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Business briefs
Comcast Cares Day held April 25
Green investing
DES MOINES, Iowa When President Barack Obama stood in front of wind turbine towers in a Newton, Iowa, factory last week he was not only pushing his green energy policies but promoting an industry that has been growing rapidly and gaining favor with investors.
Bromeliads sale part of park events
A bromeliads sale is one of the upcoming activities planned this week at area parks.
Ground broken on Lighter East
Pry bars and shovels in hand, the ladies of the Junior Service League of St. Augustine rolled up their sleeves recently to celebrate the ground breaking of their latest endeavor Lightner East.
School Menu
The following are the menu listings for St. Johns County public school cafeterias for the week of May 4. Students have a choice of one entree or two fruit and/or vegetable choices. Choice of milk is served with all complete meals.
Professor to speak to local group
The St. Augustine Archaeological Association will present a lecture by Dr. Henri D. Grissino-Mayer at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Flagler Room of Flagler College.
College honors
Eland honors members during awards ceremony
The evening was filled with awards as members of the Eland Club and the Elks Lodge installed incoming officers and gave thanks to special members.
Student wins second place at art show
Michelle Wartenberg, an 8th grade advanced art student at Fruit Cove Middle School, earned second place honors for her art at this year's World Golf Village spring art and home tour. Her art was created by using pen and ink. The lesson was based on the art work of Chuck Close, an artist who also uses grids in creating his self portraits. Michelle says she enjoys sketching, poetry and listening to music. Her art interests are sketching and sculpting. "By creating art using a grid it helped me realize how art relates to many other areas of life such as history and math," she said.
Miss Bartram Trail crowned
Kalen Dennis, 16, is the new Miss Bartram Trail, crowned recently during a pageant at the school.
'Vietnam 101' at SAHS
"Vietnam 101: The War on Campus," by Richard Orloff, will be presented at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Friday at the St. Augustine High School Auditorium, 3205 Varella Ave.
HCE travel around state for various events
The ladies of the St. Johns County Home, Community and Education Club have been very busy traveling around the state.
Chamber donates auction proceeds
The St. Johns County Chamber of Commerce recently presented a check for over $1,000 to the St. Johns County Center for the Arts at St. Augustine High School (SJCCA). The amount presented represents half of the proceeds raised from the live auction held at the Chamber's Annual Dinner, where the SJCCA Chorus and Madrigal Singers performed last October at the TPC Sawgrass Clubhouse. The auction was emceed by Mike Davis of A.D. Davis Construction Corp. and Troy Blevins of the St. Johns County Parks and Recreation Department.
Naughton re-elected to Pilot Club post
Rene Naughton, a member of the Pilot Club of St. Augustine, will serve a second term as northeast region lieutenant governor for the Florida District, Pilot International.
Beautification at the Ag Center conducted
The Positively 4-H group was busy designing, creating and installing mosaic panels over spring vacation. Last fall, the group was awarded a 4-H State Community Pride Grant to beautify the wooden trash containers at the St. Johns County Agricultural Center.
News and notes from Putnam County
Do yourself a favor and go get a ticket to "Curtains," the end-of-the-year show for Palatka High School's theater program.
Mill Creek students 'bag it for charity'
Students at Mill Creek Elementary School went the extra mile for their Goodwill Bag It Up Drive, sponsored by the student council.
GPS not really something for me
Well, I had my first experience with a genuine GPS, and I think I like my friend Nettie Ruth, the human GPS, better.
Musician brings dream into focus
St. Augustine singer and musician Anastasia Spieker's direct and beautiful smile warms everyone around her, and when the 25-year-old picks up an acoustic guitar and sings one of the many songs she's written, her star quality is immediately apparent to her audience.
Nina and Pinta arriving in St. Augustine on Wednesday
The Nina and Pinta are scheduled to make a trip to St. Augustine on Wednesday.
May fundraiser to help leukemia victim's family
A St. Augustine South resident recently lost her battle with leukemia, and a fundraising event is planned later this month to help the family deal with medical expenses.
News & Notes
Flagler tours
Exchange national meet begins
Representatives from nine woman's exchanges around the country are in St. Augustine through Tuesday for the 75th annual meeting of the Federation of Woman's Exchanges.
Kids' best friend
Wearing the red vest of a service dog, the fluffy little golden bundle of energy wiggled her body and wagged her tail, looking up at her volunteer puppy raiser as if to ask, "How am I doing?"
Neighbors World Golf Village
MURRAY BROTHERS CADDYSHACK GOLF TOURNAMENT April 24 brought many celebrities to the World Golf Village Golf Courses (Slammer & Squire and King and Bear). Some of the participants were Kyle Petty, Diane Neal of "Law & Order"; Melissa Joan Hart of "Sabrina the Teenage Witch"; Rashean Mathis; David Garrard; Maurice Jones-Drew; and many others. The pairings party was held Thursday night at the Caddyshack Restaurant.
Benefit dinner announced
Life Services, Inc., the first Mobile Pregnancy Center in Northeast Florida, will hold a fundraising dinner at 7 p.m. May 14 at the Coquina Crossing Clubhouse, 4536 Coquina Crossing Drive.
Dine out to help animals
Be Kind to Animals Week will be today through May 11, and SAFE Pet Rescue, Inc., of Northeast Florida invites residents and visitors to dine out to save animals from euthanasia.
Community boasts lots of events
Alligator Farm benefit
Go & Do
* Wine tastings: ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, 530 Sawgrass Village Drive, Ponte Vedra Beach, will hold a three-day TPC Wine Tasting series from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday. Sample the wines, enjoy gourmet hors d'oeuvres and chat with wine experts. Admission is $10 to each evening's event and includes a take-home souvenir wine glass and $5 coupon each night toward purchases. Call 285-5760.
Go and Do
Ways to prevent lipstick feathering
Q: Is there a lipstick that does not smear or leak into lines around the mouth? Or a pencil that makes a clear barrier line around the lips to prevent lipstick from bleeding?
Nonsurgery fix for large prostate
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: For men with BPH, would you recommend the Prolieve System for treatment? It involves reducing the prostate with heat. Must it be done periodically to maintain symptom improvement? Any information will be appreciated. Anon.
UAW wins big Chrysler stake but can't run company
DETROIT The United Auto Workers union would appear to be the big winner in the Chrysler bankruptcy saga, having exercised its considerable political muscle to win a 55 percent stake in the country's third-largest automaker.
Police monitor Atlanta airport
ATLANTA Police are monitoring Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport for the former professor suspected of killing his wife and two others.
World Report
Iran to review jail sentence of reporter
Charges dropped in ritual sex abuse cases
WASHBURN, Mo. -- There was a lot of public attention when leaders of two obscure churches in the Ozarks woods were accused of ceremonially abusing girls, preparing them for "service to God" by molesting them.
Maneuvers over Chrysler could shape GM rescue effort
As Chrysler began its journey through bankruptcy in a New York courtroom Friday, members of the Treasury's autos task force had already begun to focus on a larger and more daunting problem: General Motors.
As flu virus spreads, solid details get out slower
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Parents wondered who to blame when two neighboring schools in their small central Minnesota town closed because one school had a probable case of swine flu.
Fiberglass giraffe head swiped in Mich.
GRANDVILLE, Mich. -- Police suspect pranksters are behind the theft of a 10-foot head and neck from a fiberglass giraffe that has stood along a southwestern Michigan roadway for more than a decade.
U.S. flu tally jumps to 244 as labs catch up
NEW YORK -- The tally of confirmed swine flu cases in the United States jumped Sunday to 244 in 34 states, but officials said that's largely from catching up on a backlog of lab tests rather than a sudden spurt in new infections.
Jack Kemp dies at 73
WASHINGTON Jack Kemp, the ex-quarterback, congressman, one-time vice-presidential nominee and self-described "bleeding-heart conservative" died Saturday.
Edwards acknowledges probe over funds
RALEIGH, N.C. -- His once-prominent political career is buried and the turmoil of his marriage is playing out in public. Now, John Edwards is facing a federal inquiry.
Chrysler makeover: Q&A
Question: What will Chrysler do?
National Report
Wolves no longer protected in Northern Rockies
Buffett: Gov't is doing right things
OMAHA, Neb. Billionaire Warren Buffett spent Saturday praising the decisions U.S. officials made to right the economy in the midst of a "financial hurricane" and defending the ones he made to help his company navigate the storm.
Gop leaders try to polish party's image
WASHINGTON A group of prominent GOP leaders on Saturday launched an effort to improve their party's sagging image, hosting an event at which they did not directly attack President Obama, rarely used the word "Republican" and engaged in a healthy dose of self-criticism.
Colo. considers end to death penalty
DENVER -- Colorado is one of 10 states that have considered abolishing the death penalty this year to save money, but Colorado's proposal has a twist: It would use the savings to investigate about 1,400 unsolved slayings.
Chrysler expected to sell assets to Fiat
NEW YORK Chrysler LLC is expected to file a motion Saturday to sell substantially all of its assets to Italian automaker Fiat Group SpA, but the ailing automaker must still deal with creditors who refused to come to a deal to erase the company's debt.
