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Meleia Egger (Malawi 2007-09) wrote a poem in the summer of 2011 in honor of the 50th Anniversary. She recently put the poem up on YouTube
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Meleia Egger (Malawi 2007-09) wrote a poem in the summer of 2011 in honor of the 50th Anniversary. She recently put the poem up on YouTube
check it out at:
Marian Beil (Ethiopia 1962-64) and Tino Calabia (Peru 1963-65) set up a petition on SignOn on October 19, 2012 to rally the Peace Corps Community to ask the Peace Corps to honor RPCV and Ambassador Chris Stevens (Morocco 1983-85) at the Peace Corps Headquarters.
A month later, in mid November, the Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet (Western Samoa 1981-83) said the agency would do so, and on May 2, 2013, in Shriver Hall an event was held by the agency.
The Celebration of the life and Service of The Honorable J. Christopher Stevens was a simple and touching event, with short words of rememberance from former Morocco Country Director David Burgess; fellow Morocco Peace Corps Volunteer Amie Bishop; Ambassador Stevens' Father Jan Stevens; Ambassador Stevens' Sister Hilary Stevens; and Ambassador Stevens' Mother Mary Commanday. The special event was opened and closed with remarks from the Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet.
Good Afternoon. It's my pleasure to welcome you here as the Peace Corps honors and celebrates the remarkable life of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.
We are sincerely honored to be joined today by so many of the people who knew and loved Chris . . . His mom and dad — Mary Commanday and Jan Stevens; his sisters - Hilary and Anne; his dear friend - Amie Bishop; and his country director in Morocco - our very own David Burgess. We're so pleased to have all of you here. We are sorry that Tom and Carol could not join us, but we know they are here in spirit.
The Peace Corps really is a family - we feel strongly about our Volunteers and our Returned Volunteers - and we are returned Volunteers, not former Volunteers, because once a Volunteer, always a Volunteer. So Chris - and Hilary, and indeed all of you, are members of our extended Peace Corps family. When something happens to one of us, it affects all of us. And that is why we so passionately wanted to honor Chris here at Peace Corps. Because he is family to us, and it is important to us to honor him as family.
Before I invite David up to begin the program, I'd like to share a brief quote from our founding director, Sargent Shriver -a quote that is so near and dear to us here at the Peace Corps . . . that we have it on the front of our building: "Of all of our ideals, none surpasses the importance of service." I wanted to share this quote because it so aptly describes the life of Chris Stevens.
Chris knew that service to others is an extraordinary act of kindness, and he knew that the benefits to service flow two ways — to both the giver and the receiver of service. He also understood the power of strong personal relationships - relationships based on mutual respect and understanding, developed over time.
These strong personal relationships are at the heart of every Peace Corps experience and it is these personal relationships that have the power to transform individuals and communities. Chris understood that. He developed strong, life-long relationships throughout the world, relationships that were critical to his effectiveness, first as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and later as a diplomat.
So, when we think of someone like Chris Stevens - a man who served his country in so many ways - and in so many places — one can't help but be inspired by his commitment to service - and moved by his love for people, especially the people of the Middle East.
[Following the brief comments by Chris's family and Amie Bishop. Carrie spoke again, bringing the ceremony to a close.]
I again want to thank you all for being here and sharing with us …
Before we end today, I'd like to invite one more person up to the stage. Anne Stevens, Chris's sister . . . Anne has been so helpful in making this day possible. The Peace Corps would like to present to her - and her family - this Shepard Fairey poster.
And I'd also like to bring to your attention two enduring tokens of the Peace Corps' appreciation of Ambassador - and Volunteer - J. Christopher Stevens.
First, this photo of Chris during his Volunteer service in Morocco with fellow English teacher and friend Abderahim Tbany will be permanently displayed just outside in History Hall . . .I'd like to thank Chris's friend, Amie Bishop, for sharing this photo with us.
In addition, our Office of Gifts and Grants Management is working with the Stevens family on an initiative that would honor Chris and ensure his Peace Corps legacy.
We're pleased to collaborate with them on this wonderful remembrance of their son and brother.
Thank you. . .
Marian Beil (Ethiopia 1962-64) and Tino Calabia (Peru 1963-65) set up a petition on SignOn on October 19, 2012 to rally the Peace Corps Community to ask the Peace Corps to honor RPCV and Ambassador Chris Stevens (Morocco 1983-85) at the Peace Corps Headquarters.
