Rob Almy cooling off after the Alumni Lacrosse game on May 21, 2005. He still had the Deerfield-Exeter Varsity Lacrosse game to referee, which Deerfield won (with no help from the ref) 12-6. For an account of the game, go to Deerfield Athletics.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
The 11th Man
Rob Almy cooling off after the Alumni Lacrosse game on May 21, 2005. He still had the Deerfield-Exeter Varsity Lacrosse game to referee, which Deerfield won (with no help from the ref) 12-6. For an account of the game, go to Deerfield Athletics.
Saturday, August 13, 2005
HAA Recognizes Sandy Weissent
The March-April 2005 issue of Harvard Magazine announced that the Clubs Committee of the Harvard Alumni Association had selected Sandy Weissent as one of only two recipients of the annual Outstanding Club Contribution Award for 2004. Here's a picture of Sandy, on the right, and the story:
Alexander B. Weissent '73, of Chicago, has helped lead the Harvard Club of Chicago's successful Adopt-A-School program, providing more than 200 alumni volunteers to meet needs at the urban Walter Payton College Prep High School. "Harvols," as they are called at the club, have helped with academic tutoring, college counseling, and athletics, among other things. Weissent is now working to expand volunteer activities city-wide, and is active in Alumni for Public Schools (a network of college and university alumni founded in 2001 that is committed to enriching the city's educational system).
Alexander B. Weissent '73, of Chicago, has helped lead the Harvard Club of Chicago's successful Adopt-A-School program, providing more than 200 alumni volunteers to meet needs at the urban Walter Payton College Prep High School. "Harvols," as they are called at the club, have helped with academic tutoring, college counseling, and athletics, among other things. Weissent is now working to expand volunteer activities city-wide, and is active in Alumni for Public Schools (a network of college and university alumni founded in 2001 that is committed to enriching the city's educational system).
Friday, August 12, 2005
Lessons Learned
Tee Johnson recently forwarded the following excerpt from the book Dumbing Down Our Kids by Charles J. Sykes for anyone who may have missed class:
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it.
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $40,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough ... wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: “Flipping burgers” is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping ... they called it “opportunity”.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes ... learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers ... but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it.
Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $40,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough ... wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: “Flipping burgers” is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping ... they called it “opportunity”.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes ... learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers ... but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
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