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You Are So Loved
No full textThe Film You Are So Loved is a 17-minute narrative drama film, which focuses on Amy, a young woman who is living in an abusive relationship. Amy tries to leave her husband, but this proves difficult, as he is manipulative and threatening. Her despair is punctuated by a well-meaning acquaintance, made at a local Christian church as well as a series of visions, which Amy begins to contemplate may be the voice of God.
The film has two principal purposes: to engage with the issue of domestic violence, which often remains undetected even by those closest to the sufferer and the role of Christianity to help people in deeply challenging situations.
The film is one in a series of films, in which Jonathan Kemp investigates ways to make Christian films which avoid didacticism and are relevant to non-religious people, especially young people. For this reason, Kemp draws on the British social realism tradition of directors such as Ken Loach and Andrea Arnold, using a linear narrative in an everyday setting, unknown actors and colloquial language, depicted using mostly handheld camerawork. The coastal landscape, where the couple live, acts as a realistic setting, as well as a metaphor of a border between life and death and sanctity and profanity. The social realism style is deviated from only in terms of the audio treatment, which is designed to be more subjective and a reflection of the internal world of the protagonist, as well as a number of transcendental sequences, which act as visions of the past and hint at possible futures.
Kemp adds elements which mark the film as distinctly Christian, such as the church setting in some scenes, the character of a Christian acquaintance who visits the protagonist, the discussion of prayer and the apparition of Christ, which the main character sees in a moment of crisis
Jonathan Ned Katz Author Event: The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adam
No full text“The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams,” interview with author, Jonathan Ned Katz, moderated by Emily Weiner (WWU) and organized by Congregation Beth Israel
Contemporary Literature. Analysis of Jonathan Bazzi's novels
No full textopenDopo una breve panoramica della letteratura italiana degli ultimi vent’anni si analizzano i due romanzi di Jonathan Bazzi "Febbre" e "Corpi minori" dai punti di vista formale, stilistico e tematico. Si discute inoltre il rapporto tra social media, autofiction e autore; nel capitolo 4 si riporta l'intervista che Bazzi ci ha gentilmente concesso, in cui questi argomenti vengono ripresi.
Si individuano alcune differenze che i testi mostrano rispetto alla letteratura moderna, e gli aspetti che hanno in comune con quella contemporanea; nel fare questo si accennano quindi alcune caratteristiche della società che li ha prodotti.The paper starts off with a brief overview of the contemporary Italian literature; then the reader is guided through an analysis of Jonathan Bazzi's novels, "Febbre" ("Fever") and "Corpi minori" ("Minor bodies"), both translated in English and published by Scribe. The relationship between author, autofiction and social media will also be discussed; in chapter four the reader will find the interview Bazzi kindly granted us
Two Old Boys, Two Music Paths, One Common Artistic Drive
No full text[INTERVIEW PREFACE:] "The artistic skills learned by choristers at the National Boys Choir of Australia are skills they retain for life. Voice-change, or early retirement, doesn’t necessarily mean the end for NBCA choristers. All who depart the community do so with a skillset with which they can champion their lives’ paths. For two NBCA Old Boys, choir life has meant the beginning of pursuing a professional career path in their chosen artistic fields. Christopher Diffey is now an accomplished professional tenor based in Mannheim, Germany who is about to start a new season at the Nationaltheater. Jonathan David Little is an acclaimed composer based in the U.K. and has just released his latest body of work on a CD titled Woefully Arrayed. Here are two Old Boys telling the story from both sides of the artistic ‘fence’, each with rich experience and advice to choristers who are considering turning their art into a career.
