BGuthrie Photos: DC -- The Extra Mile Points of Light Volunteer Pathway

DC -- The Extra Mile Points of Light Volunteer Pathway:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. XMILE_130428_001.JPG: Ethel Percy Andrus (1884-1967): Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, a retired educator, founded AARP in 1958 to promote her philosophy of productive aging. She influenced the marketplace to develop innovative solutions for social needs. Today, her organization promotes independence, dignity and purpose for those age 50 and older, helps people live their best lives, and encourages everyone "to serve and not to be served." "What we do, we do for all."
2. XMILE_130428_008.JPG: George Edmund Haynes (1880-1960) Ruth Standish Baldwin (1863-1934) Recognizing the need for a national infrastructure to support the black urban population through employment, education and advocacy, Ruth Standish Baldwin and Dr. George E. Haynes founded the National Urban League in 1910. The urban league movement is compelling evidence of the power of finding common ground for common good: A stepping stone toward economic self-reliance and civil rights. "We should expect each individual to be treated on the basis of his worth and conduct rather than on his color." -- Dr. George E. Haynes
3. XMILE_130428_015.JPG: Clara Barton (1821-1912): Clara Barton lived a lifetime of tireless service to others. During the American Civil War, she became known as the "angel of the battlefield," delivering supplies and caring for the sick and wounded. After the war, Barton organized a campaign to locate missing soldiers. Her enduring legacy was the founding in 1881, of the American Red Cross, an organization whose name became synonymous with disaster preparedness, response and relief. "You must never so much think as whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it."
4. XMILE_130428_021.JPG: Millard & Linda Fuller: Founded Habitat for Humanity, a Christian organization, with "open arms" to all who want to be involved, that builds affordable houses with families who need adequate shelter. Proclaiming a message of faith, hope and love, the Fullers have inspired thousands of volunteers and other supporters who share their dream of a world where all people have at least a simple, decent place to live. "We have the know-how in the world to house everyone. We have the resources in the world to house everyone. All that's missing is the WILL to do it." -- Millard Fuller
5. XMILE_130428_032.JPG: W.D. Boyce (1858-1929): Inspired by the "good turn" of an unknown English scout, W.D. Boyce brought scouting to the United States in 1910, making it possible for millions of young Americans to benefit from its values-based educational programs. "Under his patronage and guidance, American Boy Scouting as we know it today received its impetus. From that original vision of Mr. Boyce have developed thousands of troops of clear-eyed healthy young men, representing all that is finest in American youth..." -- Eulogy by James E. West, Chief Scout Executive of the BSA; June 14, 1929.
6. XMILE_130428_034.JPG: Juliette Gordon Low: Founded Girl Scouts of the United States of America in 1912 to encourage girls to develop and strengthen their leadership skills; to provide support, kindness and compassion to those in need; and to prepare to serve as responsible citizens of their community and country. Her efforts have enabled millions of girls, from 5 to 17, to enjoy fun, friendship and learning opportunities in a nurturing environment. "The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers." October 31, 1860 - January 17, 1927.
7. XMILE_130428_040.JPG: Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968): In founding the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave momentum to the civil rights movement. Dr. King's persistent efforts, inspiring oratory, and non-violent protests, despite physical attacks, death threats, and retaliatory violence, brought America closer to his dream of equality for all. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige and even his life for the welfare of others."
8. XMILE_130428_046.JPG: Helen Keller (1880-1968): Blind and deaf writer and activist, and guiding force of the American Foundation for the Blind, who devoted her life to expanding possibilities for people who are deaf-blind, blind, or have low vision. "A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life."
9. XMILE_130428_052.JPG: Cesar Chavez (1927-1993): Led by his desire to secure a better quality of life for migrant farm workers, Cesar Chavez helped found the United Farm Workers of America, the first effective farm workers' union in the United States under his leadership of nonviolent protest, the UFW was able to secure improved wages and benefits, more humane living and working conditions, and better job security for some of the poorest workers in America. Through his life of service, Chavez provided inspiration to countless others. "We cannot seek achievements for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."
10. XMILE_130428_058.JPG: Eunice Kennedy Shriver: When Eunice Kennedy Shriver founded Special Olympics in 1968, she envisioned a program of athletic competition for people with mental retardation that sidelined prejudice and substituted opportunity and understanding. Through her advocacy, she has brought to millions of lives what all people deserve: a chance to experience self-worth with their fellow man, a chance to live a life without walls. "Special Olympics athletes are spokespersons for freedom itself -- they ask for the freedom to live, the freedom to belong, the freedom to contribute, the freedom to have a chance. And, of all the values that unite and inspire us to seek a better world, no value holds a higher place that the value of freedom."
11. XMILE_130428_064.JPG: Harriet Tubman (circa 1820-1913): Harriet Tubman escaped a life of slavery only to return south, at her own peril, time and again, to lead more than 300 fugitive slaves through the underground railroad to safety and freedom. After the Civil War, Tubman raised money to clothe and educate newly freed African American children and established a home for ages and indigent African Americans. "I had crossed the line of which I had so long been dreaming, I was free; ... to this solemn resolution I came; I was free, and they should be free also."
12. XMILE_130428_073.JPG: Luther and Charlotte Gulick: Founded Camp Fire in 1910 as America's first nonsectarian, interracial organization for girls, with boys joining in 1975. The organization provided opportunities and real-life lessons in seven areas key to successful childhood and adulthood: seeking beauty, giving service, pursuing knowledge, being trustworthy, holding onto health, glorifying work, and being happy. "The primary purpose of Camp Fire is to promote service to others, team work, and opportunities for a well-rounded life -- a vivid, intense life of joy and service." -- Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick
13. XMILE_130428_080.JPG: W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963), Mary White Ovington (1865-1951): In 1909, W.E.B. DuBois, a leading spokesman in the Campaign for Racial Equality, joined Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, William English Walling, John Milholland, Oswald Garrison Villard, Frances Blascoer and 54 other prominent Americans as founding officers of the NAACP. Both Ovington and DuBois served in crucial roles at the NAACP for decades, helping guide its policies and programs. "I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying in time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development." -- W.E.B. DuBois
