Human beings are lucky if they have a single passion giving them joy on a regular basis. When a person is blessed with multiple passions, however, particularly those types of passions that can and do help others who are searching, whether it be for basic human needs–food, clothing, shelter, love–or other things that serve to assist people and make them better in this world, it’s particularly fortunate. Rarely is a person, along with these passions, blessed with the desire to widely spread the joy that comes with them to those folks who need it most. These people are special, so...

Those who really know Karen George, University of Findlay’s senior director of advancement, would have a difficult time believing the way she describes her disposition as a young girl. George, known to all she meets as a bubbly, positive, and diligent woman who sets goals and inevitably reaches them, said of the early part of her childhood that she was “painfully shy”; so much so that she rarely spoke at school. “My teachers all liked me, I got good grades, and I was animated enough when I was at home, but I was completely different at school” she said. That...