"Remark2"able Future Scholarship

In September 2001, Larry Kramer was killed by a reckless driver who ran a red light. This scholarship was named in loving memory of him.

Larry was born and raised in Wisconsin, and had an avid love for the University of Wisconsin and the Green Bay Packers. Late in his college years he decided to change his career from being a physical therapist to being either a writer or an orientation and mobility specialist. O&M Specialist won the coin toss, and he pursued it diligently.

Thanks to his new career, Larry met his next wife. She found him, when all she was looking for was a cane that would enable her to travel by herself to another state. From the start, he marveled over his wife’s ability to succeed, even though she was born a Rubella baby. Her deficits were deaf blindness, and she had suffered a heart condition at birth. When they met, she had already achieved one masters degree, and was working on a second. She lived on her own, and had a full-time teaching position.

Larry’s wife would often find him looking up interesting words he’d heard, or waiting impatiently to get his hands on the latest cell phone or technology. He loved learning new things, and unraveling the marvels of technology. Larry had hopes of one day writing a sci-fi novel, and had he been on this earth longer, he might’ve achieved just that.

While sharing their love of “remarkable” technology, he told his wife that he was also remarkable, because his last name was Kramer. She admired his creative abilities, his love of the arts, and his compassion for those who were down and out. Larry would love telling her how his blind clients would achieve their goals, and how he had helped them achieve those goals.

Larry felt that one of his greatest accomplishments was when he helped install audible signals at intersections, just to make blind individuals lives a little easier. Our hope is to make a similar impact, and help make future student’s lives just that little bit easier. This scholarship is here to honor those students who face day to day challenges due to their disabilities. Those who meet their challenges, keep trying, and little by little, meet their dreams. Just like Larry, and just like his wife, you too can be remarkable.