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At its May 28 meeting, the Cornell Board of Trustees elected six new trustees to four-year terms who will join two recent alumni-elected trustees and two student-elected trustees; the new trustees’ terms begin July 1.
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Tom and Rita O Neill split their time between Fort Wayne and Connecticut, where their son Josh, who has Down syndrome, lives. The O Neills have spent more than 40 years volunteering and doing philanthropic work in the Down syndrome community. Previous Next
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City couple devoted to helping son, others
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When Tom and Rita O Neill s son Josh was born 42 years ago with Down syndrome, he was immediately diagnosed in critical condition and required two surgeries over the next 37 days. His life depended upon his oxygen machine.
“You watch this infant striving to live, and I remember thinking this guy is really tough because he wasn t supposed to live,” Tom O Neill said. “He s a strong soul.”
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“Our amazing staff had to drastically change the curriculum in order to provide an experience for our adults to learn how to grocery shop, to learn to go to the bank, to learn how to do things that individuals typically do in order to maintain independence,” said Michael Storz, president of Chapel Haven Schleifer Center.
They switched to hybrid learning and the adults have done will with standard COVID prevention protocol of social distancing, hand washing and masking. They’re looking forward to getting back to real life experiences.
“Hopefully when COVID ends I want to go to the grocery store so bad,” said Schwartz.