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This line, the final one in G. K. Chesterton's poem, "The English Graves," serves for Richard Gamble as an interpretive key to a peculiarly important moment in American history: the time of the First World War, when progressive Christian leaders in America transformed themselves from principled pacifists to crusading interventionists. The consequence of this momentous shift, says Gamble was the triumph of the idea that America has been destined by divine Providence to bring salvation to the less enlightened nations of the world.
In The War for Righteousness, Gamble reconstructs the inner world of the social gospel clergy, tracing the evolution of the clergy's interventionist ideology from its roots in earlier efforts to promote a modern, activist Christianity. He shows how these clergy eventually came to see their task as world evangelization for the new creed of democracy and internationalism, and ultimately for the redemption of civilization itself through the agency of total war. World War I thus became a transcendent moment of fulfillment. In the eyes of the progressive clergy, the years from 1914 to 1918 presented an unprecedented opportunity to achieve their vision of a world transformed--the ancient dream of a universal and everlasting kingdom of peace, justice, and righteousness. American sacrifice was necessary not only to save the country, but to save the entire world.
Vividly narrating how the progressive clergy played a surprising role in molding the public consensus in favor of total war, Gamble engages the broader question of religion's role in shaping the modern American mind and the development, at the deepest levels, of the logic of messianic interventionism both at home and abroad. This timely book not only fills a significant gap in our collective memory of the Great War, it also helps demonstrate how and why that war heralded the advent of a different American self-understanding.
On rare sunny days in the otherwise sodden and chilly climate of this remote part of France, the marble crosses gleam with an arresting brilliance. They silently await the Judgment Day in solemn testimony to the American servicemen who died in the grim and bloody action along the Western Front, not far from the horror of Verdun, in the final autumn of the war. Scattered among the crosses are some that simply read, "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God." But most provide the soldier's name, rank, home state, and date of death. Some were killed as late as the very morning of the Armistice; others died of their wounds months later. No date of birth is given, however, obscuring just how young, how tragically young, most of these soldiers were when they fell. Despite the apparent uniformity and blended anonymity of this voiceless "democracy of the dead," these crosses bear family names from Italy, Poland, Germany, France, the British Isles, Russia, and beyond-Europe's sons returned to fight Europe's war.
The story that follows recovers part of the reason these American soldiers lie buried in France. It is not a story of military tactics, innovative weaponry, or trench life. It is not primarily an account of diplomacy and politics-although diplomats and politicians appear in these pages. Rather, it is a story of ideas, of the deepest ideas regarding purpose and meaning, and the definition of national identity and destiny at a critical moment. It is not a story about the physical landscape of the First World War, but rather about the inner landscape of one prominent group of Americans and what they imagined to be true about their God, their nation, their enemies, and the unfathomable European War of 1914 to 1918. It is an attempt to map the geography of a set of ideas, to trace the use of the redemptive imagery of the cross of Christ to wage an uncompromising war for righteousness. It begins and ends with theology, and shows how one group of American pastors, theologians, seminary professors, and college presidents confronted some of the timeless problems of Christian theology in the context of total war.
The self-described "progressives" among America's Protestant clergy at the turn of the twentieth century were well known in church circles and beyond for their advanced thinking on theology, politics, and foreign affairs. As they faced the prospect of a new century, these ministers and academics thought of themselves as broad-minded, humane, and cosmopolitan, in harmony with the very best scientific, political, and theological wisdom of the age. In short, they were among the "right thinking" leaders of their day. These reformers have since been labeled "liberal" or "modernist" by historians, but the word "progressive" suited their character and their times. It was the adjective they chose to describe their vision. They were eager participants in a world marked by material progress and technological efficiency and by an increasing moral rigor and earnestness in domestic and foreign policy. The progressive clergy imagined themselves, their faith, and their nation as poised on the brink of opportunity, on the verge of an unprecedented chance to serve Humanity by spreading America's material, political, and spiritual progress.
But these clergy were also aware of standing between two worlds, as they would have described the sensation, between a receding order of tradition, conservatism, and reaction on the one hand, and an approaching order of reform, liberalism, and reconstruction on the other; between an intellectual obscurantism fraught with barbarism, depravation, and war arrayed against a coming clarity of thought that promised civilization, plenty, and peace. Within their own churches, these progressive ministers strove against theological traditionalism for the sake of a new Christianity, one that would make its peace with the modern world. The names of these clergy may have slipped from modern memory, yet they spoke for their generation's serious and urgent effort to adapt itself to the emerging world that was so quickly replacing the old.
Primarily, these religious progressives interpreted the First World War in light of their social gospel theology. The liberal clergy were not merely lackeys in the Wilson administration's attempts at social control, nor were they caught unaware and unprepared by the outbreak of the war; rather, these forward-looking clergy embraced the war as a chance to achieve their broadly defined social gospel objectives. In the same way that American imperialism at the turn of the century was, as historian William E. Leuchtenburg argued, not a betrayal of domestic reform idealism but rather the expression of the same expansive, interventionist spirit on an international scale, so too the progressive clergy's enthusiasm for American participation in the Great War did not contradict their progressive theology. Their enthusiasm for the war was an acknowledged extension of their theological progressivism. They seized upon the war as an opportunity to reconstruct the churches, America, and the world according to the imperatives of the social gospel. Their peacetime crusade became a wartime crusade.
