WHY WE GIVE
A Grateful Fami
Pays It Forward
The generosity of Jackie and Randy
secures expert care for more familie
As a young mother in the 1980s,
Jackie H. had a busy house filled
with newborns to high-schoolers,
an entrepreneurial husband who
worked around the clock and a
clear-eyed view of the impending
threat alcoholism posed for her
growing family.
Jackie’s husband Randy, an
internationally successful
businessman and incredibly loving
father, had a drinking problem. She
could see that his alcohol use was
causing uncharacteristically bad
and progressively worse decision
making.
So Jackie quietly started a
rainy day fund. She also learned
everything she could about
alcoholism, paying close attention
to the fact that former First Lady
Betty Ford—whose matter-of-fact
outspokenness Jackie greatly
admired—had recently opened
a rehab center nearby in Rancho
Mirage, California.
Jackie would be ready to act when
the opportunity to help Randy
presented itself. Soon enough, that
moment arrived.
“On that particula
and I had a disagre
recounts. “He had
and he left the hou
the car. I followed
When Randy start
the driveway, I rea
took the keys out
He realized that th
playing around any
moment of clarity
Jackie informed he
he would be drivin
the Betty Ford Ce
morning. No excus
all of the arrangem
“I said, ‘Off you go
paid for. They are
Jackie shares.
And that was that
treatment, embrac
never looked back
SEEING THE SIG
Jackie’s brand of t
exactly popular at
the exception of tw
she received no su
little understandin
couple’s extended
circle for taking th
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