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VOLUME 67, NUMBER 8
FEBRUARY 21, 1979
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK February 7th, 1979 in conversation with a friend, the conversation turned to Spring and your editor mentioned that the red-breasted robins would probably appear around Valentine's Day, February 14th. Lo and behold, the next day, February 8th we saw two of them and a small group of seven the following day. Valentine's Day, we saw a small group of ducks heading in the northern direction and we had the 80-degree weather for a day or two and we just knew that the Spring season had arrived! Then came the long-range weather broadcast for the next five days: 25-degree weather with rain, sleet and snow Friday and Saturday, February 16th and 17th. We presume we will have to wait a little while, yet.
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SIX FAMOUS AMERICAN SAYINGS: 1. "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." --- Ben Franklin. 2. "Give me liberty, or give me death!" --- Patrick Henry. 3. "Surrender in the name of the great Jehovah and the continental congress!" --- Ethan Allen before Fort Ticonderoga. 4. "I can't tell a lie, pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet." --- George Washington. 5. "Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of the trees." --- Stonewall Jackson's last words.
6. "We hold these truths to be In this issue is a letter from self-evident; that all men are created Bernard Pivonka about Czech courses equal..." --- Thomas Jefferson. in Houston and we are heartened by his third paragraph stating that: Rice University is now offering a Czech Brother John Stasa's letter conlanguage course. Good luck! tained a notice of Rev. Josef A. A member of Baylor University Barton's death. We are certain that faculty, with a doctor's degree, is the Rev. Barton we had known for attended the "Czech in Texas" 30-plus years and our paths crossed symposium in Temple in October, quite often. 1978 and we discussed the possibility In the early 1950's Dr. John of Czech language courses being ,Skrivanek of TAMU (A&M) called a established at Baylor at that time meeting of Czech-oriented people to and, by telephone, since. It would be found CEFT (The Czech Educational a step forward if that became a Foundation of Texas) (Ceska vzdelareality. 'vajici nadace Texasu) at A&M
University in College Station. If memory serves correctly those present were: Dr. John Skrivanek, Dr. Henry Maresh, Brothers Sid Pokladnik, Stephen Valcik, Lud. Kucera, Rev. Josef Barton, Msgr. Alois Nesvadba and Rudy Sefcik. (We probably have omitted someone, certainly not intentionally). At that meeting CEFT was founded and the chartering legal work was executed by Brother Kucera (free of charge) and $6,500 was donated by those present. We were impressed by the sincerity and hopes of all present.
Faith in yourself---Most men go to pieces when they have had a few good beatings. They wilt. They fade away. They crawl in a safe little corner and hide while the great rough tide of glorious life rushes past them. The fact is that defeat is the normal thing in this haphazard little world and victory comes but seldom. Every victory, usually, is the result of a long series of defeats. A man must have faith in himself, and in what he is trying to do. He must say, "I can." He must back himself to win. He must bet on Himself. He must have faith in the people he works with. He must believe in his team. He must see the better side of his co-workers and not think that his one point of view is the only right one. He must have faith in those great principles that make us superior to the animals of