Judging by how many books and articles appeared during the war bearing such titles as "The War and Religion," and by the degree to which theological interpretations of the war permeated wartime political rhetoric, it is clear that the Great War struck a number of Americans first and foremost as a battle possessing transcendent meaning, as the knowable outworking of God's plan for humanity. The progressive clergy were quick to point out this significance and to advance their interpretation. Throughout the following study, the participants speak for themselves as much as possible. How they expressed themselves-the words and metaphors they habitually chose-reveals much about how they thought. Their language was shared by a large community in the church and beyond, appearing repeatedly in sermons, books, denominational magazines, and also, to a remarkable degree, in the secular press and in political speeches directed to a variety of audiences, all of whom were expected to respond in a predictable way to these sacred images. Their own words help open the interior world of the progressive clergy and reassemble the ideas they used to explain the war to themselves, to the American public, and to the world.
The title for this book comes from an essay by the distinguished twentieth-century British historian Herbert Butterfield. In his essay "The War for Righteousness," Butterfield argued that the horror of modern warfare is not attributable primarily to advanced industrial technology, as we might naturally assume, but rather to modern states' willingness to engage in ideological wars with no room for compromise or limited objectives. The brutal "Wars of Religion" that devastated Europe after the Protestant Reformation, Butterfield argued, were reincarnated in the twentieth century, when once again international contests were invested with transcendent meaning and transformed into absolute struggles between light and darkness. In 1914, he continued, each nation told its people "that our enemy is worse than the rest of human nature and that his wickedness demands utter destruction." The progressive clergy contributed profoundly to this mentality of total war and played a vital role in turning at least their side of the Great War into a "war for righteousness," an ultimate spiritual battle to rid the earth of a pagan nation that impeded the progress of God's righteous kingdom.
Soldiers of the Cross
Redemptive imagery and wars for righteousness were by no means new to the American experience in the First World War. By 1914, the American identity and sense of national mission had accumulated and synthesized a range of doctrines, ideals, and metaphors assembled from Roman antiquity, the Old and New Testaments, Enlightenment rationalism, Romantic nationalism, and evolutionary naturalism. This stock of images and language was not always compatible, internally consistent, or coherent, but it was always ready to be drawn upon, reshaped, reused, expanded, and adapted-a treasury of powerful metaphors that helped Americans define themselves, their enemies, their purpose, and their future. With surprising consistency, though to varying degrees over time and with shifting emphases, Americans have been habitually drawn to language that is redemptive, apocalyptic, and expansive. Americans have long experienced and articulated a sense of urgency, of hanging on the precipice of great change, of living in the "fifth act" of history, as poet and philosopher George Berkeley famously wrote about the emerging American empire in the eighteenth century. They have fallen easily into the Manichean habit of dividing the world into darkness and light, Evil and Good, past and future, Satan and Christ. They have seen themselves as a progressive, redemptive force, waging war in the ranks of Christ's army, or have imagined themselves even as Christ Himself, liberating those in bondage and healing the afflicted. From the time of the earliest colonial settlements, for good orill, the metaphors of the cross of Christ and of the mission of His Church have been deeply embedded in the story of the American people and their relations with the rest of the world.
The Puritans' New Israel
In many ways, America's millennial enthusiasm is as old as the voyages of Columbus. As historian Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt makes clear, the Spanish empire invested its New World expeditions with messianic hope and with anticipations of the end of history, prophetic fulfillment, the universal dominion of Christ's kingdom, and a return to paradise. These motifs are more typically associated with the United States' Puritan forebears, however, and for good reason. Nevertheless, the infusion of Europe's westward advance with millennial fervency was not exclusively The work of England's most famous refugees. The colonists who ultimately settled British North America in the seventeenth century came from a variety of doctrinal and ecclesiastical backgrounds, often disagreeing sharply about how to please God. But as fellow Christians-Protestant Christians, typically, they shared clear assumptions about the nature and Character of God, His way of working in the world, their relationship to the created order, the meaning of life, and their hope for the future. They disagreed about liturgy, translations of Scripture, ecclesiology, and the finer points of eschatology, but from the James River to Cape Cod, from the Atlantic Seaboard to the Appalachian Mountains, they entertained little doubt about God's presence and superintending purposes in the settlement of the New World. They believed in God's "special providence," as it was called, and in miracles, the righteous judgments of the moral law, the need to lead an exemplary life, the certainty of reward and punishment now and in the life to come, and the conviction that events here on earth are bound up inextricably with events in heaven. By these measures, American colonists were not notably different from the European neighbors they left behind.
Among the earliest settlers of the American wilderness, the Puritans of New England were animated by a powerful consciousness of who they were, what they had fled from, and the new world they were laboring to redeem and build for themselves and all mankind in North America. They were a people possessed by an unmistakable sense of mission and of being the objects of a divine covenant with all its attendant blessings and curses. The Puritans were set apart to be, as John Winthrop famously and enduringly labeled them, a "Citty upon a Hill" with the eyes of the world fixed upon them. God entered into a literal new covenant with a new chosen people, called out of bondage in Egypt for a particular task at a special moment in redemptive history, escaping from a modern Pharaoh and his army across a great sea. Their election was confirmed by signs and wonders, by attesting miracles of deliverance and safety and provision. They were unshakably certain of God's calling. They fled from a corrupt Europe and from an England bound in spiritual decline and apostasy. Or, to change the biblical metaphor, they were the Woman of the Book of Revelation (12: 14-17) who fled from the Dragon and escaped into the wilderness.
