November 23, 1963. Most readers probably were in minus years, but I was a junior in college. I was in the office of the Oberlin College newspaper, the Oberlin Review. It was my senior year and I was Chairman of … Continue reading
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November 23, 1963. I was in the office of the Oberlin College newspaper, the Oberlin Review. It was my senior year and I was Chairman of the Republican Mock Convention. I went to summer school at NIU in order to … Continue reading
The fall of 1960 saw me enroll in Ohilo’s Oberlin College. I applied because it was listed in a Tribune article as the best co-ed college of its size (2,000-2,500) without fraternities or sororities. And, it also was the college … Continue reading
I was in the office of the Oberlin College newspaper, the Oberlin Review. It was my senior year and I was Chairman of the Republican Mock Convention. I went to summer school at NIU in order to be able to … Continue reading
Complimenting my son on his two-handed handshake to a friend reminded me of the day I shook hands with Richard Nixon. It was the Friday or Saturday before the 1960 Presidential Election. As part of an Oberlin College Young Republican … Continue reading
21-year old Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was the main speaker at Patriots United’s annual breakfast Saturday morning in Crystal Lake. Kirk told of trying to interest local Northwest suburban Republicans as well as national Republicans in getting … Continue reading
I went to the second most liberal college in Ohio–Oberlin College. Besides its quality (ranked first in co-ed colleges by the Chicago Tribune in 1959) and manageable size (something over 2,000), it created the Mock Political Convention. I considered Northwestern, … Continue reading
One of these days I’m going to make it up to a Harvard Milk Days Parade. It’s always an enjoyable event. I had the best time in the late 1960’s when the McHenry County Young Republicans borrowed a baby (adolescent?) … Continue reading
A press release from Crystal Lake’s Bethany Lutheran Church: Bethany Lutheran Church hosts free concert of inspiring music, Sunday Jan. 20 to mark 10th anniversary of Church’s custom-built pipe organ Bethany Lutheran Church is hosting two rare and free events … Continue reading
It’s Thanksgiving Week and I’m remembering one lesson I learned in my first semester of my sophomore year at Oberlin College. And it’s more significant than what I figured the first Thanksgiving Vacation. That year (1960), I discovered that taking … Continue reading
Sitting in a doctor’s office, I picked up the Monday Northwest Herald and read the profile of Michael Gyetvan. Reporter Di Benedetto selected Gyetvan because of the extraordinary number of hours of college credit he has earned since graduating from … Continue reading
When you are a senior in college taking a light load, you can end up doing some silly things. I was the Chairman of the Oberlin Mock Convention in 1964. Naturally, I wanted publicity for the only event bringing Republican … Continue reading
I was in the office of the Oberlin College newspaper, the Oberlin Review. It was my senior year and I was Chairman of the Republican Mock Convention. I went to summer school at NIU in order to be able to … Continue reading
My first integrated school was Middletown High School in New York state. My father had moved the Chinchilla Breeders and Marketers Association from Salt Lake City when he convinced the members that they had to sell fur from the soft … Continue reading
When I was attending Oberlin College in the Ohio town named for it, a carload of Young Republicans drove to Columbus to hear U.S. Senator Mark Hatfield and state Republican Party Chairman Ray Bliss. Both were impressive. Hatfield was a … Continue reading
Nine more years of data in this third edition of “More Guns, Less Crime.” When I read the second edition eight years ago, I was pleased that John Lott’s hypothesis of the mid-1990’s had up held. After all, it’s just … Continue reading
The following seven McHenry County high school students will participated in a “Model Congress” next Saturday in Rockford: Alden-Hebron H.S.: Leah Arthur, Cody Eskridge, Dillion Lalor and Morgan Lohse. Cary-Grove H.S.: Maurissa Dorn, Luke Jenner, Jon Lubow and Alix Rozolis. … Continue reading
In 1964, I graduated from Oberlin College, an Ohio school to which I was drawn because it had the first mock political convention, was co-ed and had a bit over 2,000 students. It, I found out, was also the second … Continue reading
This ad was placed last Christmas by Hobby Lobby. (Click to enlarge.) That’s the store that closes on Sunday, the way most stores did. When I attended Oberlin College from 1960-64, the only stores that seemed to be open on … Continue reading