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(CNSNews.com) – Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the Republican Party has "an identity problem" and needs to change along with U.S. demographics.
"I think the Republican Party is having an identity problem, and I'm still a Republican. I'm a Republican who grew up along with George Bush 41. I grew up with Ronald Reagan, Cap Weinberger, Frank Carlucci – that Republican Party, the Republican Party of Dick Lugar and John Tower, but in recent years, there's been a significant shift to the right, and we have seen what that shift has produced – two losing presidential campaigns," Powell said.
NBC's David Gregory asked Powell whether he was still a Republican – despite voting for President Barack Obama twice – and whether he felt like the Republican Party has left him "or have you left it?"
Powell insisted he was still a Republican, but said the GOP has to change with the changing demographics in the country.
"I think what the Republican Party needs to do now is take a very hard look at itself and understand that the country has changed. The country has changing demographically, and if the Republican Party does not change along with that demographic, they're going to be in trouble," he said.
"And so when we see that in one more generation, the minorities of America – African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans – will be the majorities of the country, you can't go around saying, 'We don't want to have a solid immigration party,' 'We're going to dismiss the 47 percent,' 'We are going to make it hard for these minorities to vote' – as they did in the last election," Powell said, referring to voter ID laws, which require some form of identification for voters to receive a ballot.
"What did that produce? The courts struck most of that down. Most importantly, it caused people to turn out and stand in line, because these Republicans are trying to keep us from voting," he said.

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Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees names Bobbie Gostout, M.D., vice president, Mayo Clinic
ALBERT LEA, Minn. and AUSTIN, Minn. — The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees has named Bobbie Gostout, M.D., vice president, Mayo Clinic. The announcement was made at the Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees quarterly meeting.
Dr. Gostout will be the physician leader for Mayo's community practice in the Midwest, including Mayo Clinic Health System in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin and Mayo Clinic's Minnesota-based community care locations.
She succeeds Rob Nesse, M.D., who, in July, became Mayo's first senior medical director of Payment Reform, and Brian Whited, M.D., who has served since that time as interim physician leader. In her new role, Dr. Gostout, along with her administrative partner, Mark Koch, will lead the integration of Mayo's specialty and community care practices in the Midwest, and guide the implementation of all aspects of Mayo's strategic and operating plans.
Dr. Gostout will transition into her new role through the end of 2015. This will ensure a smooth leadership transition for Mayo's community practice in the Midwest and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Rochester, Minnesota, where she has been department chair since 2007.
"Dr. Gostout has a passion for our local communities and recognizes the mutual reliance between our community practices and destination medical centers," says John Noseworthy, M.D., president and CEO, Mayo Clinic. "She has demonstrated her skill in guiding the integration of clinical practices and is gifted in bringing groups together to work through tough issues and solve problems. This made her an ideal choice to lead our important work within Mayo's community practice in the Midwest."
Dr. Gostout has been on the Rochester staff for nearly 20 years. In addition to her roles as physician and chair in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, she is a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and has served in various leadership roles at Mayo Clinic, including vice chair of the Rochester Personnel Committee and Rochester Clinical Practice Committee. Dr. Gostout is a member of the Mayo Clinic Board of Governors and Board of Trustees. She is former president of the Western Association of Gynecologic Oncologists and a member of the former Mayo Clinic Health System Board of Directors.
"We deeply appreciate the important work Dr. Nesse has done to lead community care in the Midwest, and thanks is also due to Dr. Whited for his interim leadership," says Dr. Noseworthy. "Ensuring patients have access to highly coordinated care helps us better support patients no matter their needs."
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BY ANY measure, it's been a difficult year for the Ten Network, so the embattled broadcaster has begun looking to 2013 by commissioning a new 13-part Melbourne-made crime series.
This year's only genuine ratings blockbusters - The Voice and My Kitchen Rules - have bolstered the fortunes of Nine and Seven, respectively. Ten has so far failed to make a sustained mark in a ratings sense.
And the network's recent announcement of a slate of new reality shows, such as Being Lara Bingle, was met largely with derision.
This weekend, however, Ten begins looking forward. First, tomorrow night sees the premiere of a new season of its high-rating profit centre MasterChef. The prosperity of My Kitchen Rules and the perceived declining appeal of the MasterChef brand places extreme pressure on the cooking show. Ten executives will endure a sleepless night on Sunday waiting for its overnight ratings figures. Nine has helpfully moved its juggernaut The Voice away from Sunday evenings for a time. The two will instead clash on Monday.