A month later, in mid November, the Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet (Western Samoa 1981-83) said the agency would do so, and on May 2, 2013, in Shriver Hall an event was held by the agency. At the May 2, 2013 event no mention was made by the agency of the petition and call-to-action by this website that generated over 1,000 signatures for the Peace Corps to recognize the work of Chris Stevens.
The Celebration of the life and Service of The Honorable J. Christopher Stevens was a simple and touching event, with short words of rememberance from former Morocco Country Director David Burgess; fellow Morocco Peace Corps Volunteer Amie Bishop; Ambassador Stevens' Father Jan Stevens; Ambassador Stevens' Sister Hilary Stevens; and Ambassador Stevens' Mother Mary Commanday.
In the days to come, we will post the remarks by the friends and family of Chris Stevens.
[I received this email from Marcia Kauffman Krasnow saying that Lawrence Fuchs, the first Peace Corps Director in the Philippines, has died. Fuchs in 1961-62 had one third of all the Volunteers in the world. It was the largest Peace Corps country. Philippines, in fact, was the test-case for Warren Wiggins paper, The Towering Task, the original document that Shriver used to create the agency. Following is Ms. Krasnow's email to me, and the death notice about Professor Fuchs.]
Dear John Coyne,
I enjoyed meeting you at the 50th Anniversary events in Washington, D. C. I am the daughter of the late Dr. Joseph F. Kauffman who was the first Chief of the Peace Corps Division of Training at the Peace Corps Headquarters in Washington, D.C. (1961-63)
Both Prof. Fuchs and my father (Dean of Students) were at Brandeis University (outside of Boston) prior to serving in leadership positions in the Peace Corps. Senator Kennedy (JFK) often visited the Brandeis campus during the late 1950's.
It is with great sadness to inform you (or you may already know) that Professor Fuchs passed away earlier this month. During the past year I had the pleasure of having several wonderful phone conversations with him as well as a personal visit to which I brought several items from the 50th anniversary events. He was so pleased to talk about the Peace Corps and see the program from the Staff Reunion.
He touched the lives of so many and will be greatly missed. I recently found a copy of one of his many published books, Those Peculiar Americans; The Peace Corps and the American National Character, Meredith Press, NY 1967. I highly recommend it although copies are somewhat difficult to locate.
I hope to attend his Memorial Service at Brandeis later this month.
Please see the March 24 death notice from the Boston Globe below:
Please feel free to contact me.
My deepest sympathy to so many in the Peace Corps community whose lives were touched by "Larry" Fuchs….
Marcia Kauffman Krasnow
I got an email the other day from David Raphael who was a college student back in 1962 and worked as an intern at the Peace Corps HQ. My piece on Nan McEvoy got him thinking about the 'other' women in the building when he arrived in Washington from Antioch College in the summer of '62. He was assigned to the Africa Regional Office and worked with, he said, two real power houses: Cynthia Courtney, English-speaking Africa Division Director, and Francesca Gobi, French-speaking Africa Division Director. David said that these women, and others in the Africa Regional Office, were all recruited from the Africa American Institute (AAI), which years later was exposed by Ramparts magazine as being a CIA front. Little did we know!
I met Cynthia Courtney in the late summer of '62 when I returned from Ethiopia and went to work in the Office of Volunteer Services (DVS).
Cynthia was one of the orginal 'characters' at the agency. She was a tall, demanding presense in the African Region, a woman of experience within Africa. One of her favorite tricks to get the very best PCVs for her countries, and this would be around 1964, was to go down to Selection late in the day, pull up a chair and thumb through the files of new PCVs. She was looking for 'the best and the brightest' for English-speaking African countries. So if you are wondering why you went to Africa, or why RPCVs thinking Africa got the best Volunteers, think of Courtney.
But my story of Cynthia has to do with a novel, The Zinzin Road, written by Fletcher Knebel and published by Doubleday in 1966. It is the first "Peace Corps Novel" and came about because Charlie Peters hired Knebel, a journalist who had a syndicated newspaper column called "Potomac Fever," to do an evaluation for the Peace Corps. Knebel also wrote popular novels. You might have heard of them: Seven Days in May, Night of Camp David, etc.
Well, Knebel did a quick consultant evaluation of Liberia for the Peace Corps and out of that came, The Zinzin Road. It is a novel about a PCV who travels a road in the country of Kalya bringing supplies to Volunteers. A paper turner as they say. You can read it almost as fast as Knebel typed it.
