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Health & Wellness

Dayton Christian grad fights for COVID-19 testing

May 3, 2020 By Russell Florence, Jr.

Justin Bellante, a graduate of Dayton Christian High School and former resident of Englewood, is Co-Founder, President and CEO of Atlanta-based healthcare and technology company BioIQ, which recently added antibody testing to its COVID-19 testing platform. (Contributed photo)

As many stay-at-home orders have lifted across the country, the idea of going back to health before going back to work has become pivotal to the national COVID-19 discussion. Among those fighting for the growing need to accelerate widespread testing is Justin Bellante, Co-Founder, President and CEO of Atlanta-based BioIQ.

“How do you get people back to work? We liken it to after 9/11,” said Bellante, a Dayton Christian High School graduate formerly of Englewood. “After 9/11 no one wanted to get on an airplane. And it wasn’t until the TSA was created and so much testing, measurement and screening was (implemented) at airports that enough confidence was provided to the general public that it was safe to get on an airplane again. So, when you think about going back to work it’s really analogous to that. Are we going to, as private employers or public society or governments, start to create an infrastructure and framework where we feel it’s safe to go back to work? And, of course, the most important thing is testing. So, in an ongoing way, you have to know if you’re safe in that environment. The cornerstone of a back to work program has to be ongoing assessment and contact tracing, which has been validated in South Korea and other countries as the recipe to manage the virus until we learn more or develop a vaccine.”

Founded in 2005 in Santa Barbara, California, BioIQ, a healthcare engagement and clinical adherence technology platform company, recently added antibody testing to its numerous COVID-19 initiatives, including saliva RT-PCR diagnostic testing, for health plans, employers and government agencies. The company is particularly conducting quantitative antibody testing, which is done in a laboratory on a large clinical analyzer with an accuracy of 95 percent or more, according to Bellante.

“The RT-PCR test (determines) whether or not someone currently has the virus,” he explained. “The antibody test is more downstream. It determines if someone previously had the virus and if their body produced antibodies to fight the virus. Antibodies last for a long period of time. What’s so interesting about this is we think over time that being able to do two of those antibody tests will help us understand if someone is immune to the condition. Meaning, those are people we would value in society because they can’t get the virus again. But epidemiologists and virologists don’t know right now if you can get it again. Is this like the common cold, which you can catch every couple of months? Or is it like the flu, which you can get for one season, you fight it, and your body builds immunity to that strain until the following flu season when the flu mutates. We don’t know if the coronavirus is going to mutate. Season by season, is it going to be treated the way we treat the flu now? Or can your body even develop enough immunity? There have been cases recently in South Korea in which people had coronavirus, recovered, and two months later got it again. Because testing wasn’t available across the U.S., a lot of people probably had it or think they had it and now they want to know if they had it. It’s too late to do the PCR testing because the virus has probably left their bodies but the antibody testing will tell them if they had it.”
Bellante, who holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in materials engineering from Case Western Reserve University, also endeavors to bring the company’s initiatives to people on a wider scale. For example, there can be noticeable contrasts between labs with testing capacity in Arizona versus labs in New York lacking capacity.

“Even if you have testing available, it doesn’t mean you’re testing people,” he said. “We’re really focused on leveraging our technology platform to get testing capacity to the people that need them. You have to have workflows to get tests to hospitals, screening tents and critical infrastructure workers at their place of work such as a factory or retail distribution center. Creating workflows to get testing to people is the major challenge. And even in COVID-19 testing, we’re already starting to see disparities and outcomes between different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups who are being more impacted.”

With mid-April statistics indicating roughly 3.2 million COVID-19 tests have been conducted across America, which accounts for about 1 percent of the total U.S. population, Bellante is aware of the long road ahead. However, with guidance from a Public Health Advisory Board including Regina Benjamin, the 18th U.S. Surgeon General, he is grateful for the insightful perspectives allowing the company to thrive while helping to save as many lives as possible.

