These ladies are regular sketchers, who recently had an idea: a sketchbook about their hometown, the City of Duluth. And they got busy and produced a sketch book about their hometown. And you might want to buy it for a gift. For more about this, see Upcoming below. From left are Sue Adams, Susan Calderon, Jane Royal, Randy Bieniek, Donna England and Barb Doll.
IN THIS EDITIONEditor’s Note: This will be the only edition published this week. The next edition will be published on December 29, while we all take it easy during the holidays. –eeb
TODAY’S FOCUS: Woodall Is Misrepresenting Keeping Partners of U.S. Accountable
EEB PERSPECTIVE: Several Ways To Enjoy Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
FEEDBACK: Readers Question If U.S. Senate Needs a Makeover; Idea on Merit Pay
UPCOMING: Duluth Sketching Group Produces Coloring Book for the City
NOTABLE: Graduates of Georgia Gwinnett College Now Total over 3,000
RECOMMENDED READ: Slade House by David Mitchell
GEORGIA TIDBIT: Georgia Native Don West Foremost Regional Poet, and Labor Leader
TODAY’S QUOTE: Recognizing That This Nation Has Two Types of Heroes
MYSTERY PHOTO: Several Recognize Last Week’s Mystery Cemetery
LAGNIAPPE: Mary Jane Gresham Is Snellville Senior Center Volunteer of the Year
TODAY’S FOCUSWoodall misrepresents keeping partners of U.S. accountable
By Joe Briggs
BUFORD, Ga. Dec. 22, 2015 — In George Washington’s prescient farewell speech to the nation, he dedicated 11 paragraphs to warning us against ‘passionate attachments’ to other countries and “neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences.” He feared that we would take on that country’s enemies, fight their wars, and accept their values. Defenders of that country would be hailed as patriots whereas critics would be treated as traitors.
Woodall
Enter Georgia’s 7th District Congressman Bob Woodall. Almost every newsletter he sends out speaks more of what he has done for Israel than for Georgia. His December 14 newsletter crosses Washington’s line by announcing a cut to our First Amendment right of free speech in order to shield the Jewish state from criticism of its oppressive civil rights practices. Further, his prevarication of the contents misrepresents the bill in order to disguise a Trojan horse.
The bill in question is HR 644 “Conference Report to the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015,” which Woodall introduced as “HOLDING OUR TRADING PARTNERS ACCOUNTABLE.”The text of the bill contains an amendment titled “Bolsters U.S.-Israel Trade”. This falsely titled paragraph does nothing to advance US-Israeli trade. Instead it polices and punishes Americans for expressing their conscience in choosing not to do business in countries whose racist practices would not be allowed under our own Constitution.
The Supreme Court recently ruled that corporations are people when it comes to free speech, and as such, can make unlimited campaign donations. So how can free speech be limited when it comes to choosing who not to do business with?
The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, as called out by the text, is an effort to encourage companies and investors to apply our own Constitutional values of civil rights to their business decisions. This was the type of investment conscience that ended the apartheid government of South Africa. Who you choose to do business with is, and should be, protected free speech.
This is not a general policy. These are not wartime sanctions. It is a rule that benefits Israel only. The handcuffs are off when it comes to criticizing other countries. Woodall wants to limit your free speech at the point in which it offends Israel.
Such specificity does not belong in law or trade policy. It weakens us as a country as it leads to unenforceable chaos. What if China had the same influence as Israel and as such we had limits on our criticism of their human rights or environmental abuses? Our Constitutional rights trumps trade policy. Even if they open the door to criticizing Israel.
Rep. Woodall has gone too far in his support of Israel by attacking our rights. His misrepresentation of the bill as “keeping our partners accountable” is reprehensible and unforgivable. His first obligation is to the preservation of our Constitution, and he has failed it.
Woodall has, as George Washington feared, exchanged our values for theirs.
- To read the bill introduced by Congressman Kevin Brade of the 8th District of Texas, click here.
