Thank you, Marshall. It's a beautiful obituary. I picked up an interesting 25-cent book, Generations: the History of America's Future, published in 1991. The "greatest generation" is passing so quickly now. We "Silent (Adaptive)" ones (b.1925-1942) are on our way out also. Our generation never had a president. The presidency went from G.I.'s (Civic) to Boomers (Idealist) (b.'43 -'60), since Mondale and Dukakis didn't cut it. Obama is in what the authors call the Thirteenth (Reactive) generation (61 - 81). I can see why the book was on the quarter shelf. 1991 was a long time ago. Wonder if there's a similar study that's newer, since this one only projected to the Millennials, born up to 2003. Blessings, Jann In a message dated 6/2/2013 7:00:27 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, synergi@yahoo.com writes: Some of us were among his students many years ago. I thought you'd like to read his NYT obit. Marshall http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/us/rev-dr-roger-l-shinn-theologian-dies-at -96.html _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net