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Winter 2001
Volume 5 Number 2
1940 Donald C. Kerr (B) has been pastor emeritus of Roland Park Presbyterian Church in Baltimore since 1980. He is also the president of the residents association of Roland Park Place.
1942 Donald B. Bailey (M) celebrated his 87th birthday last April 19th. He and his wife, Jane, are in good health and play golf at least twice each week. He resides in Austell, Georgia, and still enjoys preaching occasionally. His email address is email@example.com .
1944 Floyd Grady (B, '58M) announces the creation of www.missionarytales.com , a web site devoted to the Grady family's stories of Christian missionary service over several generations. Last year a Baylor University team spent several weeks in Brazil and the U.S. interviewing Grady and filming his ministry in Brazil to produce a documentary for recruitment and missionary promotion. In addition, Grady's PTS Th.M. thesis, Causal Factors in the 16th-Century Reformation, was recently translated into Portuguese. His email address is email@example.com .
1945 Walter L. Dosch (B, '48M) "praises God for the seven interim ministries" since his retirement and "the opportunity to continue to do supply preaching." He lives in Devon, Pennsylvania.
Jack W. Ware (B) is now serving as parish associate for the First Presbyterian Church of Georgetown, Texas.
1946 Alan G. Gripe (B) has just retired for the "sixth time" as an interim pastor. He writes that he will finally "relax a bit now."
1948 Melvin L. Schaper (M) is teaching a weekly Bible extension class in Old Testament literature through God's Bible School college department. He was formerly an associate professor there and now serves on the board of trustees.
Paul W. Stauning (B) presented Bible lectures at Paxton Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on five Wednesdays during the 2000 Lenten season.
1949 Jeanne V. Bellerjeau (E) recently attended the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Christian Women of the Church of Christ in Thailand. She "was pleased to find out about their progress and their excellent leadership." While there, she met many old friends and former coworkers. She lives in Haddon Heights, New Jersey.
James G. Emerson Jr. (B) was appointed as interim president of San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS), effective September 1, 2000. He is presently the vice moderator of San Gabriel Presbytery (PCUSA) and a mission interpreter for the denomination's Worldwide Ministries Division, which provides financial and leadership support for AIDS awareness, hunger relief, peacemaking, worldwide mission, economic development, and other social ministries around the globe. He is pastor emeritus of Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco and has also pastored churches in New Jersey, New York, Colorado, and San Francisco. Emerson has served as an alumni/ae representative on the PTS Board of Trustees and has authored books on divorce and remarriage, forgiveness, suffering, and worship.
Shirley Harris Hamme (E) teaches a Bible study to a senior group and continues to appreciate what she learned at PTS personally and professionally. She resides in Cary, North Carolina.
C. Wayland James (B, '50M) and Helen Wilson James celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary on September 3, 2000. They were toasted by Fred R. Wilson (50'B, 56'M) and Daniel Theron (50'D), who were both in their wedding party. The celebration took place at the Woodlands in Marmarville, Pennsylvania, (near Pittsburgh), the retirement community where they live. They are enjoying good health as well as retirement.
Donald D. Swift (B) (pictured right) is still "going strong" as stated supply pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Reynoldsburg, Ohio. He recently won gold in both badminton and tennis in the Senior Olympics and has been playing tennis since age eleven.
1950 John H. Scott (B) is celebrating fifty-two years of parish ministry. He is still going strong as parish associate for visitation at Fox Chapel Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Daniel Theron (D) and his wife recently entertained a group of PTS alumni at a dinner with Gene Degitz (60'B), PTS vice president for Seminary relations. Theron has just published a book, Out of Ashes: The Boers' Struggle for Freedom through the English War (1899–1902), to coincide with the centennial commemoration of that war. His book intertwines the course of this devastating war with the information gained from his father, who fought under Jan Smuts, his mother, who fled with her family on a small ox wagon convoy to escape the deadly concentration camps, and several veterans whom he had interviewed quite a few years ago. It ends with a summary of South African political history during the twentieth century. The book is available on the Internet at 1stbooks.com by selecting Theron under the author column. Theron resides in Hendersonville, North Carolina.
John A. Westin (B) mourns the loss of his wife, Gertrude, who died on August 20, 2000. The two were married for more than sixty-one years. He resides in Owasso, Oklahoma.
Frederick R. Wilson (B, '56M) and his wife, Betty, have come out of retirement to serve a small United Church of Christ congregation in Massachusetts.
1951 Harry E. Chase (B) is teaching at Collin County College in Plano, Texas. He has also conducted two workshops at PTS's Center of Continuing Education and one for staff at PTS's Center for Children this year.
Arthur Paul Noble (B) is a parish associate at Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church in St. George, Utah. The church is just thirteen years old with a congregation of 325 members.
Ralph A. Tamaccio (B) served as interim minister for the First Presbyterian Church in Wildwood, New Jersey, while they worked through the process of calling a designated pastor.
1952 William H. Cohea Jr. (B) and Karen E. Nickels ('87B) led a jazz mass as part of the annual Celebration of the Arts (COTA) in Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, in September. The festival featured well-known jazz musicians from the New York City and Delaware Water Gap areas. Cohea, founder of Columcille, a megalithic park and Celtic center in the Blue Mountains south of the Delaware Water Gap, conceived of the jazz mass in 1978 when he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church of the Mountain. Nickels, who is now pastor of the Church of the Mountain, preached at this year's mass. Cohea, the liturgist for the celebration, described the musicians who perform each year as "gifts of the Spirit." To find out more about the jazz mass or about Columcille, contact Cohea at firstname.lastname@example.com.
David Walker (B) is retired, but continues to serve as interim minister for the First Presbyterian Church in Sun City, Arizona. He and his wife, Shirley, reside in Breckenridge, Colorado.
1953 Raymond Nott (B) still calls square dances in Powell, Wyoming, and recently gave a swing demonstration at an annual senior citizens banquet. He also taught an adult Bible class in 2000.
Benjamin E. Sheldon (B, '59M) is in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he and his wife are completing a short-term assignment on behalf of the International Assistance Mission. His email address is email@example.com.
1954 Walter A. Fitton (B, '57M) is the interim associate minister at The Presbyterian Church in Traverse City, Michigan.
Joseph C. Fowler (B) is settling into his new home in New Hempstead, New York. He enjoys occasional preaching opportunities.
Yunkuk David Kim (M) recently published Over the Mountain, Across the Water, an autobiographical journey of a Christian from North Korea. The book is available through the Center for East Asian Studies at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.
Gustav Nelson (B) continues to direct Project 21, a program designed to find and articulate new models of congregational life. His most recent book, Service Is the Point: Members As Ministers to the World, was just published by Abingdon Press. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
1955 E. Bruce Ellithorpe (B) continues to find "great joy and fulfillment in serving at the First Presbyterian Church in Roseville, California, with Princeton alumni Jim Barstow (84'B) and Ron Oldenkamp (89'B)." His ministry as parish associate is primarily to the elderly and to those in the hospital.
Lincoln Griswold (B, '75P) is board chair for Special Care, Inc. in Erdenheim, Pennsylvania.
Richard J. Manning (B) is serving on Monmouth Presbytery's Council and was recently elected to the Outreach and Advocacy Committee of the Synod of the Northeast. He also represents the synod with the New Jersey Council of Churches.
1956 William J. Mills (B) recently completed a year and a half of service as interim pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Oil City, Pennsylvania. He is currently retired and plans to "catch up on some home repairs."
1957 Kirk Hudson (B) serves as parish associate at the First Presbyterian Church of Utica in Utica, New York, and as president of Hope House, a ministry that feeds approximately 300 people daily. This "house built on prayer" is staffed mainly by volunteers.
Kayton R. Palmer (B) is recovering from spinal surgery and serving as visitation pastor at Knox Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis. A resident of Arden Hills, he is also active in volunteer work through the House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul.
1958 Charles A. Hammond (B) retired from his eleven-year call as executive presbyter of the Presbytery of Philadelphia, the denominations's oldest presbytery, on June 30, 1998. Since then, he has served as interim pastor at the Presbyterian Church at New Providence, New Jersey, and most recently as the interim pastor at the First Presbyterian Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. He and his wife, Barbro, "adore the mountains, the sky, the people, and the clean air in the Intermountain West."
Norma Jean S. Perkins (E) assisted her church, Edgewater United Methodist in Edgewater, Florida, during a community outreach event called "Celebrate Jesus." She and other members went door-to-door to 3000 homes. They gave away 2000 prayer plants, received more than 500 prayer requests, and extended invitations for neighbors to join them in worship services.
1959 Donald L. Mitchell Jr. (B, '65M) assumed the position of temporary supply pastor of the historic Great Conewago Presbyterian Church in Hunterstown, Pennsylvania, in September. The Great Conewago church was used as a field hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg.
1960 J. Scottie Griffin (B, '78P), of East Virginia Presbytery, is serving as supply pastor in several of the smaller congregations there. He retired in March 2000 and lives in Virginia Beach.