The new world encountered by this chosen people was envisioned as both wilderness and Promised Land, barren desert and Canaan flowing with milk and honey, a trial to be endured and a captive land to be ransomed and possessed, a Babylon and a New Jerusalem. They found a wilderness to be crossed, transformed, and redeemed, a place populated by brutes of Hell, wild beasts, heathen darkness, barbarism, and modern Amalekites. The wilderness also symbolized the ever-present humbling possibility of spiritual wandering as the penalty of backsliding, of even the elect's propensity to disobedience, sin, and rebellion like the ancient Israelites under Moses. Nevertheless, the settlers came to build a New Israel, a new Mt. Zion, a new city of Jerusalem, a realm of light, safety, peace, purity, and prosperity, of both temporal blessing and abundant anticipation of eternal reward. As historian Sacvan Bercovitch summarizes the perspective of Puritan minister John Cotton, "America ... was the new promised land, reserved by God for His new chosen people as the site for a new heaven and a new earth."
One of the most striking features of the Puritan sense of mission was its "fusion of secular and sacred history," as Bercovitch emphasizes. Whether or not these settlers intended to build a literal theocracy, they Mentally inhabited a Holy Commonwealth; their worldview generally failed to distinguish between the City of Man and the City of God. As historian Ernest Lee Tuveson observes of the Puritans in his masterful Redeemer Nation, "they considered themselves in fact as advancing to the next step beyond the Reformation-the actual reign of the spirit of Christ, the amalgamation of the City of the World into the City of God." Confident of their divine appointment, oriented toward their "errand," the Puritans fought to advance the Kingdom of Christ on Earth. Drawing habitually on the language and symbolism of the Old and New Testaments, the Puritans often portrayed themselves as soldiers of God. They were "troops of Christ's army," an invincible force marching under the leadership of their divine Captain, waging battle after battle in a campaign of conquest, expanding Christ's realm and dominion and tearing down the walls of Babylon. They were engaged in a cosmic struggle being fought on the front lines in North America between Christ's Kingdom and the kingdom of the Antichrist.
The New England Puritans believed the curtain had opened on the last act of history, the fulfillment of all promise and hope and longing in a spectacular grand finale. Their age as a whole was one of expectation, both religious and secular. Back in England, Francis Bacon had recently proclaimed in The Advancement of Learning (1605)-and repeated more explicitly in his Novum Organum (1620)-the fulfillment of Daniel's prophecy (Daniel 12:4) that "many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." The many voyages of the Age of Exploration and the intellectual curiosity of the Scientific Revolution had realized the prophet's vision. Daniel was "clearly intimating," Bacon wrote, "that the thorough passage of the world ... and the advancement of the sciences, are destined by fate, that is, by Divine Providence, to meet in the same age." Indeed, through the power of knowledge applied to nature, the Fall of man would be reversed, his dominion restored. From the scientific method "there cannot but follow an improvement in man's estate and an enlargement of his power over nature. For man by the Fall fell at the same time from his state of innocency and from his dominion over creation. Both of these losses however can even in this life be in some part repaired; the former by religion and faith, the latter by arts and sciences."
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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | A Vast Spiritual Migration: Tracing the Worldview of the Progressive Clergy | 25 |
2 | Applied Christianity: Implementing the Progressive Worldview | 49 |
3 | Applied Christianity Abroad: Foreign Missions, Internationalism, and the Expanding Circle of Progressive Reform to 1914 | 69 |
4 | Fit to Serve All Mankind: The Progressive Clergy and the European War, 1914-1917 | 89 |
5 | With Battle Banners Furled: The Varieties of Progressive Pacifism, 1914-1917 | 111 |
6 | A Righteous People in a Righteous Cause: The Progressive Clergy and American Intervention, 1917-1918 | 149 |
7 | Soldiers of the Cross: The Progressive Clergy's Redemptive War, 1917-1918 | 181 |
8 | A New World Order: The Progressive Clergy and the Peace, 1918-1920 | 209 |
9 | Righteousness Postponed: The Progressive Clergy's Enduring Worldview | 233 |
Epilogue | 253 | |
Notes | 257 | |
Index | 297 |
Posted August 8, 2003
A well informed book by an exceptional young man, every Christian American who takes their citizenship seriously should buy this book and make sure that their pastor gets a copy as well.
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Posted August 14, 2003
Richard Gamble's fame has even reached folk in California. He is an outstanding thinker, communicator and historian, and this book puts all the hard work and critical thinking he has done in recent years into a form that communicates the key truths he has discovered to a wider audience, including those of us writing in California. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, Gamble is a historian with whom to be reckoned, and this book amply confirms such a glowing review.
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Posted August 22, 2003
I agree fully with all 5 of the glowing reviews of Richard Gamble's work. His insights into this critical period of America's history have become all the more important now that we have a 'born again' President in the White House. In my view, if you want to understand what is going on in the USA now, in 2003, you have to follow the thesis that Gamble puts forward in this new and very exciting work. Political Science and Government majors all need to be aware of it as well as those majoring in either History or Religion. I will for sure be commending it most warmly to all my students.
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Posted August 4, 2003
Richard Gamble is an up and coming historian who has now made a BIG name for himself on both sides of the Atlantic - and this is THE book that will confirm what people in the USA always knew and which people in Britain are coming to find out: that he is one of THE outstanding historians of his generation. I know I am reviewing the book before it is published, but many of us on both sides of the Big Pond have enjoyed Richard as he has told us the exciting conclusions that he has drawn. This is one of the most anticipated books in this period of US history for many years, and what Richard has written fully justifies the wait.
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This book is just so neat! I think it is really great - even High School students will be inspired by the kind of things talked about in this book.
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Posted July 29, 2003
Richard Gamble is one of the most exciting young historians in the USA today - and his new book confirms what many of us already knew. His ideas on this period have become essential reading for anyone who wants to know about this critical period in the history of the USA - and cannot be recommended highly enough.
