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UMKC nominates local volunteer for CASE award
Elyssa Brogdon
Issue date: 6/2/08 Section: News
"I grew up in the Depression where everybody worked, and everybody worked for the whole," McPhee said. "Following that was World War II where everybody worked, and everybody worked for a cause. … I think it speaks to the responsibility of us as citizens. We are able to keep the populous healthy and to give them an education, give them the tools they need to make their lives meaningful and productive."
Coming from a "background of physicians" and getting her degree in education, McPhee focused most of her volunteer work in education and health. She was a Parent Teacher Association president, room mother and national president of the National Federation of State High Schools Association's TARGET program, a wellness program in charge of all non-academic programs for public high schools. All through her volunteer work, she has strived for success for those around her, though not necessarily with money or fame.
"In 1903 W.E.B DuBois wrote these words which I believe have relevance today," McPhee said in a speech at a CASE ceremony. "'The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be the center of public society. It is above all to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life. An adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.' Valid then and valid now."
According to McPhee, it is that fact that "makes us a healthy, education community."
ebrogdon@unews.com
Coming from a "background of physicians" and getting her degree in education, McPhee focused most of her volunteer work in education and health. She was a Parent Teacher Association president, room mother and national president of the National Federation of State High Schools Association's TARGET program, a wellness program in charge of all non-academic programs for public high schools. All through her volunteer work, she has strived for success for those around her, though not necessarily with money or fame.
"In 1903 W.E.B DuBois wrote these words which I believe have relevance today," McPhee said in a speech at a CASE ceremony. "'The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be the center of public society. It is above all to be the organ of that fine adjustment between real life and the growing knowledge of life. An adjustment which forms the secret of civilization.' Valid then and valid now."
According to McPhee, it is that fact that "makes us a healthy, education community."
ebrogdon@unews.com
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