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Vol. III, # 52, Vol. IV, # 1, August 12, 2005
This issue of PHA marks the beginning of Volume
IV. Hopefully PHA will continue to bring class news, other news
not seen in the
 Spire,
an assortment of urban legends and maybe Miller can provide a few
rural legends, a little humor and some meaningful thoughts now and
then. This Sunday Brenda and PH will present the sixth Catacombs
lecture of the 2005 season of lectures. Attendance has been outstanding
his year. This Sunday's topic will be "Warm Springs, Fact or
Fiction." Video clips and a limited summary of the film will
be presented. In the past Brenda and PH have focused on the theme,
"Can God Be Found in the Movies?" This film does not have
direct religious content, but it seems to provide the message of
how a body of believers can lift each other up. Come this Sunday
and make your own decision.
DON'T FORGET TO PUT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH
ON YOUR CALENDAR
THE FALL HYMN SING SOCIAL
AT THE HOME OF DOUG AND JANET MOYERS
DON'T FORGET
That Doug and Janet have moved
To 8904 Bellefonte Road in the Sleepy Hollow area
 Directions
from Parham Road: turn onto Derbyshire at light. From Derbyshire
turn left onto Wimgrow (just past Derbyshire Baptist Church).
Take Wimgrow to the end (3 blocks) and turn right onto Bellefonte.
Doug and Janet's home is the third house on the right.
Directions from River Road: Come out River Road
crossing over Parham/Chippenham. After passing River Road United
Methodist Church, take second right onto Sleepy Hollow. From Sleepy
Hollow, turn left onto Tarrytown (it's the next street after Barck
and it sneaks up on you behind some bushes). From Tarrytown, make
first right onto Santa Clara. From Santa Clara, make first right
onto Bellefonte. Doug and Janet's home is the first house on the
left.
MENU: Janet and Doug will furnish pulled pork
and ice tea. The rest of the class supplies salads, veggies, desserts,
appetizers, rolls, additional beverages (soft drinks, beer, wine).
We also need flatware, dinner plates, dessert plates, napkins,
foam cups (for ice tea and soft drinks), plastic cups (for wine).
Be thinking about what you want to bring. A sign-up
sheet will be circulated or you mail respond by e-mail to Ann
Sledge at >GusSledge@aol.com<,
but count on fellowship from 6:00-7:00, dinner at 7:00, and hymn
singing afterwards.
Also remember that our class is responsible for
the goodies at this Sunday's after church reception. If in doubt
as to what to bring, just bring sweets.
 Welcome
and congratulations to Shepson Roberta Alexander, who officially
became a member of River Road Church on Sunday morning, July 31.
Shepsons Beth Wilson and Sheila Marsh will have
to adjust their SSBSC theology to a third grade level this church
year. They have  committed
to teaching third graders in our Sunday School. Hopefully they will
not have to explain the details of Tamar's behavior, or what happened
to Goliath's head or explain in graphic detail about Cain's actions.
In a way they will be SSBSC missionaries to developing theological
minds.
Beth Wilson sent PH the following E-mail
letter:
Henry, could we put this little girl on our prayer
list? Mark is a member of our church. Thanks!
Beth
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Forwarded Message:
Dear friend/colleague,
2005 has been a difficult struggle for one of
my youngest family members. Brooke Belfiore, age 3, is the daughter
of my cousin Carla who lives in Cleveland, Ohio. She was diagnosed
with liver cancer in December of 2004. Her cancer quickly  spread
to her heart and lungs and before we knew it she required surgery
that had never been performed on a child in the U.S. She made
it through the surgery and has been responding well to chemotherapy
treatments even though they make her very sick and keep her in
the hospital most of the time. As you can imagine this has been
extremely difficult on Carla and her husband Jeff as well. They
have recently given birth to a little boy too! Some of you on
this email list have known about Brooke's condition and we appreciate
all your thoughts and prayers. Please continue to keep this family
in your prayers since Brooke is not out of the woods yet. Carla
told me recently that she can really feel the power of so many
people praying and thinking of them.
A benefit has been planned in Brooke's honor on
October 8th. While many others in the Cipolletti family, who all
live in the greater Cleveland area, have been able to assist my
cousin on a day to day basis, my sister Michele (Brooks) and I
have felt very disconnected in Richmond. We are trying to do our
small part by raising as much money as possible through our personal
and professional contacts. If you are able to help we would greatly
appreciate it. If you are interested in participating please send
your donation to me and I will forward to the event organizers
with your name attached (for raffle tickets, etc.):
Mark Cipolletti, 9836 Pemberton Creek Drive, Richmond,
VA 23233
Thank you for your support. If you think you
know someone else who may like to contribute please feel free
to forward this email.
Best,
Mark
Mark Cipolletti
Director of Marketing Communications
World Access/Access America
(804) 673-1591
Margaret and John send good news about their
grandson Jared Oliver.
John and Margaret received a phone call from Jared
Monday night. Except for the 90-day active reserve required of
him until his final release, he is home, and started back to his
old job as an electrician in Winchester Monday. He said he is
still having a little problem with sleeping after getting back
in the USA. His co-workers gave him a warm welcome, and ladies
in the cafeteria gave another free meal. Thanks again for all
your expressions of concern, and prayers for all in harm's way.
