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This is a complete and accurate transcript of the tape of the oral history interview of Ruth Margaret Mellis (CN 363, T1) in the Archives of the Billy Graham Center. No spoken words have been omitted, except for any non-English phrases which could not be understood by the transcribers. Foreign terms which are not commonly understood appear in italics. In very few cases words were too unclear to be distinguished. If the transcriber was not completely sure of having gotten what the speaker said, "[?]" was inserted after the word or phrase in question. If the speech was inaudible or indistinguishable, "[unclear]" was inserted. Grunts and verbal hesitations such as "ah" or "um" were usually omitted. The transcribers have not attempted to phonetically replicate English dialects but have instead entered the standard English word the speaker was expressing.
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This transcript was made by Noel Collins Pfeifer and was completed in July 2009.
SHUSTER: This is an interview with Miss Ruth Margaret Mellis by Bob Shuster for the Archives of the Billy Graham Center. This interview took place at the Graham Center Archive offices on June 20th, 1987 at 1:30 p.m. Miss Mellis, why don't we start with your family background...where were you born?
MELLIS: St. Louis, Missouri.
SHUSTER: And....
MELLIS (interrupts): In 1907.
SHUSTER: Was your family an old established St. Louis family or...?
MELLIS: My father's father came from Scotland and started a used furniture place in St. Louis. He married my grandmother who was a French-Icarian, she had come over with the Icarian colony to Nauvoo, Illinois. But then...the Nauvoo Illinois colony broke up and a lot of them came to St. Louis so he found my grandmother in St. Louis. Mother's grandparents were all from Germany so, as I tell the Greeks, we're...in America, we're [speaks in Greek], "Russian salad [?]". [laughs]
SHUSTER: What...was yours a large family?
MELLIS: I was the oldest of four...Sierra and Ethel, both of whom came to Wheaton and Charles also came to Wheaton, Charles Mellis, of Mission Aviation Fellowship and Missionary Internship, my younger brother.
SHUSTER: What was the religious background of your family?
MELLIS: Mother and...I was christened in a Presbyterian church in the city, but when I was five weeks old, we moved into...into what is now a suburb of St. Louis and Dad and Mother's father were the first elders of a Presbyterian church out there. The Presbyterian church would... sometimes have real Bible teaching and sometimes we had people who didn't know the score.
[unclear] of Moody Bible Institute was our pastor at one time. Dr. Norman B. Harrison held evangelistic services at our church, at one time. But the man who was pastoring when I became a member of the church, twelve years old, didn't even ask whether I knew the Lord just because we signed a paper that said, we, at Christmas time, the [unclear], you would give yourself, your service, your substances to the Lord. And, like any twelve year old who had been raised in the church, a number of us wanted to give our selves, our services, our substance. And the pastor said, "So, you want to give yourself to the Lord? How about joining the church then?" Then I joined. That...that was...all really.... I was serious...I mean it was something important to join the church but I wasn't part of THE church at that time.
SHUSTER: In your family, you had a Bible study or a....a family altar?
MELLIS: That was a battle. I tried to get...to get it going. And Mother wanted to, when I came home from Wheaton, tried hard, but Dad did not want to, so it just didn't happen.
SHUSTER: [interrupts] So, when you were growing up there wasn't....
MELLIS: ...there and no, we didn't have Bible studies, but everybody was very faithful at church...at church all the time. Mother had, I believe, come to the Lord through dear Doctor Bass[?] who had a Bible study in St. Louis when she was a little girl. And, my father knew...probably knew about Jesus but was just...there wasn't a family altar. And the church was sometimes good and sometimes not so good. But one of the men in our church got [unlcear] and I became a librarian and I read those books and I remember when I was in teacher's college saying to my cousin, "Something happened when I read those books that I don't know anything about." She laughed it off. But I think from then I was concerned. I knew there was something missing but I didn't know.
SHUSTER: When you were growing up, had you had any interest in missions, in missionaries?
MELLIS: Very much. Because I was raised in the church and we heard about missions all the time. And, yes, I thought I should be a missionary, I...I thought I should be a missionary from the time I was a little girl.
SHUSTER: Why did you think that?
MELLIS: Just because it sounded like what I should do, I guess. [chuckles] Or maybe it just sounded...maybe it sounded sort of exotic, I don't know if it was that or not. But I remember when I was in...must have been in high school or college, when I went to Christian Daily Union and I remember the name of the missionary, it was Lottie Mae Bush [?] and she was from India, I think, yeah, she was. And her subject was, "What if I don't care?" But the only other thing I remember besides the title and where she was from was that, "Girls, when you go on the mission field, don't leave your formals behind, you'll need them." And I liked the idea of the formals. [chuckles]
SHUSTER: Meaning...?
MELLIS: Take your formal along because it sounded like a good social life, I think is what... I think is what I was hearing probably. I still didn't belong...I didn't belong to the Lord but I had a deep spiritual interest. I did read the Bible. I read the Bible through a number of times before I was saved, or at least before I had the assurance of salvation. If that's the difference, I don't know if that's what it really was but I don't think...I don't think I was saved because I was still...that's why I stayed in Greece all that year. Somebody said to me, if you...I was asked to stay over there at nineteen years of age. This woman he was traveling with said, "Oh, back in the United States, you just serve the Lord sometimes, if you stay over here, you'd be serving Him all the time." And I thought [tape interrupts].... I thought afterwards, after I really came to know the Lord, I thought, "How dumb! As if geography has anything to do with whether you're serving the Lord or not." I...I couldn't have served Him either there or here if I didn't belong to Him. And no matter where I was I would have been serving him if...if I was really His. But I stayed there.
SHUSTER: Do you...do you recall hearing any other missionaries speak or…?
MELLIS: Besides, besides Lottie May Bush [?]? Oh yes.
SHUSTER: Did any of them make a particular impression on you?
MELLIS: Um...we heard but...very...not too many in our church. It was a small church for one thing and besides the Presbyterian Church didn't have too many missionaries coming into it. They actually had different contact with them. But, Dr. Torrey's son came one time, I remember him. [R. A. Torrey Jr.] And then, well...these aren't missionaries, I was taken to hear Dr. Torrey himself [R. A. Torrey Sr.] when he was in St. Louis and after, I heard him again. But I'm trying to think whether I just learned of missions through missionary liturgy. [Unclear] I guess, I doubt it's as a child. But, later, our home was a hotel for missionaries, my father took my brother on this missionary trip to Africa when Charles was in high school and they visited the missionaries who had stayed in our home and the missionaries came from Africa and stayed in our home afterwards. I...we both feel, both Charles and I, I think felt that it had a lot to do with the fact that we both went into missionary service, it was during that period. But that was after we left that church, it was just when I came to Wheaton in 1929, that's when my family went to Hope Church in St. Louis, Hope Congregational which is really interdenominational. They were...it was previously Congregational.
SHUSTER: Let me...let me ask you, you mentioned you heard R.A. Torrey speak, what do you recall of that, what kind of impressions did he make on you?
MELLIS: It seems to me that he spoke about the love of God. But I was young when I heard him, that's all I remember.
SHUSTER: You don't remember what kind of speaker he was?
MELLIS: [interrupts] No, no I don't.
SHUSTER: ...or anything?
MELLIS: No, I just remember that, he talked about the love of God. But I don't know that it made any impression on...changed me in any way. It was just...he was a great speaker that I was going to hear and I remembered it when I came here because I had his daughter as a teacher.
SHUSTER: Oh yeah.
MELLIS: His daughter was a teacher [Edith Torrey] and she was the one who helped me very much.
SHUSTER: When you were...you said you were nineteen when your family went to Greece?
MELLIS: The first time when we went to Europe, I was nineteen.
SHUSTER: How did that turn out?
