The year was 1992. Joe Ely 69制片厂制作传媒 future East High principal - was about to be named the Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year at the annual banquet.
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69制片厂制作传媒淚 knew Dee (Hendershot) roughly, I mean I knew who she was. She had impressed me as being a rather stern person. My mother used to call herself a tough old bird and maybe that sort of applied to Dee as well,69制片厂制作传媒 the Boys & Girls Club Foundation president explained. 69制片厂制作传媒淭hat year Joe Ely received the youth of the year and I looked at Dee and there was a tear in her eye.69制片厂制作传媒
Hendershot and the young Ely had developed a special bond through the club. Ely later explained that Hendershot had been there for him and his family through some tough times. Hendershot, he said, had even helped his mother overcome her addition to alcohol.
And so, it was appropriate that when 32 years later the foundation decided to honor Hendershot for a lifetime69制片厂制作传媒檚 worth of contributions to the club, Ely was called to the front to present it.
69制片厂制作传媒淚 have three minutes,69制片厂制作传媒 Ely said. 69制片厂制作传媒淚69制片厂制作传媒檓 sorry. I69制片厂制作传媒檓 doing more than three minutes.69制片厂制作传媒
Ely confirmed that Reams69制片厂制作传媒 assessment of Hendershot was on point.
69制片厂制作传媒淭ough bird is true,69制片厂制作传媒 he said, especially during swimming lessons. 69制片厂制作传媒淪he is tough and stern.69制片厂制作传媒
But Ely said that while Hendershot can be tough 69制片厂制作传媒 even scary 69制片厂制作传媒 she was exactly who he needed at a difficult time in his life.
69制片厂制作传媒淚f you ever needed Dee in your life like I have, you know she69制片厂制作传媒檚 caring and patient and sympathetic and all those things that you need,69制片厂制作传媒 said the newly-named supervisor of Career and Technical Education in the County. 69制片厂制作传媒淚t69制片厂制作传媒檚 an honor and privilege to stand here and present this lifetime achievement award to one of my heroes, Miss Dee.69制片厂制作传媒
Raised in Michigan near the shores of Lake Huron where her father taught her and her twin sister to dog paddle, Hendershot came to Morristown in 1973 with her husband and five children.
She joined the club as a volunteer swim instructor in 1979 and became an employee in 1985. Over the next 39 years, she and the club where together through tough times and losses including the death of her husband and a son.
She talked about how 69制片厂制作传媒 during those tough times 69制片厂制作传媒 the club members would lift her up the way she tried to do for them when they were struggling.
She said coming to the club, seeing the laughter and the smiles, hearing the joy was uplifting.
69制片厂制作传媒淭hat69制片厂制作传媒檚 what I get at the Boys & Girls Club, my heart is just filled,69制片厂制作传媒 she said. 69制片厂制作传媒淚t69制片厂制作传媒檚 been marvelous. If I had 38 more years, I69制片厂制作传媒檇 do it again.69制片厂制作传媒
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