Sam,
I am beginning a series of articles for the '55 Newsletter which
remember some of the "best-loved" teachers we had in that golden era
of the 1950s.
I have a rough draft of "Remembering Bert Leach" and I was wondering
if you would put it up on your Blog and invite those who had or knew
Mr. Leach to comment and/or add remembrances?
If you can spare the space.
Thanks.
Blaine Bierley bbierley@columbus.rr.com
I'll give my two cents, Blaine. I often took rides with more mature Portsmouth guys in the Gilmer twins cars. They discuyssed so many things and I just listened or asked occasional questions. among the regulars were Eddie Hill, Bob and Bill Gilmer, Clark Rapalee, etc. It must have been among those conversations that Bert Leach was referred to as "the smartest man in Portsmouth".
I was in Bert Leach's home room. Om one occasionm for some kind of school duty a few of us went to his house, near Second St. and Offenere as I recall, and I remember only that it was not well kept, with papers strewn all over the place (much like my computer office now). I remember Mr. Leach appearing much like Albert Einstein.
Good luck, Blaine!
Jack Plymale, Jim Fout and Doc Yeagle also had great respect for the poet-teacher!
Sam
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Why did Jesus fold the napkin? Thanks Clay Vice!
Why Did JESUS Fold the Napkin?
Do you know why? This is just beautiful.
Why Did Jesus Fold the Napkin?
This is one I can honestly say I have never seen circulating in the e-mails so; I'll start it. If it touches you ,
you might want to forward it.
Why did Jesus fold the linen burial cloth after His resurrection? I never noticed this....
The Gospel of John (20:7) tells us that the napkin, which was placed over the face of Jesus, was not just thrown aside like the grave clothes.
The Bible takes an entire verse to tell us that the napkin was neatly folded, and was placed at the head of that stony coffin.
Early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.
She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, 'They have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb, and I don't know where they have put him!'
Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb to see. The other disciple out ran Peter and got there first. He stopped and looked in and saw the linen cloth lying there, but he didn't go in.
Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, while the cloth that had covered Jesus' head was folded up and lying to the side.
Was that important? Absolutely!
Is it really significant? Yes!
In order to understand the significance of the folded napkin, you have to understand a little bit about Hebrew tradition of that day.
The folded napkin had to do with the Master and Servant, and every
Jewish boy knew this tradition.
When the servant set the dinner table for the master, he made sure that it was exactly the way the master wanted it.
The table was furnished perfectly, and then the servant would wait, just out of sight, until the master had finished eating, and the servant would not dare touch that table, until the master was finished..
Now if the master were done eating, he would rise from the table, wipe his fingers, his mouth, and clean his beard, and would wad up that napkin and toss it onto the table.
The servant would then know to clear the table. For in those days, the wadded napkin meant, "I'm finished.."
But if the master got up from the table, and folded his napkin, and laid it beside his plate, the servant would not dare touch the table, because..........
The folded napkin meant,
"I'm coming back!"
AND SO HE SHALL… Again!
"IN GOD WE TRUST"
Do you know why? This is just beautiful.
Why Did Jesus Fold the Napkin?
This is one I can honestly say I have never seen circulating in the e-mails so; I'll start it. If it touches you ,
you might want to forward it.
Why did Jesus fold the linen burial cloth after His resurrection? I never noticed this....
The Gospel of John (20:7) tells us that the napkin, which was placed over the face of Jesus, was not just thrown aside like the grave clothes.
The Bible takes an entire verse to tell us that the napkin was neatly folded, and was placed at the head of that stony coffin.
Early Sunday morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance.
She ran and found Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved. She said, 'They have taken the Lord's body out of the tomb, and I don't know where they have put him!'
Peter and the other disciple ran to the tomb to see. The other disciple out ran Peter and got there first. He stopped and looked in and saw the linen cloth lying there, but he didn't go in.
Then Simon Peter arrived and went inside. He also noticed the linen wrappings lying there, while the cloth that had covered Jesus' head was folded up and lying to the side.
Was that important? Absolutely!
Is it really significant? Yes!
In order to understand the significance of the folded napkin, you have to understand a little bit about Hebrew tradition of that day.
The folded napkin had to do with the Master and Servant, and every
Jewish boy knew this tradition.
When the servant set the dinner table for the master, he made sure that it was exactly the way the master wanted it.
The table was furnished perfectly, and then the servant would wait, just out of sight, until the master had finished eating, and the servant would not dare touch that table, until the master was finished..
Now if the master were done eating, he would rise from the table, wipe his fingers, his mouth, and clean his beard, and would wad up that napkin and toss it onto the table.
The servant would then know to clear the table. For in those days, the wadded napkin meant, "I'm finished.."
But if the master got up from the table, and folded his napkin, and laid it beside his plate, the servant would not dare touch the table, because..........