Francis Ross Kinsler (B) and Gloria Gibbon Kinsler (E) are retiring after thirty-seven years as missionaries and theological educators in Central America. The two will continue to research, write, and teach from their new home in southern California. Their book, The Biblical Jubilee and the Struggle for Life: An Invitation to Personal, Ecclesial, and Social Transformation, is now in its second printing at Orbis and will be published in Spanish by the end of 2000.
1961 Bruce H. Swenson (B) completed service as interim pastor for the Community of Reconciliation in Pittsburgh last June. He will retire at the beginning of the new year.
1962 John B. Jaymes (E) welcomes correspondence from class members. He has created a web site at http://geocities.com/jtime9 that chronicles his life after PTS. His email is firstname.lastname@example.com.
1963 Richard B. Anderson (B) recently completed an interim ministry position at Elmhurst Presbyterian Church in Elmhurst, Illinois. After serving there for six years, he says he is open to another interim position, but not for such a long duration.
1964 James Black (M) is now the intentional interim minister at the First Presbyterian Church of Waynesboro, Virginia. He previously served as chaplain and family therapist in the neuropsychology department at Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. He has five children and five grandchildren, but writes that he is "far too young to be a grandfather!" His email address is email@example.com.
Dean Foose (B, '65M, '94P), Roger Hull Jr. (B, '69M), and Doug Ward (B) attended a fish fry on scenic Lake Loughboro near Battersea, Ontario, last summer. Foose is PTS's director of alumni/ae relations and placement; "Chef" Hull is the parish associate at Windsor Presbyterian Church in Windsor, California, and director of sales for Fieldstone Winery in Healdsburg, California; Ward recently retired after thirty years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where he was a producer, manager, and vice president. He lives in Ottawa, Canada, and is chair of Inter Pares, a Canadian not-for-profit organization working with Third World women's and poor people's organizations in their struggle for social and economic justice.
The fourth fisherman at the gathering was David Mace, PTS trustee and director of family financial services for Northern Trust Global Advisors, Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut. The photograph is courtesy of Stan Hale, one of the founders of The Hull Island Men's Consciousness-Raising Seminar and a high school classmate of Mace and Hull.
George G. Hunter III (M) is the author of Leading and Managing a Growing Church. Just published by Abingdon Press, the book brings together some of the best contemporary writers and thinkers on leadership, management, and congregational growth.
Cullen I K Story (D) is pastor of White's Memorial Presbyterian Church in Berea, Kentucky. He taught Greek at PTS for twenty-seven years.
1965 Nancy Burcher (E) is a charter member of the University of Virginia Club in Tallahassee, Florida.
1966 Donald C. McFerren (B, '70M) is now serving as president of Catholic Health Partners Foundation in Chicago, having completed service to the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the UCSF comprehensive cancer center in San Francisco.
1967 Les Borsay (B) is the president of the American Conservative Media Network, which provides conservative political commentary to more than 200 radio talk shows nationwide. He is also the editor of The American Conservative, a newspaper with a circulation of 75,000 based in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Marilyn Dambach Ruppart (E) was appointed head of middle school at Marymount School in New York City last July. Marymount is an all-girls school of 480 students from nursery through twelfth grade. For the last five years, Ruppart served as director of middle school for Kent Place School in Summit, New Jersey. She and her husband, Randy ('68B), have two children, Tamara and Jonathan.
1968 Howard J. Happ (B) assists at St. Bede's parish in Mar Vista, California.
1969 Harry F. MacCall (M) on a recent trip to Scotland visited the Parish Church at Straiton where he enjoyed a PTS reunion with W. Gerald Jones ('83M).
Donald O. Maddox (B), class steward of the Class of 1969, was recently installed as pastor of St. James Presbyterian Church in Tarzana, California.
1970 Robert H. Linders (M, '77P) recently spoke at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia on the interpretation challenges that pastors face on a weekly basis. His convocation address was called "Harry Potter and the Modern Preacher: The Homiletical Challenge." Linders is the author of many articles on preaching and has served as pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, since 1977.
In August, Abuna Paulos (M, '88D), patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, participated in the historic Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders in New York City with more than 1,000 religious leaders from around the world. Paulos offered prayers and signed the "Commitment to Global Peace," a statement that includes eleven promises to "appeal to all religious communities and ethnic and national groups to respect the right of freedom of religion, to seek reconciliation, and to engage in mutual forgiveness and healing." The summit opened at the United Nations with an address by U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan.
1971 Carol E. Atwood-Lyon (B) was called as senior pastor of Hampstead Congregational Church in Hampstead, New Hampshire, last May.
James Forsythe (M) has served as prison chaplain for the Clinton State Correctional Facility in New York State for twenty-nine years. On June 11, he completed thirty-one years as an ordained minister. He resides in Plattsburgh, New York.
Carl Gray (B) is now pastor and head of staff of Fox Valley Presbyterian Church in Geneva, Illinois. He served as head of staff and co-pastor along with his wife, Donna Gray ('73B), at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Batavia, Illinois, for the last fifteen years. The Grays have two college-age children.
James A. Lacy (B, '84P) was installed as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Hobbs, New Mexico, on August 16, 2000.
Charlie Stump (M) is news director for Way-Truth-Life Radio in State College, Pennsylvania. He recently taught the course "Experiencing God," written by Henry Blackaby, at the Eighteenth Street Community Church in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Stump has served as a pastor for more than thirty years in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and is an evangelist in the Pennsylvania District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. He has a daily radio address on WTLR-FM.
1972 M. William Howard Jr. (B) was installed as pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, on October 29. Peter Paris, the Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics at PTS, and Prathia Hall (82'B, 84'M, 97'D), professor of ethics at Boston University, were among the speakers during installation weekend events.
Jack Van Ens (B, '76M, '84P) is president and CEO of Creative Growth Associates, whose purpose is to instruct educational, business, and nonprofit groups to motivate volunteers and to perform missions and strategic planning. He is also a member of Majesty Ministries, a Christian jazz trio based in Avon, Colorado. Van Ens is the trio's storyteller and preacher. Majesty performs in churches across the country, and Van Ens hopes those interested in learning more about the group will contact him by email at either email@example.com or majestyministries.org .
1973 Daniel J. Weitner (B) is the author of Curious Commercials and Other Reflections on Christmas, his first commercially published book. He served for six years at the Church of Our Savior in Newark, New Jersey, before becoming pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in North Arlington, New Jersey, in 1981. He has been a speaker on radio station WFME and serves on various committees of the Presbytery of Newark. His writing credits also include Something More, a confirmation manual used in several Newark churches, thousands of pages of sermons, expositions, and Bible studies, and hundreds of poems and hymns (one of which was published by Carpenter Street Music).
Ken West (B) is the author of The Shelbys Need Help: A Choose-Your-Own-Solutions Guidebook for Parents, published by Impact Publishers. He is the director of the Center for Family Education at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, Virginia. The book offers a practical spin on virtual reality in an engaging scene-by-scene workbook format. He has also written two other books, Parenting without Guilt and The 21 Deadly Myths of Parenting. He and his wife, Patty, have three grown children.
1975 . C. Gideon Forbes (E, M) regrets that he could not attend his twenty-fifth year class reunion at PTS because of the loss of two family members who died in the Caribbean area within three weeks of one another. He resides in Miami, Florida.
Dewey Friedel (B) is the founder and spiritual leader of the Shore Christian Center in Allenwood, New Jersey. He describes Shore Christian as "evangelical and charismatic." Three worship services are offered weekly. The center includes an elementary school with 165 students and plans to add a high school in 2001. Friedel is also the host of a cable show called "Peak Performance" where he interviews Christian baseball and basketball players at their stadiums or arenas.
Michael D. Martin (B) is celebrating twenty-five years as pastor of the Mount Laurel Church of God in West Hanover Township, Pennsylvania. Under his leadership, the church has continued to grow, with activities for all age groups, two worship services, and a midweek prayer meeting. He also serves on the Churches of God Commission for Church and Pastoral Guidance.
Raymond D. Patch (B) is the new senior pastor of Lynnfield's Centre Congregational Church in Lynnfield, Massachusetts. He was formerly the pastor of Mattapoisett Congregational Church where he served for seventeen years. A member of the search committee noted Patch's experience as "a social worker, a legislative assistant in the New Jersey State Legislature, and a Peace Corps volunteer" as qualities that most attracted the congregation to call him.
Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner (E) was selected as a Henry Luce III Fellow for 2000–2001 in the area of Christianity and culture. She was also recently promoted with tenure to associate professor of pastoral theology and Christian formation at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary (PCUSA). She edited In Her Own Time: Woman and Developmental Issues in Pastoral Care, published in May 2000 by Augsburg Fortress Press. She is married to David P. Moessner (75'B).
1976 Michael P. Otte (B,' 83M) was installed as pastor of the Reformed Church of the Tarrytowns near Sleepy Hollow, New York, on October 15. His new congregation is celebrating more than 300 years of service to the communities of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow.
