There are problems in this world that just won't go away as we completed 2024 and are now in 2025. There were terrible terrorist attacks in previous years and now we see situations in New Orleans and Las Vegas. We hear daily of shootings, stabbings, and assaults. There are continuing problems in our local and federal governments:
- I have lost confidence in our mayor as he has been indicted on several series charges and several of his commissioners resigned while some were also indicted. He is scheduled to go on trial in April. What will happen if he is convicted?
- Our government is based on a systems of checks and balances among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Will Donald Trump respect that or will he become a quasi-dictator? Will there be turmoil in his second term?
- There are terrible wars in Israel and Ukraine. I don't believe that Donald Trump will end these conflicts. Both have been going on much too long.
Prayers for the future of our city and country.
3 comments:
I just came across your blog. I, too, attended Russell Sage as a seventh grader in 1961-62. I remember a different set of teachers: Ms. Faber, Mr. Reese, and a guidance counselor, Mr. Schlesinger. He devoted an entire class to explaining why he crossed the picket line when the teachers went on strike. There was also Mr. Weingrove. Another memorable character was Mr. Gregg, an ex-army guy who lectured on hygiene. He presided over lunch in a cafeteria that could have served as the set for "Shawshank Redemption." Recently, I spoke to another RS alumnus. We both wondered what happened to a guy name Sabatino. He was about 17 and still in seventh grade. Did he turn his life around and make a career as an investment banker?
David - I don't remember you. In RS I was in 7-8, 8-8, and 9-6. I remember Norman Reese passed away at a young age. I remember Mr. Gregg, the gym teacher. Weingrow taught electronics shop and owned a sleepaway camp. I vaguely remember Peter Sabatino as a troublemaker.
I vaguely recall my class being 7-3. I left Russell Sage after one year and transferred to Kew Forest on Union Turnpike in Forest Hills. Fred Trump was on the Board of Trustees -- a tall and frightening looking man. One heard that his messed-up son Donald had been removed a year or two earlier from the school and packed off to a military academy. Little could one have then imagined that he was "bound for glory."
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