GIVING: Your next chance to help Lou Cutler bring kids’ wishes to life

(WSB photo from 2018 Laps With Lou at Pathfinder)

You have another chance this week to help retired teacher Lou Cutler make kids’ wishes come true as a longtime Make-A-Wish volunteer. Lou led all-day walk/run-a-thons at Pathfinder K-8, first as its PE teacher, then as its retired PE teacher, every June for ~20 years, celebrating his June birthday by running or walking the same number of laps as years of life he’s celebrating. The Pathfinder events ended two years ago but Lou found other ways to raise money for Make-A-Wish, including a walk on the Boston Marathon route last October, and this week he’s walking again. Here’s the announcement he sent us:

I had thought that when I finished the Boston Marathon walk last October as a fundraiser for MAW, that would be the final fundraising walk for MAW, as doing the walk without the Pathfinder students didn’t offer the joy that I had felt for 20 years doing the run with the students.

However, over the past few weeks, I have seen several amazing Wishes come to completion and I saw how much joy it brought the family and that was the exact motivation I needed to inspire me to recreate the 13.1 mile walk I did on my 70th birthday in 2021 and I will follow the same route on my 74th birthday on June 25th, starting in the Pathfinder parking lot at 12:00 and walk up the Genesee hill to Avalon and follow that to Alki and at the south end of Lincoln Park we will return to Pathfinder via Fauntleroy.

Over the past 21 years, the MAW benefit walks/runs have raised over $100,000 and have funded many, many Spectacular Wishes and there are still many Wishes on the horizon that need funding and once again I will count on the generosity of people to help make these Wishes become a reality.

You can support Lou’s efforts at site.wish.org/goto/lapswithlou2025

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