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Welcome to The Wandering Pilgrims, where history and faith intertwine to tell the stories of those who shaped our nation. Today, we delve into the life of Samuel Adams, often hailed as the father of the American Revolution. His journey is one of unwavering faith, relentless pursuit of liberty, and deep trust in God's sovereignty. Born on September 27, 1722, in Boston, Massachusetts, Samuel Adams was nurtured in a household that valued education and faith. His early education at home and Boston Latin School prepared him for Harvard, which he entered at the tender age of 14. Although he aspired to be a minister, his parents directed him toward business, apprenticing him under Thomas Cushing. Despite his parents' wishes, Adams' heart was set on serving the public. In 1756, he was elected as Boston's tax collector, a role that highlighted his empathy and integrity. His reluctance to force collections on the impoverished spoke volumes of his character and earned him the trust of the common people. Adams' passion for liberty was ignited by his strong belief in God's Providence. He believed that freedom was not just a political ideal, but a divine mandate. This conviction led him to initiate the Massachusetts Circular and play pivotal roles in events like the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party. Adams' faith was not confined to private devotion. As a member of the Continental Congress, he advocated for national days of prayer and fasting, recognizing that the success of the American cause depended on God's favor. His suggestion to have the meeting opened with a prayer by a non-Puritan minister demonstrated his spirit of religious tolerance and reliance on God's guidance. Samuel Adams' political career was marked by significant contributions, including signing the Declaration of Independence and helping draft the Massachusetts Constitution, which reflected his belief in the Christian foundation of governance. His life was a testament to steadfast faith and public service, guided by an unwavering trust in God's sovereign plan. Samuel Adams' story reminds us that true leadership is rooted in faith and integrity. Thank you for joining us here at The Wandering Pilgrims. If you have enjoyed this recording and would like to help us create more like it, please consider supporting our efforts. Support our mission: ▪️ Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/wanderingpilgrims ▪️ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheWanderingPilgrims ▪️ Shop: https://shop.thewanderingpilgrims.com/ ▪️ Our Website: www.thewanderingpilgrims.com Connect with us here: ▪️ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewanderingpilgrims/ ▪️ Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/The-Wandering-Pilgrims-581206039071736/

FAN MAIL--We would love YOUR feedback--Send us a Text MessageHAPPY THANKSGIVING!Grasp the timeless traditions of Thanksgiving in our latest episode, where we promise to enlighten you about the holiday's origins and dispel the myths that have persisted over the years. in the past, we have explored George Washington's 1789 proclamation and the real story behind the first Thanksgiving, injecting a playful twist with a humorous critique of the U.S. Department of Education, inspired by the Pilgrims' early educational adventures. Listen to this years Happy Thanksgiving episode as we fact-check this amusing take, confirming key historical milestones like the Pilgrims' 1620 landing and the founding of Boston Latin School in 1635. Embrace the wisdom of Ronald Reagan's "trust but verify" mantra as we encourage a discerning approach to digesting online information.Until next time, remember to cherish the beauty in everyday moments and keep the gratitude flowing.Key Points from the Episode:Join us in a heartfelt celebration of gratitude, as we raise a toast to the enduring spirit of Thanksgiving. Cherish the simple pleasures and the people that bring joy and laughter into our lives, not just on this special day, but throughout the year. We extend warm wishes to our fantastic team at Mojo and all our listeners, hoping your days are filled with love, happiness, and countless blessings. Stay connected with us at teammojoacademy.com for more engaging discussions and resources that keep your mojo alive. Other resources: MM# 65--Happy Thanksgiving 2021MM# 182--Happy Thanksgiving 2022MM# 285--Happy Thanksgiving 2023 & Catholic contributionsWant to leave a review? Click here, and if we earned a five-star review from you **high five and knuckle bumps**, we appreciate it greatly, thank you so much!Because we care what you think about what we think and our website, please email David@teammojoacademy.com.

In this episode, Brian and Jen Harbin sit down with Jack O'Callahan, a Boston native that graduated from Boston Latin School and went on to play college hockey at Boston University.  We discuss growing up in Boston and the principles and philosophies that helped shape him to become a collegiate, olympic, and professional hockey player.  We also unpack details about the 'Miracle' season, parenting advice, and how Walter Payton helped him get his first career job after retiring from hockey.  Enjoy!Website: https://www.grit.org/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNYFCl9ZQw6opYuNsm48euwInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/gritdotorg/?igshid=NzNkNDdiOGI%3DTiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@grit.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/Gritdotorg/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/grit-org

In this episode of IMPACTability, host Josh Hirsch interviews Molly Goodman, the Executive Director of the Midas Collaborative. They discuss the importance of grassroots advocacy and empowering younger generations to have a voice. Molly shares her experience in the nonprofit sector and how she got involved in advocacy work. They also discuss the role of social media, particularly Twitter, in mobilizing and engaging advocates. Molly emphasizes the need for collaboration and reaching people where they are, especially through digital platforms. They also touch on the use of data in driving decision-making and fundraising strategies.Molly Goodman is the Executive Director of The Midas Collaborative. She has dedicated her career to supporting affordable housing, homeownership and wealth building opportunities for low- and moderate-income residents of MA, serving as the Manager of Counseling and Homeownership for Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation, as a Graduate Fellow with the Brookline Housing Authority, and as a founding board member and Board President of Abundant Housing of MA. Molly's career in public service began in 2014 as a Foreclosure Prevention Associate with Urban Edge, under a program of the Massachusetts Attorney General's Community Based Home Corps. She is a current member in good standing of the Massachusetts Bar and a graduate of Boston Latin School, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Suffolk University Law School.TakeawaysGrassroots advocacy is crucial for empowering younger generations and giving them a voice in important issues.Social media, particularly Twitter, can be a powerful tool for mobilizing and engaging advocates.Collaboration is key in advocacy work, and it's important to reach people where they are, especially through digital platforms.Data-driven decision-making is essential in nonprofit organizations, particularly in fundraising strategies.Chapters01:29 Background on the Midas Collaborative05:52 The Power of Social Media in Mobilizing Advocates08:42 Collaboration and Reaching People Where They Are14:04 The Importance of Data in Nonprofit Decision-Making27:36 The Changing Perception of Nonprofit Careers31:26 Conclusion and Contact InformationLeave a review! Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review. Like this episode? Subscribe to our podcast on Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcasting app.Got a question that you'd like to ask a nonprofit professional? Email your questions to IMPACTcoaches@IMPACTability.net and listen to next episode to see if your question gets answered!This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Even if you don't know Jules Rabin, there's a good chance that you have seen him protesting or read one of his many letters to the editor or commentaries in local publications. Rabin is Vermont's most tenacious and dedicated peace activist. He celebrated his 100th birthday on April 6 by asking friends to join him in downtown Montpelier to protest Israel's war on Gaza.Rabin grew up in Boston, the youngest of five children. His father worked in a junkyard sorting metal and the family struggled to get by. His experience living in poverty in a working class community during the Depression made him a lifelong crusader for social justice.  Rabin attended the Boston Latin School, then went on to get a bachelor's degree at Harvard and studied anthropology in graduate school at Columbia University. He lived in Greenwich Village where he met his wife Helen. In 1968, he moved to Vermont to teach anthropology at Goddard College, where he taught for nine years. After Goddard downsized and he lost his teaching job, Jules and Helen started Upland Bakers, baking sourdough bread for 35 years in a wood-fired oven that they built. Their bread earned such a loyal following that a local store posted a sign to customers: “To prevent RIOTS and acts of TERRORISM, we ask you to please limit your purchase of Upland French Bread to no more than three loaves.”Jules Rabin attended his first protest at the age of 8, and has protested wars in every generation. From 1960 to 1961, he participated in a 7,000-mile march from San Francisco to Moscow to promote nonviolence and nuclear disarmament. He spent years protesting against the Vietnam War, and in the early 2000s, just as the Iraq War was starting, he could be found in a weekly peace vigil in front of the Montpelier Federal Building in a protest that continued uninterrupted for nine years. Rabin, who is Jewish, has long protested Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians.“How could the Nazi genocide of Jews 1933-45 be followed by the Israeli genocide of Palestinians today?” asked Rabin. He held a sign with a similar message at a recent protest. “I feel so strongly that what Israel is doing today to Palestinians so much resembles what Germans did to Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and everywhere else in Europe and World War II. It's kind of a pitiless wrecking of human flesh.”Jules and Helen Rabin have lived in Marshfield in the same house for 56 years, where they raised their two daughters, Hannah and Nessa. They have three grandchildren.I asked Rabin what keeps him protesting. “It's not that I'm a morbid person always looking for the darkest corner of the room to squat in and be miserable in,” he replied. But he added, “One can't look the other way when something dreadful is going on.”

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Our guest for today's podcast is Eva Ho, General Partner of Fika Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm that invests in founders solving meaningful, systemic problems through the use of data, related AI-enabled technologies, and automation. While this horizontal thesis allows Fika Ventures to be fairly sector agnostic, the firm is especially drawn to innovations in enterprise software, fintech, marketplaces, and digital health.  Fika is investing out of their Fund III and has committed capital of over $300 million life to date.   Prior to Fika, Eva was a founding GP at Susa Ventures. She is a serial entrepreneur and founder, most recently a founding executive at Factual, a leading location data provider in Los Angeles. Prior, she was a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Google and Youtube for 5 years. Prior to Google, she was the head of marketing for Applied Semantics, a company that sold to Google in 2003. Eva holds an MBA from Cornell and a BA from Harvard.  Eva also graduated from one of the top high schools in the country, Boston Latin School.  And for those listeners who know me, I am biased as that is my high school.  In fact, Eva and I were high school classmates and we took many of the same AP classes together back in the day!   So, how does one get their start to becoming a great venture capitalist?  There isn't a clear answer, but I know our listeners will get a lot from this interview.  Without further ado, here is our conversation with Eva Ho.

Last night's meeting began with the Superintendent's Report, where Superintendent Skipper discussed two memos released earlier that day. The first memo addressed long-term facility planning, a comprehensive plan for which is due to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) by the end of the year. The memo noted that just 71 out of 119 schools meet standards for optimal school size, and just 18% of school buildings provide most or all of the elements defined by BPS as necessary for a “high-quality student experience.” The memo also outlined a timeline for school closures and mergers, noting that decisions will be announced this upcoming spring and planning will take place during the 2024-25 school year, with mergers and closures beginning in the fall of 2025. Notably, these decisions will be announced after both this year's budget process and the school choice season, meaning students will be choosing schools without knowing if they might be closed after next year.  The second memo discussed during the Superintendent's report was an update to the school quality framework scores - the first update since 2019. Each school is given a composite score out of 100 based on 75% student performance and 25% survey responses from students, faculty, and families, and schools are then ranked from tier 1 to tier 4, with the highest quality schools in tier 1. The memo did not provide individual school scores nor any underlying data for the calculations, and the data included in the memo was surprising. For example, the Sarah Greenwood School has a 7% accountability score from DESE and is tier 1. The Blackstone School has a 6% accountability score and is tier 2. English High School has a 3% accountability score and is in tier 2, while Boston Latin School, which has a 96% accountability score, is also in tier 2, having moved down from tier 1 in this new ranking. While annual updates to the school quality framework are typically presented as a standalone report to the School Committee, last night it was only mentioned during the Superintendent's remarks, and no questions were asked about this data by members of the School Committee. The Superintendent ended her remarks by announcing that she will propose changes to the exam school policy at next week's School Committee meeting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On July 14, 2021, the Boston School Committee unanimously approved a new admissions policy for Boston's three exam schools: Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy, and the John D. O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science. Now, after the policy's first full year of implementation, questions have been raised about its “unintended consequences.” School Committee members and the public have called for changes to be made to this policy to address these unintended consequences, and at the last School Committee meeting, Superintendent Mary Skipper promised to prepare a memo for tonight's meeting outlining the historical context and rationale for the policy change. In anticipation of that discussion tonight, we thought it might be helpful for our listeners to hear excerpts directly from the 2021 Exam School Admissions Task Force meetings and School Committee meetings where the new policy was conceived, proposed, and approved. Today, we recap those events in a special bonus episode of “Last Night at School Committee.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Robert Fallon's journey is a testament to the transformative power of education, international experience, and a willingness to embrace new challenges. From his formative years at Boston Latin School to his groundbreaking work in international banking and, later, involvement in cutting-edge scientific research, Fallon's story is one of resilience, adaptability, and a relentless pursuit of knowledge.

Students at Boston Latin School walk out of the classroom to protest gun violence, state lawmakers not budging on a gas tax suspension and a vandal defaces the statue of Samantha in Salem. Five minutes of news that will keep you in "The Loop."

About declamation, IB Latin, and the benefits and challenges of having a four-year Latin requirement. Founded in 2006 and modeled after the Boston Latin School, The Brooklyn Latin School (TBLS) is one of nine specialized high schools in the New York City public school system. With an emphasis on public speaking, structured writing, analytical thinking, and Socratic seminars, TBLS requires all of its discipuli – and yes, they're referred to as discipuli, not as students – to complete a full four-year Latin program. The discipuli of TBLS wear uniforms whose purple accents “reflect the color worn by Roman nobility,” and the school's motto is reflective of the high expectations to which its discipuli are held: CUI MULTUM SIT DATUM, MULTUM AB EO POSTULABITUR (“To whom much has been given, much from him will be demanded”). According to data collected and analyzed by U.S. News and World Report, The Brooklyn Latin School is among the top one hundred public high schools in America. Jennifer Snyder serves as Chair of the Department of Classics at TBLS. Jennifer earned a B.A. in Classics from Smith College and an M.A. in Classics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and she has been teaching at TBLS since 2011. The Brooklyn Latin School CORRECTION: A listener in Boston pointed out that the Boston Latin School still requires four years of Latin. Quintilian is supported by a Bridge Initiative Grant from the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, a division of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Quintilian is on Facebook! Find us, follow us, and join the conversation. Music: "Echo Canyon Instrumental" by Clive Romney Comments or questions about this podcast may be directed to ryangsellers@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!