Adding to the drama, this year's MasterChef is the first to be produced by News Corp's production company Shine. The last big reality project for Ten was the expensive ratings flop The Renovators.
Meanwhile, today Ten announces a new Australian scripted drama, starring two notable stars: Shaun Micallef and Offspring's Kat Stewart. Mr & Mrs Murder will begin filming in Melbourne in September and air on Ten next year. It is one of four new television projects given financial backing by Screen Australia in the body's latest funding announcement. Another, House Husbands, will film in Melbourne and air on Nine.
Micallef, who is at present working on a coming ABC news comedy show Shaun Micallef's Mad As Hell, said yesterday Murder will be his first attempt at playing a lead in a drama series.
The concept for the series - a married couple who are forensic cleaners decide to solve the crimes that they are cleaning up - came from Micallef and producer Jason Stephens.


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He said the "illegal and illegitimate court" was biased against Serbs and had falsified history by classing the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica as genocide.
Mr Seselj leads the Serbian Radical Party (SRS), Serbia's largest party.
He denies three charges of crimes against humanity and six counts of war crimes, including persecution, deportation, murder and torture.
At the start of his trial on Wednesday, Mr Seselj was accused of inciting war crimes committed by volunteer forces under his command.
Mr Seselj surrendered to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) voluntarily in February 2003.
He remains the leader of the SRS, which is now Serbia's most influential opposition party.
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Mr Seselj argued in court that he was a victim of an international conspiracy against Serbs.
"I never called anyone to war unless it was a question of defence for the Serbs," he said. His statement was quoted by the AFP news agency.
"Any war we waged was not against the Muslims and the Croatians, or the Albanians for that matter, but against their bosses: Germany, the Vatican, America and Nato," he said.
He said the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague had displayed an anti-Serb bias by classing as genocide the 1995 killing of Muslims in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
"One thousand Muslim prisoners of war were executed [in Srebrenica]," he said. "It's an atrocious crime but not a genocide."
Up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred by Bosnian Serb forces in Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia, in 1995.
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Roache caps Rattlers comeback with big home run
Wisconsin tops Quad Cities 9-7
By Chris Mehring / Wisconsin Timber Rattlers | May 14, 2013 6:56 PM ET
GRAND CHUTE, WI - The big boppers on the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers roster hit a couple of big home runs to lead the team above .500. Mitch Haniger and Victor Roache both went deep as the Rattlers rallied for a 9-7 win over the Quad Cities River Bandits Tuesday night at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium. Haniger drove in three runs, but it was the two-run homer by Roache in the seventh inning that gave Wisconsin the lead for good.
Quad Cities (21-16) scored first. They got a run on a throwing error as the Rattlers were unsuccessful in turning a potential inning ending double play.
The Rattlers (18-17) sent eight men to the plate in the bottom of the first inning and scored four times. Haniger launched a two-run home run, his fourth dinger of the season, to left field to put Wisconsin up 2-1. Parker Berberet made it 4-1 with a two-run double later in the inning.
Then, the Bandits sent ten men to the plate in the top of the second inning and scored five runs for a 6-4 lead. The first run scored on an error after a double by Roberto Peña. There were two outs with runners at first and second when Carlos Correa sent a slow grounder near second. The flip to second for the inning ending force out was late as Teoscar Hernandez beat the play. That loaded the bases with two outs and the River Bandits made the most of the opportunity.
Rattlers starting pitcher Mike Strong walked Jesse Wierzbicki to force in a run. Terrell Joyce was next and his two-run double to right-center put Quad Cities up 5-4. An infield single by Rio Ruiz got Wierzbicki home and the lead was pushed to 6-4.
Wierzbicki added to the cushion with an RBI double in the top of the fourth inning and the River Bandits were up 7-4.
Jamaine Cotton, the River Bandits starting pitcher, settled in after the first inning and kept the Rattlers from scoring. He went five innings before turning the game over to Vincent Velasquez.
Wisconsin almost got to Velasquez in the sixth inning as Haniger walked and Roache singled to start the frame. But, the duo was left stranded when the inning ended.
The Rattlers rallied in the seventh. Orlando Arcia singled with one out and Taylor followed with a walk. A wild pitch moved both runners into scoring position. Michael Reed's grounder up the middle was enough to score Arcia. Taylor had to stop at third as Correa, the shortstop, made a nice play to keep the ball from getting into centerfield. Haniger was next and his sacrifice fly drove in Taylor to cut the Quad Cities lead to a run.