Administration and Curricula of the Introductory Graduate Music Research Course
No full textThe introductory research course is an integral part of many graduate music programs, yet there have been few studies that discuss its curricula across institutions. A questionnaire was sent to instructors of the course to identify shared pedagogical approaches among North American schools of music. The survey was divided into sections that prompted respondents to identify issues discussed in the course, including the types and titles of resources, research methodologies, and library use topics. With a response rate of over 40 percent, the survey also contains valuable data concerning the professional identifications of instructors, assignments used for grading, common textbooks, perception of the course’s efficacy, and more. Shared features of the course included the importance of electronic resources; the minimal use of Internet-mediated instruction formats; a strong preference for English-language materials; and a focus on resources such as databases, style guides, collected works, monuments of music, and thematic catalogs over and above others such as repertoire guides, discographies, directories, and iconographies.Peer reviewedThis publication first appeared in Notes Volume 71, Number 3, March 2015, pp. 448-478. This material may not be copied or reposted without explicit permission. Copyright 2015, Jonathan Sauceda
Citizen participation in news
No full textThe process of producing news has changed significantly due to the advent of the Web, which has enabled the increasing involvement of citizens in news production. This trend has been given many names, including participatory journalism, produsage, and crowd-sourced journalism, but these terms are ambiguous and have been applied inconsistently, making comparison of news systems difficult. In particular, it is problematic to distinguish the levels of citizen involvement, and therefore the extent to which news production has genuinely been opened up. In this paper we perform an analysis of 32 online news systems, comparing them in terms of how much power they give to citizens at each stage of the news production process. Our analysis reveals a diverse landscape of news systems and shows that they defy simplistic categorisation, but it also provides the means to compare different approaches in a systematic and meaningful way. We combine this with four case studies of individual stories to explore the ways that news stories can move and evolve across this landscape. Our conclusions are that online news systems are complex and interdependent, and that most do not involve citizens to the extent that the terms used to describe them imply
To what extent is Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift a reflection of the writer with regard to political and religious views, and attitudes toward women and the concept of family?
No full textThis extended essay is an examination of the extent to which the protagonist Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels is a reflection of Jonathan Swift. It involves the exploration of this research question in terms of politics, religion, attitude to women and family; with references to this piece of literature and some secondary resources when necessary. The quotations from published literary criticism are either refuted by examples from the novel or supported in the light of evidence from the novel. Other secondary resources include Swift’s two other prose works, The Modest Proposal and A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage, which are referred to briefly for clarification of the evidence. The purpose of this study is to analyse in what ways and to what extent the protagonist is an author-surrogate in the abovementioned ways.
This essay is comprised of two sections, namely “politics and religion” and “women and family”, each focusing on a particular aspect of the investigation. In the first section, Swift’s political and religious standpoint is discussed extensively in order to correctly evaluate Gulliver’s paradigm. By making connections between the beliefs of the author and those of Gulliver, the relation between the two is established to support the claim of this essay. In the second section, the female figures in the novel and Gulliver’s perception of them are inspected. The plot is also taken into consideration in this part of the inquiry although the central focus is on the persona.
In the conclusion, it is validated that Gulliver is a reflection of Jonathan Swift with regard to political and religious vision, and attitude towards women and family, by juxtaposing and assembling the main elements of personification of Gulliver and Jonathan Swift’s personal ideas and experiences
R v SO [2013] EWCA Crim 1725, Court of Appeal
No full textEssential Cases: Criminal Law provides a bridge between course textbooks and key case judgments. This case document summarizes the facts and decision in R v SO [2013] EWCA Crim 1725, Court of Appeal. The document also included supporting commentary from author Jonathan Herring.</p
Kent Olson
No full textKent Olson oral history interview as conducted by Jonathan Schafler.
Kent Olson worked with the Wetland Acquisition Program and at River Basins as a biologist.
Organization: FWS
Name: Kent Olson
Years:
Program: Refuges
Keywords: History, Biography, Employees (USFWS), Wetlands, Waterfowl, Biologists (USFWS), Interpretation, Islands, Wildlife management, Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, Mark Twain National Wildlife Refuge1
National Heritage Team of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Oral History Program
Subject/USFW Retiree: Olson, Kent
Location: Littleton, Colorado
June 22, 2005
Interviewed by: Jonathan Schafler:
Jonathan Schafler::
Please give me your full name and date of birth, Kent.