Born and raised in Boston, MA of Greek immigrant parents, and an alumna of Boston Latin School, and Boston College, Effie Panagopoulos is the first Greek woman in history to found a liquor brand.  With a BA in French/Romance Languages, Effie had lofty aspirations of being a UN ambassador, and much to the chagrin of her traditional Greek mother, ended up in the spirits business.  She has over 15 years experience marketing and selling spirits brands in the US from street to executive level, for some of the most well-known brands. (Chambord, Bacardi, Grey Goose, Bombay Sapphire, Metaxa, Disaronno).  She finally became an “ambassador” when courted by Remy Cointreau to be the first (and only to date) National Brand Ambassador for iconic global Greek spirit brand, METAXA. It was this role that brought her back to Greece and re-ignited her love affair with the motherland.  Her “eureka moment” was in 2008, at infamous Mykonos beach bar Nammos, coincidentally written about in VOGUE.com where she decided SHE would be the one to bring this product to the US, and has not only created Greece's first luxury spirit brand, but has eyes set on being the “new” on having a bottle of KLEOS on every bar.  To seek Aristotelean balance and personify her Spartan roots, she is a fitness enthusiast, certified personal trainer, former spinning instructor, and natural bodybuilder.  She can be found deadlifting cases of KLEOS in the summertime, doing bicep curls with bottles of KLEOS, on the Greek islands, while writing bits for her next stand up comedy routine in between sets.She is passionate about mentoring the next generation of female entrepreneurs and supporting women's charitable organizations.Follow Effie Panagopoulos on social media @greekspiritmuse

The war Russia has waged on Ukraine has seemed largely kinetic, but the most effective weapons weilded thus far have been consumer technologies. Putin has pursued a hybrid warfare strategy, yet the Ukrainians have fought his mendacious claims with the realities of conflict captured by mobile devices and social media. Bogged down by guerilla fighting in Ukrainian cities, Putin will view offensive cyber action and aggressive information warfare as increasingly appealing options. Richard Clarke, former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counterterrorism, and the nation's first "Cyber Czar," will give us an inside look at what the world has learned about the spillover of warfare in an era of advanced cyber threats.In his latest book, The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats, Clarke delves deep into the political and economic calculations of cyber conflict. He also provides concrete steps that can be taken to achieve cyber resilience, during peacetime and amidst international conflict, including building more resistant systems and raising the costs for escalations in cyberspace. About the speaker: Richard A. Clarke served for thirty years in national security policy roles in the US Government, first in the Pentagon, then the State Department, and finally for an unprecedented decade of continuous service for three Presidents in the White House.In the White House National Security Council for President Bush (41), Clinton, and Bush (43) he served as Special Assistant to the President for Global Affairs, National Coordinator for Security and Counter-terrorism ("Terrorism Czar'), and Special Advisor for Cyberspace (the first "Cyber Czar").  Earlier, in the State Department he had been appointed as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence in the Reagan Administration and was confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs in the Bush (41) Administration. In the latter capacity, he coordinated elements in support of the First Gulf War. In the Pentagon and the State Department, he participated in a series of multilateral and bilateral nuclear arms control negotiations.Following his government career, Dick Clarke was an on-air analyst for ABC News for fifteen years, taught at the Harvard Kennedy School for five years, lead a security risk management consulting firm (Good Harbor), and served on corporate advisory boards and Boards of Directors, as well as chairing or serving on state and federal advisory boards on cybersecurity (including President Obama's Advisory Group on Technology and Intelligence, the "NSA Review Group").  He is the Chair of the Board of Governors of the Middle East Institute, an eight decade old educational institution based in Washington. He was a member of President Obama's 2008 Transition team.Clarke's books include both non-fiction (5) and fiction (4). His seminal work on terrorism and al qaeda, Against All Enemies, was a number one NY Times best seller. His 2010 volume Cyber War, co-authored with Rob Knake, was a Washington Post bestseller and acknowledged as an early and foundational book in the field. Its sequel, the Fifth Domain; Defending our Country, our Corporations and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats, also written with Knake, was published in 2019.Clarke is the host of the FUTURE STATE podcast. He is the recipient of membership in the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame, the RSA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Champion of Freedom Award from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. A graduate of Boston Latin School, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT, Dick Clarke is a resident of Virginia.

With Daylight saving time we moved forward an hour, earlier this morning. The head of Boston Latin School is stepping down. New York City's Museum of Modern Art will be closed today after a stabbing that injured two employees. 5 minutes of news that will keep you in "The Loop".

The Next CMO: A Guide to Operational Marketing Excellence by Peter Mahoney, Scott Todaro, and Dan Faulkner About the Book: The world is changing and so is the marketing profession. CMOs and the next generation of marketing leaders need to read this book to develop a strategy for ensuring operational excellence to achieve their goals. This book provides a best practices approach for forming your marketing goals, creating a strategy, building a plan, crafting impactful campaigns, optimizing budgetary spending, and measuring true ROI. This book provides models, practical approaches, and templates to help the reader structure their own marketing strategy. About the Author: Peter Mahoney is the founder and CEO of Plannuh, the AI-driven marketing planning, and budget platform. Peter has degrees in Physics and Computer Science, and then showed up in the wrong room one day and ended up in marketing. In his 30+ year career, Peter has built products and led marketing for startups and for multi-billion dollar public companies, including voice and AI innovator Nuance, where he was the chief marketing officer. And, interesting fact - he is a graduate of the oldest existing school in the United States, the Boston Latin School, founded in 1635.   Click here for this episode's website page with the links mentioned during the interview... https://www.salesartillery.com/marketing-book-podcast/next-cmo-peter-mahoney

Hi Friends! We've missed you! We have so much to talk about, but until then please enjoy these 13 extra special episodes called The Inclusivity Series. Created by Ashley in collaboration with lululemon, this series of conversations attempts to answer the question: How do we make the wellness industry more inclusive? Over the course of these 13 conversations we talk about wellness, fitness, anti-blackness, diet culture, climate change and much much more. What started as a call to action to be better wellness practitioners has morphed into lessons on allyship and vulnerability.Each speaker brings something incredible to the table and we hope you'll enjoy them all! If you love what you hear, please share it with your friends! Need to reach out? Fill out the form on our website: www.thecouragecampaign.com Cheers, Mark + Ash About the speaker: Tameka Moss, Principal TBM Consulting Tameka has over sixteen years' experience in organizational and leadership development; she applies her talent management experience to advise clients on the best approach to attract, retain and develop their talent. Her experience spans from managing diverse work teams and overseeing organizational assessments, to solution design, c=facilitation, and execution for industries as diverse as financial services, not-for-profit, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals. She also specializes in leadership development and performance initiatives. A native Bostonian, Tameka is an alum of Boston Latin School. She received a dual B.A. in Sociology and African-American Studies with Honors from Yale University. You can find her on Instagram @tameka.mossSupport the show (https://donorbox.org/the-courage-campaign-1)

Born and raised in Boston, MA of Greek Immigrant parents, and an alumna of Boston Latin School, and Boston College, Effie Panagopoulos is the first Greek woman in history to found a liquor brand.For more info, visit https://shrimptankpodcast.com/bocaraton/Check us out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theshrimptankFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theshrimptank?lang=enCheck out Boca Raton on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/shrimp-tank-boca-raton/

Effie Panagopoulos / CEO & Founder of KLEOS Mastiha Spirit Born and raised in Boston, MA of Greek immigrant parents , and an alumna of Boston Latin School, and Boston College, Effie Panagopoulos is the first Greek woman in history to found a liquor brand. (more…)

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 800 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more also please donate to GiveWell.org/StandUp and start a store or shop at Shopify.com/Standup 34 mins Billy Baker is a staff writer for TheBoston Globe, where he writes narrative features and humorous columns. A native of South Boston, he is a graduate of Boston Latin School, Tulane University, and the Columbia Journalism School. He has received the Deborah Howell Award for Writing Excellence from the American Society of News Editors, and was a member of the Globe team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. 1:26 Eric J. Segall graduated from Emory University, Phi Beta Kappa 27  and summa cum laude, and from Vanderbilt Law School, where he was the research editor for the Law Review and member of Order of the Coif. He clerked for the Chief Judge Charles Moye Jr. for the Northern District of Georgia, and Albert J. Henderson of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. After his clerkships, Segall worked for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the U.S. Department of Justice, before joining the Georgia State faculty in 1991. Segall teaches federal courts and constitutional law I and II. He is the author of the books Originalism as Faith and Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court is not a Court and its Justices are not Judges. His articles on constitutional law have appeared in, among others, the Harvard Law Review Forum, the Stanford Law Review On Line, the UCLA Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, and Constitutional Commentary among many others. Segall's op-eds and essays have appeared in the New York Times, the LA Times, The Atlantic, SLATE, Vox, Salon, and the Daily Beast, among others. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and France 24 and all four of Atlanta's local television stations. He has also appeared on numerous local and national radio shows. Listen and Subscribe to Eric's Podcast Supreme Myths and follow him on Tik Tok! Check out all things Jon Carroll Follow and Support Pete Coe Pete on YouTube Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page

Kass Thomas is a successful business entrepreneur, radio personality, and communication expert. It is her mission to strengthen the unity of choice and change. She inspires clients to discover their unique brand of magic. A best-selling author, Kass Thomas released her latest book, a self-empowerment manual called Dancing with Riches, to encourage readers to change tracks if the journey they are on is not working for them. Within, readers will find a guide to transform negative into positive, and to come through a winner, even in limiting situations. Her non-judgmental demeanour creates a safe space for many to express themselves with ease. She is a catalyst for multicultural inclusion. Kass believes there is so much more that unites us than separates us. Listen & Subscribe on: iTunes / Stitcher / Podbean / Overcast / Spotify Contact Info Website: www.KassThomas.com Book: Dancing With Riches Most Influential Person My mom Effect on Emotions My connection with my emotions is my not feeling badly about loving and being so sensitive. I've always been quite sensitive and really thanks to the tools of ‘Access Consciousness‘, also acknowledging and recognizing that I can tap into what people are going through and my heart is my guide. Thoughts on Breathing We have so many things that we can use to judge ourselves. Like, do you deserve air? But you breathe it. So I invite people to recognize that you don't have to feel like you deserve something in order to have it. You don't have to possess air, like breathe it in and hold it there forever. It's a continuity of flow. If you sometimes are willing to breathe in the magic, and breathe out any of your doubts about you. Breathe in the possibilities, and breathe out any of your blocks. And breathe in the gems and the jewels that being on this planet and alive in this time are, and breathe out anywhere you feel like you're getting it wrong. Suggested Resources Book: 7 Steps To Flawless Communications by Kass Thomas Book: Dancing With Riches by Kass Thomas Book: Being You, Changing The World by Dr. Dan Heer Book: The Place by Gary M. Douglas App: The Who Does This Belong To? App by Dr. Dain Heer Bullying Story I have experienced bullying. I've probably experienced some of the things that we even call sexual abuse. However, I didn't recognize it as that. It's like converting the negative into the positive. I was very clear about what I desired to get out of the situation and it was always me. If I am able to connect with me and to not diminish myself, then that will be a contribution to the world. Even in the first grade I was bullied by these two girls. They would make me walk them home. I didn't really know that my house was so much closer. I was bullied in my first year of high school. I went to the oldest public high school in the U.S., Boston Latin School. I was bullied by these girls. They would bump into me and push me and I wasn't willing to be diminished. I tried so hard to pretend I didn't notice it. I tried so hard to be really kind to them. But I wasn't willing to be part of their crowd either. Related Episodes 438 Return Of The Gentleman; Dr. Dain Heer 436 Access Consciousness Founder, Gary Douglas 278 The Unified Mindfulness Approach with Julianna Raye Special Offer Have you been trying to break through a mind block and reduce stress? Are you discouraged and feeling anxiety? I coach people just like you. Do you just want to feel content and happy? I'm Bruce Langford, a practicing hypnotist, and I love to help people just like you! Feel good about your life and accomplishments. Regain confidence. Book a Free Consultation to get you on the road to contentment. Email me: bruce@mindfulnessmode.com with ‘Kass Thomas' in the subject line.

In our third episode of our special series, Catalysts for Change: The Race for Boston, Jill talks with Boston City Councilor Andrea Campbell. A lifelong resident of Boston who represents District 4, Andrea has served on the council since being elected in 2015. Raised in Roxbury and the South End, Councilor Campbell graduated from Boston Public Schools and Boston Latin School, going on to attend Princeton University and UCLA Law School. Following law school, Councilor Campbell worked as a lawyer, serving as deputy legal counsel for Governor Deval Patrick as well as spending time in the private sector. In 2015, she successfully ran against a 32-year incumbent to represent District 4 on the City Council, and in 2018, she became the first Black woman to serve as the City Council President. She and her family live in Mattapan. We talk with Councilor Campbell about her journey, her experiences growing up in Boston, her work as a city councilor, her vision for an equitable Boston, and more. If you would like to learn more about Andrea Campbell's campaign, please check out the resources below. Resources: Andrea Campbell's Campaign Website Meet Andrea Campbell Andrea Campbell's Twitter Andrea Campbell's Campaign Stances Ways to Engage with Andrea Campbell's Campaign

No dia 23 de abril de 1635, é fundada no estado de Massachusetts a Boston Latin School, primeira escola pública dos EUA. Inicialmente destinada aos filhos da elite norte-americana, a instituição se tornaria célebre por sua dedicação às ciências humanas e, quase quatro séculos após sua inauguração, seria eleita uma das vinte instituições de ensino básico mais renomadas do país.----Quer contribuir com Opera Mundi via PIX? Nossa chave é apoie@operamundi.com.br (Razão Social: Última Instancia Editorial Ltda.). Desde já agradecemos!Assinatura solidária: www.operamundi.com.br/apoio★ Support this podcast ★

Arun Rath checks back in with Heidemarie Floerke, a German teacher at the Boston Latin School, about teaching language through slam poetry and songwriting.

Arun Rath checks back in with Heidemarie Floerke, a German teacher at the Boston Latin School, about teaching language through slam poetry and songwriting.

The Boston Red Sox and the Boston Celtics have thrown their support behind an effort to use Boston zip code quotas to select students for admissions to Boston Latin School and two other exam schools. The teams believe that the existing exam system has resulted in the schools remaining “largely inaccessible to far too many students, including students of color and students residing in some of Boston’s lowest-income ZIP codes.” Should professional sports teams get actively involved in political controversy?

Arun Rath speaks with Heidemarie Floerke, a language teacher at the Boston Latin School. Floerke has been frustrated with the limitations of teaching virtually, but she's found a way to connect her students with great art, and a great artist. Together, they've created a song.

Arun Rath speaks with Heidemarie Floerke, a language teacher at the Boston Latin School. Floerke has been frustrated with the limitations of teaching virtually, but she's found a way to connect her students with great art, and a great artist. Together, they've created a song.

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We examine the Boston busing crisis of the 1970s. Although school segregation in the South gets most of the attention in the history books, integrating Boston's schools triggered violence and protests in a city that considered itself a role model. Featuring interviews with a former headmaster of the Boston Latin School, scholars, and people who lived through the incident, we explore how integration shook South Boston and Roxbury and even gave Whitey Bulger's crime syndicate a boost. We also look at how the incident continues to shape Boston today.  Hosted by Lydia Shields and Maxwell Burt Edited by Sarah Bloznalis Engineered by Cassandra McGrath Researched by Julia Limmer Produced by Matthew Oteri

#039 - Beata Coloyan and Jasmine Howard coached the Boston Latin School Rowing team to a nationally competitive public school team. As coaches of color themselves, both have worked to make the teams' demographic make up match the percentage of students of color at the school.In this episode, we talked about:How have various experiences impacted you are a coach? [ ]Describe your work with the Boston Latin Rowing team and making it more accessible.Describe the racial makeup of your coaches [56:55]Do you think there's something women of color can do to invite more women of color to be coaches? [1:05:00] Given their legal and political backgrounds, are their thoughts on politics in rowing? [1:11:39]What are your next goals for your team and for yourself? [1:18:15]… and much more.To get in touch with Jasmine or Beata, please reach them at coaches@kannaracing.comWe hope that the conversation in this podcast helps us all in the rowing world -- no matter your race -- to unify the rowing sport through diversity.If you have a response to this or any episode, we want to hear it. Send us your voice message at www.speakpipe.com/rowingincolor or just check out our Linktree (linktr.ee/rowingincolor). If you don't follow us on IG already, find us @rowingincolor.Lastly, if you can, please hit "follow" or "subscribe" wherever you listen to podcasts. If you can, please leave a rating and a review on Apple Podcast -- it would really mean a lot.We hope you and yours are well. Stay safe.