However, one of the treats of the book is to try and identify the real Peace Corps Mad Men and Women who made it into the novel as 'characters'. One of them is Cynthia Courtney.
Here is how Knebel describes the PC/W character 'Maureen Sutherland, "….a slim, willowy young woman, stylishly dressed…She wore elongated dark glasses, and a sheaf of black hair fell loosely over one eye. Her skin, as creamy as enameled china, hinted of regular facials and a variety of expensive oils and ointments."
Knebel goes on to describes her as someone who would frequently fly into a West African country for a brief, whirlwind fact-finding trip, which she breezily referred to as a "look/see." And while overseas, at staff meetings, she would dominate the room by talking.
He writes: "Miss Sutherland lilted on for half an hour, festively dropping names from Lagos to Washington…she gave a glittering panorama of the world of great affairs, its intrigues, its grand policies an even its illicit loves….She concluded on a pitch of finishing-school breathlessness and looked about brightly as though waiting for applause."
While the Peace Corps in the early '60s was certainly dominated by Mad Men, there were a lot of talented and clever and strong Mad Women as well who could hold their own with the best of them. And Cynthia Courtney carried their flag.
Years ago, inspired by the television program Man Men, I began to do an occasional blog about the early founders of the agency, who I nicknamed, The Mad Men and Women of the Peace Corps. And indeed they were, back then in the early Sixties. From time to time I'd get comments from later PCVs, words to the effect that I get over it Coyne! Those days are long gone.
Indeed they are.
Still I'm going to document the people, the lives, and the times, as best I can, of those early years of the agency when everyone, and I mean everyone, didn't give the Peace Corps a chance to survive, let alone thrive and be around so that they–later day PCVs–might have a chance to join an organization that would change their lives, and organization that today is something like Mom's Apple Pie in the eyes of most Americans.
So, keep quiet. I have more to say about the Man Men and Women of the early 1960s.
The few weeks ago I picked up the Friday, March 29, 2013 issue of The Wall Street Journal and glancing through what they call their Mansion Section the name Nan Tucker McEvoy popped out. My god, I thought, Nan is still alive! Alive and well and at 93 she is running with her only child, age 60, a 550 area olive farm 8 miles from downtown Petaluma in Northern California.
The WSJ wrote, "Ms. McEvoy is the granddaughter of Michael de Young, who in 1865 co-founded the newspaper that would become the San Francisco Chronicle. After living in Washington, D.C. for many years, Ms. McEvoy served as chairmen of the board of the San Francisco Chronicle from 1981 to 1995."
Okay, lets go back to Nan's Washington years. This is when Nan worked for Shriver at the Peace Corps. Shriver hired her, as he hired everyone that first year, to be the deputy director of the African Regional Office. By the time she came to the agency, she was a veteran reporter, having covered state politics in California, national politics in Washington and international conferences and events during ten years with the San Francisco Chronicle, the New York Herald Tribune and the Washington Post. She had lived in France, Italy, Spain and Japan. She went to the Peace Corps as deputy of the African Region and her first job was an eight nation survey of Peace Corps projects in Africa in the summer of 1962.
Next, she became head of Talent Search and charged with finding people for overseas staff position. This was (and is still be) the most important job in the agent. Shriver would say in '62 that the The 'Rep,' as they were called, would be crucial to the success or failure of the Peace Corps.
Nan would be the first woman to run Talent Search. She followed a string of 'super charged' men to get the nod from Shriver to go out and find the "best and the brightest' for the Peace Corps.
The first person to run Talent Search which Shriver was Bill Haddad. At the time, Haddad was an an Associate Director. By the fall of '61, the job went ot Glenn Ferguson, a wonderful man, who later became president of Clark University. By November, Ferguson was off to Thailand as Rep and one of the few African-Americans at the agency, Franklin Williams, took over, then the writer Willy Warner, and next Jay Rockefeller IV, and finally Nan.
What Shriver was doing was putting 'stars' into the position to show that his standards for overseas Reps were high. In those early days, for every thirty applicants, only one would survive.
I'll come back to the early Reps at another time in another blog, but first to Nan Tucker McEvoy in California living on a farm that has 15 buildings and 18,000 olive trees and a frantoia, or traditional olive press, from Italy. The ranch sells its award-winning olive oil, honey from its beehives and other products at the San Francisco Ferry Building and elsewhere in the world.