14. XMILE_130428_087.JPG: Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) Inspired by her social conscience, Dorothea Dix launched a self-financed career aimed at improving the lives of the mentally ill. Her crusade to document squalid institutional living conditions and inhumane treatment built public awareness and redefined political thought, leading to more benevolent treatment practices. "I encounter nothing which a determined will, created by the necessities of the cause I advocate, does not enable me to vanquish."
15. XMILE_130428_093.JPG: Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906): Blessed with an individual and self-disciplined spirit, Susan B. Anthony persevered through the prejudice and culture of her time to emerge as the architect of a movement which secured the passage of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote. Her belief that U.S. citizenry entitled everyone to the same rights under the Constitution formed her platform for lifelong activism. "Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation."
16. XMILE_130428_106.JPG: Jane Addams (1860-1935): In 1889, with Ellen Gates Starr, Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago, one of the nation's first settlement houses. It served as a community center for the poor and its success helped lead to the creation of hundreds of similar organizations in communities across the country. An active reformer throughout her career, Jane Addams was a leader in the women's suffrage and pacifist movements. She was the first American woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. "Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world."
17. XMILE_130428_109.JPG: Ida Wells-Barnett (1862-1931): Ida Wells-Barnett crusaded aggressively for civil rights her entire life and was unafraid to exercise those rights when custom ran contrary to the law. Involved in many civil rights causes, she played leadership roles in the women's suffrage movement and in the founding of the NAACP. Ida Wells-Barnett became the era's most outspoken crusader for ending the practice of lynching African-Americans. "I'd rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save me skin by taking back what I have said."
18. XMILE_130428_115.JPG: Roger Baldwin (1884-1981): Roger Nash Baldwin passionately believed in the protection of individual liberty. In 1920, Baldwin and fellow reformers established the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to ensure that the Bill of Rights would be preserved for each new generation. As its founding director, Baldwin used his 30-year tenure to move the ACLU towards its place as the most renowned public interest law firm in America. "The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention."
19. XMILE_130428_121.JPG: Clifford W. Beers (1876-1943): Founded the National Mental Health Association in 1909 to improve mental health care and fight discrimination against people with mental illness. Ton investigate this reform, Beers courageously shared his own experience with mental illness in his autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself. This renowned book opened the nation's eyes to the mistreatment of people with mental illness and led to the creation of the modern mental health movement. "A pen rather than a lance has been my weapon of offence and defence; with its point I should prick the civic conscience and bring into a neglected field men and women who should act as champions for those afflicted thousands least able to fight for themselves."
20. XMILE_130428_127.JPG: Wallace Campbell (1911-1998): Wallace Campbell, together with Lincoln Clark and Arthur Ringland, founded the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE) in 1945 to rush lifesaving assistance to the survivors of WWII in Europe and Asia. Over 100 million relief packages were delivered, embedding the phrase "CARE package" into the American lexicon as a term synonymous with helping people in need. Campbell's 40-year association with CARE helped it evolve toward a model of self-sufficient programs that create lasting solutions to the problems of poverty. "Every human being is important and all human beings owe something to their fellow inhabitants of this planet."
21. XMILE_130428_134.JPG: Rachel Carson (1907-1964): Blending meticulous research on the indiscriminate use of pesticides with her eloquent literary style, Rachel Carson laid the groundwork for the modern environmental movement when she penned Silent Spring, one of the most influential books of its time. Her book became the catalyst for an environmental philosophy that sought to promote the respectful coexistence of mankind and the environment. "[We are] challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves."
22. XMILE_130428_148.JPG: Samuel Gompers (1850-1924): As founder and 37-year president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), Samuel Gompers is credited with winning unprecedented rights and protections for the American worker. Never wavering in his belief that power for the worker lay in collective action and honest negotiation, Gompers experienced unequaled success in organizing millions of laborers into a single national organization. "In his long life of effort for the working people of this country, he was bitterly abused and vilified by the forces of special privilege. But he found out, in the end, that this country will always honor a man who dedicates his life to helping others." -- Harry S. Truman
23. XMILE_130428_149.JPG: John Muir (1838-1914): John Muir's enduring legacy is evident in the vast acreage comprising our national park system and the worldwide influence of the Sierra Club, created to advocate for the survival of the world's natural resources. Initially driven by his spiritual love for nature and the wilderness, Muir became a prolific author and an influential champion and defender of the natural world. He raised awareness about the fragility of the wilderness and made us mindful that in preserving it we save something greater than ourselves. "When we try to pick out something by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."
24. XMILE_130428_155.JPG: Bill W. and Dr. Bob: [William B. Wilson and Robert Smith] United in their search for sobriety, Dr. Bob and Bill W. established Alcoholics Anonymous in 1935 allowing men and women to share with one another their experience, strength and hope in order to carry the message of recovery to alcoholics seeking help. "It was only a matter of being willing to believe in a power greater than myself. Nothing more was required for me to make my beginning." -- Bill W.
Wikipedia Description: The Extra Mile
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The Extra Mile - Points of Light Volunteer Pathway is a national monument installed in the sidewalks of Washington D.C.. It is located along 15th Street and G Street. The honorees of the monument are people who "through their caring and personal sacrifice, reached out to others, building their dreams into movements that helped people across America and throughout the world". Each honoree has a custom-made bronze medallion installed along the path. It currently has 20 such monuments, but there are plans to extend it down to 11th Street and back up F Street so it forms a mile-long pathway of 70 medallions. The monument was dedicated on October 14, 2005 in a ceremony attended by George H.W. Bush and Laura Bush.

