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Instructions for an Incubation
EYE-DEE-QUE (Something Like an Asclepeion)
Matt Wardell
Feb 12-13, 2016 10pm-11am
Incubation is the practice of sleeping in a sacred area with the intention of experiencing a divinely inspired dream or cure. As the exhibition is loosely based on an ancient Greek temple of healing, we too will seek the inspired dream or cure. To encourage dreaming, the following is recommended:
Before arriving:
Avoid caffeine, sleeping pills, alcohol, and marijuana. (At least the hours just prior to sleep)
Relax- stretch, take a bath or a shower, be mindful, have intention. What ails you? What is the dream? What is the cure?
Bring something to record your dreams. Keep it by your side so when you wake up you can take notes as soon as possible. Just thinking about remembering your dreams will help you to remember them. Be prepared to draw and/or write the dream.
Bring something to be comfortable while sleeping. Bed roll, sleeping bag, air mattress, favorite blanket, Snuggie?
When thinking about dinner options, consider something with cheese, chicken, or salmon.
Avoid a heavy meal.
Consider breakfast. Perhaps bring an item to share?
Gabie Strong (and friends) 10pm-midnight
Music for Healing or What You Need # 2
Gabie Strong, Christopher Reid Martin, Ted Byrnes
February 12, 10pm-midnight
Baik Art
Please join us Friday, February 12 for an evening with Gabie Strong, Christopher Reid Martin, and Ted Byrnes. Themes of catharsis and cleansing will lead into a sonic space to prepare us to dream and, ideally, to heal. Between 10pm-midnight, Gabie Strong, Christopher Reid Martin, and Ted Byrnes will activate the space of Baik Art. For an optimal experience, be prepared to lie down.
An intrepid group will spend the night following the performance in the ancient Greek tradition of ‘incubation’. Your dreams will be interpreted the following morning by a professional. Please email Matt Wardell at shonufwardell@hotmail.com to reserve your spot. BYOB (Bring Your Own Bedding). Details of the overnight stay will follow. Space is very limited!!
Gabie Strong is a California artist and musician exploring spatial constructions of degeneration, drone and decay as a means to improvise new arrangements of self-reflexive meaning. Strong uses sound performance, radio broadcasting, environmental installation, photography and video as mediums for experimentation.
Her work has been presented on Kchung TV at the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2014 biennial exhibition, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, Knowledges at Mount Wilson Observatory, Pitzer Art Galleries, University Art Gallery UC Irvine, and LAXArt amongst others.
Strong has performed at MOCA, the wulf, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Human Resources, SASSAS, LACE, High Desert Test Sites, LACMA, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Jabberjaw, and with her all-female free-psych band Lady Noise for Dawn Kasper’s performances at the 2012 Whitney Biennial.
Strong’s work is an exploration of the affect of decay that is experienced from living in the spatial disorganization of the twenty-first century. This disorganization is the result of living in multiple non-places at once—both physical and virtual— where borders are both confining and permeable. I often collaborate with other artists, musicians and poets to create work that embodies the difference of lived experience.
Christopher Reid Martin is a multidisciplinary artist, currently residing in Los Angeles. He first began working with sound in Orange County in 2004, layering sounds from various field recordings of daily life which convey living truths and over processed instrumentation as the reactionary expression. These expressions came to birth the solo project known as of Shelter Death, as it has evolved into a project in which performance and sound interplay to make for a personal reactionary experience in a perpetually decaying world.
In 2010, Christopher had taken his creative endeavors into other avenues, releasing tracks under various formats under his shared Orange County based label Via Injection. Christopher's creative repertoire expanded when he began documenting his experience in countries outside the US, by taking field recordings, foreign radio recordings, and/or taking photographs. Photographs were either left unadulterated as they were taken or digitally manipulating and layered these with old scanned various schematics. This has lead to an ongoing body of work, which fuses reality in the form of photography, with corroded ideas in the form of chopped manipulated grids and manuals. Christopher has and continues to show work in a number of art shows and has performed live in a number of events in projects such as Bailouts, Via Injection, Shelter Death, and under his own name.
christopher-reid-martin.format.com/
Ted Byrnes is a drummer/percussionist living in Los Angeles. An alumnus of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, he comes from a jazz background and has since made his home in the worlds of free improvisation, new music, electro-acoustic music, and noise.
Ted primarily works in ad hoc improvisational settings, but has standing improvisational groups including: a group with Ulrich Krieger, a duo with Jeff Parker, a duo with Chris Cooper (AQH), a duo with Nicholas Deyoe, a duo with John Wiese, a duo with Scott Cazan, a trio with Jacob Wick and Owen Stewart-Robertson, among others. Additionally, Ted has played in duo/trio/or ensemble settings with: Mazen Kerbaj, David Watson, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Charlemagne Palestine, Alfred 23 Harth, Tim Perkis, Jaap Blonk, Torsten Muller, Kim Myhr, Jim Denley, Lloyd Honeybrook, Chris Schlarb, Mike Watt, Paul Masvidal, the LAFMS (including Smegma, Airway, Ace Farren Ford’s Artificial Art Ensemble, Rick and Joe Potts, Fredrik Nilsen, Tom Recchion, Vetza, etc), Sissy Spacek (the band), Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and more.
Ted has also collaborated with / worked for a variety of visual artists: he has accompanied a Doug Aitken “happening”, collaborated with Olivia Booth to play her glass artworks, collaborated with Dani Tull on a sound performance, performed with John Knuth and Bret Nicely at an installation in an empty pool, and has performed for FLUXUS artist Jeff Perkins on multiple occasions for his projector/light installations.
Currently, Ted is delving further into the possibilities and realities of solo drumset performance in addition to continuing to work with his existing projects.
An offering will be made of cheesecake and figs. Lights will be extinguished.
Daniel Pontius 9am-11am
Daniel Pontius will provide individual consultations of your dreams.
Designer and co-owner of SIMEONA LEONA, Daniel Pontius’ approach to intuitive dream analysis looks at the archetypal language of the collective unconscious filtered through the dreamer’s personal symbology. You are the oracle. This approach assists the dreamer to develop their own narrative in what may feel like an esoteric dream-world. It empowers the dreamer to become their own oracle—to find their own guidance and council to questions and concerns.
Daniel Pontius’ first job out of graduate school (MA Interior Design, 2003. WSU Interdisciplinary Design Institute) was making curtains for a 17th century Wiltshire, England manor house, updated in 1908 by Detmar Blow. Arriving in Manhattan after London, he sourced and designed custom fabrics and furniture for Clodagh Design International Interiors, followed by a key position in the Interiors Department of Deborah Berke and Partners Architects.
In 2008, his love of textiles and design brought him to Los Angeles where he began working on interiors as well as crafting custom pillows and hand-embellished textiles from vintage and antique materials for Pat McGann Gallery, Blackman Cruz and Hallworth Design. In 2014, Daniel Pontius and Cirilo Domine opened SIMEONA LEONA, an imaginatively curated design gallery located in Los Angeles’ emerging Koreatown neighborhood. The gallery spotlights the singular and the beautiful; focusing on simplicity and proportion.