#039 - Beata Coloyan and Jasmine Howard coached the Boston Latin School Rowing team to a nationally competitive public school team. As coaches of color themselves, both have worked to make the teams’ demographic make up match the percentage of students of color at the school.In this episode, we talked about:How have various experiences impacted you are a coach? [ ]Describe your work with the Boston Latin Rowing team and making it more accessible.Describe the racial makeup of your coaches [56:55]Do you think there’s something women of color can do to invite more women of color to be coaches? [1:05:00] Given their legal and political backgrounds, are their thoughts on politics in rowing? [1:11:39]What are your next goals for your team and for yourself? [1:18:15]… and much more.To get in touch with Jasmine or Beata, please reach them at coaches@kannaracing.comWe hope that the conversation in this podcast helps us all in the rowing world -- no matter your race -- to unify the rowing sport through diversity.If you have a response to this or any episode, we want to hear it. Send us your voice message at www.speakpipe.com/rowingincolor or just check out our Linktree (linktr.ee/rowingincolor). If you don't follow us on IG already, find us @rowingincolor.Lastly, if you can, please hit "follow" or "subscribe" wherever you listen to podcasts. If you can, please leave a rating and a review on Apple Podcast -- it would really mean a lot.We hope you and yours are well. Stay safe.

The Boston School Committee decided unanimously to ditch the exam schools admission test for one year due to the challenges presented by administering an exam during a pandemic. The new plan instead will rely on grades, MCAS scores, and ZIP codes to determine eligibility and acceptance. While the School Committee accepted the new plan 7-0, former Education Secretary Paul Reville told Boston Public Radio Thursday it is an imperfect solution to the problem. “It’s not going to go away as a controversy,” said Reville. “This is a flawed plan, but any plan would be flawed in these times. To get a fair calculation of merit in the absence of a tool that applies to all students … to do that in this environment of coronavirus is impossible to do, so they’re settling for the next best thing.” The newly-approved system reserves the first 20 percent of seats at Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy and the O'Bryant School of Mathematics for Boston students with the highest pre-COVID grades in BPS, charter, private and religious schools in the city. The remaining 80 percent would be offered in rounds based on grades in individual zip codes, starting with those zip codes with the lowest median incomes. Paul Reville is former Secretary of Education and a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education where he also runs the Education Redesign Lab. His latest book, co-authored with Elaine Weiss, is “Broader, Bolder, Better: How Schools and Communities Help Students Overcome the Disadvantages of Poverty.”

The Boston School Committee is considering a plan in which the city’s three prestigious exam schools will not have an entrance exam to determine next year’s incoming class. Could this temporary plan be the future for the nation’s oldest and most prestigious high school? Dan will be joined by Boston Latin School alumni leaders Bruce McKinnon and alumni Karen Curran to talk about the long-term impact this proposed policy may have on our charter schools.

Topics: Million Man March, TLC, Friday, UPN (Bonus Artist: Luck Pacheco) http://afropopremix.com   1995 Notes   1.    Snapshots   2.    President: Bill Clinton   3.    Jan - The WB Television Network and The United Paramount Network (UPN) launches.   4.    Mar - Yahoo! was incorporated and soon became the first popular online directory and search engine on the World Wide Web.   5.    Mar - Mississippi ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The amendment was nationally ratified in 1865. Until February 7, 2013, the state of Mississippi had never submitted the required documentation to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, meaning it never officially abolished slavery.   6.    Mar - Eric Lynn Wright (September 7, 1964 – March 26, 1995), known professionally as Eazy-E is suddenly hospitalized, diagnosed with AIDS, and dies due to its complications.   7.    Apr - Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices, Terry Nichols, set off the bomb.   8.    May - In Culpeper, Virginia, actor Christopher Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a riding competition. [See - “Superman Curse”]   9.    Sep - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens.   10.    Oct - The Million Man March is held in Washington, D.C. The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.   11.    Dec - The presidents of Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia sign a peace treaty in Paris, ending a three-and-a-half-year war.   12.    Music Snapshots   13.    #1 "Gangsta's Paradise", Coolio featuring L.V.   14.    #2 "Waterfalls", TLC   15.    #3 "Creep", TLC   16.    Record of the Year: "Kiss From a Rose", Seal   17.    Album of the Year: Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette   18.    Song of the Year: "Kiss From a Rose", Seal   19.    Best New Artist: Hootie & the Blowfish   20.    Best Female R&B: Anita Baker for "I Apologize"   21.    Best Male R&B: Stevie Wonder for "For Your Love"   22.    Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group: TLC for "Creep"   23.    Best R&B Song: Stevie Wonder (songwriter) for "For Your Love"   24.    Best R&B Album: TLC for CrazySexyCool   25.    Best Rap Solo: "Gangsta's Paradise", Coolio   26.    Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group: "I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By", Method Man featuring Mary J. Blige   27.    Best Rap Album: Poverty's Paradise, Naughty by Nature   28.    Movie Snapshots   29.    #1 Die Hard with a Vengeance   30.    #2 Toy Story   31.    #3 Apollo 13   32.    Notables: Higher Learning, Major Payne, Bad Boys, New Jersey Drive, Friday, Braveheart, Batman Forever, Pocahontas, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, Clueless, Waterworld, Mortal Kombat, The Tuskegee Airmen, The Usual Suspects, Seven, Dead Presidents, The American President, Casino, Money Train, Heat, Waiting to Exhale.   33.    TV Snapshots   34.    Top TV Shows   35.    #1 ER   36.    #2 Seinfeld   37.    #3 Friends   38.    Debuts: The Wayans Bros. (WB), The Parent 'Hood (WB), Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (still airing), In the House   39.    Economic Snapshots   40.    Income = 35.9k (Previously 37K)   41.    House = 113.1K (119)   42.    Car = 15.5k (12.5)   43.    Rent = 550 (533)   44.    Harvard = 26.2k (24.9)   45.    Movie = 4.35 (4)   46.    Gas = 1.12 (1.09)   47.    Stamp .32 (.29)   48.    Social Scene: Million Man March   49.    A political demonstration in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 16, 1995, to promote African American unity and family values. Estimates of the number of marchers, most of whom were African American men, ranged from 400,000 to nearly 1.1 million, ranking it among the largest gatherings of its kind in American history.   50.    Several African American leaders did not support the march, including Mary Frances Berry, chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and Rep. John Lewis, the latter of whom saw Farrakhan’s message as an effort to “resegregate America.”   51.    Comments:   52.    Featured Speaker: Louis Farrakhan, @62 yrs old   53.    Born Louis Eugene Wolcott on May 11, 1933, in New York City, New York, to Sarah Mae Manning and Percival Clark. His parents separated even before he was born.   54.    He did not know his biological father and was brought up by his stepfather Louis Wolcott. The death of his stepfather in 1936 led to the relocation of his family to Boston, Massachusetts.   55.    From an early age, he received rigorous training in violin, so much so that by the time he turned 13 he had mastered the instrument and was playing along with the ‘Boston College Orchestra’ and ‘Boston Civic Symphony.’   56.    In his first year as a teenager, he became one of the first black performers to appear on the ‘Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour. ‘The following year, he had two national level victories under his belt.   57.    He attended the prestigious ‘Boston Latin School’ after which he was admitted to ‘English High School. ‘After graduating from ‘English High School,’ he enrolled for a three-year course at the ‘Winston-Salem Teachers College’ on a track scholarship.   58.    Starting from the 1950s, he pursued a career in music. He recorded several calypso albums under the pseudonym ‘The Charmer. ‘He toured frequently since the release of his first album. In 1955, he organized a show titled ‘Calypso Follies’ in Chicago.   59.    Interestingly, one of his songs remained a chartbuster and on top of the ‘Billboard Chart’ for five years in a row.   60.    It was while pursuing his professional music career that he was first exposed to the teachings of ‘Nation of Islam’ through his friend and saxophonist Rodney Smith.   61.    Later, Elijah Muhammad invited him to attend the Nation of Islam’s annual ‘Saviours' Day’ address. Inspired by the discourse, he resolved to be a member of ‘Nation of Islam’ (NOI) in 1955. (@22)   62.    He fulfilled all the requirements to become a registered Muslim/ registered believer/ registered laborer of NOI. Subsequently, he received an approval by the NOI headquarter in July 1955.   63.    Initially known by the name Louis X, his name was later changed to the ‘holy name’ Louis Farrakhan. A derivative of the Arabic word furqan, which means "The Criterion". He gave up on a music career and dedicated his life to the ‘Nation of Islam.’   64.    Within a span of nine months, he worked his way up and started serving as the assistant minister to Malcolm X, who was heading the Muhammad’s Temple of Islam in Boston at that time.   65.    He was soon made the minister as Malcom X was shifted to the Temple of Muhammad in Harlem, New York. Farrakhan replaced Malcom X as the minister at the Boston Temple.   66.    Malcolm X was assassinated on 21 February 1965 and Farrakhan profited from it as he was appointed to two prominent positions in NOI. (@32)   67.    He was appointed to the chair of the minister of the influential Harlem Mosque in 1965, a position which he held until 1975. Furthermore, he became the national spokesman and representative of NOI and served in this position until Elijah Muhammad’s death in 1975.   68.    In 1975, the Nation's leadership chose Wallace Muhammad, also known as Warith Deen Mohammad, the fifth of Elijah Muhammad's sons, not Farrakhan, as the new Supreme Minister.   69.    Though Farrakhan remained a loyalist of the Muhammad clan for some time, in 1977 he withdrew his support from the organization and rebuilt the original ‘Nation of Islam’ which had been established by its founders.   70.    Soon after its foundation, he started a weekly newspaper by the name ‘The Final Call, Inc.’ The objective of this initiation was to communicate his views and thoughts to the supporters and members.   71.    Two years later, along with his supporters, he organized the first ‘Saviours’ Day’ convention in Chicago. His group promised to walk by the principles of Elijah Muhammad.   72.    Throughout his leadership, he blamed the Jewish community and other ethnic and racial groups for the sufferings endured by African Americans.   73.    In October of 1995, he planned a broad coalition, intending to assemble about one million men in Washington DC for the ‘Million Man March.’   74.    At the convention, he was the keynote speaker along with distinguished African American intellectuals, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King III, Cornel West, Jesse Jackson, and Benjamin Chavis.   75.    Question: Who else could pull this off today? Where have our leaders gone? (Besides Obama)   76.    Music Scene   77.    #1 "Gangsta's Paradise", Coolio featuring L.V.   78.    #2 "Waterfalls", TLC   79.    #3 "Creep", TLC   80.    #4 "Kiss from a Rose", Seal   81.    #5 "On Bended Knee", Boyz II Men   82.    #6 "Another Night", Real McCoy   83.    #7 "Fantasy", Mariah Carey   84.    #9 "Don't Take It Personal (Just One of Dem Days)", Monica   85.    #10 "This Is How We Do It", Montell Jordan   86.    #11 "I Know", Dionne Farris   87.    #12 "Water Runs Dry", Boyz II Men   88.    #13 "Freak Like Me", Adina Howard   89.    #15 "I Can Love You Like That", All-4-One   90.    #18 "Boombastic" / "In the Summertime", Shaggy   91.    #20 "You Gotta Be", Des'ree   92.    #21 "You Are Not Alone", Michael Jackson   93.    #23 "One More Chance", The Notorious B.I.G.   94.    #24 "Here Comes the Hotstepper", Ini Kamoze   95.    #25 "Candy Rain", Soul for Real   96.    #27 "I Believe", Blessid Union of Souls   97.    #28 "Red Light Special", TLC   98.    #29 "Runaway", Janet Jackson   99.    #31 "Colors of the Wind", Vanessa Williams   100.    #32 "Someone to Love", Jon B.   101.    #34 "If You Love Me", Brownstone   102.    #36 "I Got 5 on It", Luniz   103.    #37 "Baby", Brandy   104.    #40 "He's Mine", MoKenStef   105.    Vote:   106.    Jan - My Life, Mary J. Blige   107.    Feb - Cocktails, Too Short   108.    Mar - Safe + Sound, DJ Quik   109.    Apr - Me Against the World, 2Pac   110.    Apr - Friday, Soundtrack   111.    Jun - Poverty's Paradise, Naughty by Nature   112.    Jul - HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, Michael Jackson   113.    Jul - Operation Stackola, Luniz   114.    Aug - The Show, the After Party, the Hotel, Jodeci   115.    Aug - E. 1999 Eternal, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony   116.    Sep - The Show, Soundtrack   117.    Oct - 4,5,6, Kool G Rap   118.    Oct - Daydream, Mariah Carey   119.    Oct - Doe or Die, AZ   120.    Nov - Dogg Food, Tha Dogg Pound   121.    Dec - R. Kelly, R. Kelly   122.    Dec - Waiting to Exhale, Soundtrack   123.    Vote:   124.    Featured Artists: TLC   125.    Tionne Tenese Watkins (@25) was born on April 26, 1970, in Des Moines, Iowa, into a family of African American, Native American and Irish descent. Both her parents, James and Gayle Watkins, were musicians and singers.   126.    Her parents divorced when she was three years old. Thereafter, she was raised by her mother, who taught her to be “confident and independent”. At the age of nine, they moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where her maternal grandmother used to live.   127.    As a child, she was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia (SCA), as a result of which, she had to spend a lot of time in hospitals.   128.    As a teenager, she began working as a hair model, eventually serving as a manicurist and shampoo girl at a popular Atlanta hair salon.   129.    In 1990, (@20) Tionne Watkins heard that a teenager named Crystal Clear was planning to open an all-girls group like Bell Biv DeVoe, having a tomboyish, hip-hop image. Eventually, she appeared for an audition and joined the three-member band, the third one being Lisa Lopes.   130.    Calling themselves ‘2nd Nature’, they soon started working with Jermaine Dupri and Rico Wade on demo tape material.   131.    Meanwhile, Watkins met Perri "Pebbles" Reid, the owner of the management and production company, Pebbitone, and managed to arrange an audition with her.   132.    Impressed by the girls, Reid arranged an audition with the local record label, LaFace Records, co-founded by her then husband Antonio Reid and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmund. She also changed the group’s name to TLC with ‘T’ representing Tionne, ‘L’ Lisa, and ‘C’ Crystal.   133.    Although Antonio Reid was impressed by Watkins and Lopes, he did not approve of Clear, who was eventually replaced by Rozonda Thomas in April 1991. Very soon, Watkins became "T-Boz", Lopes became "Left-Eye", and Thomas became "Chilli”, so that ‘TLC’ continued to be the acronym of their names.   134.    Their debut album, 'Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip' was released on February 25, 1992, by LaFace Records. It peaked at number 14 on the US Billboard 200, selling six million copies worldwide, and was certified quadruple platinum RIAA.   135.    'Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip' scored three top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100 with ‘Baby-Baby-Baby’ peaking at number two, ‘Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg’ at number six and ‘What About Your Friends’ at number seven. Moreover, ‘Baby-Baby-Baby’ also peaked at number one at Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks.   136.    In 1993, the group started working on their second album, ‘CrazySexyCool’. But because of Lisa’s personal problems, it took time to complete and was ultimately released on September 15, 1994.   137.    Certified Diamond, the album was a huge success, peaking at the 3rd position on the US Billboard 200. It sold over 11 million copies in the United States alone. The album was nominated for six Grammy Awards, out of which it won two and helped TLC to become the second-best selling girl group of all time.   138.    Billboard named them the ‘Artist of the Year’ at the Billboard Music Awards. The album also appeared on Rolling Stone Magazine’s ’500 Greatest Albums of All Time’.   139.    Despite the success, TLC was forced to file for bankruptcy because of poor contracts they had signed in 1991. Eventually, the group signed a new contract with the same company and went back to work.   140.    Rozonda Ocelian Thomas (@24) was born on 27th February 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia to Abdul Ali and Ava Thomas. Her mother is of African American as well as Native American descent, while her father is of East Indian and Middle Eastern Background. She was raised by a single mother and did not meet her father until she was 25.   141.    Thomas studied at Benjamin E. Mays High School, from where she graduated in 1989. Soon she started working as a back-up dancer for the R&B group Damian Dame.   142.    In 1991, (@20) Rozonda Thomas joined the pop group TLC.   143.    Lisa Nicole Lopes (@24) was born on May 27, 1971, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father was Ronald Lopes Sr., a staff sergeant in the US Army, and her mother was Wanda Denise, a seamstress. She was of Cape Verdean, Mexican, American, African and Portuguese descent. She was the eldest of three siblings. Her parents divorced when she was in school. Following this, she was raised by her paternal grandmother.   144.    At the age of five, she began playing the piano and eventually started composing songs over the next few years. She studied at the Philadelphia School for Girls.   145.    In late 1990, having heard of an open casting call for a new girl group through her then-boyfriend, Lopes moved to Atlanta to audition.   146.    Lopes’ personal life, though, was marred by her rocky relationship with football great Andre Rison, and in 1994, she was arrested for burning down his home.   147.    In 2000, she began her solo-project ‘Supernova’ which was set to be released in August 2001. However, the date was postponed repeatedly. It was eventually broadcast over the internet in 2002. The album was yet to be released formally and a fourth TLC project was in the making, when Lopes met with a tragic car accident in 2002 which unfortunately put an end to her life.  she was just 30 years old.   148.    Question: Is the WAP controversy justified?   149.    Movie Scene: Friday 1995 film   150.    (Links and Resources: Strong Black Legends: John Witherspoon; "John Witherspoon's Style of Comedy was Timeless," Justin Tinsley, The Undefeated; Gene Siskel's review, Chicago Tribune; Desson Howe's review, Washington Post; "After 20 Years, Friday Is (Still) The Most Important Film Ever Made About The Hood," Kelley L. Carter, BuzzFeed; "John Witherspoon Made Every Scene Better," Rembert Brown, New York Times; Review by Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly. - Find additional episodes, leave a comment, or make a donation to support the podcast at unaffiliatedcritic.com.)   151.    Reviews:   152.    Gene Siskel: For all of the shouting, mugging and rap music, a surprisingly dull comic yarn about a young man (Ice Cube) trying to survive in the 'hood. Colorful characters abound, but nothing ties them together. I knew the picture was in trouble when its first gag involved an old lady spewing obscenities. (Rating: 1 star)   153.    By Desson Howe, Washington Post Staff Writer - April 28, 1995: "Friday," a comedy starring Ice Cube and Chris Tucker, is dirty, offensive, infantile and may launch a few sanctimonious opinion columns. And I mean that in the nicest way. The movie, which shamelessly hawks its own "Friday" music video at the beginning and eschews political correctness whenever possible, happens to be incredibly funny.   154.    After 20 Years, “Friday” Is (Still) The Most Important Film Ever Made About The Hood: - Kelley L. Carter, BuzzFeed News Reporter. Posted April 20, 2015.   155.    “...Todd Boyd, a professor at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts as well as screenwriter and producer of the 1999 coming-of-age drama The Wood, says that Friday didn't just add an element of comedy to depictions of everyday life in black neighborhoods, it spawned a new genre — the hood comedy.   156.    “The film demonstrated that black life was not all drugs, violence, dysfunction, and pathology — yet instead of offering a Cosby Show-like fantasy, Friday put these issues in context, finding humor in the everyday lives of regular black people,” he explains. “Since the 1970s, Hollywood has always looked favorably upon low-budget black films that produce high profit margins at the box office. Friday expanded the representation of the hood into the realm of comedy and achieved box office success at the same time.” 157.    Other hood comedies that followed include: 1996’s satire Don’t Be a Menace While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, 1998’s The Player’s Club (Cube wrote and directed it), 2001’s How High, and 2002’s Barbershop, the latter of which Cube starred in.   158.    Question: Friday or Carwash? - Chris Tucker or Mike Epps?   159.    TV Scene   160.    “Was UPN Black America’s Last Hope for a Black Sitcom-Friendly Broadcast Television Network?” April 20, 2017 - https://shadowandact.com   161.    “...Since ABC’s "Black-ish" debuted this fall, it has drawn numerous comparisons to "The Cosby Show" — and I have questions. I wonder why the majority of essays and critiques jumped to a show that has been off-air for 22 years. Although few television shows rivaled the mainstream popularity of Bill Cosby’s chef d’oeuvre, plenty of Black sitcoms have filled its gap since its 1992 finale. Does no one remember the quasi-Black glory of United Paramount Network (UPN)? And can there ever be another like it?   162.    From 1995 to 2006 UPN was the home for over 10 concurrently running Black sitcoms (and a handful of dramas). Given the sheer volume of programming, that’s remarkable in and of itself. But perhaps what is more noteworthy than the number of shows is the range of Black life they displayed.   163.    "All of Us," produced by Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment, centered on a blended family of two divorced spouses and their significant others. The Essence Atkins and Rachel True-helmed "Half & Half" explored the relationship between two estranged half-sisters. "Moesha" was UPN’s most successful sitcom during its five-year run and introduced America to another beloved, nuclear Black family besides the Huxtables. Other notable UPN sitcoms included "One on One," "The Parkers," "Eve," and "Malcolm & Eddie."   164.    UPN actively sought programming aimed for Black audiences at a time when Black mainstays from the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were waning. "Family Matters" was cancelled from ABC’s coveted TGIF lineup in 1998. Fox declined to extend Martin Lawrence’s eponymously named sitcom the previous year. The major networks were beginning to narrow their viewership to exclude all-Black casting on their sitcoms. Not only were Black actors finding work on shows sold to UPN, but established Black producer-writers like Eunetta T. Boone and Ralph Farquhar found a home as well.   165.    Despite—and maybe because of—its friendliness to Black programming, UPN suffered from a reputation as a sub-par network. The ratings for their sitcoms often scraped the bottom of the Nielsen barrel. UPN is remembered more for its utter failures ("Homeboys in Outer Space") and ignored when we fondly recall the glory of "Girlfriends."   166.    “UPN took the rejects. UPN was 'the Black channel,'” we joke. UPN may not have been perfect, but it gave Black audiences so much to choose from without feeling as if one show had to represent the totality of Blackness.   167.    Accordingly, "Black-ish" has a lot riding on its success. Black audiences tune in hoping big wigs take notice and order more Black sitcoms. But it is telling that major networks began a “blackout” of successful Black cast shows in the late 90s and The CW essentially did the same a decade later.   168.    "Black-ish" could be the start of another heyday for Black sitcoms. We reach backward to "The Cosby Show" because we love it best and we always will. But in doing so, we ignore the stable of Black shows that kept us laughing long after The Huxtables faded to black. However, the success of "Black-ish" will remain singular until executives reexamine their beliefs about African American audiences; we need them, like UPN once did, to give us a chance. I just hope it doesn’t take another decade.   169.    Other Notable UPN Shows: Everybody Hates Chris 2005 / Girlfriends 2000 / All of Us 2003 / Moesha 1996 / The Parkers 1999 / Malcolm and Eddie 1996 / In The House 1995 / Between Brothers 1997 /   170.    Other Notable WB Shows: The WB The Wayans Brothers 1995 / The Parent 'Hood 1995 / Steve Harvey Show 1996 / The Jamie Foxx Show 1996 / Smart Guy 1997 / MIB Animated 1997 / The PJs 1999   171.    Question: What the hell is wrong with BET?   172.    Vote: Best/most important/favorite pop culture item from 1995?