Donald E. Potter (B) was installed as pastor of Middletown Presbyterian Congregation Church in Middletown, Pennsylvania, on August 20.
1977 David M. Brown (M) is affiliated with the international Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague, Czech Republic, where students from the fifty Baptist Unions in Europe and from other Baptist organizations around the world are sent for training. In September, he and his wife, Ellen, spoke at Scarsdale Community Baptist Church in Scarsdale, New York, as part of a special mission emphasis weekend.
Robert R. Kopp (B) has two books out: Golf in the Real Kingdom: A Spiritual Metaphor for Life in the Modern World and Don't Forget This!: Second Lesson Sermons for Sundays after Pentecost, both published by CSS Publishing Company. He is currently the pastor of Center Presbyterian Church in McMurray, Pennsylvania.
Jonathan E. Miller (B, '93P) was guest preacher at the Union Chapel-by-the-Sea in Ocean City, New Jersey, on August 20. He has been the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Moorestown, New Jersey, since 1994. He and his wife, Karin, have two daughters, one of whom is a student at PTS.
1978 Peter E. Bauer (B) works as a clinical social worker and psychotherapist for the South Texas Veterans Health Care System's Mental Health Clinic in Kerrville, Texas. He is licensed as a clinical social worker-advanced clinical practitioner, a marriage and family therapist, and a chemical dependency counselor. Bauer is also continuing his ministry as a naval reserve chaplain (lieutenant commander) and serves as the reserve chaplain for the USS Inchon, a Navy minesweeper. He is part-time minister for the Comal County Unitarian/Universalist Fellowship in New Braunfels. He has been instrumental in starting the new United Church of San Antonio (United Church of Christ). He resides in Bulverde, Texas, and may be reached by email at email@example.com .
Robert C. Davis (B, '84M) is associate professor of religion at Pikeville College in Pikeville, Kentucky. He teaches courses in religion, philosophy, history, and interdisciplinary humanities, and lectures on patient dynamics for the new Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine.
John C. Piper (B) and his wife, Annie, are now serving as copastors at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Westminster, Colorado. Annie was ordained on October 8, 2000.
1979 Gary Dorrien (M, E) is professor of religion and dean of Stetson Chapel at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In September, he delivered the 2000 Winslow Ecumenical Lecture at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, on the topic "Theologizing Myth: Modern Theology and the Crisis of Belief." His most recent books include: The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology: Theology without Weapons, The Remaking of Evangelical Theology, and The Word As True Myth: Interpreting Modern Theology. He is also completing a three-volume series titled The Making of American Liberal Theology, to be published by Westminster/John Knox Press.
Robert Harding Morris (B) in his retirement years has completed a ten-year project by publishing Boarding the Ark in Couples: A Biblical Theology of Sex. Published this year by 1stBooks Library, the book examines the Bible's explicit and implicit sexual content. It discloses sexuality to be a sacred quality with human, divine, and human/divine application. "The book challenges our secular culture's profanation of sex and instead shows its essential value for Christian well-being in mortality and throughout eternity," explains Morris. He may be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com .
1980 Ken Collins (M) has just published Exploring Christian Spirituality: An Ecumenical Reader. He is professor of historical theology and Wesley studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. Published by Baker Book House, this book is his sixth. His email address is email@example.com .
Carol Lytch (B) received a Ph.D. in ethics and sociology of religion from Emory University in May. She is now coordinator of Lilly Endowment Programs for Strengthening Congregational Leadership with offices at Louisville Seminary. She is married to Steve Lytch ('78B, '85M, '91P), pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Louisville.
Charles Marvin (M) has served as the ecclesiastical endorsing agent for the Assemblies of God in Springfield, Missouri, for the past two years. In March 1998, he retired from the military where he was the assistant chief of staff, Religious Ministries, Marine Corps Recruit Depot/Western Recruiting Region. Last June, he spoke at the annual Military Day 2000 service at the First Assembly of God Church in Warner Robins, Georgia. The multimedia service honored military personnel in every branch of service.
John Salmon (M) has been appointed principal of Trinity Methodist Theological College in Auckland, New Zealand. He has been teaching systematic theology there for nine years. He also served as vice president of the Methodist Church of New Zealand in 1999. With Susan Adams he recently published The Month of the Dragon: Theology for Postmodern Christians.
1981 Craig Barnes (B), pastor of National Church in Washington, D.C., and a PTS trustee, was the Presbyterian preacher for the summer 2000 series of The Protestant Hour and was featured on programs airing July 16, August 13, and September 10. The ecumenical religious radio program is produced by the Protestant Radio and Television Center in Atlanta, in partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Methodist Church, and the Episcopal Media Center.
1982 Ronald W. Baard (B) was named partner and full-time pastoral counselor with the Phoenix Center for Pastoral Counseling in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 1. He and his wife, Mary ('83B), have two daughters, Lauren, 14, and Karin, 10. He writes, "We enjoy living in the Desert Southwest, except for days in July when the temperature rises above 110 degrees!"
Barbara G. Hager (B) is working as associate attorney for Zeldes, Needle, Cooper, P.C. in Bridgeport, Connecticut. She is still an ordained minister in the PCUSA who does "lots of substitute preaching" and is the clerk of the Southern New England Presbytery's Permanent Judicial Commission. She coauthored a major opinion upholding the right of a Stamford, Connecticut, church to select and install a previously ordained gay elder. She lives in Bridgeport with one cat, "still happy being single and an auntie!" She welcomes correspondence and may be reached at email@example.com or email@example.com.
Byron Edward Luckett Jr. (B) has been assigned wing chaplain for the Fifth Bomb Wing at Minot Air Force Base in Minot, North Dakota. His email address is email@example.com.
Gene Smillie (B) is the English pastor of Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church in the Chicago suburbs. "Working with Chinese sort of completes the loop," he says. He has worked in South America, Europe, and West Africa. He will complete his Ph.D. in New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in the fall.
Douglass C. Sullivan-Gonzalez (B, '83M) has been appointed as associate professor of history at the University of Mississippi and interim pastor at Blackjack Presbyterian Church in Batesville, Mississippi. He resides in Oxford and his email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
1983 Ara Guekguezian (B) is the minister of Pilgrim Armenian Congregational Church in Fresno, California, a few miles from the First Armenian Church where his father, Bernard Guekguezian, has been pastor for twenty-three years.
D. Max Whitfield (P) has been elected as a bishop of the United Methodist Church and assigned to the Northwest Texas/New Mexico area. He resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1984 Paul M. Boardman (B) was named director of the Center for International Trade in Forest Products at the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources in Seattle in October. He manages a staff and graduate students who conduct international market research of use to government, industry associations, and businesses ranging from small value-added companies to large integrated forest-product companies. He also supervises the center's publications and special events. For the past four years, he worked in Japan for the American Forest and Paper Association, the leading trade association for the forest-and-wood products industries. He grew up in Japan, the son of missionaries.
Joanne Scott Miller (B) completed a course of study in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and was certified as a pastoral counselor by the American Association of Pastoral Counselors last June. She is the director of the Mendham Branch of Grace Counseling Center in Madison, New Jersey, where she is a pastoral psychotherapist. Her email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
Scott L. Strohm (B) is celebrating his eleventh year as pastor of Chambers Memorial Presbyterian Church in Rutledge, Pennsylvania. He is a D.Min. candidate at The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. He and his wife, Kathy, have two daughters, Rachel (13) and Anna (8).
1985 Gayle D. Beebe (B) was installed as president of Spring Arbor College, established in 1873, on October 20. The ceremony took place at Spring Arbor Free Methodist Church in Spring Arbor, Michigan.
Bill Carter (B) writes that CSS Press has published Praying for a Whole New World, a new book of his Advent and Christmas sermons. Also, Carter's jazz group has just released a new CD titled Dancing Day. One tune, "Cohasset Point," is a memorial tribute to David B. McDowell ('60B, '64E), who died in November 1999. The CD is a follow-up to Faith in a New Key (1998), which was produced by PTS. Check the band's web site at www.presbybop.com for more information.
Kelton Cobb (B) is professor of theology and ethics at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut. His email address is email@example.com.
In July, Perry (M) and Karen (B) Shaw were guest speakers at White's Memorial Presbyterian Church in Berea, Kentucky, at the invitation of their former PTS Greek professor, the Reverend Cullen Story, who is pastor of the church. The Shaws are missionaries in Syria, and wanted to report on their work, as well as to give people "exposure to a real, live missionary."
Sharon Smith (B) provides pastoral care to 112 of the oldest Sisters of Providence living at the order's long-term care facility at St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana. She's the first person from outside the Roman Catholic order to fill the position.
1987 Phillip Vernon Babcock (B) is pastor of Copeland Presbyterian Church in Athens, Alabama. He married Olya Alexandrovna Spiridonova, a native of Ivanovo, Russia, on July 29, 2000.
