April 1995

World CARP launches Academy

For the past six months, World CARP members from Russia, Asia and America have been witnessing on campuses all over the country. Everywhere they go, they're finding that times have changed. With the virtual disappearance of the radical left, CARP is one of the few truly active national student organizations. More than 9,000 students have attended World CARP programs, and almost 1,000 have graduated from workshops and seminars. Hundreds of others are working together with us on various service projects.

Success brings its own challenges, however. How can we continue to nurture and inspire these young people? How can we help them make the kind of contribution to society that the world so needs from young people?

With these questions very much in mind, World CARP President Jin Hun Park Moon has announced the opening of the World CARP Academy this coming June, in Boulder, Colorado, . "Today's students all want to do good," he says, "They want to be global-minded. They want to be real, to be involved in their communities and world-politically, socially, and environmentally. They want to make a positive contribution but often don't really know how. And the World CARP Academy will show them!"

Designed for primarily college students and graduates, the Academy offers a four-stage curriculum: service, character training through fundraising, academy classes and internship. The purpose of the Academy is very simple: to prepare young people for life in the 21st Century, based on the principles of unselfish living and for the world. Or, as the Academy puts it, "Win the future!"

Why The Academy?

A year at the World CARP Academy is designed to supplement formal schooling in a very important way, based upon the insights of Unification Principle . A great debate is raging in this country about the future of education. Dismayed by falling academic and moral standards, and an increasing level of violence in schools and colleges, almost everyone would agree that we need new values to guide our education system. What those values should be, however, remains fiercely contested.

According to the Unification Principle, the goal of education is nothing less than the cultivation of individuals and society with divine character. We are meant to resemble God in heart, thought and action. To accomplish this awesome task, we need three types of education: education of heart, education of norm (character), and intellectual education to be a genius.

The education system'' in most countries provides only the last of these types of education. It is a means for proficiency both in the accumulation of knowledge and the acquisition of technical skills; but largely ignores the knowledge and skills required to develop a mature personality and build meaningful, harmonious relationships with other members of our world family, skills essential for a fulfilled and happy life. The Academy hopes to help fill in these missing elements.

Entrance is open to all students, and it is expected that the Academy will be particularly popular among those students who have been studying Unification Principle with CARP, and who now want to experiment with a more committed lifestyle for a definite time period.

Service

I slept and dreamed that life was happiness. I awoke and saw that life was service. I served and found that in service happiness is found. - Rabindranath Tagore

Service is one of the best ways to begin an education of the heart. Academy students will learn what it means to live for others, and share others' lives, by first participating in a major service project of one to two months duration, either in the United States or overseas. Throughout the year, students will have further opportunities to invest in their community through local service projects, many of their own creation.

"In helping others, you will be helping yourself, says Kathy Winings, Director of the WCA Service Program. "Your life will change. You'll overcome prejudices, make friends that will last a lifetime and beyond, and create an environment where cooperation, harmony and true love thrives. Your family will grow beyond your immediate siblings, you'll come to love brothers and sisters you never knew before."

Team Fundraising

Team Fundraising, the second stage of the Academy year, is a very practical method of education of character. Students will be developing self-confidence and communication skills; learning self- discipline, and the importance of goal-setting for accomplishment. Under the direction of an experienced fundraising leader, they'll travel throughout the USA for about four months, visiting many states and cities and meeting people from all walks of life. The money raised through fundraising help to support the Academy and its service activities.

Fundraising is, of course, a time honored tradition in American society. From groups such as the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, to churches, to school fund drives, the activity of solicitation is a well recognized means to raise money.

According to MFT Director Fred Lacroix, .what makes World CARP fundraising special is that it combines character training and personal growth with the necessity of raising money, "You'll become a valuable team player and contribute your unique abilities to the larger community," he says. "You'll learn how to set and reach goals. And you'll experience a warmth and camaraderie from your team-mates that will be hard to forget."

Academy Classes

Academy Classes will review and expand the practical lessons learned during the period of service and fundraising with a wide-ranging exploration and discussion of ethics and morality.

The program starts with a review of the Unification Principle. Each major section-Principles of Creation, Cause of Human Conflict and Restoration Principles-is presented from a non-doctrinal, common sense perspective, reflecting the profound simplicity of the ideas as well as the many implications which they have upon our ever-changing reality. We examine the collected wisdom of the world's great religions and philosophies, and learn from the common tenets of these traditions.

