Other LETR 50th Activities Be Part of the Celebration Special Olympics International, Special Olympics Illinois and Special Children’s Charities/Special Olympics Chicago are uniting to host nearly a week of exciting events to celebrate the first 50 years of Special Olympics and to launch the movement into the future. Events planned for July 2018 in Chicago…
Guardians of the Flame Also part of the Flame of Hope’s proud history is the Law Enforcement Torch Run® for Special Olympics. The LETR started in 1981 when Wichita, Kansas Police Chief Richard LaMunyon saw an urgent need to raise funds for and increase awareness of Special Olympics. The Law Enforcement Torch Run was quickly…
Flame of Hope History The Flame of Hope dates back to the 1960s, when the future for people with intellectual disabilities was anything but bright. This was an age of routine institutionalization; it was a time when stigma associated with intellectual disability was extreme, as it had been for many years. “From place to place,…