“We are in a crisis,” he said. “This is a pandemic. There are a lot of unknowns in this unprecedented situation. This isn’t going to go away May 1 or May 15 and the world is going to go back to normal. We’re more than likely going to deal with this situation for many months to come. We have to have urgency but not be in emergency mentality. We have to have urgency but we have to be thoughtful.”

Filed Under: Community, Health & Wellness, The Featured Articles Tagged With: BioIQ, COVID-19, Justin Bellante

Free Yoga and Meditation Gathering at Courthouse Square on Thursday September 12th

September 10, 2019 By LIbby Ballengee

Let’s spread Peace in Dayton. We can use it, especially this year! Join us for free Yoga & Meditation at Courthouse Square (aka Dayton Big Quiet) for our 4th year of UN Peace Day celebrations. It’s a beautiful space and time to be outside for yoga and meditation. Let’s come together, united for peace. All are welcome.

Yoga at 5:30pm – 6:15pm led by Vincent Moore
Guided Relaxation & Heartfulness Meditation 6:15pm – 7:00pm

Free of charge. Please bring a yoga mat, towel or blanket with you for yoga; a chair or cushion to sit on for meditation if you want one; and a water bottle.

Email [email protected] if you want us to bring a chair for you for meditation. Limited chairs available. More info on free ongoing meditation classes in the area at daytonheartfulness.org

 

Filed Under: Active Living, Community, Downtown Dayton, Health & Wellness, The Featured Articles

Free Trauma Relief & Healing Workshop on Sunday August 11th

August 9, 2019 By LIbby Ballengee

Many Daytonians are feeling extremely traumatized from the recent mass shooting and the Memorial Day tornadoes. We are all in need of healing.

To fill that need, The Ayurveda Natural Health Center is partnering with a collection of Dayton healers to present a FREE Trauma Relief Day of Healing on Sunday August 11th from 1:30pm-5:30pm at The Brightside (905 E 3rd St). Donations will be accepted and donated to the victim’s families and Moms Demand Action.

Classroom sessions:

  • 1:30 – 2:30 Somatic Trauma Resolution with Anjali Brannon from Ayurveda Natural Health Center
  • 2:30 – 3.30 Guided Relaxation and Meditation with Julie Bowen from Heartfulness Dayton
  • 3:30 – 4:30 Yoga with BeTrice Casada
  • 4:30 – 5:30 Pranic Healing with Felisha Beverly

*Please bring a yoga mat, blanket or towel if participating in yoga session.

Mini sessions will be offered throughout the event, including Thai Yoga & Swedish Massage, Pranic Healing, Somatic Trauma Resolution, Meditation, Reflexology, Reiki & Bemer from the above mentioned practitioners along with Janae Christopher, Lori Slone, Kathryn Stomps, Colleen Curran, Susan Nunn and more to be announced.

VeganDayton’s Shelly Gompers is providing snacks and information.

Filed Under: Charity Events, Community, DMM's Best Bets, Downtown Dayton, Health & Wellness, The Featured Articles Tagged With: ayurveda, Dayton, downtown, free, heal, healing, meditation, reflexology, relaxation, The Brightside, Things to Do, trauma, yoga

Plea For Help, Turns to Dream Come True

May 21, 2019 By The Food Adventures Crew Leave a Comment

**** UPDATE to OUR PREVIOUS ARTICLE “HAMBURGER WAGON OWNER’S PLEA FOR HELP” ****

In a world of sad news, this story will restore your faith of people, and shows how special people are in the Miami Valley.  As you may recall we had been following the story of HAMBURGER WAGON OWNER JACK SPERRY.  He was fighting a lifelong illness, of all things called “Berger’s” disease.  The progression of this syndrome, leaves the person with a gradual decline in kidney function over a 15 year period, eventually resulting in renal failure.

TIME OF NEED

It was early 2019, Jack had run out of time, he had just turned 56 years old and his kidney function was bordering on 15%.  The doctors told him he was weeks away from dialysis, and he needed a new kidney.

Along with our readers, many news and social outlets reached out to the community.  The response was overwhelming.  There were so many requests for donors, that the University of Cincinnati hospital had to put a pause on processing any more matches for Jack.