Washington basks in rescued captain's glory
WASHINGTON Since his rescue at sea from pirates by Navy SEALs, captain Richard Phillips has had a hometown parade, a "Captain Richard Phillips Day" in his home state, an award during halftime at a Celtics game, a People magazine spread, a "Today" show interview and the offer of an audience with President Obama.
National Report
Tour bus crash on SoCal freeway injures 28
'Terrorist' definition leaves refugees in limbo
WASHINGTON Forced to flee his homeland because of his support of America's ideals, Tsegu Bahta thought he'd be embraced by the country he emulated and respected.
Senator blocks Fugate
WASHINGTON A Louisiana senator is stalling Florida emergency management director Craig Fugate's nomination as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Supreme court nominee: Obama choice can change court
WASHINGTON With the retirement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter, President Obama has another opportunity to define his young presidency.
Jeep found, not professor
BOGART Police found George Zinkhan III's ditched SUV in a remote ravine on the Clarke-Jackson county line late Thursday and now say that he fled, either on foot or in another vehicle, after he shot and killed three people near downtown Athens on April 25.
Judge Sotomayor eyed as pick
WASHINGTON Topping several speculative lists of President Barack Obama's choice to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David Souter is New York's Sonia Sotomayor, a trailblazing judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, in the Manhattan borough of New York.
Police looking for jellybean burglar
NORTH EAST, Pa. Police in northwestern Pennsylvania say a burglar took some jellybeans from a home but nothing else.
Chrysler talks fail to sway creditors
WASHINGTON With time running out for Chrysler, President Barack Obama's auto industry task force made one last try Wednesday afternoon to keep the nation's third-largest automaker out of bankruptcy court.
Flu alert may rise to highest level
Although the pace of new H1N1 infections seemingly slowed Saturday with a total of 197 cases now reported in the United States and 809 worldwide, and a few even turning up in pigs a World Health Organization official said he thought that the agency's infectious disease alert level ultimately would be raised to its highest point.
Replicas of Columbus' ships to dock here
Replicas of Columbus' ships the Pinta and the Nina will be open for tours in St. Augustine beginning Wednesday.
Roadwork This Week
The following roads will be under construction this week in St. Johns County:
Marriages, Divorces
Marriage license applicants
Lane Closings This Week
The following lane closures are scheduled on road construction projects in St. Johns County during the upcoming week.
Police Report
The following was compiled from police reports collected from the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office (SJCSO) and St. Augustine Police Department (SAPD):
Sailing for Jacksonville
Sailboat start the Mug Race north of the Memorial Bridge in Palatka on Saturday, May 2, 2009. The race, from Palatka to the Buckmann Bridge in Jacksonville is billed as the longest river race in country. By PETER WILLOTT
Police say man hospitalized after being stabbed by brother
After a 61-year-old St. Augustine man called police Saturday morning and said he had stabbed his brother during an argument, officers found the victim unconscious on the front porch of the home the brothers share.
Pygmy whale rescued
A pygmy sperm whale that beached near Crescent Beach Saturday found itself surrounded by good Samaritans and then trucked off to Marineland in an effort to save its life.
Tourism goes active
RIVERDALE -- Lifelong fisherman Mike Ranguette pushes his 25-foot boat "Thomas John" to warp speed in the St. Johns River with his 350-horse Chevrolet inboard engine, heading miles south to reach the end of his crab trap line.
Gamble Rogers Folk Festival
ELKTON Tough as it is to get five kids on the same page about anything, Dawn Morse at least has hers on the same sheet of music.
Library funding saved
Librarians and patrons celebrated Sunday night after word came that a joint State Legislative budget committee put back in approximately $21 million for public libraries.
Home Sales Up
ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH Two real estate agents looked out to the Atlantic Ocean from the second-story balcony of a beachfront home they'd recently sold.
Clay County has suspected swine flu case
TALLAHASSEE -- Clay County is closing an elementary school today and Tuesday to investigate a possible case of swine flu.
Maryann Stone
Maryann Stone, 75, of St. Augustine, died peacefully at her home surrounded by her family on May 1, 2009. She had been a resident of Coquina Crossing and the area since 1998, moving here from Pennsylvania.
Robert A. "Bob" Nowlin
Robert A. "Bob" Nowlin II died April 28, 2009, after a long illness. He was born in Kansas City, Mo., on Feb. 6, 1947. After graduating from Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., he made his home in St. Augustine.
Chesley G. Williams
Chesley G. "George" Williams Jr., 64, St. Augustine, died peacefully May 2, 2009, at his home.
Robert Joseph Burch
Robert Joseph Burch, 57, passed away in St. Augustine on April 23, 2009. He was a loving son and beloved husband and father.
Marietta V. Welter
Marietta V. Welter, 56, St. Augustine, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on April 28, 2009, following a long illness. She was born in Cape Girardeau, Mo., and had resided in St. Augustine since 1988, moving here from Springfield, Mo. For the last several years she worked throughout the First Coast area as an artist specializing in murals.
Opinion: Tourism master plan's Phase One lacks 'beef'
This commentary is in response to the editorials written by The St. Augustine Record regarding Fort Mose's status as a new member of the National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, and the St. Johns County Destination Master Plan, Phase One.
Gives Obama an 'A' for first hundred days
Editor: So we grade President Barack Obama's first 100 days.
Heed the churches on torture issue
President Barack Obama promised "more transparent ... more creative" government. His release of the torture memos, and the Pentagon's expected release of more photos of detainee abuse, is a step in the right direction. Yet he assured the CIA that he will not prosecute those who followed the instructions to torture from the Bush administration. Congress might not agree with this leniency, with prominent senators calling for investigations.
Objects to 'second chance' for deputy
Editor: I was appalled to learn that Sheriff David Shoar gave "Bubba" Harris a second chance. Looks like to me he has had more than a second chance; didn't he read his past history?
Character counts always
It's refreshing to see high school seniors excited about life, looking forward to the future, and hearing them give credit to their parents, their mentors and teachers and many thanking God for getting them where they are today.
Outraged over decision on deputy
Editor: Regarding The St. Augustine Record's April 26 story, "Deputy gets second chance," it is unbelievable that Sheriff David Shoar believes that Deputy Halford "Bubba" Harris II should not be fired. Shoar is quoted as saying, "For me it boiled down to a guy who got into a domestic with his wife." I thought domestic violence was a crime.
Letter: Some Obama critics are hypocrites
Editor: First we were told that President Barack Obama was a Muslim. That didn't work.
Vitriol deepening over gay marriage
Shaunti Feldhahn:
Letter: Song lawsuit wasted School Board money
Editor: I have been following the problems in the Webster School regarding the teachers choosing a song, "In God We Still Trust," for the students to sing which is sectarian and religious.
Opinion: Obama should bow out from 'Our Lady'
Here on planet "What About Me," principled people are so rare as to be oddities. Thus, it was a head-swiveling moment Monday when former Vatican Ambassador Mary Ann Glendon quietly declined Notre Dame's Laetare Medal.
Letter: Tags ignore church-state separation
Editor: I want my own license tag, too.
Muslims: 'We do that on first dates'
Without any pretense of an argument, which liberals are neurologically incapable of, the mainstream media are now asserting that our wussy interrogation techniques at Guantanamo constituted "torture" and have irreparably harmed America's image abroad.
Opinion: Downtown St. Augustine residents must have a voice in the tourism plan
In response to the April 26 editorial, "Tourism assessment lacks broad views," on the new tourism plan, I wish to add one more group that is perhaps the most important stakeholder of all: The residents of the historic district.
Police Reports
The following was compiled from police reports collected from the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office (SJCSO), St. Augustine Police Department (SAPD) and St. Augustine Beach Police Department (SABPD):
Local Watch
Former Bartram Trail athlete Kyle Parker was a combined 1-for-7 in a doubleheader on Sunday for Clemson. The Tigers won the first game 7-4 and dropped the second 8-6. No. 17 Clemson is now 32-16 overall. Parker has 10 home runs this season. ...
Goydos will ditch the Dirtbags hat this year
Paul Goydos came out of nowhere last year at The Players to steal the show. He was the ultimate underdog he didn't even have an equipment sponsor give him a hat for the tournament, so he wore the now-famous Long Beach State Dirtbags hat.
NBA: Celtics finish off Bulls in regulation
BOSTON After a record-setting seven overtimes in the first six games, the Celtics made an early night of it with a dominating stretch in the second.
Local golf results
MLS: Dynamo win
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Stuart Holden and Brian Ching scored goals as the Houston Dynamo defeated the short-handed New England Revolution 2-0 on Sunday to snap a six-game regular-season winless streak in the series.
Golf: Johnson two shots ahead of Tiger
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Tiger Woods dropped out of the lead with late bogeys for the second straight day, leaving former Masters champion Zach Johnson with a two-shot advantage Saturday heading into the final round of the Quail Hollow Championship.
Trainer Woolley comes out of nowhere to win Derby
LOUISVILLE, Ky. The horse came out of nowhere.
