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The New York Mets' Matt Harvey might be off to the greatest start for a starting pitcher in more than 50 years. That sounds like a lot of New York hype, but it shows up in the numbers and comparisons. Through 15 starts, the numbers suggest, Matt Harvey has been about as good as anybody starting a career since World War II.
But, really, the wonder of a pitching prodigy like Harvey goes beyond numbers or comparisons. It's a feeling. There's something about a pitching prodigy that gets the blood pumping a little faster. There's something about a pitching prodigy that feels unlimited.
Why? Maybe it's because the pitcher is unique in sports. He has the ball. He starts every play. He has his own mound. The pitcher is the only athlete in sports that is credited with a win or a loss. You could argue -- I have argued many times -- that it's silly to credit a pitcher with a win or loss. We do it anyway and have for more than a hundred years. We don't do that for a quarterback or a point guard or a goaltender or a goalkeeper. *
*Every now and again, you will hear someone talk about a quarterback's or goaltender's "won-loss record," but that's a little bit different. The language is different. You might say, "The Patriots are 136-39 in games that Tom Brady starts." You would not say, "Tom Brady completed 30 of 42 passes and earned his fifth victory of the season." It's a subtle but important distinction. Pitchers are the only ones who turn plural to singular, the one ones naturally fit the sentence: "James Shields picked up the win, while David Price took his third loss of the year."
And so every time a Hideo Nomo or Dwight Gooden or Matt Harvey shows up on the scene, the possibilities are endless. In many ways, I've marked my baseball life by the pitching phenoms who kept showing up.
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I have no memory of Steve Rogers when he came up as a 23-year-old pitcher for Montreal. My memories of Rogers come from when he was older, that big mustache, the hair fighting to get out from under his red and blue eMb cap (Les Expos de Montreal Baseball), the glove arm sticking out to the left, the way he kicked the dirt on his follow through so that it seemed he might just fall forward and roll toward home plate.
But when Rogers first arrived on the scene as a 23-year-old former college superstar at the University of Tulsa, he was all but unhittable. He pitched a one-hit shutout at Philadelphia in his second start and followed it with a shutout in New York against the Mets. Through 15 games, he was 9-4 with a 1.32 ERA. Batters were hitting .192 against him.
He was in Montreal, of course, playing for a terrible Expos team. So it seems like his amazing start did not get the fanfare of some of the other phenoms of my lifetime. There was no "RogersMania."
Rogers would go on to be a fine pitcher, winning 158 games and leading the league in ERA in 1982. He was a five-time All-Star. But to me his pitching years -- and his Expos teams -- were always tinged with a kind of sadness and unfulfilled potential. The Expos should have won championships. Rogers should have won Cy Young Awards. They were good, but it always seemed like they should have been a little better.
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While, I do not remember Steve Rogers' debut, I have very strong memories of The Bird. Every baseball fan my age or older has those memories of Mark Fidrych. I was 9 when The Bird came up to the Detroit Tigers, and that was the perfect age to be for his act. The Bird talked to the baseball (or talked to himself, it was never entirely clear). He smoothed out the mound with his hands. And, of course, he looked like Big Bird, which was why he got the nickname in the first place.
He was like a superhero in a Detroit Tigers' uniform. I'm semi-serious about that. You have to understand that to a boy of the 1970s, the line between comic books and real life people was hopelessly blurred. Was Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man, real or fake? Fake? Well, then, how about Evel Knievel jumping over busses on his motorcycle? Oh, he was real. The Superman ads said, "You will believe a man can fly," and Fonzie started jukeboxes by simply hitting them, and Elvis Presley wore capes, and Nolan Ryan threw pitches 102 mph, and Roger Staubach (who they called Captain America) kept bringing the Cowboys back from certain defeat, and Muhammad Ali let George Foreman tire himself out by leaning against the ropes and taking every punch he could throw. What was real anyway?
Then, Mark Fidrych appeared in this blurry world, 21 years old, and he talked to the ball, and he wouldn't pitch with the same ball that had given up a hit, and he did this little walk around the mound after each out, and it was wonderful. He didn't have the Nolan Ryan fastball or Sandy Koufax's curve. Instead, he had voodoo, crazy confidence, a heavy sinker and a rubber arm.
Here is the best baseball statistic you will here today: In Fidrych's first 13 starts in the major leagues, he threw 120 1/3 innings. I'll do the math for you -- that averages out to MORE than nine innings per start. He completed 12 of those 13 games, and that included three different games where he pitched 11 innings.
He won Rookie of the Year, and he should have won the Cy Young Award in 1976 (he didn't because he didn't win 20 games), and then he was never the same. He had injuries. Well, what the Tigers did to him, allowing him to complete 24 games in his rookie season and throw a million pitches under duress would be viewed as criminal negligence today. But, like I say, back then the line between superhero and regular guy wasn't as easy to see. Nobody thought the Fidrych magic would ever end.
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Fernando Valenzuela was the first pitcher to have "mania" put after his name. That was 1981. He was from Mexico, youngest of 12, and nobody knew quite what to make of him. He was pudgy, had a round face, his pitch was the screwball and he on his windup he would twist and then, bizarrely, look at the sky just as he was about to let the ball go.*
*This was also around the time when NFL kickers started to kick the football barefooted. I don't know that these two facts connect -- they probably don't -- but it just seemed like athletes back then would do seemingly illogical things for no apparent reason. And those things sort of worked.
Valenzuela actually came up for the Dodgers in 1980 and threw 17 2/3 scoreless innings in relief. Then, because of an injury to Jerry Reuss, he started opening day in 1981 and he promptly shut out Houston. He struck out 10 and allowed one run in San Francisco, then threw consecutive shutouts in San Diego and Houston. He started the season a tidy 8-0 with a 0.50 ERA. He also was the first pitcher since 1932 to go at least nine innings in his first eight starts.
Managers LOVED to abuse their pitching phenoms back in those days.
Valenzuela would go on to a fine big league career, but like with Rogers there seemed something unfulfilling about it. Through age 26, Valenzuela seemed a lock for the Hall of Fame. He had 113 wins, more than Greg Maddux or Roger Clemens or Tom Seaver or Randy Johnson or Steve Carlton or many other Hall of Famers. But the mania more or less ended there. He had led the league in complete games three times, he had thrown 250-plus innings six straight years, and his arm just didn't have enough screwballs left. He just wasn't the same pitcher.
He did have a few bigger-than-life moments, though, like the no-hitter he threw in 1990 (some say he predicted it before the game). And in the 1986 All-Star Game he struck out Don Mattingly, Cal Ripken, Jesse Barfield, Lou Whitaker, Teddy Higuera (yes, they let pitchers hit in the All-Star Game back then) and Kirby Puckett in succession.
But Valenzuela did not start that All-Star Game. A new phenom, Dwight Gooden, did.
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Do you remember the Sports Illustrated cover of Dwight Gooden about to unleash a pitch? It looks like his arm is made of rubber.