Kent Olson:
My name is Kent Norman Olson, and I was born April 3, 1928.
Jonathan Schafler::
What was your place and date of birth, date you gave me?
Kent Olson:
April 3, 1928 in Minneapolis.
Jonathan Schafler::
And your parents?
Kent Olson:
My mother's maiden name was Alderman, Madge Alderman. My dad's was Norman, Norman Olson.
Jonathan Schafler::
What were their jobs and education?
Kent Olson:
Mom was a school teacher and dad worked for the railroad as a foreman.
Jonathan Schafler::
Where did you spend your early years?
Kent Olson:
Well, much of that time was spent in Minneapolis. At the same time, we'd go up to my mother's home town and I would spend the summers there, and we also lived down in Hudson, Wisconsin on the St. Croix River, which is part of the boundary between Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Jonathan Schafler::
And how did you spend those years?
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Kent Olson:
Well, we spent a lot of time outdoors. My grandfather, my mother's father, was quite a hunter and also a fisherman. So, we'd go up to this small town in Minnesota, we spent a lot of time fishing, fishing for walleyes, northern pike, and large-mouth bass on a lake that was really pristine, a beautiful lake down at Hudson, Wisconsin. My life down there from about age 9 to 11, it was very much like a Tom Sawyer existence, say circa 1937.
Jonathan Schafler::
Barefoot in the river?
Kent Olson:
That's about it, yeah. We spent a lot of time on the river and learned an awful lot, playing around the St. Croix and the same with my time up there in central Minnesota; he was a good teacher, and he knew a lot about plants and animals.
Jonathan Schafler::
Did he impart any of that to your father?
Kent Olson:
Some to dad, yes some, but mainly it was directed to me. Dad grew up in St. Paul and never really had much background in hunting or fishing, but over the years he learned and really became a real skilled hunter and fisherman.
Jonathan Schafler::
And he imparted some of that knowledge to you?
Kent Olson:
Yes, that's right, I picked up some.
Jonathan Schafler::
So your grandfather was a big influence on you?
Kent Olson:
Yes, he certainly was. His name was Martin Luther Alderman. He had a grocery store in Gray Eagle, Minnesota, with a population of about 425. I would work in that store, help him out during the summers, and then towards the end of the day, maybe 4 o'clock, something like that, he would turn management of the store over to his wife and we'd go out fishing.
Jonathan Schafler::
That was good! How old were you when he passed?
Kent Olson:
Oh, let's see, I was probably about 20.
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Jonathan Schafler::
Age 20, so you got to know him pretty well?
Kent Olson:
Oh yes, very much so.
Jonathan Schafler::
What kind of jobs did you have as a child?
Kent Olson:
What kind of jobs did I have? Well, I helped grandfather, we would candle eggs; farmers would bring in chickens and eggs, and one of my jobs was to look at each egg to make sure that it was still fresh and that there wasn't a little chick inside. We'd do that, and then on Saturdays we would take all of the eggs that we had bought from farmers, and the chickens, and we'd run them over to Sauk Centre in Minnesota at the Swift Plant. That was one of my major jobs.
Jonathan Schafler::
Swift was a chicken processor?
Kent Olson:
Yes, right, yep.
Jonathan Schafler::
Did you hunt and fish much?
Kent Olson:
When I was a kid I'd tag along on hunting trips, kind of walk along when they were hunting ruffed grouse or pheasants, and then when I got to be about 14 or so, one of my relatives, my Uncle Dean, gave me a 22-gauge so I could participate a little more actively. And we fished all the time; I caught my first fish up there at my grandfather's place in a lake called Birch Lake, a beautiful lake.
Jonathan Schafler::
When was the last time you were back there?
Kent Olson:
Oh, Doris and I went back there about 10 years ago. My last aunt up in that town died, and we went up there shortly before she passed away.
