AFVOA Newletters of Year 2004

Page 140 of 153 accommodation was in short supply and many officers were accommodated in tented accommodation. To obtain first hand information about this type of housing, the General personally went around seeing the accommodation during the morning hours, when the officers would be at their classes and he could get to meet the ladies and thus get their impressions of the state of accommodation from them. One of the ladies – who had just then married and moved in, gave vent to her feelings in no uncertain manner. The result was that the Commander on reaching Lucknow ensured that improvements were effected immediately to such accommodations. A drive was launched by the MES to make the tents more habitable, so that the student officers were able to spend more time with their books rather than running to the MES!! {sources : http://haynese.winthrop.edu/india/medals/VC/2PS8hagat .html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premindra_Singh Bhaga; http://www.geocities.com/siafdu/vic5.hlmlo } Every great work every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often comes apparent and temporary failure and discouragement just before the big achievemen.. ~ Florence Scovel Shinn He swings from the heart 89. This is story of a young man – a paraplegic – who shows what determination and perseverance can do!1 90. Back in the early 1970’s, Dennis Walters was fresh out of North Texas State University, which he attended on a golf scholarship. During his senior year, he led the school to its fourth consecutive Missouri Valley Conference golf championship. That same year, Dennis was runner-up in the prestigious Tucker Intercollegiate Golf Tourney, and finished 11th in the United States Golf Association Amateur Championship. Dennis’ dream was to become a PGA touring professional. From all appearances, he was well on his way. 91. To sharpen his skills, Dennis spent 1973 competing in various tournaments On July 21, 1974, he was riding a golf cart down a steep hill on a course near his house when the brakes failed. Dennis Walters was thrown from the cart and suffered severe spinal cord damage. 92. At a hospital in Morristown, New Jersey, he was diagnosed as a T-12 level paraplegic and told that he would never walk again, which also made playing golf highly unlikely, to say the least. However, at age 24, Dennis was determined to prove otherwise. 93. After five months of rehabilitation, Dennis went home. Immediately, he began searching for ways to make playing golf practical. He tried hitting the ball from his wheelchair, but found it to be unsatisfactory. He had trouble wheeling the chair around the course and could not venture onto the greens or into bunkers. Then one day he was struck with an idea.