Gooden was a bit different from Rogers and Bird and Valenzuela. There was no mystery how he got batters out. While Rogers did it with force, Fidrych with magic, Fernando with spiritual screwballs, Gooden did it the old fashioned way, with a blazing high fastball that nobody could catch up with and a curveball so steep and breathtaking that announcer Tim McCarver called it "Lord Charles" because the typical curveball nickname, "Uncle Charlie" simply wasn't splendid enough.
Gooden was the right-handed Koufax. He was a little bit of Bob Feller, a little bit of Bob Gibson, a little bit of Jim Palmer. It's interest: Gooden wasn't all that good right away. The Mets babied him a bit through his early games. He did have moments of brilliance, like the four-hit, 11-strikeout shutout he threw against the Dodgers. But other times, he struggled. He couldn't get out of the third against Houston and got hit around pretty good in San Diego.
Then, against the Dodgers, Doctor K emerged. Gooden struck out 14. Something had clicked. The high fastball he threw was quantifiably different from any other pitch in baseball -- even Nolan Ryan's fastball. Gooden's fastball had this jumping bean life to it. It apparently looked to the hitter as if it was going toward the strike zone and then it jumped up two feet. Batters found themselves constantly swinging at pitches that were actually over their heads. And then, when they saw the pitch was high and going over their heads, they would lay off . and the curveball would come over a hill and tumble right down into the strike zone.
By July, Gooden was striking out 10 or more batters pretty much every game. He struck out 11 in Cincinnati, 12 in San Francisco. In late August and September, he had five consecutive games of 10-plus strikeouts -- the first National League pitcher to accomplish that feat in a single season. He finished off the streak by striking out 16 Pirates in nine innings, and 16 more Phillies in only eight.
When the season ended, Gooden had struck out 11.39 hitters per nine innings -- the highest strikeout rate in baseball history to that point (amazingly, the record would be broken by a 40-year-old Nolan Ryan before being broken numerous times by Randy Johnson and Pedro Martinez).
Then, in his second year, Gooden was even better. His 1985 season -- when he went 24-4 with a 1.53 ERA, eight shutouts, 16 complete games and a league-leading 268 strikeouts -- is tied with Steve Carlton's amazing 1972 season as the highest Wins Above Replacement season in the last 50 years.
After that, well, the story has been told many times -- Gooden fought demons and injuries and hitter adjustments (they did finally figure out how to lay off that high fastball) and he was never a great pitcher after 1985, never even an especially good pitcher after he turned 26.
He still won 191 games with more than 2,200 strikeouts. Even with everything, he's almost certainly one of the 100 greatest pitchers in baseball history. It just seemed like he had a chance to be the best.
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It's easy to forget -- or to undersell -- just how much of a phenomenon Hideo Nomo was when he hit American baseball in 1995. You might remember: Baseball was a mess that year. The 1994 strike had canceled the World Series, and all the talk at the start of 1995 was replacement players and stupidity and nonsense. The season did not even start until the end of April.
Then Hideo Nomo appeared in Los Angeles. He was only the second Japanese-born pitcher in Major League history, the first in 30 years. They called him the Tornado, and rarely has a nickname so perfectly fit a player. He had this wonderful windup, full of twists and bends and pivots and spins -- if you would invent a dance step called "The Tornado" it probably would look a lot like Hideo Nomo's windup -- and for a while there nobody could hit him. First time out, in San Francisco, he went five innings and gave up one hit.
After a dreadful outing in Colorado -- even tornadoes would have had trouble in the old Coors Field -- he gave up two hits in his next 11 innings. He struck out 14 Pirates in Los Angeles and then, a month later, struck out 16 Pirates in Pittsburgh. He pitched back-to-back shutouts against the Giants and Rockies (who proved much less rocky away from Coors).
Nomo was an excellent pitcher his second season too -- he finished fourth in the Cy Young voting -- and then he settled into a routine where he would mix brilliance and lousiness and you were never really sure which one you were going to get. He never did harness his control -- he finished top five in walks (or bottom five, depending on your perspective) five times, and he was susceptible to the long ball. But he kept striking out hitters. He finished with 1,918 strikeouts.
I last saw him in 2008, when he showed up in Kansas City at age 39 for a comeback attempt. He didn't have much left, but unlike other aborted comebacks, this one wasn't sad at all. Seeing that amazing motion again made the years melt away for at least an instant.
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There have been many other brilliant young pitchers who got off to amazing career starts -- Dave Righetti, Kerry Wood and Mark Prior in Chicago, Jose Deleon, Jered Weaver, Barry Zito got off to a great start, Wayne Simpson, Stephen Strasburg, even Zach Duke -- but it really is possible that Matt Harvey is off to the best start of them all. This isn't just New York hype.
Through 15 games, Harvey has a 2.29 ERA, 109 strikeouts in 94 innings, and batters are hitting .172 against him. Using a simple formula based on Bill James `Game Scores," I have Harvey's 15 starts as the third best start since World War II ended -- behind only Nomo and Rogers.
Harvey wasn't overwhelming in the minor leagues. Everybody loved his talent, his stuff, his mid-90s fastball and his ability to make his curveball and/or slider move. His strikeout totals were eye-popping. But he never quite dominated in the minors. He walked too many. He threw a lot of wild pitches. His change-up wasn't coming around. This from Baseball America in 2012, when they ranked him the No. 2 Mets prospect:
"He locates his fastball to both sides of the plate and with good life down in the zone . But has below average command and presently lacks a reliable changeup, so evaluators project him as anywhere from a No. 2 starter to a high leverage reliever."
It's so early in his career, and those questions are still open. But, it has to be said: You watch him pitch now and you think -- "How does anyone ever hit him?" Five starts this year, and he has not given up more than four hits in any of them. His pitches are eerily Gooden-like . his hard slider is very different from Gooden's sloping curveball obviously, but Harvey (like Gooden) throws high fastballs, 95 to 100 mph, and to the batter the ball must look like it disappears into the atmosphere, like a plane ascending into the clouds, because they swing and miss it about half the time.
There used to be a magician, I can't remember his name, who would have a child sit in a chair and face him. Then he would make a tissue disappear by throwing it over the kid's head when he wasn't looking. The kid would then look all over for the tissue and have no idea what just happened. That's what Matt Harvey's fastball reminds me of. Hitters swing at it with full confidence and miss it low by a foot.
Phenom pitchers face uncertain futures. Baseball is hard on pitchers. There are injuries. There are adjustments. There are slumps. The odds are always stacked against young pitchers. Most of the best pitchers of the last 40 years had some early career bumps. Greg Maddux had 5.52 and 5.61 ERAs his first two seasons, Pedro Martinez worked out of the bullpen, Randy Johnson struggled so much in Montreal that they traded him, Roger Clemens' ERA through his first seven starts was 7.13. Sandy Koufax famously struggled his first five seasons in the big leagues.
