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Steve Jobs' bid to tear down a historic mansion in Woodside generated a whole lot of testimony at the April 28 Woodside Town Council meeting.
Preservationists and representatives of Mr. Jobs, the founder of Apple Inc., painted very different pictures of the Jackling house, an imposing 17,250-square-foot Spanish colonial-style home on Mountain Home Road.
Where preservationists see a treasure designed by noted architect George Washington Smith and filled with graceful details like imported tile and custom copper fixtures, Mr. Jobs sees an "abomination" that he would dearly like to scrape to the ground and replace with a smaller, modern home.
If this battle triggers a sense of deja vu, that's because it's been going on since 2001 -- and it's going to linger at least a little bit longer. After taking testimony, the Town Council continued the public hearing on Mr. Jobs's request for a demolition permit to its May 12 meeting.
Named for original owner Daniel C. Jackling, a titan of the copper mining industry, the house was built in 1925. Its age triggered an environmental review under the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act, and it was determined to be a historically significant structure, making a demolition permit harder to acquire.
Mr. Jobs was actually granted a demolition permit for the house in 2004, but the permit was blocked by a historic preservation group. Its members took the town and Mr. Jobs to court, and won.
Now that Mr. Jobs has exhausted his appeals, he's gone back and provided missing information that the courts said invalidated his old demolition permit. His representatives presented detailed information about the estimated cost of renovating the house -- $13 million -- and said it would be $5 million more than the cost of demolishing it and building a tasteful, 6,000-square-foot custom home.
"Enough is enough. I don't think any property owner in this community should have to endure what he has had to do," Howard Ellman, Mr. Jobs' attorney, told the council.
When the town granted the permit in 2004, it took the unusual step of requiring Mr. Jobs to try to find someone willing to relocate and restore the house. The preservation group, called Uphold Our Heritage, say that there's been no good faith effort to find a taker, and point to at least two serious offers that have been rebuffed.
Mr. Ellman said at the meeting that none of the offers to take the house have been reasonable.
"Needless to say, I didn't ever take these offers to him. I value my relationship with (Mr. Jobs) and I didn't want to have to endure the blowback," he said.
The Jackling house has been abandoned for the past decade, and Mr. Jobs has made it clear that he'll leave it to fall down rather than fix it up, a situation preservationists find infuriating.
"It's a great house. It's not that far gone," said Thalia Lubin, a member of the town's History Committee. "It's very, very sad that the house was vandalized," she said, adding that she chose that word deliberately.
"Not demolishing it only keeps it in its present condition," pointed out Councilman Ron Romines.
Almanac staff writer Dave Boyce contributed to this story.

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Crime & Punishment
Not all of Albion's Polish residents were on their best behavior. Below is a collection of newspaper articles relating to various Albion Polish residents and natives who seemed to find themselves in trouble with the law.
Disgraceful Sunday Brawl Between Michael Smith and Michael Sierencey
October 7, 1902 - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Surnames: Sierencey, Smith
Two men got into a quarrel at the east end of Caroline Street, Albion, Sunday afternoon, in the Polack section of the town, and both were badly cut up, one seriously. They were Michael Smith and Michael Sierencey. The latter had chickens, which got into Smith's garden, and he was trying to get them out when both became angered, and fought each other like fiends. The kicked and pounded each other, and Dr. Sherwood who attends Smith says he appears to have been jumped upon and badly injured in one of his lungs, and bruised in other portions of his body. He is in bed at present. Smith evidently had the knife in his hands for the other Pole is cut over the eye, in his shoulder and other places.
Sheriff Rice and Deputy Reddy were summoned to the house where it seems both men live. Sierencey was arrested and taken to the county jail. A hearing took place before Justice Tucker Monday, which was postponed to this morning, pending the condition of Smith's wounds.
Refused to Buy Drinks; Beaten
Albion Pole Makes Complaint of Treatment by Countrymen
September 23, 1908 - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Surnames: Zdwdowski
Albion, Sept. 22 - Joseph Zdwdowski, a Pole, came before Judge Knickerbocker this morning and swore out warrants for four fellow countrymen on charges of assault in the third degree. Zdwdowski was scarcely able to move from a beating he said he had received. Both eyes were blackened and all around his left eye was a swelling over an inch high.
Zdwdowski says he went into a saloon yesterday to buy a glass of beer. In the saloon were four other Poles, and they demanded that he buy them drinks also. Zdwdowski refused to buy, and the men, he says, knocked him down, kicked him, walked on him and pounded him.
Two of the alleged assailants have been arrested by Chief Van Dell and the other two will probably be arrested tonight.
Wife Forgives Albion Pole
June 2, 1909 - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Surnames: Bruski
Albion, June 1 - Mike Bruski, a Pole, was discharged in police court last evening and was allowed to go home after being lectured and cautioned by the court. He was charged with beating his wife with a rake last Saturday so severely that she has not been able to leave her bed since. She was not able to appear in court last night, but she sent word by her son Frank that she did not want to prosecute her husband.
Albion Polish Youth Accused
Of Theft of West Barre Team
Transactions Complicated
Michael Gurney has Been Up to Number of Tricks, it is Alleged. Since Horses That Were to be Sold by Sheriff Were Stolen
July 23, 1909 - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Surnames: Gurney, Kaminski
Albion, July 22 - Michael Gurney, an18-year-old Polish youth residing on Goodrich Street, admitted to the police authorities today that he be implicated in the sale of a team of horses stolen from the farm barn of Martin [Kaminski] in West Barre, Monday night.
The team was driven to the Rochester hay market and traded by Gurney and another person to a farmer named Leonard for a gray horse, he said, and the pair were to receive cash besides that horse, if after a trial the team proved satisfactory. The money was to be paid to Gurney's companion at 10 o'clock this forenoon at the hay market while Gurney accepted the gray horse, stolen harness and buggy, without a dash, for his [?] in the transaction.
Gurney claims to have met his partner near the Driving Park bridge in Rochester and to have negotiated the sale of the team but the men and team were seen by Night Watchman Kane passing through the public square at Holley at [?] o'clock Tuesday morning, but the two were not arrested as Kane had not learned of the theft at that time. Gurney drove the stolen buggy and grey horse up the Ridge road to Gaines, north of this village, then traded the gray horse for a colt to George Coloney and used his note for $50 in part payment of the colt.
Later, Coloney read in the papers a description of the rig stole in Barre, which spoke of a letter "S" in the rosette of the bridle. His newly acquired harness had this characteristic, and he notified Sheriff Callaghan and stared up the Ridge in chase of Gurney, who had left about an hour before.
The automobile of John Miller of Medina was standing in front of the jail and Sheriff Callaghan pressed it into service and with Turnkey Edward Morton, made a fast trip to Eagle Harbor and down the Waterport road to head off the alleged thief. The overcame Gurney at Powell's mill and arrested him. The team in Rochester was recovered today, and Gurney was at a hearing this afternoon before Justice H. C. Tucker. Gurney's companion failed to pat in an appearance at the hay market in Rochester today to get his money from Leonard, who was there to pay him the balance due on the team.
The horses will be returned to Albion tomorrow morning, and the sheriff's sale, at which the had been advertised to be sold previous to the time they were stolen, has been postponed until next Saturday.
Alleged Inhuman Father Arrested
Albion Pole to Have Hearing This Morning
September 9, 1910 - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Albion, Sept. 8 - Numerous witnessed who, it is claimed, were present when Frank Gatskowski, a Caroline Street Polish resident, is said to have strung his 12 year old son Bernard up to an apple tree by the arms yesterday morning were subpoenaed to police court this afternoon to make sworn statements as to what occurred, and after taking the sworn statements Justice John Knickerbocker issued a warrant to Noah D. Smith, charging Gatskowski with a misdemeanor. The case was turned over to the humane society, which through its prosecuting attorney, Sanford T. Church, will prosecute Gatskowski.
Chief of Police Andrew Van Dell arrested Gatskowski tonight as he was about to draw a load of corn from a B. L. & R. car in the front of the court house to the Olney Canning Factory, where he is employed with his team. He was taken before Justice Knickerbocker and pleaded not guilty. His case was adjourned until tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.