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Yo! This is the book for me! can actually understand what Prof Gamble is on about, and that is why I am really thrilled that now everyone else can read what he has to say.
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This book is GREAT!!!!!!! It is the one that we have been waiting for AGES!!! Go and get all your students to buy this book - it is THE one they all need to read!
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United States (CNN) — Jerry DeWitt entered the ministry when he was 17, launching a 25-year career as a Pentecostal preacher. He traveled all around his home state of Louisiana, preaching and ministering wherever he could.
All these years later, DeWitt, 42, is still on the road, and now takes his message all over the United States. But the nature of that message, along with his audience, has changed dramatically.
DeWitt is now an avowed atheist, and his audiences are made up of religious "nones," the growing number of Americans who are atheist, agnostic, humanist or just plain disinterested in identifying with a religion. Today, DeWitt preaches a gospel of disbelief.
During his speeches, he talks about the process of leaving his preacher job. "If you don't believe, then you will be like me -- you'll suddenly find yourself where you only have two choices," DeWitt told a group in Johnson County, Kansas, earlier this year.
"You can either be honest that you don't believe ... or you can pretend that you do," he said. "Which is what so many people are doing and that is called faith."
The transition from preacher to outspoken atheist has not been easy, and DeWitt is trying to smooth the way for other former believers. He is executive director of Recovering from Religion, an organization founded in 2009. Its slogan: "Thousands of organizations will help you get INTO religion, but we're the only one helping you OUT."
But a relatively new effort goes a step further than his own group by focusing on helping clergy in particular. In March 2011, a coalition that includes national groups such as American Atheists, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Richard Dawkins Foundation helped launch the Clergy Project, which is aimed at giving doubting and atheist preachers a community in which they can talk about their disbelief.
The program's ultimate goal: to help unbelieving preachers to "come out" in real life.
A safe online community
The Clergy Project's key component is a private online community of active and former pastors discussing their conversions to lives of active disbelief. It lets congregational leaders come out anonymously, using an alias.
"It is important to focus on any group of people who are in a lot of pain," said Linda LaScola, a co-founder of the Clergy Project. "That is why the Clergy Project exists, and it wouldn't be growing if there wasn't a need for it."
When it launched last year, 52 clergy signed up for the online community, according to LaScola. A little more than a year later, 270 members are contributing to the message boards and connecting anonymously with one another.
According to LaScola, the community includes some rabbis, imams and Catholic priests, but the majority are Protestants.
Members are barred from disclosing what is discussed on the boards, but DeWitt said it's a blend of humor, advice and encouragement. DeWitt, who left his congregation just over a year ago, is considered the group's first graduate.
"It gave me confidence to come out," DeWitt said of the Clergy Project. "Knowing that I was not alone, that I was not a fluke, that I was not a freak of religious nature, but that this is a process; it most definitely gave me confidence and a purpose."
DeWitt said that after connecting with people on the message boards, he realized he faced fewer obstacles than some others who are trying to leave the ministry. For example, DeWitt's wife and son already knew about his disbelief, while other questioning preachers had not yet told their families.
"I think it is important when you are struggling that you talk it out, that you write about it, that you find support," said Teresa MacBain, acting executive director of the Clergy Project. "I still try to reach out to people who are questioning, who are doubting, clergy people and laypeople alike, and let them know they are not alone, that there are people who care."
How does he feed his family?
For 44 years, MacBain was involved in some sort of ministry, from organizing worship music to being a senior pastor at a Methodist church in Florida.
At a recent American Atheists convention in North Bethesda, Maryland, MacBain first publicly announced her atheism, inspiring a roaring round of applause. American Atheists President David Silverman walked onstage and hugged her as MacBain began to cry.
"I was the one on the right track, and you were the ones that were going to burn in hell," MacBain told the crowd. "And I'm happy to say as I stand before you right now, I'm going to burn with you."
She said she sees plenty of growth potential in the Clergy Project. In the near future, she said she hopes to incorporate it as a nonprofit and begin raising funds for clergy who have decided to leave ministry jobs. She also wants to compile a group of employment recruiters to help former clergy find new jobs.
DeWitt, for his part, is struggling financially and said his house could be foreclosed on in the next few months.
For former preachers in search of work, their old skills can be hard to translate into new fields. What references do former ministers use if they have disappointed their congregants by leaving the pulpit?
MacBain said that some "formers," as she calls ex-clergy, have left their hometowns for new jobs in fields ranging from radio to counseling.
To aid those transitions, Recovering from Religion has started the Clergy Professional Relief Fund, dedicated to "helping ex-ministers have a soft landing after coming out of the ministry." Though little money has been collected so far, the hope is to help former ministers with job training and relocation expenses.
"Even if you have a degree in divinity, that doesn't really mean anything," DeWitt said. "That is the biggest fear that a nonbelieving clergy member has. How does he feed his family?"
Losing faith, losing friends
As a young fresh-faced minister, DeWitt was first confronted with his disbelief when he "became the person who got the burden of preaching about hell," he said. "I really loved the people I preached to, I loved them like family. So imagine preaching that if you don't do this, you are going to burn in hell. That wasn't easy for me."
After doubt about hell, DeWitt began to research other schools of thought about God and belief. He began to develop other doubts, about certain biblical translations and about healing.
"The next big issue was the failure of prayer," DeWitt said. "People are passing away, whenever we pray for them to live. People aren't getting jobs, whenever we pray for them to have jobs.
"The harder we tried to alleviate suffering within our church, it seemed like the worse things got," he said. "It didn't seem like prayer made any difference. It just continually crushed my heart."
