[Dialogue] Selma

[donnawz at aol.com]

Friends,

About that robbery in Kansas City. I was there.

As (perhaps flawed) memory serves me . . . It was a LENS seminar held in the basement of St. James/Paseo United Methodist Church, where (now) US Representative Emanuel Cleaver has been appointed many years. He was recently in the media limelight with his "Satan Sandwich" metaphor, referring to the debt ceiling agreement.

The three men with guns intruded from the side. I was seated toward the back of the room and experienced the robbery as a participant/observer you might say, watching the action unfold in front or me, scanning the room, the participants, the jumpy young gunmen. Holding my breath that no would-be hero would set them off. But all were compliant, pulling out billfolds and putting their heads on tables in front of them as instructed. They made off quickly.

At the same time, just across the hall from where the thieves entered the building, a few people sat quietly in the kitchen, unaware of the events and counting the course registration money, the haul that the robbers unknowingly left behind.

As an epilogue, I was later called to a line-up to identify the bandits at the juvenile detention facility. After that -- paranoid about potential retribution -- I slipped around town incognito and changed my phone to an unlisted number. 

Donna -- Woodard -- Ziegenhorn

PS to Anne Epps: Those Harzfeld's suits were the best!


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cock <jpc2025 at triad.rr.com>
To: 'Colleague Dialogue' <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Sat, Aug 6, 2011 11:05 am
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Selma


Interesting about being robbed in KC: who was in the KC RS-I with several

new LCX lay persons and can give the details. Either Frank Hilliard or

Slicker 1st Teacher. Did robber have them pass the collection plate? 



Be careful in Kansas City events.



John



-----Original Message-----

From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net

[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of ANN S. EPPS

Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 11:07 PM

To: Colleague Dialogue

Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Selma



Hi Anne,



You need to write a book, or at least some articles, about your adventures

with this wild group.  Remember the time we were robbed in the church

basement in Kansas City while teaching a LENS course?



By the way, do you still have your David Dow suit?  My sisters and I were

just sorting through my mother's old Harzfeld (Kansas City) suits last

month, and some of them (espcially the jackets) are pretty stylish for

today's fashions :-)  Didn't find any white gloves, though.



Ann Epps

in Malaysia





Quoting Anne Wood <awoodewm at aol.com

>

>

>

> Betty Pesek was not there and neither was Joe Mathews.

>

> My memory of the event is vivid but the cast of characters is 

> blured....

>

> I remmeber Donna McClesky was there and she was very pregnant at the 

> time. I also think that Joe Slicker and Fred Buss were there.

>

> We rode all night on a Greyhound bus........We arrived at some field 

> where they were putting up a huge tent.... there was to be some sort 

> of entertainment that night.

>

> There had been much reported in the news about the "kind of trash" 

> that was particapating in the march (including the easy availability 

> of prostitutes). Sooooooooo I had worn my most expensive "David Dow" 

> suit, heels and yes white gloves.

>

> As we got off the bus and strolled across the field to the tent 

> suddenly out of no where came wind and sheets of rain! We rushed under 

> the tent for cover just as the tent pole pulled out of the 

> ground...into the air.....and we were all knocked into what had become 

> a mess of mud and we were trapped under the collapsed tent. So much 

> for a respectable apperance!

>

> There's lots more to this story......it was indeed an awesome event 

> and I will never forget a moment

>

> Anne Wood.

>

>

>

>

>







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