That brought Roache to the plate and the Rattlers slugger sent a towering fly ball to left that carried over the wall for a two-run home run and an 8-7 Timber Rattlers lead. The homer was the fourth of the season for Roache.
Chris McFarland tripled in the bottom of the eighth inning and scored on Mike Garza's fielder's choice for an insurance run to give Wisconsin a 9-7 lead.
Rattlers pitcher Tyler Wagner, who took over in the top of the sixth inning, pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to close out Quad Cities. Wagner allowed one hit and struck out five in four scoreless innings to earn his fourth win of the season.
The victory was the second straight for Wisconsin and moved the team over the .500 mark for the first time since they were 2-1 on April 6.
Game two of the series is Wednesday night. Leonard Lorenzo (1-2, 7.15) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers. Lance McCullers (0-3, 1.71) is set to start for the River Bandits. Game time is 6:35pm.
Wednesday night is a WIXX Bang for Your Buck Night with soda, beer, and hot dogs will be available for $1. It's also Halloween in May. Costume contests and plenty of spooky surprises will be on hand for the fans.
If you can't make it out to the ballpark, My NEW32's Sports Showdown will televise the game starting with the pregame show at 6:00pm. The game is also available on AM1280, WNAM and timberrattlers.com starting with the Miller Lite Pregame Show at 6:15pm. Subscribers of MiLB.TV can catch the game that way, too.
Mitch Haniger (4th, 1 on in 1st inning off Jamine Cotton, 1 out)
Victor Roache (4th, 1 on in 7th inning off Vincent Velasquez, 2 out)
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LP: Vincent Velasquez (3-2)
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From The Waverley To The Words
Rudy Henriquez '14
As some of you might have noticed, this newsletter has changed quite a bit over the last two academic years. In this time span, we have transitioned from a print publication available only on the department floor to an online format sent to English majors, minors, faculty, and alumni by mass email. We have also changed our name from The Waverley to The Words.
Throughout this evolution, however, our stories have remained the same – student written pieces centered on the events, people, and courses closest to us in the English department. In the past two years, we have covered everything from poetry readings to individual experiences abroad, from professors' literary crushes to their recent scholarly publications. The newsletter's transition to an online format has also allowed for a more dynamic presentation of our stories as seen by our video series "Real Talk," which makes its return in this month's issue.
All of this change has not occurred magically. With the support of the department coordinator Jan Beebe, Macalester's Communications & Public Relations staff, and IT Services, our newsletter has flourished in its short existence in the digital realm. However, we still have a lot of room for growth and improvement. As we learn to negotiate the tech tools we have available to us, I am confident this growth will continue. Luckily, our community is always flowing with news, events, and projects connected to current students, faculty, and alumni. As Senior Editor of the newsletter, my goal has always been to channel this activity and energy into every issue.
I am proud of how much the newsletter has grown since I joined the team of editors, and I am proud of what it has helped me accomplish in my personal life. My time as an editor of The Words is coming to an end. This reality has allowed me to reflect on what I have gained from the experience of being an editor of the student newsletter. Before I began working in the English Department, my job was to input numbers into a database for hours on end. Although I cherish the work experience I gained at that position, getting chosen by Jan Beebe to be an editor for the student newsletter has been the best opportunity I have had at Macalester.
Being an editor and student worker in the English department has given me the chance to form relationships with students and faculty that I would never have otherwise formed. It has taken me to events that I would have mistakenly ignored. Lastly, the position has helped me develop leadership and management skills that I was able to highlight in my job interview with Yelp, Inc. I will be working at Yelp's headquarters in my hometown of San Francisco starting in June of this year as an Account Executive in the Sales Department. The position requires an aptitude for communication as well as an ability to self-manage within a team atmosphere. Fortunately, I have learned these skills working as a part of the newsletter team.
I shall forever be thankful to the English Department and the editorial staff of the student newsletter. It has been an amazing ride full of hurdles and successes. I know that I leave the newsletter in the capable hands of future Macalester student writers, all of whom will take The Words to greater heights than I could have managed. Thanks to all.


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In Part I, I described how to create a simple hot spot, or hot link, in which holding the mouse pointer over an area displays a pop-up image. Now I'll describe how to create a clickable hot spot — one that requires the user to click an area to display an image.
