Fred Randall, a Council on Aging board member whose mother, suffering from dementia, spent several years in a Michigan nursing home, provided the funding for the prototypes made by the SmileMakers program. Randall, a retired attorney, will also pay for the remaining 24 to be built by Coeste Design i
"Everybody says 'Hi' and waves and has small talk all the time," said Fred Randall, 42, a retired Air Force technical sergeant whose home is next to Myers'. "But he would walk by, people would say 'Hi,' and he would never return the gesture."