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Becky
Headley
had been slated
for a short term
exchange but just
learned that East
Salem Rotary has
sponsored her for
a full Long Term.
Student Rotarian
of the Month
was presented by
NHS Activities Director, Mark Brown. He
confessed to inviting his recipient under
nebulous pretenses because, “if she knew
we were acknowledging her for her selfless
contributions of just get it done labor, she
never would have come.”
Congratulations Hannah Dodson!
American women came
in the form of hand
knitted sweaters. Belgian
women unraveled most
of them and reknitted
them
into
shawls,
something they actually
used.
Politics and unrest aside,
the side message here is
“know your audience.”
Herbert Clark Hoover was
born in West Branch, Iowa.
Smack dab in the middle of
nowhere (pop in 2010 was
still only 2,300).
By 1917 America was
entering the war.
Between ‘17 and ‘19 he
either chaired or sat on
multiple committees including
the Sugar Equalization Board
(launched to purchase and regulate
the 1918 Cuban sugar crop),
United States Grain Corporation,
Committee on Food - Council of
National Defense, and American
Relief Administration.
He spent time with Uncle
Minthorn here in the
Quaker
settlement
of Newberg
who
hoped that young
Bert would enroll
in a Quaker college
but there was a new
tuition-free college in
California founded by
railroad exec Leland
Stanford that offered
an engineering study
that was not available
at the Quaker option.
Hoover believed that independent
government organizations were
necessary.
Later at the onset of
The Great War (no one knew then to call it
World War 1) Hoover was instrumental in
getting Belgians out of West
Europe when Germany
invaded.
American
Ambassador,
Walter
Hines
Page,
recognized
Hoover’s
organizational
strength
and put him at the helm of
the Committee for Relief of
Belgium.
Exchanges Coque and Flor showing off their
fused glass projects from their session with
Kari the Great.
Hi Dad! Above center next to Mark Brown
is Jacoby Wolfe providing fine fodder for
Francisco.
Scholar in Residence Dr. Laura Gifford
of George Fox U’s History Department
has been published Republican politics of
the 1960s and has studied trends of 1970s
politics.
January 29, 2015
He was right, as history tells.
Those demands eventually
fueled the rise of Bolshevism
and Nazi German.
Belgian women could make lace and sell
them for ration cards. By the time the war
ended there was $4 million worth of lace
warehoused.
aid
from
well
He promoted self sacrifice
to the nation so food would
be available for soldiers and
relief of war ravaged citizens.
He
stressed
cooperative
measures and encouraged
civilian volunteerism.
Post War Hoover was
distressed over the demands
on German for reparations
and the depletion of its
resources needed to satisfy
those debts.
This would become the first
food administration to feed a
nation in world history. The
war lasted much longer than
expected and the CRB would
dispense five million tons of
concentrated food and invest
billions of dollars.
Incoming
Hoover, while maintaining a
cooperative relationship with
President Wilson, was more of a
centralizer.
intentioned
Gifford’s talk barely even
touched the Hoover presidency but did
end on America’s “first woman president.”
Edith Wilson had never intended to make
decisions affecting the country, only to
guard the health of her husband, Woodrow,
in the wake of his massive stroke.