The steps for doing this are different in InDesign CS3 and CS4. Keith Gilbert described how to build PDF tooltips (PDF) in InDesign CS3.
Creating a Clickable Hot Spot (CS4)
We're going to use the Show/Hide Button action to display the hidden button when we click. (If you're familar with creating buttons in Acrobat, "Show/Hide Button" in InDesign is the same as "Show/Hide a Field" in Acrobat.) To create a hot spot that appears when you click, we'll need to create two separate buttons — one to define the hot spot area and the other to appear when the hot spot area is clicked.
1. Use the Rectangle tool to drag a box over the area you want to define as the hot spot.
In my example, I created a box over the Paris area on the stunningly beautiful map of France.
2. Turn the rectangle object into a button. To do this, select the object, and then either click the [Normal] state in the Buttons panel, or choose Object > Interactive > Convert to Button.
3. Place the image you want to make appear when the hot spot area is clicked.For now, you may want to keep the image away from the hot spot area to make it easier to select.
4. Select the image and convert it to a button. In the Name field of the Buttons panel, type a name for this button.Since we'll be referencing this object, a descriptive name like "Tower" is easier to recognize than "Button6."
5. With the image still selected, choose "Hidden in PDF" from the Buttons panel menu.
When the PDF is open, you want the image to be invisible until the hot spot is clicked. Now we're ready to create an action to displays the hidden image. An action takes place when the user activates a trigger. We're going to set up two triggers with two different actions:
On Click = Display the image button when the mouse button is held down
On Release = Hide the image button when the mouse button is released
6. Select the hot spot object you created in the first step. For Event, choose "On Click." For Actions, choose "Show/Hide Buttons" from the plus sign menu.
7. In the Visibility section, click the box next to the image button to display the Eye icon.This will cause the button you made invisible in the PDF to become visible.
Now we're going to add another action so that when the user releases the mouse button, the image will be invisible again.
8. For Event, choose "On Release." From the Actions plus sign menu, choose "Show/Hide Buttons." In the Visibility section, click the box next to the image button to display an eye with a red line in it.
9. Move the buttons into the right place and save your document.
10. To test your clickable hot spot, export to PDF. Again, remember to select Interactive Elements in the Export Adobe PDF dialog box.To see what my goofy hot spot looks like, go here: View PDF
By the way, you can use a similar procedure to create a rollover effect in which one image appears when you hover the mouse over another object. Instead of using the On Click and On Release events as described in these steps, use the On Roll Over and On Roll Off events.
I still haven't figured out what causes the ghost border of the hot spot to remain after it's clicked. Let me know if you have an answer.


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THERE will be a national day of mourning for the fire victims so Australia can grieve for Victoria's dead.
"It is very important that the nation grieves," Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told Parliament yesterday.
He said he had discussed the plan to recognise "the terrible events of the past few days" with Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull and details were being worked out with the Victorian Government and the Council of Churches.
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"The details are currently being finalised and they will be announced soon," Mr Rudd said.
A spokeswoman for Mr Rudd said last night no decision had been made on the date of the day of mourning.
Community Services Minister Jenny Macklin told Parliament the people of Kinglake, Marysville, Wandong, Flowerdale, Churchill and many other communities were not about to give up.
While Australia was a nation in shock, it was also mobilised to help and ready and willing to tackle the huge task ahead, Ms Macklin said.
"Overnight, some of them may have become citizens of tent cities each night going to sleep under canvas but they are already planning and thinking about how they can go back and start again," Ms Macklin said.
"They want to get back to their towns and farms, to begin sorting through the wreckage, to salvage what they can."
"They are sharing their stories of escape and survival. They are regathering and regrouping.
"Their losses are enormous, but they haven't lost their sense of community, bound together by courage, sacrifice and an incomparable generosity of spirit."
Messages of sympathy and offers of support are also pouring in from across the world, as have millions of dollars from some of Australia's least-wealthy neighbours.
Indonesia has donated $1.5 million and Papua New Guinea $2 million, amid a mass of offers that a clearly moved Foreign Minister Stephen Smith described as "very uplifting".
Mr Rudd said Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare had told him that whenever calamities hit his country, Australia had always been first to help.
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Then he told of how a woman from Cypress, Texas, emailed him to offer spiritual help from those who had suffered in US disasters.
