Ernie Allen

(He had bought a cup of coffee one early morning for an elderly, unshaven, dishevelled- looking stranger in the track kitchen at Churchill Downs)
"My chance encounter with John W. Galbreath (the stranger) taught me a lesson I have never forgotten. One cannot make assumptions about people based om how they look. I now strive to treat every person with dignity and respect, no matter who I think they are, and to respond to each encounter with another human being with kindness and an open mind."
(Mr. Allen is President and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children)