The article go onto say that besides raising and selling olive oil, she has contribute $10 million to the rebuilding of San Francisco's de Young Museum, and she has been a longtime supporter of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
One more story about Nan from the early days. In late 1962, Shriver had what was called around the original Peace Corps Maiatico building a Buzz Bomb. This was an intercom system connecting Shriver instantly with staff members he most frequently need to reach. Having one on your desk at HQ meant you had power, but a price was paid.
Nan had one on her desk and Sarge called her all the time.
As she recalled in Come As You Are, Coates Redmon's book on the early days, "I heard that horrible sound several times a day for over a year. It was always a hideous prelude to an impossible request. I learned to cope with it by counting to five very slowly every time it went off so that I wouldn't sound addled when I answered. I'd just say breezily, 'Oh, hi, Sarge. What's up?' And he'd say, "Nan! Listen! We've gotta have a Portuguese-speaking basketball coach for Brazil.'"
And Nan, more often than not, would find the right person for Brazil, as well as for many other overseas positions.
There weren't many women in serior position in those Mad Men days of the agency, but Nan and one, and like many other women of that time, she made a difference.
One of the original Mad Men of the Peace Corps, Harris Wofford, is 87 today. Wofford was the first person Sarge Shriver called when President Kennedy asked Shriver to establish a "Peace Corps" in the days after JFK became president. A year later, Harris would leave the White House, where he was Special Assistant to the President on civil right, to become the first CD in Ethiopia, as well as, Shriver's Peace Corps Representative in Africa. After two full years in Addis Ababa, Harris returned to Washington as the Associate Peace Corps Director. In the years before the Peace Corps, he was many things, including an early civil rights leader and advisor to Martin Luther King, all of which is describes in his book, Of Kennedy & Kings, that detailed his work with the Kennedys, the Peace Corps, and Dr. King.
After the Peace Corps, Harris would go onto be president of two colleges, and later the Senator from Pennsylvania. During the Clinton Administration he ran AmeriCorps.
And early supporter of President Obama, Harris, only weeks ago, was presented with the President Citizens Medal at the White House.
Wofford was known for his many creative ideas, especially in political campaigns. During the 1960 campaign he encouraged Shriver to speak to JFK after Martin Luther King was arrested in a demonstration in the south. Wofford suggested Kennedy call King's wife as she was worried something might happen to her husband while he was in jail. Kennedy did make the telephone call from a hotel at O'Hara Airport in Chicago and many, including Teddy White in his book on that campaign, suggested it turned the African-American vote in favor of Kennedy.
Wofford also was the first to define the Peace Corps as a "University in Dispersion" which many RPCVs would agree with, given what we all learned overseas.
There are many famous comments about Harris that have been collected by friends and carried down, one decade into the next. Charlie Peters, at the Peace Corps, once remarked that Wofford had a 100 new ideas everyday and 99 of them were useless, but one was brilliant.
My own favorite comments is, "Harris has many failings, but none of them are human."
Of course, Harris was also famous for going upcountry to visit PCVs so they might talk all night about changing the lives of Ethiopians and forget to bring the Volunteers their mail. But that's another story.
Wofford and his lovely wife Clare brought their young family to Addis Ababa in the fall of 1962 and the first group of PCVs to Ethiopia remember Clare for always welcoming us into their home, and for caring for us in those early years of the agency. As Harris once remarked, "none of us knew what we were doing, but we did it well."
Happy Birthday, Harris.
[P.S. Not familiar with Sen. Wofford's life? Read more here or watch this White House video.]
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Returned Peace Corps Volunteers - please join Peace Corps staff and Volunteers past and future as we pitch in to encourage volunteerism in honor of those lost on 9/11.
Join us on April 21, 2013 for the 9/11 Memorial 5K Run/Walk and Family Day!
The Peace Corps and RPCVs from the Greater New York City area have been invited to volunteer at this year's Family Day. This free community event will include activities for all ages and food and refreshments. It will also offer information about the National September 11 Memorial & Museum as well as ways to learn more about volunteer opportunities in the spirit of the National 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance.
The date of the Run/Walk and Family Day - April 21 - marks the anniversary President Barack Obama signed into law legislation making 9/11 a day of service and volunteerism in the memory of the victims of the 2001 attacks.
9/11 Memorial 5K Run/Walk & Family Day
Sunday, April 21st
Shift Times: 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.; 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Register no later than FRIDAY, APRIL 5th!