Dr. Hayes interviews Dr. Canellos on his involvement with CHOP, MOPP and CMF as well as his role as Chief of Division of Med Onc at SFCI/DFCI for 25 years. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. Welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories, The Art of Oncology, brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, a collection of nine programs covering a range of educational and scientific content and offering enriching insight into the world of cancer care. You can find all of the shows, including this one, at podcast.asco.org. Hello. Today my guest on the podcast is Dr. George Canellos. Dr. Canellos was instrumental in early treatments for breast cancer, lymphomas, -- and chronic leukemias, and he's generally considered one of the so-called Gang of Five with the National Cancer Institute in the 1970s, along with Drs. Vince DeVita, Robert Young, Bruce Chabner, and Philip Schein, who ultimately demonstrated that chemotherapy could be used to cure a fraction of patients with Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. Dr. Canellos was raised in Boston, and he attended Boston Latin School. He then received his undergraduate degree at Harvard and his medical degree at Columbia in New York City. But he remained a Red Sox fan, so he returned to Boston for his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. But he then trained in oncology at the National Cancer Institute where he stayed until 1974 when he once again returned to Boston to join the faculty of the then Sidney Farber Cancer Institute where he served as the Chief of Medical Oncology until 1995. He is currently the William Rosenberg Chair at Medicine at the now Dana Farber Cancer Institute and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Canellos has authored over 300 peer-reviewed papers and too many reviews and chapters to name. Most importantly, he served as the Second Editor in Chief of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, a role he filled from 1987 until 2001. And during that time, he directed the Journal to become the leading journal in our field. Perhaps even more importantly, he served as ASCO President in 1993 and 1994, and he's been recognized as an ASCO Oncology Luminary, and he's been recognized with the Statesman Award and the Distinguished Service Award for Scientific Achievement from our society. Dr. Canellos, welcome to our program. Good to talk to you. Great to talk to you. You know, I spent a lot of time with you at the Sidney Farber and then Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and I've heard you say, and I've also read, that you originally seriously considered becoming a surgeon because of the work you did with Dr. Oliver Cope, one of the leaders in surgery of our last century and especially related to thyroid and other cancers. So what led you to get away from surgery and become a medical oncologist? Well, I served as a surgical intern at Mass General at that time, which was a lot of exposure to serious illness and surgery. But it dawned on me. Two things dawned on me. One is that if one was interested at all in malignancy that surgery really wasn't the answer, certainly, in any way. And in those days, of course, even radiotherapy was not the answer. And so the other thing I realized, that I had the manual dexterity of a California fur seal. I didn't really feel, being left-handed, I didn't feel that I really had the dexterity required to do some of the complicated surgery that was going on in those days because I held retractors as an intern for some very long operations that really didn't achieve more than taking out a gallbladder. It took three hours. Now, we can do it with a laparoscope in a half an hour, probably. So I switched into medicine at Mass General and stayed in medicine at Mass General. And being inspired to really think about other treatments for malignancy in those days, there were very few really textbooks available that talked about chemo. There was some. I would nip up to the library of the hospital rarely and try to read about them. There were new drugs coming out at that time, but there was very little really known about the action of the drugs and the potential of the drugs that might have existed at that time. Then I went to NCI, as one had to because there was a doctor draft. And two years of residency in medicine, I actually went to the medicine branch of the NCI. And there, under Emil Frei III, another investigator named Freireich, Jay Freireich, who were around at that time and running the program, such as it was, we first were experience-- I was thinking that I would do research there, and I did. But at the same time, the Clinical Associate Program entailed a year of clinical exposure, of clinical care, and I had several colleagues. The first major colleague was Vincent DeVita who really, at that time, decided to approach a treatable more solid malignancy, as acute leukemia of childhood was being approached, with combination chemotherapy. However, there weren't many drugs that were very active at that time. There were some. An alkylating agent, nitrogen mustard, steroids, a vinca alkaloid that had just been relatively new introduced for adult disease. And there was no procarbazine. Of course, it hadn't been invented yet, but methotrexate. And so the first combination regimen that came out of that program was MOMP, M-O-M-P, and that had some activity, but it was only given for a relatively short period of time. Eventually, the tolerance of patients to these drugs was considerable, a considerable issue, because we didn't really have granulocyte support. There were a lot of things that we'd take for granted now that were not available then. So the toxicity of some of these programs, such as the M-O-P-P Program when procarbazine came along, the MOPP program was considerable. But the interesting thing is the patients that we had were generally on the younger side, younger than 45, let's say, and they could tolerate the therapy. And I found that, honestly and subsequently, with testes cancer, that younger people who get a lot of toxicity from these drugs, despite that, if they think there may be a cure around the corner, will tolerate it. And you don't hear a great deal of complaints about it, about the toxicity, interestingly. But the older patients, of course, are far more vulnerable. Their bone marrow reserve not being great, these regimens were quite toxic. But, fortunately, the first targeted disease was Hodgkin's disease, and it's generally a disease confined to younger people, in general. About 20% of them are in the older group. But we first tested the aggressive chemotherapy, known as MOPP, in the younger patients, actually. But what was surprising to us, and surprising to everybody, was the fact that they failed to relapse as they were all expected to do at that time. In the single drug agent era, of course, Hodgkin's disease would relapse eventually. As house officers, we just expected that to happen. Now, the training in the major academic hospitals in those days, oncology was not an important part, or even a desired part, of the program, if you will. And so most who arrived at a place like NIH really didn't have much background at all in the treatment of cancer because they probably didn't see it all that much. I know I didn't. As a surgeon, yes, but not as internal medicine. I was going to ask you that. When you were at Mass General and you said you noticed that surgery wasn't curing people, there couldn't have been anybody around that was mentoring you or said, why don't you-- how did you even hear about-- No, no, there wasn't. There were some docs there who really cut their teeth on giving hormones to breast cancer patients, and that was about it. But very few people were giving-- I couldn't think of anybody who was giving-- one person who was giving chemotherapy, a lady, a fine lady, fine physician actually, but on the private side, but nobody on the academic side that amounted-- So what made you-- What made you say, I'm going to go to the NCI and learn how to do this? I mean, that seems like that was completely out of the blue. Well, you weren't given much choice. Of the two institutes, I applied at the Heart Institute and the Cancer Institute. The Cancer Institute accepted me, and the same with Vince DeVita. He applied to the Heart Institute but got into the Cancer Institute. And we were both there, probably you could say, as our second choice at the time. Because-- Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah. Very little was known about oncology as a field, and there we were. On the other hand, seeing these patients at least respond to these drugs in the way they did, and seemingly not relapsing, made you wonder whether or not, in time-- when I went back to the NIH, I came back to the MGH to be a senior medical resident. I can tell you what was interesting, because there was no oncology Fellow, per se. They would ask me to see a patient if the patient had a malignancy. And I remember going in and seeing a patient with ovarian cancer. She had a huge belly full of ascites, malignant ascites, and I said that the drug for this disease is thiotepa, an alkylating agent. I wrote out the recipe, if you will, how many milligrams, et cetera. And I wrote in the note, and I will give the first dose, which I did. The intern covering the service, a surgical intern covering the GYN service, obviously read part of my note but not all of it, or decided he was going to give another dose as well, but somehow the woman was double-dosed. And there was a certain panic by the nursing staff, et cetera. She tolerated the drug surprisingly well. But more surprising, everything went away. She had this dramatic response to therapy. The ascites went away. The abdominal masses went away. And she was discharged. And I said to myself, at that time, this is a precedent for something, and that era will arrive once-- if it's not the right drug, we'll find the right drug for the disease. But I can tell you, it was very uplifting to me. I had already been to NIH. That's a great story. When you guys were at the NCI, a similar question is, when did the light bulb come on that it looked like you were actually curing Hodgkin's disease? Well, you're talking about a two-year appointment. At the end of the two years there, the remissions were already clear. That is to say, the disease had not come back, and the people were being followed. But two years is just two years. I mean, it's not a long time. And when I went back on the faculty-- see, I went for a year in England to become a hematologist because everybody had to be a hematologist in those days if you were interested in cancer. Anyway, that's what I did. And when I got back, they recruited me to the faculty, and the patients were still in remission, and that was great. And then we put our attention to the non-Hodgkin's lymphomas and modified the MOP regimen by putting cyclophosphamide instead of nitrogen mustard, which was a horrific drug by the way, nitrogen mustard in the doses that we gave. But like it or not, we put Cytoxan into it and we called it CMOP. It was like MOP but it was with C instead of the M. So we called it CMOP. And early in the 1970s, we did a randomized trial with the radiotherapists who were throwing radiation at everything that walked in with a non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, and we did a prospective randomized trial stage by stage, histology by histology. And I remember looking at the data for the large cell lymphomas with the CMOP and I said, Vince, you know, if we judged everything by median, the median survival of our patients was what you'd expect historically. But just below the median, the line straightened up, flattened out, and was going out now several years, at least four or five years, flat in a disease that usually recurred very quickly and killed everybody who was affected by it. And I remember when the Board of Internal Medicine decided to create a specialty called Medical Oncology and have an exam, et cetera, Vince thought it was because of Hodgkin's. And I'm sure it contributed, but I said it must be also the non-Hodgkin's because it's far more common. It's far more common. We helped far more people. And indeed, it probably is. Can I interrupt you for a moment? I interviewed Saul Rosenberg for this series, and he told me just [INAUDIBLE] the radiation psychologist. So Dr. Kaplan had referred to him from Memorial to come to Stanford and do radiation, and Dr. Rosenberg told Dr. Kaplan, I think we need to give these people chemotherapy, and Kaplan agree. But the Chair of Medicine did not and would not let Rosenberg see patients in his own clinic and give chemotherapy. So he wrangled a room from a hematologist, and he told me he would see patients in the room. He had a chair in the hallway. If the patient needed chemotherapy, he'd have the patient go sit in the chair in the hallway. Get an IV pole. He'd start the IV himself and then mix up the chemotherapy himself, hang it up. While the patient was getting chemotherapy in the hallway, he'd see the next patient in the room. Those are the kinds of obstacles he had to do. And the other thing I have to say, I didn't get to interview Dr. Holland before he passed away, but relative to your looking at the Kaplan-Meier curves, I'll never forget his yelling at me one time that, if you need a statistician to see what you've done, you probably haven't done much. I said that, 'cause I remember saying that as well, but anyway. Let me ask you another question. Yeah. You're know for lymphoma and chronic leukemias but also for breast cancer, and generally you're credited for coming up with the so-called CMF regimen. Vince and I were called into the director's office. At that time, the director of NCI was [INAUDIBLE]. And they said, all this lymphoma stuff is wonderful, but we want you to do solids. Now, we didn't have a referral pattern for solids at all. The only breast patients we saw were relatives of employees of the NCI. So Vince wanted to do ovarian, and I said ovarian is a good disease because they have malignant cells floating around, and we can do stuff on those. And Vince really wanted to do ovarian. I chose breast. And, again, we had no mastectomy surgical group or anything. And so what we did was make deals with medical oncologists in the community, two of them who actually trained-- one of them trained at the Brigham Hospital, actually, and they lived in the area. And they liked to come to our conferences and things. They would refer patients. And what we specified, initially, was that we have patients without isolated bone lesions only, that they had to have measurable lumpy, bumpy disease. And so to design a therapeutic treatment for them, we had to use the principles that we learned from the lymphoma experience. And that's where CMF came. CMFP, we used to have prednisone in some circumstance. And so that was the regimen that-- if you notice, the design of it would be like the MOP program. Anyway, so we started treating people like that. Suddenly, they did respond and some responded quite well. They had some toxicity, of course. And the very first paper we wrote was on the toxicity of CMFP. It was hard to get things published in medical oncology areas, and the Lancet was wonderful for us. The Lancet was very helpful, and we published a lot of stuff in the Lancet. But the first one was in the British Medical Journal, the toxicity of CMF program in patients, and we especially cautioned patients who had compromised