1988 Robert Johnson (B) is the new director of the Institute for Reformed Theology at Union/PSCE in Richmond, Virginia. His email address is email@example.com.
Ralph L. Mueller (B) began serving as interim pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Wrangell, Alaska, on October 1. Wrangell is an area of southeast Alaska where most churches are accessible only by plane or boat. His email address is email@example.com.
1989 Stephen P. Fritz (B) was installed as the new pastor of Wayside Presbyterian Church in Landisville, Pennsylvania, on August 27. He is the former pastor of Keyser Presbyterian Church in Keyser, West Virginia, and has served as presbytery commissioner to the Synod of the Mid-Atlantic.
William Greenway Jr. (B, '97D) is assistant professor of philosophical theology at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He recently addressed the Tulsa Interfaith Alliance in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where his topic was "Creation vs. Evolution? A Theological Assessment of a Confused Controversy." His presentation was a part of the alliance's two public forums on the creationism-evolution debate. The series was taped to be broadcast on a future NOVA program.
Carl Horton (B) has been named as coordinator for pastor, educator, and lay leader support in the Christian education and leader development program area of the Congregational Ministries Division of the PCUSA. He is a doctoral candidate at San Francisco Theological Seminary and will be the recreation coordinator at the Presbyterian Youth Triennium in 2001.
William M. Hosking Jr. (E) is the newly appointed minister of Radnor United Methodist Church in Reading, Pennsylvania. He just completed the D.Min. program at the Graduate Theological Foundation of Indiana, for which he did course work at Oxford University and in Rome. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com .
Eriberto Soto (M) recently moved to Brazil to serve as a missionary with the Knox Fellowship, a Reformed Presbyterian organization based in California.
1990 Earl L. Middleton (B) was installed as the new senior pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Los Angeles on June 25. He can be contacted at email@example.com .
Jonathan Staples (B) preached at Swarthmore Presbyterian Church in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, on October 1 as part of Swarthmore and Strath Haven high schools' 25th-year celebration of the ABC (A Better Chance) program. The program offers a topnotch public high school education to academically talented minority students from all over the country. A graduate of Stanford and of PTS, Staples is heralded as one of the program's earliest "success" stories. He now resides in California where he is the senior pastor of Palo Alto Jerusalem Church.
1991 This past fall Gregory Cootsona (B) taught "Theology and Science: Eschatology from a Scientific Perspective," one of eighty-four courses offered by the Center for Christian Studies at The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. The course examined the volatile relationship of theology and science.
Steve F. Dintaman (D) has been appointed professor of theology at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He taught in the Bible and religion department at EMU from 1982 to 1985.
Elizabeth Boone McLean (B) recently traveled to Malawi, Africa, on a mission trip with the Synod of
Livingstonia. She said, "This is the first place I've been where 'Presbyterian' is a magic word."
Damayanthi Niles (B) is a member of the faculty of divinity at the University of Cambridge with responsibility for the Christianity in Asia Project at the Centre for Advanced Religious and Theological
Studies. She has been appointed assistant professor of theology at Eden Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, effective January 2001.
1992 Sharon Brassey-Brierley (B) recently received her Ph.D. in social economics and social justice from Boston College. At present, she works for the City of Boston Public Schools with inner-city youth at the middle school level. She is a Eucharistic minister at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Newton, Massachusetts, and a communicant of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Brunswick, Massachusetts. Brassey-Brierley has studied and published about rural and urban domestic violence in Maine.
Gaston Espinosa (B) is the project manager of the Hispanic Churches in American Public Life research project at the University of California at Santa Barbara. In September, he directed the first Hispanic Churches in American Public Life (HCAPL) conference. The conference critically examined the history and impact of religion on politics and civic engagement in the Latino community in the United States and Puerto Rico. More information about the project can be found on the HCAPL web site at www.hcapl.org.
1993 Brian Jones (B) is minister of Christ's Church of the Valley, a nondenominational Christian church that meets at the Regal Cinema 24 in Oaks, Pennsylvania. After starting two other churches, Jones and his family moved to Schwenksville, where this new congregation has grown too large to meet in members' homes. Jones says that a church in a cinema is "not as unusual as one might think. About twenty-five years ago, the Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, began at the Willow Creek Movie Theater. Today, 17,000 attend that church each weekend." Jones's church's email address is www.ccofthevalley.com.
Max E. Reddick (B) was installed as the new pastor of Fountain City Presbyterian Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, in September.
Robert C. Spach (B) is chaplain of Davidson College, and for the past four years he has led ecumenical student teams on "reverse mission" trips to Central America over spring break.
Howard Lee Whitee (B) is the directing pastor of Bethalto United Methodist Church in Bethalto, Illinois, across the river from St. Louis.
1994 Heidi Gehman (B) is a Ph.D. student in ethics at the University of Chicago. Her email address is email@example.com.
Craig A. Vondergeest (B) received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia, on May 28, 2000. He is a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Jamestown, North Dakota.
1995 Theo Cornish (B) is working as the full-time sales coordinator for the PTS bookstore (the TBA) while his wife, Laura Rivera-Cornish, continues her studies as an M.Div middler. Theo is the son of the late Joan Bennett Cornish ('87B). Theo and Laura are also caring for his nephews.
Melvin Glazer (P) was installed as the permanent rabbi at Beth David Congregation near Miami, Florida, in September, where he had served as interim rabbi for one year. He and his wife, Donna, have four children and one grandchild.
1996 Amy Flack (B) is serving in Avon, South Dakota, at two small churches. She encourages classmates to look her up if they are in the area.
1997 Greg Finch (B) is the new director of community outreach for the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland. He works directly with arts and humanities organizations, artists, and scholars in partnering relationships with community services, educational systems, correctional facilities, hospitals, and faith communities stretching from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. He is pursuing publication of a collection of his poetry titled This Way of Being. His email address is email@example.com .
1998 David Efird (B) has completed an M.Sc. in philosophy at Edinburgh University in Edinburgh, Scotland. Ever a student, he entered the doctoral program in philosophy at Oxford University in England in September.
Myong (Anna) Paik (B) was ordained to the ministry of Word and Sacrament on August 20 at Sumter Korean/American Presbyterian Church in Sumter, South Carolina.
T. Kevin Taylor (B) has been appointed associate pastor for pastoral care at Fair Haven United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
1999 Andrew Tatusko (B, '00M) is a faculty consultant and instructional designer at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. His office is in the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Center where he can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Dale E. Wratchford (B) accepted a call as the associate minister of Taylor Lake Christian Church in Seabrook, Texas. He continues to serve as chaplain resident at St. Luke's Episcopal and Texas Children's Hospitals in Houston. He was licensed to ministry in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in June. His email address is email@example.com.
2000 David Cook (B) was recently installed as pastor of Westminster United Presbyterian Church in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania. His email address is email@example.com.
Nancy Emerson (B) was installed as the new associate pastor of Lake Murray Presbyterian Church in Chapin, South Carolina, on July 23. Dr. Patrick Miller, professor of Old Testament at PTS, preached.
Kristin Hutson (B) is serving as a pastoral intern at the First Presbyterian Church of Racine, Wisconsin, under the supervision of the church's pastor, Randy Bush ('89B). Kristin is excited about living so close to her family and friends in Chicago. Her email address is email@example.com.
Michael Mann (B) was commissioned as a mission intern by the United Methodist Church's General Board of Global Missions on August 13, 2000. He has been assigned to the National Council of Churches in Nagpur, India, for fifteen months where his responsibilities include relationship-building with the people of India, understanding the social, political, and economic influences in their lives, and examining the impact of global structures on India's rural and urban communities. He is a native of Trussville, Alabama, and a member of the Pinson-Parkway Church of God of Prophecy in Pinson, Alabama. The commissioning service was held at Northwoods United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
Nannette Pierson (B) is the pastoral associate at the Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic parish in Rockaway, New Jersey.
Carie Stanley (B) was ordained to the ministry of the Word and Sacrament at the Wilton Presbyterian Church in Wilton, Connecticut, on August 27, 2000. She has accepted a call as associate pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Christopher Thomforde (P) was named president of St.Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, in January. Previous to this he had served, since 1996, as president to Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas.
Al Twyman (B) is working on a book on racism, its relationship to time, and how we honor the dead, the topic of his PTS senior thesis. A house husband and new father, he is also volunteering in ministry at a local prison and doing some preaching. He was ordained May 28 by the Christian Church Disciples of Christ at the First Christian Church in Falls Church, Virginia, his home church. He and his wife, Sondy, love living in Poughkeepsie, New York, twenty miles from West Point. "We're surrounded by woods, and I really enjoy chopping my own firewood," says Twyman.
Douglas R. Valentine (B) was installed as pastor of Hamilton Square Baptist Church in Hamilton Square, New Jersey, on September 17. He previously served as assistant pastor of the First Baptist Church of Trenton. He and his wife, Jacqueline Lynch-Valentine, reside in Hamilton.
