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Pine Family Legacy Fund

Jon Pine, center, with two friends enjoying conversation together after a HUI Tenants Council meeting: Ed Kirkland (left) and Andrew Kelfalla (right).

$12,393 of $100,000 raised

Donate to the Pine Family Legacy Fund in Memory of Jon Pine

Written by Danny Pine

We love and miss our beloved family member Jon Pine.  Jon was a long-time tenant of Housing Unlimited’s lovely townhome in Rockville.  In memory of Jon and in a show of support for Housing Unlimited (HUI), we kindly ask that you join us in making a donation to HUI.  All gifts to HUI in memory of Jon will be credited to the Pine Family Legacy Fund.  Our Fund’s fundraising goal is $100,000.  When we achieve our goal, we look forward to gathering with you for a celebratory  naming of HUI’s Rockville townhome as the “Pine Family Legacy Home.”  Jon’s legacy, and yours, will be memorialized through a donation of $250 or more, but any amount is deeply appreciated. All donations, unless wishing to remain anonymous, will be listed on this page.

 

HUI’s mission is to provide affordable housing in Montgomery County for adults in mental health recovery, HUI empowers tenants like Jon to thrive in their communities as neighbors, friends, employees, students and volunteers. Today, HUI serves 90 homes with over 247 individuals. To take a virtual tour of one of HUI’s homes, please click here to watch a short video.

 

We lost dear Jon on July 21st, 2022. The entire family, including his “family” at HUI, deeply miss him. A man known by many as a gentle giant, Jon was an avid reader and loved to discuss books, especially books about sports. It was very important to Jon to give back to the community. Throughout his 20-year tenure as a HUI tenant, Jon took great pride in his role as a HUI public education paid intern and proudly represented HUI at housing and mental health resource fairs. He also spoke movingly to community groups—including many school and religious school youth groups—about the importance of his HUI housing and his journey of mental health recovery.

 

Jon particularly wanted young people to understand the harm that can be caused by bullying. He spoke candidly about his own very painful experience with bullying and challenged the students to swiftly intervene and prevent any bullying in their classroom. At the end of all of his presentations, Jon loved to invite the audience to test his encyclopedic knowledge of sports trivia. He fielded any and all questions, but no one was ever able to stump him. He pitched a perfect game.

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Big Train Supporter Ezra Pine throws out first pitch.

Our Deepest Gratitude to the following Pine Family Legacy Fund supporters.

Your financial gifts will ensure that individuals, like Jon, will have the opportunity to live independently in a healthy community, making friends and grateful for a life fully lived.

PineLegacyDonors

2024 Gifts

David Anolick

Barbara Bartison

Robin Beasley

Brenda Benson

Melissa Brotman

Melissa Brotman (on Behalf Of Acbm)

Carolyn Butler

Kenneth and Karyn Calvert

Claudia Cameron

Lauren Cernea

Paula and Matthew Cohn

Edwin Cook

Judy Cooper

Lynne Coven

Lisa Cullins

Mollie Davis

Paul Delgrosso

Ben Ellerin

Neir Eshel

Tom Frolick

Charri and Josh Goldman

Amanda & Nathan Guyer

Julie Hart

David Heilbron

Lauren Henry

Jeffrey and Michelle Hettleman

Paula and Marty Himeles

Lucy Justement

Parmis and Nate Khosravi-Addlestone

Katharina Kircanski

Bob and Ellen Leibenluft

Lisa and Matthew Levy

Krystal Lewis

Sarah Lisanby

Abby Mandel

Andrea Martinez

Kalina Michalska

Kalina Michalska

Diane Milavetz

Maryland Pao

Deborah Pizzini

Purnima Qamar

Diana Rodriguez

Abigail Romirowsky

Norman Rosenthal

Doreen and Joseph Rosenthal

Nancy Roucher

Quinn Salditch

Sarah Kroloff Segal

Wendy Silverman

Karen Singer

Avy Stock

Ilana Tanowitz

Anita and Ajay Thapar

Erin Tone

Emilio and Cristina Valadez-Roman

Laurie Wakschlag

Anderson Winkler

Marie Zelenina

Selin Zeytinoglu

Robert Zucker

Nancy Zucker

​Niki Karp

2023 Gifts

Daniel Pine and Judith Brazen

Miryam and Jeff Kiderman

2022 Gifts

Abbott Laboratories - EGC

David Anolick

Barbara Bartison

Robin Beasley

Carol Brazen

Melissa Brotman

Malcolm Busch

William Carrington

Lauren Cernea

Jonathan Cohen

Paula and Matthew Cohn

Edwin Cook

Lynne Coven

Lisa Cullins

Mollie Davis

Chana Engel

Lisa Felber

Tom Frolick

Beth Glicker

Joshua Goldman

Richard Gross

Jamie Hennelly

Mary Deborah Hennelly

Robert Hennelly

Hillel at FIU

Sheryl and Bob Isaacs

Lucy Justement

Louise Kemper

Hanna Keren

Parmis Khosravi

Miryam Kiderman

Linda Leffman

Krystal Lewis

Gloria Lieberman

Ellen Lindenbaum

Harry Macks

Diane Milavetz

Reut Naim

Linda Nathan

Maryland Pao

Susan Perl

Daniel Pine

Rabbi Debra Pine

Jen Platt

Janet Rauer

Naomi Ronis

Joseph Rosenthal

The Ross Center

Nancy Roucher

Sheila Russian

Lori Scott

Carole Seidman

Ira Sills

Wendy Silverman

Aviva Snyder

Morgan Stanley

Linda Strauss

Ilana Tanowitz

Sandra Teitelbaum

Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele

Laurie Wakschlag

Lynda and Jerry Weinstein

Jo Ann Windman

Esther Winikoff

Anderson Winkler

Jonah Zinn

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