liver function because they seemed to get worse toxicity at that time in our imagination. But it worked. It did work. We published it in the Annals of Internal Medicine eventually. But the important thing was, our friend Johnny Bonadonna would come over periodically to find out what we were doing. And he came over with an offer. He said he had all these patients who would get mastectomies and then nothing. Let me interrupt you for a moment 'cause I was going to ask you about Dr. Bonadonna. Yeah. Would you, just for the audience, a lot of them may not know who he is. Oh. Well, Johnny Bona-- Do you want me to describe him? Well, at that time, he was a young investigator working in Milan at the major hospital there in oncology, and he trained at Memorial before and then went but back to Italy. So he came and he wanted to know what we were doing. We showed him the protocol that we were doing for breast, and he was interested. And what he offered was the opportunity of doing a randomized trial on patients with a higher risk, if you will, breast cancer, node-positive patients. And he said that in Italy that nothing was done for them and that he could randomize them nothing to chemotherapy, and we offered him a contract. He required money. We gave him a contract. We gave him our protocol, at least the chemotherapy protocol. He went back to Italy and did that trial. And he left the prednisone out. He made sure it was of just CMF. And the patients, apparently, I guess, knew what they were getting, but I don't know whether they had strict requirements or informed consent and things like that. We didn't ask. We didn't ask. All we wanted was randomized data, and he certainly had it. And I remember being at the ASCO meeting in 1976, I think it was, '75 or '76, in Toronto when the first data was presented by Bonadonna. And the media people were there. People were barely hanging from the rafters to hear. The room wasn't big enough, really. None of the rooms were big enough because they never expected the attendance, that there were that many young oncologists around or people interested in oncology. And so he gave that first data, and that was a shot in the arm for adjuvant therapy, certainly for breast cancer, but for other things as well. I think, in general, he and Dr. Fisher, who sadly passed away before I had a chance to interview him, are responsible for thousands and thousands of people. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. But I'm giving you the NCI side, my personal side of it, and you're right. Bernie was a real pioneer because he had so much opposition from the surgical establishment at the time. I can tell you that. From a surgeon's point of view, they really thought he was the Antichrist. I mean, it was terrible. I saw him and Jerry Urban get into a verbal argument at a meeting. I thought it was going to be a fistfight, actually, over-- Really? Yes, yes. Yes, they're severe. But anyway, let me go-- let me go to my next question, which has tended to change gears for a moment. You may or may not remember this, but when you were ASCO President, in your presidential address, I was in the audience and you said something to the effect that the greatest clinical experiment you have conducted are the Fellows you have trained, or something like that. Yes. Yeah. And I was in tears, of course. But you certainly can claim success on that. The division chiefs, department chairs, cancer center directors, most recently a Nobel Laureate, [INAUDIBLE], all of them came out of the program. But when you returned to Boston, you could not have envisioned all of this. What was the atmosphere, and what was Dr. Farber's vision? Well, Dr. Farber had died by the time I got there. Oh, he was already gone? OK. He was already gone. And when I was leaving, when Tom Frei recruited me, Vince thought I was mad because they made me Clinical Director. At least have a go at acting job as clinical director of the NCI. But really, down the line, it was a bureaucratic evolution. And I said, I don't really want to be an oncocrat at this age, anyway. What I said was, Vince, I said, the doctor draft is over. The best and the brightest and the youngest and the cheapest are all going to be in these hospitals, and there are a lot of them in Boston because I happen to know Boston, including house staff at the Brigham, house staff at the BI and Mass General. And I said, that's the future, or at least the future challenge. And I think he accepted it, but he didn't like it. I mean, he thought-- well, we were great buddies and we worked well together, and that goes for Bob Young and Bruce Chabner too. They thought I was very-- Where else-- at that time, there must have only been two or three places to train in oncology in the whole country, I would imagine. Yes, yes, yes. And people were just starting to set up cancer centers, sometimes without funding. And then there were all these, not many, but job requests for me to go and look at the job at Wisconsin or you name it, but I didn't want to do that. I really wanted to do medical oncology and not be a bureaucrat in any way. And many of the places, Dan, would say come and be a head of our cancer program, and it was also translated in parentheses, come and write a CORE grant. A lot of places who didn't deserve a CORE grant were asking me for people to come and write a CORE grant. You knew forever they would never get one because they really didn't have the makeup for it, yet. So what were the hurdles in Boston when you got there? Well, the hurdles in Boston were twofold. One is the fact that oncology had a very slow start in Boston, and that goes at the Brigham and at the MGH. The MGH was even disinterested in oncology at that time, actively disinterested. They didn't think it had any academic merit and therefore didn't put any effort into it. I have to say that Gene Braunwald, who was Chief of Medicine at the Brigham at the time, was interested because he had been at NIH at the Heart Institute, he knew Tom Frei, and he wasn't sure about it yet because he couldn't swallow it, I guess. And the fact was that it was growing a bit, and one of his very close associates developed large cell lymphoma and he got chemotherapy, he got to see MOP. And he was long-term remission. And I remember telling Braunwald, he was shocked that it was so successful. And I kept telling him, I said, this is not a rare event. This is happening. But the big challenge, Dan, at Dana Farber was that there was no oncology known, and we had to build the program from the bottom up. We hospitalized our patients at the Brigham before we opened the beds at the Dana Farber, but we needed the volume of patients. And we had all these beds, I think 59 beds, licensed beds, open. And I kept saying, we don't have the patients. But Tom Frei opened the beds. The next thing you know, I was talking to trustees because Tom said, we'll bring George up and we'll grow. The clinical program will grow. So the trustees thought the program would probably grow the next day. It didn't. It took a lot of effort without the [? scare ?] and myself going around giving talks in every little hospital that existed. And one of the big things I had my mind, because the house staff looked after our patients as well, was to show them what we could do. Now, in those days, other than the large cell lymphomas, of which we did not have many because they were in the hands of hematologists, was testes cancer. And the head of urology at the Brigham Hospital used to have these Saturday morning urology rounds inviting all of the practicing urologists around to come and they'd present their problem cases, et cetera. But he asked me to come along and give a talk about this new drug called cisplatin, which was having a big effect in testes cancer in other places. And I did. And I would come and talk about the early results in other places in testes cancer and that we were interested in actually starting a program. Then, they would-- of course, urologists are anything but chemotherapists, and so they would refer the patients in because, A, they couldn't give any chemotherapy. There was nothing oral that would work. What we would do is, if they sent patients in, we would do an early trial and we would publish the series in a, let's say, not spectacular journal and get reprints. We would send them reprints. And in some instances, I put the name of the referring doctor, if he'd sent us more than one patient, on the paper for, let's say, testing some antineoplastic thing. And we would put their names on the papers and send them reprints. And there's nothing a urologist loves more than to see his name on a scientific paper, a medical paper. And we started getting a ton of testes cases eventually and did trials and wrote papers about them. And I remember, when we recruited Phil Kantoff, a Fellow of mine, and I thought he was going to go back to the NIH and do gene therapy. And he walked in one day and he said, I'd like to apply for the GU job, and I said, it's yours. And he wrote quite a few papers based on the accumulated testicular data and the [INAUDIBLE]. Oh yeah. Yeah. And he was wonderful. He's Chief of Medicine now at Memorial. He's Chief of Medicine at Memorial, yes. I want to bring up one more thing that this segues into, though, and I believe now almost every medical oncologist who has trained in the last 10 years thinks that multispecialty tumor boards have always existed. But I believe that another of your trainees, Dr. Craig Henderson, who was my mentor, frankly, and you really started the first multispecialty clinic perhaps in all of oncology in this country. Do you agree with that? We called it the BEC, the Breast Evaluation Center. Yes, and we got cooperation but from surgeons. There were surgeons around, more nihilistic surgeons, if you will, not wanting to do radical surgery and radiotherapists, like Sam Hillman. And they were all around and doing those things. And we brought them into this BEC, the Breast Evaluation Center, and your mentor, Craig, was a little rough on the Fellows, I can tell you, in those days. Just his demands. Anyway, whatever it was. And so I would go to that clinic as well and see breast patients just to calm things down a bit at times. Anyway, it worked. And I know that the breast people elsewhere were recognizing that Craig had a nice thing going there with the multidisciplinary aspects. You know, it was so awful that breast cancer was treated so badly. I mean, they'd have a radical operation. And God knows, if there was some disease, that they would then get radical radiotherapy to their chest. And they were walking around sort of mutilated. And we had a part-time psychiatrist when I first arrived to see these patients because many of them had body image problems. So the idea of not doing radical mastectomy was revolutionary at that time. And I remember being called by the local Blue Cross to serve on a committee to decide whether or not Blue Cross should pay for breast reconstruction on these poor patients, and we voted. There was a committee of medical oncologists from MGH, me, and a plastic surgeon, and we voted 3 to 3 to they should pay, and they didn't. Then they said, thank you for serving on this advisory committee, but we're not paying. We've decided not to pay. Then, I can tell you, a women's agitation group got a hold of the facts. And one of them called me up and she said, I heard you were on this committee that voted not to pay. And I said, absolutely we voted to pay. They told us, thanks very much but we're not going to pay. So within two weeks then the insurance company changed its opinion because they went bananas at the insurance company. Yeah. The strength of advocacy, that's been something. Anyway, we're running out of time. I'd like to thank you for taking your time with us. Not at all, Dan. Not at all. It's a pleasure. And as I have done for every other interview in this series, I want to thank you not just for taking time with us but for all you've done for the field, for those of us who trained with you or are in the field, and most importantly for all the patients who have benefited. You look back over the-- Yeah, I know. I still follow them. My clinic has follow-ups of cured patients. You become the primary care doc for cured patients. Well, you think of the 60 years of your career and other fine folks that you were with at the NCI and then beyond, and the thousands or millions of people who have benefited, it's pretty remarkable. Yeah, well. Thanks again. I appreciate you being on. Not at all. And enjoy the rest of the day. Thank you very much, Dan. Until next time, thank you for listening to this JCO's Cancer Stories, The Art of Oncology podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard today, don't forget to give us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. 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Episode 137 - Mayor Christine Hunschofsky Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund are honored to have as our guest, Mayor Christine Hunschofsky. Christine serves as the mayor of the city. She currently resides in district 2. She also serves on the Metropolitan Planning Organization and the Broward County School Board Oversight committee. Additionally she is a member of the Parkland Friends of the Library, Broward Pap Corps, Parkland Woman's Club and serves on the advisory board for Jacob's Shoes. Christine was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts and moved to Parkland, Florida with her family in May of 2000. Christine is a graduate from Babson College with a Masters degree in Business Administration and a recipient of the Ernst and Young Accounting Award. Additionally she is a graduate from Boston University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy. Christine also attended Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in America, for junior high and high school. Since moving to Parkland, Christine has been very active in the Community. She has served on the board of the Parkland/Coconut Creek MOMS Club, the Meadow Run HOA, Mary Help of Christians Parish Pastoral Council and the Mary Help of Christians Women's Club. Additionally she served on the Parkland Education Advisory Board for seven years and covered the Parkland commission meetings for Parkland Life Magazine for 10 years. Note: We dedicate this episode in remembrance of the fourteen students and three staff members killed at Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14, 2018: Alyssa Alhadeff, 14; Scott Beigel, 35; Martin Duque, 14; Nicholas Dworet, 17; Aaron Feis, 37; Jaime Guttenberg, 14; Chris Hixon, 49; Luke Hoyer, 15; Cara Loughran, 14; Gina Montalto, 14; Joaquin Oliver, 17; Alaina Petty, 14; Meadow Pollack, 18; Helena Ramsay, 17; Alex Schachter, 14; Carmen Schentrup, 16; and Peter Wang, 15. The Curiosity Hour Podcast is hosted and produced by Dan Sterenchuk and Tommy Estlund. Please visit our website for more information: thecuriosityhourpodcast.com The Curiosity Hour Podcast is listener supported! To donate, click here: thecuriosityhourpodcast.com/donate/ Please visit this page for information where you can listen to our podcast: thecuriosityhourpodcast.com/listen/ Disclaimers: The Curiosity Hour Podcast may contain content not suitable for all audiences. Listener discretion advised. The views and opinions expressed by the guests on this podcast are solely those of the guest(s). These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of The Curiosity Hour Podcast. This podcast may contain explicit language.

