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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zeta1961 who wrote (40256)	10/25/2008 10:06:14 AM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

First, time for COUNTDOWN's top three best persons in the world... Number one, best historical footnote, the late Walter Schneller. I've told you about Mr. Schneller, one of America's great high school history teachers at my school, Hackley, in Terrytown, New York. We lost him last March. We had the memorial service for him there on Saturday. And that's when a lot of us learned something new and extraordinary about Mr. Schneller that in retrospect should not have been any surprise at all. He was in the 1990s in charge of the school's program of guest speakers. Mr. Schneller cast a wide net, seeking interesting people with diverse and compelling backgrounds, no matter how obscure they might have seemed at the time. Thus, some of us learned on Saturday, for black history month in 1991, he found and invited to address the high school students a third year law student from Harvard. In the school publication, a student named Alicia Yagota (ph) wrote that "throughout his speech, the speaker emphasized that change is possible. The core of his ideas was that, as the nation comes out of the conservative, money hungry and cynical atmosphere of the '80s, it needs the idealism of a socially conscious generation, coupled with actions to fulfill idealistic goals." The speaker brought to the Hackley school by my late teacher, Walter Schneller, nearly 18 years ago, if this 1991 photo does not answer it, the beginning of Miss Yagota's summary will: "perhaps because the times are confusing and the future is unforeseeable, the students of the upper school listened closely to Barack Obama." 1991 msnbc.msn.com