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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><st1:City><st1:place><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:black'>Marshall</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
color=black><span style='mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>—<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><span
style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>RE: Editorial Errors—Robert to
Richard</span></font><font size=3 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Thanks
for reading the article seriously! Honestly, it is getting scarier as I'm
making more editorial errors. You're catching them at age 73 and I'm making
them at age 80. What concerns me is that I have 5 more books to write/edit; now
this worries me. Bill </span></font><font size=3 color=black
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>If
someone is collecting such stories as this, please throw away the previous
version and replace it with this one. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>wes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><font
size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:black'>THE YOUNG </span></font><st1:stockticker><font size=3
color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>MAN</span></font></st1:stockticker><font size=3 color=black><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> TAUGHT ME A </span></font><st1:stockticker><font
size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>LIFE</span></font></st1:stockticker><font size=3 color=black><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> LESSON<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><font
size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:black'>(RE: Richard Epson)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><font
size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font><font
size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'> It was in our 4<sup>th</sup> decade of life—and our 24<sup>th</sup>
year of marriage—that we burned our bridges and left </span></font><st1:State><st1:place><font
size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Kansas</span></font></st1:place></st1:State><font size=3
color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'> for an internship with the Ecumenical Institute in 5<sup>th</sup>
City. After our assignment to move into the facilities at 4750 No. </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font
size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Sheridan</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=3
color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>, my summer assignment was working in the 5<sup>th</sup> City
Print Shop just up the street from the </span></font><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><font
size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Program</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font size=3 color=black><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font><st1:PlaceType><font
size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Center</span></font></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><font size=3
color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
What a place! An old web-printer using huge rolls of newsprint, even older
multi-stage folder, a machine to make large paper imprints to be used on the
web printer, and a variety of other equipment that is lost to memory. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
A secondary room contained a large round table used to collate mounds of
materials for The Academy, RS-I curriculum, and mailings. Collating teams were
assigned to work all-night putting curriculum together plus getting out a large
mailing for whatever purpose. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
Regarding the temperature, summer nights usually were comfortable while
day-time was hot and sweaty. Winter was cold: period. In summer, at all hours
of the day and night, the back door to the place was usually open, and this was
accomplished by drawing chains to raise or lower a steel garage door through
which deliveries entered and exited the place. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
The summer of my employment, a young man was in charge—obviously a
man-of-the-spirit. I suppose he was in his late 20’s or early 30’s. His age was
not a concern for me, rather my concern was how to fulfill his expectations of
me; a sign of leadership to be sure. He inspired trust and loyalty. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
While living at Kemper, he impressed me one Sunday morning when we both went
out to the paper box, each putting in our money while a nearby worldly
gentlemen attempted to steal a paper before the door closed. My colleague
quickly remonstrated him while taking the newspaper from him. Then, on the way
back to the lobby, he asked me to help him pick up the street of some of the trash—a
task I was pleased to help accomplish. It is this nature and quality of this
personality that was deep; this fellow had depth to him that is remarkable. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
His name is Richard Epson. He was introduced to the Order by Jim and Alice
Baumbach. They became colleagues in the summer of ’69 while in </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font
size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Houston</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=3
color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>. While the Baumbach’s attended the </span></font><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><font
size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Urban</span></font></st1:PlaceName><font size=3 color=black><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></font><st1:PlaceType><font
size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Academy</span></font></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><font size=3
color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>, Richard was assigned to the print shop. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
The print shop work could be intense. Many a hot </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font
size=3 color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Chicago</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=3
color=black><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
color:black'> night we would raise the garage door for ventilation and danger.
The danger was the little neighbor kids who would run down the ally and throw
rocks into the room. Of course we could hear their approach and one of us would
yell, “In coming!” I’m certain that the rocks lodged in the old printing press
didn’t do it any good either. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
It is the folding machine that is the best illustration of the kind of
colleague Richard represented. This was a long—maybe 15 feet—pile of junk. The
grabbers used in the folding process were very, very, very worn out—it needed
replacement. Its basic ingredient was the frustration of its operators. That
damned machine would eat papers. It consumed more materials than we actually
saved—or so it seemed. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
Very early in my indoctrination, Epson gave careful instructions on how to baby
this baby along. Soon something went wrong. I picked up several copies on the
floor and started to hand-fold some of them that were mis-folded and had a few
ink marks and foot-prints impressed on them. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
Richard stopped the machine, noticed what I was doing and reminded me, “Bill,
our work is not glamorous, but what we do is to prepare materials in such a way
that each participant only struggles with their soul rather than, ‘How did my
copy get so messed up?’” <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
The lesson I learned is that the print shop was an important cog in the
machinery addressing the soul of each student. Richard Epson embraced this philosophy
of life and was able to translate it into action; this is what made the print
shop missional. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
Now, in 2014 I’ll be 80. I’m functioning a lot like that blessed folding
machine, and at the moment there is no replacement for me. Consequently, I work
to keep it operational. Someday, I’ll be out <u>in the pasture</u> along with
my memories of a young colleague who had a vision of preparing the materials to
address the life and soul of those who “walked a mile” to have their lives
addressed. He addressed mine too. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
Bill Salmon<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><font size=3 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
Order member 1974 to 1985 and forever<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>
A colleague on the Journey to the East<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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