Summer 2005 — Artist Jesse Vonk, widow of the late St. Louis Symphony Conductor Hans Vonk, has donated a stone and metal sculpture, In Shadow Of The Rock, to the Hope Center in his memory. Mr. Vonk, a beloved figure who took over the St. Louis Symphony from Leonard Slatkin when Mr. Slatkin moved to the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington , D.C., was treated at Washington University Medical Center for the Lou Gehrig's Disease that ultiamtely took his life.

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