******************************************** Additional Text for the 08/05/04 Alumni Sandstorm ******************************************** >>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. ********************************************