“Joyful, Joyful” and Beethoven’s Ninth, plus Bernstein in Berlin
By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher
DEC. 22, 2015 | During the holiday season, we hope you (and I) get to hear and sing one of our favorite hymns, Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee. Somehow it reminds me of Christmas.
The stirring hymn was written in 1907 by Henry Van Dyke, a Princeton University professor of English, who was also a Presbyterian minister. His inspiration was two-fold: the beautiful Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts, and the fourth stanza of Ludwig Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
It’s said that when he finished the poem, he handed it to the president of Williams College, where he had been a guest minister, and said it must be sung to Beethoven’s Hymn to Joy.
Except for the Fourth Stanza of the Ninth Symphony, Beethoven never wrote a hymn. Yet the melody of the end of the Ninth Symphony, which Beethoven adopted from Friedrich Schiller’s Ode to Joy, becomes the “perfect companion,” as one said, for Van Dyke’s text.
Later Van Dyke, a friend to Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, was appointed ambassador to The Netherlands and Luxembourg, and was a Naval chaplain and lieutenant commander during World War I.
In the modern day, American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein took the occasion of the fall of East Germany and the Berlin Wall to go there twice to conduct Beethoven’s Ninth in 1989. Bernstein made one single word change in the presentation, substituting the word “Joy” (“Freude” in German) to “Freedom” (“Freiheit” in German.) This was again a “perfect companion” to what was going on in the world at that time, sung not only to a packed concert hall, seen by a tremendous crowd outside the hall, watching on a giant television monitor, and heard by 100 million people in the live broadcast around the world. (We have that recording on a CD, and it thrills us each time we hear those lyrics and music.)
A recording is “Ode to Freedom: Bernstein in Berlin.” You can see a You Tube video of the concert here. It lasts more than an hour and a half. There is a short excerpt at the start, then a few advertisements interrupting the music. If you like music, hear and see the whole symphony, but listen to the last 25 minutes for the singing.
Bernstein was 72 at the time, and would die from cancer within nine months. Catch the sheer joy of him in his masterful performance at this occasion in Berlin as a holiday treat for yourself.
Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, God of glory, Lord of love;
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee, opening to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness; drive the dark of doubt away;
Give of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day!
All Thy works with joy surround Thee, earth and heaven reflect Thy rays,
Stars and angels sing around Thee, center of unbroken praise.
Field and forest, vale and mountain, flowery meadow, flashing sea,
Singing bird and flowing fountain call us to rejoice in Thee.
Thou are giving and forgiving, ever blessing, ever blessed,
Wellspring of the joy of living, ocean depth of happy rest!
Thou our Father, Christ our Brother, all who live in love are Thine;
Teach us how to love each other, lift us to the joy divine.
Mortals, join the happy chorus, which the morning stars began;
Father love is reigning o’er us, brother love binds man to man.
Ever singing, march we onward, victors in the midst of strife,
Joyful music leads us Sunward in the triumph song of life.
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Raises questions to recent Wilson posting on the U.S. Senate
Editor, the Forum:
While I understand George Wilson’s dismay with the uneven representation present in the U. S. Senate, I think the solution he discusses presents more problems for our people than it solves.
Some of which are:
- More politicians (’nuff said?).
- Issues of establishing the new state lines. This could take decades.
- Most importantly this would only solve the problem addressed for one point in time. I don’t think we would want to go through the cost and pain every decade when the new census is taken.
In the House that works fairly (?) easily now. While it eliminates districts in some states and creates districts in others it does not create any new bureaucracies in total. Other than Gerrymandering within states where changes are made it works quite well.
A better project might be to come up with a better way for states to redistrict. Maybe along the idea of communities rather than to stick it to a party out of control in the year following the census. Remember when Georgia created a narrow district that ran from Atlanta to Savannah?
One could make an argument that the present Senate setup may actually help our republic. Sometimes the will of the majority is wrong and later regretted. This may help prevent one party from overreaching its “mandate”. Had the Republicans participated in the “Obamacare” debate some of the Democratic senators would not have had the power to insert such egregious provisions as Ben Graham from Nebraska did. His vote might not have been needed. We like the Senate when it works for us and dislike it when it works against us.