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There are no regrets coming from the White House on the president's unsuccessful appeal to the International Olympics Committee today.
"The thing about sports is you can play a great game and still not win," President Barack Obama said today upon returning from Copenhagen, where he had tried to help Chicago win the 2016 Summer Games. The president said he was proud of Chicago and extended congratulation to the winning city of Rio de Janeiro.
"I know the president doesn't regret for one second going to do what we've done. He would do it over again," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters traveling with the president.
Gibbs shot down a question over whether the defeat compromises the president's standing internationally. "Three world leaders showed up here [Copenhagen] in addition to us. If he hadn't come, I'm sure people would say, 'I can't believe he didn't go and push the American bid for the Olympics.'"
Gibbs further chided Republican critics, including Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who dinged the president for spending time on the Olympics appeal. "There are people trying to solve problems and there are people playing games and I think we know where a bunch of that is," Gibbs said.
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Because Photo Boy doesn't appreciate the high stakes journalism that goes on here, he thought it'd be a great idea to get shithoused on maple whisky and high gravity beers in the middle of a work week. So while he's intermittently puking and putting together The Crap We Missed, here's Mila Kunis' ass in tight jeans to tide you over until whenever that goes up. And for the record, we did have a one-on-one counseling about killing his brain cells responsibly – And minus the hangover! – by watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. I think I got through to him.
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Over the past few months, the Health Protection Agency has seen a marked increase in measles cases in the UK, with figures revealing at least 275 confirmed cases in the first quarter of 2011, compared to 33 for the exact same period last year. Most of the infected are children and young adults and many cases reported are clustered around schools and universities, while some are directly related to travel abroad. The areas worst hit in the UK are London and the South East, with 104 and 102 cases of measles reported in these areas respectively.
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The VIK hotel Arena Blanca is placed overlooking the incomparable beach of Bávaro, just 30 minutes away from the International Airport of Punta Cana. This hotel in Punta Cana was renovated in 2006 to be able to offer a wide variety of environments: cared for, therapeutic and beautiful settings in the modern spa, full entertainment programmes and romantic dinners under the stars, right on the warm Caribbean beach. Switch off as you arrive at VIK hotel Arena Blanca and enjoy your stay to the limit.
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Is he gonna run again?
Sorry about that earlier post. I don't know what happened.
Is he gonna run again?
Sorry about that earlier post. I don't know what happened.
I dream of a world in which the national race comes down to Ralph Nader v. Ron Paul.
First of all, no matter who won, I would feel confident the winner was sincere in their desire to improve America.
Even better- just imagine the debates! Just imagine it- an intellectually honest debate on economics in front of a national audience.
Minds would be BLOWN.
zaphod: do you really think either of these guys is honest? maybe nader, because he realizes he doesn't have the proverbial snowball's chance. and because of this, he often says things that actually make sense, since he's smart enough to realize it won't make a difference.
but paul? he's as ambitious as they come, and appears to believe he might have a shot. which means he can't be trusted, no matter how much "sense" he appears to make.
in any case, i agree that i'd love to see an honest debate between these two obvious losers (in terms of the american electorate's concerns), just to see how stupid the american electorate actually is. :)
and i'm trying to be positive and optomistic here...
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1835 the land that was to become Pella, Iowa, was a rolling stretch
of prairie populated by Sac Indians and Midwestern wildlife. The
landscape of waving tall grass was relieved by scattered stands
of pine, maple and oak timber following the Keokuk River. By 1846,
the state of Iowa had been carved out of the Wisconsin Territory
and the future site of Pella was split between approximately 20
year later, these original founders were living side by side with
Dominie Hendrik Pieter Scholte and 800 of his Dutch Reformed Church
followers in the new city of Pella. Pipe clamped firmly between
his teeth, Scholte was able to purchase the land for a mere $0.14
an acre, a bargain price even for the time. Having fled Holland
in search of religious freedom, the settlers arrived in Pella —
marked by a hickory pole driven into the ground with the name painted
on a wooden shingle nailed to the top — eager to build a community
that nurtured education as well as religious freedom.
new city of Pella thrived over the next six years. During that same
time, the Iowa Baptist Education Society worked toward founding
a college in the new state. At a meeting of the educational convention
in Iowa City on April 13, 1852, the members unanimously agreed:
it is the deep and settled conviction of the Baptists of Iowa, that
the time has now come when an institution of liberal and sacred
learning, under the control of the Baptist denomination, should
be established in this state.