Police Drive on Crap Game
Take men from Medina, Niagara Falls and Albion to Jail
July 31, 1917
Surnames: Chick, Koneski, Lubawy, Majewski, O'Kussick, Organiski, Pulkownik
An automobile load of village police swooped down upon a crap game in East State street early yesterday morning and captured dice, money posted in the game and players from Medina, Niagara Falls and Albion. Complaint was made to the police that the place has weekly been the rendevous late at night for crap shooters. The men taken to jail gave their names; Edward Koneski, East Center Street, Medina, NY; John Organiski, No. 113 Fourteenth Street, Niagara Falls, NY; John O'Kussick, No. 510 High Street, Medina; Leo Chick, No. 46 Brown Street, Albion; Frank Lubawy, No. 68 Moore Street, Albion. The police say warrants will be secured for Leo Majewski of Caroline Street, Albion, and John Pulkownik of Knapp Street, Albion.
Used Stones in Their Encounter
Albion Poles Engaged in Battle Royal
Residents of "Little Poland" Did Not Look Like Advocates of Sweet Peace in Court - One of Combatants Held for Grand Jury
January 13, 1911 - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Surnames: Nowack, Pawlaczyk, Witkowski
Albion, Jan. 12 - "Little Poland," in the northeastern part of this village, was a battleground yesterday and two of the combatants were in the police court this morning, charged with assault, second degree. The discolored and bandaged heads and faces of both men left no question of the seriousness of the battle they had fought in the public streets with stones as their weapons.
Ignatius Witkowski, 48 years old, of Joseph street, was complainant against Lawrence Nowack, 56 years old, of No. 33 Knapp street. Both men are employed in the local quarries. Witkowski was nursing a badly bruised and cut head and face, and he had required the services of Dr. Edward Whittier to sew up wounds inflicted by a sharp rock weighing over two pounds. Two of his teeth were knocked out in the fight and he had four deep long gashes across his face and nose, besides a deep wound in his forehead, which was bandaged. His finger was also badly lacerated, where as he claimed, his opponend used his teetch when he, Witkowski, was getting the better of him.
Nowack who was held for the Grand Jury is $200 bail for the assault of Witkowski was equally as badly cut up and appeared in court with bandages over his eye and face. His right eye was swollen shut and a black and blue lump as large as a hen's egg lopped on his cheek. Both cheeks were skinned and discolored, where, as he claimed, Witkowski used a large rock to decorate his features.
The argument is said to have started over the placing of a large boulder in a small stream on the boundary line of Nowack's garden on Joseph street, where a patch used by school children exists. Witkowski claimed that he placed the stone there to afford a dry stepping place for the school children in crossing the stream, and he decided, it is said, to give Nowack a satisfactory answere when the latter [became irate] with him and told him to keep off his premises. Both men admitted using hard names toward each other, and while both also admitted having had large sharp-edged rocks, they differed as to who was the aggressor.
When the smoke of their battle cleared up a little, the men were seen by Mrs. Witkowski, who is said to have run out with many other residents of the neighborhood to where the fight was in progress. Mrs. Witkowski is said to have carried a broom handle with her, but was unable to recognize her husband, owing to the blood that was flowing from his wounds and covered his face and hair.
Chief of Police Andrew Van Dell arrested Nowack this forenoon and he was arraigned before Police Justice H. C. Tucker. Nowack was administered to bail in the sum of $300, with Martin Pawlaczyk as his surety.
Drought Threatens Albion and Medina
Dry Raiders of Rochester Make it Four Apiece
December 11, 1929 - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Surnames: Button, Crane, Eibl, Vahoviak, Wojtowicz
Albion, Dec. 10 - Anti-Volstead partisans in this section received a severe blow in today when four prohibition agents from Chief Newton's force in Rochester, accompanied by Sheriff, L. S. Higley, Undersheriff Herbert Clark, and Depuies Nestal and Harris, raided four places in Albion and four in Medina, finding beer, wine, and liquors in varying quantities, destroying the containers, and citing the occupants to appear before the United States Commissioner in Rochester.
Albion places visited were Frank Crane's on Densmore Street, John Eibl's "Dutch Club," Joseph Vahoviak's place on the Eagle Harbor Road, and Angelo Trevisondoli's on East State Street. Four Medina places were also caught unaware, creating a severe drought in the western end of the county for much time.
The raid victims in Medina were Louis and Mary Button of 106 Pleasant Street; Milton Mavariak of 508 Canal Bank; Teofila Vantaro of 110 State Street and Stella Wojtowicz of 105 Laurel Street. They will all be charged with sale and possession of liquor.
All Troubles Come at Once, Ferrari Finds
Arrested by Government Men and Orleans Authorities at End of Jail Term
June 21, 1930 - Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
Surnames: Ciszek, Crane, Shebweski, Vahoviak
Nicholas Ferrari, 196 Brown Street, seldom has been out of trouble for several years, but he learned yesterday that his luck has changed for the worse.
Ferrari, a one time Democratic leader of the Second Ward, found himself unable to pay a fine of $100 in United States District Court and was sent to jail for 30 days. He emerged yesterday and was met at the jail door by Deputy Marshals Albert Skinner and Joseph Fazio, armed with a warrant for his arrest growing out of another raid on his place on May 6.
The deputies took Ferrari before the United States Commissioner Cyrus W. Phillips, where he arranged through some friends to give bond of $1,000 to assure his appearance at a future hearing. But this was not the end of a far from perfect day for Ferrari.
No sooner had he emerged from the commissioners' sanctum than he was greeted by sheriff's deputies from Orleans County, also armed with a warrant for his arrest, based on a raid made by deputies on a place at 14 Mechanic Street, Holley, said to be operated by Ferrari. Orleans County officials plan to try him in the state courts on a charge of maintaining a nuisance. He was taken to that county to enter a plea.
The two government deputies also served a number of other warrants which were issued by the court as a result of failure of persons named in search warrants to appear before a United States commissions following raids on their places. Those served were:
Thomas Morton, Scio Lunch, Scio Street and Main Street East; Frank Shebweski, Albion; Frank S. Ciszek, Albion; Rose Crane, Albion; James Vahoviak, Albion; Joseph Vahoviak, Albion; Katherine Green, Albion; Joseph Zadroznry and Edward Cook, Ames and Campbell Streets; George L. McCue, Geneva; Owen Mackin, Seneca Falls; Charles Leone, 293 Clarissa Street; James Bottiglieri and James Eagan, 270 Whitney Street; Gesuella Carlese, 171 Atkinson Street.
Policeman Haley Resigns; Donovan in Hospital
January 22, 1931 - Medina Daily Journal
Surnames: Majewski
One Medina policeman is in the Medina Memorial Hospital and another has resigned from the force, the aftermath of an early morning fracus with three men from Albion in a Medina restaurant early Wednesday morning.
At the time that the trouble started Officer David Haley, who was on duty, and Officer Michael Donovan, who was having his night off, were in the restaurant when three men from Albion came in. One of the Albion men is believed to be Leo Majewski proprietor of a resort known as the Big House, located at Five Corners, two miles north of Albion. Officer Hales, is said to have involved himself in an argument with Majewski, which ended verbally when Haley made a hard but ineffectual punch at him. The action from that point on became a bit confused but it is believed that Donovan sprang to Haley's defense as the three men attacked him. Haley is reported to have slipped out the door about the time the Albion men warmed to the fray and were looking for something to hit.
Officer Donovan was unable to successfully continue the one sided battle and went down. With more effectiveness than sportsmanship one of the Albion men kicked him when he went down and broke his ribs. He was taken to the hospital and and examination by Dr. Robert Munson revealed two broken ribs and a smashed nose and several cuts. After the melee the Albion men drove off and as yet no complaint has been lodged against them.
Albion Man Found Guilty of Assault Against Policeman
June 13, 1933 - Medina Daily Journal
Surnames: Majewski
Leo Majewski, 36, proprietor of an Albion drinkery, was found guilty of assault, third degree, yeasterday by a jury in county court on a charge of attacking Officer John L. Finn on the night of March 26. Judge B. E. Harcourt will impose sentence Thursday.
