Lifetime Achievement Award - Roger and Sally Fitch

Heartspring’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2006 is presented to an outstanding couple who have unselfishly given their time, talent and passion to helping children with special needs. Mother’s Day 1952 was the day that changed Roger Fitch and his family forever. That was the day he had a misfortunate accident that brought him from his family ranch in Sedan, Kansas to Heartspring’s door in need of services. A horse had dragged him that fateful Mother’s Day and as a result of his father’s deep rooted connection to the Institute of Logopedics (now Heartspring), Roger’s parents knew where to take their son to ensure he received the education and therapies essential for him to grow into a successful and caring adult. Roger fully recovered from his accident and began to work at the Institute of Logopedics, helping other children just like him. In 1940 the Flo Brown Memorial Laboratory and the Department of Speech Sciences at Wichita State University were formally renamed the Institute of Logopedics, and since that time the Fitch family has volunteered, served on the Board of Trustees and made sure that Heartspring would always be around to help children with special needs. It is because of their desire to pass on the help which was given to Roger back in 1952 that we honor them.

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