Please be aware that the gallery will open to the public starting at 11am.
Please be prepared to bring an offering (suggested $5-20 donation) to compensate our artists.
And, be aware that a liability waiver must be signed to participate in the overnight event.
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EYE-DEE-QUE (Something Like an Asclepeion)
Matt Wardell
January 9 - February 13, 2016
Baik Art presents EYE-DEE-QUE (Something Like an Asclepeion), a solo installation and series of events by Los Angeles artist Matt Wardell.
For the exhibition, Wardell will present an immersive environment of images and objects by channeling ‘something like’ an ancient Greek temple of healing. Using Baik Art’s unique architecture, viewers experience a literal (and perhaps figurative) katabasis (‘to go down’ as in a descent of some type), but more importantly, and ideally, a catharsis (‘cleansing’ or ‘purification’).
Numerous objects, found and constructed, engage with the verticality of Baik Art’s shaft-like space, surrounded by an installation of wall works including drawings, collages, and repurposed images. Several fabric sculptures fill the gallery functioning as apotropaic totems. These Guardian Figures suggest a ‘presence’, ideally something beyond the object.
Daytime and evening events will further activate the gallery a space for healing. Practitioners from a variety of fields will be on hand for consultation. Music for Healing or What You Need will present a sonic cleansing. Incubation and Dream Analysis will be an overnight event of guided sleep followed by dream analysis with a professional. Utilizing the healing properties of dog saliva, An Event for Wound Licking will be a participatory event pairing wounds with dogs. For the date and time of each event, please contact the artist at shonufwardell@hotmail.com.
In ancient Greece and Rome, an asclepeion was a healing temple, sacred to Asclepius, the Greek God of Medicine. These temples were places in which patients would visit to receive either treatment or some sort of healing, whether it was spiritual or physical. Epidaurus was the first place to worship Asclepius as a god, beginning sometime in the 5th century BCE.
Starting around 350 BCE, the cult of Asclepius became increasingly popular. Pilgrims flocked to asclepieia to be healed. They slept overnight (“incubation”) and reported their dreams to a priest the following day. He prescribed a cure, often a visit to the baths or a gymnasium. Since snakes were sacred to Asclepius, they were often used in healing rituals. Non-venomous snakes were left to crawl on the floor in dormitories where the sick and injured slept.
Matt Wardell seeks to prolong a sense of wonder while placing the viewer in a lingering position of active assessment. He is interested in how we choose to live and in introducing work that facilitates these investigations. Wardell enjoys walking on fences, answering wrong numbers, and giving directions to places he does not know. Uncomfortable laughter, confusion, and irritation tend to be the byproducts of Wardell’s works.
Wardell has exhibited his work at venues throughout the United States and Mexico, including the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco (SFMOMA), Claremont Museum of Art in Claremont, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), REDCAT, PØST, Human Resources, Black Dragon Society, Mark Moore Gallery, and Commonwealth and Council, all in Los Angeles. Wardell is a founding member of the artist collective 10lb Ape.
Baik Art
2600 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90034
310.842.3892
Kent State University May 4 Memorial, Kent, Portage County, Ohio
THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: THE SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY
BY JERRY M. LEWIS and THOMAS R. HENSLEY
On May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd of Kent State University demonstrators, killing four and wounding nine Kent State students. The impact of the shootings was dramatic. The event triggered a nationwide student strike that forced hundreds of colleges and universities to close. H. R. Haldeman, a top aide to President Richard Nixon, suggests the shootings had a direct impact on national politics. In The Ends of Power, Haldeman (1978) states that the shootings at Kent State began the slide into Watergate, eventually destroying the Nixon administration. Beyond the direct effects of the May 4, the shootings have certainly come to symbolize the deep political and social divisions that so sharply divided the country during the Vietnam War era.
In the nearly three decades since May 4, l970, a voluminous literature has developed analyzing the events of May 4 and their aftermath. Some books were published quickly, providing a fresh but frequently superficial or inaccurate analysis of the shootings (e.g., Eszterhas and Roberts, 1970; Warren, 1970; Casale and Paskoff, 1971; Michener, 1971; Stone, 1971; Taylor et al., 1971; and Tompkins and Anderson, 1971). Numerous additional books have been published in subsequent years (e.g., Davies, 1973; Hare, 1973; Hensley and Lewis, 1978; Kelner and Munves, 1980; Hensley, 1981; Payne, 1981; Bills, 1988; and Gordon, 1997). These books have the advantage of a broader historical perspective than the earlier books, but no single book can be considered the definitive account of the events and aftermath of May 4, l970, at Kent State University.(1)
Despite the substantial literature which exists on the Kent State shootings, misinformation and misunderstanding continue to surround the events of May 4. For example, a prominent college-level United States history book by Mary Beth Norton et al. (1994), which is also used in high school advanced placement courses.(2) contains a picture of the shootings of May 4 accompanied by the following summary of events: "In May 1970, at Kent State University in Ohio, National Guardsmen confronted student antiwar protestors with a tear gas barrage. Soon afterward, with no provocation, soldiers opened fire into a group of fleeing students. Four young people were killed, shot in the back, including two women who had been walking to class." (Norton et al., 1994, p. 732) Unfortunately, this short description contains four factual errors: (1) some degree of provocation did exist; (2) the students were not fleeing when the Guard initially opened fire; (3) only one of the four students who died, William Schroeder, was shot in the back; and (4) one female student, Sandy Schreuer, had been walking to class, but the other female, Allison Krause, had been part of the demonstration.
This article is an attempt to deal with the historical inaccuracies that surround the May 4 shootings at Kent State University by providing high school social studies teachers with a resource to which they can turn if they wish to teach about the subject or to involve students in research on the issue. Our approach is to raise and provide answers to twelve of the most frequently asked questions about May 4 at Kent State. We will also offer a list of the most important questions involving the shootings which have not yet been answered satisfactorily. Finally, we will conclude with a brief annotated bibliography for those wishing to explore the subject further.
WHY WAS THE OHIO NATIONAL GUARD CALLED TO KENT?
The decision to bring the Ohio National Guard onto the Kent State University campus was directly related to decisions regarding American involvement in the Vietnam War. Richard Nixon was elected president of the United States in 1968 based in part on his promise to bring an end to the war in Vietnam. During the first year of Nixon's presidency, America's involvement in the war appeared to be winding down. In late April of 1970, however, the United States invaded Cambodia and widened the Vietnam War. This decision was announced on national television and radio on April 30, l970, by President Nixon, who stated that the invasion of Cambodia was designed to attack the headquarters of the Viet Cong, which had been using Cambodian territory as a sanctuary.
Protests occurred the next day, Friday, May 1, across United States college campuses where anti-war sentiment ran high. At Kent State University, an anti-war rally was held at noon on the Commons, a large, grassy area in the middle of campus which had traditionally been the site for various types of rallies and demonstrations. Fiery speeches against the war and the Nixon administration were given, a copy of the Constitution was buried to symbolize the murder of the Constitution because Congress had never declared war, and another rally was called for noon on Monday, May 4.
