SOMETHING SPECIAL-A tribute to Jim Valvano-Second Leo Award Recipient
SOMETHING SPECIAL A Tribute to Jim Valvano DH DeForge, VMD 16JULY2014 Comments from Dr. Don DeForge: I have written in my blog, in the past, about individuals that I call hero. Today, I wish to offer the Second Leo Award posthumously to Jim Valvano. The LEO AWARD is not presented as a plaque; it is not presented on television or at a festival of stars. It is a PEOPLES AWARD. It is given as a gift; it is a form of love; and it comes from deep inside those who have been honored to have met, read, or heard the recipient[s] speak. The LEO AWARD is a statement that recognizes the recipient[s] as a disciple[s] of Leo Bustad and Leo Buscaglia. Nothing less and nothing more! Some would say why would Jim Valvano be linked to Leo Bustad. Leo Bustad is not just a person who espoused the Human-Animal Bond...Leo Bustad espoused values and the value of living. Leo Buscaglia may have met Jim Valvano. Both were men of immense inspiration. They followed different roads in life but they inf