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13532 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS June 5, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS SPECIAL OLYMPICS ACTIVITY FEA talking with ·Elvin Hayes of the Washington Speaker, I would like to take this oppor TURED IN COLMAN McCARTHY Bullets or a Special Olympian who takes two minutes for the 100-yard dash, I would go tunity to bring to the attention of my ARTICLE with the young sprinter. Last year, I ran a colleagues the impending retirement few miles with Blll Rodgers, the distance from education of Fred V. Pankow, su HON. JENNINGS RANDOLPH man who has won three Boston marathons; perintendent of Lanse Creuse School but I had more of a thrill when I did a lap District for the past 20 years. OF WEST VIRGINIA with a retarded child. Having spent the last 30 years involved IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES I call him retarded, which 1s the label in teaching and education, Mr. Pankow Tuesday, June 5, 1979 most of us use, only because his limitations are conveniently definable. The IQ scores will typically remain in education, re • Mr. RANDOLPH. Mr. President, the and reports of "the child experts" categorize tiring to continue work on his doctorate Washington Post recently published an the flaws and so let us, the seemingly healthy, degree at Wayne State University. article by Colman McCarthy on the Spe go on about our business of normalcy. Mr. Pankow's dedication to his work, cial Olympics program. Special Olympics But if the poet Wallace Stevens is right, the school district, its parents and teach that "We are all hot with the imperfect," provides to more than a million retarded then what has been happening through the ers is legendary. His name is considered children and adults an opportunity to Special Olympics is unique: The mentally synonymous with education in Lanse participate in sports activities. I have retarded are helping the intellectuaily Creuse and has been for years. During had the privilege of organizing Special retarded. the span of his leadership at Lanse Olympics programs and have been im The latter ·are those of us whose mindc; Creuse, the size and scope of education pressed by the joyful participation of build shelves for the handicapped and then in the district has grown, preparing these special athletes in these games. stash them away like undusted bric-a-brac thousands of young people for adult to be forgotten. Or those who hire zoning responsibilities. I know that all Members of the Con lawyers to defend the purity of the neighbor gress understand the value of such hood when the retarded dare move into a The community in which Fred Pankow unique competition. It has been my re half-way house. Or those who read the latest served is better off for having had a man sponsibility, as chairman of the Senate newspaper expose about the filthy conditions of his dedication and leadership at the Subcommittee on the Handicapped, to in the state home for the retarded and head of its most important service, the cooperate with the Kennedy family in murmur that "Something should be done." education of its children. Because of his this worthwhile endeavor. By someone else. influence, Lanse Creuse has produced One of the beauties of the Special Olym Special Olympics began in 1968 when pics is that it has attracted the someone elses many successful men and women, who Eunice Kennedy Shriver initiated a in amazingly large numbers-the quarter of in turn, contribute to the community, modest program for a few children. This a mllllon volunteers. Few national programs State and Nation. year 21 countries will send athletes to are receiving the unsalaried energies of more Mr. Speaker, for his part in the im Brockport, N.Y. for the international groups, from amateurs like the American portant process of education. I would games. Legion and the Road Runners Club of Ameri like to congratulate Fred V. Pankow on I submit the following article for print ca to the Nationa.l Basketball Association. his service to Lanse Creuse and extend As for those volunteers who do more for to him and his family the best of wishes ing in the RECORD: the retarded than any outsider can imagine SPECIAL 0LYMPICS: "A SPmiT OF the fathers and mothers of the chlldren for the future.• PLAYFULNESS" they report that Specia.l Olympics can .