Friday evening in downtown Kent began peacefully with the usual socializing in the bars, but events quickly escalated into a violent confrontation between protestors and local police. The exact causes of the disturbance are still the subject of debate, but bonfires were built in the streets of downtown Kent, cars were stopped, police cars were hit with bottles, and some store windows were broken. The entire Kent police force was called to duty as well as officers from the county and surrounding communities. Kent Mayor Leroy Satrom declared a state of emergency, called Governor James Rhodes' office to seek assistance, and ordered all of the bars closed. The decision to close the bars early increased the size of the angry crowd. Police eventually succeeded in using tear gas to disperse the crowd from downtown, forcing them to move several blocks back to the campus.
The next day, Saturday, May 2, Mayor Satrom met with other city officials and a representative of the Ohio National Guard who had been dispatched to Kent. Mayor Satrom then made the decision to ask Governor Rhodes to send the Ohio National Guard to Kent. The mayor feared further disturbances in Kent based upon the events of the previous evening, but more disturbing to the mayor were threats that had been made to downtown businesses and city officials as well as rumors that radical revolutionaries were in Kent to destroy the city and the university. Satrom was fearful that local forces would be inadequate to meet the potential disturbances, and thus about 5 p.m. he called the Governor's office to make an official request for assistance from the Ohio National Guard.
WHAT HAPPENED ON THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS ON SATURDAY MAY 2 AND SUNDAY MAY 3 AFTER THE GUARDS ARRIVED ON CAMPUS?
Members of the Ohio National Guard were already on duty in Northeast Ohio, and thus they were able to be mobilized quickly to move to Kent. As the Guard arrived in Kent at about 10 p.m., they encountered a tumultuous scene. The wooden ROTC building adjacent to the Commons was ablaze and would eventually burn to the ground that evening, with well over 1,000 demonstrators surrounding the building. Controversy continues to exist regarding who was responsible for setting fire to the ROTC building, but radical protestors were assumed to be responsible because of their actions in interfering with the efforts of firemen to extinguish the fire as well as cheering the burning of the building. Confrontations between Guardsmen and demonstrators continued into the night, with tear gas filling the campus and numerous arrests being made.
Sunday, May 3 was a day filled with contrasts. Nearly 1,000 Ohio National Guardsmen occupied the campus, making it appear like a military war zone. The day was warm and sunny, however, and students frequently talked amicably with Guardsmen. Ohio Governor James Rhodes flew to Kent on Sunday morning, and his mood was anything but calm. At a press conference, he issued a provocative statement calling campus protestors the worst type of people in America and stating that every force of law would be used to deal with them. Rhodes also indicated that he would seek a court order declaring a state of emergency. This was never done, but the widespread assumption among both Guard and University officials was that a state of martial law was being declared in which control of the campus resided with the Guard rather than University leaders and all rallies were banned. Further confrontations between protesters and guardsmen occurred Sunday evening, and once again rocks, tear gas, and arrests characterized a tense campus.
WHAT TYPE OF RALLY WAS HELD AT NOON ON MAY 4?
At the conclusion of the anti-war rally on Friday, May 1, student protest leaders had called for another rally to be held on the Commons at noon on Monday, May 4. Although University officials had attempted on the morning of May 4 to inform the campus that the rally was prohibited, a crowd began to gather beginning as early as 11 a.m. By noon, the entire Commons area contained approximately 3,000 people. Although estimates are inexact, probably about 500 core demonstrators were gathered around the Victory Bell at one end of the Commons, another 1,000 people were "cheerleaders" supporting the active demonstrators, and an additional 1,500 people were spectators standing around the perimeter of the Commons. Across the Commons at the burned-out ROTC building stood about 100 Ohio National Guardsmen carrying lethal M-1 military rifles.
Substantial consensus exists that the active participants in the rally were primarily protesting the presence of the Guard on campus, although a strong anti-war sentiment was also present. Little evidence exists as to who were the leaders of the rally and what activities were planned, but initially the rally was peaceful.
WHO MADE THE DECISION TO BAN THE RALLY OF MAY 4?
Conflicting evidence exists regarding who was responsible for the decision to ban the noon rally of May 4. At the 1975 federal civil trial, General Robert Canterbury, the highest official of the Guard, testified that widespread consensus existed that the rally should be prohibited because of the tensions that existed and the possibility that violence would again occur. Canterbury further testified that Kent State President Robert White had explicitly told Canterbury that any demonstration would be highly dangerous. In contrast, White testified that he could recall no conversation with Canterbury regarding banning the rally.
The decision to ban the rally can most accurately be traced to Governor Rhodes' statements on Sunday, May 3 when he stated that he would be seeking a state of emergency declaration from the courts. Although he never did this, all officials -- Guard, University, Kent -- assumed that the Guard was now in charge of the campus and that all rallies were illegal. Thus, University leaders printed and distributed on Monday morning 12,000 leaflets indicating that all rallies, including the May 4 rally scheduled for noon, were prohibited as long as the Guard was in control of the campus.
WHAT EVENTS LED DIRECTLY TO THE SHOOTINGS?
Shortly before noon, General Canterbury made the decision to order the demonstrators to disperse. A Kent State police officer standing by the Guard made an announcement using a bullhorn. When this had no effect, the officer was placed in a jeep along with several Guardsmen and driven across the Commons to tell the protestors that the rally was banned and that they must disperse. This was met with angry shouting and rocks, and the jeep retreated. Canterbury then ordered his men to load and lock their weapons, tear gas canisters were fired into the crowd around the Victory Bell, and the Guard began to march across the Commons to disperse the rally. The protestors moved up a steep hill, known as Blanket Hill, and then down the other side of the hill onto the Prentice Hall parking lot as well as an adjoining practice football field. Most of the Guardsmen followed the students directly and soon found themselves somewhat trapped on the practice football field because it was surrounded by a fence. Yelling and rock throwing reached a peak as the Guard remained on the field for about 10 minutes. Several Guardsmen could be seen huddling together, and some Guardsmen knelt and pointed their guns, but no weapons were shot at this time. The Guard then began retracing their steps from the practice football field back up Blanket Hill. As they arrived at the top of the hill, 28 of the more than 70 Guardsmen turned suddenly and fired their rifles and pistols. Many guardsmen fired into the air or the ground. However, a small portion fired directly into the crowd. Altogether between 61 and 67 shots were fired in a 13-second period.
HOW MANY DEATHS AND INJURIES OCCURRED?
Four Kent State students died as a result of the firing by the Guard. The closest student was Jeffrey Miller, who was shot in the mouth while standing in an access road leading into the Prentice Hall parking lot, a distance of approximately 270 feet from the Guard. Allison Krause was in the Prentice Hall parking lot; she was 330 feet from the Guardsmen and was shot in the left side of her body. William Schroeder was 390 feet from the Guard in the Prentice Hall parking lot when he was shot in the left side of his back. Sandra Scheuer was also about 390 feet from the Guard in the Prentice Hall parking lot when a bullet pierced the left front side of her neck.