There are other areas that affect us on a daily basis that are made by people who are not chosen by a majority of voters, much less citizens. For example; Supreme Court Justices, Appellate Court Justices, Federal District Court Justices and Federal District Attorney Generals.
To the victors go the spoils, at least until the next election or census.
Our system, as imperfect as it is, has enough checks and balances to keep the Federal government from overreaching. That is except in times of national emergencies, i.e., Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower (maybe), and George W. Bush. May be even in a time of perceived national emergency such as now with, pick your choice, ISIS, Obamacare, illegal immigration, Muslim, or Christian, refugees from Syria or Iraq, etc.
— Hoyt Tuggle, Lawrenceville
Doesn’t see the United States Senate as “broken”
Editor, the Forum:
I don’t usually read George Wilson’s column — after all he began his writing career by sniping at various people in the Letters to Editor section.
However, his latest rant got my attention. Evidently he forgets that the primary reason our Founding Fathers set up the Senate the way they did was to avert major population centers from controlling completely the destiny of this great country. There’s an old country saying: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
I don’t consider the U.S. Senate broken, just in need of a more educated electorate. Maybe he has some ideas about fixing that.
— Dave Robertson, Lawrenceville
Dear Dave: Another reason for having the Senate apportioned differently, even with six-year terms, was to make it more deliberative, and often slower to act. That’s not all bad. And yes, a better crop of voters always helps.–eeb
Georgia schools should recognize unworkability of merit pay
Editor, the Forum:
Jay Bookman’s AJC opinion column, “Merit pay for teachers a great idea … in theory” should be taken to heart. However, take care with his opening paragraph (emphasis mine):
“Theoretically, merit pay sounds great. You take the industrial model of quality improvement — measuring output and rewarding those producers who perform best — and you simply apply it to education. It’s such a simple concept: What could go wrong?
The reality is that there are principles and methods of quality improvement that have proven workable in industry as well as in education, in government, and elsewhere. Specifically, proven quality improvement principles and methods reject merit pay, pay for performance, management by objectives, targets without methods, SMART Goals for their own sake, and such other “evil practices.”
The fact that one’s perspective may be limited to quality improvement applied to industry should not lead one to think quality improvement principles and methods are nowhere else applicable. Quality improvement has nothing to do with ever needing quality improvement of leadership, that quality improvement is something only lowly workers – such as teachers – must do, and that if each of them would just “execute with fidelity” then the results will magically add up to quality. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yet this untruth is a common aspect of the business model applied to education with limiting and often destructive consequences.
Hopefully the State Board of Education and Superintendent Richard Woods, local Boards of Education and superintendents will consider the points Bookman makes about the unworkability of merit pay. Then take the moral high-ground to reject the evil practice, so as to better position themselves to improve the quality of their leadership, continually.
— Ed Johnson, Atlanta, Advocate for Quality in Public Education
Lack of personal memory of major wars can get us into trouble
Editor, the Forum:
Fear and loathing at Las Vegas GOP debate: the whole crowd tried to wrap the voters in fear, and if they succeed, they will convince you to hand over your personal freedoms for their warm arms of protection.
The loathing is disgust for what looks like a move against civil liberties, and the fear is for another major war, or WW III. The big problem, worldwide, is that no one is in a position of authority who has lived through such a war.
Lack of personal memory of major wars, and forgetting our history, is a serious danger.
— Tom Payne, Gray, Ga.
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A holiday cartoon from Bill McLemore:
Duluth sketchers complete production of Discover Duluth Coloring Book
Artists Sue Adams and Jane Royal realized that they were really enjoying using their city of Duluth as a sketching studio. Drawing together around town was fun and they thought other artists might enjoy it too. So they started meeting at the Espresso Theory coffee shop on Main Street, named their group the “Duluth Sketchers” and hoped that others would join them on their “sketch-outs.” Thanks to some well-timed local news articles about their group, other artists began showing up.
