He Must Take And Hopes to Give by Judith Bender
Newsday, 1973

Oceanside – Ken Kunken’s world is limited as only a paralytic’s can be. Limited by his dependence on others to feed him, to clothe him, to care for all his needs. Limited by his reliance on the good will of relatives and strangers. Limited in these ways as it will be always.
But Kunken, whose active, athlete’s life ended two and a half years ago with a jarring football tackle at s university lightweight football league game, has graduated at 23 from Cornell University and hopes to enlarge the world.
“I’d like to see if I can help others for a change, instead of always being on the receiving end,” he said yesterday in a shady corner of the sunlit backyard of his aunt’s home here. Sitting strapped into one of the two wheelchairs he uses – the other, an electric one, he can manipulate himself – Kunken discussed what he will do now that he has graduated with a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering. /full article/