But, again, this might be missing the point. Some phenoms do last. Bob Feller did. Tom Seaver did. Juan Marichal . Robin Roberts . and, anyway, the point with pitching phenoms isn't to think too much about the future. It's to enjoy the moment.
Joe Posnanski is the national columnist for NBC Sports. Follow him on Twitter @JPosnanski. Click here to subscribe to Joe's stories.


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My Life in Spire Repair , Act I - Norman Clyde's Favorite Story
It was August in the late 50s. My brother-n-law, Bob, and I were hiking up the north fork of Big Pine Creek on my second backpacking trip- ever. We came upon a strange procession descending the trail. A group of eight military men, Marines as I recall, in fatigue uniforms were bearing a litter with a black plastic bag – a bag we realized probably contained a human body. One of the litter bearers with three stripes on his sleeve asked as we approached, "You guys going as far as Third Lake?" We replied in the affirmative and he asked if we would be willing to share some of our food with a guide that was camped there. Sure we would! He then explained that, yes, indeed, they were carrying a body - a person who had been missing for a week and had just been found the day before by the guide camped at Third Lake. The deceased had been discovered in a couloir near the base of Temple Crag. The sergeant threw in a little aside that sort of caught our attention – the guide found the body by listening for the buzzing of flies.
As Bob and I approached our proposed campsite at Third Lake an old man wearing a funny hat - an old campaign hat – came bounding out to the trail. "Would you fellas be willing to share some food with me?," he asked. Realizing this must be the sergeant's "guide", we said we'd be happy to. He explained that he was expecting an air drop that afternoon, but if it didn't happen he would be hard pressed for food. We reassured him and he disappeared back to his campsite. We set up our camp just above him, just off the trail, next to Third Lake. We had camped in this same spot the prior year on our first Sierra backpack trip. We liked the site because it was next to a rock outcrop that jutted out into the lake allowing one to sit on its top, thirty feet above the lake's surface, and stare directly across at Temple Crag's north face. Late that afternoon, we heard the drone of an airplane ascending the canyon. A single-engine Cessna appeared in front of Temple Crag. We figured this must be the old guide's airdrop coming up. We stood on top of the rock outcrop and watched as the plane circled in front of Temple Crag and then, quite abruptly, turned and headed straight toward us. The pilot had descended to about 100 feet off the lake's surface and as he reached our perch, he cut the engine, opened his door and yelled at us, restarted the engine and banked around - headed back to the other end of the lake. I didn't quite get it all, but Bob figured he had yelled, "Did they get the body out?" Okay, they did, but how the hell do we tell the pilot? He headed back straight at us again. This time he cut the engine, opened the door and flipped a piece of paper out. Now, get this. It was an 8 ½ by 11 sheet folded in fourths and it fluttered down directly into Bob's hands.
Again, the plane restarted and retreated to the end of the lake. The note read, "If they got the body out, hold hands, if they didn't, wave." As the plane approached us on its third pass we were holding hands and the pilot waggled his wings indicating he understood. Now what? Here he came again. This time quite a bit higher off the lake and he kicked out a small red parachute with a pack dangling from its shrouds. Down it came directly into the top of the highest pine tree in sight, right next to the trail. As we stood staring up at it, our brains still a little rattled from all the aerobatics, when up the trail at an accelerated pace came the old guide. "Hey, that's my food! One of you young fellas want to scramble up there and get it?" Bob was already checking out the lower branches and immediately started up. He cut the shrouds and the pack dropped to the trail. "That pilot was Bob Symons, a superb bush pilot, thanks boys" the old guide yelled over his shoulder as he hustled back down to his camp. I stood staring up at the chute, still draped over the top of the tree, and decided that it would be a great souvenir. So up I went. After a long struggle, I managed to untangle the shrouds and returned to the ground with my red nylon/silk trophy and enough pine sap to last Mickey Mantle two seasons. We didn't see the old guide again that day and he was gone the following morning before we had our campfire lit. Remember those days, when you could have a campfire at Third Lake? In 1963, after having been introduced to mountaineering and having read everything I could on the subject, I realized "the old guide" was the legendary Norman Clyde. Thirty years later, having moved to Bishop, California, I attended the first annual Norman Clyde birthday gathering at Bishop's Mill Pond Park .
These were potluck affairs to honor the memory of Norman Clyde. At this first meeting, of the only three we held, the custom developed for those with fond memories to stand up before the crowd and relate their favorite Norman Clyde stories. It was at this first gathering that I told my airdrop story—my favorite and my only Norman Clyde story - and after the telling, a young man walked up to me and asked if I knew the name of that bush pilot – I hadn't mentioned his name in this first telling. I told him, yes, it was Bob Symons. He blurted out, "I thought so. He was my grandfather!" I told my favorite story again the following year at the second Norman Clyde birthday gathering, and again, as I finished, I was approached - this time by a fellow high school teacher. He said, "You know I used to invite Norman over for dinner about once a year in his later years when he was barely existing at Baker Creek. He really appreciated those dinners and he loved to tell stories. In fact, the one you just told was his favorite! He would chuckle throughout especially when telling about the tree climbing. He was 73 years old when that took place. He couldn't have climbed that tree to save his soul. Thank God for the boys. At the third gathering, and regretfully, the last, I stood up when my turn came up and announced, "I'm not going to tell MY favorite Norman Clyde story this year. I'm going to tell NORMAN CLYDE'S favorite Norman Clyde story." And then proceed to tell the airdrop story again.
Years later, another colleague at the high school asked if I would help his wife with a computer installation. I taught computer science at Bishop Union High School and was often asked to help people with computer problems. I agreed and when I entered their apartment I was astonished by the plethora of airplane photos that papered the walls. I asked if she was a pilot. "No, but my father was", she answered, "He was a well known bush pilot around here." "His name wasn't Bob Symons was it?" I asked in disbelief. "As a matter of fact, yes it was", she answered. That initiated an immediate retelling of the 1958 airdrop. She was not at all surprised by the engine cutting and yelling at us. She said when she was about nine years old she used to fly with him and he would often use that tactic to communicate with the ground. She said it used to scare her the hell out of her. Bob Symons was killed in a glider accident only a few years after he dropped that pack for Norman.


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Friday, November 15, 2002JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 15, 2002) - Three East Tennessee State football players, seniors Scott Carter (Knoxville, Tenn.), Kai Shreckenberg (Wuppertal, Germany) and Adam Howell (Elizabethton, Tenn.) are among 46 players that have been chosen to the 2002 Football Verizon/CoSIDA Academic All-District team as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. The district the team represents the states of Alabama, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. To be selected a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve, be at least a sophomore and carry a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.2. Carter and Howell were first-teaam selections, while Schreckenberg was a second team pick. Carter and Schreckenberg were both first-team regional honorees last season. Carter, the teams starting fullback, is working toward a master's degree in sports management. So far this season he is the team's second leading rusher with a total of 281 yards on the ground, scoring a touchdown. He has also caught four passes for another six yards. Howell, the team's long-snapper, is a double-major in microbiology and chemistry. Howell has been an invaluable member of the Bucs' special teams, having been the team's starting snapper for four straight seasons. He has made three special teams tackles this season. Shreckenberg, a key member of the Bucs defensive line, is majoring in corporate finance and investments. He had started every game this season, totaling 32 tackles, three for losses. Howell and Carter's names will now appear on the Verizon/CoSIDA Academic All-America national ballot. That team will be announced on Dec. 2, 2002.


