A message from the President: What is your sentence?
Imagine 230,000 of your friends, family and co-workers dead in 15 minutes. Their homes and infrastructure destroyed. This was the case as a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010. Reality set in quickly for those who survived as they were faced with serious injuries and amputations.
Following the earthquake, calls were sent out for volunteers to assist with rescue relief. People from all walks of life came together with a purpose. As the country was in chaos, medical teams from around the world calmly took the stage and began “their sentence” of providing medical expertise and care to the Haitian population.
In 1962, Clair Booth Luce met with President Kennedy, who was, at the time, pursuing an ambitious agenda. “A great man,” she advised, “is one sentence.” President Lincoln’s sentence was obvious: He preserved the union and freed the slaves. So was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s: He lifted us out of a great depression and helped us win a world war.
What a powerful comment – not just for great presidents but for great organizations, too. All it takes is a personal commitment that is so compelling that you would do it despite money or popularity. There are many opportunities within the TPTA and the APTA so join the movement!
Doing something that somehow matters is not easy. But doing something that really matter gives you quite a sentence.
What will your sentence be?"
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