Delivering the gift of sight.

It was 1994. "They gave me a beeper and told me to go start an eye bank." And so began the most rewarding part of Mary Gatien's 27-year nursing career. As executive director of the New Brunswick Eye Bank, she runs one of Canada's four accredited eye banks; educates the public and health professionals; counsels donor families; and does the hands-on work of screening, retrieving, testing and transporting corneas. Over the past six years, she's retrieved some 500 corneas, going from 20 a year to 125 nowadays.