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Lyle Yorks
Professional Background
Educational Background
- Ed.D. Columbia University, New York, N.Y. May 1995
- M.A. Columbia University, New York, N.Y. May 1993
- M.A. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. May 1972
- B.A. Tusculum College, Greeneville, TN. June 1968
Scholarly Interests
- Action Learning
- Action Research
- Collaborative Inquiry
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Strategic Approaches to Human Resource Development
- Strategy Development/strategic Advocacy
- Application of adult learning theory to individual, group, and organizational learning, and workforce and organizational development
Selected Publications
Langer, A. M. & Yorks, L. (2013). Strategic IT: Best practices for managers and executives. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.
Yorks, L. & Nicolaides, A. (2013). Toward an Integral Approach for Evolving Mindsets for Generative Learning and Timely Action in the Midst of Ambiguity. Teachers College Record, 115(8), 1-26.
Yorks, L. (2013). Ulilising action learning for fostering developmental capacity: An application in the graduate school setting. International Journal Human Resource Development and Management, 13, 4-22.
Nakamoura, Y. T. & Yorks, L. (2011). The role of reflective practices in building social capital in organizations: Implications for HRD research and practice. Human Resource Development Review, 10, 222-245.(Received the Elwood Holton III Research Excellence Award, 2011, for the Outstanding Article 2011 in Human Resource Development Review)
Kasl, E. & Yorks, L. (2010). Whose inquiry is this anyway? Money, power, reports and collaborative inquiry. Adult Education Quarterly, 60(4), 315-338.
Poell, R.F., Marsick, V.J., & Yorks, L. (2010). The relation between central actors and level of reflection in action-learning programs: Dutch and U.S. data and theory compared. In M. Van Woerkom & R.F. Poell, (Eds.), Workplace learning: Concepts, measurement, and application (pp. 148-166). London, U.K.: Routledge.
Yorks, L., Beechler, S., & Ciporen, R. (2007). Enhancing the impact of an open enrollment executive program through assessment. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 6, 310-320.
Yorks, L., Neumann, J.H., Kowalski, D., & Kowalski, R. (2007). Lessons learned from a 5-year project within the Department of Veterans Affairs: Applying theories of interpersonal aggression and organizational justice to the development and maintenance of collaborative social space. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 43, 352-372.
Yorks, L., Aprill, A., James, L., Rees, A.M., Hoffman-Pinilla, & Ospina, S. (2007). The tapestry of leadership: Lessons from six cooperative inquiry groups of social justice leaders. In P. Reason & H. Bradbury (Eds.), Handbook of action research: Participatory inquiry and practice, (2nd edition), (pp. 497-509). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Yorks, L. (2005). Strategic human resource development in organizations. Mason. Ohio: South-Western College Publishing.
Yorks, L. (2005). Adult learning and the generation of new knowledge and meaning: Creating liberating spaces for fostering adult learning through practitioner based collaborative inquiry. Teachers College Record, 12, 9-25.
Yorks, L. (2004). Toward a political economy model for comparative analysis of the role of strategic human resource development leadership. Human Resource Development Review, 3, 189-208. (Outstanding Article Award, HRDR, Academy of Human Research Development).
Yorks, L. (2003). Beyond the classroom: Transfer from work-based learning initiatives. In E. Holton and T. Baldwin, (Eds.). Improving learning transfer in organizations, (pp. 138-160). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Yorks, L. & Kasl, E. (2002). Toward a theory and practice for whole-person learning: Reconceptualizing experience and the role of affect. Adult Education Quarterly, 52, 176-192. (Reprinted in Danish, in K. Illeris & S. Berri (Eds.). Texts on adult learning. Copenhagen, Denmark: Roskilde University Press.)
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ORLD 5054: Strategy development as a learning process in organizations
This course provides a comprehensive view of organizational strategy from a learning perspective. Students examine various models for facilitating the development of strategic initiatives through learning interventions.
ORLD 5062: Human resource development in organizations
A comprehensive view of the field of human resource development. The emphasis is on how HRD relates to a changing workplace and how emerging theories of strategic and performance management relate to the learning and development needs of people and organizations. Prerequisite: ORLD 5055 or ORLJ 5003 (Organizational Psychology students), or instructor permission.
ORL 6500: Qualitative research methods in organizations: Design and data collection
An introduction to qualitative research methods conceptualization and data collection procedures and design. Students learn various qualitative data collection techniques and conduct a pilot study.
ORLD 6902: Pro-Seminar in Adult Education
Adult education is an interdisciplinary field of theory and practice that draws on social sciences. Students in AEGIS are experienced practitioners who come to the program with a wide range of disciplinary, theoretical, and practical backgrounds on which they can draw as they begin this journey. The pro-seminar provides a common language in our quest as adult education scholar-practitioners. It is a forum through which students can examine the common threads of adult learning and education that run throughout the different settings and disciplines through which they practice. Students examine the main theoretical orientations and professional practice areas in the field. They also examine and critique the personal, philosophical, and professional presuppositions and underpinnings of their practice.
ORLD 6908: Adult Education/Learning: Theory and Practice
This course helps educators gain insight into themselves as facilitators of adult learning based on theory, research, and practice related to learning from and through experience, self-directed learning, and transformative learning theory. This course supports a critical appraisal of one's facilitation practice. The format will be interactive discussion of various theoretical perspectives on adult learning, with a view to how these ideas can be used to understand / improve / change your practice.
Faculty: Marsick, Victoria
ORLD 6918: Introduction to Research
This course is an intensive seminar designed to introduce doctoral students of a new AEGIS cohort to the discipline and constituent practices of conducting a literature review within context of doctoral studies and dissertation work. On conclusion of this course, students will be able to: a) search for topic-related literature; b) take and organize notes from the review; c) identify qualities of literature constituting the review; and d) possess knowledge of fundamental resources needed for writing the literature review.
Faculty: Marsick, Victoria
ORLD 8900: Dissertation Advisement in Adult Education
Individual advisement on doctoral dissertations. Fee to equal 3 points at current tuition rate for each term. For requirements, see section in catalog on Continuous Registration for Ed.D./Ph.D. degrees.
Documents & Papers
Download: AEGIS Pro Seminar_Summer 2011 [PDF]
Download: Yorks' Photo [Image]
Download: ORL 6500_Qualitative Methods_Syllabus 2013 [PDF]
Download: ORLD-6918_Intro-to-Advanced-Research_Fall-2011 [PDF]
Download: ORLD 5054_Strategy Development_2013 [PDF]
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With everyone making fun of Ron's rap career, has anyone actually heard one of his songs? Am I allowed to post one?