The defendant was indicted by the May Grad Jury for second degree assault after the case had been removed from police court on a higher court order on the objection of David A. White, Majewski's attorney, that the atmosphere would be prejudicial because of the presence of W.C.T.U. members with bias against Majewski.
He was acquitted of second degree assault yesterday by this jury but found guilty of third degree assault after his defense had declared he did not use abusive language and only followed Finn from the place after the officer had entered to inquired for the driver of a truck parked improperly outside to tell him to come in quietly.
Questioned by District Attorney William H. Munson, Finn testified that Majewski followed him from the establishment and rushed at him, making it necessary to draw his gun and then his club. After he had used his club, Finn said, they clinched and rolled on the sidewalk, resulting in bruised ribs and lacerations for the officer.
Majewski testified that Finn drew his gun and used the club before any threatening move was made against him.
Majewski Gets 30 Days and No Beer
June 17, 1933 - Medina Daily Journal
Surnames: Majewski
Leo Majewski, convicted of assaulting Patrolman John Finn of Albion last March, was sentenced yesterday by County Judge Bertram E. Harcourt to 30 days in Orleans County Jail. The jury had returned a verdict for third degree assault following an indictment for second.
More than 150 Albion residents yesterday petitioned the Orleans County A.B.C. Board asking that Majewski's application for a beet license be refused with the result that it was refused. It is understood that Majewski will appeal to the state board for a review of his application.
Nabbed for Selling Booze Sans Licenses
April 7, 1934 - Lockport Union Sun & Journal
Surnames: Daniels, Majewski
Albion, April 7 - In an effort to enforce the license provisions of the liquor law, three Orleans County residents were arrested yesterday on charges of selling liquor without licenses. Special raids were made by Sheriff Sidney Treble, Undersheriff Herbert Clark, Sergt. Harry Adams and Trooper G. C. Cooper, of the State police.
Frank Daniels, alias Crane, 27 years old, was arrested as alleged bartender in the establishment of Rose Crane, 16 Densmore Street, Albion. He was arraigned and released on $200 property bail.
Mrs. Nellie Hutchinson, 30, 25 Brown Street, was arrested on a similar charge and released on $100 cash bail.
Leo Majewski, 34, Gaines, alleged proprietor of the Castle, was arrested and when arraigned before Justice Fred A. Burns, pleased not guilty. Majewski, who recently served 30 days on an assault charge, was released on $100 cash bail. The Castle is reputed to have been the former home of Jessie Bonesteele, American actress, famous 26 years ago.
First ABC Raids
April 12, 1934 - Medina Tribune
Surnames: Crane, Daniels, Majewski, Monacelli
Two men and a woman were arrested Friday afternoon by Orleans County authorities and state police for alleged violation of the state liquor control law. Each was charged with selling liquor at a place which held only a beer license.
Leo Majewski, 34, was arrested as actual proprietor of "The Castle" located on the Childs road two miles north of Albion. He was arraigned before Justice of Peace Fed J. Berns of Gaines, and pleaded not guilty. Cash bail of $100 was supplied and a hearing was set for April 13. The beer license for "The Castle" was issued to Albert Monacelli.
Frank Daniels, 22, was arrested while working as a bartender at 16 Densmore Street, Albion. The beer license for the address was issued to Mrs. Rose Crane. Arraigned before Acting Police Justice John D. Daniels, he pleaded not guilty and supplied property bond of $200 and was released for a hearing April 13.
A. B. C. Case is Now on Trial
June 12, 1934 - Niagara Falls Gazette
Surnames: Majewski
Albion, June 12 - An alleged A.B.C. violation by Leo Majewski
, 35 years old, Gaines, the first to reach court here, was on trial in Orleans county court term before Judge B. E. Harcourt and a jury. It is expected to be completed.
The charge involved the alleged sale of liquor under a beer license at The Castle in Gaines, of which Majewski is the owner. The place is leased to Albert Monacelli, who holds the beer license, but Majewski is charged with having made the sale of the liquor to Carl Wenzel and Emerson Yerge, two "buy men" employed by the sheriff's and district attorney's offices.
Two similar charges against Albion beer licenses are pending in the village police court and disposition of them is considered to depend on the outcome of Majewski's case.


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Homeopathic medical college
Homeopathic medical college
Burke A. Hinsdale stated that homeopathy was first recorded in University history in 1851 (Hinsdale, p. 106). However, as early as 1848 the practitioners and patrons of homeopathy in Michigan were petitioning the legislature and the University, setting forth their rights and claims, to the end that homeopathic instruction be included in the curriculum of their state institution. The abstract of the minutes of the Michigan Institute of Homeopathy in 1849, printed in the Michigan Journal of Homoeopathy, mentioned the appointment of a committee of three to "address the Regents of the University of Michigan, praying them to establish a Professorship of Homeopathy in the Medical Department of that college" (I: 105). Even earlier, committees were appointed by various lay groups to formulate petitions of a similar nature. The first meeting of the Michigan Institute of Homeopathy in 1845 devoted a portion of the single session of June 12 to the question.
Previous legislation regarding medical practice in the state included a law passed in 1846 (Mich. Rev. Stat., 1846, pp. 168-73), giving to the state and county medical societies power to issue and revoke licenses to practice, and making all persons who practiced as physicians or surgeons without obtaining such license subject to fine or imprisonment. The result of the activity on the part of groups of physicians to pass laws favorable to themselves was an action by the legislature to place the question of medical practice and its control in the hands of the committee on the judiciary for investigation. In 1851 the Honorable Thomas B. Church, chairman, reported that "sundry petitions praying for … the establishment of a professorship of homoeopathy in the University of this State" were referred to his committee. He discussed the general medical situation in regard to its legal control and advised that Chapter XXXVI of the Revised Statutes of 1846 be repealed. This was done. Further, he recommended that the homeopathic question be referred to the newly appointed Board of Regents, "fresh from the people," who had been elected under the Constitution of 1850. The several petitions were referred to the committee on education of the legislature.
In the memoir prepared by Dr. Zina Pitcher at the request of the Regents, embracing an epitome of the transactions of that body from 1837 to 1851 (J. Doc., 1851, pp. 312-28), several pages were devoted to this question. Pitcher took a militant stand against any favorable recognition of the petitions or of the petitioners. One gathers that the author was expressing his personal views rather than the considered opinion of the entire Board. Petitions, both to abolish the Department of Medicine and Surgery, founded in 1850, and to establish homeopathic instruction in that department, constituted the immediate occasion for this part of the memoir. It must be remembered that Dr. Pitcher was the sole author of this review. However, a perusal of the document will explain the feeling that any discussion of the subject must have caused.
Several problems were satisfactorily solved with the election of the new Board of Regents in 1851, but the exact delineation of its powers was still to be determined. For forty years the homeopathic controversy furnished the trial material which at last made hard and fast the position of the Board in relation to the lawmaking and judicial bodies in Michigan (see Part I: Constitutional Status).
An interesting episode developed regarding the selection of a president by the new Board. In June, 1852, Tappan was favorably considered, and during the investigation of his abilities and background, Dr. Pitcher, using the name of D. B. Minor, wrote Dr. Vanderburgh of New York — Tappan's medical adviser and a homeopathic physician. According to Vanderburgh (Mich. Journ. Homeop., 2: 126-27) the letter expressed a sympathetic attitude toward homeopathy and asked whether or not Tappan's inclination was in that direction. An affirmative reply resulted in Tappan's temporary defeat, if we may believe the letter from Vanderburgh which shows his chagrin at being tricked. In July of the same year, the Board elected to the presidency the Reverend William Adams, much to the amusement of Vanderburgh, who had been his physician for twenty years (ibid., p. 124), but Adams declined. As a consequence, the lesser of the two evils, as viewed by some of the Board, was the reconsideration and election of Tappan. From fragments of reports and contemporary correspondence one gathers that Dr. Pitcher was disappointed but continued to be the constructive worker he always had been.