One day in October their sketch-out was rained out. They found themselves in a bookstore looking at a display of adult coloring books. Sue asked, “What if there was a ‘Discover Duluth’ coloring book?” Everyone in the group enthusiastically agreed that a coloring book about Duluth was a great idea – and that the Duluth Sketchers would create it!
The sketchers were challenged, and began setting the goals necessary to print the book by the November 18 Duluth Fine Arts League (DFAL) meeting. (Duluth Sketchers are a sub-group of the DFAL.) Most importantly, each artist had to complete quality line drawings in just a few weeks. Sketchers drew in restaurants, businesses, on the sidewalks, Food Truck Fridays and all around the Town Green. They each contributed to the printing costs, but decided that all proceeds would be donated to the DFAL art scholarships awarded annually to high school students. The idea of helping young artists energized and motivated them.
Success! The “Discover Duluth Coloring Book” is published, and the goal has been met. Almost 200 copies have been sold. Coloring books can be found at local businesses. The books are $10 each.
More information about the group can be found on their blog – duluthsketchers.blogspot.com. Several members are associated with Urban Sketchers, a worldwide organization at www.urbansketchers.org. Duluth Sketchers is open to new members. Meetings are held at Espresso Theory on the second Thursday of each month at 11 a.m.
McDaniel Park gets $3.4 million in improvements from SPLOST funds
Gwinnett’s McDaniel Farm Park will get $3.4 million in SPLOST-funded improvements after Gwinnett commissioners approved a phase two construction contract recently with low bidder Vertical Earth Inc. The 134-acre park near Gwinnett Place Mall opened in 2004 and has been restored to depict a typical 1930s farm in Gwinnett with a furnished farmhouse, barn, blacksmith shed, carriage house and tenant house. Other amenities at the park include a picnic pavilion and three miles of paved multi-purpose and soft surface trails.
Upgrades will provide a new northeast entrance that creates public access from McDaniel Road and Duluth Highway. Major phase two components include an open play area, new picnic pavilion, a farm-themed playground, dog park, trail extension, restroom building, landscaping, roadway and parking.
NOTABLEGeorgia Gwinnett College has now graduated 3,000 students
More than 300 students received their bachelor’s degrees at Georgia Gwinnett College’s fall commencement ceremony. The final students to graduate during GGC’s 10th anniversary year, this group included the college’s 3,000th graduate.
Olivia Mugenga, originally from Rwanda, presented the graduating senior remarks, and reflected on the support students receive while working toward a college degree. She paid tribute to her father, Joseph Mugenga, who raised four daughters on his own after losing his wife in the Rwandan genocide.
“My father values education. He walked 11 miles to school when he was young, and graduated with an MBA from a U.S. college. He was determined to give us an education,” Mugenga said. “Because of the unrest in our country, he was wrongfully imprisoned for two years, but during that time, he sent us to school in Belgium. Then later, we came to the U.S. for college. One of my sisters, Sandrine Irankunda, graduated from GGC in 2012 and is now the college’s residence director.”
Kayanovic
The GGC commencement ceremony also included recognition of its 3,000th graduate, Rodica Kajanovic of Lawrenceville. A political science major and honors graduate, Kajanovic served as president of Sigma Iota Rho, the national honor society for international studies and as a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, and the National Society of Leadership and Success. She participated in the 66th Student Conference on U.S. Affairs at The U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Kajanovic plans to pursue a master’s degree in negotiation and conflict resolution.
The ceremony concluded with the commissioning of the college’s fourth U.S. Army ROTC graduate, in affiliation with the University of Georgia ROTC program. Second Lieutenant Cole Albers of Lawrenceville, an exercise science major, will soon report to Fort Benning to begin training as an infantry officer.
North Gwinnett cluster gets grants for 6 schools from foundation
The North Gwinnett Schools Foundation (NGSF) recently announced each of the six cluster schools will receive a combined more than $33,000 in educational grants for innovative programs designed to enhance academic achievement for students in the North Gwinnett cluster. Schools receiving grants are: North Gwinnett High, North Gwinnett Middle, and the following elementary schools: Level Creek, Riverside, Roberts and Suwanee.