NHL: Caps take opener from Pens
WASHINGTON Alex Ovechkin contributed a power-play goal, yet it was a few of his unheralded teammates on the Washington Capitals who made the difference in Game 1 of their showdown against Pittsburgh Penguins.
Local Watch
The St. Augustine Little League Phillies, an ages 13-14 travel team, improved to 7-2 Saturday. The Phillies swept a doubleheader from San Mateo, winning 14-3, and 12-5. Aviley MacMullen pitched two complete games with 14 strikeouts and eight walks on the day. In the first game, Kinsey Castle had a grand slam, and the Phillies had 17 steals. Allison Abbott went 1-for-2. In the second game, Mary Carmen had a double. MacMullen was 2-for-3 with a double. Kiersten O'Neil had a triple and two RBIs. Alex Malota and Abbey Morrison each had an RBI. ...
Red-hot Denver cools off Dallas in opening game
DENVER -- Nene kept Denver in it until his teammates could turn this one into another runaway.
Ducks prevail in 3 OT thriller
DETROIT -- Todd Marchant scored 1:15 into the third overtime to give the Anaheim Ducks a 4-3 series-evening victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday.
Jaguars WRs trying to find improvement
Once or twice a day, everything clicks for Mike Thomas.
Local Watch 2
North Georgia defeated the Flagler College men's baseball team 4-1 in the final game of a three-game series. The Saints (17-36) lost all three. The sweep signaled the end of a tough season for Flagler, and marks the final game the team will play without a conference. The Saints will join the Peach Belt next season, a league that includes North Georgia and 10 other schools.
National: Pacquiao stuns Hatton with KO
LAS VEGAS Manny Pacquiao turned in perhaps the most dominating performance of his career Saturday night, knocking Ricky Hatton down twice in the first round before finally stopping him with a ferocious left hand in the final seconds of the second round.
Tips from a pro
Stop topping the ball
Ex-Jags assistant among injured in Cowboys' roof collapse
IRVING, Texas Cowboys special teams coach Joe DeCamillis broke his back and 11 more were injured when winds just shy of tornado strength ripped through the roof of the team's indoor practice facility during a rookie minicamp Saturday.
Local: Samuels just misses title
Menendez sophomore Gabby Samuels came within half an inch of becoming a state champion Saturday.
Jaguars rookie Cox shows promise in minicamp
JACKSONVILLE Cornerback Derek Cox got little, if any, national attention at William & Mary.
Local Watch 2
St. Johns County resident Whitney Allemand beat Alex Dienes 1 up to win the First Coast Putting Championship on Saturday at the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Boxer needs to reconsider comeback
LAS VEGAS -- Floyd Mayweather Jr. took his daughter bowling Saturday night after announcing his return to the ring. Good thing, because if he had seen Manny Pacquiao fight he might have figured out what boxing fans now know -- that the future of boxing lies in the furious fists of a most unlikely new superstar.
Mine That Bird flies to Derby victory
LOUISVILLE, Ky. The cowboy and his horse beat them all.
Kyle Busch earns Richmond sweep
RICHMOND, Va. Kyle Busch celebrated his 24th birthday with a trip to Victory Lane, winning Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway.
Major Players
After missing The Players last year because of a knee injury, Tiger Woods returns to Sawgrass this week. While Tiger is always the star attraction, Sawgrass has been unkind. He won the event in 2001 and was runner-up to Hal Sutton in 2000. But he's gone six consecutive Players without a top 10. The Associated Press photos
Future uncertain for Derby winner
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Mine That Bird stood regally, his ears pricked, his gaze fixed on the rows of clicking cameras. Then the 50-1 upset winner of the Kentucky Derby put his head down and began munching on grass, leaving his human handlers still in shock about his stunning 6 3/4-length victory a day earlier.
Lying in baseball
NEW YORK -- Journalist Selena Roberts makes the case that Alex Rodriguez likely used steroids in high school and may have taken HGH while with the Yankees in her new biography of the MVP, a portrait of a deeply insecure man trying to cope with being abandoned by his father and obsessed with becoming a superstar.
Wary Celtics try to rest before facing Magic
BOSTON -- Celtics coach Doc Rivers has a bed in Boston and a bed in Orlando and will get a chance to sleep in both in the second round of the NBA playoffs.
O'Hair rallies for victory at Quail
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A narrow victory at Quail Hollow came with a large dose of redemption for Sean O'Hair.
Today on TV
Heat flame out in Game 7
ATLANTA -- Joe Johnson was tired of all the double- and triple-teaming. So he put up a shot before Miami could get an extra defender on him.
Lilly leads Cubs past Marlins, 6-1
CHICAGO Ted Lilly struck out 10 in eight strong innings and hit a two-run double, powering the Chicago Cubs to a 6-1 victory over the Florida Marlins on Saturday.
National: Cowboys assistant paralyzed in accident
IRVING, Texas -- A Dallas Cowboys scouting assistant was permanently paralyzed from the waist down after his spine was severed during the collapse of the team's tent-like practice structure in a severe storm.
Police SUV runs over woman at Jax Beach
JACKSONVILLE BEACH (AP) Authorities say a Jacksonville Beach police officer patrolling the shoreline in a sport utility vehicle ran over a woman lying on the beach.
Budget issues prolong session
TALLAHASSEE Florida lawmakers have ended 60 days of regulation time marked by indecision, economic gloom, a federal bailout, the downfall of a former leader and unfinished business that's adding a week of overtime to the 2009 session.
Officer fired after zapping kids
CARRABELLE (AP) A corrections officer was fired after zapping children with 50,000 volts of electricity during a "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" tour, authorities have said.
Fantasy 5 player wins $243,000
TALLAHASSEE (AP) One winner of the "Fantasy 5" game will collect $243,000.32, the Florida Lottery said Saturday.
Florida state workers to see pay cut
TALLAHASSEE -- State employees who make $45,000 or more a year will take a 2 percent pay cut, legislative budget chiefs decided Sunday as they settled a major issue in House-Senate negotiations over a new spending plan.
Bills that passed in the Florida Legislature
Bills that passed in the Florida Legislature
Bills that failed in the Florida Legislature
Bills that failed in the Florida Legislature
Children's triathlon planned for May 30
In partnership with St. Johns County and the City of St. Augustine, Just Tri It!, a triathlon for children ages 6 to 12, is planned for May 30.
Midwest hopes for 'public enemies' tourism
MILWAUKEE John Dillinger: America's most notorious criminal or Robin Hood of the Great Depression?
Protests erupt in Nepal after PM fires army chief
KATMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal's prime minister fired the army chief Sunday after a struggle over admitting former Maoist rebel fighters to the military, sparking mass protests and jeopardizing the survival of the country's first elected government.
World Report
Supermarket magnate new Panama president
Fiat eyes new company with GM Europe talks
ROME -- Fiat Group SpA confirmed Sunday that it is in talks to buy General Motors' European operations, in a move that, combined with its planned takeover of Chrysler LLC, would form one of the world's biggest car and truck makers.
NATO thwarts hijack off Somalia
NAIROBI, Kenya Special forces on a Portuguese warship seized explosives from suspected Somali pirates after thwarting an attack on an oil tanker, but later freed the 19 men. Hours later and hundreds of miles away, another band of pirates hijacked a cargo ship, a NATO spokesman said Saturday.
New swine flu cases in Europe, Latin America
MEXICO CITY -- The swine flu epidemic spread deeper into the United States, Europe and Latin America -- and in Canada, back to pigs -- even as Mexico's health chief hinted Sunday it may soon be time to reopen businesses and schools in the nation where the outbreak likely began.
Developments on swine flu worldwide
Key developments on swine flu outbreaks, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, and government officials:
Nation beefs up nuke plants
WASHINGTON (MCT) Pakistan is expanding its nuclear weapons program, U.S. officials and other experts said.
Canada: 1st pigs found with new swine flu virus
OTTAWA Pigs on a Canadian farm have been infected with the new swine flu virus apparently by a farm worker back from Mexico and are under quarantine, officials said Saturday. It is the first known case of pigs having the virus.
Attack on outpost leaves 18 dead
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Dozens of militants attacked a Pakistani security outpost Saturday in an area near the Afghan border, leaving 18 people dead and adding another trouble spot to the nation's extended list.
Italian premier's wife seeks divorce
ROME -- Premier Silvio Berlusconi's second wife has for years lived a very separate life from her billionaire husband, rarely participating in his official events or travels. On Sunday, she confirmed she was seeking a divorce, citing his reported flirtations with younger women.
Iraqi soldier kills 2 U.S. troops at outpost
BAGHDAD An Iraqi army soldier opened fire on American soldiers Saturday in northern Iraq, killing two and wounding three in an incident that raised fresh concerns about extremist infiltration of Iraq's security forces as U.S. troops prepare to withdraw.
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This is a complete and accurate transcript of the tape of the second part of the first oral history interview of John A. Huffman Sr. (CN 389, T2) 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. Readers should remember that this is a transcript of spoken English, which follows a different rhythm and rule than written English.