The folded napkin meant,
"I'm coming back!"
AND SO HE SHALL… Again!
"IN GOD WE TRUST"
FW- My kind of teacher... Thanks Clay Vice!
My Kind Of Teacher!
A good education story.... let the discipline begin ...
A former Sergeant, having served his time with the Marine Corps, took a new job as a school teacher, but just before the school year started he injured his back.
He was required to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body. Fortunately, the cast fit under his shirt and wasn't noticeable. On the first day of class, he found himself assigned to the toughest students in the school.
The smart aleck punks, having already heard the new teacher was a former Marine, were leery of him and decided to see how tough he really was, before trying any pranks. Walking confidently into the rowdy classroom, the new teacher opened the window wide and sat down at his desk.
When a strong breeze made his tie flap, he picked up a stapler and promptly stapled the tie to his chest. .....Dead silence... He had no trouble with discipline that year.
SEMPER FI!
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A good education story.... let the discipline begin ...
A former Sergeant, having served his time with the Marine Corps, took a new job as a school teacher, but just before the school year started he injured his back.
He was required to wear a plaster cast around the upper part of his body. Fortunately, the cast fit under his shirt and wasn't noticeable. On the first day of class, he found himself assigned to the toughest students in the school.
The smart aleck punks, having already heard the new teacher was a former Marine, were leery of him and decided to see how tough he really was, before trying any pranks. Walking confidently into the rowdy classroom, the new teacher opened the window wide and sat down at his desk.
When a strong breeze made his tie flap, he picked up a stapler and promptly stapled the tie to his chest. .....Dead silence... He had no trouble with discipline that year.
SEMPER FI!
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o no moron, just extremly dishonest! Thanks Luis Flores!
B.Obama. Birth.Cert. BS?
What is really going on? This moron keeps lying!
The software evidence [all over the internet] is telling, but for the techno-challenged here is another tidbit that is not dismissible by any form of popular rationalization.
“As you all know, Donald Trump made a big deal about Obama's birth certificate. As of yesterday, the White House released the birth certificate.
I will tell you right now that I had never given this "birther" issue any credit. I watched the hype and the crazies come out. I completely dismissed the entire ordeal altogether. In fact, it was not until the White House released the birth certificate that it had gained my attention.
I am the studious sort of guy, and I have plenty of time on my hands. So, I took a close look at this document. While I would have thought that this issue would have been closed for good (and, got the crazies to crawl back into their holes), I found two extremely strange inconsistencies that merit some attention.
First of all, the birth certificate that the White House released lists Obama's birth as August 4, 1961. It also lists Barack Hussein Obama as his father. No big deal, right? At the time of Obama's birth, it also shows that his father is aged 25 years old, and that Obama's father was born in "Kenya, East Africa". This wouldn't seem like anything of concern, except the fact that Kenya did not even exist until 1963, two whole years after Obama's birth, and 27 years after his father's birth. How could have Obama's father have been born in a country that did not yet exist? Up and until Kenya was formed in 1963, it was known as the "British East Africa Protectorate". But, this is not the only thing that I found that just does not jive.
The other item that I looked into was the hospital that Obama was born in. On the birth certificate released by the White House, the listed place of birth is "Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital". This cannot be, because the hospital(s) in question in 1961 were called "KauiKeolani Children's Hospital" and "Kapi'olani Maternity Home", respectively. The name did not change to Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until 1978, when these two hospitals merged. How can this particular name of the hospital be on a birth certificate dated 1961 if this name had not yet been applied to it until 1978?
Go ahead, look it up. I am not talking crazy talk, these are the facts. Like I said, I thought that this was a non-issue until the actual certificate was released. Now that it has been released, of course I had to look into it. I have found these issues, now I know that something is up. If you doubt me, just look at the following resources:
Sure as hell, the hospital part is true, as you can read about the 1978 merger here. “
From http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm
What is really going on? This moron keeps lying!
The software evidence [all over the internet] is telling, but for the techno-challenged here is another tidbit that is not dismissible by any form of popular rationalization.
“As you all know, Donald Trump made a big deal about Obama's birth certificate. As of yesterday, the White House released the birth certificate.
I will tell you right now that I had never given this "birther" issue any credit. I watched the hype and the crazies come out. I completely dismissed the entire ordeal altogether. In fact, it was not until the White House released the birth certificate that it had gained my attention.
I am the studious sort of guy, and I have plenty of time on my hands. So, I took a close look at this document. While I would have thought that this issue would have been closed for good (and, got the crazies to crawl back into their holes), I found two extremely strange inconsistencies that merit some attention.
