<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>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. </div><div>Randy<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Aug 24, 2013, at 3:04 AM, Gordon Harper <<a href="mailto:gharper1@mindspring.com">gharper1@mindspring.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<font size="+1"><font face="Comic Sans MS">Well --<br>
<br>
<font size="+1">In this case, the poor soul here in Seattle who
tried it (no, <font size="+1">twas</font> not I) got roundly
booed and<font size="+1"> <font size="+1">some people in</font>
his <font size="+1">sizable</font> <font size="+1">audience
tried hard to shut him down<font size="+1"> b<font size="+1">efore he was through it.<br>
<br>
<font size="+1">I'd heard about David Guterson's
experience delivering the commencement address</font>
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this year </font></font></font></font></font></font><font size="+1"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1">at
<font size="+1">his former</font> Seattle high school<font size="+1">. </font> <font size="+1">O</font>nly
recently, however, did a friend send me a copy of it
to read myself. <font size="+1">(Y</font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font size="+1"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1">ou may recognize <font size="+1">Guterson's</font> name as the author
of the novel, </font><i>Snow Falling on Cedars</i></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><font size="+1"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1"><font size="+1">.)
I<font size="+1"> found his talk</font> so deliciously
outrageous as a graduation speech that I have to share
it. <br>
<br>
<font size="+1">Those who were most outraged and <font size="+1">expressed it </font>so vocally were in
the parents<font size="+1"> </font>and family
members<font size="+1"> section;</font> it seems the
<font size="+1">graduates</font> were at least
polite and attentive during it. It<font size="+1">s
ending is weak (<font size="+1">IMHO)</font></font></font>,
<font size="+1">and of course there was no following
Christ lecture the next morning. Still, if one ever
wanted a current rend<font size="+1">ering</font> of
our Friday night event, this <font size="+1">might
come close </font>--<br>
<br>
<font size="+1">Gordon</font><br>
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