From the Northwest Explorer, 19 November, 2003
by Bob Svejcara

For Edward Green, the father of two developmentally disabled sons, the recent merger of Tetra Corp. and the Beacon Foundation, the largest nonprofit merger in Tucson's history, represented more than just another corporate restructuring.

For Green it means more job opportunities for people like his sons David, 53, who suffered brain damage at birth, and Christopher, 48, who suffers from schizophrenic disorder. With those opportunities comes a place to go where people care, a sense of accomplishment in doing a job, the pride that comes with a paycheck and the filling of a void in their lives that too often gave rise to anger and depression.

The merger of the companies into what is now the Beacon Group will enable the group to provide more work by increasing contracts with individual for-profit companies and expanding potential work sites, adding to Beacon's concentration in the government sector. Steven R. King, president of the Beacon Group and former Tetra president, told more than 100 people at a merger ceremony Nov. 12.