Jonathan Schafler::
What high school did you go to?
Kent Olson:
It was Robbinsdale High in one of the suburbs of Minneapolis. Unfortunately, they bulldozed that high school out the other day. It was built in 1936 by the WPA (Works 4
Progress Administration), and it was really a superb building, really nice. But they kind of overbuilt in that district; they put up two more high schools, when they actually probably only need maybe one and a half, something like that. So yeah, the high school is gone now; all those trophies and the cabinets that were in the main hall of the high school are kaput!
Jonathan Schafler::
And you wonder where the trophies went.
Kent Olson:
You kind of wonder, you kind of wonder.
Jonathan Schafler::
How about the house you were born in, is it still standing?
Kent Olson:
Yeah, it's on Glendale Avenue in north Minneapolis.
Jonathan Schafler::
A little spendier than when your folks bought it back then.
Kent Olson:
Yeah, it's got some years on it now, and the whole neighborhood has changed totally. For the most part now it's a minority neighborhood, totally different than it was when I was a kid.
Jonathan Schafler::
When did you graduate?
Kent Olson:
I graduated from high school in that final year of 1946, and I graduated from college in 1951 with a degree in pharmacy.
Jonathan Schafler::
From where?
Kent Olson:
University of Minnesota.
Jonathan Schafler::
What aspect of your formal education equipped you for the future?
Kent Olson:
Oh, I think a lot of the science courses that I took, both in pharmacy and later on in wildlife management helped give me some skills that I could use. But I think a lot of that 5
just depends on your early childhood, things that you learned as a kid. I think they're real important in causing one to develop these skills or expand on them as you grow older.
Jonathan Schafler::
Who most influenced your education and career track?
Kent Olson:
Well, I can't think of anybody in particular. But I remember one day I was working in a drugstore in Robbinsdale as a pharmacist, and I happened to see this teacher that came in to buy something in the store, and I recognized her as my 8th grade art teacher and she remembered me, and she said, "Oh, you've gone into pharmacy?" And I said, "Yes." She said, "You never did anything with your art talents?" And I nodded. Well, that bothered me because I knew I had some skills, and I never really had developed them any.
Jonathan Schafler::
Give me your first recollection of drawing.
Kent Olson:
Oh heck, as a little kid, I could draw way before the time that I could read. I remember in kindergarten, our teacher one time said that several of my drawings that I had done in that class were being put up in the Minneapolis public library, which was a real nice, you know, thing to do.
Jonathan Schafler::
Was your first medium pencil or was it chalk?
Kent Olson:
Oh yes, it was pencil; I've been with pencil most of my life, I've done a lot in pencil. Later on I did pen and ink and brush and ink. But I'd always lay out my drawings; I'd rough them out first in pencil and follow it up with a finished drawing in ink.
Jonathan Schafler::
Did you ever do anything in oil?
Kent Olson:
A little bit. Down in Quincy, Illinois, when I worked on the Mark Twain Refuge, I belonged to an oil painting class down there. But then I transferred up to South Dakota, and that was kind of the end of my oil painting career.
Jonathan Schafler::
In college did you have any mentors or folks that stuck with you?
Kent Olson:
No, I really can't think of any.
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Jonathan Schafler::
Were there any adverse influences?
Kent Olson:
As far as art goes or such?
Jonathan Schafler::
Your college career and your early years?
Kent Olson:
Okay, I think one thing would be that I was a little concerned about going into art full-time, I thought I might starve today, and that's mainly why I, at least initially, went into pharmacy, because jobs were there, and they paid pretty well. But later on, my path in life took me back to artwork.
Jonathan Schafler::
Any military service?
Kent Olson:
Yes, I joined the National Guard in 1948 in Minneapolis. Harry Truman, God bless his soul, called us up in 1950, and I was in the Army then from 1951 to 1952, those two years. Most of my friends went to Korea, but I had just gotten a degree in pharmacy and they put me in a hospital at Fort Custer, Michigan, and I spent most of my time there filling prescriptions; had a real good deal.