The Education Records Bureau has administered entrance exams for Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy, and the John D O'Bryant School of Math and Science for two and a half decades and believes the district has misused results for years. WBZ NewsRadio's Madison Rogers reports.

In the winter of 2016, two Boston Latin School students posted a video on YouTube, entitled #BlackAtBLS, aimed at provoking a positive conversation about the growing racial tensions at BLS, and lack of administrative response to many students calls for a more supportive environment for all students.  The YouTube video caught fire, leading to local and national media coverage, and an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Boston Public Schools.  These investigations instigated changes to the school aimed at improving school climate and ending incidents of racism. The conversations and press provoked by #blackatbls shined a light on the environment of one of the nation’s top public high schools, and reinvigorated discussions about the importance of inclusive and diverse school communities. Our exam schools, and most often Boston Latin, have come under scrutiny for their lack of diversity over the years, and the events that transpired around #blackatbls have brought even more attention to the lack of diversity at Boston Latin, and the importance of having a supportive and positive school climate. Today we talk to Meggie Noel, who, as a senior at Boston Latin, spearheaded the Black at BLS movement, which eventually grew into the Black at BPS movement, illuminating the need for greater awareness and support of diversity and equity for students of color across the city of Boston. This Bostonian of the Year winner in 2016 talks to us about growing up in Boston, her education journey to BLS, and her experience as a student of color in two low diversity schools.  She tells us why she felt the need to speak out, and the backstory on YouTube video. Meggie’s story and ideas help give insight into what it is like to be a student of color at an exam school, as well as the importance of diversity and why maintaining a supportive and positive school climate is critical.

Councilor Matt O'Malley sits down with Representative Adrian Madaro and chats about everything from the impact Boston Latin School and the Ward Fellowship had made on their public service careers to the best place to eat in the First Suffolk District.  Follow Rep. Madaro on Twitter at @AdrianMadaro and Councilor O'Malley at @MattOMalley.

Join Subrina Wood, the Cinnamon Cinephile, and author, artist, and ancient history scholar Lloyd R. Williams in a lively conversation about their five favorite movies about the Romans, the Greeks, and the Egyptians and why these films are some of the best examples of movies made during the Golden Age of Gladiator films 1950 -1965. You may or may not want to substitute this episode for your Cliff notes. Lloyd R. Williams studied the ancient Greek, Romans, and Egyptians at the oldest high school in America, the prestigious Boston Latin School. He went on to earn a B.A. in History from the College of the Holy Cross. Lloyd, who is currently working on a graphic novel about his hero, Hannibal of Carthage, consulted on the first ancient African art exhibit held at the then-new wing of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He is the author of the science fiction novel Rogue Progeny. He lives in Cambridge, MA, with a to-die-for view of the Charles River.

Perspectives from the Contemporary Policy Institute. Episode One, History of Public Education in the United States. Background: Product of the Enlightenment. The 1780s, France, development of the individual through state-sponsored education emphasizing critical thinking. United States Phase 1 1635, Boston Latin School became the first secondary school in the US. 1642,  New England towns required to hire teachers, but attendance not mandatory.  Reading -writing –Latin-religion- classics  Established the right to school instruction At age 7, Latin and Greek Mostly classical education modeled on British schools with religious instruction. Phase 2 1751,  Ben Franklin, Philidelphia, “useful learning.” Modern languages, history, science, navigation. Boys only.        Mostly private academies, some public subsidies. 1778 Phillips Academy, in Andover MA real business of living Southern US, different plan, public support for the poor only.  Industrialization and urbanization produce a gradual call for the state being responsible for ed for all. Germany and France lead; US and UK slower to adopt, first for poor only (charity)  Jefferson; Democracy requires an enlightened citizenry. 1779, Jefferson tries to have VA fund 3 years of universal ed; not successful. Phase 3 Up until the 1850s private, mostly religious schools predominate. 1837,  Breakthrough Horace Mann Supt of Ed for MA.  Free education through High School, but not mandatory. 1850s academics, math and reading, become common, public school att. About 59% (Elementary) 1870  MI supreme court upholds state funding for HS State-mandated Elementary education funding By 1900 31 states mandate public ed. - 8-14; only 500,000 students in HS; 3-4% go to college. By 1918 all states require some elementary ed. 1920’s, math, English, social studies, etc. Smith-Towner Bill, federal funds for public schools. Helped dissolve near-monopoly of parochial schools Ironically, partly encouraged by anti-immigrant fear of not integrating into American society. By 1950, 95% to HS. About the same today. Helped drive the success of the US economy.  Helps in promoting diversity (all go to the same school.) Provides common experience. Phase 4 Today’s challenges in public education. What do we mean by public? Movement for vouchers, charters, etc. change the idea of universal public education. Usually sold as “choice’ without mentioning taxpayer money Now for-profit players, religious and non-profit players, with specific agendas draining public schools which stick to broad universal mandate with private schools available at private cost. Sources: Wikipedia;  National Center for Educational Statistics; Encyclopedia Britannica; Teachers Curriculum Institute.

Boston Public Schools will offer the ISEE exam to all students during the school day, and free of charge for the first time ever this November.  This is a terrific first step in ensuring that all students have a more equitable opportunity to attend one of BPS’ three exam schools.  At the same time, it provokes questions about preparation for this test.  While some families pay thousands of dollars for ISEE prep tutors and programs, many of our students and families cannot afford to do this, and can be left behind simply because they are not as prepared as their peers with greater means. BPS does offer students the chance to prepare for the ISEE exam through a free service called the Exam School Initiative, which is offered for two weeks the summer before rising BPS 6th graders take the ISEE exam. The Exam School Initiative is an invitation-only program extended to approximately the top fifteen percent of rising 6th grade BPS students. An additional free, but private, ISEE prep program is offered by The Steppingstone Foundation. Founded in the late 1990s, Steppingstone aims to provide support and tutoring services to diverse students who are working to attend some of the top high schools in Massachusetts. Steppingstone’s scholars attend high performing schools, including Boston Latin School, Boston Latin Academy, O’Bryant, Roxbury Latin, Newton Country Day, Winsor, and Belmont Hill. Steppingstone also has a parallel program that helps BPS students gain acceptance to top tier colleges. Both programs deserve a more intensive review as potential models for supporting all BPS students as the city moves to offering the ISEE test to all 6th graders. This podcast features a conversation with Kelly Glew, President of The Steppingstone Foundation, and Chris Parris, its Chief Program Officer, who talk about their program, it’s expansion, and the support they offer to students across Boston Public Schools.

In our first episode on Boston’s exam schools, Examining the Exam Schools, Michael Contompasis, long time Boston Public Schools educator who has served as Superintendent and head of Boston Latin School, discussed equity and opportunity at the Boston Public Schools exam schools. As this series continues, we will be looking at important topics related to the exam schools to get a better sense of the current state of BPS, and share why these issues should be important to the city as a whole, not just to Boston Public Schools. We discussed with Michael the concerns and debates surrounding the admissions test being used for the exam schools: the Independent Schools Entrance Exam, or ISEE for short. This test, comprised of four sections in English and math, accounts for 50% of a student’s admissions requirement  to the BPS exam schools. Use of the ISEE test in exam school admissions is controversial because some content on the ISEE isn’t taught in a typical BPS 5th grade classroom. Due to the fact that there is a discrepancy between ISEE material and BPS curriculum, many with means to do so have relied upon external tutoring services to prepare their child for the ISEE thereby creating inequity in the system.  Many have called for a change in the criteria for admission, including an alternative test, while others call for using the more content aligned MCAS scores for public school students. All students are taught to the content of the MCAS tests.  The degree to which our students are prepared for MCAS still appears to be variable, but there are incentives in place that drive a more equitable preparation of all students for MCAS vs. ISEE.  Interestingly, there is a significant number of our students who do well on the MCAS, but either do not take the ISEE or do not fair as well on the ISEE. With all of these concerns and debates, it leaves questions of why is BPS using a test that doesn’t follow their curriculum, why their curriculum doesn’t include topics on the ISEE, and what does current data suggest about MCAS scorers and ISEE scorers? Today’s episode features an insight into the ISEE with Associate Professor of Economic at Brandeis University, Joshua Goodman. Mr. Goodman most recently published a policy brief on Boston Public School exam schools last year with the Harvard Kennedy School Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, titled Increasing Diversity in Boston’s Exam Schools. His work looks at data trends on MCAS users and their scoring tendencies on the ISEE, as well as evaluating other data trends that are relevant to looking at current issues and critiques of the ISEE. In this episode, we talk about four ways in which BPS might increase its pipeline of qualified Black and Latinx candidates for admissions to the exam schools, as well as discuss other, more systemic changes that could benefit all students and driver performance up across the district.

The idea of public education in America is older than the nation itself, with the first school, the Boston Latin School, opening in 1635. John Hancock and Samuel Adams went there. Benjamin Franklin dropped out.Today, there are more than 98-thousand public schools in the U.S. with almost 51 million students attending. Private schools are busy too. There’s more than 34-thousand private schools open now, teaching nearly six million kids.Robert celebrates the start of another school year with two communicators, Rich Bagin, the Executive Director of the National School Public Relations Association, and Cody Kennedy Communications and Media Manager for the Olathe School District, in Olathe, Kansas.Also, we get a crash course in education style courtesy of the AP Stylebook, in two rounds of America’s favorite PR podcast quiz show, the Buzzer Beater.Links:First Public School in AmericaTotal Number of Educational Institutions in AmericaBack to School StatisticsGuest: Rich BaginNational School Public Relations Association (NSPRA)Jack O'Dwyer, newsletter publisher and 'soul and conscience' of PR industry dies, at 85How PR Pros Can Find New Audiences Through PodcastsGuest: Karen HeathGuest: Cody KennedyAP Stylebook: Back-to-School Topical Guide

On November 7th, 2019, thousands of sixth and eighth graders in Boston Public Schools will head to school and sit for the three hour ISEE (Independent School Entrance Exam) test that will help determine their chances of attending one of Boston’s three public exam schools, prided as some of the best schools in the city as well as in the state. Traditionally given on a Saturday morning, the change to administering the admissions test during a weekday at school reflects the push for changing the admissions policies for the exam schools: O’Bryant School of Math and Science, Boston Latin Academy, and Boston Latin School. Over the past few years, many have been pushing the district to make changes to the admissions policies for these schools due to a lack of diversity and enrollment of Black and Latinx students, especially at Boston Latin School.  While the broad population in Boston Public Schools is over 75% Black or Latinx and less than 25% White or Asian, Boston Latin School 2500-person student body is over 75% White and Asian, and less than 25% Black and Latinx.  These percentages have caused criticism of the current admissions system, in which many have said the policies put Black and Latinx students at a disadvantage that prevents them from being able to attend Boston’s exam schools. Most recently, the NAACP and Lawyers for Civil Rights have pressured the district to make changes towards a fair admissions process for all students that would also increase diversity at these high schools, and especially at Boston Latin School. Alternatively, there is a different point of view that stipulates that the make-up of Boston Latin School is a symptom of a much larger problem, which is that BPS has dozens of schools falling in performance at the bottom 10% of the state’s achievement scale, lessening greatly the number of applicants who are prepared to take the ISEE test successfully.  These school’s student bodies are, in most cases, comprised of largely black and latinx students. Today’s podcast features a conversation with Michael Contompasis, former headmaster of Boston Latin School and former Superintendent of Boston Public Schools. Michael is now overseeing a turn-around of the Devers school in Dorcester  which was taken over by the State of Massachusetts several years ago and put into receivership under Michael’s supervision. Michael talks with us today about his experience running a low-performing elementary school, and the efforts underway to transform it into a successful and high-performing school, while dealing with significant challenges and a student body that suffers significantly from trauma, homelessness and other issues of poverty. Additionally, we talk with Contompasis about the decades he has spent in the city thinking about admissions to the exam schools. He talks with us about how he feels race and income play into outcomes and readiness for academic success, and opines on what will need to happen in the future for all schools in BPS to provide equal experiences to all students across the district.

Founded in 1635, Boston Latin School is the oldest public school in the United States, and boasts many famous graduates, including Benjamin Franklin, Henry David Thoreau, and Leonard Bernstein. One could build a collection consisting entirely of works by and about its illustrious alumni, as Ken suggests to one of his former Boston Latin classmates during a seemingly fairly raucous high school reunion. Plus, some tips on insuring your own rare book collection.

Andrea Campbell's twin brother Andre died seven years ago while awaiting trial in the custody of the state Department of Correction, and she says that has everything to do with how she wound up on the Boston City Council. The 36-year-old Mattapan resident says government needs to share more stories. By that she means we can often gain greater clarity about how to approach public policy issues through stories that put a human face on the often dry matters of city and state. Campbell, who is starting her second year as City Council president, leads by example and unspools some of her own life story on this week's Codcast. It is, by turns, both heart-wrenching and inspiring, and when you hear it it's easy to see how she connects her life experience with the issues that drive her work as a Boston city councilor. Campbell has been a relentless advocate for public schools – and for ensuring all students get the sort of education she received at Boston Latin School. She's been outspoken on criminal justice reform issues and, most recently, on the need for greater diversity in the city's police and fire departments.

In Episode 4, we heard about a pioneering form of climate-related learning in the Boston school system, Youth Climate Action Network (YouthCAN). Need an encouraging story from a young climate action leader? Give a listen in this extended cut to Susan Tang! Susan takes us through her journey from new 7th grade student at Boston Latin School - inspired by a presentation on climate and justice - to 12th grade skilled co-leader of Youth CAN. Along the way we hear plenty of examples to give us hope. Whether it's bike-powered musicians, partnerships with faculty and advocacy groups, or her insights about reaching the next generation, Susan conveys the power of passionate young people learning to change.

In Episode 4, we heard about a pioneering form of climate-related learning in the Boston school system, Youth Climate Action Network (YouthCAN). Join us in this episode to hear from Rebecca Park, an alumna of Boston Latin School (BLS), as she opens a window onto the impact of Youth CAN on her life and work. Rebecca's stories from Youth CAN, learning from BLS history teacher Cate Arnold, and examples from her own teaching make visible the great value of empowering young people.

In Episode 4, we heard about a pioneering form of climate-related learning in the Boston school system, Youth Climate Action Network (YouthCAN). In this episode faculty member Cate Arnold tells us how as a middle school history teacher at the Boston Latin School she started YouthCAN. Not only did YouthCAN became one of the school's most successful clubs, but it also has provided a wealth of learning opportunities for students and faculty for over 12 years. Cate shares her inspiring stories and lessons learned along the way, all of great value to anyone interested in joining with young people (and other educators) to learn to change.