MELLIS: My father was always interested in traveling. The family traveled together quite a bit in all the states. And, of course, since his background was from Scotland and as a child, his father had taken his children back to Scotland and Dad very much wanted to go. Oh, he did. And, but we really went because the exchange of population between Greece and Turkey had taken place by the United Nation...by the League of Nations, was to have taken place in '23, I think. But it actually, most of it took place in disorder between '22 and '23. And the Turks took the older brothers and the men into the interior and exterminated them and the women and children wandered on to the coast. And the Americans in Turkey, missionaries and people with the embassies and Red Cross, all got together and formed what was called Near East Relief, a philanthropic organization. And they saved 17,000 orphans from Turkey. Some of them, unfortunately, went to the Caucausas, went behind the Iron Curtain but a lot them were brought down to Greece and Greece accepted them along with the Armenians from the Armenian pograms too. And my father had well...one of the representatives from Near East Relief had come to our church, [unclear] church to speak about the need for sponsoring these orphans, sending a certain amount. And mother and dad were supporting some of the orphans. So, when...and then it happened that Mr. Conway [?], the speaker was also a Scot...Scotsman so when Conway [?] and dad got together, they were buddies and he got invited out to our house for dinner with his wife. And they were going to...they were going over to the orphanage so it was decided that we go with this other family that wanted to go over and we'd visit the relatives in the British Isles and go on to Greece and see their work. So, what we did was go to the British Isles. I had just finished teacher's college and my...and Lucille had just finished eighth grade. So, it was our graduation trip really. But we saw very little of Europe except England and Holland and went right there to Trieste and sailed from Trieste to Greece. And while there, they...I was asked what I was going to do and I said "Look for a job, but there are too many teachers in St. Louis." They said, "Stay here, we need new English teachers at the orphanage in Syros." Ninety miles from Athens was the biggest orphanage of Near East Relief. There were sixteen hundred youngsters there at the time we went. And as we were having dinner and they were talking about the situation and asked me what I was going to do, I said, "How about…how about staying?" And that...when I went home for siesta, that's when this woman said to me, "Oh, in the States you might serve the Lord sometimes, here you'd be serving him all the time." And it really made an impression on me because I was still trying to be saved by what I did, I was trying to be saved by works. And this was going to please the Lord and I knew this was but that was only half the reason...because I liked the kind of the set-up that I saw there, the lovely baby grand piano in the personnel house where I was going to be living and about three hundred wonderful Victrola records. We did not have music in our home because dad did not care for having the piano around and so forth and mom didn't like it.
SHUSTER: You could play piano then?
MELLIS: I could not but I would love to have and I did start to learn over there. And I...and they had these lovely oriental rugs that these people…these personnel had brought from Turkey and they had a fireplace and servants, that was the main thing. And I would have liked to have servants, I had said to my mother sometimes, "Why couldn't we have some help?" She said, "We will do our own work." She could have afforded to do it but she didn't...to have them, but she didn't want to and I praise the Lord she had us learn how to work instead of having servants. But they were having servants there because the girls needed to be trained as servants. If they went into Greek homes, they became practical slaves. But if they went into British and American and even the French homes, most of these people treated them like servants instead of slaves and so they were trying to prepare the girls.
SHUSTER: The servants were orphans?
MELLIS: They were orphans, yes, who were being trained to...so that when they went out if they didn't find their relatives and if they were not particular...if they weren't the caliber to go on for higher learning, they'd have something that they could do. A lot of the people who...who sponsored orphans wanted to educate them, too. I shouldn't say a lot, but some did, some girls were even sent to the States by their sponsors but the Near East Relief did not send them. It was only if they were sponsor wanted to do it, took on...took on themselves that responsibility. And Dad and Mother had not do that, they had supported a number of them and they were not sending them on for further education until Mr. Hoagland [?] died and he had sent one of the girls to the American College for Girls in Athens and when he died, his sisters took it on and when they could no longer do it, a number of years later, Dad and Mother took over Sophia's education there. But a lot of the kids had no chance for going on for further education so they needed to know...know how to do certain jobs. And I liked that set-up. So it was partly to please the Lord, but largely to please Ruth Mellis.
SHUSTER: How did your family react when you told them you wanted to stay in Athens?
MELLIS: It was okay...it was okay for dad and he was willing to foot the bill, I mean, I could stay as a volunteer. But, mother had a hard time deciding to let me there. In those days, nineteen year olds didn't go running around Europe by themselves. However, I don't think she ever could have done it if she had not met the people and she saw the director and his wife and she had confidence in them; they were nice people and she saw all these folks and she particularly liked Mr. Hoagland, he was almost her age, the one that I said had taken on the...this girl. He was training the boys in woodworking and other trades. He was from Rockford [Illinois], the Free Church of Rockford, wonderful Christian. He had gone out as a missionary to Turkey but when all of this took place, and some of the missionaries who came...he was the only one as far as I know, of all the personnel there who really was born again. And it was through his influence that I finally ended up at Wheaton. But, Mother almost had a nervous breakdown on the way home, having left me behind. It was a difficult for her to decide to. And she said, "Just the one year, that's all." But, of course, after the one year, I had to tell her that I had been asked to stay and she said, "Well I wouldn't trust that ocean for anybody but her daughter." But in the meantime, Dad's sister had been wanting to come and so they decide...and they wanted to bring pastor...a pastor that we'd had who really was a man of God, Reverend Hoover. He sent his two kids, Leslie Hoover and Tom Hoover, and he had always.... His lifelong dream had always been to see the Holy Land. And, of course, what we did after Greece was to go to the Holy Land. I had already been there before, ended up in Greece and went through Europe. But, mother said, "I knew you'd never be willing to come home without having been." I'd never seen Paris nor Venice or any of the things that a college student would want to see, Florence, all of these things I thought I was going to see on the way home because they did, I had missed it by staying in Greece. So, she said, "We will come over, we'll take you with us through Europe and then we'll send you back and then you come straight home at the end of two years." Which was what we did.
SHUSTER: What was the orphanage itself like? What are your strongest memories of...?
MELLIS: It was a very wonderful place. It was not under a Christian organization, it was definitely a philanthropic organization. But there were many Christians amongst the nationals. And we...we had the chapel every morning and the man who had charge of the chapel was a Christian man who, actually he worked in Mr. Hoagland's department too and he...I don't know what it was...anyway, one of the trades...but he knew his Bible. He was wonderful and he really really taught those kids and all of us. And then Dave Hoagland saw to it that every child that left the orphanage left with a New Testament in his own language, he gave it to every one. And everybody who was in hospital got New Testaments in his own language. And then he would have his sisters send the papers from the Evangelical Free Church of Rockford...Sunday School papers, and a lot of the kids were learning English you see and he'd give those out. They called him "Papa." He was everything to them, He fixed...he did everything for them. He fixed their dolls, he made them little places to keep their things in, and he...but spiritually, he ministered to them. And when I went back later to contact these people, I remember up in Macedonia, when I said something.... I...I used...I used Dave as an entrance to give the Gospel so many times. Because I could say to them, "You know why...." They'd say, "Papa was so wonderful" ?" And I'd say, "You know why? Because he was the only one who really knew the Lord because he was saved at that time and that's why there was such a difference between him and the rest of us." And there was a difference. However, in general, the personnel were fine. They loved the kids, they really did. But when I got to this place in Macedonia and we talked about Papa, she went over to the bureau drawer and pulled out the New Testament. She said, "Here's the one who gave me when I left and my husband's been reading it." And her husband was very ill at that time. So, the Word was still going on.
SHUSTER: What about the kids? How had their experiences affected them?
MELLIS: Well, they'd been through terrible experiences. I remember some of the...one of the Armenian girls was telling me that she saw her grandfather crucified upside down. Another one whose brother and father, I think, were thrown into a trench and buried alive. Horrible things especially during the Armenian pograms. They...but, the thing that impressed Mother, I think all of us so much, was to hear them sing, [quoting from the hymn, Faith of Our Fathers] "Faith of our fathers living still, in spite of fire, dungeon and sword." Every...I don't remember their being bitter too often, not too many of them seemed to be bitter. Of course, kids are forgiving anyway, the adults could be bitter but not the kids so much. But, they in general loved the orphanage. And I was just re-reading something that one of them wrote and said that the saddest day of her life was the day she left the orphanage, she wept. And they often did. They didn't want to go, it was a real.... They didn't talk about it as the orphanage, they'd talk about this as school, it's like a...a great private school, they way they felt of it. The people who ran it ran that way so that they felt they belonged and they had lovely programs. They had a wonderful choir and the woman who led the choir was a real Christian, dear Kitty [last name unclear] and her grandson is now the pastor of the Third Evangelical church of Greece and I used him as a speaker in one of the unions when I went back. Her grandson, they would listen to him because they loved her so much and they loved. And she taught them all beautiful Christian hymns so that when I take them to visit Protestant churches, though they...there most of them were Greek Orthodox, but I was able to take them to visit Protestant churches and they were able to feel at home because they knew the music.
SHUSTER: What was the range in age of these kids?
MELLIS: From ones they call "babies" and the youngest baby, well at one point, they actually had a baby but that one was not from Turkey, that one came from Athens. The youngest of the ones that actually came from Turkey at the time I went there was probably about five years old. Five years old and the oldest one of the girls was Nanina [?] who was older than I was; she was twenty-one.
SHUSTER: And what was…what group were you teaching?
MELLIS: I think I taught probably about every grade. [Chuckles] Let's see…the babies…yeah, I think I even…not the real babies…the second babies group, I guess, the preschoolers, five years and six years old, maybe. I think I taught them a few songs in English, things like that. But, [pauses] I know I had third, fourth, fifth, sixth.... I guess I didn't have seventh and eighth because I think they went downtown. That's right.
SHUSTER: In Athens?