Special attention is paid to discussions of human relationships, particularly between men and women. Despite the importance of a successful marriage and family for personal happiness and societal stability, our education system has little to say about true love and hardly provides the proper preparation for marriage and raising children. But at the Academy, these most important issues get the attention they deserve.

Though classroom-based, this stage of the Academy year is far from being just dry theory. We'll be living according to a high ethical code, and discovering for ourselves the purity and sacredness of original human relationships. Sports, exercise and optional martial arts lessons will help maintain a healthy bodily discipline. At the same time, other classes will provide the opportunity to sharpen various practical and technical skills.

Internships

Internships of six to ten weeks will complete the one-year Academy program. Sadly, a college degree is no guarantee of a good job these days. Employers are looking for a lot more than just good grades on a resume. They want to know about other interests and skills, evidence of social concern, such as any volunteer work, and, of course, experience.

The World CARP Academy internship program gives students a powerful advantage. They can gain experience in an area related to their own career goals, and see whether they're really suited for the job. Or branch out into something completely new and experiment with a totally different area of interest. Current possibilities include ocean training, teaching in the CIS, journalism, business, video editing and directing, and CARP's Congressional leadership institute-experiences that will enhance any resume.

Academy intern programs give students the chance to put it all together. They'll being doing much more than demonstrate technical ability. They'll be showing how much they've developed as a person; and how they've learned a deeper level of heart, love and compassion. Though internships are unpaid, we're certain that these experiences will enhance any resume.

Academy Life

Life in the World CARP Academy will be structured and filled with activity.

But whether out on a service project, fundraising, studying at the Academy or working on an internship program, there are always optional extra-curricular activities. In Colorado, for example, there will be expeditions such as Alpine or cross-country skiing, white-water rafting, rock-climbing or canyon trekking. Won Hwa Do, the unified martial art, is taught at the Academy and regular promotion tests are available.

Having fun at the Academy is easy. There are international nights, open to the general public, a celebration in food, song and art. Learning about and appreciate the cultural traditions of others, and of course share one's own heritage. And there are movie nights, in- house competitions including oratory, debate, table-tennis, volleyball and pool, and so much more.

Now, the World CARP is busy recruiting candidates for the class of 1995/96, with CARP members all around the country being joined by Campus Ministers, US alumni and others in spreading the news of this great new venture.

Academy founder Jin Hun Park Moon has this message for aspiring candidates: "One year is a small investment for a lifetime of returns. When you go back to college, your intellect will be sharpened, your desire and motivation to study will be greatly enhanced, and above all your personal life will be on very solid ground. You'll be in an excellent position to win the future, whatever future you choose."

For more information, please clip the coupon at the end of this article. We look forward to hearing from you. 

When Your Heart Chills Out, Part 4

We have previously noted that we tend toward "emotional constipation." That is, we block out unwanted feelings and in the process plug up our capacity for love and enthusiasm. Our negative feelings must be released and our hearts healed or we spend much of our energy in numbing ourselves and suppressing these impulses. It then becomes necessary to embrace our own fallen nature, just as an Abel-type person is to embrace the person in the Cain position and bring him into natural surrender.

This is not approval, but simple recognition that even our worst impulses are God-given nature wrongly directed. It is the true parents' response to even the most delinquent child--a wholehearted acceptance, belief in divine potential and willingness to support the painful transition necessary. This is disarming and opens the other to receive guidance and change.

In this part we will examine further this idea of acceptance of our darkest feelings and how it works.

The power of acceptance

This acceptance unblocks the former impasse. Once the rage and frustration over being rejected and suppressed is gone, there is a natural progression towards more positive feelings. Our hearts move through the reactions of anger, hurt and fear to the proactive feelings of goodwill, repentance and forgiveness.

Again, acceptance is neither resignation nor approval. It is the recognition that the feelings exist, that there is a reason why they exist, and that they must be expressed before they can be restored as a source of constructive power.

In order to do this we have to curb the two bad habits of any arrogant Abel. The first is a tendency to judge our fallen nature constantly. After all, these feelings are "terrible," "unprincipled" and besides, they make our lives messy and miserable. So we accuse them and tell them they have no right to exist. We demand that they change and behave themselves and stop bothering us.

