Guest Editorial … by Lynn Ianniello
The Oceanside Beacon, 04/22/1971

Someone’s going to ring your doorbell this Saturday or Sunday – a teenager, maybe a boy, maybe a girl, long hair, short hair, maybe sloppy, maybe neat. Appearance doesn’t matter. The teenager who rings your bell will be carrying a brown envelope marked “Kenny Kunken Medical Fund.” He’ll be one of 600 marvelous Oceanside junior and senior high school students who volunteered to give up their weekend to collect funds for another Oceanside youngster, just a year out of his teens, whom most of them have never even met.
Kenny Kunken is in the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. He talks about his “accident” last October matter of factly, with no trace of bitterness. He was a junior at Cornell University, majoring in industrial engineering. He was also a linebacker on the Cornell 150-pound football team. He stopped a kickoff return with a jarring tackle. His neck snapped. /full article/