MELLIS: No, downtown. This was on the island of Siros [also spelled Syros]. We were…we were out from the center of town. Siros was built on two hills, the top of the one hill was the Greek Orthodox church, the top of the other was the Catholic church because the southern islands of Greece, the Catholics have infiltrated quite a bit. So, there was usually a Catholic church as well as Greek Orthodox Church but no Protestant churches at that time. But the orphanage was as much a Protestant church as it could be and yet they had their Greek Orthodox priest and their regular services and they had their Gregorian Armenian services, too. But a lot of the Armenians were Armenian Christians, Protestants and...and born again Christians, many of them. So that from the personnel, the kids were getting some context. This is the thing that has been…I had been able for years as I worked back there, I would invite them to come into the church especially the Second Evangelical church in Athens. And there, they'd find Mrs. Komporpoulou [?] who was their choir leader, they found Ms…(Layton was her name? I forget.) who was one of their house mothers. And they would go to see these people. In fact, just this last time when I…the last…not the last time I was there…in '85 (I was back in '86 also.) In '85, this one girl wanted to go to Second Church with me, I'm sure she never…she doesn't darken the doors of a church usually, because she knows a couple people there and she wanted to see them again. But, they go and they hear and the Lord's word is strong, [chuckles] He's going to get through to them.
SHUSTER: How many teachers were there at the school?
MELLIS: How many teachers?
SHUSTER: Uh-huh.
MELLIS: I don't even know how many there were. There was one thousand six hundred kids of course, some of them were preschoolers. But, then there were not only the…not only the…the academic teachers, there were all of the ones that were teaching them the handworks and everything. I mean of nationals, we had a terrific number of nationals there. But American personnel: the director and his wife, the director of the boys' orphanage, the director of the girls' orphanage and they had a nurse and myself at that time. They had had before I came, they had somebody who was there for gymnastics. But when I got there they had nationals doing gymnastics, taking care of the gymnastics. Oh, and Mr. Meyer…Mr. Meyer and Mr. Hoagland…Dave Hoagland and Lee Meyer. Lee had charge of the metal work, that sort of thing. Dave had charge of the woodwork and then the shoes and other things like that. And then later, a couple came out, a farmer from Massachusetts who had charge of teaching boys some things about farming.
SHUSTER: What would you say your single strongest memory is?
MELLIS: In the orphanage? Well, the thing that has impressed me most is how the Lord put me there to prepare me with language and culture of the Greeks in order to work with them, build a context with them and then to bring me to Himself. Because I don't hesitate to say this, I fell head over heels in love with Dave Hoagland who was my mother's age. He was nineteen years older than I. There was nothing between us, we were good friends, did a lot of walking together, a lot of visiting together in front of the fireplace and that sort of thing. I…I saw to it that we did. But, you know, he was such a wonderful child of God that no many how many wiles I used…to keep him up there longer, by the fireplace longer and I knew which records he liked best and so forth. But, down he went to his room and I didn't know until later when I came to know the Lord that he was keeping his trust…his trust…his…what should I say? His time with the Lord and he wasn't going to let somebody steal it from him. And he…he had been told…he had talked a lot apparently to the folks about the Lord. At one time…at one time he was told he was going to have to stop or he couldn't come back. But…when he went to the States one time….
SHUSTER: Who told him that?
MELLIS: I'm not sure. I just heard that this had happened, he didn't tell me this. I…I don't remember who told me but I heard this. And…. But…he lived for the Lord so much and he gave out God's word and I'm sure that he witnessed when he got opportunities but he had to be careful, how much he could do. Because the man who was in charge of the orphanage was the son of a missionary but he did not know the Lord, I don't think. And he was…well, I don't know, the Lord knows whether he ever came to him or not. I prayed for him, I trust the Lord answered prayer. They're both...they're all in eternity now I guess unless the nurse might be living. Because I was the youngest one, of course, they were all much older than…considerably older than I.
SHUSTER: Was…?
MELLIS: And I'm now eighty. [laughs]
SHUSTER: Was Dave Hoagland one of the reasons you originally decided to come to the orphanage?
MELLIS: Oh no…no, we just went there to visit and….
SHUSTER: I mean a reason you decided to stay and teach at the orphanage?
MELLIS: Not at all, no, I didn't even like him when I first met him. Didn't like him. I changed my mind after…afterwards. No, that had nothing to do with my staying there. It had less to do with my wanting to stay the second year, though. But the way the Lord worked that around…about was this Reverend Hoover, who had longed to visit the Holy Land and could not afford to, Dad brought him along on the trip the second time. And, as usual for visitors when they came in the summer, we went out to the beach at Bari [?] and had a…had a picnic. And normally when we went out there for our evening picnics, Dave and I would walk back together to the orphanage which was I don't know, two or three miles, something like that. It was always a nice walk and another good chance to visit with him. That night, he walked back with Reverend Hoover and I didn't like that so well. But I saw that they hit it off, during that time definitely hit it off. Then after the Hoover…after the folks had left and I had gone with them and come back. Dave had a letter from Hoover that he shared with me one time and I mean it, Reverend Hoover said, "I'm so glad that you are living true to the Lord. I think Ruth will be too." And I didn't like that. "I think Ruth will too." That didn't sit very well with me. Now, since I've been saved I think I know why Dave showed me that letter [laughs]. But, I wondered after I had accepted the Lord, why he had never talked to me about the Lord but as I've gone on further in the Christian life, I think it was very wise because no doubt, he saw that…that I was head over heels and that it was not the..the best thing in the world, that I would have been all mixed up if I thought I was accepting the Lord when I was accepting what he wanted me to accept. But at any rate, it was because that I saw how he and Hoover hit it off, that when I was back in the States and Reverend Hoover sent his two kids toWheaton and they had died [?] I was decided that's where he would have wanted me to go because I had…my teacher's college was only two years at Harris and I wanted to get my degree. And so I didn't know about Wheaton before when I was at…at Hope Church. By this time…well no, we still hadn't gone to Hope either, we were just getting a acquainted with Hope at that time because Reverend Hoover couldn't take the Modernism of the St. Louis Seminary any longer. He was…the Presbyterian church really had become so Modernistic at that point that he gave up his pension and everything to go to the Southern Presbyterian down in Suxton. But, Tom hadn't finished high school yet, he had a couple months in high school. So Tom stayed with us and he was dating a girl from Hope Church who invited him to go to church with her. He went to Hope Church and he came back and said, "You people have to go…." Here's this high schooler coming to the family and saying, "You've got to go down and hear that man, he's wonderful".
SHUSTER: Before we go on to Hope Church, may I ask you something else from your days in Greece? What do you remember about your first contact with Greek culture and Greek life? What kind of initial impression did it make on you?
MELLIS: Of course, the truth of the matter is that I wasn't being really hit with Greek culture the way people do when they go into Greece because I was in an American orphanage where the Greeks had been somewhat Americanized. These kids were being handled under the supervision of Americans. I remember one thing that everybody used to laugh about though. The boats came down at night…by night, from Athens too…. And you arrived down there in the morning but you left in the evening our island…yeah…to go back in the morning, I think that was true. Anyway, the native personnel, they used to say, would not take a bath before they were leaving, they were afraid of the breezes [laughs], going up. This kind of thing, some…some things like that used to….
SHUSTER: [interrupts] You mean they were afraid of catching pneumonia or…?
MELLIS: Catch…yeah, they didn't want to catch cold if they took a bath. [chuckles] Which might have been true because they maybe didn't know how to protect themselves, I don't know. That was one thing.
SHUSTER: Did you pick up the Greek language while you were there?
MELLIS: I began to pick it up very quickly because I was young and I was with the kids and I spent a lot of time with them. Besides teaching, I'd take them out for hikes and they were teaching me the Greek circle dances. We were…I'd go down and eat with them…that was…visit them at lunch…at their mealtime, not necessarily sit down and eat but.... They're…they're very…the Greeks are very generous. They…you come to the door…. They have a wonderful expression, oriste [?]. It…it means…it…if we're both talking and one cuts in, one will stop and say oriste [?], "you go on" or you come to the door, oriste [?], "come in" or you come to the table, they hold out their plate to you, oriste, "help yourself". It means just most everything, I…when I first came back, I didn't know how to get along without oriste [?]. [laughs] But I would go down there and I was supposed to eat…eat some of what they were…something to share with them so that I was very, very close…very close to the kids. I was even closer to them than most of the other ones were because I was closer to their age. In fact, some of them were my age. And I picked up a lot of Greek so that when I was leaving at the end of the two years, I was…I was to speak to them and I said, "Well I'd try it in Greek." I went over it with the headmistress of the school what I was going to say and she sat in the front row to coach me and I managed to talk to them in Greek that…. But of course, I didn't have anything very good to tell them because I still didn't know the Lord. I could have had a lot different…a wonderful opportunity if only I'd had something more to tell them right then. But then I would…when I felt the Lord wanted me to go back…then I…in St. Louis, during the war [World War I], I wrapped bandages with the Greek unit of Red Cross so that I could practice Greek with them and so forth and get in contact with them, too and…. And then, I went to International Institute to see if they could tell me about any Greek that I might get in contact with and there was a blind woman…a woman who was losing her sight who needed someone who could write letters for her and so forth. So they got me in touch with Mrs. Strausner [?]. I wrote her letter and she helped me with Greek and she got me in touch with a Greek Orthodox priest in St. Louis who had come from Istanbul and needed English lessons. So, I gave a Greek Orthodox priest English lessons and I went with the Greek kids after school hours to fourth, fifth, and sixth grade classes for a few months four days a week, Monday through Thursday they had classes so that I learned how to read and to…to make the letters at least. I read it and write it but I don't…I mean I read it and speak it but I don't write it, I can make notes but I don't really. You have to know the grammar very well to be able to write it to begin with and I don't know the grammar well. I just was learning to read and I've picked up the speaking. I speak it fluently but not grammatically sometimes because the articles are terrific and I…I mean how are you supposed to know if a chair is masculine or feminine or neuter? It's not a natural gender, it's a grammatical gender and so what you pick up, you pick up and [chuckles] sometimes it's wrong, sometimes it's right. But they understand me and I understand them.
