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Excerpt from: Farewell Address We are now riding a seeming crest of public support and acceptance, and I am often asked to what one can ascribe this phenomenal and indeed quite unique success of a voluntary association in so short a time. In my answer I always point to the very factors which in 1957 persuaded me to accept the call of NARC's Board of Directors: ours is an organization that from its very earliest, most humble and unpretentious beginnings was blessed with a national leadership that in farsighted wisdom, clarity of purpose and soundness in method is unsurpassed.... | Read Full Text |
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Title: | Farewell Address | |
Creator: | Gunnar Dybwad (author) | |
Date: | October 26, 1963 | |
Format: | Speech | |
Source: | Friends of the Samuel Gridley Howe Library and the Dybwad Family | |
Keywords: | Advocacy; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Economics; Education; Educational Institutions; Family; Government; Government Agencies; Gunnar Dybwad; Human Rights; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Mental Retardation; Parenting; Phenylketonuria; Policy; President's Panel On Mental Retardation; Rosemary Dybwad; Service Organizations; Social Welfare & Communities; The Arc; Voluntarism; Washington, DC | |
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Note: | Presented at the 1963 Annual Convention of the National Association for Retarded Children, Washington, D. C. |