40th Anniversary Fidelity House 

Annual Meeting and Breakfast

Featured Special Guest:

 Travis Roy 

Travis Roy first put on ice skates when he was just 20 months old. As years passed, his love for the game of hockey quickly became a passion. In the fall of 1995 Roy accomplished one of his dream goals by earning a hockey scholarship to Boston University. At twenty-years of age he entered into his first collegiate hockey game. Eleven seconds into his first shift, his life changed forever as he crashed into the boards and cracked his fourth and fifth cervical vertebra, paralyzing him from the neck down.

Despite this ill twist of fate, Roy has continued to persevere and defy the odds. With an intense rehabilitation regime, he has regained some movement in his right arm. While coming to grips with his life as a quadriplegic, he returned to Boston University less than a year after his accident. Four years later, he graduated with a degree in public relations from Boston University’s prestigious College of Communication. In the storied history of BU Terriers hockey, Roy’s #24 is the only jersey to have been retired. 

Travis Roy Foundation

Here are a few takeaways from Travis’ presentation:

• Being your best at your profession, should always be one of your primary motivating factors.
• Professional challenges, chosen or not, should be viewed as new opportunities.
• Your ability to find solutions in times of adversity, are defining moments.
• Staying motivated in your job, requires setting goals and implementing incentives.
• Attitude is about perspective… how you look at things, more importantly, how you choose to look at things.