Beverly Moser
In March, 1997 twins, Nicholas Ryan and Valerie Anne, were born to Dave and Beverly Moser. They had 3 other children, Chelsea, Travis, and Leah. In 1999, Dave went to northern India with a group of others to serve a hospital and school. Dave called home while there, and said, "I have fallen in love!" He had fallen in love with the people of India and the work of a small group of indigenous healers, who were serving this region of the world, which is Uttar Pradesh in northern India and has an infant mortality rate of 22%. Dave's world would never be the same. On July 17 2000, Dave's world would again never be the same, for on that day Valerie Anne Moser, then 3, drowned. In the midst of their grief, Dan Toohey, a family friend and a faithful member of their community. suggested to Dave that they have a memorial golf tournament in Valerie's memory. Dave agreed thinking it would be about 8-10 guys who would go out and play golf once or twice. Dan's response, "Oh, no, no, no! I'm talking about raising $8-10,000! " Two other friends, Dan Calhoun and Kevin Morton, added their energy to the idea and the Valerie Anne Moser Memorial Golf Tournament was born. The first tournament was held in October, 2000 and true to Dan's vision, $8000 was raised! Since that date a tournament has been held every year in October and over $120,000 has been sent to Emmanuel Hospital Association to support the work at Emmanual School and Prem Sewa Hospital. With these funds the hospital has added an eye clinic, a neonatal unit, has provided community health outreach, has sent some of their children to southern India to complete their schooling, has added doctors to their staff, has bought bicycles for their staff to provide outreach, and has vastly upgraded their facilities. A few years later tournament proceeds enabled an AWANAS group in Winston-Salem, NC to start and be maintained for several years, and a few years after that the funds helped another outreach in the Winston-Salem, NC community.
2013 was the tournament's finest with the most money being raised, new people coming to play and new people wanting to help.