From 1851 to 1855 the legislature and the new Board of Regents were continually being bombarded with petitions and various other legal procedures to induce them to include homeopathy in the University curriculum. Most of these instruments, at least those addressed to the legislature, were referred either to the committee on the judiciary or to the committee on education. The committee on education was responsible for the examination of the organization of the University. As a result of these activities the legislature of Michigan in 1855 passed an act providing for the appointment of at least one professor of homeopathy in the Department of Medicine and Surgery (Laws, 1855, No. 100). For the next twelve years, an almost constant legal battle was waged to compel the Regents to comply with the act. They refused to do so, and since the act of 1855 provided no enabling funds they resisted all efforts against them. However, the real reason for the refusal is apparent from contemporary correspondence between the Regents and various state officers. While there was very real opposition to teaching homeopathy in the University, the main objection arose from the effort to establish chairs of homeopathy in the Medical Department. Until this effort was abandoned the partisans of homeopathy were doomed to failure.
About the time of the passage of the 1855 law, Dr. A. I. Sawyer, a graduate of the Western College of Homeopathic Medicine in 1854, took up his residence in Monroe, Michigan. Intensely partisan, gifted with intelligence and sound political judgment, he hurled himself into the fight. It was said that for twenty-five years he attended nearly every session of the Board of Regents and of the legislature as well. Very promptly dissension developed in the homeopathic ranks and a demarcation appeared, based, first, on the championship of Ann Arbor as the proper location for the homeopathic teaching as against Detroit; and, second, on the belief that it would be wise to add homeopathic chairs to the Medical Department rather than to establish a separate college within the University. As a consequence, the attack lost momentum and, on occasion, lost its force entirely.
At the annual meeting of the Michigan Institute of Homeopathy in 1866 a committee was appointed to employ counsel to apply to the Supreme Court of the state to force the Regents to comply with the law of 1855 (Proc. Mich. Homeop. Instit., p. 3). To this end the members of the Institute were assessed to defray the costs of such a step. Possibly it was as a result of this move that the rider was added to the law of 1867 (see Part I: Constitutional Status).
It must be remembered that the growth of the University during the fifties and sixties had exceeded its resources, and had the legislature not come to its relief in 1867 serious consequences must have followed. In that year a law was passed giving to the University one-twentieth of a mill from each dollar of taxes collected (Laws, 1867, No. 59). To this bill a rider was attached rendering void the mill tax assessment unless at least one professor of homeopathy were appointed in the Medical Department. Much excitement followed, and many resignations were offered. The department most affected succeeded in delaying the action for one year, and at the end of that time the Regents endeavored to establish a school of homeopathy outside Ann Arbor but under University auspices (see Part I: Constitutional Status).
In 1869 an act was passed amending the law of 1867 and appropriating $15,000 to the University directly instead of continuing the tax rate of one-twentieth of a mill (Laws, 1869, No. 14). In this act homeopathy was not mentioned. Petitions and injunctions were again the order of the day, and dissension in the ranks of the petitioners served only to heighten the controversy. The Michigan Institute of Homeopathy, founded in 1847, had taken the leadership in the attack on the Regents and the legislature. Legal steps begun by laymen and taken eventually to the Supreme Court were instigated by the Institute. In 1870 the Homeopathic Medical Society of the state of Michigan was organized, however, and at the second meeting, in May, 1871, all the books and papers of the old Institute of Homeopathy were taken over (Trans. Homeop. Med. Soc., 1871, p. 3).
At this meeting a committee was appointed to "institute legal proceedings against the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan" to enforce the law of 1855. The continued efforts of this committee were being felt in both University and state circles — so much so, in fact, that the meeting of the Regents in September, 1871, brought forth the following resolution:
Resolved, That we approve the efforts that are being made to establish a Homeopathic Medical College at Detroit, to be eventually connected with the University, and when we are authorized to make it a part of the University by law, with proper provisions for its support, we will administer its affairs to the best of our ability (R.P., 1870-76, p. 156).
Prior to this a memorial had been presented, signed by citizens of Detroit (R.P., 1870-76, p. 104), offering land for the site and money for the erection and conduct of such a school in Detroit, to be connected with the University. Just what was intended by this resolution is not clear, but it served to hearten the group interested in establishing such a school in Detroit. And the direct result may have been the launching of the Michigan Homeopathic Medical College at Lansing in November, 1871, though the first announcement of this college makes no attempt to claim a University connection.
The result of the legal steps taken by the Homeopathic State Society was a Supreme Court decision against forcing the University to establish a chair of homeopathy in the Department of Medicine and Surgery. A second college to be organized in Detroit with the backing of the Regents was discussed at a meeting of the state society. At this meeting the president's address stressed the fact that dissension in the ranks caused the failure to force the Regents to recognize homeopathy in the University. Three points of view were put forward: one group wanted a teaching unit outside Ann Arbor; the second faction urged enforcement of the law of 1855; and a third group insisted on abandoning the fight because it was prejudicial to the good name of the University. The two sessions of the society in 1871 (May and November) served to crystallize the sentiment of that body into a set of resolutions insisting on the teaching of homeopathy in the Department of Medicine and Surgery.
On March 20, 1873, the House of Representatives appointed a committee with instructions to proceed to Ann Arbor to study the question whether homeopathy could be successfully taught in the Department of Medicine and Surgery. To this end nineteen responsible witnesses, all faculty members, were questioned, and testimony covering 110 closely written pages was obtained. Included among the witnesses were such men as President Angell, Judge Cooley, Professors Douglass, Cocker, Williams, and Olney, and, finally, Dr. Corydon L. Ford, Professor of Anatomy. All these men testified that to teach homeopathy in the Medical Department would be a great mistake and would ultimately kill the department itself. One must remember that in the year before the Department of Medicine and Surgery was opened, 1850, there were only sixty students in the University, and that in the fall ninety students began the study of medicine. In the early seventies there were 575 registered in the Department of Medicine and Surgery alone. Any legislation unfavorable to this important unit of the University was considered seriously. The testimony reveals that both President Angell and Judge Cooley employed homeopathic physicians at the time of the interview by the committee.
The legislative committee of the State Homeopathic Society, due to the "unwearied industry … and Spartan courage of Dr. S. B. Thayer" (Mich. Journ. Homeop., 1 [1873]: 89), its chairman, succeeded with the legislators, and as a result a law was passed in 1873 appointing two professors of homeopathy in the Department of Medicine and Surgery and repealing all other laws of related content (Laws, 1873, No. 63). That same year the 1869 law — or, rather, amendment (see Part I: Angell Administration) — granting a lump sum to the University was repealed and again one-twentieth of a mill was assessed against all taxable property for the benefit of the University (Laws, 1873, No. 32). This bill had no rider attached, since special legislation had solved the situation relative to the teaching of homeopathy.
The Regents again refused to comply with the law, urging that, because of the existing state of feeling, it was impossible to combine the teaching of two schools of medicine in one department. Since no special funds had been appropriated, nothing was done. As has been said, the Regents were consistent and had been so from the first. From 1851 to 1875 the controversy was constantly in evidence, a controversy developed in part for the general public welfare, but in no small part for the play of personal ambition and desire for partisan advantage. The enemies of the University displayed great zeal in creating strife and used homeopathy as a shield.
The gradual trend toward the establishment of a separate school was very noticeable after 1871. Early in 1875 the Regents restated resolutions adopted two years before, declaring their willingness to assume direction of a separate School of Homeopathy when funds should be provided for its support. This action was predicated on the knowledge that the legislature then in session would act favorably on a bill which was to be presented, establishing such a school. As expected, in April, 1875, the law was passed establishing a Homeopathic Medical College as part of the University in Ann Arbor.
For almost twenty-five years (since 1851) the Regents had been in a position of opposing the legislature, and they had always denied that this position was the result of "factious opposition to … that body," as Hinsdale put it. Rather, they had insisted that the true and best interests of the University were being served by their attitude. In the state generally, a large group felt that the wishes of the commonwealth were being ignored.