... Three dots indicate an interruption or break in the train of thought within the sentence on the part of the speaker.
.... Four dots indicate what the transcriber believes to be the end of an incomplete sentence.
( ) Words in parentheses are asides made by the speaker.
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This transcript, made by Robert Shuster and Katherine Graber and was completed in August 2014.
CN 389, T2. Interview of Rev. John A. Huffman by Bob Shuster on April 14, 1988.
SHUSTER: This is a continuation of the interview with Rev John A. Huffman was took place at Billy Graham Center on April 14th, 1988. One other question about Mrs. Sunday, Rev Huffman, you mentioned that she was on the board of Winona School of... Lake School of Theology...
HUFFMAN: And also of the Winona Lake Christian Assembly.
SHUSTER: What kind of board member was she? How would you say...?
HUFFMAN: Very active. She came to meetings, and she participated. She gave her two cents worth all the time.
SHUSTER: What kind of business person was she?
HUFFMAN: She was shrewd. Very good business person. She was careful with funds. The funds that she was most interested in dispersing to organizations were those to the city missions where Billy was saved of course like Pacific Garden Mission. But she...she did a lot of things that people never knew about. She, for instance, on our campus we bought the Bethany Girls Camp from the LeTourneau Foundation, and we did quite a remodeling job and putting it up from a Girls Camp, an exclusive Girls Camp to a Summer Theological Seminary Campus. And Ma Sunday [clears his throat], I went to her one time very hesitantly. I thought of her as a sort of a poor widow that was...she never lived high. She still lived in that home. She still gathered sticks off of the campus and so forth. And I said, "Ma, I'd like for you to do something permanently for us that we could have a marker for that people would know that you're active on our board."She said, "What do you want?" and I very timidly said, "Well, I thought maybe it would be nice if you'd take one of these little guest cottages and air condition it and give us some money to remodel it and make it a nice place for faculty, family," and she said, "How much would it take to do it?" I told her I think it was thirty-five hundred dollars worth of money. Thirty-five hundred dollars was a lot of money in those days. She said, "I'll do it. Okay" If I'd asked her for ten thousand I'd have gotten it. But she had insurance money left her that put her in good, but she was very generous. She made an offer at one time that she'd give five thousand dollars to the first organization that would fill the Billy Sunday Tabernacle, because after Billy left over years and years and it was never filled by anybody. And Youth for Christ was the first one to do it. We almost did it, but Youth for Christ did it, and she gave it five thousand. So she was generous. And she was a lovable person. Just an open, loving person.
SHUSTER: When she was on the board of the School of Theology, what seemed to be the kind of things she was mainly concerned with? What was her main interest?
HUFFMAN: She was concerned that we turn out preachers that preach the gospel. She was concerned that our curriculum reflected the fact that we were in business to win souls. Only the concern of soul-winning, and it was not much of a social emphasis. It was just a soul-winning emphasis.
SHUSTER: So how did you have that....[Huffman coughs] how did she....How did you have that emphasis?
HUFFMAN: Well, we had it. I mean, we had....we'd bring people like J. C. Massee the great evangelist to give courses. We always had a practical, I was head of the practical department during my days as a staff member, and from the beginning it was a, it was just a [pauses] high-class, Bible-training program for ministers who felt the need of getting further training, but we had a department of evangelism and courses on evangelism constantly in our program.
SHUSTER: Go back to your personal story for now. When did you come to know Christ?
HUFFMAN: As a boy. Eight years old. In 1920. On the, in the Mennonite Brethren in Christ camp meeting program at Yale, Michigan on the foot ground, football field of Yale, Michigan. My dad was the evangelist, one of the evangelists. He took our family up from Bluffton, Ohio to Yale, Michigan, which is on a port here in Michigan, and one afternoon I became desperately under conviction. Up to that time I had never had one sense that I was God's child and a happy one too. No sense of conviction or of sin or anything like that. What caused that, what...because I'd been in camp meetings from the time they could carry me in a basket, basinet (they didn't have basinets in those days), anyway, I was, I just simply was overwhelmed with the fact I was a sinner. I was a sinner because I'd never accepted Christ, and Dad came. He was, usually when he went to camp meetings he was the Bible conference teacher. And he would alternate with the evening evangelist. And I remember we were being entertained across the little creek from the camp, the tent, and I was lying on the bed there in the bedroom of the home where we were being entertained, and it wasn't like me to be this lounging around. I was always active and running around doing things. And Father came in, and he said, "John, are you sick?"and I said, "No." "So what's wrong?" I said, "I'm not a Christian." He said, "What do you mean?" "I've never been saved," I said. And he said, "Well, let's do something about it right now." I said, "No, no." So that night I went to the service. I don't remember who preached. I don't know whether my father preached or not. I simply remembered that as I was standing there, and the altar call was being given that I felt I should go. And the Devil was telling me, there was something was telling me I shouldn't. The reason was (this is how a child's mind works), "If you go forward to accept Christ publically, these people see you, and they'll say, 'Why'd that preacher come up here from Ohio with a sinner to try to get us saved?'" That was what was...I was battling. I went forward, I knelt down, and accepted Christ, and it was a pretty demonstrative group of people. Some loud praying, and once in while shouting, you know. But I was doing business with the Lord. And all of a sudden, the burden lifted, and I knew I was a Christian from that moment on. Never had any doubts I was from that moment to this. That's when, and incidentally, that's where I got my wife. My wife was at that same camp meeting. Two years younger than I. She was six years old. We had to be in the same children's meeting. I don't remember her. She isn't sure she remembers me. She does remember that years later she thought that she used to see the son of the evangelist who was there, my dad. She got someone in mind that she spotted and always thought that that was me, but it was some other preacher's son that looks sort of like me, but we were entertained that summer one in my wife's parents' home, country home for dinner. And on that occasion, Dad used to tell this story, that they lived in a nice country home out from Yale, 180-acre farms, something like that. And these lay people just invited the evangelist's family to come out there. And Father spotted this golden-haired little girl who was six years old and called her over to him and sat her on his knee and said to my mother, "Wouldn't you like to have a little girl like this?" They didn't have any girls. They lost their baby girl. First child was lost, and Father always loved little girls. And Mother, I don't know what Mother said, but anyway, it was Dorothy. Later on, (that was in 1920) in 1930, just ten years later, I met her at Marion College. Through my father's recruiting, she came to College, and it was love at first sight so far as I was concerned. But we don't claim that our romance started back there when we were six and eight.
SHUSTER: It was predestined.
HUFFMAN: I think it was predestined [laughs]. Yeah.
SHUSTER: You mentioned there when you talked with your father in the afternoon that he said, "Why don't we do something about that now?" and you said no. Why...?
HUFFMAN: I thought, see I had it in my mind that you got saved by going forward to an invitation and kneeling publically before people, and that was my concept of the place to do it. John Jr., our son who's a pastor in Newport Beach now, had a similar thing happen to him only it worked a little differently. He felt desperately under conviction in our home in New England as a boy, and I don't know what his age was, but something approximate with my age, I guess, and he went to his mother (I think he was younger than that. Yes, he was.) and he just simply said, "I want to accept Christ in my heart," said "Well, Daddy will be home soon and let's just wait til he comes in." "I can't wait. I got to do it now." He got saved right then and there. I had to wait til I got to a meeting and went forward, believe it [laughs].
SHUSTER: When did you start thinking that you would want to be a preacher?
HUFFMAN: Very, very early in life. My first, among my first memories was the fact that...two things: I (this is strange for a pacifist family to have a child do this) I loved military music and Kreitor's[?] band was the band of World War number one, the military band, and Father had taken the family to Lima to hear Kreitor's[?] band, strange enough, and I don't remember being there, but I remember that we had records from that occasion, and I loved those records. And I would go in (and we had a music room in our house. We had a very lovely home. Father always provided a nice home for us), and there was always a music room in the home, and we kids all took piano lessons, and we had to take piano lessons, and then we had a phonograph or graphophone [sic, probably means a gramophone] whatever you want to call it. I used to get the Kreitor[?] records out as a little guy, just a little, tiny guy and close all the doors, and I would wave my hands and direct and that was my band. Every instrument was in perfect pitch, and I loved band music. Still do. And then I remember at times I would get my little New Testament out and preach. Always had to be up high when I preached. In the first home we had in Bluffton, I had to be not over three. There was a staircase going up and half way up there was a...some kind of a post, flat post, and I'd balance myself up there. I'd stand up there. I'd get on that. I had to be higher than my audience had to be, and a big audience I had to see them all, you know. And they tell the story that I was up there preaching one day, and I had my little New Testament inside out, upside down. It didn't make any difference. I was preaching away, blah, blah, blah, blah, and I fell off. Talk about predestination [Shuster laughs]. My mother had done the wash that day and hadn't ironed it yet and had a basket sitting right under and I went right head first right into that basket of clothing [laughs]. So it was a battle always between, in my mind, being a preacher or being a band master. And that was one of the biggest things settled that night when I accepted Christ. I knew from then on it wasn't band master. It was...I don't claim I was called to preach at eight years of age, but I was very,very sensitive and very....I never had any thought of doing anything else other than that after that.