The Run/Walk and Family Day will take place in lower Manhattan, taking participants on a historic route passing important places that are part of the 9/11 story. The route will also symbolize how we came together to support one another in the aftermath of 9/11, including those Peace Corps staff and RPCVs who were familiar with the former Peace Corps New York Regional Office which was then located in Building 6 of the World Trade Center.
All participants will receive a free t-shirt the day of the event. Want to take on a leadership role? We are looking for a few individuals who would be interested in being our Team Leaders for the two shifts. This will include a training that will be held Monday, April 11th from 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm. Details will be sent to those interested (you may indicate this on your registration form).
Feel free to contact Andrea Fellows, Public Affairs Coordinator, at firstname.lastname@example.com. I hope you will consider joining us to show Peace Corps support for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum!
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There were three PCVs who began their Peace Corps experience as employees of the agency in Washington, D.C., in early 1961 working at the original HQ the Maiatico Building across the street from Lafayette Square Park, and within sight of the White House. Two of them were Alan and Judith Guskin (Thailand 1961-64) who had on the night of October 14, 1960, created the ground surge for the Peace Corps on college campuses, first in Michigan, and then across the Mid West and the rest of America. Later they would go to Thailand as PCVs.
The other person was Blair Butterworth. I am not sure how Blair arrived at the Peace Corps, or why, but he did arrive, a recent graduate of Princeton, and moved into Georgetown with another buddy, and started working as staff for the Peace Corps before going to Ghana as a PCV.
Last year, at the 50thanniversary of the agency, I help organize a breakfast at the Mayflower Hotel for all the Mad Men and Women who had created the agency in the winter of 1961. I asked Bill Moyers and Harris Wofford to be co-speaker, and former Peace Corps Director, Mark Gearan was the MC at the morning breakfast on Saturday of the weekend
In the course of the morning, in the midst of Q&A about "how the Peace Corps began" Bill Moyers asked his friend, Blair Butterworth, to tell his story of the first Peace Corps Recruitment trip.
Blair who lived in Settle, Washington died on Friday. He stood up at the breakfast and told this amazing story that I for one had never heard before. (And believe me; I have heard a lot of Peace Corps stories.)
Here is what Blair had to say on that Saturday on the 50th anniversary of the agency. If nothing else, it proves we have as a nation come a long way.
Blair Butterworth (Ghana 1962-64)
In the fall of '61, as a prelude to directly recruiting on college campuses, Shriver wanted to introduce the Peace Corps to the country in a series of well-publicized two-day regional conferences. Attendees were those who had contact with potential volunteers, such as college counselors, youth group and community leaders, YMCA's and YWCA's, church leaders of all denominations, 4-H, and similar groups who networked with youth. There were 13 conferences scheduled.
Two of us, Tom and myself, split up the conferences. Out task was to help organize and advance them. For about six weeks I was on the road without being able to catch my breath. It was incredible the amount of work. Shriver, Moyers and other top staff went to almost every one, so there was a lot of pressure. We developed a standard agenda starting with a description of the Peace Corps itself, what the Peace Corps wanted, what sort of volunteers we were looking for, what could they expect overseas, what countries had asked for volunteers.
Needless to say, a lot of the developing countries had figured out that Shriver was indeed the President's brother-in-law, so why shouldn't they ask for volunteers and please the new President.
There were automatically dozens and dozens of requests from all kinds of countries to have Peace Corps volunteers, and it was up to the Peace Corps to see if they were serious requests, and whether we had the volunteers to go. Initially most of the volunteers we sent were BA liberals who had just or recently graduated from college. There were some specialists - engineers, agricultural specialists etc - but mostly it was just kids like me, right out of schools who were willing to get trained and then dive in and go to work.
There was one of my 7 conferences that I'll always remember, Atlanta. I had just finished advancing the conference in Oklahoma City, and was getting on an airplane to go to Portland, Oregon, when I was paged at the Oklahoma City Airport. I was actually going up the ramp to get on the plane when I heard the page. The airline said I had about 10 minutes, so I ran back and took the call, and they said, "You're going to Atlanta."
I tried but was unable to get my bag off the plane, but I arranged for it to be sent to Atlanta. They told me that Tom, who was handling the other conferences, had gone to Atlanta and found out the Sheraton hotel that we'd book would not allow an integrated event; there was a big mess, and some of the local Atlanta black leaders we'd invited were all upset. Moyers called me and said that I had to straighten it out. (For some reason because my Dad was from New Orleans they thought I would be able to find a solution!)