Alex and Jack – Pre Operation

WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

As the first batch of tests came through, he had a match.  But they had to do more tests to make sure the match was exact.  It was.  Even more incredible, is that match was his fiancee Alex Frazier.  Against all reasonable odds, it was fate that she would be his hero.  Jacks chances were looking better.

Surgery was scheduled for Monday May 20th at University of Cincinnati.  The plan was to take one of Alex’s regular functioning kidneys and insert it into Jacks abdomen and connect it to his existing 2 kidneys.  Alex would be left with one kidney, which is strong enough that she could function normally with it.

As this past weekend went by, Jack visited with friends and relaxed.  He talked with The Food Adventures Crew and  rubbed it in that he had landed a Rock N Green Tomato Festival sponsor just hours before surgery.  “Im in renal failure and still kicking butt” he joked.

SURGERY DAY

Surgery was performed Monday May 20th, in the morning.   Then, the first word came through Monday afternoon,  a friend wrote on Facebook.  “Alex and Jack are out of surgery, Alex is recovering well and Jack’s new kidney is performing wonderfully.”  This was the first news, and it was tremendous news.

RECOVERY

Today (Tuesday May 21st) we received some joking texts from Jack and an eventual phone call.  Jack is sore as they have reduced his pain meds and he has gotten out of bed for the first time.  Joking about his high school football days at Centerville, he said “I should be back in the locker room in a few days, but I will have some stadium steps to run as punishment for missing practice.”  Asked how he feels, he said he is very sore.  He also said that Alex was in pain yesterday too, understandably.  He should improve every day and after a few weeks he will be cleared to drive again.  “I am hoping to be at the Rock N Green Tomato Fest.” he said.  We told him good, because Elvis, was looking forward to it.

THANK YOU

On behalf of the Sperry family, and Alex Heeter and the Frazier family, thank you for your support.  In a time of need, to see so many generous people willing to take a risk to help save someones life is a lesson in humanity.  We are cautiously optimistic that Jack and Alex will have a speedy recovery and a chance at a long, love filled life.  The MostMetro.com family is grateful to call them friends, and also to have friends like the many of you who signed up to donate for Jack.

Here are 2 links to organ donation

— KIDNEY DONATION:

— GENERAL ORGAN DONATION:

 

 

Filed Under: Dayton Dining, Food Adventures, Getting Involved, Health & Wellness, The Featured Articles Tagged With: jack sperry, kidney donation

Luminaries of Dayton: William Judkins Conklin, M. D.

September 19, 2018 By Angie Hoschouer

William Judkins Conklin, A. M., M. D., was born in Sidney, Ohio on December 1, 1844. He entered the Ohio Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1866. He began the study of medicine with his father, Dr. H. S. Conklin, one of the most prominent physicians of the Miami Valley and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in the spring of 1868.

In 1869, the Detroit Medical College placed upon him the ad eundem degree, a courtesy degree awarded by one university or college to an alumnus of another. In May, he was appointed assistant physician of the Dayton Asylum for the Insane, a position he held until December 1871 when he resigned to accept a partnership with Dr. J. C. Reeve. In 1876, he was appointed by Governor R. B. Hayes a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dayton Asylum for the Insane. From 1875 to 1886, he was a member of the faculty of Starling Medical College in Columbus, Ohio, first as professor of physiology and afterward as professor of the diseases of children. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Ohio State Medical Society, the State Sanitary Association, and the Montgomery County Medical Society. He was also a member of the surgical staff of St. Elizabeth Hospital and was also in association with Miami Valley Hospital.

Dr. Conklin was a frequent contributor to both medical and literary journals. In Dayton, he served as Director of the Merchants National Bank. In 1875, Dr. Conklin married Catherine Beckel, daughter of Daniel Beckel. Their son, Dr. Daniel Beckel Conklin, was associated with him in his medical practice.

William Judkins Conklin died on October 31, 1916. He is located in Section 52 Lot 1167.