SHUSTER: Do you think your father's example had influence on you?
HUFFMAN: I don't think he....I think it had great influence on me because I was youngest child and I went with him often when the other children didn't go when he preached. And I always [coughs] would go up right after and stand as close to him as I could so people knew I belonged to him, you know, that kind of thing. But Father was very cautious about that because he didn't believe anybody should preach unless they had a "Woe is me if I preach not the gospel." And he used to tell us boys, "Don't preach if you can keep from it" because he felt that the battles of the ministry were so great that unless you had a divine injunction and anointing for preaching, what he called the "ordination of the pierced hands", you shouldn't be up there trying to preach. And we were that way with our John too. We urged him not to go into the ministry just because Dad was a minister and his grandfather, and we came from a long range of preachers. My father had nine brothers and sisters, and seven of them were preachers, even our, even a sister was a preacher. And then on my mother's side, there wasn't a line of preachers, except that her father was a preacher. So my grandfather on one side, and a line of uncles and an aunt, and Father, and I had two brothers, and one of those was a preacher, and myself.
SHUSTER: You had an aunt who was a preacher?
HUFFMAN: Yes. Yeah.
SHUSTER: So it's quite a family tradition?
HUFFMAN: Yeah. So the big battle I had, and the bigger battle our son John had was not to preach just because it was in the family. John almost became a politician. He was close to Nixon, and he was head of Marble Collegiate Youth department that the Nixon's kids were in when he was out of office and they were in New York, and they attended Marble Collegiate Church, Peale's church. And John was very close to Nixon, and when John went to....John graduated from Princeton. He was with Peale two years in Princeton and then he went on Sundays in New York City, and then he went to Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church for one year during his seminary days in Princeton. Then he went to Tulsa. He was in Tulsa about five years. Then he went to Key Biscayne, and three months after John went to Key Biscayne, this pastor of the Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church, which was a small church of 350, 400 members, Nixon was made president, and then Nixon started coming to church, and John knew the girls and so forth. So there was a big influence on John. When John was in Princeton Seminary studying, well seminary studies, he was over at the (what was it called?), it was a school for...
SHUSTER: International affairs?
HUFFMAN: Yeah. The...
SHUSTER: Government?
HUFFMAN: Yeah, yeah. School of international relations studying to be a politician. So he didn't accept the call to the ministry til his last year in seminary. That was a battle there.
SHUSTER: You mentioned how at Marion you met your wife.
HUFFMAN: Uh-huh.
SHUSTER: Or at least you started dating then.
HUFFMAN: Yeah.
SHUSTER: Started courting. Now what's your wife's full name again?
HUFFMAN: Dorothy Bricker.
SHUSTER: Bricker's her maiden name? How did you meet?
HUFFMAN: Well, I had just become president of the woman-haters club on campus the year before. My dad being dean, I had a chance to look over the list and just about know who arrived on registration day. And Father was a great recruiter. He was out weekends incessantly, both for Marion and for Taylor and for Winona. He was on the go all the time recruiting and preaching and teaching and so forth. And he would do the Michigan camp rather regularly. And one day he wrote us and told us that there were three girls, Michigan, that he thought were going to come to Marion College. That was in the summer time. They're going to come in the fall. And so he just told us, "There are three girls coming from Michigan" and that registered in my mind, and I, couple of my buddies, we had a habit of sort of looking the crowd over. We knew where the freshmen were corralled and where they stayed and got a good look at them every year. And I, though I had become president of the woman-haters club, I still kept a little interest in who was coming. So Father was off early registration day, and just before that they got word that one of these three girls was not going to be able to come. It was Depression time, and she just wasn't able to come to college. And he showed such concern about her not being able to come to college, I got quite interested in this girl that couldn't come. Didn't remember anything about being in that home up there or anything like that. So I said, "Oh shucks." I said, " The girl I was supposed to marry isn't even coming now." So Dad went to registration, and he came back. We were within walking distance of the college, our home was in Marion. And he came back for lunch, and he said, "The strangest thing happened. This girl that wasn't coming, I lied!" That's the girl I wanted to see. So I got a hold of my chum who, boy chum who lived in the dorm and ate at the dorm and knew everything that was going on and went over there, and I said, "I want to see this Bricker girl that wasn't coming. I think that's my....that's the girl for me." So we placed ourselves early afternoon right at the bottom of the steps of Teter Hall where the girls lived and the freshmen were coming down the...to get in the registration line, and I'll never forget I saw her. I saw her. At one glimpse [snaps fingers] that was it [Shuster laughs]. So it took a long time to work it out. She had a boyfriend back home, farmer boy she liked and was going with rather regularly and then she wasn't on campus long til the top athlete of the campus spotted her. It isn't too popular to be a dean's son on campus. So I worked pretty hard, but I got her [laughs].
SHUSTER: And you were married while you were still in college?
HUFFMAN: No. No, I was a junior. She was a freshman. She was there only one year. Then she went back to what was then Western State Teacher's College. We got engaged that summer, and (up in Michigan) the camp, I went back up there. But then she went to Western State [pauses]. Let's see. She went to Western State. She went to Marion one year. She went to Western State one year. She got a teacher's training. In Michigan you can get a teacher's certificate for two years course. And she taught her home school, one room school for three years. I finished my...the year after she left was my senior year. Then I went into evangelistic work for a year, year or so. I took a church in Dayton, Ohio for a year, the church my father had founded when I was a boy. And then we were married, and I finished up about three months of my evangelistic appointments, and we went to Boston for schooling. So she went to Boston University School. Well, first of all, we went to Boston University only because we couldn't get in anywhere else. We were, I was registered, preregistered at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary that year, which was the year thirty...six, I think. That sounds right.
SHUSTER: It says you graduated from Marion in '33, and Winona Lake School of Theology in '35.
HUFFMAN: Yep. Yeah, this is '36. There was a big flood on in Kentucky, and the governor of Kentucky urged no one to come in from outside during the crisis. So it was mid-year, and I tried to get in Princeton, I tried to get in other schools. The only school I could get in, or did get in was Boston University School of Theology, which is a rank liberal school. I knew it when I went there, but...and, but she went to Boston University with me the first year. She was a straight A student. Valedictorian of her class in high school. And she was just a bright student. And one of the professors spotted her, and called me in and asked me if she was a college graduate, and I said no and asked why and I just told him we didn't have the opportunity to go through college. He said, "If I can get the School of Education to accept the one year's work that she did as an auditor at the seminary, would she go to Boston University and finish up?" He just felt she had great potential. So I told her about it, and, why, that was her cup of tea. So I graduated from Boston University School of Theology, and she graduated from Boston University School of Education the same year.
SHUSTER: And was the Louisville Seminary you were going to the Southern Baptist Seminary?
HUFFMAN: No, I was going to Louisville Presbyterian.
SHUSTER: Louisville Presbyterian. When...now of course your father was Mennonite.
HUFFMAN: He was Mennonite.
SHUSTER: When did you switch over to Presbyterian?
HUFFMAN: Not until 1971 or '72. I kept my credentials in the church of my birth all that time, and I could do that well because in New England denominationalism didn't mean that much. Ockenga was a Presbyterian most of the time that he was pastor of a Congregational church until the issue got so strong in Presbyterianism they said, "Look, either get out of Park Street Church and go to a Presbyterian church or....either get out of that church or get out of the Presbyterian denomination." It became a denominational issue. So then he joined the three Cs, the Presbyterian, I mean, Congregational Church. Three Cs or four Cs, whichever it's called, one of the conservative groups within the Congregational setup. Father, however, back to Presbyterianism, Father was an Arminian, but he was a very strong Arminian when it came to the acts of God and so forth. And it wasn't...he was a very, very strong theologian, and when he was in McCormick Seminary, he taught the John Timothy Stone Bible class at Fourth Presbyterian Church. If he had gone to any other denomination, he would have gone Presbyterian, but he was just loyal to his roots, and I saw no need of going from one denomination to another. My school, which I became president of, was thoroughly interdenominational. My work at Boston was...Ockenga at the time I was there was Presbyterian in a Congregational church. That didn't make any difference. So I didn't change my....I was pastor of a Baptist church for a while, but I never joined the Baptists. But when John went to, John Jr. went to Princeton and became very Presbyterianish in his form and still very evangelical, and it wasn't til I went to Florida, and went with John to Key Biscayne, and then Jim Kennedy up at Coral Ridge that I found it necessary to change church denomination.
SHUSTER: You mentioned about going to Boston University, a very liberal school.
HUFFMAN: Uh-huh.
SHUSTER: What was that like for you?
HUFFMAN: It was a test. I....It was at that period that you've been reading about probably where even at Harvard (and I went to Harvard after Boston University, some years after), but at Harvard the best students were not Unitarian students, they were our evangelical boys. And you name, I can name a whole lot of them, Harold Kuhl one of them, and Kenneth Kantzer another that went to Harvard, and they made a good record at Harvard. They were serious, and Harvard was low on scholarship, and for a period of ten years there the best students of Harvard, carrying the best records away were evangelical boys that didn't change their beliefs one bit
SHUSTER: This was at Harvard Divinity School?