First of all, the birth certificate that the White House released lists Obama's birth as August 4, 1961. It also lists Barack Hussein Obama as his father. No big deal, right? At the time of Obama's birth, it also shows that his father is aged 25 years old, and that Obama's father was born in "Kenya, East Africa". This wouldn't seem like anything of concern, except the fact that Kenya did not even exist until 1963, two whole years after Obama's birth, and 27 years after his father's birth. How could have Obama's father have been born in a country that did not yet exist? Up and until Kenya was formed in 1963, it was known as the "British East Africa Protectorate". But, this is not the only thing that I found that just does not jive.
The other item that I looked into was the hospital that Obama was born in. On the birth certificate released by the White House, the listed place of birth is "Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital". This cannot be, because the hospital(s) in question in 1961 were called "KauiKeolani Children's Hospital" and "Kapi'olani Maternity Home", respectively. The name did not change to Kapi'olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until 1978, when these two hospitals merged. How can this particular name of the hospital be on a birth certificate dated 1961 if this name had not yet been applied to it until 1978?
Go ahead, look it up. I am not talking crazy talk, these are the facts. Like I said, I thought that this was a non-issue until the actual certificate was released. Now that it has been released, of course I had to look into it. I have found these issues, now I know that something is up. If you doubt me, just look at the following resources:
Sure as hell, the hospital part is true, as you can read about the 1978 merger here. “
From http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm
Rev. Jesse Lee Paterson A black speaks about NO
Powerful!
New Orleans Went Under!
A Black Man's Comments
Carefully read the whole article. You'll be amazed at this guy!!!
I don't know the man who wrote this, but I looked at his picture and read it with my mouth hanging open.
He says things here that no white man could ever write and keep his job as a writer.
By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:
What would you do?
What would you do if you were black?
Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer.
To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly to protect them from danger.
Then, able-bodied men would return to help others in need,
as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the like.
For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second question.
If you're black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city,
you'll probably wait for the government to save you.
This was not always the case.
Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic performance by the black community
in a time of crisis would have been inconceivable.
The first response would have come from black men.
They would take care of their families, bring them to safety,
and then help the rest of the community.
Then local government would come in.
No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city,
it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind
and waited for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out good results.
Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan.
Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame on 'racist' President Bush.
Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites.
The two demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans ,
above and beyond the federal government's proposed $60 billion.
Not only that, these two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the dispersion of funds.
Perfect: 'Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in America ,' overseeing billions of dollars.
I wonder where that money will end up.
Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on government,
they should blame the local one.
Responsibility to perform legally and practically fell first on the mayor of New Orleans .
We are now all familiar with Mayor Ray Nagin the black who likes to yell at President Bush
for failing to do Nagin's job. The facts, unfortunately do not support Nagin's wailing.
As the Washington Times puts it, 'recent reports show [Nagin] failed to follow through
on his own city's emergency-response plan,
which acknowledged that thousands of the city's poorest residents would have no way to evacuate the city.'
One wonders how there was 'no way' for these people to evacuate the city.
We have photographic evidence telling us otherwise.
You've probably seen it by now the photo showing 2,000 parked school buses, unused and underwater.
How much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor Nagin?
Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution from Gov. Kathleen Blanco,
the other major leader vested with responsibility to address the hurricane disaster)
loaded remaining new Orleans residents into the Superdome and the city's convention center.
We know how that plan turned out.
About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black Journalists,
I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country,
they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years.
The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly.
Now I have to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit.
It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos,
rampant with theft, rape and murder.
President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks.
Had New Orleans ' black community taken action, most would have been out of harm's way.
But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive for themselves.
All Americans must tell blacks this truth.
It was blacks' moral poverty, not their material poverty, that cost them dearly in New Orleans .
Farrakhan, Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated
for they will only perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral corruption.
New Orleans , to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be remade into a dependency-free,
morally strong city where corruption is opposed and success is applauded.
Blacks are obligated to help themselves and not depend on the government to care for them.
We are all obligated to tell them so.
The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is founder and president of BOND,
the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny,
and author of 'Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America.'
READER'S COMMENT: Are blacks somehow beginning to see that their own moral and ethical misgivings are the cause of their own demise?
New Orleans Went Under!
A Black Man's Comments
Carefully read the whole article. You'll be amazed at this guy!!!
I don't know the man who wrote this, but I looked at his picture and read it with my mouth hanging open.
He says things here that no white man could ever write and keep his job as a writer.
By Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
Say a hurricane is about to destroy the city you live in. Two questions:
What would you do?
What would you do if you were black?
Sadly, the two questions don't have the same answer.
To the first: Most of us would take our families out of that city quickly to protect them from danger.
Then, able-bodied men would return to help others in need,
as wives and others cared for children, elderly, infirm and the like.
For better or worse, Hurricane Katrina has told us the answer to the second question.
If you're black and a hurricane is about to destroy your city,
you'll probably wait for the government to save you.