So Tom took Portland and I arrived in Atlanta and went directly to the Sheraton. I met with the manager, and he said there was no way they are were going to have an integrated conference at the hotel. When the Peace Corps had booked the hotel, no one had explained to him that this was going to be integrated. (We had booked all 13 conferences through the Sheraton system, which I think was headquartered in Boston. I guess they didn't know the rules of the old south!)
I told the manager, "Well, I'm in a real predicament, and for the Peace Corps this is going to be extremely embarrassing, and unless we find a place it will be very embarrassing for you as well, because frankly we're going to lay the whole blame on you. The Sheraton chain accepted our business. In fact I can see this event leading to some national boycott of all government and other conferences in all Sheraton hotels. It could be one hell of a mess and you don't know Sarge Shriver if you think he will back down"
At that point the manager volunteered that the city had a public facility we might use and he would help facilitate our booking it, even in short notice. And if that worked they would cater the event and find hotel rooms for all the black invitees, give the others rooms at the Sheraton at half price and would do it all for a minimum fee as long as we could work together for a solution.
Coincidently, when I was at Princeton one of my friends was Ivan Allen, whose father had been Mayor of Atlanta. So I called Ivan and said, "I'm in deep doo-doo here, and I need to get to the Mayor." Ivan responded, "Oh, the Mayor is a big buddy of my dad's. Let me set something up for you."
In half an hour I got a call back, saying the Mayor could see me at such-and-such time. I went to meet with him and told him what the dilemma was. The city did have this sort of armory, where they did have public meetings. He said that they had not had any large integrated meetings there, but it was time. And it was a public place. I assume that integrated conferences in those days just didn't happen in the South. It wasn't a question of where you met; it was a question of it being someplace other than the South. This was 1961; the Civil Rights Act hadn't passed. None of those laws were in place.
So I made the arrangement to switch the conference location, and we got notices out to all of the people who were coming. I got the Sheraton to pay for corresponding with all the people who'd made room reservations and all this kind of stuff. Again, this was the Peace Corps, which had captured everyone's imagination, and it was the brother-in-law of the President of the United States. Everybody knew that the time had come. We were not going to be segregated for the rest of America's life. It was just a question of how it was going to change. Needless to say, I was sweating bullets, because we had people at the Sheraton who didn't get the notices and people going here and there. I rented a bus that would take people to the conference space. Interestingly enough, the African Americans who were coming to the conference, all of them had made arrangements to spend the night at places other than the Sheraton. This would never have occurred to me.
Because it had been so traumatic, instead of going on to advance the next conference, I decided to stay just to be sure that everything went well. It was really quite extraordinary. The first day of the conference, Bill Moyers spoke, giving an introduction to the Peace Corps. There was a good turnout, maybe 30 tables of 10 or 15 people each. After introducing the other staff and welcoming everybody, something instinctive switched on in Bill's head and he asked, "Would everyone from Alabama please stand up?" And about twenty-some people stood, and they were all sitting together at 2 tables. Blacks and whites all sitting together. Then he said, "Would everybody from Georgia stand?" And they too were all together at the same tables. All the people from each state had integrated themselves. It's hard now, so many years later, to understand it, but as Moyers went down the list and people stood up at the same tables, applause broke out and got louder and louder. There were even people crying. When Bill got to Mississippi, and all of the Mississippi people were sitting together, Moyers choked up. Everyone including the black the waiters applauded, cried, laughed and shook hands. It was such an incredible emotional moment. Yes, we were cheering the New Frontier and the Peace Corps, but really we were cheering the beginning of a new era.
The conference was a huge success. The story about the Sheraton was never really written, but the Atlanta Constitution gave us a lot of press. On the last day of the conference, they wrote an editorial that talked about the need for change in Atlanta. It talked about the Peace Corps pulled off something that had not been pulled off before. It said, "It took a 23-year-old future Peace Corps volunteer from Princeton University to come to town and show us that we could have an integrated conference in this great city"
Seattle lost a political legend with the death of master strategist Blair Butterworth. In his memory, a compendium of his greatest quips.
By Knute Berger
Politics lost a local legend last week with the death of Seattle Democratic political consultant Blair Butterworth (Joel Connelly's obit is here). One thing Butterworth was known for: quotability. He was, in the terms of old-school press coverage, a "phrase maker," a guy whose pithy comments about state, local or national politics could make a reporter's or columnist's copy sound better. In his memory then, a few bits gleaned from the archives.