What happens when a high school student passionate about climate action shows up at a City Council meeting? In this episode, we talk to Cate Arnold, Boston Latin School history teacher and climate instigator and two of her students, Rebecca Park and Susan Tang. They are members of YouthCAN, a climate action network designed by and for high school students. Through their experiences, we learn about the trials and triumphs of some of the next generation of climate leaders.

How often do you wish you knew the secret to living a successful and happy life? Not just a life that brings periods of joy, but a life that is joy-filled through both the ups and the downs we all inevitably encounter? Well, wait no longer. In this episode of Talking Business Now, host Kelly Scanlon talks business—and self-discovery—with Joe Deitch, the author of Elevate: An Essential Guide to Life. It's a book that's meant to be lived, not just read. A financial industry pioneer who founded Commonwealth Financial Network—the largest privately owned independent investment broker/dealer in the U.S.—Deitch is also the chair of a golf resort and real estate company with properties in the U.S., the Bahamas and Scotland. Among his numerous awards, he counts a Tony Award as co-producer of The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. He also established the Deitch Leadership Institute at Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the U.S. Here's what you'll take away from the episode: An understanding of the interconnectedness of personal and interpersonal skills across life in general, business and your most important relationships.The difference between Awareness and Action, and how they work together.The 5 insights that are part of Awareness.The 10 skills that are crucial to Action.How to connect your internal and your external journeys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this LIVE Facebook event, for the Let's Play community, you will meet Keith West, educator and debate coach at Boston Latin School and founder of Dragon's Haven, a live action summer camp for tweens and teens in Spencer, Massachusetts and Keith's curriculum director, Ariel Bruni, a classroom teacher, camp counselor and head storyteller. We discuss the benefits of interactive theater programs for kids, extrinsic vs intrinsic motivators in this kind of programming and what to look for in a great summer camp. Join the community at bit.ly/maletsplay to participate in the conversation. More info at www.dragonshaven.org or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DragonsHavenSummerCamp/

Kenneth Eng is a director, editor and executive producer. After graduating from Boston Latin School, Ken left for New York in 1994 to study film at the School of Visual Arts. His thesis Scratching Windows, a short documentary film about graffiti writers, was broadcast as part of the doc series REEL NY on WNET - NY PBS. In 2001, Ken directed and edited Take Me to The River a feature length documentary about the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, India. Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball, his film about the famous Koshien Tournament in Japan was nationally broadcast on PBS as part of POV and continues to play in Japan on NHK-TV. In 2007, Ken was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship to launch My Life In China. Recently, he edited Tested for director Curtis Chin, and is currently developing projects on post-genocide reconciliation in Rwanda and the rise of baseball in China. Visit our blog for show notes, tools and resources: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/ken-eng  Subscribe with just one click! New episodes are released every Thursday anywhere you get your podcast.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/support

Kenneth Eng is a director, editor and executive producer. After graduating from Boston Latin School, Ken left for New York in 1994 to study film at the School of Visual Arts. His thesis Scratching Windows, a short documentary film about graffiti writers, was broadcast as part of the doc series REEL NY on WNET - NY PBS. In 2001, Ken directed and edited Take Me to The River a feature length documentary about the Maha Kumbh Mela festival in Allahabad, India. Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball, his film about the famous Koshien Tournament in Japan was nationally broadcast on PBS as part of POV and continues to play in Japan on NHK-TV. In 2007, Ken was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship to launch My Life In China. Recently, he edited Tested for director Curtis Chin, and is currently developing projects on post-genocide reconciliation in Rwanda and the rise of baseball in China. Visit our blog for show notes, tools and resources: https://www.feisworld.com/blog/ken-eng  Subscribe with just one click! New episodes are released every Thursday anywhere you get your podcast.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/support

This week the Climate Conversations team are joined by the founder of ClimateCurriculum.com and Science Teacher at Boston Latin School, Timothy Gay, whose goal is to get schools across the country teaching students about climate change. We discuss the challenges associated with bringing climate change into the science curriculum, and how Timothy's students have taken up the mantle of climate activism. Timothy highlights some of the practical and hands on climate research activities that his students engage in, with a focus on climate solutions at a local level, and tells us about the future of his Climate Curriculum project. Join the conversation at climatex.mit.edu/

Councilor Matt O'Malley chats with Councilor Andrea Campbell about their experiences from Boston Latin School to Japan. Tune in this week to learn more about Councilor Campbell. 

May 22, 2014 at the Boston Athenæum. Although historic Boston has a reputation as one of the best-preserved cities in America, it has always been a subject to the constant change of any busy commercial center. Lecturer and historian Anthony Sammarco, author of some sixty books on the history and development of Boston, will reveal sixty- eight major Boston locations that are no more, including schools, churches, theaters, grand mansions, dockyards, racetracks, parks, stores, hotels, offices, and factories. Organized chronologically, Sammarco’s lecture will features much-loved institutions that failed to stand the test of time, victims of Boston’s redevelopment era, and old-fashioned hotels and sports facilities that once seemed beyond updating or refurbishment. Vanished landmarks on this virtual tour include Franklin Place, the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the Hancock House, Gleason’s Publishing Hall, Fort Hill, Franklin Street, the Boston Coliseum, Boylston Market, the Merchants Exchange, Haymarket Square, earlier homes of the Boston Public Library, Boston City Hall, Horticultural Hall, Boston Latin School, and the Museum of Fine Arts, the once celebrated Revere House hotel, Huntington Avenue Grounds, Charlestown City Hall, the Cyclorama, Readville Trotting Park and Race Track, East Boston Airport, East Boston Ferries, Braves Field, Massachusetts State Prison, the original Boston Opera House, the Boston Aquarium, the beloved Howard Athenaeum of old Scollay Square, and Dudley Street Station.

Adam Reilly, Peter Kadzis, and The Boston Globe's Joan Vennochi discuss the growing problems at the Boston Latin School and how Mayor Walsh has been handling the situation.

Everyone knows they need to do some sort of estate planning but, often avoid the subject.  After all, who wants to really sit down and plot out our own demise?!  The sad fact is, if you don't, all of your best intentions will likely get dashed on the rocks of your remaining family. This show will help you understand: How to avoid the number one estate planning mistakeWhy one size planning does not fit allHow mistakes in planning could mean years of heartache and headache for your familyWhy inheritances can mess up certain members of your family I am fortunate to have attorney Richard Scarano as my special guest this week to discuss this very thing.  Born and raised in Boston, he attended the pretigious Boston Latin School and later went on to earn his Bachelors, Master's and Juris Doctorate degrees.  First a school teacher (high school, undergraduate and graduate), he later pursued the practice of law, with concentrations in Estate Planning and Real Estate.  His teaching background serves him and his clients well as he is able to take otherwise complex issues and make them easy and fun to understand.    As one of the partners at Holmgren Koretz Scarano in Osterville, MA, Rich makes the heavy lifting of building a great legal and financial team easy.  He can be contacted at (508) 420-8899 In my 32+ years in the insurance industry, I have had the good fortune to work with many legal professionals.  Most are good.  Rich is one of the very best because he understands people and their issues.  He even makes housecalls! Tune in and enjoy the show.

Jonathan Stark is a senior partner with Daniel Stark Injury Lawyers, a personal injury law firm in Texas who's purpose is to keep people from being screwed by Big Insurance.  Daniel Stark Injury Lawyers was featured in the book "What's the Secret" by John DiJulius for their work with personal injury victims. Additionally, Jonathan Stark is invited to speak at national conferences on topics of law firm management, efficiency, and culture. Dr. Kamran Akbarzadeh is the founder & CEO of International Academy of Leadership & Management as well as Dream Achievers Academy. He is known as Leadership Makeover expert. Darren Garland fitness expert, recently hit eight separate Amazon.com best seller lists, two international Amazon.com best lists and was number 40 overall on Amazon with the new Health Fitness and Wellness book, “Results Fitness.”  Dr. Daniel Twogood has been practicing for 30 years and specializes in eliminating chronic pain. He has written four books on the topic, the newest is "       Chronic Pain Gone 90 Days".  Jim Henderson is a graduate of the prestigious Boston Latin School, attended Notre Dame and graduated with high distinction from Babson College.  He is a licensed CPA and Real Estate Broker.  He is an author and has presented numerous seminars on tax saving strategies.He is the founder of TaxSense, a professional tax planning, preparation and protection firm, with 4 offices in the Boston area.  

Summary of today's show: One of the newest faculty members at St. John Seminary is Sr. Jeanne Gribaudo, CSJ. As a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston, her roots in the area grow deep and she has served the people of the area as a parochial school teacher, a youth minister, a college professor, and even an advisor to the Mayor of Boston. Sr. Jeanne talks with Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O'Connor about growing up in Roslindale, her vocation among the Sisters of St. Joseph, her ministry, and the final homestretch toward her PhD. Listen to the show: Today's host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O'Connor Today's guest(s): Sr. Jeanne Gribaudo, CSJ Links from today's show: Today's topics: Sr. Jeanne Gribaudo, CSJ 1st segment: Scot Landry welcomed Fr. Chris to the show. They are taping from St. John Seminary. The guest is Sr. Jeanne Gribaudo is a new member of the faculty at the seminary and the Theological Institute for the New Evangelization. Fr. Chris said they are planning for the ordination on June 23. Fr. Chris has been asked to be the vesting priest for Deacon Eric Bennett. They also discussed the other seminarians being ordained as well. 2nd segment: Scot and Fr. Chris welcome Sr. Jeanne to the show. She said said she grew up in Sacred Heart parish in Roslindale. They had the Sisters of St. Joseph at the school and they had a very positive influence on her life. In the sixth grade she transferred to public school, but she still had the feeling that she wanted to be a religious. When she graduated from high school she met with a vocation director. She went to Stonehill College and after 4 years there, she entered the Sisters of St. Joseph. She said the Sisters at Sacred Heart so obviously enjoyed each other. She recalled how the Sisters joked with each other and needled each other. They had a care and concern and deep faith. She saw them in church all the time. Sr. Jeanne said the charism of the Sisters of St. Joseph is unity and reconciliation. They are built on an Ignatian-Salesian spirituality. For years, they taught in the archdiocese, but they expanded to social work, outreach to immigrants, and especially human trafficking. Fr. Chris asked her to expand on that. Sr. Jeanne said the spirituality is ad extra, as opposed to ad intra. Their community life is concerned with love of neighbor and being diocesan. The order belongs to the Archdiocese in a special way. Scot said so many religious orders are worldwide, but the Sisters of St. Joseph are locally based. Sr. Jeanne said so many of the priests and laypeople approach the CSJ and ask them about other CSJ they have known. Scot said it's similar to diocesan priests in that the CSJ stay local frost of their lives. Sr. Jeanne said there is an exception. She recalled that Cardinal Cushing sent some of the Sisters to Peru to assist with the St. James Society. On her home parish, she recalled the pastors of her childhood. She said they had six or seven priests in the rectory and they would say that the parish ran the priests, not the other way around. The parish was divided into six regions and each priest was assigned to that area. That's how big it was. Everything in the area revolved around the church. Fr. Chris said growing up people's parish identity was part of their whole identity. When asked, where are you from, people responded with their parish name. Sr. Jeanne said she was the youngest of four. Her brothers were altar boys and her sister was in May processions. She said we need to bring that back and that's why the New Evangelization is so important. People need those moments to hold onto. Scot asked if it was uncommon for someone to leave parochial school to go to public school. Sr. Jeanne said her mother didn't want to let her go to Boston Latin School, but one of the sisters convinced her. When she told her parents she was thinking of religious life, her family was supportive but wary, especially since vocations had started to go down. Extended family wasn't as supportive in the time after Vatican II. There were some impulses in the Church that needed to have the kinks worked out. Fr. Chris noted that much of the confusion has abated, which works better for the men in the seminary. On the other hand, many major societal questions have cropped up, like assisted suicide and the like, topics they would never have worried about 15 years ago. Sr. Jeanne said when she first entered the order in 1988 as a postulant. She was there 1-1/2 years and taught English at the high school level at St. Columbkille's in Brighton. From there she went to the novitiate at Sacred Heart in Watertown for two years. There were two novices at the time. during the first year, she entered community programs and the second year she volunteered 4 days a week somewhere. She went to Msgr. Charles Bourque and they started a Jamaica Plain CYO with all kinds of sports teams. She did all kinds of fundraising and credited Doyle's in JP for donating tons of pizza to the kids, including every Friday during the summer. She said those are the memories the kids will remember. She began to work with local political leaders to get the gyms open for the kids. She recalled working with the then-City Council president and then acting Mayor, Tom Menino. She pestered him so much he called her Sister Relentless. Afterward, he asked her to be his city youth advisor and offered her a job. But she got advice that it wouldn't be good to take a salary but to do it for $1 per year. She helped streamline the youth programs. She helped start the mayor's youth council, which is juniors and seniors who represent their section of the city who meet with the mayor every 4 to 6 weeks. Scot asked what it was like to work in a political environment as a sister. Sr. Jeanne said you'd be surprised how many sisters get involved with politics at some level to get assistance for programs they're running. She said because she wasn't taking a salary, she felt free to speak her mind about things. It can be heady wine, she said, being invited to go to the White House to meet the president, for example. That can all be seductive and she tried to balance it with her life in Christ. Sr. Jeanne said it was a privileged place to be in, in order to speak to the mayor about matters of concern to the Church and vice versa. So often between the religious world and political world, everything is passed secondhand and thirdhand. She told a story about teaching college students and when they realize how important it is to not implicitly trust the media reporting, but to go to the original sources and find out for themselves. In addition to those assignments, Sr. Jeanne has worked at Stonehill College as assistant to the president. Since she'd been a student there before, it was fun to go back there. She's also done a lot of fundraising. She's very proud that she worked with Ron Burton, former New England Patriot, to start a scholarship for two students per year at the Ron Burton Training Village to go to Stonehill. They have two students from Eritrea who are freshman and junior this year at Stonehill. Scot asked about the courses she was teaching at Fairfield University and Sacred Heart in Connecticut. Sr. Jeanne said she talked to the chairs of the departments who were having her teaching courses at the colleges in which they talked about the tough ethical issues, like euthanasia, abortion, exploitation of persons. She said it's a scary time and the students were often horrified about the way the dignity of human life is trampled today and became more and more enamored of the Church's teachings in these areas. 3rd segment: Scot asked Sr. Jeanne about her doctorate program. Sr. Jeanne said she remembers when she first started and was told by her advisor that he couldn't explain what it would be like, but after she would understand. Fr. Chris said he was breaking into a sweat listening to her. She discussed how much work was completed to get to her dissertation. She's just got back the first chapter of her dissertation from one of three readers giving her feedback. She's writing on the holiness and sinfulness of the Church. She's focusing on six theologians who had a lot of influence on Vatican II's document, Lumen Gentium, and how that affected John Paul II's millennial apology. She said it was prophetic. The apology means that there are times when the members of the Church all sin and the Church composed of sinners asks for forgiveness. She said Pope John Paul II relied a lot on one of those theologians, Hans Urs von Balthasar, with a profound understanding of humanity on a journey toward God. Fr. Chris said she has to finish writing and then has to do a two-hour defense. Sr. Jeanne said hopefully it will be late fall or early spring. Scot asked what led her to study ecclessiology, the theology of the Church. Sr. Jeanne said she's often hear people say: Jesus, yes; the Church, no. But Pope Paul VI said we can't live that way.You can't have one and not the other. It's a both/and. You have to have the Church in order to have Jesus. You can't write 260 pages without having a passion for the topic. Sr. Jeanne said we sometimes throw out the word “Church” without defining our terms. She said you can't say the “Church is sinful” because then you are saying Christ is sinful. So we have to be very careful. Scot asked what Sr. Jeanne will be doing at St. John Seminary and the TINE program. She has started by teaching an ecclesiology course. She said the class is an evening seminar from 6-9pm with 9 students from all walks of life studying for the Master of Arts in Ministry.She's also been asked to work on some parish outreach for the New Evangelization, helping to bring it to the parishes in a user-friendly way. Scot said the New Evangelization needs to take up a programmatic format in the parishes. Sr. Jeanne hopes that young people in the archdiocese will be involved in some contests to do something for the new evangelization. She wants to get young people excited. They discussed the Year of Faith and how it integrates the New Evangelization. One idea is to bring young people to see what the seminary is all about, not just those who might be discerning priesthood. Sr. Jeanne said we don't talk enough about the vocation of family life and marriage. Her favorite line in the Catechism is that parents are first and best teachers of the faith. One of her great joys is when former students come to see her and tell her that they have stay involved in their faith. She also hears from current students who haven't been practicing their faith who have started. Fr. Chris asked who her favorite saint is. She said John Henry Newman, especially his poem “One Kindly Light”. Also, St. Peter Canisius, because he did so much with religious education. With regard to parents who thinks the children are lost to the faith, Sr. Jeanne advises they don't give up on them. Look for the right program, even if your parish doesn't have it and you have to go to another. Look at outreach programs. Encourage your college student to do an alternative Spring Break or a year of service. Scot asked why students connect with the faith on a service project. Sr. Jeanne said it's because they see their faith in action, helping real people. It's not just talk, but it makes a difference. Scot asked how our families and parishes overcome sinfulness and strive toward holiness. Sr. Jeanne said her mother always used to say, There but for the grace of God, go I. There's enough blame and judgment to go around, but we could ask what if we were in the other's shoes. The sacraments do not depend on the holiness of any of us. That grace comes from God. We can forget the rudimentary teachings about God. Often people leave the Church because they don't understand the teachings of the Church. Don't get your understanding of the Church from the media. Try to read the original documents, like the Catechism of the Catholic Church or the, which is a version of the Catechism for young adults. They talked examples of people misunderstanding their status with regard to the Church, like with divorce or other matters. Don't be afraid to find out more and talk to a priest. Fr. Chris asked the most important fact to know about the Church. Sr. Jeanne said that it is Christ present on earth. The Church makes mistakes, but it's our way to Christ and it's our home. Even if you've been away forever, you can always go home.