This was not always the case.
Prior to 40 years ago, such a pathetic performance by the black community
in a time of crisis would have been inconceivable.
The first response would have come from black men.
They would take care of their families, bring them to safety,
and then help the rest of the community.
Then local government would come in.
No longer. When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city,
it was primarily immoral, welfare-pampered blacks that stayed behind
and waited for the government to bail them out. This, as we know, did not turn out good results.
Enter Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan.
Jackson and Farrakhan laid blame on 'racist' President Bush.
Farrakhan actually proposed the idea that the government blew up a levee so as to kill blacks and save whites.
The two demanded massive governmental spending to rebuild New Orleans ,
above and beyond the federal government's proposed $60 billion.
Not only that, these two were positioning themselves as the gatekeepers to supervise the dispersion of funds.
Perfect: 'Two of the most dishonest elite blacks in America ,' overseeing billions of dollars.
I wonder where that money will end up.
Of course, if these two were really serious about laying blame on government,
they should blame the local one.
Responsibility to perform legally and practically fell first on the mayor of New Orleans .
We are now all familiar with Mayor Ray Nagin the black who likes to yell at President Bush
for failing to do Nagin's job. The facts, unfortunately do not support Nagin's wailing.
As the Washington Times puts it, 'recent reports show [Nagin] failed to follow through
on his own city's emergency-response plan,
which acknowledged that thousands of the city's poorest residents would have no way to evacuate the city.'
One wonders how there was 'no way' for these people to evacuate the city.
We have photographic evidence telling us otherwise.
You've probably seen it by now the photo showing 2,000 parked school buses, unused and underwater.
How much planning does it require to put people on a bus and leave town, Mayor Nagin?
Instead of doing the obvious, Mayor Nagin (with no positive contribution from Gov. Kathleen Blanco,
the other major leader vested with responsibility to address the hurricane disaster)
loaded remaining new Orleans residents into the Superdome and the city's convention center.
We know how that plan turned out.
About five years ago, in a debate before the National Association of Black Journalists,
I stated that if whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country,
they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years.
The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly.
Now I have to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit.
It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos,
rampant with theft, rape and murder.
President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks.
Had New Orleans ' black community taken action, most would have been out of harm's way.
But most were too lazy, immoral and trifling to do anything productive for themselves.
All Americans must tell blacks this truth.
It was blacks' moral poverty, not their material poverty, that cost them dearly in New Orleans .
Farrakhan, Jackson, and other race hustlers are to be repudiated
for they will only perpetuate this problem by stirring up hatred and applauding moral corruption.
New Orleans , to the extent it is to be rebuilt, should be remade into a dependency-free,
morally strong city where corruption is opposed and success is applauded.
Blacks are obligated to help themselves and not depend on the government to care for them.
We are all obligated to tell them so.
The Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson is founder and president of BOND,
the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny,
and author of 'Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America.'
READER'S COMMENT: Are blacks somehow beginning to see that their own moral and ethical misgivings are the cause of their own demise?
Perspective... Thanks Judi Cole!
2011 Federal Budget Deal
Federal Budget: $3,820,000,000,000 (3.82 Trillion)
Income: $2,170,000,000,000 (2.17 Trillion)
New Debt: $1,650,000,000,000 (1.65 Trillion)
Amount Cut: $ 38,500,000,000 (38.5 Billion) – about 1% of the total budget
Let’s Put This In Perspective
It helps me to think about these numbers in terms that I can relate to. Let’s remove nine zeroes from those numbers and pretend this is a monthly household budget for the “Jones” family.
Amount of money the Jones family spent this month: $3,820
Total income for the Jones family this month: $2,170
Amount of new debt added to the credit card this month: $1,650
Outstanding balance on the credit card: $14,271 (This represents our national debt) .
So last week , the Jones’ sat down at the kitchen table and agreed to cut $38 from their monthly budget. A historic amount!
I'm sure you're Impressed?
Federal Budget: $3,820,000,000,000 (3.82 Trillion)
Income: $2,170,000,000,000 (2.17 Trillion)
New Debt: $1,650,000,000,000 (1.65 Trillion)
Amount Cut: $ 38,500,000,000 (38.5 Billion) – about 1% of the total budget
Let’s Put This In Perspective
It helps me to think about these numbers in terms that I can relate to. Let’s remove nine zeroes from those numbers and pretend this is a monthly household budget for the “Jones” family.
Amount of money the Jones family spent this month: $3,820
Total income for the Jones family this month: $2,170
Amount of new debt added to the credit card this month: $1,650
Outstanding balance on the credit card: $14,271 (This represents our national debt) .
So last week , the Jones’ sat down at the kitchen table and agreed to cut $38 from their monthly budget. A historic amount!
I'm sure you're Impressed?
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