Word: meyerdirk
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Dates: during 1998-1998
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Like many close friends, Peter A. Meyerdirk '00 and Kellon Daytes play football and go to movies together. But Meyerdirk and Daytes, a mentally retarded student at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, owe their unlikely friendship to an international program called Best Buddies...
...Best Buddies program pairs college students with mentally retarded children and adults. On Saturday, Meyerdirk and Daytes celebrated their friendship along with more than two hundred buddies from the Boston area, as Harvard's chapter of Best Buddies hosted the first-ever Buddy Rama...
...some more stuff on this thing, dude," Meyerdirk said encouragingly, handing his friend an orange pipe-cleaner. The two were excited about the event, especially the late-afternoon dance-a-thon intended to raise money for Best Buddies...
...This guy can dance like a maniac," said Meyerdirk, as Kellon grinned...
...Meyerdirk, like other Harvard students, said he values the hour each week he spends with Kellon, either in his Rindge and Latin classroom or during their privately schedule meetings times...