The year 1875 proved a busy one for the administration of the institution in Ann Arbor. Both the College of Dental Surgery and the Homeopathic Medical College were organized. On May 11 the Regents passed resolutions that seemed wise and far-reaching in their effects. In brief, they accomplished the following: The Homeopathic Medical College was established, with two professors appointed to it, one, a professor of materia medica and therapeutics, and the other, a professor of the theory and practice of medicine. (The students paid the same fees as those in the Medical Department and received instruction in that department in all work except that included under the two homeopathic chairs.) The same conditions as to curriculum and graduation were observed in both schools and it became the duty of the president to see that all rules were enforced. The homeopathic medical graduates received diplomas designating the college in which they were enrolled.
The new college grew rapidly for some time. President Angell, in his report for 1877, observed that it had fully twice as many students as in the preceding year, and "the number this year promises to be at least half larger than it was last year" (p. 159), in spite of the fact that it was "the only Homeopathic School which has courses of nine months, and it must attract the students, who desire a thorough training" (p. 159).
Both President Angell and the Board of Regents were sincere in hoping that this experiment would prove successful, because it removed at least one obstacle from the path of much-needed legislation for steady financial support of the University. The friends of homeopathy, and those partisans aligned with them from other motives, were silenced. The plan was to keep them so.
The State Homeopathic Society wisely recommended for the two chairs men widely removed from the bickering and discussions of the local groups. Samuel Arthur Jones (M.D. Missouri Homeopathic Medical College '60, M.D. Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania '61), of Englewood, New Jersey, was chosen to teach materia medica and therapeutics, and John Coleman Morgan (M.D. Pennsylvania Medical College '52) of the Hahnemann College of Philadelphia, was selected for theory and practice. The correspondence of these two appointees with the President prior to their acceptance of the positions is most interesting. Though Dr. Angell's letters have not been available, the other half of the communications of the two men has been preserved, and shows an earnest desire by both the administration and the prospective faculty members not to overstate or understate the situation. The prejudices on the part of members of the medical faculty were fairly stated and were as fairly considered, if one may judge from the responses of the two men appointed. Dr. Jones, particularly, became an important figure in the life of Ann Arbor. In addition to his professional ability, he was a scholar recognized for his knowledge of the literature of Thoreau and Carlyle. The greater part of his book collection is now in the University Library. He became the first Dean of the Homeopathic Medical College.
The long controversy that had begun before the founding of the Department of Medicine and Surgery was quieted with the founding of the Homeopathic Medical College in 1875, but flared periodically, as in the attempt to amalgamate the two schools in 1893, and in the legislative action of 1895 directing that the College be moved to Detroit. In both instances the Regents refused to comply.
The right of the Regents to act independently of the legislature was finally established on a firm and unquestioned basis largely through this controversy. In the decision anent the 1895 removal, the court said, in effect, that the Board of Regents was empowered by the state constitution to have direct and exclusive control of the University as direct representative of the commonwealth (see Part I: Constitutional Status).
The legislature, however, exerted pressure through its control of appropriations. The act founding the Homeopathic Medical College provided for additional funds — a device which had not been utilized in any previous legislation on this question. The fear of harm to the Medical Department, which had activated the Regents up to this time, was quieted, and a sincere effort was made to organize the new College in such a way as to ensure scientific soundness in its teaching.
From the founding of the College to its termination very little of a major controversial nature developed between the two medical schools in Ann Arbor. Difficulties involving personalities were of frequent occurrence, but nothing that approached the problems of the previous twenty-five years gave cause for official action. As much cannot be said for the cause of homeopathy itself. The internal dissension among the practitioners in the state erupted often and vigorously. Resignations and new appointments were frequently made, in an effort to soothe the various elements.
During the years following 1875, the need for funds grew more and more acute and jeopardized the entire program of the University, which was receiving the one-twentieth of a mill from the total state tax collection granted in 1873. The mill-tax rate was changed in 1893 to one-sixth of a mill; and the act (P.A., 1893, No. 19) included the proviso: "The Board of Regents … shall maintain at all times a sufficient corps of instructors in all departments … as at present constituted, … said departments being known as [listed with other units] the Homeopathic Medical College…" Failure to observe this clause carried a penalty of reduction of the funds to one-twentieth of a mill. So was brought into existence the homeopathic rider which was guarded so jealously by its partisans.
In 1899 the rate was raised from one-sixth to one-fourth of a mill, but the rider was retained. No further change was made until 1921, when, under the regime of President Burton, the rider was dropped from the appropriations bill. As an immediate consequence the legislature passed a resolution requesting the Board of Regents to effect a consolidation between the two medical schools and their respective hospitals (see Part I: Constitutional Status and Burton Administration).
In the early days of the new College, feeling ran so high that the position of medical men in both schools was difficult. But as the new unit grew the situation eventually resolved itself, though the anomaly of two medical schools within one university was never without its critics. This growth was such that when the legislature in 1895 reversed itself and ordered the Homeopathic Medical College moved to Detroit, the Regents battled successfully to retain it in Ann Arbor.
All medical faculty groups before the turn of the century were torn with dissension that arose largely from the individual jealousies so prone to develop among men who devote a part of their time to private professional activity. All men teaching clinical subjects were so occupied. The Homeopathic Medical College presented a typical picture of such a group. The later eighties saw the development of a long and bitter personal quarrel which culminated in the sending of a letter signed by four faculty members to the Board of Regents requesting the removal of the Dean. Dean Henry L. Obetz, as a defense measure against his colleagues and as a means of settling their differences, had suggested a scheme for amalgamating the two medical departments. This was not formally presented to the Board, but individual Regents knew that such an idea was being considered by certain members of both medical faculties. The American Institute of Homeopathy addressed a communication to the Board arguing against such a merger. The reply to this letter shows conclusively that no such plan had been formally considered, nor would be, unless presented as the expressed desire of both faculties. In part, the answer stated: "It has been and will be the pleasure of this Board to advance to the utmost of its power, within the means at its disposal, the interests of the School of Homeopathy" (R.P., 1891-96, p. 370).
The Dean was vindicated completely of any harmful intent and resigned voluntarily in November, 1894. At the meeting at which the resignation was acted upon, the Board called for the resignation of the remaining members of the homeopathic medical faculty, to take effect in October, 1895. These were forthcoming as requested. An entirely new faculty, headed by Wilbert B. Hinsdale (Hiram '75, M.D. Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland '87, A.M. hon. Hiram '00, A.M. hon. Michigan '34) as Dean, was appointed. Dean Hinsdale, an able administrator, a scholar, and a competent physician, occupied his position till the merger of the two medical schools took place in 1922.
Soon after the appointment of the new faculty the legislature in 1895 enacted a law which in effect directed the Regents to move the College to Detroit (P.A., 1895, No. 257). At their meeting in December, 1895, the Board drew up a resolution refusing to comply with the law. The proponents of "removal" carried the matter to the Supreme Court of the state, where it was decided that the law was constitutional. But the Board still refused to obey, thus completely reversing its position of the sixties and early seventies, when it wished to aid in organizing a school outside Ann Arbor. Then a mandamus was asked in order to compel the Board to obey the law. The court in replying to the request ruled that inasmuch as the Board had full control of all matters appertaining to the University, it might obey the law or not, as it chose.
The decision regarding the mandamus proceeding was more momentous for the University than it was for the Homeopathic Medical College. It reaffirmed the decision of 1859 by the same court, as clarified at that time by Judge C. B. Grant. A joint committee of members of the law and homeopathic committees of the Regents reported to the Board in January, 1897 (R.P., 1896-1901, pp. 21-29). This report explains the refusal to obey the law. It was maintained that although land in Detroit for the College had been promised, none had been deeded to the University; further, that Grace Hospital, which was to be used by the College, had been deeply in debt for years, and that no guarantee was forthcoming that it could be maintained without expense to the state. In obeying the law, the Board would be in the position of assuming the burdens without receiving the benefits contemplated by the act. These reasons rather than a desire to keep the school accounted for the action taken.
The new faculty appointees took part in the "removal" fight as their initial activity in the University. The struggle moved through the legislative halls to the Supreme Court, and at last back to the Regents, where the decision was final.
Strangely enough, the final years of the School were comparatively free from controversy. Periodically, as new appropriations were being considered, the proponents of homeopathy saw to it that the rider was included in the act as finally passed. In 1921 the legislature passed a resolution requesting the Regents to consolidate the two medical schools for reasons of economy. The Board complied promptly, in 1922 (R.P., 1920-23, pp. 373-74), with the result that the teaching of homeopathy became University history.
