Photograph of Joseph Mazur courtesy of Ability Prosthetics & Orthotics.
Ability Prosthetics & Orthotics, headquartered in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, has awarded the 2010 Joseph Mazur Housing Scholarship to Danny Freund of Hopewell, New Jersey. Freund is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and, according to an Ability P&O press release, is currently enrolled in the prosthetics program at Northwestern University Prosthetics-Orthotics Center (NUPOC), Chicago, Illinois. He is scheduled to graduate in June.
Prior to enrolling at NUPOC, Freund was a patient model for Otto Bock HealthCare, Minneapolis, Minnesota. His right leg was amputated above the knee in November 1996 due to synovial cell sarcoma. Ability described Freund as someone who has demonstrated customer service excellence and achieved consistently high performance goals while maintaining a high degree of integrity and compassion for people-traits he exhibits in the professional positions he has held and in the affiliations he keeps.
“It is my pleasure to present Danny with the scholarship that bears my grandfather’s name,” said Jeffrey Brandt, CPO, founder of Ability P&O. “He exemplifies all the traits and characteristics for which Joseph Mazur served his country during WWII….”
Brandt graduated from Northwestern University’s prosthetic and orthotic certificate programs in 1999, and awards an annual scholarship in memory of his grandfather, Joseph Mazur, who lost his leg while serving in the Philippines during World War II.
The award presentation was part of the grand opening celebration of Ability’s York, Pennsylvania, patient care center.