Included Persons:

* Edgar Allen - Founder, Easter Seals
* Clara Barton - Founder, American Red Cross
* Ballington & Maud Booth - Founder, Volunteers of America
* William D. Boyce - Founder, Boy Scouts of America
* Cesar Chavez - Co-founder, United Farm Workers of America
* Ernest Kent Coulter - Founder, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America
* Frederick Douglass - Abolitionist
* Millard & Linda Fuller - Founder and co-founder, Habitat for Humanity
* Charlotte & Luther Gulick - Founder, Camp Fire USA
* William Edwin Hall - Founder, Boys and Girls Clubs of America
* Paul Harris - Founder, Rotary International
* Edgar J. Helms - Founder, Goodwill Industries
* Melvin Jones - Founder, International Association of Lions Clubs
* Helen Keller - Founder, American Foundation for the Blind
* Martin Luther King, Jr - Civil Rights Leader
* Juliette Gordon Low - Founder, Girl Scouts of America
* Mary White Ovington/W.E.B. Dubois - Founders, NAACP
* Eunice Kennedy Shriver - Founder, Special Olympics
* Harriet Tubman - Leader of Underground Railroad Effort to Free Slaves
* Booker T. Washington - Civil Rights Leader

Additional Honorees (Their medallions will be installed in additional ceremonies):

* Jane Addams - Founder, Hull House
* Susan B. Anthony - Suffragist
* Roger Baldwin - Founder, American Civil Liberties Union
* Ida Wells-Barnett - Leader of the Anti-Lynching Movement
* Clifford Beers - Founder of the Modern Mental Healthcare Movement
* Wallace Campbell - Founder, CARE
* Rachel Carson - Environmentalist
* Dorothea Dix - Advocate of the Reform of Institutions for the Mentally Ill
* Samuel Gompers - Founder, American Federation of Labor
* John Muir - Conservationist
* Robert Smith/William Wilson - Co-Founders, Alcoholics Anonymous
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