Jonathan Schafler::
So that pharmacy worked out all right for you!
Kent Olson:
No complaints at all!
Jonathan Schafler::
Doris, since you're here I'm going to ask the same career questions of an employee spouse with the following other options: How long have you two been married?
Kent Olson:
It's been about 17 years.
Doris Olson:
Yeah, it's been about 17 years. I can never remember; I always ask him how long we've been married!
Kent Olson:
Actually, we've known each other for about 20 years.
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Jonathan Schafler::
And where were you born, Doris?
Doris:
I was born in Baird, Nebraska, which is in the panhandle of Nebraska, near Scottsbluff. It's a little farm area.
Jonathan Schafler::
And who were your parents?
Doris:
My mother was Ruth Tilden, her maiden name. And my dad is Elmer Hood.
Jonathan Schafler::
Elmer? There's a town in New Jersey named Elmer that I drive through all the time. There are not too many Elmers out there. And where did you spend your early years?
Doris:
Right there on the farm.
Jonathan Schafler::
And hobbies and things like that?
Doris:
I really didn't have any hobbies. We worked. We had a lot of work to do.
Jonathan Schafler::
Was that a dairy farm?
Doris:
No, it was an irrigated farm; beats, corn, potatoes.
Jonathan Schafler::
So most of your jobs were farm jobs?
Doris:
Yes, they were.
Jonathan Schafler::
Where did you go to high school?
Doris:
I went to high school in Baird, about 7 miles away. My brother drove the first two years of high school, and then he graduated and I got to drive the car and drive into town.
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Jonathan Schafler:
And what car was it?
Doris:
I think it was an Oldsmobile, a real old Oldsmobile.
Jonathan Schafler:
You don't remember the year, huh?
Doris:
I can't remember the year, but it was an old one.
Jonathan Schafler:
Did you attend university?
Doris:
No, I did not.
Jonathan Schafler:
Okay. Was there anything significant about your education that you remember, your high school years?
Doris:
No, nothing particular about high school; I really didn't like school. I graduated and then I just married and started a family, and then I went back to school when I was about 40 years old, a junior college here in Denver.
Jonathan Schafler:
And got a degree?
Doris:
Medical records accreditation, a two-year program that took me three years to complete it, but...
Jonathan Schafler:
I was in that same program for college, it took me five years! And then you went to work here in the Denver area?
Doris:
Yes, I did; I worked for the Mental Health Center.
Jonathan Schafler:
And that's where you met Kent?
Doris:
Yes, right. He was one of our patients! 9
Jonathan Schafler:
I had to throw that one in there! How did you two meet?
Kent Olson:
Well, our church had a trip to Europe, and we met on that trip. And I might just as well get a plug in; that's Riverside Baptist Church. As I recall, we really met for the first time in Munich at that restaurant there.
Jonathan Schafler:
What was the name of the restaurant?
Kent Olson:
You know, I don't recall off hand.
Jonathan Schafler:
Your mind was on other things!
Kent Olson:
I guess so, yep.
Doris:
(unclear)
Kent Olson:
Yeah, they had a passion play and we took that in too, Oberammergau, in Germany. If you can say that name, you can just about say any name! Had a good trip, enjoyed traveling and, certainly, I feel really blessed that I met Doris at that time.
Doris:
My dad was with me on the same trip, so we were traveling companions. He and Kent were talking a lot, and I thought that was really quite interesting that....
Jonathan Schafler:
You used her dad to get to her!
Doris:
He took such an interest in my dad! But the thing that really impressed me was when we were getting on and off the trains and on and off the airplanes, that Kent was always helping the older ladies, the single ladies, and I thought, "Wow, that would really be nice to know someone like that." That was my first impression. You didn't know that did you?
Kent Olson:
No, I didn't know that.
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Doris:
You learned something!
Jonathan Schafler:
Well, I'm glad these interviews serve some purpose to the folks who are doing the interviews, which is very...