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After students complained last semester that the University's explanation of sexual assault policies was confusing and scattered online, the provost's office is hoping that a new website will mitigate the problem.
The Sexual Respect website, which was announced in an email from Provost John Coatsworth and Senior Executive Vice President Robert Kasdin on Wednesday, launched Jan. 17 and includes information on how to file a report on gender-based misconduct, contact information for confidential and nonconfidential campus resources, and a list of rights for complainants and respondents. Students complained last semester that the information had previously been spread out over a number of sites.
"The University encourages everyone to become familiar with the types of behaviors that constitute misconduct and with the University's policies and procedures which are listed below," the email said.
The website also includes a "frequently asked questions" section, which answers questions about filing a report with the police, how an investigation is completed, the confidentiality of the process, and what to do if complainants don't want to participate in a disciplinary hearing.
Columbia University Democrats President Segal Singh, CC '15, said that she was happy to see the administration taking action to launch the new site, as she had been pushing for the Office for Gender-Based and Sexual Misconduct to make changes to its website since September.
"The old website had a lot of outdated information, a lot of broken links, and it was actually really difficult for survivors to navigate," Singh said.
The spotlight turned to the University's sexual assault policies last semester, after the CU Dems petitioned the University to release more data on the adjudication of sexual assault on campus. In November, students held a freeze mob on Low Plaza to draw attention to sexual assault at Columbia. At the end of last semester, a subcommittee of the President's Advisory Committee on Sexual Assault met with University Senator Marc Heinrich, CC '16, Singh, and students to discuss the petition and potential changes.
Interim Dean of Student Affairs Terry Martinez, who holds a seat on PACSA, said at the time that they "can always look to see if we can do a better job."
"This includes education for both women and men about sexual assault and consent, as well as what to expect from the process for both sides—from the complainant and respondent," Martinez said.
Heinrich called the updated website "a step in the right direction," but noted that more needs to be done.
"Obviously I think there's still a lot of things that need to still be changed within the system. But the website now looks a lot better than the former antiquated website," Heinrich said.
Heinrich said that the changes to the website "definitely shows that the administration is looking into student concerns," but still hopes that administrators continue to look into making sexual assault policy more transparent.
"Releasing data and restoring confidence in the system is the right approach," Heinrich said. "I definitely understand some of the concerns of the administrators—and it's great they are having conversation about it—but I personally do think that is the right step."
Singh said that she still hopes that administrators eventually choose to release data about the nature of sexual assault cases at Columbia.
"We're very heartened to see that they've put out info about accommodations, which is an option the University is required by Title IX to give, and it wasn't at all clear on the old website," Singh said. "That said, this is a very small baby step towards the kind of transparency and accountability we'd like to see."
"We met with PACSA last semester and they seemed really open to our concerns about getting data released," Singh said. "I don't think the University plans to stop here—at least I hope. It would definitely be reprehensible if, in the face of widespread student concerns, they decided that the only thing they needed to do was update their website."
Columbia's announcement came the same day that President Barack Obama, CC '83, signed a memorandum to establish a task force to find ways to better protect students from sexual assault on college campuses.
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April 13, 2011
Harry J. Gold, CEO of Overdrive Interactive, discussed practical steps for organizations to take in order to truly integrate the power of social media into their marketing mix. Gold included several case studies from companies who use social media to weave their brands, offers, and messages into the web to make lasting connections with consumers, encourage viral promotion, and drive measurable results and ROI.
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Courtney Sale Ross, the very wealthy widow of a Time Warner CEO, put $8 million of her own and her friends' money into Ross Global Academy, a New York City charter school that promised "an innovative curriculum that would spiral through different historical eras, small class sizes, yoga, Mandarin lessons, an extended day and organic food prepared by a chef," reports the New York Times. After five years, the city plans to close the K-8 school for low performance. Ross Global lost its appeal last week, though Ross pledges to fight on.
Ross had started a successful private school in East Hampton. She recruited the dean of New York University's education school for the board of Ross Global. But the East Village charter, which primarily enrolls black and Hispanic children, went through six principals in five years and lost more than 40 percent of teachers each year. Many parents pulled out their children, often complaining of poor discipline.
Much of the extra funding seems to have gone for decor.
Mrs. Ross and her backers spent $3 million making the school look "like an Ikea showroom, with working gas fireplaces, lounges and daybeds in the hallways," said Mariama Sanoh, 32, who had three children at the school. But in the classrooms, there was often chaos.
"The middle school was extremely violent," said Ms. Sanoh, who has since withdrawn her children. "There were students cursing, breaking chairs, out of control, and there was no strong disciplinary action. Children just knew they would be suspended for several days and come back."
Charles Hosang, 35, withdrew his third-grade son after three years because of a "very bad bullying problem."
In a 2006 interview, Ross told the New York Times about her desire to provide "a 21st century skill set, interdisciplinary, integrated thinking, and innovative leadership" to city children, educating "the whole child for the whole world." If she'd hired a competent principal and prioritized spending, it might have worked.


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The Columbus Dispatch - June 07, 2013 10:23 AM
With the economy trying the patience of workers in various fields, it was only a matter of time before Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson crashed Google.
While the plot might seem predictable, there are enough funny moments in The Internship to make the buddy comedy worth watching, according to critic Cary Darling.
Sure, the grizzled veterans will offer sage advice to the college kids while they counter with tech tips for Vaughn and Wilson. If you thought the characters looked out of place in Wedding Crashers, you might feel the same way about 40-somethings trying to fit in Silicon Valley internships. However, once you get past the preposterous set-ups, the two actors make more than a few of the jokes hit the mark.
" The Internship doesn't break any new comedic ground, and it will evaporate from memory after you leave the darkened theater," Darling said in his review. "But it's an amiable, occasionally laugh-out-loud, fish-out-of-water tale that gently mocks our modern technological age while simultaneously embracing it (and giving a big sloppy kiss to Google)."


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Many times family therapy is needed in order to get the family realigned so that every body is working together. John Neyman can help you do just that. Why continue to permit your family to spin out of control? Walking into a home that is ruled by peace and serenity has a powerful affect on the development of the children and provides a sense of well being for everyone in the home. Don't put it off any longer call John Neyman today for an assessment of what action you need today to get your family in balance again.
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Debates of May 30th, 2008
House of Commons Hansard #102 of the 39th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was changes.
- Question Period
- Budget Implementation Act, 2008
- Partnership Group for Science and Engineering
- Arts and Culture
- Twenty-four Hour Bike Ride for Leucan
- The Arctic
- Luc Bourdon
- 24 Sussex Drive
- Shawinigan's Economic Development
- Johanne Daly
- Budget Implementation Act, 2008
- Canadian Forces
- Carbon Tax Proposal
- Corporate Taxes and Subsidies
- Human Rights
- Mining Ombudsman
- Luc Bourdon
- Leadership Campaign Financing
- Foreign Affairs
- Health
- Foreign Affairs
- Official Languages
- Status of Women
- Securities
- Foreign Affairs
- Official Languages
- Child Care
- Afghanistan
- Airbus
- Canada-U.S. Relations
- Library and Archives Canada
- Francophone Education and Training Conference
- Economic Development
- Health
- Foreign Affairs
- The Environment
- Health
- Fisheries and Oceans
- Mining
- Government Response to Petitions
- Interparliamentary Delegations
- Main Estimates, 2008-09—Agriculture and Agri-Food
- Petitions
- Questions Passed as Orders for Returns
- Budget Implementation Act, 2008
- Business of the House
- Financial Administration Act
Partnership Group for Science and Engineering
Statements By Members
11 a.m.
The Acting Speaker Royal Galipeau
The hon. member for Cape Breton—Canso.
Arts and Culture
Statements By Members
11 a.m.
Rodger Cuzner Cape Breton—Canso, NS
Mr. Speaker, last weekend the Savoy Theatre in Glace Bay played host to one of this country's musical treasures. The Amadeus Choir of Toronto, under the direction of Glace Bay's own Dr. Lydia Adams, treated concert goers to an incredible evening of music and entertainment.
There was one tune, however, that struck a sour chord with all in attendance. That was the concern people expressed for the cultural institutions of this country. The cutbacks to CBC Radio 2 and the elimination of the CBC Radio Orchestra are further proof that the Conservative government holds in contempt both the national broadcaster and the Broadcast Act.
Programs like young performers and young composers competitions, which have proven to be crucial to venues for the upcoming artists and composers, have also been cut.
Canadians expect much from their national broadcaster and they want a radio which engages their minds and inspires them to greater thought and creative expression.
It is clear that the government is intent on stifling higher thought and argument in this country and has the CBC clearly in its sights.
Rest assured that the Liberal Party will stand up for this country's institutions and diverse needs of Canadians.
Twenty-four Hour Bike Ride for Leucan
Statements By Members
11 a.m.