Marc Cohen, NGSF president says: “Working together, we help fund innovative learning projects and programs that allow students and teachers to reach their full academic potential. The grants we fund are requested by teachers to improve learning, engage students, and extend educational opportunities. Through community support, we provide tools and resources that directly benefit students and programs across all six of our schools.”
Individual School Grant Awards are as follows:
North Gwinnett High: Mock Trial Academic Team.
North Gwinnett Middle: Kindle My Reading Passion; Audio Recording and Podcasting; and A Picture Paints a Thousand Words.
Level Creek Elementary: Invertebrate Dissection; Story Starter for the Autism Classroom; and Read and Ride Program.
Riverside Elementary: Dissecting Cow Eyes and Sheep Hearts; “Annie” for the Drama Club; and Creating with Cubelets: Robotics Engineering.
Roberts Elementary: The Jr. Great Books Program; Bookroom Books: Read Naturally; Story Starter for the Autism Classroom; and Read and Ride Program.
Suwanee Elementary: Music Technology Keyboard Program; Units of Study for Teaching Reading K-5 Workshop Curriculum.
North Gwinnett Clusterwide School Grant: Writing Education: this Grant will directly impact every student, at every grade level, at every school throughout the cluster.
Principals of the North Gwinnett cluster receiving award at the American Education Week Awards Breakfast are from left, Emily Keag (Suwanee); Ben Pope (Riverside); Dr. Dion Jones (Roberts); Daniel Skelton (Level Creek); Wanda Law (North Gwinnett Middle); Nathan Ballantine (North Gwinnett High), all shown with Marc Cohen Foundation president.
City of Lilburn recognizes key employees at recent awards ceremony
The City of Lilburn recently recognized employees for their top achievements at an annual awards luncheon at City Hall. City Manager Bill Johnsa and Police Chief Bruce Hedley presented awards marking time served and accomplishments achieved in 2015.
Applause Awards – Monthly award is given to an employee who goes above and beyond, many times helping citizens in need. These went to Brad Rosselle, David Boltze, Roz Schmitt, Wayne DuBose, Joellen Wilson, Almedin Ajanovic, Monica Sims, Kaleigh Frederick, Richard Johnson, Chris Dusik and Chris Hall.
A 15-year service award went to Mike Ward. Ten year service award went to Keith Boles, Robin Berta-Miller Five year service awards went to Darren Baumann, Tim Haxton, Bert Ross and Chris Dusik.
Madden
Lilburn Police Department awards:
- Officer of the Year – Officer Matthew Madden;
- Lilburn Police Ambassador (sworn) – Officer Almedin Ajanovic;
- Lilburn Police Ambassador (non-sworn) – Monica Sims;
- Supervisor of the Year – Lt. Chris Dusik;
- Top Gun Award – Seung (Steve ) Suk; and
- Safe Driving Award – Officer Andy Blimline.
Slade House
A novel by David Mitchell
On a quiet street near a pub in a working class neighborhood is Slade Alley, where one might find Slade House. Residents of this house discreetly lure certain people to visit….from which they will never return. Visitors find entrance, the short and narrow black iron door. At nine year intervals they began disappearing in 1979. After each disappearance, there is a flurry of activity to locate the missing person, to no avail. During the interval years the missing people are forgotten until a new disappearance occurs. Events climax in 2015 with a hair-raising conclusion that the reader will not see coming. This is a true modern day horror story! The plot is original, the suspense electric, and the protagonists are characters with whom the reader can relate. It so grabs you that it may be read in one sitting. A most intelligent, thought provoking and profoundly disturbing read.