When DeWitt decided to come out as an atheist, some in his congregation appeared shocked.
"I was very heartbroken actually because his family means so much to me; they are actually like family," said Natosha Davis, 30, who attended DeWitt's church for four years. "I was very heartbroken for him that he had to go through that and struggle."
Many congregants were less charitable. "Some people where he lives just totally turned their backs on him," Davis said. "He was ostracized, excommunicated. It is like he has a disease, but he doesn't."
When DeWitt runs into people he used to preach to, he still averts his eyes. Going to the post office and to Walmart, he said, can be stressful because of the possibility of running into a former congregant.
"It is because places in which you were once admired now you are suddenly scorned or pitied," DeWitt said, who admits not having many friends anymore. "It makes for an extremely uncomfortable life."
And yet DeWitt said his atheist life mirrors his old religious one in some key respects. In some ways, he said, he's still a minister.
"The origin of the symmetry is me, is my personality, my love for people, my love for ministering," DeWitt said. "What I have always tried to do is to minster from where I personally am at.
"When I was 17, I preached what I believed was best for people at the time; when I was 20, it was a little different; at 25 it was different, too," he said. "And now at 42, I am still the same guy preaching what I see is best for people."


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2008-09: Matt Lindblad played 51 games for the Chicago Steel in his first USHL season. He scored 5 goals with 20 assists and was -1 with 17 penalty minutes. The Steel missed the playoffs after finishing fifth in the East Conference. The Sioux Falls Stampede acquired Lindblad from Chicago in a May 2009 trade.
2009-10: Lindblad was the second-leading scorer for Sioux Falls in his second USHL season. He scored 24 goals with 46 assists in 57 games and was +11 with 20 penalty minutes. He scored 13 of his 24 goals on the power play. The Stampede finished third in the West Conference and were swept by Fargo in the playoff quarterfinals. Lindblad scored 1 goal with 2 assists and was -5 with 2 penalty minutes in the three-game series. He committed to playing college hockey at Dartmouth in 2010-11.
2010-11: Lindblad skated in 33 of 34 games for Dartmouth in his freshman season and was the Big Green's fourth-leading scorer. Dartmouth's third line center behind senior Scott Fleming and junior Doug Jones, he scored 13 goals with 14 assists and was +8 with 4 penalty minutes. Lindblad scored 7 of his 13 goals on the power play. Dartmouth finished third in ECAC Hockey and reached the conference semifinals; falling to Cornell, 3-0. The Big Green defeated Colgate, 5-3, in the conference third place game but did not receive an NCAA bid.
2011-12: Lindblad was one of the top scorers for Dartmouth in his sophomore season despite missing seven games due to nagging injuries. He led the Big Green with 18 assists and scored six goals, finishing one point behind co-scoring leaders Doug Jones and Tyler Sikura. Lindblad was +8 with 2 penalty minutes in 26 games. Dartmouth finished ninth in ECAC Hockey and were swept by Cornell in a best-of-three quarterfinal series.
2012-13: Lindblad signed a two-year entry-level contract with the Bruins in April 2013 and made his pro hockey debut with Boston's AHL affiliate in Providence following his junior season at Dartmouth. In four AHL games he scored 1 goal with 4 assists and was +3. Providence finished first in the Atlantic Division and reached the second round in the playoffs. Lindblad did not appear in any playoff games. Lindblad was Dartmouth's second-leading scorer in his final college season. He scored 10 goals with 18 assists and was +5 with 2 penalty minutes in 30 games. Dartmouth finished tied for fifth in ECAC Hockey with St. Lawrence and defeated Harvard in a preliminary series before falling to Union in the ECAC Hockey quarterfinals.
Lindblad will play his first pro season during 2013-14, which could be a split between the AHL and ECHL.


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BlueStripe Software Names Alex Eckelberry to Board of Directors
Successful Entrepreneur Brings IT Management Market Expertise
Research Triangle Park, NC (PRWEB) October 03, 2012
BlueStripe Software, a leader in application and transaction monitoring solutions, today announced the appointment of Alex Eckelberry to the company´s board of directors. As a successful entrepreneur and business leader, Mr. Eckelberry brings to BlueStripe a wealth of industry experience related to systems management products and IT Operations for growing companies.
"I am excited to join the BlueStripe board at this important time for both the company and the IT Management industry," said Mr. Eckelberry. "I look forward to helping BlueStripe deliver forward-thinking systems management solutions so that they can maintain their incredible growth."
Mr. Eckelberry is a recognized technology entrepreneur with a history of successful ventures. As President and CEO of Sunbelt Software, he led the company through a period of rapid growth, ultimately resulting in a successful acquisition by GFI Software. Mr. Eckelberry also held senior executive leadership positions at Kroll Ontrack and Quarterdeck (acquired by Symantec).
"We are pleased to have Alex join the BlueStripe board. His knowledge and proven success in the systems management arena will be a great addition to the BlueStripe team" said Kevin Greene, Partner at Valhalla Partners and BlueStripe board member. "This new board addition demonstrates BlueStripe´s commitment to transforming how companies manage their important IT systems."
About BlueStripe
BlueStripe Software provides the next generation of transaction performance management solutions. BlueStripe´s flagship product, FactFinder, is the only solution with automated application management and transaction monitoring in a single product so that IT Operations & Support teams can monitor and manage complete application system and transaction performance, 24×7 – across any platform: physical, virtual, or cloud. Headquartered in North Carolina´s prestigious Research Triangle Park (RTP), BlueStripe was founded by successful IT Software startup veterans. For additional information, please visit http://bluestripe.com.
