[Dialogue] [Oe List ...] What Happens If You Give the God Lecture Today?

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Speaking of RS-1, Julie Harris, Miss Miller in Requiem for a Heavyweight, died yesterday at age 87. Long may she be remembered as the symbol of everything we detested about the perversions of "social work."  I've long thought that her character could have been the inspiration for much of the work of John McKnight, author of The Careless Society, founder of the Asset Based Community Development Institute and friend of ICA. 
Randy

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On Aug 24, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Gordon Harper <gharper1 at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Well --
> 
> In this case, the poor soul here in Seattle who tried it (no, twas not I) got roundly booed and some people in his sizable audience tried hard to shut him down before he was through it.
> 
> I'd heard about David Guterson's experience delivering the commencement address this year at his former Seattle high school.   Only recently, however, did a friend send me a copy of it to read myself.  (You may recognize Guterson's name as the author of the novel, Snow Falling on Cedars.)  I found his talk so deliciously outrageous as a graduation speech that I have to share it. 
> 
> Those who were most outraged and expressed it so vocally were in the parents and family members section; it seems the graduates were at least polite and attentive during it.  Its ending is weak (IMHO), and of course there was no following Christ lecture the next morning.  Still, if one ever wanted a current rendering of our Friday night event, this might come close --
> 
> Gordon
> <Guterson Commencement Speech.doc>
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