On Frank Blethen's threat to move the Seattle Times to the Eastside in 2001:
"'I think anyone reading the comments would think he's just been seething until he finally imploded,' Butterworth said, adding that Blethen's statements were so 'bizarre' they wouldn't be taken seriously. However, Butterworth said he had to be careful about what he says about Blethen. 'I remember the dog,' he said, referring to a 1996 incident in which Blethen shot a neighbor's dog with a pellet gun. Blethen later agreed to perform community service and pay vet bills in return for dismissal of misdemeanor animal cruelty charges. 'I'm staying away from him,' Butterworth quipped." - From the Seattle P-I
On Congresswoman Linda Smith:
"Leave it to Democratic political consultant Blair Butterworth to have the final and one of the more memorable takes on Republican Congresswoman Linda Smith's poor showing against Sen. Patty Murray on Nov. 3. Making the point that Smith's confrontational style of politics seems to have grown stale with voters, Butterworth likened Smith to an aging stripper, saying: 'At some point, you don't look anymore.'" - From the Seattle Times:
On "anti-infanticide" ballot measure I-694:
"To say this is not about abortion is to say that Monica Lewinsky and the president is not about sex."
On his boss Dixy Lee Ray:
"We thought she would be the best governor Washington ever had, or the worst, and we were right."
On Gov. Gary Locke:
"This is not a malleable pol. You can't reinvent him."
On Congressman Rod Chandler:
"Would you get up early in the morning to vote for Rod Chandler? I mean, you know."
On Mayor Paul Schell after WTO:
"I would be extraordinarily surprised if he doesn't emerge as strong or stronger than before."
On Seattle City Councilmember Judy Nicastro:
"She's stirring the pot and God knows we need that. I can't stomach the fact that these staid old farts feel threatened by her because they don't have a connection to her."
On Republican re-invention:
"Butterworth is admirably succinct when asked what he thinks of [Chris] Vance's contention that the Republicans have a new message and less abrasive tone that will put them back in the game. 'It's bullshit. Vance is in denial,' he says. Butterworth contends that since 1988, when Pat Robertson's Christian soldiers hijacked the Republican Party caucuses, the state's Republican base has been dominated by anti-government wackos: 'It's awfully hard to recruit a great athlete to play on your team if you hate the game.'" - From The Stranger:
On Gov. Chris Gregoire:
"She's not going to have a slam-dunk re-election no matter what she does. Not even if she, like Moses, leads Washington into the promised land."
On Phil Talmadge's run against Gary Locke:
"Phil's out there having a good time. It's easy to go around and talk about wonderland."
On Seattle's Green Line Monorail:
"'It will be built,' said Blair Butterworth, a political strategist for the monorail campaign who now advises one of the prospective construction teams. 'I have no doubt it will be built. I have no doubt it will be done on budget. I have no doubt that if he possibly can do it, he will do it with enough money left over to get to Northgate.'" - From the Times
Explaining why Jim McDermott was losing to Booth Gardner in '84:
"What can I say? If the polls are accurate, it means that the train's going down the track. For the last nine months we've done everything we could to keep the train off the track…"
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(AP) - Federal land managers have rejected an application by a Colorado company to use bacteria to produce methane from northeast Wyoming coal beds.
The Antelope Butte Foundation has taken another huge step toward reopening the Antelope Butte Ski Area. Mark Weitz, president of the foundation's board, said it was a long process.
Families of service members who died while serving in the military may be eligible to have a gold star on their Wyoming license plates.
Fort Mackenzie High School held their graduation ceremony Saturday, and today Sheridan, Big Horn and Tongue River High Schools will all be graduating their seniors with diploma in hand.
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An XDA member vipinrahul has mentioned on one of the threads "http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2545354&page=16"
that on screen buttons can be activated buy editing a file called build.prop, but unfortunately I tried to activate on screen buttons the same way he mentioned and I didn't make it!!
He also mentioned that statusbar transparent can be made by editing the same file and yet nothing's changed.
I even tried to flash many files which can activate the OSB but the device stays on splash screen!!
Is there another way to activate on-screen buttons on the Rom "{Arc/Arc S/Pro}[DEV][KitKat 4.4.1][CM11.0] LegacyXperia"?!
