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• BACK TO HALL OF HONOR
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Poem by Richard Stahl

1993

For Paul H. Ives, James L. Ketelsen, Laura K. Shawver, Leona L. Soehren, Lafayette J. Twyner, D.D.S

If someone started a new educational program

in applied service, this team of five

honorees would be its teachers. They know how stretching

and flexing a new muscle help stimulate

the whole body, how the power of extending one arm

of compassion strengthens the whole community,

and how leadership often starts in the heart

and spreads like a tonic

until one's whole frame runs on the principles

of accelerated motion. Your selfless devotion entertained

this community's call, responding by tutoring

Lincoln School students to fulfill their dreams

and by serving on boards with such distinction

you won this city's highest tribute,

the Distinguished Service Award. Fore twenty-three years,

your votes shaped policy on the Davenport School Board

and changed the attitudes and lives of our students.

Your duty to conscience never wavered in forty-five years

of dental practice or civic attention. Physicians

of service heal through their public examples

of trust. Students crowded your counseling office

like eager interns to learn

the anatomy of careers and scholarships,

finding your advise the right prescription

for success in life after the classroom.

You hastened the scientific chase to beat

cancer, closing in with publications and patents

to slow the ravages of this killer until it's stopped,

until, like a rugby winner, you pressured

the research to score the decisive kick.

As a chairman, CEO, director, regent, and trustee,

you secured the health of many companies

and adding more enthusiasm, your Fortune 500 leadership

earned recognition for service to the community.

This whole team has raised their collective hands

to serve others with their hearts and help define

the true sprit of the benevolent character.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

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