Practice Management

Eunice Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009)

By Dan Hull

I grew up in a family of Depression Era Parents and Boomer Kids. My mother placed emphasis not only on achievement in school and sports but on working with the physically or mentally handicapped--and doing that without telling the world about what completely lucky and swell people we were. It meant spending your time and part of your soul. We volunteered--Stepping Stones Center in Cincinnati was just one venue--and my mother and sister each entered careers to work with special adults or special children. Eunice Kennedy died yesterday. No matter what your age, your politics, or your tolerance for social welfare programs, the middle child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy was a very big deal in making lucky people realize how much unlucky people had to give to them. See in the Washington Post this editorial.

Full post as published by What About Clients? on August 13, 2009 (boomark / email).