Filed Under: Active Living, Community, Dayton History, Downtown Dayton, Health & Wellness, The Featured Articles Tagged With: Dayton, Doctors of Dayton, Downtown Dayton, Things to do in Dayton, Woodland Cemetery

Still Time To Register For Breast Wishes 5k for Kelli

August 13, 2018 By LIbby Ballengee

Many women we know and love have been affected by breast cancer, including Kelli James, a young mother and beloved sister, who died in the prime of her life. Her sisters, Elesha Snyder and Mandi Moore, decided to both honor their sister and help other women and families in the same situation. The founded the Breast Wishes Foundation to bring joy to those who are suffering with spa days, restaurant gift cards, yoga retreats, nutrition classes, family vacations and financial assistance for medical bills and holistic treatments that aren’t covered by insurance.
The 6th annual 5k for Kelli Run/Walk is Breast Wishes Foundation’s biggest fundraiser of the year, and is coming up this weekend, on August 18th, 2018 at the beautiful Wegerzyn Gardens Metro Park. Since Kelli loved fairies, runners are encourage to dress in their fairy best! No fairy gear? No problem! They will have tutus, wings and flower crowns at the merchandise tent.
This is run / walk 5k, so even if you’re not a runner, you can walk it and support this worthwhile local charity! Foro the competitors out there, awards to the top 3 male and female in each age group and the top 3 male and female overall. Please do consider supporting this fabulous organization!

How to Go?

What: 5k for Kelli Run/Walk

When: August 18, 2018 at 9am 

Where: Wegerzyn Gardens Metro Park at 1301 E. Siebenthaler Avenue. The race will take place on path along the Stillwater River.
Cost: $25-online registration at speedy-feet.com until August 14th. Paper registration at George’s Family Restaurant 5216 North Dixie Drive until the evening of August 17th. On site registration tent opens at 7:30am on race day.
Also – they need volunteers! If you’re interested please contact our volunteer coordinator at [email protected]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=7IdOsIF5Z44

Filed Under: Active Living, Charity Events, Getting Involved, Health & Wellness, Runners, The Featured Articles, Volunteer Opportunities Tagged With: 5K, 5k for Kelli, active, Active Living - Running, benefit, breast cancer, Breast Wishes, cancer, Dayton, Events, fundraiser, Kelli, runners, Speedy Feet, Things to Do, Things to do in Dayton, volunteer

What is a Health Coach Anyway ?

July 2, 2018 By The Food Adventures Crew 1 Comment

Our new in house Healthy Food guru !  Welcome Jessie !

The Food Adventure Crew is happy to welcome our in-house healthy food guru Jessie Whitesell to our team.  She is a loving mom, wife and friend, and brings such positive energy to our group.  She will give a much needed spin on Food Adventures.

********* Soooo…. what exactly is a health coach anyway???? **********

DEFINING HEALTH COACH
As the new face of wellness to the Food Adventure Crew, I wanted to take a moment to clarify exactly what a health coach is, how I became certified, and how this career is forging new ground in the allied health care system.

Also known as a wellness consultant, health coaches are certified professionals, offering a fairly new link in the allied health professional network.  Together, allied health professionals work in teams to prevent disease and its progression, understand its root cause, and provide a range of direct patient/client care and support.

Specifically, a health coach works with individual clients to create and implement health improvement interventions.  At the core, we analyze disease risk and prevention.  The goal is to create a balanced approach to holistic health and healing.  The work is client-centered, allowing the client to create solutions and strategies that will work best for their unique lifestyle.  Working as dedicated advocates, health coaches develop a collaborative relationship with their clients to improve their lifestyle for the better.  Time is spent exploring a client’s baseline of how they are currently living their life, what their daily habits are, established routines of living, and analyzing where improvements can be made.  Once areas are identified where behavior change and modifications would be beneficial, the client then prioritizes these needs.  Together, an action plan is implemented, working toward highly personalized goals set by the client.