SHUSTER: When you returned in 1928 to the United States, what were your plans at that time?
MELLIS: I don't know that I'd already decided I was going to go back to school or not. Dave had just died. We were to come back together; Mother didn't want me to travel alone. And when she heard that Dave was coming for his sister's wedding in Rockford, she said, "Why don't you travel home with Dave?" And that's just exactly what I wanted. Of course, she didn't know that I was interested in him or she wouldn't have suggested it. [laughs] But, I...I let him know that she didn't want me traveling alone and he said, "Oh, that'd be great." We were planning…we were going to have to stop out [?] in Northern Europe and so forth, we were going to Venice on my birthday, full moon…I had it all planned beautifully. I was going make him before we got to the States [chuckles], I thought. The Lord had other plans, just before we were to have left, he developed some infection in his back and he was gone in a week's time. And, this of course, it wasn't just before we left. We were there a little longer. So.... Other people understood more than I thought they understood, they turned all of his literature over to me and I started taking it to the hospital and staying and so forth, gave him something to do anyway. And...but, I felt everything was over as far as I was concerned, felt that way, and then I was heading...I was heading back to the States and wondering what I was going to do but I wasn't in any rush to go as long as…. Then I got a telegram from my folks. They had already arranged for a trip to Alaska and they had expected me to be there and here I was not going to be coming now and they said to find somebody else and come on. So, I did find a way of getting there and getting on to Alaska. They had been living in California the last year before I went back. Then we went back to St. Louis and as soon as I got back there, I applied for a job in the district where I had graduated and I got the job so I taught for a year. And in that year I decided….
SHUSTER: [interrupts] In the public schools?
MELLIS: In the public school again . Again? No, beginning, that's right. [laughs] That was the first time. That was…. And then I decided that I should go back to…back to school and that's when Tom came…Hoover came and stayed in our house, had us go down and listen to…to Pastor Thornton. And then he graduated and his father sent him to Wheaton and I thought "Well, if I'm going to get my degree, I should go where Reverend Hoover is sending his kids" so I decided on Wheaton. And so when I wrote that letter, I...all I knew is that I joined the church back then in 1919 so I suppose that's all I knew about being saved still. What it can be I don't know. I could have been under the influence of Reverend Hoover, Reverend Heineke [?] to have heard Norman B. Harrison, Torrey…not Torrey Johnson….
SHUSTER: R.A. Torrey?
MELLIS: R.A. Torrey, yeah. To hear all these, I even went forward when (what's his name?) Norman B. Harrison was speaking. I went forward for a re-dedication. Now, whether the Lord was really dealing with me there and maybe I was accepting him. But I had no assurance of salvation. I still was working to be saved, trying to be good enough to be saved. It still was salvation by works as far as I was concerned, just didn't get through to me until I got here to Wheaton.
SHUSTER: And how did the Lord get through to you at Wheaton?
MELLIS: I was in Mrs. Torrey's…I was assigned to Mrs. Torrey's…Miss [Edith]Torrey's class "Life of Christ". And I remember so clearly she said this that first day. She said, "If any of you are having difficulty…." Oh, in the meantime, I had thrown overboard a lot of what I believed. I had an uncle who had gone to Y [YMCA] college in Chicago that had done him no good at all. He didn't believe in…he didn't believe in Jonah….
SHUSTER: What college did he go to?
MELLIS: Y College.
MELLIS: YMCA College in Chicago. He didn't believe in Jonah, he didn't believe in the virgin birth, so forth and so forth. And I had begun cutting everything out of the Bible, too. I didn't know whether I believed…whether I believed anything you couldn't prove to me. That's why I came to Wheaton. And Miss Torrey said, "If any of you are having difficulty with the Bible, intellectual doubts, maybe I can be a help to you because I went through a finishing school where I went through some problems of this sort and possibly I can help you if you…if you have…." She said, "I am convinced that", I think she said, "ninety nine times out of one hundred, the trouble is not with the head, it's with the heart. There's something going on there [?]" And just like that, the Lord laid his finger on one of the things that was wrong. I was jealous of the woman who was at the head of the girls' orphanage because she was from this area, I forget where.
SHUSTER: Illinois?
MELLIS: Yes, from near Chicago. And Dave Hoagland was from Rockford and he had been at school in Chicago, too, he'd gone to Garrett Institute and still he was a believer. [laughs] And Margaret Konine [?] had been…she'd been around Chicago a lot. She had taught in Chicago area, so they had a lot of things in common that I didn't have and I really was jealous of all of his time. And I let my jealousy spill over into a number of things and then, besides this I was very fond of the director's wife and him. I thought they were wonderful and they had built a separate house for themselves. The rest of us personnel lived in the other house and the rest of the personnel were critical of the fact that they would put money into it…into the building of it and a lot of talk went on around our table about them. The agriculture couple lived in another house. I carried tales from our house to the other houses. In other words, I poured…I poured oil on the fire that was already there. And just like that, as Miss Torrey spoke, that's what the Lord laid his finger on, this…this tongue of mine had been causing more trouble over there than needed to be. And, I…I was not back in her class, I think, at all. My schedule changed and I went to Miss Spaulding's "Life of Christ". Later when I had some problems, R.B. Newell, [unclear] came, and was having weekly meetings and I was really having some problems with "the blood, the blood, the blood" that he was talking about. I'd already…I had accepted the Lord, this was some time later because I accepted the Lord under…I can't even remember what his name was now…. Isn't that terrible? Our yearbook that year was dedicated to him, too, some people didn't….
SHUSTER: A faculty member at Wheaton?
MELLIS: What?
SHUSTER: A faculty member at Wheaton?
MELLIS: No, no, he was from outside. And some people felt that he was connected with this other movement. [pauses] I'm not so sure about him. But anyway, the Lord used him to get me…to get me rid of all my theological difficulties. But after that when Newell came and he was stressing "the blood" so much, it was getting on my nerves and I didn't like it and I went to talk to Miss Torrey. I chose to go to her since she had been the one that had…had…even though she was not my teacher and had only been those few days. And when I went to her, she said, "You know, I saw your face that day and when you didn't come back, I decided you didn't like my class, that's what I said when you went to the other class." But it wasn't, it was just that my schedule had to be changed. But at any rate, she was a blessing and so was Miss Spaulding and so was that evangelist that we had that year. He made a point once with everybody to talk for a half an hour but he saw after a half an hour that he wasn't…he told me later, he said "I wasn't getting any place, I was too hung up on so many things I didn't believe that I had to have…."
SHUSTER: Such as?
MELLIS: Jonah, the virgin birth, that sort of thing. And…so, he made an appointment to walk with me after the meeting that night and we walked and walked all over Wheaton. I didn't actually come to acceptance there but I think after I got back to my room, the Lord really…I saw and I was realizing what he had laid his finger on in Miss Torrey's class...that I needed…I needed to be saved from sin, not just from hell. Somehow or other, that's all that had ever got through to me before. Salvation from the penalty of sin, not from the power of it. I needed salvation from the power of sin and, boy, he did because Ruth Mellis never would have written these letters of apology...confession and apology that I did. But I just felt I had to sit down and write to each one of those persons…and they weren't still all in Greece, they were all scattered around by that time.
SHUSTER: What did you say?
MELLIS: I told them what I had done and that I had been causing further trouble by carrying tales and so forth. The Lord had saved me and showed me that this was not his way for me and he wanted me to live a different kind of a life. So, I just gave them as much testimony as I knew at the time.
SHUSTER: Did you hear back from any of them?
