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Christmas traditions have a way of going on and on. In the city of Wichita, Kansas, in the year 19051 Sam Amidon, a local lawyer, buying his paper one wintry Christmas Eve, spontaneously treated a young news vendor to a new pair of shoes.
Learning the youngster had no family, the lawyer treated him—and several of his buddies —to a Christmas dinner they otherwise would have missed.
The annual Christmas dinners became a tradition. They eventually were served in the local Shrine club and Amidon enlisted the aid of other prominent citizens.
Amidon died in 1925, but the Christmas dinners were continued by his wife. When she died, ten years later, a trust fund was set up to see that they continued, a fitting memorial to one man’s generosity and kindness.
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