Pauline Picard Drummond, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to commend the efforts of Drummondville's TrioMax club, which, in partnership with other clubs such as Cycliste Drummond, Cyclophiles and VéloCité, has organized a 24-hour bike ride to be held May 31 and June 1, with all proceeds going to Leucan.
The public is invited to sponsor the kilometres that will be covered by any one of the 200 expected participants. In addition, three members of the TrioMax club, Suzanne and Jacinthe Lavallée and Alain Croteau, became the honorary champions of this year's shaved head challenge.
I would also like to say hello to young Annabelle Lizotte-Gauthier from Kingsey Falls, who, at only 12 years old, has agreed to be Leucan's spokesperson for the region of Centre-du-Québec. Annabelle suffered a brain tumour at age three and became very familiar with hospitals very early in life. She is an inspiring young girl who knows the importance of chasing your dreams, despite illness.
The Arctic
Statements By Members
11 a.m.
Dennis Bevington Western Arctic, NT
Mr. Speaker, as an observer to the recent international conference on the Arctic Ocean held in Greenland, I was pleased to hear that other Arctic nations have the same view that the NDP has on how to protect the Arctic.
The nations at the conference agreed that the best way to deal with the question of Arctic sovereignty is through cooperation, diplomacy and the international legal system and not through military muscle. This is the same position the NDP has long taken on this issue.
It is unfortunate the Conservatives have chosen the route of military force to deal with Arctic sovereignty. The Conservatives plan to build more military bases and buy a fleet of ineffective slush breakers. Just like their position on climate change, the Conservatives' policy on the Arctic is out of step with the rest of the world.
We in the NDP, and now our Arctic neighbours, believe that the best way to protect the Arctic is through support for civilian enforcement of our laws, diplomacy and improving the lives of northern Canadians.
There is a role for the military in Canada's north through activities like the Canadian Rangers and search and rescue, a need that the Conservatives--
The Arctic
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
The Deputy Speaker Bill Blaikie
The hon. member for Fundy Royal.
Luc Bourdon
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Rob Moore Fundy Royal, NB
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to offer my sincerest condolences to the family of Luc Bourdon, who died suddenly yesterday.
Luc was a rising star in the NHL who was well respected by his coaches and teammates on the Vancouver Canucks.
Luc also played for Team Canada at the World Junior Hockey Championships in 2006 and 2007, helping Canada win back to back gold medals. At the 2007 tournament in Sweden, Luc scored the third period goal that forced overtime against the U.S. in the semi-final game.
He also played for the Moncton Wildcats. In 2006 the Wildcats won the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League championship and advanced all the way to the Memorial Cup final.
Luc's hometown of Shippagan, New Brunswick is in a state of mourning today.
On behalf of all parliamentarians, I would like to express our deepest and sincerest sympathy to the town of Shippagan, and to the family, friends, coaches and teammates of Luc Bourdon.
24 Sussex Drive
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Mauril Bélanger Ottawa—Vanier, ON
Mr. Speaker, earlier this month the Auditor General of Canada reported on the state of our official residences, including 24 Sussex Drive. The National Capital Commission estimates that rehabilitating that property would cost about $10 million and would require full access to the residence for up to 15 months. In 50 years there have been no renovations of significance at 24 Sussex, except for some roofing work a few years ago.
As the MP for the riding in which four of our official residences are located, I feel that it is my duty to urge the Prime Minister and his family to consider the NCC recommendations because 24 Sussex Drive belongs to all Canadians.
Now that the Auditor General has made her recommendations, I invite members from all parties to respect and support the Prime Minister and his family should they decide to allow the NCC to carry out the required work. It is not only a question of the proper management of our heritage but also of our national pride.
Shawinigan's Economic Development
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Jacques Gourde Lotbinière—Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, QC
Mr. Speaker, I was very pleased to read this morning that things are looking up for Shawinigan, a community that was hard hit by the recent closing of the Belgo mill and the loss of 500 jobs.
With the $1 million recently allocated by Economic Development Canada to diversify the local economy, a veritable entrepreneurial culture is emerging with an unprecedented number of applications to establish or expand companies. To date these projects have generated investments of $18 million and led to the creation or reinforcement of more than 1,000 jobs, twice the number recently lost.
Shawinigan is moving away from the ill-advised and restrictive policies put in place by Jean Chrétien in his own riding. The Liberals should be ashamed of having turned communities such as Shawinigan and many others into one-company towns.
The Bloc is no better. While Shawinigan's economy was faltering, what was the Bloc member for the riding of Saint-Maurice—Champlain doing? Nothing, because his party was, is and will always remain powerless.
Meanwhile, the Conservative government is truly supporting entrepreneurs by recognizing their efforts and helping them with programs that meet local needs and priorities .
Johanne Daly
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Luc Malo Verchères—Les Patriotes, QC
Mr. Speaker, when tragedy struck Johanne Daly in 2001, no one would have guessed that this garage owner from Varennes would find a new passion as strong as her passion for auto mechanics.
But that is precisely what happened. Through adapted sports, she is living her dream and surprising many experts. She excels at every new sport she tries, as was the case with adapted skiing, in which she won gold at the 2006 and 2007 Canadian championships. The same goes for adapted sailing, where she is picking up wins as quickly as she can compete.
But these days, Johanne Daly has much more to be happy about. This dynamic and determined fighter was chosen to carry the Olympic torch on her wheelchair through the Chinese city of Shanghai on May 23, a choice that was applauded by all those who have been following her progress.
Budget Implementation Act, 2008
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Dean Allison Niagara West—Glanbrook, ON
Mr. Speaker, the New Democratic Party is willing to resort to old political games and has announced it will attempt to stonewall Bill C-50 in an effort to prevent it from passing before the summer recess in June.
In doing so, the NDP is knowingly putting $1.5 billion in important federal funding at risk, including $500 million to help improve public transit, $400 million to help recruit new front line police officers, nearly $250 million for carbon capture and storage, $110 million for the Mental Health Commission of Canada, and much more.
These tactics by the NDP could even delay the implementation of the highly touted tax-free savings account that would allow Canadians to save up to $5,000 every year tax free for life.
These cheap political games prove that the NDP's priorities are different from those of most Canadians, again demonstrating why an overwhelming majority of Canadians will never ever take the NDP seriously.
It is time for the NDP to stop its political posturing, start listening to Canadians and help pass Bill C-50 before the summer recess.
Canadian Forces
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
John Godfrey Don Valley West, ON
Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, Canadians from coast to coast will be celebrating Canadian Forces Day, an occasion that allows all of us to pay tribute to the bravery and courage of the men and women serving in the Canadian Forces.
From Haiti to the Sudan, from the Congo to the Golan Heights, and of course, in Afghanistan, our soldiers continue to provide peace and security in some of the most troubled regions of the world.
The importance of these celebrations can never be overstated as we hold close in our thoughts and prayers those who wear our uniform: our brothers and sisters, our mothers and fathers, our sons and daughters, our friends, who fight for the freedom of the Afghan people and who stand on guard for the security of our own proud nation.
I ask all members of the House to join with me today in celebrating Canadian Forces Day this Sunday, and to thank those who have worn and continue to wear the uniform of the Canadian army, air force and navy. Their sacrifices for our freedoms are their enduring legacy.
Carbon Tax Proposal
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Scott Reid Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
Mr. Speaker, many of my constituents are concerned about the national carbon tax being proposed by the Liberal leader. They are worried about how this new tax would affect their ability to afford gas, to heat their homes and to keep food on the table.
It is not just my constituents who are worried. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty rejects the federal Liberal contention that a national carbon tax is a good idea. Both the premiers of Saskatchewan and Alberta are concerned that a national consumer based carbon tax would reduce Canada's competitiveness and would kneecap our economy. Even the Liberal finance critic once publicly disagreed with the carbon tax because he felt that it would likely harm the living standards of Canadians.
The Liberal plan would severely impact all Canadians, but especially middle and low income earners. Canadians can rest assured that this government rejects the socially regressive and economically damaging Liberal carbon tax.
Corporate Taxes and Subsidies
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Dawn Black New Westminster—Coquitlam, BC
Mr. Speaker, we know the gap between the rich elites and the rest of us is growing. Recent census figures prove it.
While corporate profits soar, middle class families in B.C. are struggling to get by. Big business makes money hand over fist because of the misguided tax breaks and subsidies they receive from the Conservative government.
Middle class families are bearing the burden of these subsidies. When I meet with folks in my community, they tell me they are working harder and harder for less reward. They are struggling to make ends meet, and once all the bills have been paid, it is a wonder there is any money left at the end of the month.
It is time to join those who are saying this just is not fair. It is not fair for our kids, it is not fair for families and it is not fair for seniors. We are being squeezed because big corporations are getting the breaks.
It is time for the Conservative government to stop doing favours for its friends and insiders. Working families deserve better. They deserve a fair deal. They have earned it.
Human Rights
Statements By Members
May 30th, 2008 / 11:10 a.m.
