Keeping the Faith: How Jinny Chalmers’ Legacy Lives On
The fist annual Jinny Chalmers Day.
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The fist annual Jinny Chalmers Day.
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Cambridge's homegrown scholarship fund expands support.
Arts and belonging grants program offers multi-year general operating support through two funding categories designed to match the diverse ecosystem of Cambridge arts organizations.
Unprecedented 65 percent increase in funding responds to growing pressure on local nonprofit sector.
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When Peter Sturges reflects on his brother Morris's life, his voice softens with emotion, even decades later. It's a story about family bonds, difficult choices, and, ultimately, a commitment to ensure that other Cambridge families have the support that wasn't available in the 1940s. "Morris' institutionalization has had a significant impact on our entire family in different ways. It was devastating, absolutely devastating," Peter shares. Born in 1941 with Down syndrome, Morris was the second child of Alice and Walter Knight Sturges. They later had four more children. "My parents had the financial resources to care for Morris at home, but not the support," Peter explains. "They had absolutely no encouragement from the medical profession, from their religious leaders, from their parents. And as a result, he was institutionalized." Following the advice of doctors, priests, and family, Morris, at the age of three, was placed at the Perkins School in Lancaster, Massachusetts. For his mother Alice, the separation was deeply traumatic. This decision had an enormous impact on the family for decades. Separated from his family, Morris lived in various institutions until his death in 2001 at age 59. Peter and his siblings often wondered
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