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From: Steve Hood
Date: 10/3/02
Time: 11:23:08 AM
Remote Name: 199.33.133.50
Hello, Brett, Joe and Kevin
At the risk of appearing "older than dirt" I need to say that I was a college student in 1961 when John F. Kennedy gave his inaugural speech and said that "A torch has been passed to a new (younger) generation....."
The older generation of Van Riper, Sheehan, Johnson, Bloodstein, and Travis, etc. got the ball rolling. I would like to think that my generation helped to keep the ball rolling. It is now time for your generation to make sure the ball doesn't stop rolling.
We are faced with challenges and opportunities, none the least of which will be working with the new ASHA standards for 2005. (I still have major reservations as to whether or not they are an improvement and wish I were as optimistic as Lee Reeves.) The bottom line, I think, will be be in how the universities handle this. In previous posts, both Joe and Kevin referred to this. It is important that professionals, alumni, students and PWS-Consumers keep the pressure on the universities to "get it right."
Whether you like it or not, you folks represent the future. YOU, are the next generation. Please do all you can to keep the lights burning. The areas of fluency, fluency disorders and stuttering can ill afford a power outage.
I wish I were four decades younger, just starting out, and a member of your team.
***Go for the Gold***