06-APR-A-8

 

TWO REACTIONS TO MY PROPOSAL TO TEACH STUDENTS IN THIRD WORLD SETTINGS

 

 

 

 

 

From:      <rwcroskery@fuse.net>

To:        Glenn Geelhoed <msdgwg@gwumc.edu>

Date:      4/10/2006 7:54:19 PM

Subject:   Re: Fwd: Thanks

 

Amen! to those sentiments!

 

RWC

 

 

 

‑‑‑‑ Glenn Geelhoed <msdgwg@gwumc.edu> wrote:

> Here is Steve Miner's hope for meeting you.  Recall that he is the

> Virginia County administrator lawyer who had the fox hunting wife and

> was the landowner for the Culpeper Hunt.  I hope you can meet him later

> and was touched by his note here, which was added to his prior comment

> when asked in his Comps Team‑‑"How would you describe your Hotel roomate

> and Comps Team mate?"  He said "He is the only person I know with no

> vile habits."

>

> You know better.

>

> GW

>

>

> >>> <Sminer11@aol.com> 4/9/2006 9:37:39 PM >>>

> Glen,

> 

> Thank you so much for sharing your life and your thoughts with me over

> the 

> last week.  I am quite sure that without your critical, insightful and

>

> incisive abilities, I would not have been challenged to dredge up what

> few 

> worthwhile thoughts I may have contributed to our effort. 

> 

> I thoroughly enjoyed hearing your life story.  I was, in  fact, vastly

>

> relieved to know that someone of your obvious mental  qualities chose

> to use that

> magnificent ability to place value on  something of higher worth than

> mere

> riches.  Your students are particularly  fortunate, I would think. 

> 

> By the way, my soon to be former brother‑in‑law, the "making more money

>  than

> God" cardiac surgeon in Connecticut, often complained of his work,

> comparing

> it to "assembly line" medicine, as he married and remarried and  bought

>

> sailing boats and houses in So. Dartmouth.  He never once went  to

> Africa or taught

> a student.  I am significantly more moved with your  approach.  I hope

> your

> study goes well ‑ I would far rather see a world  where students can

> test

> themselves and their still unknown talents in a  real world of need and

> genuine

> appreciation. 

> 

> I look forward to continuing our friendship next month.  Hopefully, I

> will

> get the opportunity to meet Virginia at that time.

> 

> Thank you.

> 

> Steve

 

 

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