Legacies keep the world moving forward … .That was evident last evening when the family and friends of Shelley Joseph-Kordell celebrated her life and contributions to her community and aging services with the 4th Annual Shelley Joseph-Kordell Award. Shelley was a pioneer in geriatric care management and made professional advocacy and service for seniors her life’s passion before her life was tragically cut short in 2003. Shelley had to be proud of the words spoken by her daughter Jennifer and mother Geri Joseph, pioneering health care reporter and columnist at the Star Tribune and former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands.Jennifer and Geri presented the 2008 Shelley Joseph-Kordell awards to Anita Raymond and Mary McGurran, who work with a great organization Volunteers of America and have helped thousands of seniors navigate an extremely complex health care and services system. Charissa Eaton also received the Shelley Joseph-Kordell Memorial Scholarship. She is pursuing a doctorate in social services at the University of Minnesota.Legacies keep the world moving forward … . Tim Marx, commissioner of the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency is leaving that position to become executive director of Common Ground, a New York-based housing and community development nonprofit. Today he wrote a Thank You to Minnesota in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Changing Aging wants to leave you this week with several quotations from his column who have also gifted our state and country with tremendous legacies:‘Listen with the ear of your heart,’ … be of service, and be a steward, as everything entrusted to us has a higher purpose (The Rule of St. Benedict)‘Everything is related to everything else,’… so think and act integratively both locally and globally (Harlan Cleveland, who died this year, served as the first dean of the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute)‘Money and good intentions are not enough,’ … focus on results and concentrate efforts on people and places with the greatest need and opportunity for the most impact (John Brandl, who died this year, served as a professor at St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN and the Humphrey Institute.‘Competition must be viewed as one of our most powerful tools,’ . . within the context of advancing the broader public interest and satisfying basic human needs (John Brandl).‘Get everyone in on the act and still get some action’ … . by working from the center out to avoid gridlock (Harlan Cleveland)Legacies keep the world moving forward … .