The other bad habit is that of "tuning out" our Cain nature in order to escape it. We don't want to deal with these unacceptable feelings so we just anesthetize ourselves. We keep sedated in any number of ways--keeping busy, indulging in pleasures and distractions--to avoid our rejected emotions' nagging demands to be given an audience.

Not for the faint-hearted

To actually deal with our fallen nature responsibly and restorationally requires a tremendous act of will. We have to grapple with our inner enemy far beyond the point of inconvenience, distaste and even revulsion. It requires great determination and courage. Like puncturing and probing our skin with a needle to extract a splinter, willpower is needed to endure the pain and resist the impulses to recoil and escape so that the irritant can be taken out and the wound cleansed and dressed. This is particularly true if the splinter is old and skinned over, or if our deepest emotional wounds are covered by layers of defenses.

We have to deliberately sit with our own forbidden feelings and let them come out in an atmosphere of acceptance. This must continue until the process is finished. What determines when the process is done? Just as it is the Cain person who certifies that his heart is won over and Abel is victorious, so our fallen nature testifies to us when it has been subdued by love. In other words, our negative feelings no longer bother us. Instead their energy is now transformed and empowers us to live more for others.

Embracing our fallen nature means first having to feel God's love for us. In my own case, it was the hardest thing. The very thought provoked negative feelings. Through affirmative words repeated over and over, supportive friends and other influences, God has been working to give me courage enough to face the feelings I have not wanted to deal with. As I do so, I discover new freedom, energy, strength and love. I've found that I do care. My Ice Age has begun to thaw--I've even noticed a few crocuses poking through.

UTS Oratory Contest

by Michael Armstrong

Shedding real tears and pounding the podium vigorously, Jerry Chesnut portrayed the frustration and anger of a faithful mother, wife of an atheist, as she tried to pass on her faith to a reluctant 12-year-old.

Jerry's ten-minute speech won him first prize in the Unification Theological Seminary's 19th Annual David S.C. Kim Oratorical contest March 1. He and seven other contestants address the topic: "Passing On Our Religious Tradition To The Next Generation."

"Because of this year's motto, I selected this topic as the most timely and appropriate of a list of possible topics presented to me by the Student Council," UTS President Dr. Theodore Shimmyo said.

A Divinity Senior graduating in June, Jerry has a background in theater which was evident in his dramatic presentation. Starting with a personal testimony from childhood, Jerry's presentation quickly moved into an acting tour de force. He convincingly depicted the frustration a child must feel when he is upset at his father's lack of religious conviction. Jerry expressed the child's angst through dramatically pounding his fist on the podium and depicting the child's frustration through acting out the situation of confronting his father over religious tradition. The subsequent anger of the child was keenly conveyed. Jerry portrayed the child frustrated to hysterics through stomping, pounding and yelling which culminated in his vivid depiction of a television crashing to the floor. It was the combination of conviction and drama that moved the judges to award Jerry first prize for his moving testimony.

Second and third prizes went to Michael Kiely and Raman Montanaro respectively with honorable mentions for Simon Bedelo and Rachel Carter.

Second place winner, Michael Kiely, a Divinity Senior also graduating in June, poignantly expressed the concerns of a parental heart. Michael related the story of his 16-year-old son who bravely confronted a public speaker at his school who had condemned his religious tradition, the Unification Church, as a cult. There was an intimacy in Michael's presentation in the way he alluded to his wife, Maria, and their children. He spoke on the necessity of parents being role models to their children and that it is through the love, teaching and example of the parents that religious tradition is passed on and inherited.

Raman Montanaro, a Divinity Senior graduating in June 1995 and the third place winner, put the problem of passing on tradition in an historical light. He spoke eloquently of Jesus' difficulty in passing on his tradition which ultimately became inherited by his disciple, Peter, who had betrayed him. The apostle Paul struggled with inheriting the tradition which is evident in his statement that he mind is willing but the flesh is weak. Raman broadened his scope to include Buddhism which became divided into the paths of Theravada and Mahayana, and also to the problems of tradition evident in Hinduism which has been splintered into numerous different castes with different beliefs. Judges for the contest were Academic Dean and philosopher Dr. Jennifer Tanabe, New Testament scholar Dr. Richard Arthur, expert in world religions Dr. David Carlson, historian Dr. Michael Mickler and Dean of Students and theologian Dr. Deitrich Seidel. The event was well attended by students and faculty who filled the room to near capacity.

