Teachers at W.K. Kellogg Junior High School in Battle Creek, MI

Elizabeth Torongo, English                    
Born 20 July 1905, in BC; died 14 April 1998, in BC.  Lived at 224 Eaton St.


Emily A. Kaufmann, Typing
Born c.1922, in Saginaw.  Lived at 221 N. Washington St.

Leverett L. "Bud" Hinkle, Woodshop                                

Born 7 Mar 1920, in Wisc.; died Dec 13,1997, in MD.  Lived at 80 East Ave S, in BC.  By 1958, he had been assigned to Southeastern Junior High.

Warren E. Brezette, Drafting
Born 13 June 1910, Kalamazoo?; died 15 May 1992, BC.  Lived on Winter & Lois Sts.

Jasper L. McKay, Science                              

Born 19 Feb 1919; died 18 Jan 1981 in Detroit.  Lived at 319 N Kendall.

Wayne L. Schroeder, Science

Donald S, Newcomer, English                        

Born 3 Jun 1921; died 19 Feb 2007.  Left BC to join Mr. Nault at World Book Encyclopedia.

Arthur W. Lower, Music
Born 29 Jun 1913, in Marshall; died 22 Jun 2000 in BC.  Also taught at Verona.

Lois Mae Penty, Art                                    

Born 3 Jan 1910, BC; died 25 Jan 1996, BC.  Lived on Hamilton Lane, Lkvw.
Her twin brother Amos died in infancy.  Photo is from 1934 @ Western.

John Vydareny, Gym & Coach                                  

Born 27 Jul 1904; died 21 Nov 1996 in Kzoo.  Lived at 47 N 31st.
Photo is from 1928 @ Western, because none of us saw him with hair!

Joan C Bordner,
Lived at 73 Fremont St., in 1958.

Mabel M. Nichols, Counselor
Born 1908, died 1979
Wife of Kenneth Nichols, of Clark Equip., they lived at 127 Milton.

Carl C. Wirth,  Math & Drafting              

Born 21 Jan 1920, in Nebraska and died 22 Oct. 2008, in Marshall.  He and his wife Lois (LtCol-USAF) lived many years at 122 Kellogg St.     (Photo from Kieth Burkhead)

James W. Stone, Printing
Born 6 Feb 1920,
Wife, Marian, taught at Ann J Kellogg; they lived at 163 N 25th.

Alfred J. Reynolds,
Lived at 86 Hilltop.  Mr. Reynolds was a 1949 grad of Calvin College.

William H Nault
Born 9 June 1926, in Ishpeming, MI.  He got his MA in 1949 at UofM
Left BC to be an editor at World Book Encyc., in Chicago.                        

In Honor of the Solstice, Mary Oliver's The Summer Day

In Honor of the Solstice, Mary Oliver's The Summer Day

Here's a sampling from one of America's new young poets:
    http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Poem-A-Day--Elegy-in-X-Parts--excerpt--by-Matt-Rasmussen.html?soid=1110705357409&aid=8uQh2UdPTE0

Thoroughly enjoying a new (for me) genre of storytelling: as opposed to technical science fiction, writer Brit Marling makes lovely indy films that I would call philosophical science fiction. She makes you think and wonder. If you have a chance try to find a copy of Another Earth, which came out last year. Her costar, Wm. Mapother, will be recognized from his fine work on Lost...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Earth

About Bishop Steven Charleston

 Former Bishop of Alaska, and former Dean of Episcopal Divinity School, in New York City, Bishop Charleston is currently serving as the interim Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in Oklahoma City, OK.  (Which is kind of neat for a member of the Choctaw Nation.)

More biography and links to sermons are at:  http://day1.org/328-the_rt_rev_steven_charleston

Our Prayer of the Day

       I very much appreciate the wise counsel of Bishop Steven 

Charleston this morning: "Beware of any generation that 


seems


 lost without a leader. That search may become a dangerous 


thing to do. A society that is fearful, money worried, anxious 


for


 order, hungry for law, a nation of wall builders, accustomed 


to war, watching enemies without and enemies within, afraid


 its glory will fade. Longing for the strong man grows, ever so


 quietly, while people look the other way.




       Help us, O God, not to flirt with forces so ancient and so 


evil, but rather to put our trust in you, that justice never 


bends to fear nor freedom to the false gods of power."




Thanks to Louie Crew for this tidbit

a poem from wandering the Organ Mountains...

Violent Night

Stars shout in the stillness,

Of a cold mountain night

A soft breeze stumbles down

the erratic, rocky gorge

and ruffles the browning grass

at my feet

Just above the jagged crest

the harvest moon pushes aside

the glowering black and bursts

the air with creamy light

                                                                                                                                                        Jim Macey


Photo Credit: Michelle Stump is the artist who created the accompanying photograph, entitled:
Mountain Night - Purple Wind.  See more of her spiritual works at www.harpofthespirit.com