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Timothy W. Bilodeau

Timothy W. Bilodeau

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

As a volunteer working to improve medical conditions in Ecuador, Timothy Bilodeau stood by a mother whose 3-year-old child had just died for lack of 25 cents worth of medicine. The impoverished woman, in agony, had been forced to choose between buying food or medicine...
June Barrett

June Barrett

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

Each year, an estimated 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI), and 80% are released from the hospital. What happens once they leave? As Tennessee real estate developer June Barrett discovered in 1981 when her then 14-year-old daughter Lori suffered...

Shirley Caldwell-Patterson

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

In 1997, at age 79, Shirley Caldwell-Patterson attended a presentation by Victor Scoggins who showed a film of his swim down the Cumberland River in Tennessee and Kentucky. A long-time conservationist, Patterson was appalled at the condition of the Cumberland River...
John Squires

John Squires

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

As executive director of a community development organization, John Squires has long worked to help the rural poor escape poverty. But the plight of poor Hispanics living in Third World conditions on this side of the border spurred him to action. In 2000, when he was...
Susan McWhinney-Morse

Susan McWhinney-Morse

By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023

After a career in marketing and fundraising, Susan McWhinney-Morse was haunted when her mother-in law, after being placed in a nursing home, said, “Here, I’m just an old woman. I’ve lost my identity.” In 2002, at age 69, McWhinney-Morse and a...