MELLIS: Yes, I did. And they were forgiving, all of them that I heard from were forgiving I think. I'm trying to think if I heard from everybody. But I could tell from their letters that they didn't believe the same thing I was talking about. That's why I feel that Dave was the only one who was really born again, possibly Lee Meyer. He…he was from a Mennonite background. I've never known whether Lee was, I didn't know Lee too well, he was very quiet and we did not get so well acquainted and I've never been quite sure if he belonged to the Lord. I don't think he was living for the Lord part of the time he was out there. He was involved in an affair that was not pleasing to the Lord probably but that doesn't mean he didn't belong to him. I've sometimes felt that maybe he…maybe he was. But Dave was the only who was an out and out Evangelical Christian of those who were there. And the Lord certainly made him a blessing to me because through him and through Reverend Hoover, I landed here where the Lord brought me to Himself and then of course, the first thing I thought of was missionary service. I had thought of it before being saved even and I still had India in my mind from way back. And so I wrote to one of the missions that worked in India....
SHUSTER: Which one?
MELLIS: I'm trying to remember which one. I have that material too by the way all my trials to get to the mission field. I never thought about that being of interest, maybe I should make copies of those because that…there's some things in that that would a help to someone who's thinking of going out to field. They didn't have any need for any single women missionaries at that time. So, since they didn't, well, then I thought, "Well, this experience in Greece is probably what the Lord wanted then." It gave me this background of the culture and the language and a lot of context, perhaps He wanted me in Greece. And so the only mission that…the only thing that I knew to do was to write to the American Board which had the mission…that worked in Greece and they had a school up in…they had a school in Athens and they had one in Thessalonica.
SHUSTER: That's the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions?
MELLIS: Yeah. And of course I didn't know yet to realize what they were either. I wrote to them and I found out they didn't…they didn't even do evangelistic work and so that was out. And, what was the next one? European Christians, I saw they worked in Europe and our pastor, at that time, Pastor Thornton was my pastor…no, I don't know, I wrote them from Wheat…from here. But my folks had already started to…to Hope Church and Thornton was the pastor and he was on the board. Men and women need to really watch where they let their ministry put on boards [sic] because people do look for that and get involved because their names are there. And because his name was there, I applied. And I went to their…to New York…I never asked [unclear].
[Tape recorder turned off and on]
SHUSTER: What? [static] You were saying about your trip to New York….
MELLIS: To New York, yes. I…I was applying to one mission that I heard worked in Europe. I didn't know how many worked there. But while I was there at headquarters getting, their getting to know me and I getting to know them…. When I began to hear about the dispute that was going on between a couple of missions, I as a young Christian was sort of floored and wanted to know more and asked to be able to find out the other side of the story and I was taken there and really, it's a miracle that I wanted to go on in to missions because I just did not know at that point that there could be so much controversy going on. And there were good men and Bible teachers on both sides of the question, people I had heard at Wheaton and they each were on a different side of it. I wondered sometimes that I ever went on and yet I think it's probably the best thing that ever happened to me because Christians aren't perfect and missions aren't perfect and it was just as well to find it out on this side of the water perhaps and also, it helped me to do some further looking into situations. And well, anyway, I discovered that that particular mission wasn't ready to send somebody to Greece at that point anyway. They would have sent me some place else and I was applying to them only because I thought the Lord wanted me to go to Greece. However, I could have been wrong there because sometimes missionaries are so sure this is the place they're going and the mission board may know better. But at any rate, I felt the Lord kept me in the States, He knew what He was doing. I wasn't ready for the mission field, by any means.
SHUSTER: You mentioned about President Buswell too?
MELLIS: Yes, on the way home from New York because I had some contacts through which President Buswell had heard about the situation, he was counseling about it and I learned something, not that I…. I had heard it at Wheaton College before but I think I was more impressed even after I talked with him that our most important decision is accepting the Lord.
SHUSTER: This is what he said?
MELLIS: Right. He didn't say this but I learned this through him and through Wheaton College. The most important decision is…is accepting the Lord but the next most important is a life mate and if you're going to be a missionary, the third important thing is which mission you're going to work under. You have to be very sure that the Lord wants you under that mission and then put yourself under their authority. And if they're going to send you someplace different than you thought, okay, if the Lord wants you under them. And so, it was a good experience for me, but it was a pretty difficult experience for one so new in the Lord, I was only a couple years old in the Lord.
SHUSTER: Difficult because…?
MELLIS: To find this battling going on between Christian missions. But I should...I should have been a little aware of this because when I was at Wheaton, I was in Mrs. Shapleigh's Sunday School class. She was our dean of women and nearly everybody in our class was a missionary volunteer...it was a women's class and we were missionary volunteers. And I can remember she…her saying in her New England broque, [imitates her voice] "Well, dear girls, when you get to the mission field you'll find the greatest problem will be your dear fellow missionaries." I've often thought, "Well, Mrs. Shapleigh, you're right, they are one of the biggest...." But the biggest problem is one's self, whether on the mission field or over here. But they certainly can be, I didn't have fellow missionaries until I got down to CAM [Central American Mission] International with…Mexico in the last four years of my service. But because I was not in a mission…a regular mission till then…. But I had a lot of contact with real…other missionaries on the field and know what some of the problems were and…and I had plenty of problems when I got to Mexico too. So much so that I didn't even want to go on a trip when one of the missionaries was going and yet she was a dear and she just broke her neck to help me later on. But I got the wrong attitude toward her. [chuckles]
SHUSTER: You say the greatest problem was missionaries were…is yourself….
MELLIS: Yourself.
SHUSTER: What do you mean by that?
MELLIS: Because you take yourself and all of your…and all of your sinful nature with you and they've got to battle that. That's the important thing, you've got to get yourself straightened out with the Lord and if then the straighter you are with the Lord, the less problems you're going to have with your fellow missionaries, too. Because when you're having troubles with them, as is, I said when I got to Mexico and the one time, I was so much annoyed because I took a trip with a group then I was so much annoyed with this one missionary I just didn't have any impatience the way...with what she had done. I just thought, "I'm not going on another trip when she goes along." After all this was just because I didn't have patience with the things she wanted to do. And later on, she turned around and she has done so many things for me that the Lord made me ashamed of the way I felt. Fortunately, I didn't say to her the things I thought. If I had, it would have been still worse. And another time, I thought a missionary was making fun of me on one of these take-offs that they do on teachers and I thought she was making fun of me. Afterwards…so much so that I didn't even want to see her. And then later on, she nearly floored me when I went back there to visit, and said if I didn't have a place to stay, their home was always my home. I realized her attitude was not at all what I thought it was. I had a chip on my shoulder and I thought she had it. And so, it certainly can be your "dear fellow missionaries" but it's yourself that…that can start the problems with the "dear fellow missionaries" and I was...I've been very conscious of it.
SHUSTER: Let me ask you a little about your time at Wheaton. Do you have any strong memories of your time here at Wheaton? Something that particularly stands out?
MELLIS: All of it, I just loved it. [chuckles] It was wonderful, just to come to the Lord as a babe in Christ, to have philosophy with Dr. Dow [Dr. Elsie Dow]…Introduction to Philosophy with Dr. Dow, Ethics and Theism with Buswell [J. Oliver Buswell], New and Old Testament Introduction with Buswell. What else did I have? Oh, with Miss…Miss Spaulding [Miss Alice K. Spaulding], I had Life of Christ and Hebrews. Hebrews was Tuesday afternoon and Thursday afternoon, that was my last class and I can remember walking home as on air on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. The…the tying together of the Old and the New Testament, the way…the way she did it, it was…it was just terrific, really. It was just wonderful to have all of that food crammed down you in those first two years of your spiritual life. I loved it and I've always recommended Wheaton highly.
SHUSTER: What was Dr. Buswell like as a teacher?
MELLIS: Wonderful, just…. I remember, you know, for somebody who's just come to the Lord, I thought I was getting and Introduction to New and Old Testament Introduction…New and Old…New Testament and Old Testament. Introduced to them. I didn't know that Introduction…what it really meant. I didn't read the catalog apparently. It presupposes that you know what's there and it's critical of course. But I didn't even know the contents of so much of this stuff and here I was with all these fellas who were pre-ministerial students. I really had to do some studying and some growing but it was fascinating and I loved it. But I can remember one of the fellas said, "Scofield says 'So and so'" and Prexy [President Buswell] said, "But what does the Bible say?" [laughs] And I thought….
SHUSTER: [unclear] doesn't have any tape on it, we'll take that one out and then….
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Photos: Occupy Rockford movement crashes courthouse opening
Local, state and federal officials gathered Saturday, Oct. 29, for the grand opening of the Stanley J. Roszkowski U.S. Courthouse at 327 S. Church St., in downtown Rockford. The facility is named after Stanley J. Roszkowski, who served as a judge in the Northern District of Illinois for more than 20 years before retiring in 1998.