though a limited number of delegates were able to attend in Iowa
City due to poor road conditions that muddy spring, the enthusiastic
members present voted that Burlington would be the home of the new
school. In September of that year when a more complete educational
committee met in Marion County, the former location of Burlington
was decided to be too far to the east to serve the whole state and
the search for a permanent location began again. Friends of Burlington,
feeling that the previous vote was valid, pushed forward and built
Burlington University anyway, opening its doors on Jan. 4, 1854,
and continuing until 1901.
for the Baptists of Iowa, the question of where to put the new school
was still unsettled. A meeting in Oskaloosa on Nov. 10, 1852, resolved
only to ponder the matter further and meet once again in the summer
to decide.
heat of summer had fully descended on the bustling town of Pella
when the Baptist education convention met there on June 2, 1853.
Among its elected delegates from Baptist churches across the state
were noted Pella citizens Dominie Scholte, A.E.D. Bousquet and Professor
L. Dwight.
in Scholte's mind was securing Pella as the future site of
the Baptist college over its most imminent threat — Oskaloosa.
A graduate of the University of Leyden, Scholte believed in the
power of higher education and showed commendable open-mindedness
by campaigning so strongly to establish a school outside his own
denomination. Both Oskaloosa and Pella were centralized in the state,
which would provide more equal access to all Iowans, and both had
willing, supportive communities eager for the chance to educate
their children plus provide a temporary home for young scholars
away from their own families.
was at this point that Scholte presented an offer in favor of Pella
that the Baptists could not refuse — free land and money.
When the votes were counted, Pella came out the winner.
final motions of the 1853 meeting chose two committees to begin
establishing the new Central University of Iowa. The first was to
draft a constitution and articles of incorporation, and the other
to nominate a board of trustees. The first CUI board of trustees
consisted of 30 members with an executive committee comprised of
H.P. Scholte as president, W. Nossaman, vice-president, Rev. I.C.
Curtiss as secretary and J. Smeink, treasurer.
1854 saw the first annual CUI board of trustees meeting in Pella.
Plans were made to commence classes of the academic department in
the fall of that year. In a stroke of great fortune, Dr. Emanuel
H. Scarff of Dayton, Ohio, a Baptist Rev. and a graduate of Denison
College, was secured as principal for the department. Scarff had
contracted malaria in Indiana and his doctors advised him that the
"stable" climate of Iowa would ease his weakened lungs.
In this way, Central found its next steadfast friend.
arrived in Pella on Sept. 3, 1854, on the stagecoach that made daily
runs between Oskaloosa and Pella. Classes were scheduled to begin
two weeks later, yet to his surprise, Scarff found no building,
no desks, no books, and no space rented to even temporarily hold
his future students. Used to adverse conditions with limited resources,
Scarff wasted no time in delaying the opening of classes from the
advertised Sept. 17 date to that of Oct. 8. He used his additional
time to acquire rented space for classrooms at 1109 Washington St.,
the present site of the Strawtown Gift Shop, and to hire carpenters
to build benches and desks for the fledgling school. In later years
Scarff wrote: "The school furniture was still growing in the
Des Moines (River) timber, yet in three weeks after our arrival
in Pella the timber was cut, drawn to the mill, sawn into lumber,
made into two-seated desks and placed in the school room."
on the first day of classes was 37 students, made up entirely of
children from the nine "American" families then residing
in Pella before Scholte and his followers arrived, and the rest
from the Dutch settlers themselves. At the end of the term that
number had risen to 73.
1854 the foundation stones for the building known as "Old
Central" were laid. Once again the citizens of Pella rose
to the occasion and donated valuable time, labor and materials to
the new structure. Deacon Wellington Nossaman donated the first
white oak timber off of his own land to build the frame of the three-story,
50'x 70' brick building. In 1856 enough of the new building
was completed to move the school from its Washington Street location
to the site that would remain its home until the present day.
looked very bright for the fledgling school at the opening of the
second annual board of trustees meeting in 1855. Knowing that if
Central was going to survive, the ever-pressing need of an endowment
had to be addressed. Board President Scholte proposed an endowment
of $50,000, the interest of which would provide for the salary of
a college president at $1,000 yearly, two professors at $750, two
tutors at $500, one female principal at $500 and three female "assistants"
at $333.33 yearly.
