Darien Citizens of the Year Help Local Kids Achieve Dreams
Through The Gift of Carl Foundation, Robert and Charleen Vuillaume have helped hundreds of children and teens succeed in music, theater and the arts, while also supporting environmental education.
The good deeds happen quietly: piano lessons for a student here, a musical instrument for a student there. Darien is more subtly beautiful each year for the pockets of trees planted in its parks, three or four at a time, in memory of loved ones lost. Young adults with disabilities experience the thrill of taking the stage with the aid of a grant to the La Grange Actors with Special Needs Theater Group. Robert and Charleen Vuillaume are very humble about the difference they make through The Gift of Carl Foundation. But if they hear of a need that meets their foundation’s mission, the couple is there to fill it. The city of Darien recognized the Vuillaumes as the 2012 Citizens of the Year for their foundation’s work in Darien and beyond. “In…
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JGMB
5:56 am on Friday, February 3, 2012
They sound like such a wonderful couple. I look forward to meeting them at the celebration! more ›