TO A CO-WORKER RETIRING

Nancy Kearney is a friend of mine.  She has worked in the accounting department here at the office over thirty years.  She is a wonderful lady and if no one told you she was old enough to retire, you wouldn't believe she was.  Her fellow inmates here are putting together a little book of letters for her retirement.  This is my donation to the cause.

Nancy,

“Going out into the world” … Life is full of them.  When our time comes to leave that safe haven of the womb, we are born and start our journey out into the world.

There is that first day of school, the very first day of school, and our parents fret over us heading out into the world.

We turn sixteen and receive the privilege of drive a huge chunk of steel around streets where anything can, and probably will, happen and we find ourselves taking a step out into the world.

We go to college, many of us leaving home for the first time to step out into the world to set a path for the rest our lives as to what we want to do for a living.

After graduating, we go and find a job that hopefully will be what we want to do and we earn money to establish ourselves in an abode of our own.  We find our own space out in the world.

Then we work and we play.  We find new friends and find a best friend.  We are free to go where we want when we want.  We are free to do what we want to with the people we want to spend time with and we are totally immersed with being out in the world without realizing that we are.

One day, we wake up and look at the calendar.  Time spent in our current world is coming to an end and it is time to plan to head out into the world again by retiring.  We look back and think of all of the people we have met and have worked with.  This world was a good world.

It is time for you to head out into the world again.  A world very different from the one you have spent over thirty years in.  It is time to head out and explore and go on adventures.  It isn’t easy telling you good-bye or even good luck.  You will be missed here at Dit-MCO.  Over the years you worked your way into the heart this family.

As you head out into the world again, I hope for you the best.  I hope for you a long fun filled retirement that makes all the years here in this world at Dit-MCO worthwhile.  We will miss you.  I will miss you.  I am very glad I was able to know you and to work with you.

Good luck Nancy.  Have fun.  Now off into the world you go.

Bill Clark

FOR ELAINE RENFROE'S STUDENTS AT BERRY

At this time of Christmas, perhaps it is fitting that we look at a very personal part of the life of Elaine Renfroe.  Her religious beliefs.
(Realizing I am sending this to a public school, i trust that open minds will prevail in the release of this document to the students.  They deserve to know exactly who or what is teaching them.)

To the world outside her home, Elaine puts on the show of being a Southern Baptist.  She does this very well and has most of the people she comes into contact with fooled completely.  She was raised a southern Baptist, so she knows all the details of the faith and can explain in great detail what the beliefs are.  Beware, this is only a front as i have recently discovered, for there is a darker side to Elaine Renfroe.  A side that is darker than black.

Elaine has been involved with cults since she was young.  Her first dealings in the cult was with the cher church.  RELIGIOUSLY, Elaine would watch the sonny and cher show on a weekly basis, soaking in the hidden meanings in the mantra's of the lyrics of the song.  Indeed, the phrase "I got you babe" had a totally different and sinister meaning to the young elaine.  She further ingrained herself in the house of Cher by purchasing albums with hidden messages behind the songs.  "Gypsies, Tramps and thieves" became her motto, living each of those life styles to its fullest.

Her second cult involvement was a cult involving the hippie movement.
She became one of those hippies one night a week, sniffing incense and planning the over throw of the government based on the "evilness" of the vietnam war.  She painted flowers on her cheeks and wore flowers in her hair every sunday night.  This cult still has somewhat of a hold on her, evidenced by the fact that she still can't accept Richard Nixon as one of the greatest world leaders of this century.

Finally, the current cult she finds herself being held captive to, is the one that worships duct tape.  Evidence of this involvement is everywhere.  She decorated her car in duct tape, she carries a roll of the evil sticky stuff in her trunk at all times.  She has a duct tape coffee mug that praises the uses of duct tape, and last but definitely not least, she has a daily devotional calender that helps her praise duct tape and its uses on a daily basis.  She begins everyday by getting inspirational words from other users of duct tape.  It is not a pretty cult and one that could undermine the whole US economy eventually.

As you deal with Ms Renfroe on a daily basis, and soak in the words of wisdom she tries to force upon you, keep these facts in mind.  Remember what her true agenda is... and beware.

TO MS. RENFROE'S SOPHOMORES

First off, I would like to thank my dear dear sister for allowing me to visit your class last week.  If it hadn't been for the car race, that hour would have ranked right up at the top of my weekend in Alabama.

I would like to thank the students as well.  Elaine said that if you all hadn't said it was okay for me to be there, then i wouldn't have been.
So thank you for allowing me to watch my sister in action so that I can have new things to make fun of her about.  That means a lot.

Since my dear sister didn't trust me enough to talk to you in person, Ii will have to tell you a little about myself from a remote distance.  I am in the engineering field designing printed circuit boards.  I live in Kansas City and have been here my whole life.  Now contrary to what my sister MAY have told you, I am not a smart aleck at all.  I just like to look at things from a different perspective and point out the flaws of the conventional wisdoms that float around.  Teachers will not do this because part of the requirement to become a teacher is to actually believe socialist ideas and have a willingness to teach our young minds these liberal ideas that threaten to tear down our society.

Having said that, remember when you get your grades from Ms Renfroe, that regardless of what she thinks, you did your best and your speeches were great.  English teachers, above all others, have power over their students because their grading is always dependent upon the mood they are in or if they like you or not.  Who is she to say whether your speech was good or not?  She doesn't like it so it isn't?  Personally, I didn't think too much of Kennedy's inaugural speech, but it is still considered one of the greatest of all time.  Good thing I wasn't Kennedy's English teacher I guess.  It could be a great speech to a thousand other people but if SHE doesn't like it, you are sunk.  So don't take her opinion of how you do in her class to hard.  You only have to deal with her for a few more months, then you can move on to the realities of life.

ANYWAY,  I really did enjoy my time in your class, and really enjoyed meeting all of you and hearing you make up lies to make my sister feel good about her teaching abilities (or inability's depending on your point of view).

Thanks again, and good luck in the future.

Bill Clark