Message of the Day – Melting

“I’m melting,” cried the Wicked Witch of the West as she disappeared

“Who would have thought that some little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness,” the Wicked Witch said just before she died.

Dorothy McHenry wasn’t scared anymore.

Wizard Packard had said the witch was dead, that her memorial service would be held at the April meeting.

But questions remained.

What will happen to all the dirt left behind?

How many taxpayer dollars did the McHenry County College Board majority allow to run into Mark Houser’s EquityOne sewer?

This dirt on this snow pile near the Colonial Cafe will be washed away by April’s showers.

How will McHenry County College wash away the much deserved dirt now covering its reputation?

Will its leaders invite influential businessmen and politicians to secret meetings, allow them to lay hands on the college’s image and have them announce its cleansing?

Or have the powers-that-be figured out that there is a bigger problem epitomized by its obsessive secrecy?

The administration and board have stepped over that invisible line. They have enraged some taxpayers, severely disappointed others.

Most of the enraged are probably “meteors,” who will have burned out fighting the baseball stadium.

But there are others who will watchfully stay in the “junior” college’s orbit, waiting and hoping for the day it deserves to be called a “community” college again.

Has the MCC power elite figured out that there are folks out there that matter beyond those the institution more or less controls?

Frankly, I doubt it.

But, time will tell.

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Photo of and words of the melting witch from American Rhetoric: Movie Speech. The dirty pile of melting show is near Colonial Cafe in Crystal Lake, taken after a Crystal Lake Kiwanis meeting.


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