From 1875 to 1922 the deanship of the College was conferred upon five men: Samuel A. Jones, 1875-78, Edward Carroll Franklin (M.D. University of New York '46), 1878-83, Thomas Pardon Wilson (M.D. Western Homeopathic College [Cleveland] '57), 1883-85, Henry Lorenz Obetz (M.D. Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland '74), 1885-95, and Wilbert B. Hinsdale, 1895-1922. Beginning with two departments — that of the theory and practice of medicine and that of materia medica — the institution gradually expanded, until, in 1909, all the branches of clinical medicine were taught in separate departments.
The Department of Surgery, organized in 1876, was headed by John C. Morgan. He was followed by Dr. James G. Gilchrist, 1876-78; Edward C. Franklin, 1880-83; Henry L. Obetz, 1883-95; Oscar Le Seure ('73m, M.D. Bellevue Hospital Medical College '74), 1895-1900; Dean Tyler Smith (Nebraska '87, M.D. Chicago Homeopathic Medical College '89, M.S. hon. Michigan '14), 1901-14; and Hugh McDowell Beebe ('07h), 1914-22. The separate Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics was also organized in 1876, with Dr. Frank Augustus Rockwith (M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons [N. Y.]) as head. He held this position for one year. Newton Baldwin ('75m) was appointed in 1883 and served two years; James Craven Wood ('79h, A.M. Ohio Wesleyan '91) served in the years 1885-93; Maurice Patterson Hunt (M.D. Homeopathic Hospital College of Cleveland '79), 1893-95; Myron Holly Parmalee (M.D. Hahnemann Medical College [Chicago] '70), 1895-97; Claudius Bligh Kinyon (Illinois State Normal University '76, M.D. Chicago Homeopathic Medical College '78), 1897-1918; Theron Grover Yeomans ('09h), 1918-20; and Scott Clark Runnels (M.D. Indiana '07, '08h), 1920-22.
The Department of Materia Medica, organized by Samuel Jones, maintained a high degree of excellence. This department was served in turn by Jones, in the period 1875-80, by Henry C. Allen (M.D. Western Homeopathic College [Cleveland] '61), 1880-84; by Allen Corson Cowperthwaite (M.D. Hahnemann Medical College '69, Ph.D. Central University of Iowa '76, LL.D. Shurtleff '88), 1884-85; by Hugo Emil Rudolph Arndt (M.D. Western Homeopathic College [Cleveland] '69), 1885-89; by Charles Samuel Mack (Harvard '79, M.D. College of Physicians and Surgeons [N. Y.] '83), 1889-95; and by Willis Alonzo Dewey (M.D. New York Homeopathic Medical College '80), 1896-1922. Instruction in the theory and practice of medicine, with Morgan as the first Professor, developed rapidly. After Morgan, in 1879, was Charles Gatchell (M.D. Pulte Medical College [Cincinnati] '74), who served for one year and later returned and occupied the chair from 1883 to 1893. Eugene Ransom Eggleston (M.D. Homeopathic Hospital College [Cleveland] '75) served during the years 1893-95, and Wilbert B. Hinsdale, 1895-1922. Dr. Hinsdale carried on work on American Indian archaeology for many years thereafter as a member of the staff of the University's Museum of Anthropology.
The separate Department of Pharmacology was started in 1882 and until 1919 was administered by the professor of materia medica. During the last three years of the School's existence Linn John Boyd ('18h) was in complete charge, and during his regime some excellent work was done. Boyd later became head of the Department of Internal Medicine in the New York Medical College.
The teaching of ophthalmology, otology, laryngology, and rhinology was all done within a single department in 1880, under Thomas P. Wilson. Charles Frederick Sterling (M.D. Pulte Medical College [Cincinnati] '77), appointed in 1887, served until 1889; he was followed by Daniel A. MacLachlan ('79h), 1889-95. Royal Samuel Copeland ('79h, LL.D. Syracuse '23), later United States Senator from New York, held the position in the years 1895-1908, and Dean Wentworth Myers ('99h) during the period 1908-22.
Some clinical subjects were taught by nonresident instructors. Rollin Howard Stevens ('89h), Professor of Dermatology (1904-9), made an outstanding contribution in his field. O. R. Long headed the Department of Nervous and Mental Diseases from 1890 until 1914. Both of these men were nonresident.
The necessity for enlarging the scope of instruction, which by 1909 resulted in so many separate departments, led to unforeseen difficulties. The duplication of departments in the Homeopathic Medical College and the Medical School resulted in a great deal of unfavorable comment among both the friends and the enemies of homeopathy. In the original plan no duplication had been intended, and the trend was most unfortunate. Then, too, the number of students in the Homeopathic College fluctuated within very wide limits, never exceeding 125 and often less than fifty. The steadily increasing budget of the school was offset largely by income from the University Homeopathic Hospital, which was showing a steady growth. Here, as well as in the school proper, the duplication was apparent. The Hospital rendered a great service to both the University and the state, and this service was recognized widely.
For a time after the Homeopathic Medical College was organized, a part of the hospital of the regular Medical School on the campus was used by the department (P.R., 1877, p. 13). This arrangement, however, proved unsatisfactory, and in 1879 an appropriation of $6,500 was made by the Regents for the erection of a Homeopathic Hospital and amphitheater, as an extension of the west professorial residence on the north side of the campus, together with $1,250 for hospital expenses. This building served the department until, as part of the Hospital group on Catherine Street, a new hospital was built in 1891. This was occupied until the erection of a third hospital in 1900, when it was taken over by the regular Medical Department and became the Medical Ward. It was destroyed by fire in 1927.
The Homeopathic Hospital, providing for one hundred patients, erected in 1900 on the northeast corner of the campus, served until the department was discontinued in 1922. It is now known as North Hall. As an addition to this building a children's ward was erected in 1918 just to the south, which was later the Health Service; since 1940 it has been the Annex to the University Museums. For many years the old residence of Judge William A. Fletcher, at one time Regent of the University, stood near this hospital and was used first as a nurses' home and later as an administration building. Subsequently, quarters for nurses were provided in the hospital building and in near-by residences taken over by the University.
As the institution increased its patronage, however, the legislature became more and more cognizant of two medical schools in one University, each with an associated hospital. The natural result was a move to consolidate by a merger of the two schools. This was resisted by the members of the homeopathic medical faculty, and the resultant merger never received their co-operation. The subsequent history of the merger was much as had been predicted by the enemies of such a move prior to 1875 (see Part I: Burton Administration, p. 85).
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By Soni Daniel,
Former Governor of Niger State, Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu has revealed that US government officials invited, at least, 12 northern governors to the US to ascertain their level of commitment to removing Jonathan and not just on how to curtail the Boko Haram insurgency as suggested.
Dr Aliyu said this in the book, "Against the Run of Play: How an Incumbent President was defeated in Nigeria," written by Thisday Newspaper's Editorial Board Chairman, Segun Adeniyi.
"I have no proof of course, but I think the idea was to ascertain what the disposition of the North would be to the idea of another term for President Jonathan," he is quoted as saying in the book.
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Aliyu said in one of the sessions, Murtala Nyako, former Adamawa state governor, accused Jonathan of sponsoring Boko Haram with the intent of destroying the North.
He added that Nyako's accusation signaled to the Americans that the North was not in support of Jonathan's re-election bid.
Nyako was further quoted as saying:
"If Jonathan had been clever enough to say he would not run and had stuck with the PDP zoning formula by supporting a young Northern candidate, I am most certain Buhari would have shelved his ambition to contest in 2015, knowing there was no way he would win," he said.
However, at press time, last night, the US Embassy in Nigeria was yet to respond to Vanguard's inquiries on the issue.
How Jonathan aborted plot to kidnap Jega
In addition, the book details how former President Goodluck Jonathan sidestepped intrigues woven by supporters to concede the 2015 presidential elections have emerged, including a plot to kidnap then chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega.