Lloyd St. Amand Brant, ON
Mr. Speaker, the hype surrounding the Olympic Games is building. Unfortunately, the situation for the people in Tibet is garnering less attention than it merits and the Conservative government has not advocated forcefully enough for the people of Tibet.
Many of my constituents, including John Kittridge, are justifiably calling on Canada's government to keep this issue on the front burner, as the brutal mistreatment of monks and nuns and the use of live ammunition against peaceful protesters must be condemned in the strongest possible terms.
Similarly, my constituents want Canada's government to intensify its efforts to protect Mr. Celil and to have him safely released from a Chinese prison.
Human rights everywhere must be protected.
As the great American, Thomas Paine, said, "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good". A message to the government: do some good for the people of Tibet and Mr. Celil.
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France Bonsant Compton—Stanstead, QC
Mr. Speaker, representatives from Development and Peace recently came to Ottawa to deliver a petition to the Prime Minister's Office. This petition, with 190,000 signatures, is calling for the appointment of an independent ombudsman to look into human rights violations and damage to the environment by Canadian mining companies abroad.
The Conservative government still refuses to proceed, even though this recommendation already appeared in a March 2007 report. The Conservatives remain silent in the face of the report's recommendations, which the people who signed this petition find disappointing because the industry and non-governmental organizations agree on the idea of an ombudsman.
The Bloc Québécois is asking this uncaring Conservative government to act in the name of human rights and the environment by immediately appointing a mining ombudsman.


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by Govbarney » Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:07 pm
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Govbarney wrote:Well he was my favorite driver mainly because he won the first Indy 500 I ever attended. Spent most of the afternoon watching them not race in Vegas due to the red flag as opposed to the browns game , kind of glad I did that , the 5 lap tribute they did was great to see.
by Govbarney » Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:09 pm
by peeker643 » Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:22 pm
Govbarney wrote:I been watching open wheel racing all my life , I can honestly say that was one of the most horrific accidents I ever saw, not because of the flames or the cars breaking apart, Indy cars are designed to break apart to absorb impact, and drivers wear flame retardant suits, but at the speed tau which those cars hit the wall especially Wheldon's. No new safety measure will ever protect against pure inertia.
by Govbarney » Mon Oct 17, 2011 12:00 am
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by Govbarney » Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:46 am
Spin wrote:Been an open wheel fan most of my life, and it never gets easier. In fact I think it's getting harder when something like this happens.Sad thing is next year there are new cars that have devices to help prevent the wheel climbing. The cars will be harder to drive, and different engines, so the cars won't be all packed together. And the horsepower is dropping. Which makes it all that much harder, they had one more race to get through...
by Triple-S » Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:26 pm
Swerb wrote:Go start a blog if you want to tell the world your incomprehendible ramblings.
Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I have a big arm and can throw the ball pretty damn far...... maybe even over those moutains. The Browns should sign me, i'll let you all in locker room to drink beer. Then we can all go out the parking lot to watch me do motorcycle stunts.
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by Govbarney » Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:13 pm
Triple-S wrote:As a fan, I was really excited for this race.On paper, it seemed like a really cool thing to see. 34 drivers, the championship on the line. a 5 million dollar prize out there.And I prefer oval racing to road courses, just I guess a preference. Don't get me wrong, Mid-Ohio is great to go to, but Kentucky was much more fun to watch as you had a view of every car on the track, and generally you're more likely to see all the action.My proposal is, instead of going crazy and having 34, why not do a kind of tourney with 32 drivers, put them in two races with 16 cars each, go 100 laps, and and the top 8 in each field get placed into a final race that would be 100-200 laps that would go for a similar amount of prize money that was suggested.I really hope this isn't the death of oval racing for open wheel, the drivers don't exactly seem to happy with the whole idea anymore sans Indy.
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by Triple-S » Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:30 pm
I can't close without expressing my disgust with the "ambulance chasers" who have come out this week. I've heard from so many different media outlets wanting to interview me about Dan's death, but the problem I have with these requests is they're coming from media outlets who do not cover racing the rest of the year. Where were these guys when IndyCar arrived in Las Vegas for their championship weekend? Where were they when something positive happened in the series during the course of the season? The practice of covering racing only when someone dies makes me sick. It shows disrespect for our sport, our fans, and most importantly, the ones we lost.
by Govbarney » Wed Oct 19, 2011 8:06 am
Spin wrote:Here's the latest from an IndyCar writerhttp://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/ ... -revealed/
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Reading SD could cut nearly 400 positions
READING, Pa. - Huge cuts are being proposed in the Reading School District -- a total of nearly 400 positions, including teachers, staff and administration.
Big numbers, stunning numbers. It's all part of an effort to make up for one huge number: a $53 million budget deficit.
Officials say even if every cut is made, the district would still be in the red by $20 million, a member of the finance committee said.
This is only a preliminary plan, but he equated closing the budget gap to trying to close the Grand Canyon.
When it comes to the 2012-13 Reading School District budget, the numbers are astounding.
Looming layoffs could be as many as 374.
"We need to have everyone involved so that we can make the problem as small as possible across the board," said Robert Hebner Jr., vice president of the Reading School District Board.
This is the first time school board members have seen where the proposed cuts will come from.
"Many of these things are not appealing to them and will not be appealing to you. But they have to be laid out," said James Washington, a member of the finance committee.
The bigger question is what programs are safe, with so many in jeopardy.
The preliminary plan includes cutting middle school athletics, consolidating Thomas Ford and Millmont Elementary school, and slashing the staff of guidance counselors by 25 percent.
"When you have a problem like this everything must be put on the table, but then you decide where are the most important things that you have to work with," said Hebner.
Board members say while consolidation of schools may be a way to save money, the district will still need to spend money on fixing HVAC systems and other problems at schools.
"When you talk about the facility of Southwest, it's still in poor repair," said board member Karen McCree. "I remember the computer room being there and being on fire and halfway burning up the last time we had a whole building full of kids."
The board hopes to hold another workshop to start working on which programs to cut in a couple of weeks.
The final budget needs to be adopted by June.
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A humorous, enjoyable speech peppered astute observations about the ways in which discussions about race and racism often devolve into matters of good and bad.
What might words like repentance or forgiveness mean, culturally, in this moment? These are questions of the emerging church, a loosely-defined movement that crosses generations, theologies and social ideologies in the hope of reimagining Christianity. With Phyllis Tickle and Vincent Harding, an honest and sometimes politically incorrect conversation on coming to terms with racial identity in the church and in the world.
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is chairperson of the Veterans of Hope Project at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado, where he's also Professor Emeritus of Religion and Social Transformation. He's also the author of Hope and History: Why We Must Share the Story of the Movement.
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Harding suggests in this essay that the dream is never finished but endlessly unfolding. He suggests that America's most important possibility for the world is not to dominate, threaten, or compete with, but to help each other in a search for common ground. He suggests that when we simply attempt to replicate our free-market materialism, we miss our most vital connections. From this, he opens the possibility that a new conversation may begin — one that might initiate a deeper journey concerning the possibilities of human community across all geographical lines.
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Why do we still use the word
Why do we still use the word race since science has proven all life the same except for about .10%? Please address someday. I live in Hattiesburg, MS.
"Race" remains a valid
"Race" remains a valid Linnean taxome. It refers to populations with SMALL genetic differences within the larger species.
Kristy, I love you and I love
Kristy, I love you and I love your show, I've listened since its inception but today December 1st he was excruciating. I don't know what he said because I could not listen to him.
Again, inspiration from the
Again, inspiration from the Wild Goose Festival. Praise and thanksgiving on the end of our American Thanksgiving week. Over and Over I hear from fellow friends and neighbors that this was their favorite holiday---one relative joyfully praised the church Thanksgiving Mass and celebration that she claimed was the best she could ever have attended. As a septuagenarian, young old woman born before the mid 20th century I have come to believe only two things need to be taken care of until the end of my time, connections and love. Love of all people and find connections everywhere. I've been doing it for a while and it is such a comfort. Long life to Krista Tippett and the people she finds to show us the best, most productive WAY to find this world and our country work for us.
Perhaps I'm wasting my time
Perhaps I'm wasting my time here, but I'd like to at least try to share why I was dismayed, saddened and a little angered over the contents of your December 1 show.
1. Your guests seemed to be proponents of the "emerging church." I find the notion of an emerging, evolving (improving?) church disturbing... not because I like the old churches in any way: they long, long ago lost their way. And it is easy to understand why: the original gospel message includes repentance and overcoming, and that means changing, leaving your comfort zones. Given that leaving your "zones" has never been and never will be a popular message, we should look suspiciously on any church/message that is popular or emerging in popularity: they too have most likely lost hold of the original message. There is no need to "reimagine" Christianity: we need to re-educate and get back to the original...
2. Christianity in not about changing the way we act and it is not about going out to do good deeds. It is about changing what we ARE. It is a one-on-one thing between each of us and God.