 

PRIORIIZE
Overwhelm is a common theme and setback when working on behavior change. Therefore in my specific work at Jessie Whitesell Health + Wellness, the client creates and prioritizes individual action steps. The focus is only on  one change or new behavior at a time.  Once that behavior is underway or possibly mastered, a new behavior then becomes the focus.  Implementing these small changes, one behavior at a time, creates the foundation and the building blocks for sustainable habits to living one’s healthiest life.

 

Discover things like Celery Juice

Through strategies focusing on stress management, proper nutrition, quality sleep, and appropriate exercise and movement, clients are asked take a proactive approach towards controlling their own health.  Clients are educated and encouraged to develop a growth mindset and create lifestyle changes that promote well being for long term wellness.

 

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HEALTH
Within my first two years of working in the fitness industry as a personal trainer, I quickly recognized that my background in counseling psychology was a huge attribute to how I was effectively working with my clients.  Behavioral change was clearly going to be a necessary part of my work if I wanted to be effective.  I soon explored all of the health coaching certifications and chose the American Council of Exercise Health Coach Certification.  ACE is the only organization whose health coaching certification is accredited by the National Council on Certifying Agencies (NCCA). This distinction means the certification has been officially recognized by the Institute for Credentialing Excellence as a credential whose holders are competent professionals in the field of health coaching.

 

Currently, there is no licensure requirement or standardized set of education to become a health coach due to zero state or national accrediting organizations governing the practice of health coaching. Therefore, it is up to the client or employer to demand this type of education before hiring a coach.

Get the family involved in healthy lifestyles

 

Jessie Whitesell Health + Wellness has since grown to reach more clients more effectively with these credentials. As well, my work as a certified health coach inspired me to also become a certified behavioral specialist, fitness nutritionist, and autoimmune paleo coach.

 

I am confident in my practice that I am positively affecting the lives of my clients and their families.  I believe that this career path will be growing monumentally in the coming years as the allied health care network recognizes the integral role that health coaches play in creating health and well being in the lives of their patients and clients.

 

Jessie Whitesell
BA in Education

  1. Ed. Counseling Psychology.

ACE Certified Personal Trainer, Health Coach, Fitness Nutritionist  + Behavioral Coach
Certified Autoimmune Paleo Coach

Visit us for new, original Food Adventure articles here,  EVERY week on Dayton Most Metro.

Jessie is challenged with feeding an active, busy family and still preparing healthy meals

You will see some new healthy tips on here …

Get your kids involved in healthy habits

Sweet Potatoes and Eggs..

Stuffed Peppers

A Hungry Health Coach !

Filed Under: Active Living, Dayton Dining, Food Adventures, Health & Wellness, The Featured Articles Tagged With: Food Adventures, health coarch, Jessie Whitesell, Jessie Whitesell Health + Wellness

International Best Selling Author visits Dayton to Discuss Power of Meditation

June 22, 2018 By LIbby Ballengee

We are living in a time of much discord, both within the society at large, and within our own hearts. It’s a time when many people are finding the stresses of everyday modern life are taking a toll on their health, careers and relationships. What can we do to find some balance in such an overwhelming, fast paced world?

One of the most important ways to maintain inner peace is through meditation. For most people, this advice is not new. They’ve heard it time and again, but with so much to do, who has time to do “nothing”? Ultra successful people like Steve Jobs, Oprah, Seinfeld, Madonna and many others credit meditation as a key factor in their success. If they have time to meditate, then surely we do too!

Taking time to meditate is not “doing nothing.” It’s giving your restless mind time to calm down, to slow your heart rate, and connect with your inner-self. Uma Mullapudi, a local meditation trainer, explained to me “You take a shower and brush your teeth. You don’t think about it, it’s just part of your daily routine. Meditation is a cleansing for the mind, and it needs it just as badly as your body.” I inquired why our minds need this cleansing so badly. “It’s because you take in stressors and negative impressions going through your day. Meditation, especially Heartfulness method, clears those away.”

The Heartfulness Way that Mullapudi describes is a century-old method of meditation with the power to facilitate an immediate, tangible spiritual experience, irrespective of a person’s faith. This non-denominational practice is taught all over the world, and most recently, the subject of a new best selling book The Heartfulness Way – Simple Tools for Spiritual Transformation. In this heart-centered book, a student, Joshua Pollock, is in conversation with his teacher, Kamlesh D. Patel—affectionately known as Daaji.