HUFFMAN: Harvard Divinity. So at that time, I was over at Boston University, which is Methodist of course. And I simply early on when I went there, I saw how not to do it, and that was not to correct the teacher in public, and tell him what, where he was wrong. I saw one devout evangelical in the first class I went to sitting up in front waving his hands and telling the teacher off and making a fool of himself. So I determined that I would think through it and pray through my decisions, and if it came to a point where I couldn't accept with a good conscience what was being teached [sic], I wouldn't reproduce it even in an examination paper. I would give them exactly what they wanted, the answer they wanted, and then I would say, "But this I do not accept personally. This is what we're taught, and this is what I believe." And I did that all the way through Boston University, and they respected it, and I was man of the year the year I graduated from Boston University. So it set up a principle in my own heart and I thought I carried it through in my preaching and in my educational work after that because I'm convinced that of all the students that I have seen that have capitulated to liberalism, very few have done it on an intellectual basis. They've done it on the basis of peer pressure, or incentives, and the fellows that have really believed something, and have the experience and weren't afraid to graciously express that, went to the top. The others that sort of, like a little bird opened their mouth and put whatever worm was stuck in it, they just went to pieces theologically. I had no problem getting through Boston University. I had professors, the dean of Boston University the year I graduated called me and he said, "John, I regret that any person could be exposed to our teaching this long and not accept it as you have, but I respect you. There's a place for you out there somewhere." And then I stayed right on in that area for years, and I had a lot of students I moved from Boston. Okenga was holding fort at Park Street Church. I went to Cambridge and had the Cornerstone Church, which was a prominent location, had a lot of Harvard students coming and Wellesley students and Radcliffe students as he had down in the city. And I think we were able to steer a lot of people, save a lot of people just by letting them know that they don't have to be ashamed in this Athens of learning in Boston, just get convictions that run counter to what's being taught. The difference between Boston University in my day and Harvard in my day (and there was a period I was in Boston. I finished Boston in '38. I think '38. And then for a period of almost a decade I was in the ministry. Then I went to Harvard on a doctoral program. And in that period a person who graduate from Boston University, no matter what he believed, had a paid-up meal ticket for life because the Methodist Church took him on as one of their people. You graduated from Harvard, you had nothing because they had no churches to place you in. And Boston University was more dangerous than Harvard because it was more subtle. In my day, there were still hangovers from the old era, of people who really believed the gospel, or at least were exposed to it. The most dangerous person at Boston University in my day was David D. Vaughan who was parked out here near the, he used to say "The Slaughterhouse" in Chicago too long, and he saw the needs of the [clears throat] poor people and sympathized with them. But he would get up in class, and he would, he taught social ethics supposedly, and he would rant and roar at the evangelicals and at the Christians, and he would sometimes quote " There's power, power, wonder working power in the blood of the Lamb," and go, "Baaah, baaah, baaah," and he hissed this. But deep in his heart, he would respect a person who believed what he at one time professed to believe and lost. And I had many experiences with teachers like that who would....Now over at Harvard it was a form thing. It was Unitarianism, you see. And it, what Boston University used to have, why it was just the opposite. At the same time, when Harvard was out there it had gone Unitarian. So my attitude as a student at both places was to master what I was taught and reproduce it for them on examination papers or on papers, letting them know that I had learned what they believed but then to counter. And I used to say that an evangelical going through one of those schools had to work twice as hard as a liberal because he had to think both things through. If you got time for a story at this point, I'd like to tell it.
SHUSTER: Sure. Go ahead.
HUFFMAN: Harold Paul Sloan was a great Methodist preacher. He was editor of the Advocate for years (I think that's what they called it), and he was a thorough going evangelical. He went to Temple University and became head of this, one of the departments there. Just a...he was a, on the Bible conference circuit, he was a popular and a very, very wonderful person among evangelicals circles. He hit the big, big Bible conferences. He had a daughter by the name of Ruth, and she was a psych student in the Temple University when he was a departmental head there, and Ruth came home one day and said, "Dad, I'm sick, I'm just sick. I can't go to class tomorrow." He said, "Why?" said, "Because they're going to, young teacher's going to give an examination. He's going to have ten questions, and he said we can get all nine of them right. If we miss the tenth question, giving the answer word for word as he gives it, we'll flunk the course." Well, this riled Harold Paul Sloan up pretty much. He said, "Well, what's the question? What's the answer?" "Well," she said, "it's about behaviorism." "What's so dreadful that he's teaching you that you can't write it down?" "Well," said [sic] "this teacher says that man is not responsible for his conduct, because man is born with certain kinds of genes that make him what he is. For instance, the Apostle Paul is not to be given credit for being loyal to Christ because he was born with a kind of genes that made him loyal and devoted to Christ." I'm using the word "gene." He didn't use the word gene. There was another word he used, but this gives the idea. "And Judas is not to be held responsible for betraying his Lord because he was born with that innate something that made him betray Christ, and we're just born being what we are."
SHUSTER: B.F. Skinner's...
HUFFMAN: Yeah. So [pauses] Paul Sloan says, "I'll tell you what you do: you go to that examination, write the answer to all the other questions, and when you get that question demanding that you answer on behaviorism, say exactly what he said: 'Man is not responsible for his conduct because he is born with a certain kind of substance that makes him do what he does. Apostle Paul is not to be given credit for being loyal to Christ because he was born to be loyal. And Judas isn't to be held responsible for bring a traitor to his Lord because he was born to be a traitor." Then when you're all through, put that answer in quotation marks, and at the bottom left-hand corner put "P.S. Dear Teacher, I don't believe a word of it. I was born with different kind of genes than you were" [Shuster laughs]. She did. Got an A on her course [Shuster laughs].
SHUSTER: He must have had a sense of humor anyway.
HUFFMAN: Yeah [laughs].
SHUSTER: Did you have professors at Boston who made a particular impact on you or had a strong...?
HUFFMAN: I had professors that made...I respected some of them very much. Some made an impact because of the dreadful, fierce opposition they had to the gospel like I mentioned. Elmer Leslie was an Old Testament scholar who was as liberal as they make, pious and devoted, and was as religious in his heresy as I was in my orthodoxy. And he's the one that was acting dean when I graduated, and wrote a letter. If my grandfather had heard that I'd backslidden completely and he wanted to write me a letter about it, he couldn't have been more sincere than Elmer Leslie was, and he said, "I regret that you've been able to go through this school and graduate from here without accepting (what he called) the truths of higher criticism." But he said, "I respect you for it." I respected him as a person who simply believed what he was taught, and that didn't change and never had a conversion experience. I...there's an incident that goes along with that: I was preaching in a Methodist church (I preached a lot during my days there), I was preaching in the Methodist church, and I was tipped off that Elmer Leslie's mother would be there that day. And I was just preaching a simple message on faith, faith in Christ for salvation. She didn't know who I was or where I came from. Gordon College was in existence, was then Gordon College of Bible and Missions or something like that, and if you wanted be, speak in disdain of a student, you said, "He came from Gordon. He didn't come from Harvard or from Boston," so I had my eye on Mrs. Leslie. I knew who she was. She didn't know who I was. When the message was over, Elmer Leslie's mother, she came up and in a very, very arrogant and Bostonian way she said, "My dear young man, I appreciated your message very much today. You must be from Gordon College." I said, "Oh no my lady, I'm a graduate of Boston University School of Theology" [laughs]. "Oh my dear young man, you will make a great success in life." So a lot of it was pretty superficial really.
SHUSTER: You should have said you were a student of Professor Leslie.
HUFFMAN: Yeah, well she learned it soon enough [laughs].
SHUSTER: I don't want to keep you too long.
HUFFMAN: No.
SHUSTER: I wonder if we might just conclude with how you met Dr. Ockenga.
HUFFMAN: Yes.
SHUSTER: And became associate pastor.
SHUSTER: Okay. When we went to Boston, the very first Sunday Dorothy and I were newlyweds.
SHUSTER: This was in thirty...