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With everyone making fun of Ron's rap career, has anyone actually heard one of his songs? Am I allowed to post one?
I think thats the CD I have I was going to upload Henney if I could because I think thats the only song on there that is actually all him.
Here are some of my favorite lines from Ron Artest in "Henney"
So much snow in my building, I bought a damn sled.
So much green, police thought it was weed. Until they saw it was money.
Now I gotta guard Dirk Nowitzki. N***a please give me some Henney.
Im a grown ***-man, I got kids. Parents be responsible, nurture your kids.
A point of clarification that's gotten lost a few times... the album Ron was promoting last October wasn't an album of him rapping. It was a girl group that he helped produce.
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I've heard Ron rap once.
I don't really make fun of his rap, or his Allure girls, because that really isn't my genre of music. I wouldn't know if he was good or not.
Although, a few Eminem songs (Stan) and the "Gangsta" sequence in Office Space I like.
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
Ron sucks as a rapper. But you cant blame him for trying.All those lines you posted suck rap wise, the only one thats okay is the Snow and Sled one.
Hey Jesus, (why do I feel heretical when I type that?!)
I would LOVE to get a hold of some of that! How big are the mp3's? If they are just a couple MB, you could email them....I can get up to 10MB in a email....
Let me know if it is possible. I have an avenue to distribute to some of our fellow users here....I would be glad to do it...
Oh, and by the way, I think you have the best screen name I've ever seen!
Are you talking about the Ice Cube song from the "plant the computer virus" scene, or the Geto Boys song from the "destroy the copy machine" scene?Originally Posted by SoupIsGood
EDIT: Printer, not copy machine (I think); Oh well, now I have an excuse to watch it again.
That would be Ice Cube "Down For Whatever"...one of my favorites.Originally Posted by SoupIsGood
But I wont fleeeexxxx,till its time to have seeeexxxx.
thats a great song
I know the album he was talking about around th brawl was Allure. I have this mixtape or something by TruWarier records with Ron Artest singing "Henney" and he is on a few other songs. Plus I weren't saying those lines were good rap-wise..They were so bad they were funny.
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. I also love when he is rapping along to Scarface while sitting in traffic in the first scene.Originally Posted by SoupIsGood
All of them are good, though.
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Wow, that's pretty deep.
when I met ron one time he said he'd hook me up with a CD. But he forgot it.
I finally couldn't resist and picked up the sampler CD from Ron's label from the bargin bin recently. I saw a different one in the store somewhere too which was like so-and_so with ron artest presents or something like that. I haven't listened to the one I have yet though, kinda scared really. Like if I spilt a beer on the speaker while it was playing what would happen huh?


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Debate: Is mental illness contagious?
We are constantly being told 'it is in our genes' But I feel perfectly normal kids can have their mental state changed because of mistreatment. I also feel that being exposed to mental illness can cause mental illness.What do you think and what are your experiences?
Oct 29 2012: Mental illnesses are not contagious. Young children who would have grown up to be healthy adults can be psychologically scarred by mistreatment and abuse. The early years are critical in a child's life; just like the foundation of a house is important so as to have a building that can stand the storms and poor weather.
So we can safeguard our mental health by being aware of the dangers of abusive relationships and helping children who could be prone to such abuse.Nov 1 2012: Alicia Raimundo has been a mental health advocate since she was 13, after she experienced serious bouts of suicidal ideation as the result of her depression and anxiety. She knows she came perilously close to being part of Canada's grim suicide statistics. Ten years later, she spends her days finishing her undergrad degree in psychology, while volunteering at half a dozen mental health-related causes. She co-founded the online portion of Almond Health emotional wellbeing community website and is a member of a young adult team that works to translate academic mental health information into language that resonates with young people. She is also a facilitator of a "young survivors of suicide loss" group and takes every opportunity to speak publicly about mental health. Last October, she was on a panel of speakers for Canada AM's Speak Out On Suicide program and contributed to MTV's Let's Talk mental health campaign. Alicia's goal is to make people more connected to mental health issues while helping to eliminate the stigma attached to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blSkkwcy4uo&feature=relmfuOct 29 2012: A mental state is something different than a mental illness.
For decades psychology saw most mental illnesses as the consequence of mistreatment during childhood. A very frustrating period for many parents because in most cases it later appeared to have a biological cause.
If the brain functions a bit different as what is commonly understood as normal that person has a handicap to function within society in the way it is expected. This alone gives an enormous dose of stress because everyone wants to be and function like everyone else.
If you have a physical handicap that is invisible and nobody would have any consideration for your condition the same would happen. The difference however that in that case you could tell about your handicap which isn't possible with a mental disorder.
Nothing contagious with mental illnesses but very much so with condemnations of all kinds.
Oct 29 2012: Medical miistakes have always occurred. I am not a fan of psychologists, whom I believe are over-rated.
I do personally know someone whom labelled herself eccentric for years, sayng she was an unusual person and merely eccentric.She suffered from delusions due to acquired brain injury following a car accident and became known for child abductions.
Incorrect diagnosis is dangerous to people, and failure to dagnosis can be very dangerous also. Unrealistic expectations of a persons abilty can cause them to fall victim to injury,crime and more.Oct 29 2012: Hi Isabel - have a look at my profile and the other conversation I am posting on and chatting with Mitch Smith about basic income ideas. Love to you for this. Got so much to say about this from personal lived experience viewpoint and multi-generational lived experience too. Need to look at my more recent posts to conversations like this. Ever considered mental illness just a manifestation of an ill society.
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Oct 29 2012: Are you asking whether mental illness is contagious in the sense in which illnesses are (with the transmittal of bacteria or viruses from one infected person to another) or whether a person's environment and experiences can influence his/her mental state to trigger conditions like high anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, self-harm, and so forth?
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I think the answer to the first is no and the answer to the second yes.
Oct 29 2012: Some bacteria or viruses affect the brains functioning,I feel, which can alter our mood, or create weakness such as delerium which alters the ability to think. Some experiences can cause mental illness such as post traumatic stress disorder, which has can create overwhelming unsought memories of reliving the impacting event. So I would say yes to both of your questions.Some years ago I attended a garden party where two infants between ages 6-12 months were present. They were approx one month different in ages. One was bubbly and bouncy,full of movement and smiles. The older infant was still,silent and not smiling. The mother of the silent child had, unfortunately, suffered a full-term still birth very shortly before becoming pregnant with her living silent infant.I felt mum had severe depression and as dad was often working long hours, mum was the child's role model. The infant was well enough sized, but appeared to share mums depression, Fast forward a couple of years and the whole family appeared back to normal. A different primary aged child had a brain injured delusional prone and violent,but undiagnosed elderly relative living temporarily with them. The child started to develop anxiety and altered speech states.These types of children caught from one person to another. Counter-balance such as reducing time spent with the affected adult and spending time in more cheerful or normal enviroments made a difference to them.
