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Additional Text for the 08/05/04 Alumni Sandstorm 
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>>From: MLou Williams ('60)( and feeling it!)

To: Deb Bosher Neuroth ('67)
    I agree with you.  
    While I don't know old Pappy - good grief I've learned
more about the people from school in this newsletter than I
ever knew back then! - I enjoy reading his stuff and plenty
of others' stuff. But there are instances when I don't have
time and/or interest to read all the entries and pick just
the ones from around my time in school, or pick entries from
names I recognize.
    I do agree with you in that if someone doesn't want 
to read ALL, then skip things. It's a simple process of
selectivity, and beats censoring all to heck. Being a
librarian, I'm kind of opposed to censorship. In fact, I'm
known for the saying, "we have something in our library to
offend everyone." If you don't want to read something -
don't. it's so easy, and it doesn't affect anyone else's
right to choose what he or she wants to read. Patriot Act be
darned, we still have the right to choose what we read, 
not be told what to read or not read. The most recent
controversy in libraries was the one of the government
agencies trying to have destroyed or recall from government
depositories in libraries around the country some materials
they decided should only be made available "internally" -
not available to the public. Since it had to do with the
public's rights and procedures to file complaints against
the agency (that's a general simple explanation) librarians
disagreed and applied vociferous opposition. Since it went
public, the agency backed down and said that's not really
what they meant to do after all.
    On a more personal level, when a local service 
organization gave the money for magazines but required we 
not include Rolling Stone in the purchases, the retired, 
75-year-old totally gentile, feminine, lady librarian who 
was a member of the group, spoke up and said, "Then I'll pay 
for it right now." and she did. Was I ever proud!

(So, anyway, back to Pappy.  It's just possible he can't
afford treatment and uses the Sandstorm for some sort of
therapy.  He does seem to have a lot of time on his
hands...)

To: Paula Beardley Glenn ('62)
    I'm so glad to hear about your Dad's improvement. Hope
he gets to come home soon - they all seem to do better at
home. Keep up your strength so you can help him find his
again soon.

To: Bob Carlson, aka Mike Clowes ('54) and Lora Homme Page ('60)
    Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) wrote 
The Power of Positive Thinking
The Positive Principle Today
Enthusiasm Makes the Difference

    Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) wrote
How to Win Friends and Influence People
He also was full of quotations like "Any fool can criticize, 
condemn, and complain - and most fools do." and "Those who 
don't know how to fight worry, die young." 

Just look how long those men lived back when 55 was considered old!  

To: Jan Bollinger Persons ('60)
    I looked up your joke and that is absolutely the
cleanest, funniest, old-man joke I have heard in decades! 
I sent it to just about everyone I know. Sometimes a really
good joke just hits the spot! 

-From MLou Williams ('60) in Hermiston, who never writes 
               this much and probably never will again.
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