HUFFMAN: This was in '36 or '37, and...whatever that says it was, and we went to Park, we were, well, let's see....We went to Boston University, and we began hearing about this young Taylor University preacher who had, was assistant to Dr. Conrad (Arcturus Zodiac) at Park Street Church. My father was dean of Taylor University School of Religion at the time. But we didn't know when we went to Boston that there was anybody there that knew anybody that we knew. We didn't have any relatives there. No friends there. It was just a foreign country to us. So we started going to Park Street Church, and we saw and heard this young assistant of Dr. Conrad. Conrad was living. He'd been pastor of the church I think thirty-two years. Great evangelical man. Brilliant man. And Park Street was the preaching post of Boston in those days. It was the, it was, regardless of theology, it was the place to go. And it was called Brimstone Corner because of the theology and so forth. So I was, I don't know why, one day I guess my wife had the car [Shuster coughs]. I was on a corner waiting for a bus to from somewhere into the heart of Boston, and a man picked me up in his car and gave me a ride. And on the way in he said, "Well, Boston has lost a great friend, haven't they? Hasn't it?" I said, "What do you mean?" said, "I'm talking about Dr. Conrad." I said, "Who's Dr. Conrad?" "Well, he's pastor of the Park Street Church. He died." Okenga has been his assistant. He'd came from Pittsburgh. He had been [Clarence] Macartney's assistant at First Church of Pittsburgh where our son later became pastor He also went to Point Breeze where he was senior minister of a very high-brow Presbyterian church in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. And he came to Boston to be Ockenga's assistant, I mean Conrad's assistant. Conrad took very ill and was confined to his bed, and he was, he turned the pulpit over to Ockenga. Ockenga had only been there about three months. And Ockenga stepped into the pulpit and was doing a good job, and Conrad was piped into the service. He could speak, and he could hear. He could talk to the congregation, but he wasn't able to preach. So Dorothy and I went to Park Street Church. The first time we ever went there was just about the time I'm describing here, just a week or two within this time. And we did know that a Taylor University graduate was preaching there. Well, when we walked up the steps to the church and it's a beautiful old – do you know Boston at all?
SHUSTER: A little bit. I've been there a few times.
HUFFMAN: Well, it's a good old colonial church, you know, and very formal, the ushers in cut-away coats, and turned down collars, and white gloves. As we walked up the steps and walked in, here was a portly man that greeted us, and welcomed us to the service, and I said to my wife, "Boy, I thought Ockenga was a younger man than that." We went and sat down and got startled when we discovered this was the head usher [Shuster laughs]. It wasn't the preacher and Ockenga walked in, handsome, young guy in his early 30s at that time. And so we went up and made ourselves known to him, we were, who we were, and he knew Dad being at Taylor, but he didn't know Dad, he just knew he was there. And then he got his eye on us and he was at that time looking for assistants to....for an assistant. A guy by the name of Nye [?] was a classmate of mine who was Methodist had confided in me before this that he had an in-road to Park Street Church, and someone in the board was going to get him in as an assistant. I thought, "Why that's great. I know somebody that's on the inside there." Ockenga got his eye on Nye [?] and got his eye on me and invited both, both of us to come to midweek service. Now midweek service was on Friday night, and it was a big service. I mean....
SHUSTER: The midweek service was on Friday?
HUFFMAN: Yeah. The prayer meeting was on Friday night regularly. And he'd have a prayer meeting and a Bible study. And they'd pack them in the hall, would seat (where they had the service) maybe five hundred. It was always packed. So he had Nye [?] do something, and he had me pray. And then he invited us out, invited Dorothy and me out to his home very soon after that and never asked me if I was looking for a job or if I needed a job, and one day maybe a month or two after this first time we met there, he called up the home and asked to talk to me, and I wasn't there, and he talked to Dorothy, and he said, "I'd like for John to come in and see me Saturday morning." I went in. He said, "I'm not asking you to reply. I'm not asking you to do anything. I'm simply telling you that our elders met last night and voted you in as my assistant if you accept it. Take it or leave it." I said, "Well, I'll have to talk to the wife about it and pray about it." Called her up on the phone as fast as I could out there, and within a week I was installed as his associate. So it was a beginning of that. Can you cut that off just a moment? Is there...? [recorder turned off and on].
SHUSTER: We were just talking a little bit off-mic, and you mentioned that he didn't, he didn't ask you to be assistant pastor; he told you. What did you mean by that?
HUFFMAN: Well, he didn't say, "We want you to apply, and we'll consider you." He said, "I recommended you to the board, and they voted you in. You're in. Now if you accept." Course I couldn't hardly wait to keep from saying, "I'm coming," but I did honor my wife enough to call her and we both were united in the fact that we'd come, so we didn't waste any time getting there.
SHUSTER: Did you ever ask him or talk with him about why he chose you?
HUFFMAN: No. No, I just assumed that was pre-ordained, I guess. When I came in, he gave me my instructions. He told me what I was to do. I was in charge of young people's work. I would assist him in all the morning services. I was to, he, of course, would do all the preaching normally, and he outlined, rather detailed, what my responsibilities were, and never once after that, except two exceptions maybe, one of which I remember, did he ever even check with me. He just simply....I came to the conclusion that with Ockenga if you did it right, you stayed. He heard nothing. If you it did wrong, you'd just disappear suddenly, and nothing was said, because he was not a nitpicking person. He was a big man who knew how to delegate authority. He knew how to keep his ship in course, but he wasn't a person who...written reports, that kind of a thing he didn't want. One time he told me that he was rather amused when he told me, he said, "I think when you visit in homes, it would be better if make notes after you get out of the house in the car away from the people than sitting there taking notes while you're talking to them [laughs]. Another time I, we had a....Park Street Church was a very formal church from my background, standpoint. Everything was done in perfect balance. They had a choir, which was a quartet, and then they had–and they sang all the numbers, special numbers–they had another choir, which was purely for balance. They never sang, and they couldn't sing [Shuster laughs]. They were dressed and robed and so forth. So I used to say–
SHUSTER: –so they just stood on the side?
HUFFMAN: Yeah. They called that the dummy choir. I mean, [Shuster laughs], that was the nickname for it. So I was the dummy preacher. You had to have something to balance. But he was a great person to work with. He challenged you because he worked so hard himself. And when a person works hard, you don't mind working hard with them. When they sit back and do nothing and tell you what to do, then you have problems. But he at that time was climbing to a, in very short order, he succeeded Conrad. Conrad was a dynamic preacher. He was a powerhouse. He was a man of the cloth, but also he was mixed up in all kinds of community projects and the like and an author and so forth. Ockenga filled his shoes amenably and soon on his own was the peerless preacher of Boston.
SHUSTER: How would you describe his preaching?
HUFFMAN: He said he didn't have, but I'd say he had, a [pauses] Dutch mind. What do you call it when you visualize things?
SHUSTER: Concrete?
HUFFMAN: No. Anyway, he had a keen mind, and he never used a note ever in the pulpit. On the other hand, he didn't memorize his sermons. Pictorial mind – that isn't the word. There's a word that's slipping my mind here. Anyway, but he was a person who, when he would see a page he could reproduce that page almost word for word. He was....
SHUSTER: So he had a photographic memory?
HUFFMAN: Photographic. I'm sorry. That's what I'm trying to say. Yes. Now he says he didn't have that, but I learned more from him as an associate in homiletics, in speech, in sermonizing than I ever learned in courses in seminary, college, and I was a speech major. And I remember one day after I was tremendously impressed with his sermon, I followed him up into his study. And he had, at that time he had a study in the steeple of the church, the base of the steeple. The church was a colonial church. The main sanctuary was on what we would call a second floor, high up above the streets, right on the main corners of Boston, right off the Boston Common and all the subways came to a focal point across the street beneath the church. And it had a high steeple, Christopher Wren-type steeple. And in the base of that steeple, was his study, up where nobody could get to him, unless they knew how to, very complicated way of getting up there. I found him up in his study, and there he had a big study, lot of books, and you could hear the noise of the street outside, but you couldn't hear voices and you couldn't, you felt like you were pretty much alone up there. He had a shower. He had a habit of after he worked very hard in preaching, and he'd take a shower and prepare to go out to dinner, lunch, whatever. And so that day I was so impressed, I followed him up there. I said, "Dr. Ockenga, some time when you've got time I want you to just tell me how you do it. How you stand up there without a note and you preach flawlessly." He said, "Let's do it right now." So, in essence, this is what he told me: He said, "First of all, I seek to saturate my, first of all, I get the leading of the Lord as to what to preach about next. Then I just saturate my mind in that subject, and all the books together I can get on that subject. Read as much as I can. Just read, read, read. And then I make a rough outline. Just a rough outline of what I want to say. And then I write the sermon out word for word, and then I ask the Holy Spirit to impress me when I get up to preach to forget the things that shouldn't go in that sermon, to add things to it." And that was his answer. Yes, that's a photographic mind. I said, "You have a photographic mind." He said, "No, I don't have a photographic mind." But he read the manuscript over a few times, out loud a time or two, and he had it. So we went on, and my duties were to, I was always with him in the service. I remember one of the choir members (and they used professional choir members in those days. They didn't necessarily have to be Christians. They didn't get into that very much. They just had to have good voices), and one of the fellows was sort of an opera singer. He really was a night club singer, I think, and he would come to service in winter time with spats on. But he had a robe that covered a lot of things. He stood up there. So I thought, "Well, that's the way," and I had spats, you know. I came from the midwest. I remember one time on a snowy day coming out Sunday morning with spats on. I had my gown down almost, you know, to the shoe tops, but anyway I had my spats on. And he took me aside afterward. He said, "You know, it may be alright for that tenor to come with spats on to a service like that, but don't believe it's the best thing for you [both laugh]. Those were the only two criticisms I think I ever got all the time I was there. But we....I admired him. He was my mentor. He was my model and a great one. Now I taught homiletics and preaching for years after that, and something happened shortly after I went with Ockenga that set the pace for me for life. He came down with a serious throat condition. He started coughing blood. Little nodules on the vocal cords that were inflamed, and they thought it might be cancer, and he was really frightened. And this happened midweek, and he was a tireless worker. I mean, he was in that church early, and he was there late. And he went off on speaking engagements, but he never missed, he never missed a beat because he was out. He'd come right back and be right in the office. He didn't take a couple days off because he had to go to Pittsburgh or something like that. He'd just go out there, fly there, fly back, and be right at his schedule [coughs]. And on this particular occasion, he was coughing blood. The doctor that took care of him said, "We got to get you in the hospital." It was midweek now [telephone ringing in background], and that church was a church that, the moderator of the church was at the time the dean of Harvard Law School, the most New Englandish person you could ever, ever see [Shuster laughs] or hear of. Found out later he was born in Indiana and graduated from Indiana Law School [laughs], but he assimilated all that. But he was an old do-gooder type. And they got the board together, and they said, "Now we have to do something about Ockenga will not be able to preach Sunday. What are we going to do about it?" By that time I had mastered his system. And I was majoring over at Boston University pretty much in homiletics and had a very fine speech teacher there. And....
