Category: My 15 Minutes

George Butera, a quadriplegic, is working to make a home of his own. February 27, 2000 Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer Author: Melia Bowie WHITPAIN – For 32-year-old quadriplegic George Butera, the answering machine says it all: “You know, it’s been over 10 years and I’m not even trying to get to the phone anymore,” he […]

August 15, 1999 Source: The Times Herald NORRISTOWN – Golfers, sponsors and banquet-goers are invited to the second annual Madison Bank Relief Fund Golf Outing to be hold Aug.  30 at Plymouth Country Club. Proceeds will be split between two area men who have been injured and need financial help.  For $600, each foursome will […]

March 28, 1999 Source: The Times Herald Author: Amy C.  Stohner PLYMOUTH – Thirty-one-year-old George Butera has been waiting what seems like a lifetime to gain his independence. He was halfway there at the age of 18, having just completed one semester of engineering courses at Temple University’s Ambler campus.  However, fate had other plans […]

January 16, 1992 Source: The Times Herald Author: Jessica A.  Carville George Butera is 24 years old, a college graduate who’s looking for a job and willing to work his way up the ladder. Sounds like a lot of other young men his age.  But Butera isn’t like the others.  In June 1986, the Blue […]

January 8, 1992 Source: The Ambler Gazette Author: Paul Cathey Whitpain’s George Butera doesn’t think he deserves any special credit for graduating next month (February) from Temple University with a B+ average even though he is a quadriplegic. “There are other people on the Ambler campus,” he says, “who are also in wheelchairs and doing […]

Area rockers and fans aid 2 teens October 8, 1987 Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer Author: Thomas Hartmann In the chilly, predawn darkness last Sunday, 15 young people gathered on a grassy lawn at a Blue Bell swim club and began setting up a large sound stage.  Just a few hours before, they had been at […]

October 1, 1987 Source: North Penn Reporter Author: Joan C.  McKenna BACK IN SCHOOL: Sophomore George Butera is back in college at Temple University’s Ambler Campus one year after an accident which left him in a wheelchair.  The Ambler campus has been called one of the most accessible to disabled students in the Delaware Valley. […]

September 30, 1987 Source: The Times Herald Author: Regina Ann Purifico George Butera is getting by with a little help from his friends. Butera, 19, of Whitpain, was injured in a swimming accident 15 months ago in Ocean City, which left him paralyzed from the chest down. He now depends largely on friends and family […]

September 25, 1986 Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer Author: S. E. Siebert His friends say George Butera would do anything to help someone else.  He has always been a good friend, someone you can count on. When Butera was the victim of a swimming accident in June, his friends organized projects to raise money for his […]

Concert Planned to Benefit Norristown Teen Paralyzed in Swimming Mishap September 15, 1986 Source: The Times Herald Author: Regina Ann Purifico Anyone who knows George Butera will tell you that he spent a lot of time helping his friends whenever they needed him. So when they learned he was left a quadriplegic from a swimming […]