Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 126, Number 4, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 22 January 2003 — Page 4
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Letters to the Editor THE GIFT OF SIGHT Because of the generosity of a person who donated his eyes at death to the Eye Bank. Miriam Munson could see once again. For ayear or longer she had difficulty seeing things clearly. But when she could no longer read the blackboard from her front-row seat in her highschool class, shemade an appointment with the family physician. Upon examination, her doctor found that she had keratoconus, a progressive eye disease which causes the cornea—the clear, outer covering of the eye—to thin and bcome cone-shaped. Left untreated, keratoconus can progress to blindness. Miriam’s doctor referred her to a comeal surgeon who confirmed the diagnosis and told her that only a comeal transplant could restore her sight. He replaced the defective cornea in her right eye with tissue provided by teh Eye Bank. When her stitches were removed, she could see better than she had been able to see for a long time. After a few months, the surgeon replaced the defective cornea in her left eye, and Miriam was ecstatic at being able to see clearly once again. It is true that one can give sight to another by donating his eyes at death. Comeal transplants have long been used to restore sight, but only the tissue from a human eye can be used. Indicate on the back of your driver's license that you will donate or call 1-800-232-4384. Bemiece H. Dwyer, Milford Mrs. Dwyer is a retired teacher from Goshen High School who writes and speaks on the need for eye and organ donation. Years Ago 120 YEARS AGO; JAN. 25, 1883 Market Report: butter 18 cents/lb.; eggs, 20 cents/doz.; com, 40 cents/bushel; beans, $2/bushel; green apples, 90 cents/bushel; beeswax, 20 cents/lb. 100 YEARS AGO; JAN. 28, 1903 Nappanee has had her first labor troubles this week. This sound metropolitan for a once country village. The difficulty at first involved the men in the table factory, but soon included those at the box factory, perhaps 150 men or more. The men at Coppes, Zook & Mutschler Co. refused to put in further extra time or night work without an increase i pay and have petitioned for time and a half for night work. Mr. Mutschler said there were plenty of men who wanted to work and he hoped no an would refuse to work 12 hours a day when it was required of him, but those who did not come to work at 7 Monday night might be considered as having left the employ of the firm through their own preference. 75 YEARS AGO; JAN. 26, 1928 Dunham & Love is remodeling and enlarging the interior of their drugstore. The balcony has been tom down and prescription room moved into the stockroom, making additional floor space. 50 YEARS AGO; JAN. 22, 1953 Farmers Institute on Feb. 4 and 5 will have entertainment for all and the usual displays of baked goods, canned goods, baking, plus eggs will be sold at public auction. "Active Ladies" will serve lunch in the Park Pavilion. « Bidding is open for the new 50 bed Goshen Hospital to be built this spring at High park Avenue. The Years Ago segments have been researched and posted by Margaret England-Neff. Opinion Page Policy The Opinion page of the Advance News is intended to serve as a public forum to address issues of concern to Nappanee and Wakarusa residents from various viewpoints. Readers are welcome to express their views by submitting letters or guest commentaries regarding community topics. To be considered for publication, letters to the editor must be signed and include a phone number in order to verify the author. The Advance News reserves the right to edit all letters and commentaries for brevity, clarity and grammar. The views expressed on the Opinion page do not necessarily reflect those of the Advance News.
