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Before the pandemic, our after-service discussion group at the United Ministry of Aurora latched on to the subject of rejection. A member of the group, Herb Thomas, a retired psychiatrist
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Ed Rossmann Special to The Citizen Thereâs no evidence that John Quincy Adams, librarian of Auburn Theological Seminary, ever made an issue of his name, which is of course also the name of the sixth president of the United States. In his memoir, "An Old Boy Remembers," Adams makes no mention of the fact. He was born Aug. 8, 1849, in Ogden, Monroe County, son of Caleb Kimball and Laura Keeler Adams. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1874, and from the Auburn Theological Seminary in 1877, and was ordained a Presbyterian minister the following year. He served in s...
Ed Rossmann Special to The Citizen In the late 1990s, when she was 13, Lorna Finlayson decided to quit school. She had come to understand what high school education really was: âThe real purpose ... of the school system was to instill the habit of obedience ... to our superiors.â ("Diary: I was a Child Liberationist," London Review of Books, Feb. 18, 2021). Her father, whose dyslexia had made his schooling a nightmare, did not object, and her older brother had left the country to escape school. So, âthe cell door was open.â Finlayson had begun school at age 4. ...
Ed Rossmann Special to The Citizen Recent events in Washington reminded me of something that happened in Paris 80-some years ago, which may be of interest today. On the evening of Feb. 6, 1934, a right-wing mob of several thousand people on Concord Square prepared to assault the Chamber of Deputies, seat of the National Assembly, the French parliament. The immediate cause was the Stavisky scandal, in which a Jewish-Ukrainian broker with ties to the government had sold worthless bonds to the public. In January, Serge Alexandre Stavisky was found dead, an apparent suicide, but many ...