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Pat has to depend on his .arms for mobility. It takes strength to propel his chair and more strength to lift himself from the chair. His upper body is heavily muscled. He doesn’t have the thick, squatty neck of a football player but his shoulders and arms fit the image of an all-pro linebacker.
Part of his physical development is the result of the active life he led before the automobile accident robbed him of his legs. Only 18 when the car crash occured, Pat was a star high school athlete. He played soccer, wrestled, raced down the snow covered slopes of his native Vermont on skis and was one of the top gymnasts in the state.
But he hasn’t sat idle for four years in a wheef chair. Until an operation this year forced him to the sidelines, Pat was a champion weight lifter, coming in third among contestants from the entire United States in the Special Olympics two years ago. If the operation hadn’t interrupted his training, he would have been the odds on favorite for first place in the Olympics this year.
Pat has begun a lot besides weight lifting since his accident. He enrolled in college at the University of Florida. Instead of having his parents drive him down from Vermont, he hitchhiked with his chair to New York, wheeled around the airport, arranging for tickets and baggage, and flew alone to Florida. He then managed the hassles of registration and getting settled in new quarters. He’ll return in September to Gainesville as a junior, majoring in psychology, with plans to enter clinical work.
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