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Zero tolerance needed for lawsuits
It’s been a week of interesting lawsuits filed due to according to the people filing the suits — wrongful firings. We have an African-American woman employed by the IRS who was terminated for going through 400 of her closest friends’ and families' tax returns. She’s filing based upon race discrimination. Then we have the African-American male, employed as an emergency squad technician who, while en route to the hospital with a patient, stopped off for doughnuts before reaching the health care facility. He, too, is filing based upon race discrimination. And then there’s Bobby Knight. Mr. Knight has filed a lawsuit against Indiana University seeking $7 million in damages, including “lost income, mental humiliation and interference with his prospects for employment.” This figure includes an estimated $3 million in lost wages for the six months Knight was out of work between his coaching job at I.U. and his new coaching position at Texas Tech. He did, however, accept $50,000 between jobs to post his NCAA picks online with an Internet company. The idea was to allow fans to see if they could pick better than he had. Let’s do a quick look back as to why Knight was fired in the first place. A point to
Settle in; Winterset has come to stay
“Winterset has come to stay. Brush the crumbs from hearth away, Settle in - Perhaps to dabble - Later In a game of Scrabble. Let’s winter spend The afternoon - Painting dreams Across the Moon.” - D. Morgan January is named after the Roman god, Janus. In Roman mythology Janus was guardian of portals and the patron of beginnings and endings. He is always shown as having two faces one looking backward and one looking forward. The word Janus comes from the Latin meaning gate or arched passageway. In keeping with the old idea, we close the door on the old and open the door to the new. Godspeed to each of you on entering another year. In January of 1892, James Naismith, a teacher at Springfield College in Massachusetts, was looking for a game that students could play in the gym during the winter months. He tried adapting soccer and lacrosse without success. Then he got the idea to make the goals smaller and hang them from the gym’s balcony. The game of basketball was bom! In the first game peach baskets were used for goals and a man had to climb a ladder in order to retrieve the ball after each score. Since then, the game has
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note, was he was given the opportunity to resign, but refused. A resignation looks a lot better on your resume. But then it prohibits you from suing at a later date for lost wages, even though it certainly would be considered less “humiliating.” This is a guy who behaved as badly as any
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two-year-old I’ve ever witnessed. He threw things. He kicked things. He fired a blank from a starter’s pistol at a sportswriter. He bullied referees, players, cheerleaders and fans. All of these behavioral examples would have gotten any child in the world a spot in “time-out” rehabilitation. Then there’s the idea of zero tolerance. The basis for Knight’s claim of “wrongful dismissal” is, he says, because no one at Indiana University ever defined “zero tolerance” for him. Unbelievable!
gone through many changes. Indeed, Professor Naismith may not even recognize the game if he could see it today. My friend, Doris Zentz, who is no longer with us, played on the girls’ team when she was in high school. The girls’ team and the
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boys’ team both traveled in the same bus when they played at other schools. One time coming home from a game, she found she had Bob Zentz’s bag instead of her own. She called him to tell him and he said he’d meet her at the Coffee Shop uptown. And so, as you have probably guessed, that was the beginning of a courtship that eventually led to marriage. Without basketball, this romance would have never blossomed. So, what would we do without basketball in Indiana? Thank you, James Naismith. During the depression years, we observed Jan. 30 which was President Franklin Roosevelt’s birthday. At that time polio (we called it infantile paralysis) was a dreaded disease. Seventy-five percent of its victims were children, but President Roosevelt was
Zero tolerance in the workplace became a popular and long overdue term in the mid-90s in reference to sexual harassment. Once a corporation defined its work environment as one of zero tolerance pertaining to anything that could be perceived as harassment by any employee, it became every manager’s job to take all complaints seriously. An investigation of the alleged situation would be done and appropriate consequences meted out, up to and including dismissal. The dictionary defines zero tolerance as “non-acceptance of anti-social behavior, typically by strict and uncompromising application of the law.” It seems to me all that Bobby needed to do was pick up a dictionary. Or possibly live by the oldest rule in existence: Do unto others as you would have them do to you. Somehow I doubt if Mr. Knight would have tolerated the Indiana University president throwing a chair at him, firing a blank at him or in any way demeaning him in front of his colleagues or team members. Sounds like a real good example of “zero tolerance” from his perspective.
39 years old when the disease struck him and he lost the use of his legs. The only time F.D.R. could be free of braces and canes and crutches was when he was swimming. He was especially invigorated by the mineral waters Warm Springs, Ga. In fact, he donated a substantial portion of his personal wealth to the establishment of a foundation at Warm Springs to help others afflicted with the illness. Here he built a cottage which came to be know as the “Little White House.” To help with the expenses of the foundation, Eddie Cantor came up with the idea that everybody in the country send a dime for polio research to President Roosevelt at the White House. Eddie Cantor gave it the name March of Dimes. (I remember sending my dime to the president.) On Jan. 30 a big party was held for F.D.R.’s birthday and the Mach of Dimes. The two went together. After F.D.R.’s death in 1945, Congress voted to honor President Roosevelt’s memory by issuing a Roosevelt dime. The first ones were released on Jan. 30,1946. In 1955, 10 years after President Roosevelt’s death, Dr. Jonas Salk discovered the first polio vaccine. The money for research had come from the dimes sent by pudgy little hands wanting to help their President. “The best thing about the future is it comes only one day at a time.” - Abraham Lincoln
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