Oct 29 2012: I don't think temporary moods (in response to, say, a tragic or sad event) or temporary delerium ( for example, from fever) and mental illness are the same or that specialists in this field would consider them the same.
Oct 29 2012: Diagnostic and statistic manual of mental disorders-DSM. Supposedly a psychiatric bible.
However I agree that things such as grief are perfectly normal and I think that to fail to have that is abnormal. It is normal to have moods-good times and sad times.Nov 4 2012: something kids get due to mistreatment are most likely anxiety disorders more than mental disorders.
I have s friend with ADHD, Schizophrenia, and Bipolar (Manic - Depressive) Disorder. I have no problem hanging out with him and have not ever caught anything from him.Nov 1 2012: Yes, mental illness is contagious. It is spread by toxic environments, virus, bacteria...etc.Oct 30 2012: first of all you should say that you think is a disease and how it is transmitted, according to Freud, the psycho can be transmitted in a sociallyOct 30 2012: Hahaha look here a very cool and creative!!!! article
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/creativity-mental-illness-bipolar-disorder_n_1972391.htmlOct 30 2012: 'Mental illnesses' are only illnesses when judged within the context of what is now regarded as 'normal'.
If a contagion does exist, then it is passed on as an insidious auto-suggestion of that judgement - through a dysfunctional mixture of stigma, misdiagnosis, and the medicalisation of behaviours that in other societies might be regarded as normal and acceptable.Oct 29 2012: Here is an article from a credible source and citing credible sources to the effect that some childhood mental disorders seem that they can be triggered by strep infections. Strep is contagious.
In this case, while the mental illness itself is not contagious, strep is. There is no evidence that the unusual effect of strep (as opposed to a strep infection itself) can be communicated from one child to another.
Oct 31 2012: So mysophobia should be reclassified and removed from the list of mental disorders?
Gail .
Oct 29 2012: I have a brother and sister with schizophrenia
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I have a brother and a sister with bi-polar
I grew up with a mother who was clinically depressed (if not bi-polar)
My husband has dementia
My culture behaves as if it is insane as it staunchly defends the cause of all of the problems it wants to get rid of.
Still, I have made my way through that. I too began with clinical depression, but as I changed my worldview to one that is more rational than the worldview of my culture, I haven't had a day of depression in nearly 20 years.
Schizophrenia is a disease where brain damage is visible. It is not "catchy" from someone else, though it probably has a "switch" that turns the gene on. This may be while the fetus was in untero or it may be from an outside cause. Its interesting to consider how many with schizophrenia are born in the months of November through January. (In the US, that's the winter months. Is the opposite true down under?)
Though dementia is not "caught", some studies suggest that it can be prevented. This would infer that it is the society that is insane, and the person living in it does not distinguish between society's insanity and his own, thus in a round-about way allows it to consume his brain.
I think that most mental illnesses are primarily a result of our living in a really insane society. Studies are being done on meditation, and surprising results are occurring. There are a small few who have dared challenge conventional wisdom and come through the insanity that I think is wrought by ignorance. We are a mostly isolated group of people, and we call ourselves awakened.
Most live in a culture that calls logic something that is radically irrational. That does strange things to the mind of those who are indoctrinated into it. As beliefs create our realities, & most don't know it, many are heaping some really terrible consequences on themselves.
That's why I want education to return 2 educating rather than indoctrinatingOct 29 2012: Viruses Bacteria Heredity Memes Why not all of the above and whatever else one can conceive.
Oct 29 2012: Good idea, embrace all if they can help to create the path to a cureOct 29 2012: Absolutely. My kids drove me insane ........ However it was a very short drive to get me there ......
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Origin of "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" series
There's been increasing chatter about the origin of He-Man.
I don't know what was happening at Mattel thirty years ago when the toy line was first created, but I do know what was happening at Filmation Studios when the cartoon was developed because I was there at the very beginning of it all.
Now that we're getting closer to the thirtieth anniversary of the TV show and interest is growing in how the popular series from the 1980s came to be, it's a good time to share my experiences and help set the record straight.
The He-Man series has its roots in an animated commercial produced by Filmation for Mattel in 1981. I looked for this commercial for a long time on YouTube and it was nowhere to be found.
That is, until now.
This past July 25, it was uploaded on YouTube from video that was captured at the San Diego Comic Con.
The audio is bad as the din of the crowd mingles with the sound of the commercial, but it's good enough to get an idea as to what it's about.
Here it is for the first time online...
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I was a member of the original development team at Filmation when the series first got under way. I also worked on the show in the second season.
Before I tell the story of my experiences, I'd like to point out that there's another video that's been featured on Cartoonbrew dealing with the origin of the He-Man action figure doll at Mattel.
In it, Lou Scheimer, the head of Filmation, gives his comments as well as his daughter Erika Scheimer. In case you weren't aware of this, both Lou and Erika did quite a few of the voices overs for characters in the series. She did a lot of the kid voices whenever there were children in the cartoon, which is why they never sounded like kids. Lou was the voice of He-Man's (Prince Adam's) father among other characters that would come along depending on the script.
Tom Sito is also in this. He was working on the show in the first season, but he wasn't around when it was being developed, and as far as I know, had nothing to do with design.
Here's the video...
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In addition to my story of what I experienced at part of the original development team at Filmation, I have a large amount of original production artwork from the three major animated series that the studio produced in the 1980s, along with some other odds and ends. That is He-Man, She-Ra and Bravestarr.
Filmation had no policy for holding on to original production art. From its beginnings in 1962 to the closing of the studio in 1989, they pretty much threw everything out. There's some animation cels floating around, a few drawings here and there that artists working at the studio at the time have held onto, but I have lots of stuff.
When I saw what Filmation was doing, I developed a policy early on of liberating artwork that was destined for destruction. Instead of letting it go, I insisted on the ownership of the drawings I produced and held onto them after they were used. As much as I could, I tried to salvage would I could.
Now all these years later, I have what is perhaps the most expansive collection of original art from that time.
I plan on showcasing it sometime next year, as the 30th anniversary of the He-Man series approaches.
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There is a convention next month for Masters of the Universe and Thundercats at a hotel near LAX.
I've been asked to be a guest but I can't make it out there this year. Charles, you would be very welcome there, I'm sure.
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Thanks for the lead there Rob. I'll follow up on that and see what happens.
I first learned about the He-Man line of toys in 1981 while living in Kansas city and working for Hallmark Cards. Can't recall if I saw the action figure first or the commercial I posted above. When I did see the toy, the thing that struck me was the lack of articulation. I remember the original GI Joe and Captain Action. Both were fully articulated and you could pose them just about any way you want. They were also twice the size of He-Man, which had very limited posing and was troublesome to even get the doll to stand on its feet.
It became wildly successful none the less, and I think the animated commercial and eventually the series of course really helped.