~n (By Colman McCarthy) han~ family life in the most upllfting of As with most other males who were con ways. TRffiUTE TO MERVIN WINEBERG ditioned early to believe that success in I have seen this in my own neighbor sports meant playing for big money in big hood, in Angela Mann, a 15-year-old who arenas, I learned only slowly that that was has Down's syndrome and who won two HON. SILVIO 0. CONTE medals in the District of Columbia Special false. My teachers in the lessons of true OF MASSACHUSETTS ath!etics have been some mentally retarded Olympics earlier this month. youngsters, children who are part of the Spe Her father, Dr. Jesse Mann, a professor of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES cial Olympics program. phllosophy at Georgetown University and Tuesday, June 5, 1979 This month and the next is the height of the only person I know who can discuss Hel their summer season. More than a mill1on degger whlle mowing his lawn, tells of An • Mr. CONTE. Mr. Speaker, the small retarded children, with a mix of adults too, gela's new sense of her ab111ties. Now that community of Adams in my congression are participating in one or more of the 14 she has seen herself excel in the 50-yard al distrct, and the larger community sports offered in the Special Olympic games dash, she has become open to finding more of Berkshire County, were saddened in every state and nearly every county of the occasions to excel. recently at the untimely passing of a country. Over 250,000 voiunteers are in Other fam111es around the country report business and civic leader of great hu volved. Winter games are held in 42 states, the same, SiOOOrding to Mrs. Shriver: "Special manity and conscience. Mr. Mervin with international games held every four Olympics, through its teaching clinics and Wineberg, president of the Adams Super years. In mid-August, 3,500 competitors from the Let's Play To Grow Program, 1s helping the United States and 20 countries will turn parents gain knowledge and confidence in Ma·rkets, Inc., died on May 18. Brockport, N.Y., into the center of the sports working with their retarded children." I had been privileged to call Mervin world. Not every retarded child 1s in Special Wineberg a friend for a good many Thanks to the bustle of Eunice Kennedy Olympics and not a.ll parents are blessed years. A native and life-long resident of Shriver, who herself is a one-woman track with the spiritual strength to keep nurtur Adams, he was always looking out for meet of sprinting energy and high-hurdle ing their chlld despite the seemingly slow the welfare of his neighbors. Often push, what began in 1968 as a modest effort progress. But in only a decade, Special Olym times, when people of his acquaintance to fill the time of a few children for whom pics has become a world-<:la.ss example of time and a lot else hung heavily, has become what can be done 1f a few people put their had some difficulty, it was to Mr. Wine a stirring success story. More than any other minds-and their bodies-to it.e berg that they would turn. He always movement in American sports in the past did his best to help them. I can remem decade, Special Olympics has gone into com ber many, many times when he would munities, neighborhoods and fam1Ues to TRIBUTE TO FRED V. PANKOW write to me seeking the assistance of my spread a spirit of playfulness that is, or office on behalf of someone who had come should be, the essential vibrancy of sports. HON. DAVID E. BONIOR to him for guidance. I have been to enough of the meets to know exactly what ln American sports is OF MICHIGAN It was not only private individuals who worth celebrating and what isn't. If given IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES knew they had a friend in Mr. Wine berg. Community leaders also sought his a choice of watching a World Series Game or Tuesday, June 5, 1979 a Special Olympics competition, I would take counsel and aid. An astute and success the latter. If I could have an hour to spend e Mr. BONIOR of Michigan. Mr. ful businessman, Mr. Wineberg was able • This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by the Member on the Boor. June 5, 1979 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 13533 to compliment the needs of the commu A PROFIT OF WINDFALL TAXES raising letter, sent out on White House sta nities of Berkshire County with good tionery, Mr. Carter boasted that, under hLc; financial sense. regime, "corporate profits are up 37 percent." Adams Super Markets, Inc., a family HON. RON PAUL In his 1979 Economic Report, he claimed OF TEXAS that "business profits rose more than 10 run business, thrived under Mr. Wine percent in 1978." berg's direction. Today, it is an eight IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES When the statistics came, however, to con store chain with three of the stores Tuesday, June 5, 1979 firm Mr. Carter's claims, Hamilton Jordan located in urban renewal areas in Adams, denounced the same profits as "unnecessarily North Adams, and Pittsfield.

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