SHUSTER: When you say you mastered his system, you mean his...?
HUFFMAN: The thing I learned up in, after that service, how he prepared his sermons. Just the simple methods that he used. And that in my mind seemed right. So they said, "We got, we have to have a big name preacher here this Sunday. We can't, just can't do without it." Harry Rimmer. Does the name Harry Rimmer mean anything to you?
SHUSTER: Yes, yes.
HUFFMAN: Well, Harry Rimmer was in town. Harry Rimmer was the most popular Bible conference speaker you could ever hear. I heard him preach once. The Bible in the hand of a man on Mars. He could preach a whole sermon on that. And he, what he didn't know, he could invent. And he was just fantastic, you know. He called himself a scientist. He wasn't much of a scientist, but he was a popular, popular author and speaker. Harry heard that Ockenga was down, came to the church and volunteered to come preach. I think they would have probably had him 'til Ockenga heard about it and said, "No way. I don't want that man in my pulpit." Well, they were getting really hard up. They didn't know of anybody they could call on short notice. They tried one after another, at least in their minds. Finally, somebody who didn't know any better said, "Look, we got a...we got a young assistant here. Let's give him a try." And the moderator said, "Never. Never. We're not going to have a....this person has to be an experienced person, a proven person. Bad enough to have Ockenga there, you know, just a greenhorn, but he was...he was at least through seminary, and he'd established himself." Well, they over...they outpowered [sic] him and voted and asked me. I had about three days to prepare to preach, not knowing that Ockenga would be listening, but he was in the hospital I thought. So I decided, "Well, this is the time to try this system out." I remember it was Mother's Day coming up shortly, and it should have been a Mother's Day sermon, so I tired a Mother's Day sermon. I couldn't get anywhere with a Mother's Day sermon. And I thought of every kind of thing. I made two or three different attempts at different sermon subjects. Finally I said, "What is the real need? What is the real need right now?" And I felt it was the Holy Spirit. So I came up with the idea of preaching a sermon on the power that transforms, and I got my books together. I read frantically. Used his, I had his office. I had access to everything there. And I really worked at it, late into the night. All night almost one night. And finally I wrote my, I wrote the sermon out. I felt rather pleased about it. The power that transforms. And then I took one step further than Ockenga said he did, because I didn't...
SHUSTER: Photographic mind?
HUFFMAN: No, I don't have a photographic mind, and I haven't a Dutch mind, and my memory isn't too awfully good. But I knew I....this was sink or swim. There I was going to stand before a crowded church of twelve hundred people with a microphone that reached the most of New England on a powerful station that they always broadcast. And there I was a greenhorn. I'd had experience. I had been in evangelism. I'd had a church of my own, but I was still a greenhorn. I was still in Boston University as a student. Right up the hill, Beacon Hill, just a few blocks away, the professors were watching this, the students were watching what was going on here, and they knew that, well, anyway. So I stepped out there. I said, "Lord, you're going, I'm not going to take a note with me. If I fall flat on my face, it's your responsibility; if I come through, it's your responsibility." And I preached. I still have the letter that Ockenga wrote me. He was up in the mountains by this time recuperating. He had a home in the mountains. And he wrote a beautiful letter. And I prize it highly. But we had a good relationship. It wasn't a long relationship in the church. I was there just a little over two years. I finished Boston University. I was...Ockenga was a great person to send his young men out in key posts. And a church at Amherst, a Congregational church right off the campus of Amherst contacted Ockenga about recommending a person. He recommended me, asked me if I would take it if I accepted it, if I was called. I said I wouldn't for some reason. And I think that's the last church he ever commended me to [Shuster laughs]. I felt it was too big and too something. Anyway, it was a, quite an experience, and my father who was a theological professor said, "John, you've done it once." He said, "I can't do this." He, Dad used heavy notes when he preached. He said, "But you've proved that you can do it." He said, "If I were in your position, I would never preach with notes. I would make that my motto." And I made that my motto, and I still do that. But that was my relationship with him professionally. But all through the years, see, I stayed on. That was [clears throat], I stayed on til '53, and during that time is when Ockenga spearheaded...
SHUSTER: Stayed on?
HUFFMAN: In New England area. I was with Ockenga about two and a half years at Park Street Church. He recommended me to a church in Cambridge, Prospect Congregational Church, and I was there one year, and the, there was a merger of churches, and I became pastor of the Cornerstone Baptist, Cornerstone Church of Cambridge. And I was there for twelve years, something like that. But we, it was during this period now that Ockenga spearheaded the NAE [National Association of Evangelicals] in '42. It was during this period in '44, '45 Youth For Christ came, and Ockenga was very active with that as I, and I was....he was my mentor. I was sort of his gofer. I mean he would, when he was invited to have the National Pulpit on the National Broadcasting System, someone was to be his production manager, and he didn't do it right, called me in and asked me if I would take over, and I did. I sort of....we worked together like that, and I was never the top man. He was always the top man. And I was very happy to just be sort of an errand boy for him for a while. So when NAE started, he...
SHUSTER: Well, we might want to...
HUFFMAN: You want to get to that?
SHUSTER: Stop at this point.
HUFFMAN: Yeah. Okay.
SHUSTER: Clear that up maybe in another interview, but...
HUFFMAN: Sure.
SHUSTER: I want to thank you again...
HUFFMAN: Well...
SHUSTER: This has been a great interview and for your willingness to share your experience and your experience from your own ministry and what you learned from some other great men.
HUFFMAN: Well, I appreciate being able to talk with you about it.

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In 1944, when he was aged just 19, he put his swimming skills to the best possible use by saving a four-year-old boy from drowning in Aireworth Mill Dam. His swift action was rewarded with a certificate from the Royal Humane Society.
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RED Reservations is the most comprehensive reservations center for high-quality properties at RED Mountain Resort and the nearby Rossland downtown area. Lift tickets also available for sale through Redreservations.com.
RED Mountain Resort in Rossland is the ultimate ski and snowboard destination on BC's famous Powder Highway. In Oct 2012 Powder Magazine rated RED #4 Resort in their "Top 32 Places to Ski" rankings, saying you should move here!
An authentic mountain experience needn't entail staying in a dark, gloomy "chalet" that smells like Grandpa's wedding suit. Red Mountain Resort Lodging properties offer clean, contemporary, convenient slope-side lodging that is every bit the equal to our stellar ski and snowboard experience. The "last great undiscovered resort" means you don't have to be rich to stay right at the base: Champagne powder on an economical budget!
These are common amenities to all (RMRL branded) accommodations offered through RED Mountain Resort Lodging. These modern conveniences help create an enjoyable and comfortable stay while enjoying RED Mountain Resort. All accommodations offer:
Whether you're looking for a location to have your dream wedding or a meeting location that your group will be talking about for years to come, RED has you covered. Our 4400 sq ft sundeck is the perfect location for an outdoor wedding, event or reception and our new conference center (completed in December 2010) offers indoor seating for up to 280 people with complete digital A/V connectivity and Wi-Fi throughout. With jaw-dropping, front row views of Red and Granite Mountains, RED gives you the canvas to create the event of your dreams.
Recently voted Canada's #1 Outdoor Town by Explore magazine, the Rossland area is a natural playground for adventure seekers from around the world. Our stunning alpine town also features all of the amenities you would expect: shopping, casual and fine dining, pubs, bars, fitness centre and more.
Rossland is located 8 km north of the US/Canada border in the heart of the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. Rossland is a 2.5 hour drive from the Spokane, WA International Airport, or 3.5 hours drive from Kelowna, BC International Airport. Daily regional flights are available from Vancouver and Calgary to Castlegar (30 minutes from Red) and Trail Airports (15 minutes from Red), a short drive from the Resort.
See the Resort Area page for directions and Google Maps navigation on how to get to Rossland. Rossland itself is only 3km down the highway from Red Mountain Resort.
Visit RedResort.com
Spokane to Rossland: http://www.kootenayshuttle.com/spokane/