Kent Olson:
Yes.
Jonathan Schafler:
Kent was still working for the Fish and Wildlife Service when you met?
Doris:
Yes, yes he was.
Jonathan Schafler:
What's been your impression of his career?
Doris:
You know, I think Kent only worked about 2 or 3 years, something like that.
Kent Olson:
That's about right, yeah.
Doris:
And then he retired. So I really wasn't involved in any of his earlier years.
Kent Olson:
She probably figured I had one of these cushy government jobs, you know!
Doris:
You didn't have! I still think you did!
Jonathan Schafler:
We won't go there!
Doris:
And then five years after he retired, then I retired.
Jonathan Schafler:
And when did you marry?
Kent Olson:
That would be 1988.
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Jonathan Schafler:
And where?
Kent Olson:
In town, well actually, Colorado Springs.
Jonathan Schafler:
And you have how many children?
Doris:
I have three; one is deceased and two living children, a son and a daughter, both living here in Littleton in the area.
Jonathan Schafler:
Oh, living in the area. You're never moving! Going back to Kent, why did you want to work for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?
Kent Olson:
Oh, I certainly enjoyed the outdoors, and I thought, in addition to say, doing some biological work for the service, I could probably get into public education and do some things with my skills in art. I had some friends that worked for the service, Jim Gillett would be one, and several others, and they certainly enjoyed the work they were doing, and I thought I could follow a similar path.
Jonathan Schafler:
Jim Gillett is big in the retiree's group.
Kent Olson:
Oh he is?
Jonathan Schafler:
Yes, he'd doing good things. What was your first professional position; state, federal or other?
Kent Olson:
Well, I worked for the State of Minnesota in their Fish and Game Department a couple of summers out of Winona, Minnesota and the Prairie Pothole Country. Then from there, I joined the Fish and Wildlife Service, and my first job there was down at Crab Orchard Refuge in southern Illinois.
Jonathan Schafler:
What did you do for Minnesota for your summer job?
Kent Olson:
A crew leader of a duck banding crew, we banded ducks all summer.
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Jonathan Schafler:
What did you do at Crab Orchard?
Kent Olson:
I was a trainee.
Jonathan Schafler:
A refuge manager trainee?
Kent Olson:
Yes, they had me doing everything; counting trees, counting geese, counting ducks. It was a good job, very interesting, and I certainly enjoyed it down there.
Jonathan Schafler:
Having worked at Crab Orchard myself, I know that it is a very interesting refuge, with a bomb making facility, and now a superfund clean-up site. It has its own railroad, its own fire departments, its own police department, and kind of an urban refuge surrounded by a lot of different people. It's quite the different place to work. Any impressions on that?
Kent Olson:
Well, I guess my thought at Crab Orchard was management was pretty much from the northern states, whereas the work crew was from the local area. I always thought there was a little friction between those two groups. But, overall, I think we did a good job down there.
Jonathan Schafler:
It was a wonderful refuge. So anyway, what was the pay and benefits?
Kent Olson:
Well, I think I started out at about $3800.00 a year. Initially, we didn't have any health benefits. They came, I think, in the early '60s, and I started at Crab Orchard in 1958. I think one the things I really learned at Crab Orchard, I really picked up a lot of information on trees. Crab Orchard is kind of in a transition zone, from the trees of the south to those of the north, so I picked up a lot of information on tree species.
Jonathan Schafler:
Was there a science of the day there? I mean it's different than now. Is that where you learned a lot of the day-to-day activities of working for refuges?
Kent Olson:
I think so, yeah. I kind of watched the refuge manager and our project leader just to see how they were handling their jobs, and how they got along with personnel and things like that. That is probably the most important, I think, on any job. Accumulation and knowledge is important, but either success or failure depends on your ability to get along with other people. I think that's where I picked up some good information.
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Jonathan Schafler:
Any mentors there at Crab Orchard that maybe took you under their wing?