The 5.5-acre site is home to five courtrooms, offices for the U.S. courts and other court-related agencies, 55 secured indoor parking spaces and 20 outdoor parking spaces.
The facility took three years to construct, and cost more than $100 million. Officials said the construction of the courthouse created more than 1,000 jobs for local citizens.
Meantime, while officials celebrated the opening of the courthouse, members of the Occupy Rockford movement marched from Beattie Park to the courthouse dedication in protest of the facility.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and 17th District candidate George Gaulrapp answered questions from Occupy Rockford protesters.
"Occupy Rockford activists hope to voice their frustration with federal economic policy, failure to prosecute criminal market speculators and growing wealth disparity in America in the face of tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent," the Occupy Rockford movement said in a press release prior to the event.
Occupy Rockford is a local effort in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement and other "occupy" movements throughout the country and the world. Visit occupyrockford.org for more details.
From the Nov. 2-8, 2011, issue


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"The angel said to them, "Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy which will come to all the people; for to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger" (Luke 2:11-12).
1340s The birth of Jesus By Barna Da Siena (died c. 1351)
The phrase "swaddling clothes" is a translation of the root Greek word Sparganoo. The word appears in 2 verses in the New Testament in Luke 2. The 1st appearance of Sparganoo occurs in verse 7 & the 2nd is in verse 12. The Greek word Sparganoo means "to wrap a child in swaddling clothes (long strips of cloth)" or "to clothe in strips of cloth, to wrap up in strips of cloth, to wrap in cloths."
Swaddling is an old practice of wrapping infants in blankets or cloth to restrict the movement of arms & legs. Probably the most famous record of swaddling is in the New Testament description of the birth of Jesus in Luke 2:6–2:7: "And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger."
1340 Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Sienese painter, fl c 1317-1348) Virgin and Child
Several 15C paintings depict the Baby Jesus being presented at the temple (40 days after his birth) wrapped in swaddling clothes. Wrapped babies sometimes were on placed table tops or hung from a nail in a wall to give their mothers a rest or allow them time to do other work.
1453 Andrea Mantegna (Italian artist, 1431-1506) Presentation in the Temple
1453 Andrea Mantegna (Italian artist, 1431-1506) Presentation in the Temple Detail
Swaddling fell out of favor in the 17C. By the end of the 18C, Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote in his book Emile: Or, On Education in 1762: "The child has hardly left the mother's womb, it has hardly begun to move & stretch its limbs, when it is given new bonds. It is wrapped in swaddling bands, laid down with its head fixed, its legs stretched out, & its arms by its sides; it is wound round with linen & bandages of all sorts so that it cannot move...A child unswaddled would need constant watching; well swaddled it is cast into a corner & its cries are ignored."
1455 Andrea Mantegna (Italian artist, 1431-1506) Virgin with Baby
1455 Andrea Mantegna (Italian artist, 1431-1506) Virgin with Baby
1460-64 Giovanni Bellini (Italian painter 1430-1516) Presentation at the Temple
1460-64 Giovanni Bellini (Italian painter 1430-1516) Presentation at the Temple Detail
1150 Meister der Palastkapelle, Palermo
1308 Duccio di Buoninsegna
Medieval Swaddled Babies (Bodleian Library Bodley 264)
Swaddled Baby Book Astrology, France, XIVcentury
Madonna and Child detail - Giotto (1266-1337, Florentine)
1480s Domenico Ghirlandaio (Italian artist, 1449–1494) Zacharias Writes Down the Name of his Son Ghirlandaio Tornabuoni Chapel Swaddling Clothes
1520 Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) The Virgin with the Swaddled Child
1575-80 Luca Cambiaso (1527-1585) Madonna col Bambino
1555 Studio of Jean Clouet (1475–1540). Louis Charles de Bourbon (1555-57) Comte de Marle
1581 Unknown artist of the Dutch School. Cornelia Burh at the age of 2 months
1599 Unknown English artist, Perhaps Mary (d.1616) & Lettice (1585-1623) Cholmondeley, daughters of Sir Hugh Cholmondeley (1557-1601) & Mary Holford (1563-1626) Mary m Sir George Calveley & Lettice m Sir Richard Grosvenor (1595-1646)
1605 Federico Barocci (1535–1612) Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, the swaddled Prince of Urbino, in the cradle
1609 Peter Paul Reubens The Adoration of the Shepherds detail
1617 Unknown artist, De Wikkkelkinderen or The Swaddled Twins, dated April 7, 1617
Anonymous, The Dordrecht Quadruplets, 1621
1638-9 Unknown French artist, Portrait of a Child Presumed to be Louis XIV (1638-1715) on a Bed
1638-9 Louis XIV as an infant with his wet nurse Longuet de la Giraudiére
Georges de La Tour (French Baroque Era Painter, 1593-1652) Adoration of the Magi detail
1600s Unknown artist of the Anglo Dutch School, Portrait of a Baby, under a quilt probably swaddled
1646 Salomon de Bray (Dutch, 1597–1663). Double Portrait of the Twins Clara and Aelbert de Bray
1700s Unknown artist, Twins wearing Crosses


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The 88
The 88 – Los Angeles Pop/Rock Band
Episode 335
The 88 is a four-piece indie pop rock band from Los Angeles. High school pals Adam Merrin (piano/keys) and Keith Slettedahl (vocal/guitar) started recording songs together during their senior year, laying the groundwork for what would become The 88 which today includes bassist Todd O'Keefe and drummer Anthony Zimmitti.


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Have Fun With Astronomy at JLab on Oct. 14
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Sept. 9, 2008 – The U.S. Department of Energy's Jefferson Lab invites the public to an evening of Fun With Astronomy on Tuesday, Oct. 14.
Learn, laugh and be amazed as Wayne "Skip" Bird shares wonders of the night sky, the solar system and the universe. Find your way through the maze of 13 planets, and explore black holes and light. Then test your knowledge using Cosmic Survey Cards with Bird, Astronomy Outreach Teacher and Observatory Director of the Westminster Astronomical Society, located in Westminster, Md.
"Learn fun and unique ways to leave the planet, journey to the stars and still be back in time for lunch," says Bird.
The presentation will begin at 7 p.m. in Jefferson Lab's CEBAF Center auditorium, located at 12000 Jefferson Ave., Newport News. It is free and open to anyone interested in learning more about science. The program will last about one hour and include a question-and-answer period at the end.
For security purposes, enter at Jefferson Lab's main entrance (Onnes Drive.). Everyone over 16 is asked to carry a valid photo ID. Security guards may perform ID, parcel and vehicle checks.
For directions and more information about this Jefferson Lab public lecture, call 757-269-5102 or visit http://education.jlab.org/scienceseries/index.php.
Jefferson Lab is managed and operated for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC, a joint venture between Southeastern Universities Research Association, Inc. and CSC Applied Technologies Division, LLC.


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Hosta 'Pandora's Box'
|Liliaceae (lil-ee-AY-see-ee) (Info)
|Hosta (HOSS-tuh) (Info)
|Pandora's Box
|by Hansen-Shady Oaks Nursery
|Registered or introduced:
Plant Size (check one):
Miniature (leaf 2.0-6.0 square inches; plant 4�-6� tall)
6-9 in. (15-22 cm)
9-12 in. (22-30 cm)
USDA Zone 3a: to -39.9 �C (-40 �F)
USDA Zone 3b: to -37.2 �C (-35 �F)
USDA Zone 4a: to -34.4 �C (-30 �F)
USDA Zone 4b: to -31.6 �C (-25 �F)
USDA Zone 5a: to -28.8 �C (-20 �F)
USDA Zone 5b: to -26.1 �C (-15 �F)
USDA Zone 6a: to -23.3 �C (-10 �F)
USDA Zone 6b: to -20.5 �C (-5 �F)
USDA Zone 7a: to -17.7 �C (0 �F)
USDA Zone 7b: to -14.9 �C (5 �F)
USDA Zone 8a: to -12.2 �C (10 �F)
USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4 �C (15 �F)
Sun Exposure:
Light Shade
Partial to Full Shade
Full Shade
Other details:
Patent Information:
Seed Collecting:
Allow pods to dry on plant; break open to collect seeds
Properly cleaned, seed can be successfully stored
Growing Habit:
Growth Rate:
Leaf Shape:
Leaf Appearance:
Degree to which the appearance is present:
Leaf Texture (top):
Slightly Shiny
Leaf Texture (bottom):
Slightly Shiny
Leaf Substance:
5 (Thin)
Leaf Color:
Medium Green
Dark Green
Creamy White
Streaked with color marked above
Color of Leaf Margin:
Medium Green
Dark Green
Number of Vein Pairs:
Fewer than 9
Appearance of Margin:
Flat/Nearly Flat
Margin Width:
1/8" - 1/4"
1/4" - 1/2"
Bloom Time:
Flower Shape:
Flower Fragrance:
No fragrance
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Bloom Color:
Pale Lavender
Medium Lavender
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Bloom Characteristics:
Water Requirements:
Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
Where to Grow:
This plant has been said to grow in the following regions:
Dacula, Georgia
Lawrenceville, Georgia
Marietta, Georgia
Mount Prospect, Illinois
Peoria, Illinois
Washington, Illinois
Springville, Iowa
Silver Spring, Maryland
Middleton, Massachusetts
Royal Oak, Michigan
Minneapolis, Minnesota (3 reports)
Omaha, Nebraska
Cape May Court House, New Jersey
Sewell, New Jersey
Pittsboro, North Carolina
Bethel, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio
Coshocton, Ohio
Williamsburg, Ohio
Mount Hood Parkdale, Oregon
Coopersburg, Pennsylvania
Norristown, Pennsylvania
Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
Madison, Wisconsin
Marion, Wisconsin
Owen, Wisconsinshow all
Gardeners' Notes:
On Jul 6, 2012, Prunerman from Middleton, MA wrote:
Cutest little thing in my rock garden, BUT bugs are eating it up! I would like to transplant it to a better location in order to protect it and showcase it but I am afraid it won't survive. I'm waiting for it to get bigger and stronger.