Other highlights of the evening included the entertainment. Soo Burkhardt, a trained opera singer, and contestant Simon Bedelo gave a moving duet. Junior Student Satoko Motoyama gave an exquisite rendition of a Chopin prelude, accompanied by Chef Lloyd Anderson on piano. The entertainment moved the judges, sequestered in a back room deciding on the results, to momentarily forgo their judging out of their peaked curiosity to view the entertainment.

President Theodore Shimmyo made the awards presentation. Jerry was presented with the trophy, handed down since the contest's inception in 1976. His name will be inscribed on the trophy in keeping with UTS tradition.

UTS - The Impossible Dream

by Simon Bedelo -Barrytown, NY

Simon Bedelo joined the movement in Zaire at the age of 16. He spent years as a lecturer in Hungary where he offered lectures in Hungarian, French and English. He holds a Masters in Science and is working on his Master of Divinity at UTS. He was Blessed with Mitsuko Tashiro in 1992.

I was lecturing a 7 day workshop in Budapest when I was informed by the Hungarian national leader that he "might" support my application to study at the Seminary. Up until that time (April, 1993) the idea of coming to UTS was that unreachable star. The more that I heard people talking about UTS, its unique ecumenical education and especially Father's personal expectation regarding and direction to UTS graduates, the more it became an impossible dream for me.

I have always been interested in the testimonies of UTS Alumni. I loved to hear them, indeed I saw them as the brains of the church. It is for this reason that year by year, my desire to attend UTS steadily grew.

In late June of 1993 I got in touch with the Admissions Office at UTS. Everything seemed to be moving smoothly until the time that I went to apply for a U.S. visa. At that point I understood that coming to UTS has much to do with the spiritual world, let me explain. Though I had all of the documents required to obtain a student visa, my application was rejected. The US Embassy in Budapest said that they did not find sufficient evidence of my intention to return to my native country, Zaire, upon graduation from UTS. Again, it seemed to me that UTS is an unreachable star so I started to give up.

Thanks to the Seminary Admissions staff who did not seem to understand the meaning of the word "no", they encouraged me to try again, with a personal petition in support of my application to the U.S. Consul. Exactly one day after True Mother spoke in Budapest, to my great surprise, the visa was issued.

After coming to UTS I realized many things. First of all, that as America is a land of opportunities, UTS is a place where one can own God. The very first day that I arrived at UTS, I went exploring through the Library, the Chapel and the beautiful natural environment. I found treasures in the people the natural setting and especially in the vast resources of Father's speeches. I quickly came to the conclusion that if you can't find God at the Seminary, you can't find Him anywhere on this earth!

UTS helps us to go beyond the questions of faith vs. reality. Here faith becomes reality and reality is faithful. On a personal level UTS has helped me to see my own limitations within reasonable parameters that I can begin to challenge. It is for these reasons that I encourage members with vision to come to the Seminary. If you want to take responsibility for your nation, do it as a UTS graduate with the tools of knowledge about religion and history to aid you in the task of bringing unification. As an African, I am grateful to be here. I believe that the time must come for us Africans to fulfill our responsibilities. Until now Africa has been receiving, like a "child". This year commemorates 20 years of mission work by the original foreign missionaries sent out in 1975. I think that it is time for us to seriously consider Africa's transition to adulthood.

I am committed upon graduation to making a contribution to the restoration of Africa with its huge and beautiful diversity of religious belief and spiritual experience. It is my strong belief that providing native Seminary graduates for leadership of a nation is the best investment that the movement can offer the future.

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Simon Bedelo He is seen here holding the trophy he won in the 1994 Divine Principle Lecture Contest.

Two 1995 Holy Days Celebrated by the Children of Region 11

by Christine Hempowicz-Queens, New York

God's Day 1995 and True Parents' Birthday 1995 were celebrated by younger children of Region 11 (New York City) in a special way at Unification Church Headquarters, 4 West 43rd Street. Both events, organized by Mrs. Waltraud Vianale, Sunday School Coordinator for Queens Church, were well attended. For God's Day, 76 enthusiastic youth, the majority six years old and younger, gathered from Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island. True Parents' Birthday arrived amid frigid temperatures, a just-finished snow storm and icy roads, yet 60 children still managed to appear at the doorstep!