Nine Kent State students were wounded in the 13-second fusillade. Most of the students were in the Prentice Hall parking lot, but a few were on the Blanket Hill area. Joseph Lewis was the student closest to the Guard at a distance of about 60 feet; he was standing still with Four men sit staring at a candle-lit stage, on which there are portraits of the four Kent State students who died as a result of the firing by the Guard.his middle finger extended when bullets struck him in the right abdomen and left lower leg. Thomas Grace was also approximately 60 feet from the Guardsmen and was wounded in the left ankle. John Cleary was over 100 feet from the Guardsmen when he was hit in the upper left chest. Alan Canfora was 225 feet from the Guard and was struck in the right wrist. Dean Kahler was the most seriously wounded of the nine students. He was struck in the small of his back from approximately 300 feet and was permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Douglas Wrentmore was wounded in the right knee from a distance of 330 feet. James Russell was struck in the right thigh and right forehead at a distance of 375 feet. Robert Stamps was almost 500 feet from the line of fire when he was wounded in the right buttock. Donald Mackenzie was the student the farthest from the Guardsmen at a distance of almost 750 feet when he was hit in the neck.
WHY DID THE GUARDSMEN FIRE?
The most important question associated with the events of May 4 is why did members of the Guard fire into a crowd of unarmed students? Two quite different answers have been advanced to this question: (1) the Guardsmen fired in self-defense, and the shootings were therefore justified and (2) the Guardsmen were not in immediate danger, and therefore the shootings were unjustified.
The answer offered by the Guardsmen is that they fired because they were in fear of their lives. Guardsmen testified before numerous investigating commissions as well as in federal court that they felt the demonstrators were advancing on them in such a way as to pose a serious and immediate threat to the safety of the Guardsmen, and they therefore had to fire in self-defense. Some authors (e.g., Michener, 1971 and Grant and Hill, 1974) agree with this assessment. Much more importantly, federal criminal and civil trials have accepted the position of the Guardsmen. In a 1974 federal criminal trial, District Judge Frank Battisti dismissed the case against eight Guardsmen indicted by a federal grand jury, ruling at mid-trial that the government's case against the Guardsmen was so weak that the defense did not have to present its case. In the much longer and more complex federal civil trial of 1975, a jury voted 9-3 that none of the Guardsmen were legally responsible for the shootings. This decision was appealed, however, and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a new trial had to be held because of the improper handling of a threat to a jury member.
The legal aftermath of the May 4 shootings ended in January of 1979 with an out-of-court settlement involving a statement signed by 28 defendants(3) as well as a monetary settlement, and the Guardsmen and their supporters view this as a final vindication of their position. The financial settlement provided $675,000 to the wounded students and the parents of the students who had been killed. This money was paid by the State of Ohio rather than by any Guardsmen, and the amount equaled what the State estimated it would cost to go to trial again. Perhaps most importantly, the statement signed by members of the Ohio National Guard was viewed by them to be a declaration of regret, not an apology or an admission of wrongdoing:
In retrospect, the tragedy of May 4, 1970 should not have occurred. The students may have believed that they were right in continuing their mass protest in response to the Cambodian invasion, even though this protest followed the posting and reading by the university of an order to ban rallies and an order to disperse. These orders have since been determined by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to have been lawful.
Some of the Guardsmen on Blanket Hill, fearful and anxious from prior events, may have believed in their own minds that their lives were in danger. Hindsight suggests that another method would have resolved the confrontation. Better ways must be found to deal with such a confrontation.
We devoutly wish that a means had been found to avoid the May 4th events culminating in the Guard shootings and the irreversible deaths and injuries. We deeply regret those events and are profoundly saddened by the deaths of four students and the wounding of nine others which resulted. We hope that the agreement to end the litigation will help to assuage the tragic memories regarding that sad day.
A starkly different interpretation to that of the Guards' has been offered in numerous other studies of the shootings, with all of these analyses sharing the common viewpoint that primary responsibility for the shootings lies with the Guardsmen. Some authors (e.g., Stone, 1971; Davies, 1973; and Kelner and Munves, 1980) argue that the Guardsmen's lives were not in danger. Instead, these authors argue that the evidence shows that certain members of the Guard conspired on the practice football field to fire when they reached the top of Blanket Hill. Other authors (e.g., Best, 1981 and Payne, 1981) do not find sufficient evidence to accept the conspiracy theory, but they also do not find the Guard self-defense theory to be plausible. Experts who find the Guard primarily responsible find themselves in agreement with the conclusion of the Scranton Commission (Report , 1970, p. 87): "The indiscriminate firing of rifles into a crowd of students and the deaths that followed were unnecessary, unwarranted, and inexcusable."
WHAT HAPPENED IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SHOOTINGS?
While debate still remains about the extent to which the Guardsmen's lives were in danger at the moment they opened fire, little doubt can exist that their lives were indeed at stake in the immediate aftermath of the shootings. The 13-second shooting that resulted in four deaths and nine wounded could have been followed by an even more tragic and bloody confrontation. The nervous and fearful Guardsmen retreated back to the Commons, facing a large and hostile crowd which realized that the Guard had live ammunition and had used it to kill and wound a large number of people. In their intense anger, many demonstrators were willing to risk their own lives to attack the Guardsmen, and there can be little doubt that the Guard would have opened fire again, this time killing a much larger number of students.
A man and young boy stare up at a May 4th Memorial.Further tragedy was prevented by the actions of a number of Kent State University faculty marshals, who had organized hastily when trouble began several days earlier. Led by Professor Glenn Frank, the faculty members pleaded with National Guard leaders to allow them to talk with the demonstrators, and then they begged the students not to risk their lives by confronting the Guardsmen. After about 20 minutes of emotional pleading, the marshals convinced the students to leave the Commons.
Back at the site of the shootings, ambulances had arrived and emergency medical attention had been given to the students who had not died immediately. The ambulances formed a screaming procession as they rushed the victims of the shootings to the local hospital.
The University was ordered closed immediately, first by President Robert White and then indefinitely by Portage County Prosecutor Ronald Kane under an injunction from Common Pleas Judge Albert Caris. Classes did not resume until the Summer of 1970, and faculty members engaged in a wide variety of activities through the mail and off-campus meetings that enabled Kent State students to finish the semester.
WHAT IS THE STORY BEHIND THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING PHOTO OF THE YOUNG WOMAN CRYING OUT IN HORROR OVER THE DYING BODY OF ONE OF THE STUDENTS?
A photograph of Mary Vecchio, a 14-year-old runaway, screaming over the body of Jeffery Miller appeared on the front pages of newspapers and magazines throughout the country, and the photographer, John Filo, was to win a Pulitzer Prize for the picture. The photo has taken on a life and importance of its own. This analysis looks at the photo, the photographer, and the impact of the photo.
The Mary Vecchio picture shows her on one knee screaming over Jeffrey Miller's body. Mary told one of us that she was calling for help because she felt she could do nothing (Personal Interview, 4/4/94). Miller is lying on the tarmac of the Prentice Hall parking lot. One student is standing near the Miller body closer than Vecchio. Four students are seen in the immediate background.
John Filo, a Kent State photography major in 1970, continues to works as a professional newspaper photographer and editor. He was near the Prentice Hall parking lot when the Guard fired. He saw bullets hitting the ground, but he did not take cover because he thought the bullets were blanks. Of course, blanks cannot hit the ground.
