Day 71

In 2000, Jerry Richardson (the former owner of the Carolina Panthers) donated weightlifting and workout equipment to the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind (SCSDB).  This equipment was used to create two workout rooms at Voss Center on the SCSDB campus.  The weight rooms were named the Jerry Richardson Fitness Room and the official dedication and ribbon cutting took place in May of 2001.  This equipment gave students the opportunity to learn new skills in physical fitness and enabled students to compete in a power lifting competition in North Carolina in which they earned a fourth place finish.  The students still use the weight room today.

Pictured here, Jerry Richardson watches a student try out the equipment in the weight room.

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