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The original documents are located in Box D28, folder "Dedication of Pine Rest Sheltered
Workshop, Grand Rapids, MI, January 15, 1970" of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press
Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.
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DEDICATION OF PINE REST SHELTERED WORKSHOP 1/15/70
I CONGRATULATE ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE HXXXXX PLAYED EVEN
THE SMALLEST ROLE IN HELPING TO PROMOTE THE CONSTRUCTION
OF THIS SHELTERED WORKSHOP FOR THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED.
YOU HAVE MADE A CONTRIBUTION TOWARD DEALING WITH ONE OF
THE MOST SERIOUS CONDITIONS OF OUR TIMES.
THERE ARE MANY REASONS WHY I AM PROUD TO BE HERE WITH
YOU TODAY, PROUD TO BE TAKING PART IN THIS DEDICATION
CEREMONY.
Digitized from Box D28 of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
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ONE OF THOSE REASONS IS THAT THIS CEREMONY SYMBOLIZES
FOR ME THE GREAT FORCE FOR GOOD THAT CAN FLOW FROM
SOUND FEDERAL AND LOCAL COOPERATION...THE COMBINING OF
FEDERAL AND LOCAL ENERGIES AND MON IES IN AN ATZACKZ XNX
EFFORT TO BRING SOME LIGHT INTO THE BLIGHTED LIVES OF
THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED AND WHO LOVE THEM.
WE ALL KNOW THAT SCIENCE NXX HAS MADE GREAT STRIDES IN
CONQUERING PHYSICAL DISEASES BUT THAT MENTAL RETERDATION
REMAINS AN ALARMING PERPLEXITY.
BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT OF THE 240,000 SEEXMOR ORE MORE
3/
MENTALLY RETARDED PERSONS IN MICHIGAN, 200,000 ***ARE
MILDLY RETARDED, CAPABLE OF SOCIAL AND VOCATIONAL
ADEQUACY WITH PROPER EDUCATION AND TRAINING, AND 32,000
ARE MODERATELY RETARDED, CAPABLE OF SELF-MAINTENANCE IN
UNSKILLED OR SEMI-SKILLED OCCUPATIONS.
WHAT A GREAT WORK YOU ARE DOING HERE I KNOW THAT
THE RETKRNZTOXEXXX REHABILITATION OF THE MENTALLY
HANDICAPPED IS A LONG AND ARDUOUS TASK. I CONGRATULATE
YOU X ON YOUR WONDERFUL ENDEAVORS. GOD
SURELY HAS BLESSED YOU...EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU.
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NOTES
GRAND RAPIDS JAN. 15, 1970
Congress of the United States
Office of the Minority Leader
Herald R. Ford
House of Representatives
M.C.
Mashington, D.C. 20515
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
DEDICATION OF PINE REST SHELTERED
WORKSHOP
BERRLO FORD LIBRARY