When I was hired at Filmation and the show got started, I remember meeting a guy who animated on the commercial. He was young, about my age at the time, and he was very proud of the work. He said it was the Filmation commercial that sold Mattel on a series. We look at it today and it doesn't seem like a big deal, but in 1981 it was. Animation like this was just not that available, and when it aired, it really stood out. It made a big impression back then.
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When I first saw the original He-man commercial I was living in Kansas City ans working for Hallmark Cards. That year I read Ollie Johnston's and Frank Thomas' book "Disney Animation: the Illusion of Life". At the beginning of the book they mentioned that Ron Miller who was head of Disney at the time, was looking to rebuild the animation department but was having a difficult time finding artists who could animate in the Disney style.
I was heavily influenced by Disney, so I took some time to build up my portfolio a little more and sent it in to the studio. I found out later that I had made it into a training program there, but by the time I found out, I had only a week to get to Burbank. That was February 1982. There was a couple of feet of snow on the ground, I had no car, and my obligation to Hallmark kept me from leaving on such short notice. So arrangements were made for me to start in the summer. Boy was I excited about this. By the way, the person I was in communication with at Disney was Don Hahn.
By the summer of 1982, I was told that a strike was on the way and the training program would be delayed. I decided to go out west anyway and see what I could do. So in July of that year I gave my notice and by August 1, I was on the road in a little Honda Civic I bought used, along with my portfolio, some clothes, a pot to cook food in and a tent I borrowed from a friend. I stopped in camp grounds on the way to California, living a homeless lifestyle.
When I got to Burbank the strike was in full swing. It was the first week of August 1982. I had also been in touch with Don Bluth Studios and stopped by their place in Studio City on Ventura Boulevard to drop off a test.
The industry was dead. there was nothing going on, so I spent some time talking with striking animators on the picket lines at Disney, then after a while I headed south to San Diego. There was a lady there who I knew from Hallmark who was working on a project for a fellow named David Kirshner. He would later go on to produce American Tail, Cats Don't Dance among other films, and also become president of Hanna Barbera. That's how I got hooked up with him and started developing American Tail as a freelance job.
Before I did that, I was lucky enough to find work through this lady on a different project of his that was eventually called Rose Petal Place, his first project and was broadcast on TV in 1984. The lady who developed this property for him was Patricia Paris and she never received a word of credit. Same story with my work on American Tail. It really affected how I saw the animation business.
I was working for Ms. Paris for about a month and a couple of months when I heard that the strike was over. She was putting me up with a place to stay by the way while I was in San Diego. I left there to head back to LA and try to reconnect with Disney. It was October and the weather was changing. One night, my last night living out in the open, I found myself camping on the beach next to a complex that I found out later was the San Onofre nuclear power plant.
After being eaten alive by ants that night, I called an acquaintance I made and asked if I could spend a night at his place. He was Donald Towns, who was a background painter at Disney and eventually went on to head up background painting during the Little Mermaid period.
I still needed a place to stay, so I made my way to a home in Hollywood where I had some relatives. They were more than happy to let me use their place as a base to work from.
I tried and tried to reconnect with Don Hahn but there was a secretary or an assistant who answered his phone at the time, a lady by the name of Joanne, who wouldn't let me get through to him. I kept telling her I made it into the the training program, but I guess the strike changed things so this wall went up that I couldn't get around o matter how much I tried.
That's when I decided to give other studios a try. No place would even talk to me. I couldn't get anywhere with anyone. All I was asking was for someone to just look at my portfolio.
Finally I connected with Filmation. I talked till I was blue in the face, asking over and over again to just look at my portfolio. That's all I was asking to just look at my work, and finally the man I was speaking with agreed to meet with me the next day.
I'll continue with the rest of the story soon.
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Taking a little detour in the telling of the story to mention that I'll be making an appearance at the He-Man She-Ra Thundercats Power-Con in LA on the afternoon of Saturday, September 24, 2011.
I contacted the Con thanks to the link provided by Rob Lamb a few posts above. I'll be participating in the He-Man Masters of the Universe cartoon panel from 1-2 PM with a signing from 2-3 PM.
My name isn't listed on the program yet but it will be soon.
Thanks for the lead Rob. Looks like it's going to pan out.
This will be my first appearance in anything associated withe He-Man or She-Ra. I plan on bringing along a few things that will make the event something special.
If you're interested in attending follow the link info.
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That's great, Charles! Wish I could be there. Maybe next year.
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I'll pass along your regrets and publicly acknowledge that if it wasn't for you I would not have known of the convention.
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Say hello to James Eatock, Larry DiTillio, Tom Sito, Erika Scheimer and Emiliano Santalucia for me.
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I will certainly do that Rob. Wish you could be there. As far as He-Man, She-Ra, even Bravestarr and Filmation in general, it's going to be a historic event. I don't think the organizers realize how significant this is going to be.
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Picking up with the story.
The next day was a Friday morning. I drove to Reseda in the San Fernando Valley at the intersection of Sherman Way and Lindley to Filmation Studios.
I met with a man who originally came from Hungary. I can't recall his name, but he was a good guy. I remember him telling me about getting out of the country as it was ruled by communists. He escaped after the unsuccessful uprising of 1957. He mentioned that he never bought gas at a Texaco station because their symbol was a red star and it reminded him of communism.
He was impressed with my portfolio, so he took me to see somebody else who was above him. Then that person took me to see somebody else above him. Then the fourth person I met was Lou Scheimer himself, the head of Filmation.
There was a small crowd in his office reviewing my portfolio. He liked what he saw. I was really hitting it that day and spoke with a lot of confidence and enthusiasm. Lou asked if I was familiar with what Filmation does as far as their shows go. I told him I watched Blackstar all the time. It was one of the studio's Saturday morning cartoons that was airing back then.
He said okay, to hire me as an Apprentice Layout Artist. I was to start on the following Monday. I thanked him and everyone there very much.
The day was October 22, 1982. That afternoon I had an appointment in Burbank to look at an apartment. I got the place. A job in the morning, an apartment in the afternoon. I was employed and no longer homeless.
That weekend, I drew two layouts based upon sketches I did as a result of a meeting with David Kirshner in LA in early September the month before. He asked me to do a freelance job at that time and was waiting for me to deliver it. I had no furniture, so that weekend in my new apartment, stretched out on the floor on my elbows, and I drew two concept layouts for "An American Tail" which would become a Steven Speilberg / Don Bluth feature length animated five years later.
The following Monday morning, October 25, 1982, I started my career at Filmation.
More to follow.
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Well, the Power-Con is on the way this month, so a goal I'm setting is to finish my account of the origin of the He-Man cartoon before the event takes place on September 24.
As I was saying, on Monday, October 25, 1982 I officially began my career in animation at Filmation Studios.