On Jan 27, 2008, Malus2006 from Coon Rapids, MN (Zone 4a) wrote:
This is a slow spreading variety in my minature woodland rock garden. It is very lovely and noticeable and work well with some other dwarf hosta species but you have to be careful as some cultivars are aggressive in their spreading habit. It only negative is it have a bad habit of sprouting green version of itself which tend to be more agressive.
On Jan 26, 2006, Gabrielle from (Zone 5a) wrote:
This hosta is so adorable! It reminds me of baby bunny ears. You don't have to be a hosta lover to love this one.
On Jan 8, 2005, smiln32 from Oklahoma City, OK (Zone 7a) wrote:
On the AHS's list of most popular miniatures for 2003.
On May 18, 2003, bryanvac from Minneapolis, MN wrote:
Too cute for words! This tiny hosta is a must have. It produces a nice flower stock for it's size too. Just 8-10 inches across, the leave color still creates attention.


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Lords of Xulima - Post-Funding Update #23
Numantian Games provides a development update for Lords of Xulima talking about the alpha version, their forums, a stretch goal and a theme song.
We are currently working on the English Alpha version of Lords of Xulima. Once the Alpha is finished, and as soon as we can deliver a version worthy of your expectations, we will open the Numantian Games Forums! This will be a great place to ask questions related to Lords of Xulima and get to know each other. The forums will be open to everyone. We would love to have our long time supporters, along with anyone else that might be interested, to come join us as part of one big community!
The official forums will also include the Development Corner, which will be an exclusive section for Kickstarter backers who pledged for Beta Acess. We know many of you have been waiting for this, so we'll be sure to announce when they open through our newsletter!
We're also excited to share more with you about The Cursed Hounds. As some of you remember, it was a mini-stretch goal that we were able to unlock with your support at the $25,000 milestone.
And here is the new theme song:
Information aboutLords of Xulima
SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released


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LOS ANGELES With all the competing Emmy parties on the weekend calendar, organizers are working hard to differentiate one from the next—whether with invitations, decor, or music. Here's a rundown of who's performing at some of the weekend's biggest bashes.
TV Guide will bring the Bravery to headline the magazine's sixth annual after-party on Sunday. MGMT (currently on a sold-out tour with Beck) will also perform, and Samantha Ronson will round out the performance lineup at the Kress. TV Guide has brought Missy Elliot, Pink, John Legend, and Kanye West in the past three years.
Entertainment Tonight will bring Billy Idol to its event, sponsored by People, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The party will also feature music from saxophonist Dave Koz, who will perform on the venue's Blue Ribbon patio. KCRW's Jason Bentley will return as DJ. Duran Duran headlined last year's event, and Prince and Earth, Wind & Fire have appeared in the past.
New York-based Qool DJ Marv will spin at HBO's party at the Pacific Design Center, and percussionist Ravi Jakhotia will also perform.
For Entertainment Weekly's pre-Emmy party on Saturday night at the Beverly Hills Post Office space, first-time event sponsor Seagate will provide memory storage on its new FreeAgent drives for DJ Michael Smith, who will work from a custom-built booth.
And for the academy's own Governors Ball at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Norman Roper has assembled a mambo orchestra called Cubano Classico.


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Missouri will open spring football in less than a month. Between now and then, PowerMizzou.com will take a look at every position on the roster headed into spring drills. We look today at the wide receiver spot:
The Starters: Wes Kemp and Jerrell Jackson would seem to have two starting spots more or less locked up. Kemp started all of last year and Jackson came on when Jared Perry went down with an injury. The question of who will be the third starter won't have an answer before spring ball...and likely won't have one after it. Rolandis Woodland will likely open camp as that player.
The Backup Competition: There are all kinds of options here. T.J. Moe, Michael Egnew and Brandon Gerau will certainly get looks as will returner Gahn McGaffie and redshirts Jaleel Clark, Kerwin Stricker and LDamian Washington. All these players need to use spring as a major opportunity because the Tigers bring in one of the nation's most highly regarded recruiting classes at receiver.
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The Major Storyline: There may be no position more scrutinized. The Tigers lose not only Danario Alexander, who posted the best season in school history, but also Perry, who was a strong four-year contributor. Jackson came on and Kemp had good moments, but neither was consistently as good as either departed senior. There is not one sure thing at this position. Not only will the receivers be a focus, but how Blaine Gabbert utilizes them. Last year, Missouri was a one-man show in the passing game. It will have to be more of a team-wide approach this season.
What Will Happen: Egnew looked great in bowl practices. Something tells us he may grab that third starting spot at the end of spring ball. However, Washington also impressed last year and he, Moe and Woodland should all contribute. At the end of spring, we will know more than we know now, but there will still be plenty to resolve in fall camp this August.
PowerMizzou.com will continue to analyze each and every position leading up to spring football.


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After receiving his B.A. from Istanbul University in 1964, Dr. Sawfan Al-Tell came to the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. As part of his training for a master's degree in Archaeology and Art History, Safwan al-Tell participated in the Curatorial Studies program (1968). He then returned to Istanbul, and received his doctorate in Byzantine and Islamic Art and Archaeology there in 1974.
Dr. Safwan al-Tell served as the Director General of Antiquities of Jordan from 1991 to 1995, a time of considerable archaeological activity in the country. His publications included the Development of Coinage in Jordan throughout History (1986), Arabic and Islamic Antiquities of Jordan (1988), and Gerasa, Roman City of Jordan (1997).
From 1970 until his retirement in June 2012, Safwan al-Tell held a number of positions at the University of Jordan, where he was Professor of Islamic and Byzantine Art and Archaeology. From 1982 to 1985, he was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, as the Assistant Secretary General for the Association of Arab Universities.
In 1994, Safwan al-Tell received the Order of the Star of Jordan (الكوكب الأردني ; Wisam al-Kawkab al-Urdani) from King Hussein, and the Grand Silver Star from the President of Austria that same year. Throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Safwan al-Tell remained in contact with the Institute of Fine Arts and was very proud of his American training. He passed away on October 3, 2012; he is buried in Irbid, the city of his birth.


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LAHORE .: Leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) finalised on Friday the names of candidates for three divisions of Punjab during their central parliamentary board meeting.
Friday's meeting which was chaired by PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif gave the final nod to Obaidullah Khan Shadikhel who will contest polls against Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan from NA 71 constituency in Mianwali.
Besides Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Sardar Zulfiqar Khan Khosa and other senior leaders attended the crucial party meeting. The parliamentary board resumed its meeting after two days as Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was not available to attend the meeting.
Allocation of party tickets was finalised for Rawalpindi, Sargodha and Sahiwal divisions.
Nawaz, who filed nomination papers from NA 68 constituency in Sargodha, has not yet decided whether to contest election from this seat. Sources cited Nawaz as telling the parliamentary board not to finalise his name for the time being. Nawaz is also contesting from NA 120 Lahore.
The PML-N has not yet decided who it will field against Sheikh Rashid in NA 55 Rawalpindi. Currently, the party's ex-MNA Shakeel Awan is seen as a hot candidate.
Defeating Imran Khan in Mianwali
Nawaz discussed in detail how to defeat Imran Khan from NA 71 -Mianwali. According to some of participants, there were two candidates aspiring for PML-N ticket, Obaidullah Khan Shadikhel and Malik Fawad the younger brother of PPP's former MNA Nawabazad Malik Amad Khan from NA 71.
The party unanimously decided to field Obaidullah Shadikhel against Imran Khan.