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Novak Djokovic finally lives his dream
WIMBLEDON, England -- Victory finally secured, Novak Djokovic squatted on Centre Court, his head in his hands. He reached down and plucked a few blades of grass -- and literally tasted his success.
In 2008, Rafael Nadal brought an end to Roger Federer's magnificent reign on Centre Court at Wimbledon. In one of the greatest matches ever played, the young Spaniard won his first title at the All England Club and stopped Federer's run of 40 straight Wimbledon victories. It was a violent shift of the tectonic plates of tennis, and it created a tsunami; Nadal won six of 12 majors and displaced Federer as the game's best player.
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Three years later, on the same patch of singed grass, Djokovic ended Nadal's 20-match winning streak at Wimbledon. Playing the role of upstart, the 24-year-old Serb beat Nadal 6-4, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3.
It is impossible to know with certainty, but this 125th staging of the Lawn Tennis Championships may have marked another profound change in the men's game. Djokovic has now won eight of his past 10 matches against Nadal -- and five in a row.
And it represented the first time Djokovic has beaten him in a Grand Slam.
"For sure, always Wimbledon for me was [the] most special tournament," Nadal said later on court. "When I won in 2008 for the first time, emotions were very high. I know how Novak feels today."
As a kid growing up in Serbia, Djokovic watched Wimbledon on television. Today, he considers it the most important tournament. Now he has an All England title to go with his two Australian Open championships.
"This is the greatest achievement for him," said his mother, Dijana. "Twenty years ago, when he watched [Pete] Sampras winning the Wimbledon trophy, that's why he started to play tennis.
"His [goal] was to win Wimbledon and to be No. 1. Today he won Wimbledon and tomorrow he is No. 1, so this is two dreams in one day."
Said Djokovic, "The best day of my life, the most special day of my life. I think I am still sleeping, having this dream."
Djokovic is only 11 months younger than Nadal, but on this day, at least, he seemed a step faster and one decision ahead of the two-time Wimbledon champion, who was operating with a foot injury. Nadal, perhaps feeling the pressure of Djokovic's extraordinary ability to retrieve, often went too big too early, and missed too often. Two games, the last of the first set and the first of the second, forged Djokovic's advantage. Nadal was serving at 4-5 and led 30-love, when Djokovic cracked two exquisite forehand winners. And then Nadal hit two too-forceful forehands, one into the net and the other wide. That gave Djokovic the set. The Serb was down love-30, but recovered to hold when Rafa missed another forehand and blew a makeable smash.
Tactically, Djokovic wasn't afraid to hit to Nadal's lethal lefty forehand. Since Nadal has a tendency to cheat to the right to cover his weaker backhand, Djokovic caught him a number of times. Djokovic showed a willingness to come to net behind his forehand, and his volleys were clean. He won 19 of 26 points at net. Rafa, oddly passive, only ventured to net nine times.
The critical break in the fourth set came in an awful service game for Nadal. It began with a double fault and ended with a backhand sprayed long, and Rafa's body language told you it was over.
Afterward, Nadal was subdued and sounded almost baffled. One of the world's most mentally tough athletes, Nadal admitted he did not raise his game when he needed it most.
"I played a little bit less aggressive," Nadal said. "To win in matches here, to win tough matches like today, the most important thing is [to] play well [in] the important moments. And I didn't today.
"That's what happened in Indian Wells, that's what happened in Miami, and that's what happened here. And to change that is probably be little bit less nervous, play more aggressive, and all the time be confident with myself. That's what I'm going to try next time."
"If not, I'm going to be here explaining the sixth."
Although Djokovic came into the match having won 47 of 48 matches, he and his camp were among a minority who believed it would happen. True, he had beaten Nadal in four finals this year already, but none of them was a Grand Slam event. Nadal, in fact, had beaten Djokovic in all four of their major meetings, including the Wimbledon semifinals in 2007, when Djokovic retired ignominiously with blisters on his toe.
Today's mature, supremely confident player bears no resemblance to that one. With that record of 48-1 -- he lost to Federer in the semifinals at Roland Garros -- and two majors already collected, Djokovic is poised to have one of the greatest seasons ever. John McEnroe's 82-3 season in 1984 is the highest winning percentage of the Open era. More recently, Federer was 81-4 in 2005.
The rankings system, an impenetrable forest of accounting, had already decreed that Djokovic will be No. 1 when the new rankings are released Monday. This was achieved when he won his semifinal match over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. It's the first time in nearly 7½ years that Nadal or Federer haven't been the top player.
For fans of minutia: Djokovic has 13,285 points and Nadal is second, with 12,070.
Of earning the No. 1 ranking and winning his first Wimbledon title, Djokovic said, "Couple of good days in the office."
In many eyes, this match was the real battle for No. 1, and Djokovic -- unlike the WTA's No. 1-ranked Caroline Wozniacki -- now owns a technical and very real on-court claim on the throne.
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The day before the final, Rafa -- who is essentially a truth-teller -- insisted he was the underdog.
"His mental position over me today is probably a little better," he said, "because he won the last four finals against me."
This turned out to be true.
"When one player beat you five times is because today my game doesn't bother him a lot," Nadal said. "Against me, he's playing better than my level. Find solutions. That's what I have to try. Seriously, I only lose matches this year against him. That's the truth.
"Probably, the mental part is a little bit dangerous for me. My experience says [Djokovic's] level is not forever. I'm going to be here fighting all the time, waiting my moment. I understand the sport like this. Last five times wasn't my time. I'm going to wait and I'm going to try to a sixth. And if the sixth doesn't happen, to the seventh."