A fundraising
campaign was launched at the end of 1855, which progressed well
until the beginning of 1857. J.K. Hornish of Keokuk pledged $10,000
— a sum equal to $201,725 today — provided that the
Rev. Elihu Gunn, D.D., be appointed as the first president of Central.
Gunn was installed as the first president of the collegiate department
of Central at the June 1857 board of trustees meeting amidst the
rising financial panic that swept the United States in the five
years leading up to the Civil War.
the panic tightened its grip on the nation, Gunn took the reins
of Central only to find his salary was not available in the amount
he had been promised. Despite the reverse in economic conditions,
Gunn faithfully began his presidential duties as the first collegiate-level
classes commenced in the fall of 1857. By 1860, Central University
of Iowa saw its first three college graduates accept their diplomas.
Central's first graduates were preparing to take their final
examinations, the United States was rushing headlong into the most
trying period of its short history. The guns of Fort Sumter had
barely begun shooting before the Civil War that was raging in the
East began to draw young men into its desperate clutches. For the
five years leading up to the war and during the five years that
it was being fought, economic conditions in the United States were
in a desperate state. Gunn, Scarff, principal of the ladies'
department Drucilla Stoddard and professor Amos Currier had found
themselves on shortened salaries from 1858 to the outbreak of hostilities.
to never receiving the salary he had been promised, Gunn resigned
the presidency in 1861 just as 122 male students at Central exchanged
their books for guns and rushed off to make their mark fighting
for the Union. Going with them was professor Amos Currier. This
left the school with only two male students — one born with
a withered hand, the other missing an arm — and Scarff, Stoddard,
two professors and approximately 40 female students to struggle
on as best they could until the end of the war.
would be a grave oversight to underestimate the degree of commitment
shown by these teachers and students during this time. Funds were
essentially nonexistent, as most students could not conceive of
paying full, or sometimes even partial tuition. Endowment pledges
had been halted since American citizens were reduced to concentrating
on survival as the fighting raged on in the East. Emanuel Scarff
and his associates closed Old Central and began teaching classes
out of their homes so that they would not have to heat the large
school building. Whatever monies the school did bring in through
tuition or the occasional endowment pledge went towards running
expenses with the remainder split between Scarff, professor Stoddard,
Mrs. Druscilla Stoddard and music teacher Miss Noble.
the hard times, any student wishing to continue their education
was not turned away. Promises of future payments after the student
was able to secure employment were accepted in good faith, and collegiate
students were put to work assisting the teaching of academy students
in lieu of tuition.
through perseverance and an unflagging devotion by its teachers
and administrators to keeping Central College alive, the struggling
school found itself still in operation when the "Boys of '61"
came marching back to take up their studies at the opening of the
fall semester, 1866.
the war years, the citizens of Pella and the Central community spent
their time glued to whatever war news they could get and helping
out as much as possible with the war effort. During classes in the
homes of Stoddard or Scarff, students would often roll bandages
or knit socks and other articles of clothing while listening to
lectures. Sewing circles created to make quilts, organize donation
drives and letter writing to friends and family were a common pastime
for those left behind.
the resignation of Gunn in 1861, Scarff took over as acting president
of the college even though he maintained, "I am a teacher,
not a president." Scarff remained president for 10 years while
still fulfilling his teaching duties and serving as pastor of the
Baptist Church of Pella.
1864, creditors were pressing for payment. At the June 1864 meeting
of the board of trustees, the school found itself in debt to the
tune of $12,000 — $134,483 in today's currency —
an amount equal to the entire value of all the college's property.
Not satisfied with the college's state of indebtedness, Scarff,
I.J. Stoddard and the recently returned professor Currier began
fundraising to pay off the $12,000 debt and secure a lasting endowment
for the school. When spring rolled around in 1866, Central found
itself completely debt-free, a happy condition that lasted for four
early social life of students from this time period is difficult
to trace. Lack of personal letters and diaries makes the everyday
actions of students hazy at best. However, it is known that music
concerts were given on an almost weekly basis by professors and
students of the school. With the beginning of collegiate classes,
degrees in vocal or instrumental performance were some of the earliest
a student could get. Visiting musicians were not as common, but
did make their way to Pella on occasion. Stage plays, usually of
a religious nature, were organized by churches, the YM/YWCA on campus
or by one or more of the literary societies.
