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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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>