Waltraud initially approached Dr. Tyler Hendricks to inquire about the possibility of our organizing such a regional children's celebration for God's Day for those too young to attend the main celebration. Her desire was to provide a meaningful God's Day for children whose parents were attending the speech so that the Holy Day could be special for the entire family. With Dr. Hendrick's approval, rooms were secured at 43rd St. for the event since no room would be officially made available for children in the New Yorker. A staff was organized from Sunday School teachers of Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan-Harlem: Mrs. Waltraud Vianale, Mr. Peter Nordquist, Mrs. Ingeborg Nakahira and Mrs. Christine Hempowicz from Queens, Mrs. Margaret Maye from Brooklyn and Mr. Ted Grice from Manhattan-Harlem. A special mention goes to Mrs. Suzanne Tadokoro of Queens for her work providing meals for us all! Also a few parents stayed and supported the program.

The main task was to provide a spiritual celebration for the children. This included a very simple Offering Table, set by the six- to ten- year-olds. Pledge and a prayer were offered, and each participant received some special food to take home from the Table. Margaret and Ted organized projects for children six and younger. They made a poster to put on the wall that included eight points of a Blessed Children's Pledge, colored in pages with religious themes, played games and watched the children's video, `` Homeward Bound.'' Peter Nordquist offered Korean study for the older children, which they enjoyed. In fact, it was hard to pull them away to eat lunch!

The God's Day celebration in the Brand Ballroom was short and consequently, a few parents began to arrive for their children earlier than was anticipated. However, instead of hastening the close of the children's celebration, Waltraud invited parents to stay a little longer with their children. The spirit was pleasant despite having many children in just a few rooms with a small staff.

Dr. Hendricks then contacted Waltraud and asked her to organize a children's celebration for True Parents' Birthday 1995 at National Headquarters. Again the staff was organized and a planning meeting held. The staff from God's Day returned minus Ted Grice. Mrs. Philippa Clarke, wife of Manhattan-Harlem pastor Rev. Daryl Clarke supported the event, accompanied by their five children.

Unlike God's Day, True Parents were present for the New York celebration of True Parents' Birthday. So we knew that the children would most probably be with us from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m., the hours of the children's celebration. Many of the staff found themselves or their children ill the week before True Parents' Birthday, and it took serious determination for us all to assemble.

Again, the main task was to provide a spiritual celebration designed for our young ones. Very simple Offering Tables were set up again, this time with separate Tables for those four years old and younger, and another for the children five to ten years old. The entire Family Pledge, led by Peter Nordquist, was recited by the older group. Projects included paper crowns designed by the seven to ten year old princes and princesses of Heavenly Father and True Parents, celebration placards decorated by the five- and six-year-olds and a children's video.

Pre-registration was required and a fee was charged for each event in order to cover cost of room rental, food and materials.

Why did parents bring their children? Mrs. Catherine Bridges of Kingsburg, New Jersey brought her four children to True Parents' Birthday celebration so that they could attend `` a special program that's good for the kids.'' Mrs. Jerry Wolinski of Manhattan said that it was good for his three-year-old daughter to be with other children and have an educational experience that is good for her spiritual growth. The Martin Stephan family of Queens attended both Holy Day celebrations. Martin stayed with their four children at 43rd St. for True Parents' Birthday while his wife attended the New Yorker celebration. He noted that the staff could continue to improve the program, which covered six hours, but that it was a great event which his kids always enjoyed.

Each staff member is a parent who desires to make a special community celebration for children too young to attend the main Holy Day event. And the parents of the children who attended perhaps had similar wishes. Hopefully, families of Region 11 will continue to cooperate together at the time of Holy Days to further develop this program. If you are interested in getting involved, please contact your district pastor or Sunday School coordinator.

To Ease The Tears of War

by Mrs. Nora M. Spurgin-NYC

I want to bring my warmest greetings to each of you-women of Japan and America. We would especially like to welcome to America the ladies from Japan who have made a very long trip and much effort to come to America and share this afternoon's ceremony with us. I would also like to welcome the American women have come from all over this large country to participate in this special peace ceremony.