— Karen Harris, Stone Mountain
An invitation: what books, restaurants, movies or web sites have you enjoyed recently? Send us your recent selection, along with a short paragraph (100 words) as to why you liked this, plus what you plan to visit or read next. –eeb
GEORGIA ENCYCLOPEDIA TIDBITGeorgia native Don West foremost regional poet and labor leader
A native of Gilmer County, Don West achieved success as one of the foremost southern regional poets of the 20th century. He was at different times a labor organizer, political radical, preacher, progressive educator, and outspoken spokesperson for human equality in the generation before the civil rights movement. Although he is best known for his literary works, West was also an effective proponent of the Social Gospel, embraced by some of the South’s most dedicated religious reformers.
West
Born in 1906 in Devil’s Hollow, near Ellijay in Gilmer County, Donald L. West grew to young adulthood in the north Georgia mountains. The eldest son of a farmer, he took pride in the independent spirit that had made his forebears nonconformists who opposed slavery in the antebellum years. This heritage of independence expressed itself in West’s career, during which he often found himself at odds with the folkways and beliefs of the communities in which he lived and worked. Throughout his life he remained committed to a progressive view of ethnic and racial harmony, which linked him with his personal family history.
After his family moved to the lowlands as sharecroppers, West enrolled in 1923 at the Berry School in Rome. During his senior year at Berry, he organized a protest when the racist film Birth of a Nation was shown on campus. West was expelled for his part in the protest, and he left the institution without a diploma. After working for a telephone company for a short time, he enrolled at Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) in Tennessee, where he met and married Mabel Constance “Connie” Adams. Expelled from LMU for leading a protest against campus paternalism, the popular West was reinstated and graduated in the class of 1929.
After graduation, West enrolled at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., where he entered the Divinity School to pursue a calling to preach. During his Vanderbilt years West embraced socialism and began working in the labor movement. He was involved with the 1929 Gastonia, N.C., textile strike, and in 1932 he was a labor organizer in the bitter miner’s strike at Wilder, Tenn. In 1931, the year he received his degree from Vanderbilt, he also published his first volume of poetry, Crab-Grass, which celebrated the mountain culture and working people of the South.
As a student West visited the Danish folk schools inspired by N.F.S. Grundtvig, who advocated a curriculum based on folk tradition and cultural heritage. Imbued with the folk school philosophy, in 1932 he collaborated with Myles Horton to establish the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tenn. After less than a year at Highlander, West broke with Horton and returned to Georgia, where he established the Southern Folk School and Libraries in Kennesaw and immersed himself in political and labor organizing.
(To be continued)
MYSTERY PHOTOBuilding and its distinctiveness gives clues to location
It’s a tall building. And it’s distinctive. Tell us where you think this photograph was taken. Send your answers to elliott@brack.net and be sure to include the town where you live.
Several people recognized the recent Mystery Photo. First in was Lou Camerio of Lawrenceville: “Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia.” He’s right. Then came Alexis Stryker of Lawrenceville: “The mystery photo is of the graves of some of the recovered victims of the HMS Titanic at the Fairview Lawn Cemetery in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I was just there in July! That was a really interesting piece of history to see.”
Another person from Lawrenceville, Terra Bullock Winter, wrote: “We visited the cemetery a few years ago while on a Canada/New England cruise. I’m not sure that going to see the Titanic Cemetery was the best idea while on a cruise vacation, especially as Hurricane Arthur was heading toward our cruising path.”
Bob Foreman of Grayson contributed: “You had that photo in GwinnettForum earlier this year. It is the Titanic graves in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.” (Boy, how we forget!—eeb)
LAGNIAPPEGresham is Snellville Senior Center Volunteer of the Year
One of Snellville’s most beloved volunteers was honored for her service as the 2015 Senior Center Volunteer of the Year. Mary Jane Gresham, a resident of Snellville for more than 45 years, has been volunteering and serving in the community through the Snellville Lions Club, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Camping Clubs and was very involved with volunteering for local schools, holding an office with the Parent Teacher Student Organization. Gresham has volunteered at the senior center for years and has helped with many events and worked every year with Senior Center officials at Snellville Days. From left are Parks and Recreation Director Lisa Platt, Mayor Tom Witts, Mary Jane Gresham, City Manager Butch Sanders and Senior Program Supervisor Kathi Gargiulo.
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