societies reach back to the beginnings of Central itself. Participation
in one of the societies was required of students up until the beginning
of the 20th century. Their main purpose was to offer members a forum
for practicing the art of public speaking during a time when most
lessons were recited to professors in the classroom, not written
down and handed in. Members chose a topic to research, prepared
a speech about the topic and then delivered it at their society's
literary societies weren't all work, though. Scholarly pursuits
were enhanced by the societies' participation in presenting
dramas and other forms of entertainment along with providing a place
for socializing. Announcements for dinners, picnics, ice cream socials
and other sorts of "get-togethers" hosted by one society
or another appear in the Central College Ray from the early 1870s
until their demise between 1943 and 1946.
first literary society on campus was "The Young American Society,"
founded in 1854. This society eventually led to the founding of
the second, and longest-running society on campus, the all-male
"Philomathians" in 1873, the same year that Central's
Alumni Association was started, making it the oldest in the state.
Just two years later the women of the college decided that a society
of their own was in order and founded "Advansonia" in
later years other societies followed including the co-ed "Chrestomathian,"
the "Delphi" and "Lambda Epsilon Phi." Eventually
the purposes fulfilled by literary societies were supplanted by
the Greek system of sororities and fraternities along with specialized
clubs geared specifically towards academic majors, such as drama
and speech. Still, one must remember that in the early years, the
literary society was considered to be one of the social epicenters
for students. While members were required to study and learn, they
were also responsible for theatre productions, musical entertainment,
dinners and general camaraderie.
maintained chosen colors, mottos, and of course, the all-important
"cheer." The following is the cheer used by the Philomathians
from 1876 until they disbanded in 1945:
Wic! Wo!
Ble! Blo! Blam!
He! Hi! Ho!
final three literary societies on campus, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alethia
and Delphi all voted to disband in October of 1946.
1871, the board of trustees freed Emanuel Scarff from his duties
as college president with the hiring of Rev. Lewis A. Dunn, D.D.
of Fairfax, Vt. Scarff continued to teach until 1878 when his failing
health forced him into full retirement. For his 24 years of self-sacrificing
service, the sidewalk from the front door of Old Central to the
corner of the lawn was laid in a giant "S." Dunn retired
in 1881, and was replaced by Rev. George W. Garner, D.D.
new president immediately saw that the lack of a suitable endowment
was the school's most pressing challenge. With Chancellor
T.E. Balch in charge of financial interests, Garner began a $100,000
fundraising campaign. Before the full amount could be secured, Garner
retired in 1884.
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Mother: Mary Elizabeth DAWSON b: 10 Sep 1836
Marriage 1 James Jackson GORDY b: 25 Oct 1853 in Chattahoochee County, GA
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The Gift Bags For Oscar Losers Include A Vaginal Rejuvenation Treatment & A Lifetime Supply Of Maple Syrup
Just because the gift bags for the losing Oscar nominees are valued at $80,000 doesn't mean that they're filled to the hilt with exciting goodies. As if losing the most coveted-award in the industry isn't enough, nominees will have to find a way to deal with the consolation prizes, some of which border on insulting.
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Crew rescued from damaged yacht
DATE: 9 November TIME: 9.40am
Update #4
Crew rescued from damaged yacht
The two injured people from the damaged yacht Windigo are safely aboard the cargo ship Chengtu after a rescue just before 9am this morning.
Search and Rescue Mission Coordinator Keith Allen from the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) said heaving lines were lowered from the cargo vessel to the damaged yacht and the 52-year-old British man and the 43-year-old Auckland woman pulled aboard.
Both people aboard the Windigo sustained mild to moderate head injuries after their 11.6m yacht rolled after leaving Tonga two days ago 700km southwest of Tonga and 1260km northwest of New Zealand. The man has also suffered a back injury. None of the injuries are believed to be serious.
The pair's medical condition will be assessed and the Chengtu will now head south to rendezvous with the Navy vessel HMNZS Otago late this afternoon.
Mr Allen paid tribute to the efforts of the Chengtu, the yacht Adventure Bound, which has also been on-site overnight, and the Royal New Zealand Air Force, which provided a P3-Orion that made three trips to the stricken yacht providing the only communications link. A French naval plane also made two trips from Noumea to the scene.
"This is the outcome we have been working towards since the emergency beacon was activated on Wednesday afternoon. It is the result of an excellent coordinated effort involving the RNZAF, which provided a link for the two people on the Windigo when there was no other means of contact, and the Navy, and I would also like to express my appreciation to the captain of the Chengtu and the crew of the Adventure Bound for their efforts."