Leader of the Year: Rev. James J. Maher, devoted to service
(World News USA)

When he was just a boy, long before he became a college president, one of the most definitive events of young James Maher´s life would occur. His 16-month-old sister, Kathleen, contracted cerebral palsy as a result of pneumonia. Decades later, the Rev. James J. Maher, C.M., president of Niagara University, and the man who received the Leader of the Year award from Leadership Niagara on Friday, is still responding to life from the perspective of a person who loves someone with a disability. His younger sister´s illness gave him an intimate view of how the world sometimes treats those who are differently capable or less fortunate than most. `What shaped our family growing up was living with...