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Today's host(s): Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O'Connor Today's guest(s): Bishop Arthur Kennedy, Auxiliary Bishop of Boston and Rector of St. John Seminary Links from today's show: Today's topics: Bishop Profile: Bishop Arthur Kennedy Summary of today's show: Bishop Arthur Kennedy, rector of St. John Seminary, just celebrated 45 years in the priesthood. Scot Landry and Fr. Chris O'Connor discuss with Bishop Kennedy his recent ad limina visit with Pope Benedict in Rome; his childhood in West Roxbury; his formation and ordination in Rome in 1966; and the many years he spent in academia, teaching the Catholic faith to university students. They also talk about bishop Kennedy's favorite author, Flannery O'Connor, and his assessment of the young people he's confirmed throughout the Archdiocese since his ordination as bishop last year. 1st segment: Scot asked Fr. Chris how he celebrates Christmas now that the seminary is not in session. Fr. Chris said he will be helping out at St. John in Winthrop and Sacred Heart in East Boston, which are close together but unique. St. John is a typical suburban parish and Sacred Heart is a melting pot of the city with several ethnic groups living there. He will celebrate the 4pm and 6pm Christmas Eve Masses. On Christmas, he will spend it with his family at his sister's home in Stoughton. Scot said his family will travel to New Bedford where his brother Roger is pastor of St. Anthony Parish. They will attend 4pm Mass and then have a dinner after in the rectory. On Christmas Day they go to the 9am at St. Agnes in Arlington, where his daughter sings in the children's choir. They will gather with both sides of his family afterward. Fr. Chris said it's easier on pastors when Christmas is on a Sunday because they don't have to double up on Masses. He said he hopes people who come back for Christmas for the first time since the new translation came into effect will find it edifying. Also, this Wednesday, all the church and chapels of the Archdiocese will have confessions available from 6pm to 8:30pm as part of . You can find a church at . 2nd segment: Scot welcomed Bishop Kennedy to the show. Scot said he was ordained to the priesthood on December 17, 1966 and is celebrating 45 years in the priesthood. Bishop Kennedy thanked Scot and said it's a good time to be rector because it shows the young men the life of the priesthood can be remarkably rewarding and filled with the mystery of God. What God does in us is what we really celebrate in this 45th anniversary. On September 14, 2010, Bishop Kennedy and Bishop Peter Uglietto were ordained bishops for Boston. They recently met with all the bishops of New England with Pope Benedict for his first ad limina visit. It's a pilgrimage to the tombs of the apostles, first of all, so they celebrated Mass at the tombs of St. Peter and St. Paul as well as Bl. John Paul II. They also met with the Holy Father for about 40 minutes and they each spoke to him about some aspect of the work of the new Evangelization. Bishop Kennedy talked about the Theological Institute for the New Evangelization that they have undertaken at St. John Seminary. The Holy Father emphasized how all evangelization begins with catechesis. They then met with various Vatican offices, including the new council for the New Evangelization, where they were very excited about TINE for their work. He also met with the Congregation for Education ad Seminaries. They talked about the New Evangelization too, especially how they train and form lay people and how that relationship affects how they form and train seminarians. They also talked about getting permission to have a pontifical degree at St. John' Seminary. Scot asked what is a pontifical degree. Bishop Kennedy said it is based on a system worked out by the Vatican on what is required for coursework. It includes a special ordering of coursework and provides the opportunity for a seminarian being able to go for further study to have a leg up than he otherwise might. Scot said it seems like the holy Father is particularly interested in talking about the New Evangelization in these meetings with bishops. Bishop Kennedy noted the Holy Father is dedicated to seeing this become a major dimension of his papacy because this was his focus for many years in his own academic work. New Evangelization re-opens the light that is so dangerously closed off by many of the dark elements in modern culture. Scot asked how the Pope seems to be doing as a man in his mid-80s. Bishop Kennedy said he looked quite frail when he saw him in September. He'd been told by his doctors to lose weight and he'd obviously done so. He looked tired; this was after World Youth Day in Spain and just before his trip to Germany. He was more invigorated when they saw him November, but still quite frail. Fr. Chris asked what else he sees as his legacy in his papacy. Bishop Kennedy said the way he's been able to bring into the life of the Church that its development is always organic. It doesn't bounce around by rejecting things of the past, but integrates new things in to the structure of the life of the Church. The way he was able to bring in an understanding of the Second Vatican Council as a continuation of the Church's life. Scot said he's often viewed Pope Benedict's heart is tied to the renewal of the Liturgy because how we pray informs our faith. Bishop Kennedy said he guided the development of the new translation into English. 3rd segment: Scot said Bishop Kennedy grew up here in Boston and asked him how he first heard the call to the priesthood. Bishop Kennedy said he grew up in West Roxbury and Holy Name was his home parish. Msgr. Charles Finn was the pastor and four more priests lived there. He said the laypeople were very involved in the parish. The laity were the ones who made all the details of life go: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, bands, choirs, athletic teams, etc. There was a culture and form within that culture he had a sense of vocation. The unity between the priests and laity was extraordinary. He saw how holy laypeople could be and dedicated to prayer and prayed not just for themselves but for others. They had many vocations from that parish when he was growing up. The Archdiocese had a program—which he's reinstating—called the St. Botolph Guild. St. Botolph's name is the origin of the name Boston: St. Botolph's Town. He's the patron saint of the city of Boston. The guild were boys and young men interested in the priesthood who went once a month to the seminary for a holy hour, reflection, and meeting the seminarians. They learned the seminarians were just like themselves. His family was very close to the Church as well. He went to Boston Latin School for high school where he studied Latin, Greek, French and German as well as other subjects so he had a very good engagement entry into a broad world of interests. Scot asked him about not attending a Catholic high school. Bishop Kennedy said there was no Catholic high school near them at the time. He studied for seminary at St. John Seminary and then at the Pontifical North American College, and was ordained in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. At the time, they had one telephone call per year back home on Christmas Day, so all communications were by letter. Thus the planning for the ordination was complicated as 34 people came with his family. The ordination took place at the Altar of the Chair, which is the altar behind the main high altar in the center of the basilica. He celebrated his first Mass at the Basilica of St. Clements, which had been under the care of Cardinal O'Connell. Holy Name parish's apse had been copied from the basilica so the artwork and design was quite familiar to him. He served in several parishes and then went for further studies after which he has spent the bulk of his time in academic work. He worked at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He said it was a very Catholic place, but even those who were not Catholic were still very devout. He spent eight years helping at one parish and 22 years in another parish in downtown St. Paul. The academic world was something he'd begun to enjoy even when he was in high school. He was interested in theology and how it helps us understand all of the dimensions of the mystery of Christ. So he taught theology to undergraduate students. Many of them came from small farm towns and were the first in their families to go to college. There was a greater sense of nature from students who grew up on farms. He said when you're sitting on a tractor all day, there's a lot of time for contemplation of the universe and one's place in it. He started courses that linked theology to other social sciences, like literature and philosopher and more. They created a Catholic studies program, which has become very successful. It links the Catholic life of prayer, service to the Church, and a life of charity. It's amazing how many vocations have come from students in that program. It was the first program of its type in the country and became the model for many others. Fr. Chris said Bishop Kennedy is known for his love of Flannery O'Connor, the souther Catholic writer. He said she had an amazing vision from the time she was about 18. She saw the great difficulty between faith and culture. In her world the Christians were principally not Catholic. She had a great sense that the grace of God works by allowing all of those who are informed by the Gospel to be able to recognize their place and their dignity and be drawn closer and closer to understanding the darkness of the world and their need for redemption. Her stories are always about redemption, how people resist redemption or find it only after great suffering. She is completely unsentimental. She recognizes that grace is a very difficult reality because it faces difficult things. Sometimes you show the reality of grace by showing what life is like when it is absent. She had a sense of the darkness that was coming, even back in the 50s when every thought things were fine. She saw the decline of education. She had a great spiritual sense of self. At 19, she wrote in a spiritual journal: “Go must be in everything I write.” As far as he can see, she fulfilled that command right until her early death at the age of 39 from Lupus. He would recommend people who want to start reading her books to start with the collection of her short stories called “”. Scot said Bishop Kennedy earlier said the Catholic studies program he started tried to link Catholicism with other disciplines and there were a number of vocations that came from it. Does he think that those two are related? Bishop Kennedy thinks it opens one's imagination to possibilities that might be closed off by the culture. It's a terrific entire sense of the human community and the mystical Body of the Church. It's exactly the way the Church was engaged in education for centuries. It's only in the last decades that we've divided up these areas of education. The integrity allows young people to see how faith takes nothing away, but gives them a whole new way of being human. Scot asked how he implements it at St. John's. Bishop Kennedy said they've established a summer reading program, including for example, books on economics so they can relate to people's concerns; history books like those of the Catholic historian Christopher Dawson. Bishop Kennedy said Dawson made him realize that when faith is lived by Catholic people in society, they transform everything else. They change economics and education, for example. Dawson said we hadn't linked our knowledge of theology with our knowledge of history. For example, the great churches are prayers in stone. It's part of what they do at St. John's. They do it through human formation and spiritual formation. 4th segment: Scot noted that Bishop Kennedy in June 2010, Cardinal Sean invited then-Fr. Kennedy and then-Fr. Uglietto to a meeting and told them that the Holy Father wanted to make them bishops. What was it like? Bishop Kennedy said at the time Cardinal Sean was heading to the US bishops meeting in Washington, DC, and they'd been talking about talking to bishops there about the seminary. So he got a phone call asking him to come meet the cardinal The Cardinal said there's good news and Bishop Kennedy asked, “Oh, do you have some bishops who are going to send some men to St. John's Seminary.” The cardinal said, “Oh no, the holy Father has named you an auxiliary bishop of Boston.” He replied, “What?” So Bishop Kennedy wasn't able to tell anyone for a long time and then had to write a letter—you have to make a formal response to the Holy Father's request—which he did after much prayer and fasting. The ordination Mass saw many bishops come from around the country on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. After the ordination, you walk down through the Church and give your blessing to all the people and he saw the enthusiasm of the people in the full cathedral. They don't know him, but the enthusiasm is that the Church continues to have those offices and places and people who will continue to carry on the mission of the Church. the enthusiasm is about the Church and that was the most wonderful part for him. Fr. Chris said Bishop Kennedy travels around the diocese and performs many confirmations. What has he learned about the youth of the archdiocese? Bishop Kennedy has them write to him before he goes to the confirmations. He asks them to tell him the name they've chosen for confirmation; the sponsor and why they chose that person—many of the young people say the sponsor is a model of Christian fidelity; and what do they understand by the Mass. From those questions that he gives his reflections from the homily. He quotes from the letters and talks to the family members about what their children are saying. He then talks about how the young people have to become models themselves. He's been impressed by the catechetical preparation in many parishes. In some parishes, it's been so good that the young people ask to be able to continue to meet as a class with the pastor and catechists. It's important because it can seem that confirmation is a graduation from Church, but it's really the exact opposite case. So he talks to them about Pope Benedict's talk to the students in England and Wales. He said it's unusual for anyone to talk to all of the children in England, Scotland, and Wales, never mind the Pope. He told them that he was there for the beatification of Bl. Newman. He told them that they all have to consider becoming saints so they need to think about what a saint is how they would become one. Confirmation is one of the steps to becoming a saint. Scot said when he hears bishops talk about confirmation, there is a lot of variety. Cardinal Sean likes to talk about marriage, not knowing for how many of them this will be their last homily before they approach their pastor to get married in the church. He tries to help prepare them for their next sacrament. Scot said he loves Bishop Kennedy makes them reflect before coming forward for the sacrament. Scot said he's always been fascinated that bishops get to pick on quote from Scripture and make it their episcopal motto. He's often thought if he tried to boil down his life to one phrase, what would it be? Bishop Kennedy picked, “Ut cognoscant te”, which translates as “That they may know you.” Cardinal Cushing had the same motto. It's from John 17:3. Bishop Kennedy picked it because it's first in the Book of Wisdom in the Old Testament. It is the way he's spent his life as a pastor and a teacher, helping people to know Christ. It also gives an historical link back to Boston. Scot said Cardinal Cushing built so many churches and schools, that this motto is in about a third of the buildings in the Archdiocese on his coat of arms. Scot asked if there's anything in his first 15 months as a bishop that has surprised him. Bishop Kennedy said he's been amazed by how many letters he's received from former students who recall something he's taught them or his presence at some event and the gratitude that comes back to him. It reminds him of the way in which when you live your life according to charity and sacrifice, that God's work is taking place in others and you have no idea. It's the hiddenness of God's redemption. Fr. Chris said on behalf of St. John Seminary how blessed they are to have Bishop Kennedy lead them and impressed by his kindness and generosity and intellect. Bishop Kennedy said for a long time he's tried to link faith to culture and he's trying to help the seminarians do that by giving them a greater sense of the faith they'll see in the young people they'll be serving in the parishes. People are waiting for these men to come be faithful spiritual fathers in the future. Scot noted that St. John Seminary is now full like it wasn't before he came. He thanked Bishop Kennedy for the work that benefits all of us.