For several years now, they have been careening toward each other with gathering speed. With Federer -- still the third-best player in the world -- aging gracefully, theirs has become the rivalry in tennis. It's already happened 28 times.
It is a compelling, complementary matchup: Rafa's forehand -- a hammer to the head -- is the deadliest stroke in game, while Djokovic's elastic court coverage represents the sport's best defense. They are likely to reprise this rivalry a few more times this summer, perhaps even in a few months in New York, where Rafa is the defending champion.
Djokovic, who will be going for his third major of the year, now holds a huge advantage in the area of mental superiority.
"Hopefully, we can have many more matches here at Wimbledon," Djokovic told the applauding crowd. "Thank you very much. See you next year."
He sounded like he meant it.
Djokovic's mother traced her son's success back to the Davis Cup title he helped win at the end of last season.
"Then he realized lots of things," Dijana said. "He matured and then he started to play as he played now.
"No fear. This is the point."
Djokovic laughed when his mother's quotes were related to him.
"Well, if my mother says that, then it's like that," he said. "There is nothing else I can say. My mother knows me better than I know myself.
"In a sentence, I lost my fear. I believed in my abilities more than ever."
Greg Garber is a senior writer for ESPN.com. Ravi Ubha also contributed to this story.
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Day 13
• Djokovic beats Nadal for men's title
• Australia's Barty is girls' champ
• Benesova, Meltzer win mixed doubles
• Garber: Djokovic finally lives his dream
• Tandon: Nadal now in Federer's shoes
• Hot Button: Which is Djoker's better feat?
• McEnroe's analysis on Djokovic
• Djokovic beats Nadal in four sets
• Roof Reaction: What next for Djoker?
Day 12
• Kvitova beats Sharapova for Wimby title
• Bryans win second Wimby title, 11th Slam
• Saville beats Broady to win boys' title
• Garber: Kvitova reminiscent of young Maria
• Tandon: Can Kvitova become new face?
• Tandon: Djokovic halfway to fulfilling dream
• Hot Button: Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic?
• Stats & Info: Djokovic's turnaround
• espnW: A new star is born
• Digital Serve: Next chapter in best rivalry
• Roof Reaction: Kvitova win means what?
• Garber interviews Bryan brothers
Day 11
• Nadal, Djokovic to meet in final
• Garber: Rafa's savage shots too much
• Ubha: Adversity no problem for Djokovic
• Tandon: A battle of serve and nerve
• Hot Button: Who will win the women's final?
• Bodo: Does lefty Kvitova have the right stuff?
• espnW: Djoker reaches No. 1
• Granderson: Maria's return to relevancy
• Vote: Who will win the finals?
• Retractable roof for Court 1 mulled
• Djokovic reaches No. 1 ranking with win
• Digital Serve: Kvitova have enough game?
• Nadal's thoughts on win
• Roof reaction: Murray-Nadal breakdown
• Greg Garber interviews Bryan brothers
• Billie Jean King reflects
• Rafael Nadal beats Andy Murray
Day 10
• Kvitova, Sharapova reach final
• Garber: Experience pays for Maria, Kvitova
• Tandon: Rafa, Murray put friendship aside
• Vote: Who will win the men's semifinals?
• espnW: Add Petra Kvitova to Czech list
• Kvitova vanquishes Azarenka
• Sharapova takes down Lisicki
• Enberg's reflections: Williamses win
• Digital Serve: Men's semifinals preview
• Roof reaction: Will Sharapova win?
Day 9
• Federer blows two-set lead to Tsonga
• Garber: Nadal's foot just fine versus Fish
• Garber: Improbable loss by Roger Federer
• Ubha: Noisy Azarenka ready for breakthrough
• Tandon: Old lady Sharapova repeat win?
• Tomic targets Slam title after Wimbledon run
• SportsNation: Will Fed win another Wimby?
• SportsNation: Who will win the semis?
• Tsonga stuns Federer at Wimby
• Tsonga elated by win over Federer
• What next for Roger Federer?
• Digital Serve: Day 10 preview
• Nadal beats Fish in four
• Djokovic beats Tomic in four sets
• Roof reaction: Can Tsonga beat Djoker?
Day 8
• Nadal expects to play Wednesday
• Sharapova, Lisicki to meet in semifinals
• Garber: No more letdowns for Sabine Lisicki
• Ubha: McIlroy makes Wimbledon appearance
• Tandon: All eyes on Nadal's afflicted foot
• Grantland: Wimby under construction
• Rory McIlroy swings to Andy Murray
• Rain forces six to move on Centre Court
• Sharapova rolls into semis
• Lisicki beats Bartoli in quarterfinals
• Roof reaction: Lisicki-Sharapova
• Digital Serve: Day 9 preview
Day 7
• Men | Women
• Garber: Never too late for Mardy Fish
• Ubha: More anxious moments for Nadal
• Garber: Can Tomic bring back the glory?
• Ubha: Double whammy for Williams sisters
• Tandon: Can Maria Sharapova restore order?
• Garber: The day the women's favorites fell
• Vote: What next for Serena?
• Seven days of Wimbledon
• William and Kate visit Wimby
• Rafael Nadal to skip Spain vs. U.S.
