[Oe List ...] {Spam?} {Disarmed} Re: [Dialogue] Another reason to root for the Red Sox

Fri Oct 26 13:56:58 EDT 2007

Cynthia, Lucille,

Whatever deity you two appealed to has been considerably more effective than the Rockies god.? Damn it.
I think a rephrasing of the famous Tom Hanks line in "A League of Their Own" is in order.? "There is on god in baseball".

Don Elliott

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Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Another reason to root for the Red Sox

Cynthia, thank you for that URL concerning the holier-than-thou Rockies and my faith in their down-to-earth Series rivals from Beantown.

I grew up playing baseball with the neighborhood boys (when they were short a "man" and would let me) in a swearing, dyed-in-the-wool Roman Catholic family (for starters), in a small milltown in north central Massachusetts where baseball and the Red Sox were next to godliness.? As one who no longer believes there is one true church or faith, what the Rockies have done is scary.? I hope those crazy Sox continue to beat the shit out of them

-----Original Message-----
From: Lifeline248 at aol.com
To: dialogue at wedgeblade.net; oe at wedgeblade.net
Sent: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:04 am
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Another reason to root for the Red Sox

Cynthia, thank you for that URL concerning the holier-than-thou Rockies and my faith in their down-to-earth Series rivals from Beantown.

I grew up playing baseball with the neighborhood boys (when they were short a "man" and would let me) in a swearing, dyed-in-the-wool Roman Catholic family (for starters), in a small milltown in north central Massachusetts where baseball and the Red Sox were next to godliness.? As one who no longer believes there is one true church or faith, what the Rockies have done is scary.? I hope those crazy Sox continue to beat the shit out of them. 
Lucille Tessier Chagnon

Allow me a long PS? for those who are interested: 
I don't believe in dyslexia either...
since Dr. Renee Fuller successfully opened the doors to reading--with humor and understanding--to institutionalized teens and adults with IQs in the 30s and above.? Her website (below, below mine) is worth a trip.? At 12 she was reading at a second grade level, two years after escaping from Hitler to the US.? She taught herself to read the summer before 7th grade with the Wizard of Oz books and ended up years later with a Ph.D. in physiological psychology.? She was the Director of Psychological Services at Rosewood, the Maryland institution for the retarded in Owings Mills? and on her shelf were the wacky ten-volume, 100-page "science-fiction" readers--about Vad the Rocket Man and others--that she had written for "normal" kids who couldn't learn to read.? It took a year for her staff to break through her blind resistance to their conviction that their residents could learn to read with her books.? Finally, in aggravation over their insistence, she relented, telling them it wouldn't work because "these people are retards; look at their IQs."? Well, she no longer believes in the validity of the IQ as a predictor of intelligence because the residents started to learn to read.? Four were successfully de-institutionalized, and just about everyone in the 26-person study she did moved up in one way or another. 

Her book, "In Search of the IQ Correlation" grew out of a Symposium at the 1972 annual meeting of the American Psychological Assoc.? Never heard of her?? Neither has 99.44% of teachers and 100% of the US Dept. of Ed.? Who wants to hear about something funny and simple that will prevent millions of kids (including my adopted twin sons who turn 30 TODAY!) from getting locked into Special Ed. with a negative label until somebody, usually not a teacher, unlocks the door to reading.? Fuller's books did it for Dan and Dave, and today they are taking college courses and tops in their fields.

Like me, Renee never took a reading course in her life.? Despite that, at Rutgers inner-city campus in Camden, NJ, I very successfully replaced the Chair of the Education Dept. teaching Developmental Reading and Language Arts for two semesters while running the Rutgers Urban Literacy Program for the Urban Studies Dept. for eight years.

I hope I've whetted the appetites for newness of a few teachers, parents, and neighbors, etc. who know someone of whatever age who can't read. 

Lucille T. Chagnon, M.Ed.
Literacy Acceleration Consultants
6448 Arbor Lane? -? P O Box 438
Chincoteague Island, VA 23336-0438
757-336-5047???? fax -1391
cell? 302-561-4575
e-mail:? lifeline248 at aol.com
www.teachtwo.net?????; ?? ...check it out!
see also Renee Fuller's website:?? www.ballstickbird.com

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