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DoT's move into shared services buoyed by better trained IT workforce
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NSA's mobility mission office puts itself out of business
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GSA applying its IT model to overhaul of services schedules
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Labor overcoming budget stagnation to modernize IT
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Energy CIO Brese to leave government
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Per diem rates to go unchanged in fiscal 2015
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Air Force banking on role-based authentication system to lock down data
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Making muslin produce storage bags
Someone was describing to me these cloth bags used to store produce in the refrigerator in some other countries. They are supposed to make produce last longer because it can breathe and doesnÂt trap too much moisture like plastic bags do. IÂd like to make a set. Near as I can tell, undyed muslin would be a good choice. Or canvas? Anyone try making these and know more about what fabric to use, weight, etc?
I've bought these, and they worked pretty well. They're just a lightweight or maybe light midweight cotton. Probably not a canvas. They'd be extremely easy to make. If you're interested in seeing some models for size (can I post this? I am not affiliated with the company or selling anything) then Reusablebags.com has some.
Here is a link that might be useful: Muslin produce bags sold online
My girlfriends and I had a sewing bee in early December to make similar bags. We made 3 different sizes using a mosquito type netting. Cut out using rotor and cutting mat. Very efficient. 3 sewing machines operating and after 7 hours we had made 55 bags! Zigzagged edges, then casing on top w/ drawstring. For presentation rolled 3 different sized bags and wrapped w/ raffia. A nice environmentally friendly gift plus we had lotsa fun in the making.


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We went to PetSmart today and got some spray that is to keep her from chewing on her body. It said to spray her and make sure she tasted it on her body so that she would not want to chew on herself. We also put a oneis on her. She was very ex... Read more
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Well, I am hoping this is working. This is the second day that I have returned to Sparks and no virus. I am in the process of look up the blogs that I was following before I left as I have missed these people and all the others on this site.... Read more
Saturday, August 13, 2011
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I am trying agian. I left after two virus attacks. I narrowed the virus from Sparks pages and have not had a problem since I left. I have missed the site and my friendships here. I am hoping that all is well now so that I can join the commun... Read more
Thursday, March 10, 2011
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I have been back on Sparks for several days now and up pops a virus. Again, I am fighting it and it looks like it is coming through Sparks. I am very selective about the sites I am on when working on the compute. I do not want to give us Spar... Read more
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Rising competition among ad sellers and sluggish economy puts a damper on earlier forecast.
Local digital ad revenues will continue along a path of strong growth, but research firm BIA/Kelsey has tempered its outlook - yet again. The company projects local digital ad revenues will reach $35 billion in 2015, nearly $3 billion down from its November 2011 forecast. The firm reported today that local digital revenues totaled $21.2 billion in 2011; in November, Kelsey expected that number to hit $23.3 billion.
Kelsey chalks up the downward revisions to a sluggish economy and increased competition in the digital ad space.
Combined, traditional and digital ad dollars targeting local audiences reached $132.8 billion in 2011, said Kelsey, in its U.S. Local Media Forecast, published today. The firm in November had already lowered its expectations for combined digital and traditional local ad revenues in 2011 from $136.2 billion to $135.9 billion.
In the November "Annual U.S. Local Media Forecast, 2010-2015 - Fall Update" report, Kelsey said it expected local digital ad revenues to hit $37.9 billion in 2015. Now it says local digital ads will bring in $35 billion, almost $3 billion less than the earlier estimate. It will take another year to reach the $38.5 billion mark in 2016, today's report says. In 2016, local digital ad spending will account for more than 25.5 percent of total local ad spending.
"There's incredibly increased competition in the digital space," said Mark Fratrik, Kelsey's chief economist. As digital media consumption grows and local online media outlets create additional hyper local content, local ad inventory is growing, said Fratrik.
"There are increased amounts of available inventory out there and as a result... you have increased inventory at the same time you have a slight slowdown in the economy or the expectation and concern about the economy," he said. "It ends up being competition in the various online outlets."
That competition is coming from various sources including local TV and radio companies boosting their digital content and ad offerings. Fratrik reported on the Kelsey site last week that local TV station online revenues rose 19 percent over 2010, reaching $536 million in 2011, and local online radio station revenue rose 15 percent to $439 million.
"From valuable local content, to cross-promotional opportunities between on and off air, and a trained sales staff that understands the local market and the advertiser community, the core assets of local stations give them a competitive footing in the online arena," wrote Fratrik.
Kelsey defines the local media ad marketplace "as those media that provide local audiences to all types of advertisers."
The company expects CAGR growth in digital local advertising to be 12.7 percent between 2011 and 2016 according to today's report.
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