WHAT WAS THE LONG-TERM FACULTY RESPONSE TO THE SHOOTINGS?
Three hours after the shootings Kent State closed and was not to open for six weeks as a viable university. When it resumed classes in the Summer of 1970, its faculty was charged with three new responsibilities, their residues remaining today.
A student holds a candle at night to remember the victims of the May 4th shootings.First, we as a University faculty had to bring aid and comfort to our own. This began earlier on with faculty trying to finish the academic quarter with a reasonable amount of academic integrity. It had ended about at mid-term examinations. However, the faculty voted before the week was out to help students complete the quarter in any way possible. Students were advised to study independently until they were contacted by individual professors. Most of the professors organized their completion of courses around papers, but many gave lectures in churches and in homes in the community of Kent and surrounding communities. For example, Norman Duffy, an award-winning teacher, gave off-campus chemistry lectures and tutorial sessions in Kent and Cleveland. His graduate students made films of laboratory sessions and mailed them to students.
Beyond helping thousands of students finish their courses, there were 1,900 students as well who needed help with gradation. Talking to students about courses allowed the faculty to do some counseling about the shootings, which helped the faculty as much in healing as it did students.
Second, the University faculty was called upon to conduct research about May 4 communicating the results of this research through teaching and traditional writing about the tragedy. Many responded and created a solid body of scholarship as well as an extremely useful archive contributing to a wide range of activities in Summer of 1970 including press interviews and the Scranton Commission.
Third, many saw as one of the faculty's challenges to develop alternative forms of protest and conflict resolution to help prevent tragedies such as the May 4 shootings and the killings at Jackson State 10 days after Kent State.
WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS?
Although we have attempted in this article to answer many of the most important and frequently asked questions about the May 4 shootings, our responses have sometimes been tentative because many important questions remain unanswered. It thus seems important to ask what are the most significant questions which yet remain unanswered about the May 4 events. These questions could serve as the basis for research projects by students who are interested in studying the shootings in greater detail.
(1) Who was responsible for the violence in downtown Kent and on the Kent State campus in the three days prior to May 4? As an important part of this question, were "outside agitators" primarily responsible? Who was responsible for setting fire to the ROTC building?
(2) Should the Guard have been called to Kent and Kent State University? Could local law enforcement personnel have handled any situations? Were the Guard properly trained for this type of assignment?
(3) Did the Kent State University administration respond appropriately in their reactions to the demonstrations and with Ohio political officials and Guard officials?
(4) Would the shootings have been avoided if the rally had not been banned? Did the banning of the rally violate First Amendment rights?
(5) Did the Guardsmen conspire to shoot students when they huddled on the practice football field? If not, why did they fire? Were they justified in firing?
(6) Who was ultimately responsible for the events of May 4, l970?
WHY SHOULD WE STILL BE CONCERNED ABOUT MAY 4, 1970 AT KENT STATE?
In Robert McNamara's (1995) book, "In Retrospect:The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam" is a way to begin is an illustration of the this process. In it he says that United States policy towards Vietnam was "... terribly wrong and we owe it to future generations to explain why."
The May 4 shootings at Kent State need to be remembered for several reasons. First, the shootings have come to symbolize a great American tragedy which occurred at the height of the Vietnam War era, a period in which the nation found itself deeply divided both politically and culturally. The poignant picture of Mary Vecchio kneeling in agony over Jeffrey Miller's body, for example, will remain forever Students gather in a circle, holding hands around a May 4th memorial to remember the victims of the Guard shootings.as a reminder of the day when the Vietnam War came home to America. If the Kent State shootings will continue to be such a powerful symbol, then it is certainly important that Americans have a realistic view of the facts associated with this event. Second, May 4 at Kent State and the Vietnam War era remain controversial even today, and the need for healing continues to exist. Healing will not occur if events are either forgotten or distorted, and hence it is important to continue to search for the truth behind the events of May 4 at Kent State. Third, and most importantly, May 4 at Kent State should be remembered in order that we can learn from the mistakes of the past. The Guardsmen in their signed statement at the end of the civil trials recognized that better ways have to be found to deal with these types of confrontations. This has probably already occurred in numerous situations where law enforcement officials have issued a caution to their troops to be careful because "we don't want another Kent State." Insofar as this has happened, lessons have been learned, and the deaths of four young Kent State students have not been in vain.
Being chased, falling, losing teeth, being naked in public and flying.
Project on Freudian psychology and collections.
On Saturday, November 26, NASA is scheduled to launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission featuring Curiosity, the largest and most advanced rover ever sent to the Red Planet.
The Curiosity rover bristles with multiple cameras and instruments, including Goddard's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Martian soil and atmosphere, SAM will help discover whether Mars ever had the potential to support life. Curiosity will be delivered to Gale crater, a 96-mile-wide crater that contains a record of environmental changes in its sedimentary rock, in August 2012.
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NASA image November 18, 2010
The NASA version of I AM SAM. Goddard engineers finishing work on Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument that will be on Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover when it lands on the red planet in 2012.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Ed Campion
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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I haven't light painted since March... I'm back in the US for a short time and decided to light paint a bit. It's so hard to light paint where I moved to so that's why I haven't done much. It's so much easier out here in the countryside where it's dark...
[Fragaria Linnæus 1753: 20 (IT: 5) spp]
REFERENCES
A. Pignatti & al. 2019: Flora IT, v.2, pp. 743-745; v.4, p. 618.
But explain to school kids what’s different, because they have to wonder. While establishments of all types are open at full capacity, the classroom routine is little changed: Students must continue to wear masks—a requirement that baffles the frak out of me. Is it possible reason that most of them have not been vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus 2)/COVID-19? For adults, the mask-mandate is only lifted for those people who have had the shot(s). Children are extremely unlikely to be infected, manifest the disease, become seriously sick, or die. So why muzzle them?
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, children ages 0-4 account for 2.1 percent of U.S. COVID cases; 10.4 percent for 5-17 year-olds. Deaths: Zero percent and 0.1 percent, respectively. Citizens ages 18-49 account for 4.7 percent of total deaths, so teachers are probably pretty safe—especially if vaccinated. So, again, I ask: Why muzzle the kids? This morning, my wife and I passed by Birney Elementary as kids arrived; they all wore masks, and parents, too!
I really felt sorry for the youngsters—and angry for their being punished so severely. Already, they suffered enough from forced isolation and remote-learning during most of 2020 and the first few months of this year. Meanwhile, vaccinated adults emerge to freedom. They can uncover their faces, no longer social distance, and even (gasp) touch one another (someone should sell a line of “Free Hugs—I’m vaccinated T-Shirts”).
How does any of this discussion relate to the photo? I’m glad you asked. The Wells Fargo branch in San Diego’s Hillcrest neighborhood closed when Governor Gavin Newsom shut down California in mid-March 2020. Annie and I passed by the arriving school kids on our way to the plaza where is the bank. Today, the financial institution finally reopened—doors flung wide like open arms ready to hug customers. We had no business there, I only stopped for the photo.