• Bartoli happy with win over Serena
• Serena Williams loses to Bartoli
• Analysis on Serena's loss
• Amazing feeling beating Venus
• Pironkova a bad matchup for Venus
• Sharapova advances in straight sets
• Venus Williams ousted by same foe
• Digital Serve: Day 8 preview
• Mardy Fish postmatch interview
• Enberg reflections: 2008 Nadal-Federer
• Sampras-Federer 10-year anniversary
• Nadal gets by del Potro in four
• Federer reaches quarterfinals


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MODESTO – The Modesto Junior College Theatre Department presents The Rez Sisters directed by Lynette Borrelli-Glidewell, with performances on May 29, 30 and 31 and June 5, 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee at 2 p.m. on June 7 in the Little Theatre of the Performing and Media Arts Center on East Campus.
SACRAMENTO – With nearly 100 bands scheduled to perform at 20 venues during the 41st Annual Sacramento Music Festival & Jubilee, the special $99 four-day event badge price has been extended to all advance tickets leading up to the festival.
NEW YORK (AP) - School massacres apparently will be fodder for humor in a new NBC prime-time fall series.
This summer, Great Valley Writing Project at CSU Stanislaus will offer "GVWP Writing & Technology Workshops" at school sites in Manteca, Ripon, and Lathrop.
MODESTO - Modesto Junior College will hold its 92nd Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 2, at 6 p.m. in the Stadium on East Campus.
MODESTO - The Modesto Junior College Theatre Department presents "The Rez Sisters" directed by Lynette Borrelli-Glidewell, with performances on May 29, 30 and 31 and June 5, 6 and 7 at 7:30 p.m. and a matinee at 2 p.m. on June 7 in the Little Theatre of the Performing and Media Arts Center on East Campus.
Bass Pro Shops free Kids' Outdoor Skills Challenge offers fun outdoor activities for kids such as the opportunity to learn skills such as knot tying, rod casting and archery this Saturday and Sunday.
Not too long ago, Sunset Magazine gave "Best of the West Food Fest" praise to the Stockton Asparagus Festival.
TUOLUMNE – The legendary 1970s Latin rock band Dakila is returning to Black Oak Casino Resort on Saturday, May 3.
The San Joaquin Valley Swiss Echoes annual spring concert and dance takes place this Saturday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Swiss Club Hall, East Main Street and Manley Avenue, Ripon.
MODESTO –The Modesto Junior College Concert Choir will present a Choral Concert on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center on the East Campus, 435 College Avenue.
Down Home Family is performing in Ripon.
MODESTO - The Modesto Junior College Foundation is hosting the annual Celebrate MJC Wine, Beer and Gourmet Food Tasting on Saturday, April 26, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Gymnasium on East Campus. The event will feature regional wines for sampling accompanied by hors d'oeuvres, music and a silent auction. The event will benefit the 21 sports in MJC's Athletic Program.
MODESTO –The Modesto Junior College Concert Choir will present a Choral Concert on Friday, April 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Main Auditorium of the Performing and Media Arts Center on the East Campus, 435 College Avenue.
STOCKTON - Since wowing audiences as the highest-ranking vocal group ever on NBC's America's Got Talent, JC Fisher, Marcus Collins and John Hagen bring their diverse brand of harmonic, pop melodies to the Stockton Symphony's Pops & Picnic concert on Saturday, May 3.
Volunteers are being sought to serve as docents for the Manteca Historical Society Museum.
MODESTO - Modesto Junior College's weekly Science Colloquium spring semester series continues today with "Valley Fever: It's Tthis Valley That Gave it its Name" presented by pulmonologist Dr. Robert Tanka.
MURPHYS - The Calaveras Winegrape Alliance presents the 19th annual Presidents' Wine Weekend on Saturday, Feb. 14, and Sunday, Feb. 15, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at all 22 CWA wineries.
TUOLUMNE CITY - Southern blues rockers Royal Southern Brotherhood will kick off the entertainment line-up in February at the Black Oak Casino.
TRACY - Grand Theatre Center for the Arts presents "Girls Night: The Musical" on Saturday, March 21, from 8 to 10:30 p.m.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Seth Rogen responded to the outrage incited by a series of tweets he wrote regarding the film "American Sniper" in a statement issued exclusively to the Associated Press on Thursday, saying it wasn't his intent to offend anyone or to say anything with political implications.
MODESTO - The Modesto Area Partners in Science (MAPS) will offer a presentation entitled "Cardiovascular Stem Cell Engineering" by Kara E. McCloskey, Ph.D., founding and associate professor for the School of Engineering at University of California, Merced.
STOCKTON - International YouTube sensation Miranda Sings is bringing a hilarious night filled with comedy, hit songs, magic tricks, dramatic readings of hate mail, and never before seen videos on Thursday, May 14, at the Bob Hope Theatre, 242 Main St.
BURBANK (AP) - Chuck Lorre won't clear up the mystery about whether Charlie Sheen's character will return from the dead for next month's "Two and a Half Men" series finale, but he's throwing a lot of love Sheen's way.
What are you doing this weekend?
STOCKTON - The Stockton Civic Theatre presents the hilarious comedy "The Red Velvet Cake War" beginning tonight, and running through Saturday, Jan. 31.
Gabriel Iglesias is bringing his Unity through Laughter Tour to the Bob Hope Theatre on Thursday, March 26.
PASADENA (AP) - CBS has hosts and starting dates for its remade late-night lineup - Stephen Colbert on Sept. 8 and James Corden on March 23 - and now is waiting to find out what kinds of shows the two men create.
STOCKTON - The Pacifica Quartet is performing Sunday, Feb. 8, at 2:30 p.m. at the Faye Spanos Concert Hall at the University of the Pacific.
MODESTO –Modesto Junior College Art Gallery presents Pictures of the Past, an exhibition of the ceramic work of Rebekah Bogard, an associate professor of ceramics at University of Nevada, Reno.