While many books describe refined states of being, The Heartfulness Way goes further, providing a pragmatic course to experience those states for oneself, which, per the book’s guiding principle, is “greater than knowledge.” Joshua Pollock is a Heartfulness trainer and practitioner from the United States. In fact, he visited Dayton in his early days of learning the Heartfulness meditation practice.  He returns to Dayton on June 24th and June 25th to discuss the journey of writing this book, and how Heartuflness has changed his life, and can help yours too!

The sessions include Q&A with the Joshua Pollock, along with a 30 min Heartfulness medtation session. Find out how you can earn about the Heartfulness Way at one of two local sessions listed below. Also a trailer for the book is at bottom of this article.

How to Go?

Sunday, June 24
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Heartfulness Dayton Meditation Center
3153 Lantz Rd.,
Beavercreek, OH 45432

Monday, June 25
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Dayton International Peace Museum
208 W. Monument Ave,
Dayton, OH 45402

For more information:

Phone: 937-427-0886
Email: [email protected]

Register Now

 

 

 

 

 

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Luminaries of Dayton: Dr. Dagobert Anton Scheibenzuber

April 28, 2018 By Angie Hoschouer

Dr. Dagobert  Anton Scheibenzuber was devoted to the practice of medicine and displayed considerable power in coping with the intricate problems that continually confronted him as a physician. He was born near the Danube in Austria on December 5, 1868. His father, Anton Scheibenzuber, was also a doctor and brought the family to Hamilton, Ohio in 1870. Anton moved his practice to Dayton after a few years and died in Dayton in 1891.

In 1886, Dagobert became a student at the University of Vienna, where his father had previously been a student. There he attended lectures for four years and spent six months studying his profession in Prague before moving back to the states. In 1891, he graduated from the Cincinnati School of Medicine & Surgery and practiced in Dayton. He was a Professor of Pathological Anatomy and Histology at the Cincinnati School.

Dr. Scheibenzuber was the first pathologist appointed at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Dayton and served in that capacity for five years. He served as physician and surgeon for St. Joseph Orphans Home in Dayton and was Medical Examiner for the Cleveland Life Insurance Co.

Dr. Dagobert Anton Scheibenuzber died on February 25, 1936 at the age of 69.He is buried in Section 113 Lot 101. Anton Scheibenzuber died on August 11, 1891 at the age of 49. He is located on the family lot in Section 113.

Woodland Cemetery, founded in 1841, is one of the nation’s oldest rural garden cemeteries and a unique cultural, botanical and educational resource in the heart of Dayton, Ohio. Visit the cemetery and arboretum and take one of the many tours Woodland offers free of charge. Most of Dayton’s aviation heroes, inventors and business barons are buried at Woodland.

Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum is located at 118 Woodland Avenue off of Brown Street near the University of Dayton Campus. The Woodland Office is open Monday through Friday 8 am to 5 pm and Saturday 8 am to 12 pm. The Cemetery and Arboretum are open daily from 8 am to 6 pm. The Mausoleum is open daily from 9 am to 5 pm. For more information, call 937-228-3221 or visit the Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum website.

Filed Under: Community, Dayton History, Downtown Dayton, Health & Wellness, The Featured Articles Tagged With: Dayton Ohio, Downtown Dayton, St. Elizabeth Hospital, Things to do in Dayton, Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum

Luminaries of Dayton: Nathan M. Stanley

March 30, 2018 By Angie Hoschouer

Dayton Daily News, March 18, 1942
Funeral For N. M. Stanley To Be Friday

Funeral services for Nathan Myer Stanley, 76, of 1719 Radcliff rd., founder of the Stanley Manufacturing Co., whose death occurred late Tuesday night, will be held at the Boyer mortuary, 609 Riverview av., at 10 a.m. Friday. Officiating at the services will be Dr. Phil Porter, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, and Dr. C. Lee Scott, minister of First Unitarian church. Friends may call at the mortuary after 4 p.m. Thursday.