It was a very tough time in the biz at that point following the strike of 1982. At Filmation, about 80% of their crew was unemployed, which was even worse than what the industry as a whole was experiencing with around two thirds of all artists being out of work. I recall Lou Scheimer, the head of Filmation, when he stopped by to see what I was doing at one point, commenting to me and a few others around how he felt betrayed by the networks as they only ordered nine episodes of a cartoon the studio produced called "Gilligan's Planet" that season. A spinoff of the 1960s TV sitcom. It was a hard time for Filmation that year.
Anyhow, I had an office of my own, on the second floor of the two story building, with a window overlooking Sherman Way. It was a nice setup for the most part, but a far cry from what I experienced at Hallmark Cards. The working conditions at Hallmark were much better than what I experienced in animation. It was a bit of a shock when I started to learn just how difficult this business could be in many aspects.
The first person that kind of gravitated towards me was a fellow by the name of Mike Hazy. A great guy. Not an artist per se, but from what I recall, more of a production kind of person. A coordinator of sorts, but he knew his stuff and kind of mentored me as best as he could. Mike was about the only mentor I had in animation. Most of my career, in fact, all of my career I've been on my own, not getting much help from people. Mike made my early days at Filmation a little more comfortable. I didn't know anyone, I was pretty much alone in LA, and it was good to know that there was someone to turn to if I needed help or advice.
Mike would tell me some cool stories as well. He was at Disney during the last days of Walt's life, working on Jungle Book. From what he told me, he was there when Walt walked onto the studio for the last time. He crossed the street from Providence St. Joseph's in his hospital gown, wanting to see what was happening with the film. He was escorted back to St. Joe's and a little while later he passed away. That's what Mike Hazy told me. I'm passing along what he said.
The first thing I worked on was a project called "Return To Oz", I think that was the name of it. Lou was trying to come up with a presentation to sell to the networks. He was trying to come up with something to get work coming into the studio. This idea was based upon the Wizard of Oz. I don't remember much of what it was about but I still have the original art I did for this. The project never went anywhere by the way.
The guy I was working with, or under I should say, was a fellow by the name of John Grusd. He was Filmation's wonderboy at the time. He wasn't an artist. His claim to fame was a live action Saturday morning series that became a hit for the studio. It was called "Space Academy" and I remember watching it before I came our west. It was actually pretty good from what I recall at the time.
I don't know what John's involvement with the series was. I think he was the producer. I remember someone telling me that at Filmation, if you came up with an idea for a series that sold, you had a job at the studio for the rest of your life. That's the kind of person Lou Scheimer was. In any case, John Grusd was in real good standing at the studio by virtue of his involvement with and the success of Space Academy.
It was John Grusd who a few weeks into the limbo we were experiencing at Filmation, trying to come up with a project that would sell to the networks, who walked into my office on that fateful day, all happy with a box full of toys from Mattel, announcing that this was going to be our next series.
To be continued.
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The He-Man She-ra Powercon is on this weekend...
Let's party like we're masters of the universe!
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The big event is tomorrow at the He-Man She-Ra Powercon, where I'll be debuting some very rare items involving both series.
I'll be on the He-Man panel at 1:00 pm.
To get caught up with my account of the history of the He-Man series...
When the box of He-Man toys was brought in by John Grusd, three artists starting working on the series.
Carol Lundberg, who has since passed away, Herb Hazelton, who's dies as well, and myself. I'm the only one of the three original artists still alive.
There was a fourth artist who was there at the time as well, but I don't think he had very much to do with the main body of work. I don't recall his name offhand, he was originally from Macau and spoke Portuguese, although his English was very good besides the accent. I'm not entirely certain about this, but he may have been the one who designed Orco, that strange floating creature with the wizard hat that covered his face.
Again, not certian, but I bel;ieve that carol Lundberg did the good characters, Herb Hazelton got the bad guys, and I was handed the responsibility of doing the animation models for the vehicles.
I didn't realize what I was doing at the time, so I went above and beyond the call of duty on the models. Turns out, they were the most thorough vehicle models the studio had ever created for any series they produced in their history. Mike Hazy, my mentor at the time kind of, was very enthusiastic about this and it helped put a good word out about my performance on the project.
What happened as a result, was that I became labeled as the studio's vehicle designer, even though I had no experience whatsoever designing vehicles. At all. I was simply using the toys as reference for my drawings.
Afterwards, I began contributing to the creation of the show's stock scenes. Footage that would be show over and over again in each episode throughout the series. It was Filmation's way of ding things to meet their tight production budgets and keep work entirely in their studio. They were the only remaining animation studio in America at that time which produced animated entertainment for broadcast TV entirely at their facility.
The He-Man series was the first animated TV show ever produced with the intent of bypassing the networks and going straight to first-run syndication. It was unheard of at the time.
Will continue with more He-man history soon, including my original feelings about the series as I saw it developing, and when the studio started to staff up for production.
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On my way to the Powercon in LA with a few surprises for He-Man and She-Ra fans.
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Attended the Powercon in LA yesterday. A lot of fun. Participated in the He-man panel. Great turnout, great audience. Everyone was into it. Surprised by how many young people were there.
Hooked up with a group of individuals who are involved in archiving the history of the He-Man show, artwork involved in the development of the Mattel toy line, and also Filmation artwork.
There's a foundation that's been established for this, which I learned of at the Powercon.
They've accumulated almost all of the existing production artwork associated with the He-Man and She-Ra shows from the 1980s. They told me they had lots of my stuff from that time. There's production work, but almost no concept development artwork from Filmation.
I brought along some of the art I had and they were very much affected by it. They had no idea it existed. I also brought along the He-Man and Skeletor dolls that we used as models when we were designing the characters at the beginning of the TV series. Really hit home.
We'll be making arrangements to digitize the work I have and publish a book along with other art their foundation has. It will be the second book they publish on the subject. The first was artwork from the toyline. The upcoming one will be artwork from the animated series.
Very productive day, very productive meeting. The history of He-Man still continues nearly three decades later.
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A very interesting history. He-Man and GI Joe's success was largely responsible for the show I worked on shortly thereafter, Galaxy Rangers. 65 episodes is a massive effort to build from the ground up!
Whatever happened to Flimation?
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Filmation closed in February 1989. They were sold by their parent company Group W aka Westinghouse Broadcasting. The company that bought them acquired the library of films and closed the studio with something like a 24 hour notice to the employees. Very abrupt end. They were producing really poorly thought out features like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfelles (Happily Ever After), and Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night. Huge box office disasters that did the studio in.
Great while it lasted from 1962 for 27 years. Its heyday was the 1970s and they peaked in the 1980s with the He-Man, She-Ra, and Bravestarr cartoons, but they also did Fat Albert, Blackstarr, Star Trek, Tarzan, Zorro, Superman, Flash Gordon, Quackula, Groovie Goolies, The Archies, several live action series. A very productive studio in its day.
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It's funny how things work out. I started this topic early last month, and as it progressed, I wound up on a panel at a He-Man convention in LA.
I thought I'd take a photo of the audience at the Powercon panel I was a part of last Saturday, September 24. Here's the folks in attendance from my point of view looking out from the stage. Click on the picture for a better view.


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