[BearwWthoutBorders] ADDITIONAL AND WELL TIMED COMMENTS (AND A WORD ON THE UFO/ET CLASS)

[Dale Jacobson]

I appreciate your thoughts Hunter.  My father thoroughly enjoyed your UFO
class and it is a great compliment to your teaching that he felt
comfortable enough to attend.  At his age, even then, I am sure he felt a
little out of place among the other students.  It is not something he would
have usually done and it was through you that I was able to encourage him
to attend.  as ever my best, Dale

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Hunter Gray
<hunterbadbear at hunterbear.org>wrote:

> **
> *I continue to receive comments regarding myself and that revealing --
> but not really surprising to me -- contemporary little situation in
> Mississippi. http://crmvet.org/comm/hunter1.htm All of these comments
> are, to understate it, greatly appreciated.  Rather than do another
> compendium, here are two extremely recent ones from our List members.*
> **
> *To Dale, whose post follows that of Alice, I certainly express all
> condolences on the passing of your father.  I know how tough that can
> be. Our best thoughts and good wishes go to all of you. I remember your dad
> very well in that huge UFO/ET class of mine -- 200 or so undergrad and
> grad students from virtually every major at UND during each of the three
> times I offered it. (It was seen as more popular than even the "Sex
> Class.")  I was always glad to have your father in the second-time
> around throng.  He could not have been more attentive.  I should add that
> the class, offered at the request of students, was initially under the
> aegis of Honors, then Indian Studies, and then Psychology.  It carried
> three semester hours credit -- and, if one wanted to do some extra work,
> graduate credit.  It fulfilled a Humanities requirement in Arts and
> Sciences and, last time it was done, Humanities credit in the Business
> college as well.  The Humanities tag was on the basis of our spending some
> class time looking at the world as ETs might see us all.*
> **
> *Again, Dale, our deep condolences -- and thanks to both Alice and
> yourself for these posts.  Best, Hunter*
> **
> *ALICE AZURE:*
> **
>  *Once again--thank your for that piece of yours--being a militant and
> radical organizer.  Rather than react to that German word--splendid but
> unusable --I should have thanked you again for your care of the many
> students who had a strong affinity for your civil rights work. Maybe your
> teaching became absorbed in my actions more than I realize, for I'll never
> be remembered in the United Way movement for my "agitations"-- scrappy,
> undiplomatic, and somewhat noisy.  It's funny; they were afraid to fire me
> because I was a triple threat--female, Native American and handicapped!  My
> professional life was difficult, but a vole hole compared to the Herculean
> efforts by you and your colleagues of those years.  *
>
> *One group--the Mystic Rotary Club--awarded me a Paul Harris Fellowship.
> One would think I'd be held at arm's length with a group like that--but
> here they were--to the tune of a $1,000 nomination (I never did learn who
> donated that amount)--thanking me for "....demonstrating in your life and
> vocation a commitment to helping persons in need here and around the
> world."  I've never talked about this award before, as I had already left
> Connecticut when the fellowship was awarded.  Maybe I am somewhat
> embarrassed by the money associated with it.   *
>
> *I just received my latest issue of Studies in American Indian Literature--themed
> on the writings of northeastern Natives.  An essay of mine was included
> plus some poems--basically the first chapter of my book, Along Came a
> Spider. Other pieces were a critique of Joe Bruchac's life and writings,
> an interview of Charles Norman Shay (grandson of Joseph Nicolar), an
> article on Samson Occum by Reginald Dyce, Henry Perley's writings by Dale
> Potts, and Joseph Johnson & Moses Paul (by Michael LeBlanc).      *
>
> *Again, thank your for writing that post, John.  *
> Alice M. Azure
> **
> *DALE JACOBSON:*
> **
> *Hunter, I have always admired your talents and commitments for
> organizing, so I certainly did not mean to neglect to say so here (though I
> did).  With the death of my father (who very much appreciated your class on
> UFOs, at least one session of which he attended), I have been distracted.
>  But you have been and remain a light to us all.  I wish the world (and our
> country especially, the heart of the beast-- or should I say stomach?) made
> better use of those with your wisdom and experience-- alas, it does not.
>  This was a complaint I recall vividly from old-timers even during the
> sixties, when I read somewhere that someone had said this gist:  it is as
> if we (my generation) had to reinvent the wheel rather than learn from
> those who were already experienced.  I find myself extremely disappointed
> in my own generation.  Perhaps I expected too much?  Still, I believe your
> historical example together with others cannot but finally be valued
> because there is no need to reinvent the wheel, which people such as
> yourself set in motion, and not only that, but gave it considerable steam.
>  I myself have never claimed to be an organizer, though I've been
> "involved" in various ways.  Therefore, your own proven effectiveness is
> all the more appreciated in my eyes.   *
>
> *Dale
> *
> *HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis
> Abenaki/St. Regis Mohawk
> Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO
> **www.hunterbear.org* <http://www.hunterbear.org>*
> (much social justice material)*
> **
> *I have always lived and worked in the Borderlands.*
> **
> *Key pieces from our big Jackson Mississippi Movement
> scrapbook.  Three consecutive and full pages beginning with
> this Link:  **http://hunterbear.org/a_piece_of__the_scrapbook.htm*<http://hunterbear.org/a_piece_of__the_scrapbook.htm>
> *And see my reflection On Being a Militant and Radical
> Organizer -- And an Effective One:
> **http://crmvet.org/comm/hunter1.htm* <http://crmvet.org/comm/hunter1.htm>
> **
> *The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:
> **http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm*<http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm>
> *(Expanded in Fall 2012. Photos. Material on our Native
> background.)  And see Personal Background Narrative:
> **http://hunterbear.org/narrative.htm*<http://hunterbear.org/narrative.htm>
> *  (Updated into 2012) *
> **
> *For the new (11/2011) and expanded/updated
> edition of my "Organizer's Book," JACKSON MISSISSIPPI --
> with a new and substantial introduction by me.
>  **http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm* <http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm>
>
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