Teachers
Springthrough Technology & Marketing
The Hearing Clinic
West Michigan Ear Center, PLC
Weston's Floor Care
Ad Shop, Etc.
Amway Grand Plaza
Belle Montage Salon
Betsy Ratzsch Pottery
Bistro Bella Vita
Buffalo Wild Wings
Capelli Salon
Carol Roeda Studio
Carrabba's Italian Grill
Cedar Point
Chuck E. Cheese
Double JJ Resort
Egypt Valley Country Club
Ejá Salon
Family Fare Stores
Fifth Third Bank
Flat River Grill
Grand Pontiac of Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids Ballet Company
Grand Rapids Children's Museum
Grand Rapids Rampage
Intimate Affair Event Planning & Catering
John Ball Zoological Society
Macatawa Bank
Maple Hill Golf Course
Michigan Wholesale Golf
Papa Johns
Plastic Surgery Associates, P.C.
Quail Ridge Golf Club
Rep. Vern Ehlers
Romence Gardens
Tanaz Hair Boutique & Day Spa
TGI Fridays
West Michigan Whitecaps
Zeeland Lumber

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Photo Album

Click here to see last year's photos

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Contact Us

Grand Rapids Oral Deaf Program
2036 Chesaning SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506

Ph: (616) 819-3070
Fax: (616) 819-3239

To contact the GROD PTO specifically:

Grand Rapids Oral Deaf PTO
2036 Chesaning SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506

Or email any of our officers:

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