It is pertinent to mention that Shadikhel was defeated by Imran Khan in 2002 election, but he has publically said a number of times that he was defeated by the intelligence agencies.
Final candidates
PML-N final list of candidates for various constituencies of Punjab
NA 50 Shahid Khaqan Abbasi
NA 51 Chaudhry Riaz or Raja Ikhlas
NA 52 and NA 53 Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan
NA 54 Malik Ibrar
NA 56 Hanif Abbasi
NA 57 Sheikh Aftab
NA 64 Syed Aminul Hasnat
NA 65 Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjha
NA 66 Hamid Amin
NA 67 Dr Zulfiqar Bhatti
NA 68 Sardar M Shafqat Hayat (if Nawaz Sharif does not contest from here)
NA 69 Sumaira Malik
NA 70 Malik Shakir Bashir Awan
NA 71 Obaidullah Shadikhel
NA 72 Humair Hayat Rokhri
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Sitting having dinner tonight I was trying to get my 3yr old son to eat carrots by telling him the age old adage that they would help him see in the dark. He looked me in the eye and told me to "just turn on the lights". Can't really argue with that! Anyone else got smart assed kids?
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Funny Things Children Say
Youngest son of an ex-girlfiend (Who is still a very dear friend!) ran up to me recently, in a church, before a christening for a mutual friend's son.
In a non-stage whisper, that only a child can muster, he shouted, "CFH, are you my mummy's boyfriend?"
It's rare that I am lost for words.
"why does that man have a black face?"
In a non-stage whisper, that only a child can muster, he shouted, "CFH, are you my mummy's boyfriend?"
could have been worse
"CFH, are you my daddy ?" or "CFH, are you my daddy's boyfriend?"
About 3 weeks ago my 5yr old son spotted a dwarf in the supermarket. Unfortunately he was only about 5 yards away when he asked 'Dad, is that even a real man?'
I think some of my subsequent advice must have sunk in, because when we saw a dwarf couple at Braehead yesterday all he did was keep looking at them and trying to follow them.
Klunk, later the same day, after the Christening, the self same child grabbed my leg, wouldn't let go. Would, however, scream, "Take me home with you!".
I feared the next sentence would be, "You're my daddy now!".
Daddy why does that man look like a monkey.
Daddy who is jimmy savile
My two boys were having an indepth conversation today about hiding inside a girls vagina for years and years and years.....
I was chatting to a mate I'd bumped into in the supermarket, his wife and 3 yr old son were walking towards us when mum says to his boy, 'go run to daddy', he charges towards us and practically rugby tackles.....me!
Friend's daughter said she wanted "a pony with a strap on" for Christmas.
Her sister then wanted "a puppy with a strap on".
They may be surprised on Xmas morning.
In the swimming pool changing rooms Rose came out with 'look, man rubbing his nipples'. In the pool, she wanted to stand on the hot bit where the warm water comes in but a woman was standing there, 'lady, go swim up and down please'. Hmm, we have work to do I think!
One of my girls said that there was a 'half Marion' happening today - turns out she meant 'half marathon'...
Me: 'I spy with my little eye, something beginning with F'
My 4 year old: 'fecker'
Me: 'wha?'
My 4 year old: 'ha ha not really daddy, is it fish?'
Me: 'hang on a minute'
yossarian, i did an actual LOL at that
At a party a few years ago, the hosts' young kid wanted to help so the parents had him go round handing out snacks. They told him to tell people they had cheese in them.
Cue the kid going round with a tray, then as the guests bite into an offering, innocently blurting out, "they've got jizz in."
I was told by my 2 and a half year old, with a proper beady eyed stare and pointing and everything
"You, need to forage for your OWN food"
Second time she has told me this week, I mean, I know times are hard but...
We got told by the pre-school teacher that at "circle time", where the kids share something with the group, our lad shared:
"when you go skiing, don't eat yellow snow".
No idea where he got that from!
By the pool in portugal a couple of years ago, my 3 year old son said 'I hope I don't get stung by an eskimo'. I assume he was talking about a mozzy as opposed to the business scruples of the Inuits!
I was explaining to my 6 year old daughter why I say 'bath' when she and the wife say 'barth' and she said 'It must be much easier to learn northern than english daddy, as you just say it like it's written' !!!
My wife was very proud of her!
Recently woke up to find my 2.5yr-old daughter's face about two inches from mine - "you have a lovely forehead, daddy".
Odd child.
When we lived in Oman, daughter (about 3 at the time) would look at locals, point and politely mention their 'Mucky Face!'.
at about the age of 5 my daughter said to me
"Whys it called an I-pod? It should be called an Ear-Pod. You don't wear it on your eyes."
I couldnt give a reasonable explanation.
Teaching my 3 yr old daugter big fish little fish listing to techno in the car she invented two more techno dance moves, little cow, big cow and little kitty, big kitty with appropriate moves she also makes the devil sign when metal comes on the ipod.
yossarian, i did an actual LOL at that
me too..
my kids don't do or say anything humorous as they are far too busy being geniuses
My 12 year old has just told me that she is the oldest she's ever been!
My eldest boy used to say "round of the claws" instead of round of applause. We let it ride as it was lovely.
Someone else's kid, came up to Rose, who was holding her toy giraffe, and said
"that's a nice giraffe"... (thoughtful look)... "you could kill it and eat its meat"
Last weekend our 2 boys stayed the night with my parents.
The next morning my mum told me about a conversation she'd had with Ben (7).
Ben - Granny is cock a rude word
Mum - Not really it's just a silly word. It means a boy chicken.
Ben - Why would someone call other drivers a boy chicken?
While at a christening, a friends daughter was staring up at the church roof all the way through the service. After a while of studiously surveying it, she nods confidently and announces "Yep. Definitely big enough to keep a giraffe"
My eldest daughter calls me turbine hill head. As if she was going to put a wind turbine anywhere, my big baldy bonce would apparently be the perfect site. I'm quite flattered that she thinks I have some practical use
Standing a in a que behind "yoof" with trousers round his knees.
"Daddy, i can see that man's pants!!!"
Stifled giggles from myself and other people in the que.
"Daddy, that man's got flower's on his pants!!!"
PMSL at that point.
Me and the wife were horrified last week as we were chatting with our boy about school
"i don't like Louis daddy"
"why not son"
"he's got a black face "
WOOOOOOSHHHHHH errrrm how on earth did he come out with that !!!!
My 2 year old daughter bolted up to a gentleman in a wheelchair and at the top of her voice went "why have you got wheels, where have your legs gone?"
Thankfully he thought it was quite funny and he actually took the time to explain it to her.
My 7 year old has been getting a confused introduction to the facts of life from other kids.
He came into lunch yesterday and told us there was a frog in our toilet as the tadpoles which came out of his wotsit had made it grow in the loo!
Dropping my 5 Year old daughter off at school the other day she starts to tell her friends mum (who is highly attractive) about her Daddy's willy.
Her: You know my daddy has a really big willy, its much bigger than Ben's (My 3 year old boy)...
Me: Nervous laughter
Her: He can make it grow...
Me: Look of shock and starting to go red.
Her: It gets bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger......
until he can wrap it round a branch and swing from it like spiderman.
Me: Bursts out laughing and breathes a sigh of relief wondering where the hell she was going!
When the wife asked the 3 1/2 year old why the 18 month old pooed more than him, his reply was "Because he has shorter legs".
I can only assume he fathomed this because of me saying all his food had gone down into his legs.
Eldest (then about 3) used to point and shout in sheer astonishment at women in tights "That lady's got black legs!".
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Ohio State vs. Clemson: Complete Preview and Predictions for Orange Bowl MatchupDecember 18, 2013
If you like offense, then this year's Orange Bowl is for you.
Adam Kramer, Barrett Sallee and Michael Felder break down the Jan. 3 matchup between No. 7 Ohio State and No. 12 Clemson, both of which incorporate high-powered offenses that can strike from anywhere on the field.
This game features strong defensive athletes like OSU's Noah Spence and Clemson's Vic Beasley, but will the rest of the players be able to get stops on defense?
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A LIB Dem campaigner is lobbying the county council to improve safety for pedestrians.
Hugh Parker has submitted a photo survey to East Sussex County Council which he believes shows Polegate High Street's drop-kerbs are not good enough.
He said, "These drop kerbs are not just a vital requirement for wheelchair and mobility scooter users, but parents with pushchairs too. Not only are many of them difficult to negotiate, there are not always where they're most needed."
"I believe the whole High Street parking and pedestrian layout needs more attention and so I will be urging the county council to pay much more attention to the needs of the less mobile in Polegate. I will be following up my report with regular monitoring to ensure action is taken.
"It is a shame the Residents Association running Polegate Town Council is not addressing issues like this. Drop kerbs are just one issue that needs addressing on our high street, but this survey is not just about enabling mobility but public safety too."