Someone explain to me: We were all supposed to stop everything for 15 days to “flatten the curve“. So why were we imprisoned for 15 months? Because based on CDC data, people over 65 were highest risk—accounting for 80.1 percent of U.S. COVID-19 deaths but making up only 16.5 percent of the population. By comparison, 64.5 percent are age 49 and younger and considerably lower risk of dying.
But that’s a pointless topic for now; future forensic analysis of the pandemic will (hopefully) reveal what were and weren’t effective combative tactics and offer meaningful recommendations for responding to the next outbreak. For the moment, California is open and citizens can feel safe(r).
Listened to
John Lee Hooker " I'm Leaving"
KeyBoard Money Mark " No Fighting & Pintos new car"
Phuture " Got the Bug"
Ronnie Foster " Mystic Brew"
Cannonball Adderly Quintet " Walk Tall"
Serious Problem "Mines a Pint"
Paul Raven "Soul Thing"
During the week of 19 June 2017, 50 scientists and computing experts came together on the DESY campus in Zeuthen, Germany to discuss new analysis and simulation methods for CTA. The talks covered simulation tools, reconstruction algorithms and tools, instrument response functions, high-level science tools and grid tools.
Outlining a Theory of General Creativity .. on a 'Pataphysical way
Entropy ≥ Memory . Creativity ²
Advice of the day:
. . sign in to open a new stream, . . but prefer to start with an empty one !
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my bigHuge Flickr DNA . . neither for forensic analysis nor any positive discrimination !
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[ F11 ] . . my complete random recto-perso collection . . [ F11 ]
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(Orignal pic here: flickr.com/photos/macten/2068155756/ by macten.)
Kind of an inside joke. On an emergency conference call regarding a recent and serious Microsoft vulnerability, we set a very stringent patching deadline. Someone piped up "well, what if it gets exploited in the next 24 hours?". A colleague responded, "Well the data center could get swallowed by an earthquake in the next 24 hours." A very succinct and effective illustration of the likelihood of certain risks.
Conversation graph for Donetsk Twitter users as of January 2010. Communities are automatically detected with
Sandia researchers are lessening the burden for analysts sifting through massive data sets by developing the science to gather insights from the data in nearly real time.
Sandia researchers worked with students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an Academic Alliance partner, to develop analytical and decision-making algorithms for streaming data sources and integrated them into a nearly real-time distributed data processing framework using big data tools and computing resources at Sandia. The framework takes disparate data from multiple sources and generates usable information that can be acted on in nearly real time.
Learn more at bit.ly/2B9YuEm.
Photo by Randy Montoya
Based on the Beijing Flickr Meetup online survery, there is the analysis
Many thanks to Lei's help, and if you are interested in this, please fill in the form for a reference.
我的excel强迫症又来了, 我总是要很纠结地把什么事情都必须excel量化, 再研究数据, 做chart...否则我就很不舒服。其实真没必要。不过也借此学习了Google Docs &Spreadsheet的使用, 很开心。
1947 Bartlesvile Oilers: Left to right: Ed Willshaw (LHP), Ralph Liebendorfer (RHP), Nick Najjar (LHP), Lou Tond (P), Ken Galbraith (OF-P), R. T. Upright (1B-OF), Carroll Red Dial (RHP), Ed Marleau-Mgr., Al Solenberger (CF), Elmo Maxwell (C), Lou Godla (2B), Jim Fink (3B-SS), Bill Pierro (RHP), Wayne Caves (1B), Jess Nelms (OF-C), Bill Waggoner (SS) and Charles Stock (3B-OF)--See more detailed analysis of this team in the body of this report.
KOM Flash Report
For week of
June 12—18, 2016
Flash Report and photo at www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/27511893266/
Introduction:
Each of these reports is usually started by remembering a former KOM leaguer who passed away. This week Darrell Wayne Caves is that person. He was one of the first guys I ever located when the hunt for former KOM leaguers commenced in 1994. That doesn’t seem like a long time ago but when I first conversed with Caves he had just begun receiving Social Security benefits. It seems that after retirement age is reached the remaining years go by in a blur.
Caves told me in our first conversation that in that era he had a nickname. It was “Ears.”
Thanks to Jack Morris you are seeing this obituary sooner than later.
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www.tulsaworld.com/obituaries/localobituaries/darrell-way...
Darrell Wayne Caves, 88, passed from this life on Monday, May 30, 2016 in Tulsa. Wayne was born April 23, 1928 in Tulsa the son of William and Marie (Birmingham) Caves. He graduated from Daniel Webster High School in 1946. He was a retired insulator for Texaco and a member of Trinity Baptist Church. He enjoyed traveling, fishing, golfing and playing with his grandchildren. He played minor league baseball from 1946 to 1948 with the Pittsburgh Pirates and coached baseball on the Westside from little league to American Legion.
Wayne married Frances Louise Caves in Tulsa in 1947, and she preceded him in death on November 10, 2015 after 68 years of marriage. He was also preceded in death by her parents; and his brother, Bill Caves.
He is survived by his son, Steve Caves and wife, Susan of Broken Arrow; daughter, Terri Slaymaker and husband, Jim of Broken Arrow; sister, Peggy Christiansen and husband, Orville of Bixby; eight grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
A funeral for Wayne is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, June 3, 2016 at Trinity Church, 1703 W. 41st St. and burial will follow in Floral Haven Memorial Gardens. An online guestbook is available at www.heathgriffithfuneralhome.com
For those of you who had the perspicacity and funds to purchase my second book, The KOM League Remembered, there is a team photo of the 1947 Bartlesville, Okla. Oilers on page 30 and Caves is in it. While the owners of that book go to their library to get it I’ll tell the rest of you that it is a bit different as far as team photos are concerned. All the players were in the dugout and lined up in single file. The faces are difficult to see whereas some young boys and an adult male in the grandstand are almost as distinct as the player images. To ensure the photo is looked at the question for this week is “How many young boys were in the grandstand?” For those of you who didn’t have the funds or perspicacity to purchase that book the photo is on the Flickr site where this report appears, directly below. www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/27511893266/
Bartlesville had a roster of 42 young men in 1947 There were five guys I never located namely:, Elton Leo Downing, Jack McDonald, John Moore, Charles Stock and a person without a first name but a last one of Wilson. Of the remaining 37 roster members I can only attest to the fact that Ralph Liebendorfer, Joe Turek, Keith Willoughby and possibly William Waggener survive. Many years ago, at a KOM reunion, a special guest attended who grew up with Charles Stock and he informed me his old friend died a number of years prior to our conversation. Since I’ve never found any evidence of Stock’s death I leave that as “undetermined.”
Confession is good for the soul. Up to the point where I wrote the previous paragraph I knew very little about a member of that team other than his name—William J. Christman-- who played 11 games at first base. A short time later I located the Veterans Compensation files for him and know now that his full name was William Joanest Christman who was born May 21, 1927 in Dreshertown, PA and passed away in Contra Costa, CA on December 28, 1981. The cause of him leaving the KOM league was probably due to Wayne Caves and R. T. Upright playing the bulk of the games at that position and he was hitting .167 when released.
