Word: goodwins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shirley B. Goodwin fights for his elderly compatriots with a zest that captures the spirit of Dylan Thomas' immortal advice to mortal man. Forced to retire four years ago as social relations executive of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese-of Massachusetts, he has been crusading ever since against what he sees as the injustice of being "thrown...
...Says Goodwin: "I was perfectly healthy and able to do my job. In fact, I was sort of at my prime. I had held the job for 13 years. I dealt with everything from alcoholics to prison reform. If it had to do with people, I had to do with...
Unlike those who give way to the depressions of unwanted retirement, Goodwin has found an outlet for some of his energies in his very anger. He has turned his white-shingled home in Lexington, ten miles from his old office in Boston, into a headquarters for his campaign to improve the care of the aged in his community. His initial target was Lexington's Golden Age Club, which Goodwin felt was not concerned with the aged poor, many of whom were forced to live on welfare. Goodwin helped found a rival organization, the Council on Aging, which obtained...
...Things are improving because old people are fighting I for their rights," says Goodwin, "I make too much noise to be forgotten." Nonetheless, he is far from satisfied...
...even if Kearns-Goodwin didn't get the contract she wanted from Harvard, she is still doing alright. Her husband said she has "a very substantial, very big contract with Simon and Schuster" publishers...