Kent Olson:
I had a guy by the name of Al {Menke}. Al was a fighter pilot in the Second World War, he flew B-51s. He gave me a lot of help, he really did.
Jonathan Schafler:
Was he there when you left?
Kent Olson:
No, he had transferred out about a year before I left.
Jonathan Schafler:
No contact with him?
Kent Olson:
No, but there's an interesting episode with Al. He went up on his first combat mission over Germany on a B-51, and he was shot down by a Messerchmitt 109, and he said after the pilot could see that Al's plane was spiraling to the ground, this Messerchmitt pulled up alongside of him and waved at him. He said when he came down, he parachuted to earth, he said German civilians almost killed him, and if it hadn't been for the Army, the German Army, he would have been killed. The German Army rescued him and saved his live.
Jonathan Schafler:
And took him prisoner?
Kent Olson:
Yeah, took him prisoner then, yeah.
Jonathan Schafler:
Wow! Where did you go from Crab Orchard?
Kent Olson:
I went up to Mark Twain Refuge, and that was another really good job, I really enjoyed it up there. We worked out of Quincy, Illinois. There is a series of islands that are near the Quincy area, including the Gardner Island, and we managed wildlife there, mostly ducks and geese.
Jonathan Schafler:
What was your job series and grade?
Kent Olson:
It was about the same; I had gotten an increase in grade, I had gone from a 5 to a 7, and I had a real good boss down there, Arch Meerhoff, a very knowledgeable fellow. We had 14
some fine times there on the refuge. I used to take a young boy out with me quite frequently, his name was John Meyers, and John was terribly enthusiastic, and he also was quite a talker, he hardly ever slowed down in his talk! I remember one time I took John out, it was late in the day and we were going to band wood ducks. So we crossed that half mile river out to the island, and I told John, "You stay right here near the office." We had an office and maintenance shed on the island. And I said, "You sit right here, right on the edge of the woods and look out across that meadow, and you'll see just hundreds of wood duck coming in to roost." He said "Oh, yes, yes, I'll do it, I'll do it." So, just as dusk was coming on I left John; I had to go about a mile or two upstream to check on a wood duck trap. I did that and came back, and as I approached the shore, I was about ready to pull the boat up, I heard this voice of John saying, "K-k-k--Kent, is that you?" John had been sitting there, he had been watching the wood ducks and this big buck deer had come up behind him silently, and he hadn't seen it come up, and the deer, once he sensed John, snorted and wheeled around. John said he could feel the hair on the back of his neck and his head goes straight up!
Jonathan Schafler:
He was scared to death when you got there?
Kent Olson:
Yep.
Jonathan Schafler:
Any contact with him after you had left there?
Kent Olson:
We did for awhile, and I've got a plaque downstairs with my name on it that he made for me. We corresponded for a couple years, and then it just kind of dropped away. He moved to Chicago, his folks moved to Chicago.
Jonathan Schafler:
He didn't stay in the service?
Kent Olson:
No, he didn't. He was just probably 13 or 14 when I took him out. Whatever he did with his life, I have no idea. He may have gotten into fish and wildlife work.
Jonathan Schafler:
Now your job at Mark Twain was assistant refuge manager?
Kent Olson:
Yes, that's what it was.
Jonathan Schafler:
Where did you go from there?
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Kent Olson:
I transferred up to Miller, South Dakota and the Wetland Acquisition Program, and it was my job to pick out those wetlands that I felt were suitable for eventual purchase by the government through the Small Wetlands Pr
GSU Sponsors Noted Activist, Author Jonathan Kozol
No full textActivist, educator, and author, Jonathan Kozol, has never been one to mince words or soften his stance. He has spent his life denouncing inequities in education and working tirelessly to elicit conversation and excite change.
On June 23, at 7 p.m., Governors State University’s Metropolitan Institute for Leadership in Education (MILE) will sponsor an appearance by Kozol to discuss the problems and possibilities of public school education
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