Among the evidence adduced by supporters to truncate announcement of the results were photographic evidence to corroborate claims that one million votes were allegedly added to his rival's votes in the 2015 election in Kano State.
Jonathan in the book wondered how he was betrayed by some of his supporters especially, in the North.
One of those so named, Alhaji Adamu Mu'azu, who then was chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has, however, denied the claim, saying yesterday that he supported Jonathan in the face of abuse, insult and open ridicule by friends and brothers.
The book observes that in the midst of confusion that trailed the election results, Jonathan and his supporters were in panic mode with many suggesting that he should call Buhari to concede defeat while others opposed any concession.
Ministers knelt, begged Jonathan to concede
It pointed out that it was in the midst of the confusion that two ministers in Jonathan's cabinet and Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs went on their knees to beg him to concede so as to steer Nigeria off the path of chaos.
"Kneeling in front of Jonathan were his Attorney-General and Justice Minister, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke, SAN; Aviation Minister, Mr. Osita Chidoka and Special Assistant to the President on Domestic Affairs, Mr. Waripamo-Owei Dudafa.
"The mission of the three officials was to persuade Jonathan to call and congratulate his opponent, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), even as the final results were still being collated by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
"Seated a few metres away in the room were Vice-President Namadi Sambo; Akwa Ibom Governor, Mr. Godswill Akpabio; Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission, Mr. John Kennedy Opara and the Co-ordinating Minister for the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
"Chidoka had co-opted Adoke and Dudafa to make the plea after a conversation he had with Jonathan the previous day. The President had acknowledged that the results were going against him and that he was going to concede.
"This was at a period when Nigerians were unsure who would win, with many politicians within the ruling People's Democratic Party still betting on Jonathan. He meanwhile, has asked Chidoka and a few others, including his spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, to give him a draft concession speech.
"The report had it that Jonathan's mind about the election had been soured by his loyalists that the election had been compromised, particularly in the Northern states, where under-aged voters were allowed to cast millions of votes in favour of his opponent, Buhari.
It said: "With photographic evidence, Jonathan was shown how under-age people were allowed to vote at some polling units in Kano and Bauchi States.
"This inflamed those within the government who were urging Jonathan not to concede, even as it became increasingly clear that he had lost. The general feeling within The Villa, a view fervently shared by Jonathan, was that the INEC Chairman, Prof Attahiru Jega, the INEC Chairman, was part of a "northern conspiracy" against him.
"With that, Jonathan decided to keep all options open. This emboldened some of his supporters who were desperate enough to want to disrupt the election.
"Among the strongest arguments for a potentially-rigged election were the results from Kano State, Jonathan himself admitted," to the author.
"Go and check the results from Kano. The presidential election and that of National Assembly happened on the same day and same time. The National Assembly result reflected that about 800,000 people voted, but that of the presidential reflected a vote of about 1.8 million.
"It had reports of what happened, but I decided that for such to be accepted, it meant that, those who called themselves my supporters must have colluded. I was betrayed by the very people I relied on to win the election."
The book, however, revealed that Jonathan, not willing to allow the outcome to lead to bloodshed in any part of the country, opted to accept the result in good faith so as to save the country from trouble.
Quoting Jonathan, the author said:
"In 2011 when Buhari did not campaign anywhere and could not have won the election, there was a spontaneous violent reaction that led to the death of several innocent people, including youth corps members."
"I asked myself: what would happen in a situation in which there was already internal and international conspiracy in his favour? I could not bear the thought of anybody dying, so I told myself I had only one option and that was to concede."
Despite the decision to concede, the book points out that there were various plots by his loyalists, including one to kidnap Jega, the INEC boss and returning officer for the election at the collation centre at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.
Part of the script to derail the announcement of Buhari as winner, the book claims, was the attempt by former Niger Minister, Elder Godsday Orubebe, to disrupt proceedings at the INEC collation centre, a spectacle that unfolded on live television.
The book said: "Although he would later apologise for his misadventure, Orubebe's histrionics were part of a grand plan to disrupt the election, a plot that failed essentially because other parties involved refused to play to the script."
The book further disclosed:
"While Jega did not have the exact details of what would happen, he had nonetheless been alerted to the fact that there would be a disruption in the process, including a kidnap threat.
"On arrival at the collation centre that morning, we discovered that the gate between the International Conference Centre and NICON Luxury Hotel, which was always locked, had curiously been opened," the book quoted a security officer detailed to work with Jega.
A decision was immediately taken for the INEC Chairman not to leave the collation hall under any circumstances.
"While the outcome must have deflated the hawks around Jonathan who were still looking for a way out of the looming defeat, it worked in favour of those who wanted him to concede before the final tally of the results.
"With Orubebe's antics dealt with by Jega, INEC continued to process the results from the remaining states.
"Chidoka pleaded, (with Jonathan) "Why don't you take the wind off Jega's sail? By calling Buhari, you would have rendered whatever INEC is doing redundant."
"This school of thought won the day. At one point, Dudafa stood up and said loudly to Jonathan, "Daddy, anybody can say whatever they like, but we are leaving this house on May 29. You have done your best for Nigeria, and the people will appreciate your sacrifices."
"Shortly thereafter, Jonathan got up from his seat and went into his study where he picked up the phone and asked 'Control' to get Buhari on the line. He spoke briefly with Buhari, in a rather nervous tone, and then came out to announce to those in the room that he had conceded and congratulated the APC candidate on his victory.
"A relieved Chidoka asked, "Can I tell the world?"
"Go ahead," Jonathan directed, and Chidoka sent out a tweet from his mobile phone at exactly 5.23AM, Nigerian time.
"And with that call, Jonathan pulled Nigeria back from the precipice, saving the country from what would have been a serious crisis, the ending of which nobody could have foretold.
"It was gathered that after the president had conceded some of his loyalists still wanted a desperate fight to stall Buhari from being sworn in as President.
The book quoted then Chairman of PDP, Jonathan's party, Adamu Muazu, as saying that some persons close to him wanted him to use the hierarchy of the party to contest the outcome of the election and cause avoidable problems for Nigeria and he resisted them.
"After President Jonathan had accepted defeat, congratulated Buhari and the whole world was acclaiming him, some party leaders and-governors now wanted me to release a press statement that would ridicule me before civilized people and cause serious problems for our country," the PDP National Chairman at the time, Mu'azu, said in the book.
Mu'azu rejects Jonathan's claims
Meanwhile, Mu'azu yesterday rejected claims by President Jonathan that he as national chairman of the PDP did not do much to ensure victory.
Reacting to the claim through Facebook, Mu'azu said:
"Ordinarily, I would have ignored the allegation that I betrayed President Jonathan and my party, but doing so could create the impression that I really did," he said.
"I find it difficult to believe that President Jonathan would level such allegation against me. How can one betray himself?"
"As the then national chairman of the PDP, I have been at the forefront of the presidential campaign train. Those who are insinuating that I betrayed President Jonathan and my party are being economical with the truth.
"In the face of abuse, insult and open ridicule by our friends and brothers we supported President Jonathan faithfully.
"In all sincerity, I gave my best and all to my party."
Those who blame us for not delivering maximum votes to the former president in the North seem to have forgotten that it is the people who vote.


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"Grassroots to high performance." said Yannick Colaco, the managing director of NBA India. "That is our global strategy."
The NBA on Friday announced the launch of NBA Basketball School, a network of tuition-based basketball development programs around the world open to international male and female players for ages 6-18.
"The NBA Basketball School builds an additional track between the Jr NBA and NBA Academies." added the vice president of the NBA and the International Basketball Operations & Head of Elite Basketball, Brooks Meek. "The goal is to increase the pool of players who have the talent to attend our academies around the world."
The first NBA Basketball School was launched on Friday in Mumbai as part of a multi-year agreement announced with India On Track, a sports management, marketing and development company. Additional NBA Basketball Schools will be launched in India and around the world in the coming months.
How the junior schools help
No Indian has suited up for an NBA team in the regular season till-date. Satnam Singh, the first Indian drafted (by the Dallas Mavericks) to the NBA, has yet to play in the regular season. Currently on the Mavericks D-League team the Texas Legends, Singh's NBA dream seems even more distant as he suited up for just eight of his team's 42 games this season.
