MEMORANDUM

September 21, 1987.

TO: All College Personnel
FROM: Bill Day

As I was on holiday during registration and the start up of
classes, comment on either is untimely.

This will be a good year for Douglas. We have full classes, enough
money to balance our budget, an earned good reputation, Board and community
support, and a stable environment.

I picked up the following article on my recent travels. I hope you
will enjoy it.

ALL IT EVER REALLY NEED
TO KNOW I LEARNED IN

 

 

Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to
do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdon was not at the top of
the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school.

These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair.
Don't hit people. Put things back where you found then. Clean up your own
mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt
somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold
milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think sane and
draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch
for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember
the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up
and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and
hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the cup - they all die.
So do we.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole
world - had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay
down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy to always put
things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it's
still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is
best to hold hands and stick together.

---author unknown

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