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A current event story --Mantle auction
Thanks to Bob Imperato, President of Boston, Mass. Realty Associates, for sharing the following URL which dealt with the sale of a large Mantle collection. I’ve known the owner of that collection, Randall Swearingen, for many years and have spent time with him at a few events.
www.beaumontenterprise.com/sports/article/Beaumont-collec...
Just to prove I read everything the readership sends, I absorbed every word and selected this paragraph to share. “Neatly spaced on the table were copper Hartland Mickey Mantle statue molds; an autographed bat Mickey had given to former coach Harry Kraft; the antique street sign of Mickey's home in Commerce, Okla.; and the 1948 "Bengal Tales" high school yearbook that pictured the young star before he signed with the most renowned franchise in baseball.’
I spotted the error in that Beaumont newspaper article and sent Imperato this note. “The guy who wrote the story had to be a huge baseball historian. Harry "Kraft" would have gotten a chuckle out of that reference. On the other hand, his last wife, Nell Craft, would have called the writer and given him an earful. “
A day or so later Mr. Imperato shared this link: www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/mickey-mantle-1951-spring-t...
When that article, with Mantle’s photo, first appeared on that site one of the quotes was: “He was only 19 years old, still very much a country kid from Commerce, OK when he arrived at the New York Yankees’ 1951 spring training camp in Florida.” Now, if you pull up that site that same sentence leaves out “in Florida.” How did that happen, you ask? You didn’t but here is what transpired. I noted to Mr. Imperato that the Yankees trained in Arizona and California that year for a number of reasons. First off, Del Webb, Yankee owner lived in Phoenix and he wanted to show off the heir to Joe DiMaggio to his Hollywood friends. springtrainingmagazine.com/history.html Imperato has connections and he sent the correction to the auction site and the correction was made.
Mr. Webb accomplished what he intended and there is proof of it in the many photos some of the Yankee players and Mantle had taken with Hollywood’s biggest stars. I could name them pretty easily for one guy who was in all those photos was Mantle’s Independence and Joplin teammate, Bob Wiesler. Many years ago he gave me a large number of those original 8 X 10 glossy prints and I still think I know where they are. I had a New York collector, a number of years ago, beg me for those photos and offered the enormous sum of less than $50 for the lot of them. I wouldn’t have sold them for any amount of money for I learned at an early age you don’t sell gifts.
In closing, Mr. Imperato had a suggestion as to my next career. “You could do an encyclopedia of baseball facts.” Seeing that I do need work that would be a nice challenge but I’ve discovered when I find a factual item that goes against what has appeared in record books for a half century, or more, I’m ignored.
Once in a while I put my feelings in print and live to regret it. Here is the latest sample of future ‘regretting’ in my last note to Mr. Imperato. “Frankly, the only reason I wrote the Mantle book was at the insistence of his former teammates at Independence, Joplin, Baxter Springs, Kansas City and New York. They all came at me with "Can you write a book about Mantle where the information is correct?"
Too much stuff about Mantle, and anyone else in the limelight, is a lot of here say and regurgitation of the same old same old. I asked Johnny Lafalier, who was Merlyn Mantle’s brother-in-law, what Mickey would have thought of my book. His reply was "John, he would have loved it for you are the only person who ever got it right?" For someone with limited writing skills I took that as a compliment. Any author ought to be able to do their research and not make up stories and most importantly spell names of people and places correctly. And, by the way, learn in what state the towns mentioned are located. Can anyone say “Independence?" In articles and books, since the arrival of Mantle on the baseball scene, that town in Missouri got more claim to his origins that the one in Kansas, where it all began. I try to explain that Harry Truman lived in Independence, Missouri and Bill Inge, the author, was from Independence, Kansas. So, think of “Picnic” and that is where Mantle started. Most every guy, my age remembers Kim Novak who starred in that movie and the gals all fondly recall William Holden. www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&am...
One thing mentioned in an article affiliated with that sale stated that when Mickey Mantle arrived with the Yankees they assigned him jersey #7. That is not correct according to what the late Cliff Mapes told me. It is a story I wrote many years ago but the short version is that Mapes was wearing that number when Mantle returned from Kansas City and thought Mantle had a great career ahead and he volunteered giving that number to the rookie. Mantle had worn #6 before being sent back to Kansas City. Mantle’s #7 was retired when his playing days concluded and #6 had to wait another few decades until it was retired in honor of Joe Torre. Numbers 1-9 have been retired by the Yankees with #2 being the most recent
Until Derek Jeter ended his career #2 hadn’t been officially retired. Some of the big names to don that uniform, other than Jeter were: Sandy Alomar, Paul Blair, Bobby Murcer, Red Rolfe, George “Snuffy” Strinweiss, Wayne Tolleson and last, but not least, George “Yats” Wuestling. . Yats was the uncle of Richard Charles Wuestling Jr., a St. Louis native, who signed a large bonus, $5,000, in 1947, and was sent to pitch for the KOM league’s Independence Yankees. He had a problem. Namely, it was a vision deficiency that prohibited him from seeing under poor lighting and in that era the only day games were on Sunday, the 4th of July and Labor Day. Goldie Howard, was the first guy to figure out his big pitcher was as blind aa a bat in the evening. But, Wuestling was a hit among his teammates at Independence for he invested his bonus money in a new car. And, as they say “A young baseball player, with a car, has many friends.”
George “Yats’ Wuestling was six years younger than Richard Charles Wuestling Jr.’s dad.
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After 70 years the imagine was remembered
Thanks for sending the picture of the Chanute Owls. I could pick out Ken Johnson in a minute. I remember Dodson, Grimsley, Curley and of course Goldie Howard. They were all good pitchers and a good manager. Buck Walz—I946-47-48 Iola Cubs and Indians
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Was he my Little League coach?
Thank you for the Flash Report. The picture you shared do you know much about Bob White? I had a little league coach by that name and he claimed to have played in professional ball. I would have been 10 years old which would have made it 52 years ago. I lived in Oklahoma City then.
Thanks, Frank H.—Columbia, MO
Ed reply:
White was purportedly from Riverton, Kansas. He was born around 1923 and attended Oklahoma A & M. It might have been your coach.
Ed comment:
To know more about Bob White I contacted Mary Ann and Wylie Pitts in Riverton, KS. They are my “go to” sources when I need to know about the Baxter Springs Whiz Kids or anything else relating to Southeast Kansas. I asked them about Robert White and received this answer.
“Wylie couldn't recall anyone by that name. He said he did play with a Bob (Dutch) White when he was in Bentonville, Arkansas, with and against him. I looked in the Riverton H.S. alumni list of graduates and didn't see anyone by that name. “
There are three other possibilities I’ve looked at over the years regarding the start and end of Robert D. “Red” White. I will have to check further on Springfield, MO; Topeka (Delia), KS and the State of Louisiana records to determine if White was born and/or died in any of those places.
