CATHY FINNEY OF HARRISBURG IS T'NT.IT'S ON HER business card: Trained 'n Talented. The dynamic Harrisburg, Pennsylvania This article is about the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. For other places named Harrisburg, see Harrisburg (disambiguation). Harrisburg is the capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, a state of the United States of America. , resident runs a successful one-woman management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects service, with clients all over the country. Many are furniture retailers, who take advantage of the experience Cathy garnered in a 12-year career with Ethan Allen. But it's her ability to teach "people skills" to others that makes her business thrive. She's been a one-woman dynamo dynamo: see generator. DYNAMO - DYNamic MOdels. A language for continuous simulation including economic, industrial and social systems, developed by Phyllis Fox and A.L. Pugh in 1959. at the Society's Central Pennsylvania Chapter, too. She organized 2 new MS self-help groups in Harrisburg, focused on inspirational books. She's also harnessed her talent for motivating others to support the Society's research mission. Cathy started the annual "Reaching for the Stars" Research Dinner. It's a festive occasion to thank contributors to the Annual Fund, top fundraisers, and all the captains who get folks out for the chapter's many special events. This year, the dinner honored husband and wife Steve Levison, PhD, and Terri Wood, PhD, MS researchers at nearby Milton S. Hershey Milton Snavely Hershey (September 13, 1857 – October 13, 1945) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He is famous for founding The Hershey Chocolate Company and the "company town" of Hershey, Pennsylvania. Medical Center in Hershey, and Margherita Cantornia, PhD, from Pennsylvania State University Pennsylvania State University, main campus at University Park, State College; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855, opened 1859 as Farmers' High School. in State College, Pennsylvania. "I'm always thinking, `What can we do to make the public more aware of MS?'" Cathy said. This is the face of Cathy Finney, who is living with MS. But this isn't the whole picture exactly. "For years my doctors kept saying my leg problems were from high heeled shoes. Then they said my pain was in my head," Cathy said. She was finally diagnosed 3 years ago. A bit later MS suddenly kicked in big time. Disclosure wasn't optional any longer. "You can only have so many `bad leg' days before you have to say something," she explained. "I needed to use a cane, and it took me a long time to get my head around that idea. "`I don't pay for your legs, I pay for your brains,' one of my wonderful clients told me. So today I don't just have a cane. I have 9 of them, coordinated with my wardrobe. But I get uncomfortable when people call me an inspiration. I told a client who said that, `Please don't put me on a pedestal On a Pedestal is an EP by the Swedish band Adhesive, released in 1998. Track listing
"Motivation is my business, but discipline and I weren't always together. I don't do "I Don't Do" was the debut single by glamour model Michelle Marsh, released on 6 November 2006. The single reached 27 in the UK in its first week, selling only 9,000 copies and over 16,000 copies as of January 2007. The single spend a total of four weeks in the Top 75. pain well. I really lost it for a while. Then my best friend gave me Zoe Koplowitz's book, The Winning Spirit: Lessons Learned in Last Place. I thought, if Zoe, who has MS, can do New York City Marathons The New York City Marathon is an annual marathon foot-race run over a 42,195 m (26.2 mile) course through all five boroughs of New York City. It is the largest marathon race in the world, and with 37,866 finishers in 2006, was also the largest marathon race ever run. on her crutches, then I can get myself out of this bed. "I began working on changing myself. I've become fanatical about a good diet. I've gone on one of the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. drugs and conquered the needle thing. I make sure I exercise twice a day--and I volunteer to help other people with MS, because it's so good for my own spirit. I'm really proud of how I got over myself. "I also believe that the more money we have for research, the faster scientists can move. Funding research has become a passion for me." Martha King is the editor of InsideMS. |
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