The Stewardship Lectures 2004

November 18, 2004

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has. -- Margaret Meade

Panelists Kathi Anderson, Anne Anderson, Rev. Bruce Young, Suzanne Condon

Woburn Toxic Waste Crisis:

A History of Grassroots Activism & Governmental Response

On Thursday, November 18, 2004, the final Stewardship Lecture of 2004 was held at the Walden Woods Project's Thoreau Institute in Lincoln, Massachusetts. The Lecture featured a panel of individuals whose lives first intersected almost thirty years ago in and around Woburn, Massachusetts.

The panel discussion was moderated by Kathi Anderson, presently an Executive Director at the Walden Woods Project, who was affected by and working on resolving the Woburn tragedy as the legislative assistant to Senator Edward M. Kennedy. She was joined by Anne Anderson, who lost her son Jimmy to leukemia caused by toxins in Woburn's water supply, Reverend Bruce Young, who was the Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Woburn from 1966 until his retirement in 1999, and Suzanne Condon, the Associate Commissioner and director of the Center for Environmental Health and the Center for Emergency Preparedness at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH).