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Director says he and Ledecky’s other college friends joke that they will attend Ledecky’s marriage in a wheelchair, because Ledecky keeps so busy.”He’s a person who seems to care a great deal about family,” Director says. “He’s got a lot of affection toward my own children, toward the children of all of my roommates. It’s unfortunate that he has not yet found someone to settle down with and have his own family because I think...
...Bike, Walk and Wheel Week to coax residents to commute and shop without cars. Mayor Hindman and local Congressman Kenny Hulshof led dozens of cyclists on a 4-mile ride. A week later, volunteers were serving breakfast all over town for anyone walking, cycling or rolling in a wheelchair...
...bloodlines are everything, neither Smarty Jones nor the team behind him had any business being in the winner's circle at Pimlico Race Course last week. Owners Roy and Patricia Chapman are an unlikely pair--Patricia is a peppy 62, and Roy, a weary 78, is confined to a wheelchair and hooked to an oxygen tank, the result of too many decades filled with too many Lucky Strikes. Far from a bluegrass blueblood, he made his living as a Philadelphia car dealer, and it was in his showroom in 1976 that he and Pat met. A decade later they went...
Ford also ran into trouble when classes began. The buildings where one of his courses was held was not accessible by wheelchair. Ford missed lecture until the class was moved. Kessler had the same problem—she missed three sections of a class held in Grays basement because the lift that helped her get to the room required a key she didn’t have...
Ford was born with mixed quadriplegic cerebral palsy and has been in a wheelchair since he was 18 months old. The youngest of eight children, he attended Denver West High School, a public school Ford says was highly responsive to his needs. So he was surprised by his experience at Harvard. “I had expected that Harvard would be at least as effective as my inner-city high school,” he says...