Two hundred and fifteen members of the Society gathered at the Auckland War Memorial museum, on Saturday evening (12th March), to take advantage of a unique opportunity to celebrate the past, appreciate the present and to anticipate an exciting future.
The occasion was to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Spastic Fellowship which was the founding organisation of the Cerebral Palsy Society. It was a night to honour the past and pay tribute to the pioneers. People like Sir Charles Norwood, who was instrumental in setting up the New Zealand CCS - an organisation that encouraged the growth of our Society, Paulette Leaning a women with CP who became prominent in educating Cerebral Palsy children and Dr Earl Carlson a neurologist with Cerebral Palsy, who visited our shores in 1948 and recommended physiotherapy training schools and specialised schools for Cerebral Palsy children, which were set up a few years after his departure.
It was a night to appreciate the present with everyone enjoying the first class venue and the magnificent Auckland view. |