Mastering the Torch

Ever wonder what our House Masters do when they are not parenting hundreds of (sometimes whiny) college students? Adams House Master Judy S. Palfrey '67 carried the Olympic torch through Canada this past Tuesday on Jan. 19.

Palfrey tells about the experience on the Children's Hospital of Boston's blog. She writes that passing the flame was “‘like’ no other experience I have ever had nor probably will have.” She was chosen as one of 20 Americans to carry the flame to highlight community action and living positively. Palfrey directs the Children's Hospital and, according to her Adams House bio, she has a "special interest in programs for children with disabilities."

As the President of American Academy of Pediatrics, she writes in the blog that the AAP is currently receiving daily donations from the global community to help pediatricians in Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the aftermath of the earthquake. “The work…for the children of Haiti is the embodiment of the love, courage and commitment that the Olympic torch is meant to symbolize.”