Mr. Stanley had been ill for more than a year but his death was immediately due to a heart attack. At the time of his death he was chairman of the board of the Univis Lens Co. Mr. Stanley was active in the Dayton Philharmonic association, was a member of the First Unitarian church and of the Dayton Bicycle club and Dayton City club. He is survived by his wife, Minnie J. Stanley; two sons, George F. Stanley, president of the Stanley Manufacturing Co., and Myer Hewson Stanley, secretary-treasurer of the Univis Lens Co.; five granddaughters; one grandson and one sister, Mrs. Eve Weiner.

Born in Exeter, England, Mr. Stanley as a youth became connected with the optical business, which his family followed in Exeter. When he was 18 years old, Mr. Stanley went to Canada with a cousin, Barnet Laurence, who was a wholesale optician in Montreal. During his early years, Mr. Stanley traveled the United States as a representative of the Laurence Company. On a visit to Dayton, Mr. Stanley was convinced by John Breen, then proprietor of the railroad station restaurant, that Dayton had fine prospects as a city.

Shortly thereafter, Mr. Stanley opened up an optical department in the H. D. Carnell drug store at Third and Main streets. He followed this venture by opening up more optical stores and eventually becoming engaged in the wholesale optical business. Experimenting with glues in order to paste metal letters on glass doors, Mr. Stanley discovered processes that resulted in the establishment of the Stanley Manufacturing Co.

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley visited England during World War I and there Mr. Stanley learned of a new type of bifocal lens. He purchased the American rights for the lens. In 1926, he started the Univis Lens Co., located in one room in the Third National bank building. The Univis Lens Co. had a plant on the old McCook Field site. The company was recognized as one of the nation’s principle manufacturers of high-grade bifocal lenses. This company and the Stanley Manufacturing Co., both monuments to the creative energies of Mr. Stanley, at one time employed 600 workers.

Nathan M. Stanley died on March 17, 1942. He is located in Section 121 Lot 262.

Woodland Cemetery, founded in 1841, is one of the nation’s oldest rural garden cemeteries and a unique cultural, botanical and educational resource in the heart of Dayton, Ohio. Visit the cemetery and arboretum and take one of the many tours Woodland offers free of charge. Most of Dayton’s aviation heroes, inventors and business barons are buried at Woodland.

Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum is located at 118 Woodland Avenue off of Brown Street near the University of Dayton Campus. The Woodland Office is open Monday through Friday 8 am to 5 pm and Saturday 8 am to 12 pm. The Cemetery and Arboretum are open daily from 8 am to 6 pm. The Mausoleum is open daily from 9 am to 5 pm. For more information, call 937-228-3221 or visit the Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum website.

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Doug Hart Band

7:00 pm | The Phone Booth Lounge

Comedian Kevin White

7:15 pm | Wiley’s Comedy Club

Velvet Crush Unplugged

7:30 pm | Good Time Charlie’s

Linus Tate Acoustic

8:00 pm | The Brick Tap & Tavern

Sunday Brunch

9:30 am | Salt Block Biscuit Company

The Dayton Off Road Expo & Show

10:00 am | Roberts Centre

Friends of WCPL Children’s Movies & Music – Blu-Ray, DVDs, Music CDs Sale

1:00 pm | Woodbourne Library

The Sunday Comic’s

7:15 pm | Wiley’s Comedy Club

Free Boot Camp Workout

5:30 am | The Park at Austin Landing Miamisburg OH

Dog’s Nite Out

10:00 am | Ritter’s Frozen Custard

25% Off Pizza Monday

11:30 am | Oregon Express

$2 burger night

5:00 pm | Bullwinkle’s Top Hat Bistro

Taste of New Orleans

6:00 pm | Smith’s Boathouse

Trivia Tuesday

7:00 pm | The Brick Tap & Tavern

PubLit at Home – Days Without End

7:00 pm | Virtual Event

Heath Bowling

7:00 pm | The Barrel

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