We decided to park at the college and walk the cleared sidewalks rather than risk our necks in the village. Very few people were out again today despite the warm temperatures.
The new windows are finally installed in Maytum so it may be able to reopen soon.
Dods Hall
I decided to begin work on the chapter on recruiting and enrolling students. I had written five different sections on student meetings, parent meetings, the preliminary meeting, enrolling, and the value of the video. After putting them all in one document, there were 21 pages with lots of repetition, but I got it down to 15 pages. There's still more to cut and then spice it up with some other perspectives. I'm hoping to finish the chapter in three days.
Our book club is reading Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Godwin about Abraham Lincoln. Tonight I read about the backgrounds of the four main candidates for the Republican nomination for President in 1860: William Seward, Salmon Chase, Edward Bates and Abraham Lincoln. Their childhoods were filled with challenges, loss and opportunity. Lincoln's youth was so hard, but books transported him to other times and places and offered an avenue of advancement. He said, "The book, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places....Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing." If only more children today understood and appreciated the possibilities that intense study and effort can bring.
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