Forget the social movements: there is no substitute for becoming the "new man" the apostle Paul wrote about, being modeled after Christ as we repent and overcome, as we let Him dwell and walk in us, as we grow in love. As we grow and change who we ARE, we will automatically produce good works...
3. I did not hear Bible prophecy mentioned on the show. Too bad, because there is a lot to be learned from it. An essential learning is this: there are no movements, no causes, no political or religious schemes out there that will save us from ourselves. We will come to the end of our rope (the "great tribulation", Matthew 24), and then God will intervene to save us from self-destruction. We will learn - the hard way - that there is no substitute for individually changing as outlined in 1 and 2 above. There are no man-made schemes that will bring us to an utopian Kingdom of God on Earth. Realize this and you will realize that philosophies and movements - including communism, socialism, capitalism and even "emerging churches" - are shams.
4. A comment on progress. Built into the modern mind there seems to be a concept that social progress is inevitable, that mankind will always improve via an inevitable evolutionary progression. Sorry, but outside of each of us, one on one with God, becoming the "mew man" there is no solution...
5. I'm glad On Being seeks to be "a spacious conversation... about the big questions at the center of human life." So I'll throw in my two cents worth. What's the purpose? Why are we here? God wants - and is looking for - men and women He can live with forever. Read about it in Revelation 21:3-4. God wants family and He has a plan for attaining it. Actually, He is doing much more than looking: He is CREATING family. Creation is in process even now as we let Him dwell and walk in us and we overcome and change and grow into the "new man" - the special people God would like to live with forever. "He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son" (Revelation 21:7).
6. Okay, I'll step down from my soap-box now.
I think we are "saved" in
I think we are "saved" in community. I don't buy Revelations" G-d savagely wiping out the planet for a few elites.
"There is no way to be
"There is no way to be serious about following Jesus without calling for concern or compassion for the enemy." Gotta love Vincent Harding's voice! This comment in the 18th minute of this segment sums up what we need to do to make this world a better place.
I found it interesting that towards the end of the segment Harding mentioned Detroit as a situation that most people push to the side and not give a second thought about. For me personally, I always figured it was someone else's problem. After all, I don't live there. If we start having conversations about these types of things, Harding says we may be able to make a positive difference in the world.
He was also spot on when speaking about how we need to be more mature rather than childish about our problems. Its OK to apologize for mistakes we've made, and move on. If everyone had this thought process, we wouldn't necessarily be in the same position we are right now.
I really enjoyed this segment
I really enjoyed this segment, which aired almost two years ago to the day. Missing my friend Vincent, who was a giant for peace and justice.


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Wood Products Industry Making A Comeback?
The Great Recession has been hard on Oregon's wood products industries, and construction of single-family homes remains sluggish.
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In the use case, a fault occurs on the distribution system and the Fault Clearing Device clears the fault. The Fault Clearing Device sends the lock out signal to the Circuit Reconfiguration Controller (CRC). The CRC sends the lock out information to the Distribution SCADA (D-SCADA)/DMS, the Outage Management System (OMS), and Distribution Historian. The CRC sends an abnormal control area configuration status to any applicable Volt-Var Controller. By polling the various devices, the CRC is able to perform a fault isolation calculation to isolate the fault. The CRC then sends a device command to the Isolation Device which acknowledges the command and performs the functions needed to isolate the fault. These events are monitored in the D-SCADA through regular polling of the devices. The CRC eventually calculates the reconfiguration scenario and sends the commands to the Reconfiguration Device which acknowledges the commands. After the Reconfiguration Device functions, it sends an update to the CRC which sends all equipment status updates to D-SCADA which updates the Distribution Historian.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (140 votes).
In short: Fantastic Eveny Date of review: October 16, 2012
In short: Fantastic Marathon In A Fantastic CityIn full: Sorry I'm not very good at writing reviews but I shall try my best:This is a fantastic marathon for all abilities.The organisation is superb and with the added benefit of Alan joining in the Runners World forums answering questions and giving the latest information and updates as soon as possible.I never had to queue for a toilet....a first at a marathon eventThe course is brilliant, giving a mix of residential and industrial areas, as well as dockside and park areas. Support is very good, patchy in some areas but I believe this is due to the variety of the course, however even through the industrial areas the marshalls are encouraging and friendly.For first time marathoners who may be put off by comments about the hill at 18 miles, it really isn't a hill, a slight incline but nothing major unless you live in a completely flat area of the Country, and once your at the top you have the benefit of knowing that you will be coming down it a few miles later.Baggage collection at the end was superb, many people having their bags waiting to be handed to them as the baggage staff were looking ahead for numbers approaching the lorries in order to find the bags allocated to them.If you are looking for a superbly organised atmospheric marathon for next year this is the one for you. I'm definately returning again.Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Fantastic - Cannot fault it one bit!In full: RunLiverpool, who organised this event, did themselves proud, as did the amazing people of Liverpool who turned out in their thousands to offer the best support you could ever wish for. The exit out of the Queensway Tunnel was really emotional, and the highlight of the whole course. The killer hill around mile 18 is tough, but hey, if marathons were easy then everyone would run them, right? A brilliant race, and would highly recommend it to anyone thinking of running a marathon. Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Stunning urban streetscape, parks and waterfrontDate of review: October 15, 2012
In short: The Tunnel and The HillIn full: This was my first marathon, and was a complete gamble!! It was a brilliant gamble. You start in a park the other side of liverpool, you go though the park to the coast of the north west!! The weather was perfect and there was nothing nicer to pace yourself than the calm irish sea along with a sea breeze!! Really great stuff!! You then head down towards a nice area and then to a tunnel. The half way point is in the tunnel which is a real brain tester!! Mentally its a challenge but just when you think its getting too hard..you hear the drums and then the noise and then wow!! Its like your a star exiting the tunnel with amazing support, and this was after the first runners had gone though maybe an hour before!! Amazing!! The run then takes you though liverpool and up a very cleverly placed hill at mile 17!! I was warned about this and found it ok but for the novice its a real killer!! You then proceed around two parks where the support was less but i cannot fault the support teams at the aid stations. I was pretty much out of it at this point but those small words of encouragement were fantastic!! Once your though the parks, the last 2.2 miles are downhill. If your a beginner, your legs will be burning, your feets will be hurting with every step, but the crowd makes it feel like a breeze and you finish to a big crowd outside the liver buildings. As a said this was my first marathon, it won't be my last!! Fantastic!!Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Loved it.In full: I like that the race is effectively split into 2 halves between Wirral and Liverpool, and this provides a nice mix of scenery. The support on the wirral side was ok, but the atmosphere in Liverpool was outstanding. The sound of the drums builds up as you climb the tunnel and when you finally emerge, the noise from the drums and the crowd is incredible. After that, running along the strand with such large and vocal support urging you on makes you feel 8ft tall. I was dreading the climb out of the tunnel, but the climb up parliament street is worse. This course may not be the best for PB seekers. Going out of the city to the parks, I expected the support to drop, but this wasn't the case - their enthusiasm carried me round the parks and back into the city.So, to sum up, this is a great race. Its a nice mix of coast, city and parks, but its the support which makes this race. Special mentions to the drummers on the tunnel exit and the dancers on princes road. A fantastic experience.Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Great race will be back next year ! The support from the crowd was fantastic !Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Best day of my life - I will never forget itIn full: The longest I have ever ran before was half marathon but seemed to breeze it to 20 miles without a stop. Much of this was due to the amazing people lining the streets who were so inspiring it was unbelievable. People literally were shouting encouragement to you like they had known you all their lives and this was one of the main things which I Wwill remember forever.The scenery too was brilliant - Im not from Liverpool so forgive me for not knowing the placenames but the stretch down the promenade was brilliant and cooled you down really well. However after just passing half way and coming out of the tunnel to the drums and literally thousands of people cannot be put in to words.The finish too, being down hill meant that those painful legs were able to hammer out the last mile at what felt like a sprint.One word - unbelievable.If I do have one slight gripe that is some of the other runs I have done have had better goodie bags in terms of what was in them but the t shirt and medal are stunning and will be cherished forever.If you are thinking about doing a marathon whether it is your first or 100th do this one - cant wait until next year!!!!Date of review: October 15, 2012
In short: Excellent Marathon. Organisation, support, volunteers and Course superb!In full: Will definatley be back next year, very enjoyable race. The organisation was excellent from start to finish. Support on the course was great, quiet in some places, but that allowed a little recovery before you were dragged along again by the cheering crowd. Exiting the tunnel was a great experience.Didn't notice the hills that much, but think that was because I had trained for them and they was not as bad as expected.Great technical tee & Medal at the endDate of review: October 15, 2012
In short: A bit of everythingIn full: Very well organised event. Quite a varied experience - parks, industrial, city roads and of course the tunnel. The support tended to come in big gatherings, with long stretches having few or no spectators. Water points and stewarding were all very supportive and well-drilled.I stupidly ran with an injury so I'm determined to come back next year and enjoy the route with a bit less pain.Date of review: October 15, 2012
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