Like Singh, seven other players (three boys and four girls) headed for the IMG Academies on hefty basketball scholarships in 2010. Unlike Singh, most faded into obscurity. Only Kavita Akula and Barkha Sonkar have done well, and continue to do so. It may seem fair to believe that the IMG experiment failed. But that would ignore the deeper problem with sports development in India: the lack of a structured program for the development of talent in India.
That is what NBA India hopes to address with the programs they have introduced over the past four years. It is the NBA's vision to create a pipeline for Indians aspiring to become NBA players. Kids get exposed to the game through the in-school Jr NBA Program, can hone their skills at an NBA Basketball School, and eventually graduate to the elite-level NBA Academy.
What about the journey between graduating from an NBA Academy and getting into the NBA?
"When they graduate from an NBA Academy (at about age 18-20), there are multiple opportunities," Colaco clarified, "be it applying for a scholarship to a college program in the US, seeking to play professionally in Europe or in the D-League, or if they meet all the criteria declaring for the NBA draft. But we would not want to pigeon-hole players, telling them what to get into"
The lack of a committed development approach
Basketball in India is far behind the mainstream sports. Both football and cricket boast established academies and tournaments right from the grassroots up to the elite level. The lack of a committed development approach from the federation has stalled the growth of basketball in India. Conflict at top was a hindrance as recently as six months ago. The dual-faction matter has settled down for now, allowing the appointed federation to step up their activity.
"Our goal is to have our national teams play at the highest level" said an official from the Basketball Federation of India. "This requires a feeder system in which players are coached the right way. The NBA Basketball Schools venture provides the opportunity to get international level coaching to many. This will help basketball in India, both in the short and long term."
Does having to go up against an established organisation like the NBA hinder any development plans the BFI has? "No." he says. "We cooperate with the NBA, but our plans are independent and do not overlap. Our vision is to ensure high coaching standards are implemented across India. If anything, the NBA's efforts help us."
The balance between development and marketing
Since 2008, the NBA has sought to find a balance between developmental and marketing initiatives. It has constantly been testing the waters to find out what that works. It has started and discontinued activities, tweaked and overhauled initiatives, all in the hopes of finding the right mix that would have the most impact for its brand in India.
"Sure, marketing initiatives help raise awareness about the game," added the BFI official, "but the last few NBA initiatives have been development focused, which aligns with our vision."
The NBA sees India both as a pioneer for these programs, and a market to test them for global adoption. Colaco found this position interesting: "India is first off the block in executing the (NBA Basketball Schools) program, which is part of planned network of basketball schools that we will be starting around the world. This is a reflection of how important the Indian market is for the NBA."
This won't be the first time the NBA team in India have pioneered a program. Three years ago, the Jr NBA program, the NBA's decade-old global grassroots initiative, was modified for the first time in India. The old format focused on simple outreach to young kids, while the new format embraced a more defined curriculum structure to be easily implemented during school hours. This change enabled the program to experience unprecedented growth in three years, reaching 1.5 million kids from 2,200 schools in 14 cities, growth that the NBA has not seen across any of its programs globally.
Indranil Das Blah, the managing partner at KWAN, India's leading sports and entertainment agency said, "You cannot build a brand without helping develop the sport organically. That's where the NBA's approach to development stands out from most other international organisations in India."
Blah, whose agency KWAN has worked closely with the NBA on some of its projects, believed the NBA was getting it right. "The NBA has been in India for ten years. They've seen, tried, tested adapted to the market. The time is right for these basketball schools"
Colaco added, "With the Jr. NBA Program, we used the learning from previous programs to design a structure that would make a greater impact. It's clear that we look at the India to a priority market to launch and lead some of our global initiatives"
International sports clubs and organisations with academies in India aren't a new phenomenon. Arsenal, Liverpool, Barcelona and Manchester United have all beaten the NBA to the spot. India On Track, the NBA's partner in the program, also manages the Arsenal Soccer Schools. These schools feature licensed coaches, usually from the clubs' junior programs. Programs, claimed to be world class, range from one week to a few months. Training sessions happen three times a week and last for about 90 minutes. And how has all this access to world class training worked out?
Not too well.
What NBA India is trying to do differently?
Despite their best efforts, none of the soccer schools have produced a player of note. This is aside from the fact that no player from India has climbed the ranks through the academies to earn a spot on the clubs' junior teams. Although some of the programs boast of state and national team players, most of them were already at that level upon joining the program. This shortfall in quality has led many to believe that these academies are merely brand building income streams for the clubs. Of course, there is nothing wrong with wanting to make money off the largest and one of the highest spending middle classes in the world. But to believe that these academies are the hope of young players and their parents is a bit naive.
"Most of the [sports] schools that have opened up in India, are seeking short term goals over long term growth. They are seeking to be profitable immediately," said Blah. "It's a top-down approach that is not sustainable. It's great to have the big names in football [or other sports] open academies in India. But without a holistic grassroots effort, growth will be a challenge"
So what is the NBA doing differently? How do they avoid the same pitfalls?
"It is about crafting a basketball development system and building an entire ecosystem." Colaco explained. "You can't have a grassroots program like the Jr. NBA without a next level like NBA Basketball Schools. You can't have both without an NBA Elite Academy to aspire to. No other (sports schools) program in India has an ecosystem like the one the NBA has built across all ages, level and platforms. That's where our year-long tuition based program is different. It is the pathway for kids, not the end goal"
Spending on sports has never been a priority for a vast majority of Indian parents. Unlike academics, most don't see any returns, both immediate and future, to invest in a child's sporting future. While details on costs haven't been made public yet, Colaco does not see cost as a stumbling block to price sensitive Indian parents.
Colaco had good news there. "I would like to stress, that while this is tuition based program, we are constantly scouting for the most talented. Our program is not just for people who can afford it. We are in a position to subsidise, or provide training at no cost to talented and deserving players."
The NBA has laid out the pipeline. Now it will play the waiting game to watch the flow. There is quiet but confident hope among the basketball community that if it all comes together, we will see an Indian player in the NBA or WNBA sooner than later.
Till then, we wait and watch.


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The Union Health Ministry has said in response to an RTI application that it does not know where records related to the agenda circulated in meetings of the National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 are held.
Venkatesh Nayak of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative had approached the ministry seeking details of the constitution and working of the expert group such as dates of meetings, a copy of the detailed agenda circulated in relation to every meeting, presentations made before its members, and material it had shared with the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
Nayak had also sought to know the amount of sitting fees and every other remuneration or allowances payable to the chairperson and every member of the expert group and the amount of sitting fees and every other remuneration or allowances actually paid to them.
The National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for Covid-19 (NEGVAC) was constituted under the chairmanship of Member (Health) of Niti Aayog V K Paul on August 7 to prepare a strategy for the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccine.
The information on these points was not provided by the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), saying the details of the meeting, agenda, and material circulated during the meetings do not come under the definition of "information" which can be shared under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
The CPIO said that details of the amount of sitting fees and every other remuneration or allowances payable to the chairperson and other members of the expert group are not available with the immunization section of the ministry.
Nayak filed an appeal before a senior official in the ministry challenging the order of the CPIO.
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The application was also transferred to the Indian Council of Medical Research and the MEA.
The ICMR said it does not have the information sought by Nayak. On the NEGVAC material shared with it, the MEA cited the exemption clause of national security and related issues to deny the records.
Nayak said both the CPIO and the first appellate authority not knowing about the physical location of NEGVAC's papers despite the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) servicing this body is "truly perplexing".
"How can people's meaningful participation be ensured if the MoHFW does not place in the public domain details of NEGVAC's working.
There is a statutory requirement of proactive information disclosure under Sections 4(1)(c) and 4(1)(d) of the RTI Act about NEGVAC's working.
MoHFW and other public authorities involved in the vaccination roll-out plan have a statutory duty to make all facts and figures public along with the underlying reasoning for their decisions and actions under these provisions," Nayak said.
He said he would approach the Central Information Commission to challenge "the actions and omissions of MoHFW and MEA".


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