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A future Hall of Famer turns down offer to play Ban Johnson baseball in 1941
In last week’s issue of the Flash Report a lot of information was shared regarding Lloyd “Rabbit” Ayers. There was not space to share a lot of things. One of the more interesting items was the mention of Wally DeBaets who Ayers was attempting to recruit. The April 16, 1941 news article, that follows this introduction, mentioned he was trying out for the Albany, GA team. As it turned out DeBaets stayed with the Cardinal organization that year and was on the Sioux City, Iowa; Union City, Tenn. and Decatur, Illinois rosters.
Someone in St. Louis is going to recognize Wally for his given name was Walter Barnard DeBaets. In 1979 he was inducted into the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame. He was born in St. Louis on May 11, 1920 and lived there until his death on June 28, 2007. His obituary appeared in the June 29, 2007 edition of the St. Louis Post Dispatch on page C 12.
Following is the account of how effort was made to have DeBaets play Ban-Johnson league baseball for Iola, Kansas in 1941. For those who document such things, DeBaets was primarily a third baseman who was a right-handed hitter and thrower.
Everyone can pull up one of the following references and for those who subscribe to Ancestry.com they can grab on to both of them.
www.stlabhof.org/hof-members.html
person.ancestry.com/tree/74439940/person/30295344211/facts
You can also find DeBaets on Baseball Reference. With the information I’ve supplied in this report you can fill in the missing blanks regarding his biographical information
www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.cgi?id=debaet0...
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APRIL 16, 1941. TOLA, KANSAS
B-J (Ban Johnson) Club Gaining Strength-- Ayers Announces Two Hurlers Acquired; May Sign Up Wally DeBaets;
Momentum is up now on forming the playing side of lola's baseball team. Parts are being fitted for the model. Manager Lloyd Ayers reports receipt of word from Jim Smith, the astute Illinois righthander, that he will join the lola club. He pitched for Humboldt last season. News that is equally reassuring is the announcement that Everett Bybee, the Uniontown high school basketball star, has stated he definitely plans to come here to join the lola club as soon as school closes. Bybee a righthander, pitches and plays first base, Ayers confides. He is six-foot, three inches tall. Bybee is a cousin of Mrs. Kenneth Abell and the Abells have been influential in inducing him that lola is the place to light. Other towns have been interested in him. ;
Another former member of the Humboldt team who has corresponded with Ayers is Wally DeBaets, the hustling third sacker. He has been receiving a professional tryout in Albany, Ga. Ayers would like to sign DeBaets but thus far the club doesn't know whether he could find the necessary employment here. Although DeBaets played third for Humboldt he is handy at any post. Ayers also has a catcher in-view who is anxious to join either Fort Scott or lola.
After Chuck Turley the manager has been on the trail of Charles Turley, the LaHarpe all-round athlete but thus far has missed him. Turley, however, has told several lolans that he plans to attend the junior college here next fall and probably will be available for the baseball team. The above mentioned possibilities, added to previously considered candidates who are pretty certain to be on hand, gives the club a stout foundation. With them, only a few more dependables would be necessary, in addition to the local rookies that Ayers plans to use. Daily practice sessions will start. Ayers says, as soon as weather becomes favorable again.”
Check here to see what happened to Turley in the remaining 60 years of his life after playing Ban Johnson baseball.. www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=365500...
Upon completing the aforementioned item I shared it with Barbara Eichhorst in St. Louis. She and her husband, Rich, know/knew about everyone connected with the St. Louis sports scene in the last half century or more. After reading the item she replied. “Wally was my husband’s favorite player - he rode his bike to Carondelet Park so he could bat boy for him. A "Muny League." (Rich) Thinks he was a postman. When he broke a bat Rich would take it home to nail and tape it to use it!!”
Rich Eichhorst played basketball for Southeast Missouri State and is the only graduate of that institution to have played in the National Basketball Association. He played for the St. Louis Hawks during the 1961-62 season. For a long list of references on Eichhorst dial up this station: www.google.com/search?rls=aso&client=gmail&q=Rich...
A researcher’ lament: I shared the foregoing with baseball necrologist, Jack Morris, and he can find just about any obituary ever filed. He found DeBaets obituary but stated “Attached is his obituary. Unfortunately, it doesn’t mention his minor league career.”
A response to Morris on that subject went something like this. When a guy only played in Ban Johnson baseball and one year in the minor leagues, many of their family members didn’t know about that part of their loved one’s life and the guy didn’t think it important enough to mention. To me, DeBaets baseball career merits mentioning and that is why I do what I do. A guy known as “Baseball Bill” has been a long time reader of the KOM stuff. He said in a recent e-mail “John, the people who count read your books. I would wager Ken Burns would see you as an unsung hero of real baseball/Americana! True !”
The foregoing precipitated a reply. “I would wager Ken Burns will never know I existed.” Baseball Bill retorted with “Maybe so. But I'm saying if he did know you and what you've been doing all these baseball years he would find you a kindred spirit. You have kept alive and well a big chunk of America past. Obviously, Burns loves baseball and its connection to America-- sort of an inseparable joining like space/time. You are a good baseball man. Enjoy !!”
And on that note I’d better stop now, while still ahead. Only one more comment. The folks who really appreciate my research are the companies that sell subscriptions to their services, such as genealogy and various newspaper sites.
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Analysis of employment prospects - shows numbers of Hungarian refugees staying in England and emigrating to the USA and Canada.
GB127.Council Proceedings
PESTEL analysis template. CC by-SA 2.0 (free for personal use as long as you cite "Designed by Greg Emmerich" somewhere in the description). Contact me for the free Adobe Illustrator file. Font: j.mp/ZnkxAi
PhD student Mario Toubes-Rodrigo is using X-ray fluorescence to determine the mineral composition of a glacier. These results will support understanding of the glacier microbial ecology being investigated by a range of culture-based and DNA-based techniques. The glacier is svínafellsjökull in Iceland.
The top photo series show a vehicle headlight that was not on at the time it was shattered inward by a significant collision. Analysis of the low beam filament revealed that, despite the missing segment, it was still a uniform spring with the high beam element remaining intact. The tungsten was clean with no adhered glass particles, deformations or irregularities.
In contrast, the bottom photos demonstrate a headlamp that was on at the time of the collision. Its element is extremely deformed and jagged, having balled up at each post. As the filament was hot at the time of impact, the inrushing oxygen reacted to form yellow-white tungsten oxide on both the low and high beam elements. Additionally, glass particles from the collision adhered to the hot tungsten.
Col busy analyzing the thousands of DNA sequences generated by the Barcode Wales project
The Barcode Wales Paper: dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037945
The third illsutration for Chrysallis Counselling and Psychotherapy, this image depicts the idea of stepping out of behavioural patterns initiated in childhood.
Rangeland Resources and Wildland Soils students conduct vegetation analysis on the South Spit of Humboldt Bay.
Watching the waves at Sorento back beach.
720nm infrared modified Olympus E-PM2.
Modified Hanimex 28mm f2.8 lens with tilt/rotate adapter.
Batman warns me to not look into this further. We both know I won't listen. The analysis showed that this strain of Venom was laced with some of Poison Ivy's DNA, which is why it worked very well on plants. He's thinking Bane, the man who broke his back. I'm thinking I'll find my answers elsewhere. He might not have noticed, but his urge to shield and protect me are because that harmless rose was emitting Fear pollen.