Within the last month, our hearts have turned to Japan, specifically Kobe. As Americans, we were deeply touched by the devastation of the earthquake. We wish to express our concern and send our prayers in this time of need.

I'd like to share a little story with you. Eighty years ago, 2000 cherry blossom trees (sakura) were sent to Washington D.C. from Japan as a gesture of friendship and openness. In 1938 some trees had to be dug up for the building of the Jefferson Memorial. These trees were so prized that a group of American women brought chains to chain themselves to the trees in order to keep them from being dug up. Today over 8,000 trees bloom every spring. People come from all over the world to attend the Cherry Blossom Festival celebrating this gesture of friendship between our countries. When we see the beauty of these trees, our minds always turn to the beauty and graciousness of the people of Japan.

If you look around you, you will see sisters who form a rainbow of colors. America is often called a "melting pot," meaning that people from all nations and races melt together to create a human family which lives and works together as one nation. In being welcomed by America, you are welcomed by the world.

Along with gestures of friendship, our countries have also had a history of hostilities. Sometimes this continues in the heart, arising anew in competition in the business world. Certainly 50 years ago, the wounds of war were fresh on the hearts of each of our two nations. No surrender, no peace treaty, no agreement can ever completely heal those scars. Such healing can be realized only through heart-to-heart relationships-the human factor. Today we stand as friends pledging our unity and commitment to foster greater peace on our planet.

On behalf of my own country, America, I pray that in becoming sisters, we may help erase the bitter tears and memories of the awfulness of the war. As we take each others' hands, we can feel that we are comforting the weeping mother, the dying child, the young widow, the wounded soldier, and the families which were separated.

I hope that, through this ceremony, each of you will meet a sister who can be your channel for love to flow in healing, and freeing our hearts of any barriers which may have stood in our hearts. I offer my heartfelt regrets for the historical pains which were experienced by the people of both our countries.

It is often women who become the harmonizers, the adhesive that binds lives together in wholeness. It is also often the women who reach out to their God to find vision and strength to help each other build a better world for the next generation.

Our world is changing rapidly. Women have the opportunity to make a great impact on world events and help shape the future. As women we add a more gentle touch of healing to a world that is often hardened by competition, greed and war.

The founder of WFWP has a vision that women in the 21st century will hold a central role in leading humankind into love, forgiveness, harmony, and cooperation. She believes that governments today would do well to call upon the feminine principles of caring and compassion to touch people in need. We believe that laws alone will never end violence, but love and compassion will.

We look forward to the new millennium, as an opportunity for a new beginning. It is exciting to be living at such a significant time. The turn of a millennium comes around only once in a thousand years. I might venture to say that none of us will see another. This is the age for women to participate in making strategies for world peace.

Eighty years ago, it was cherry blossom trees. Today, you have come from Japan to Washington D.C. in a similar gesture of friendship. May we, like the lovely sakura, expand our friendships, and become a leading force for world peace. We, as women, East and West, take on the role of "ambassadors of peace" for this new era.

Thank you very much.

The Virgin Birth

Dear Editor:

As usual I continue to enjoy Dr. Hendrick's insightful and thought- provoking columns, yet nonetheless feel it necessary to critically respond to his recent "virgin" birth article.

I understand how important it is to lay the groundwork to build up a case for Jesus' having a birth unlike any other (Adam excepted). Yet, as a Unificationist, I object to what amounts to appropriating the term "virgin." It is not only misleading in the sense that it has always been associated with an unprincipled birth (woman without man) but not based on biblical scholarship. I refer to Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism by Episcopal Bishop Shelby Spong. In that a book, Bishop Spong clearly points out that when Matthew, in his gospel, quoted a text from Isaiah [Greek translation] to emphasize a virgin birth tradition, he neglected to go the original Hebrew text. In Hebrew, there is no use of the word `almah' for maiden or young woman , rather, the Hebrew word for virgin is `betulah'-an entirely different word.

One would do better to speak of a "sanctified" birth, a "unique" or "sinless" birth or even an "immaculate conception." Such concepts are quite palatable when presented side by side with Father's exposition of the actual process of conditional cleansing of the womb through Jesus' ancestors Tamar and so forth.

I hope I am not making too much of this point, as it was altogether an excellent article.

Lloyd Howell, Holiday, FL