Wrinkled radical - The Hardwick Gazette

Wrinkled radical - The Hardwick Gazette

SHELBURNE – I recently read Senator Ron Wyden’s memoir, “It Takes Chutzpah.” Ron was fresh out of the University of Oregon School of Law in 1974 when Ruth Haefner, a retired social worker in Portland, asked him to help her co-found an Oregon branch of the Grey Panthers. Ruth’s friend, Maggie Kuhn, and a handful of other elders founded the Consultation of Older and Younger Adults for Social Change in 1970. Their motto was “Age and Youth in Action…