Margaret and John
Remember in your prayers: Brooke Belfiore, Jared
Oliver, Gene Cox, the family of John R Simpson, Mary Mann, Jeanette
Gholston, Don Bunn, Kay and Bob Culpeper and the family of Stuart
S Sanderson, Jr. Elmer West, Sandra Sizemore's Great Aunt Myrtle
Kurz and the family of Myrtle Kurz, Philip and Shanna Davis, the
VCU BSU, Julia Tyler and her parents, the youth of the church,
the Church clergy and the church staff. Prayers should also be
offered for our men and women in the armed forces and for civilians
around the world in harm's way and for those only known to you
The ISH school supplies campaign ends this Sunday.
You still have time to make a last minute contribution. PHA will
provide a detailed list of what has been delivered to ISH in next
week's publication of PHA. There will probably be enough supplies
that if laid end to end, they will make it all the way to Grove
Avenue Church at Ridge and Parham, not Grove.
Also the CrossOver West Medical Clinic is moving
toward a Grand Opening around October 15. More details will appear
in next week's PHA. This new clinic will need volunteers and donations
of some medical equipment. A list of what is needed will be provided
in upcoming PHA's.
Pastor Flavio Lucius Aguirar Alves will be at RRCB
this Sunday. He will be participating in the worship service. For
those who might  be
interested, he will be making a presentation in the Chapel Social
Hall this Sunday at 10 AM. He is the Director of Development of
Small churches for the Parana Baptist Convention in Brazil. Last
winter RRCB sent a mission team to Brazil. Shepson Carole Royall
was on that team. He will speak of the Brazilian Baptist work and
the partnership of their convention with the Virginia Baptist Mission
Board, of which RRCB was a part.
Betsy Foster will be twenty-nine tomorrow, Kay
Culpepper will reach the same age on Sunday and Sandra Sizemore
will also be twenty-nine on Wednesday.
Jane and Norm Vaughn are celebrating their forty-eighth
wedding anniversary today. Hopefully with their cell phones fully
charged they will be exchanging love messages all day.
In doing the research for this Sunday's Catacombs
Lecture PH learned of George Foster Peabody. Peabody was a friend
of Franklin Roosevelt's and was also the owner of the Meriwether
Inn, which later became known as Warm Springs. Peabody's life and
story is quite interesting. If you have time, you may read it below.
George Foster Peabody (1852–1938)
UNCG's PEABODY PARK was established in 1901 with
money donated by the financier and philanthropist George Foster
Peabody. The establishment of Peabody Park was part of an extraordinary
life of educational philanthropy, particularly in the American
South, the influence of which continues to this day in many institutions
across the country and around the world.
A native of Georgia, Peabody was especially generous
to the University of Georgia. The internationally known George
Foster Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting and journalism
are given each year by the University of Georgia's College of
Journalism and Mass Communication. Peabody also established that
university's School of Forestry.
 Long
concerned with the education of African-Americans, Peabody served
from 1884 to 1930 as a trustee of Hampton University, one of Virginia's
historically black universities. He established there in the Hampton
University Library the Peabody Collection of rare materials on
African-American History, now one of the largest such collections
in the country.
An estate that Peabody owned at Warm Springs,
Georgia, played host to Franklin Roosevelt soon after he contracted
polio, and Roosevelt was so impressed with the therapeutic value
of the resort's springs that he bought the site from Peabody and
founded there the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation.
A lengthier biographical sketch of Peabody by Louise
Ware, which appeared in the Dictionary of American Biography (23:
520–521, 1958), provides additional information about his life:
PEABODY, GEORGE FOSTER (July 27, 1852–Mar.
4, 1938), banker, philanthropist, was born in Columbus, Ga., the
first of four children of George Henry and Elvira (Canfield) Peabody.
Both parents were native New Englanders of colonial ancestry.
The elder Peabody, who came from a line of merchants, bankers,
and professional men, had moved from Connecticut to Columbus,
Ga., where he ran a prosperous general store. After attending
private school in Columbus, young Peabody spent a few months at
Deer Hill Institute, Danbury, Conn. The devastation of the Civil
War, however, had impoverished his family; in 1866 they moved
to Brooklyn, N. Y., and young Peabody went to work in a Brooklyn
wholesale dry goods firm.
He advanced rapidly in the mercantile business.
In evenings he read extensively at the library of the Brooklyn
Y.M.C.A.—his "alma mater," as he later called it.
He also took part in the activities of the Reformed Church on
Brooklyn Heights. There he met and became a good friend of a young
investment banker, Spencer Trask; and on May 2, 1881, Peabody
became a partner in the new firm of Spencer Trask & Company.
During the 1880's and 1890's this investment house took a leading
part in financing electric lighting corporations, sugar beet and
other industrial enterprises, and railroad construction in the
western United States and Mexico. Peabody himself handled most
of the firm's railroad investments, working in close association
with William J. Palmer. He also became a director in numerous
corporations.
In 1906 Peabody retired from business to devote
his full time to philanthropy and public service. He had long
been interested in humanitarian and social causes. He read Henry
George's Progress and Poverty soon after its publication and became
an advocate of the single tax. He supported free trade and woman
suffrage and was active for many years in the peace movement.
He advocated government ownership of railroads. In the field of
philanthropy, he lent substantial support to the educational work
of the Episcopal Church, which he had joined in 1880. Deeply interested
in education, and especially southern education, he was an active
member of the board of trustees of the American Church Institute
for Negroes, Penn Normal Industrial and Agricultural School in
South Carolina, Hampton Institute, Tuskegee Institute, and the
University of Georgia, among other institutions, and he served
as treasurer of three of the leading philanthropic enterprises
in this field, formed during the early 1900's: the Southern Education
Board, organized by Robert C. Ogden, the General Education Board,
sponsored by John D. Rockefeller, and the Negro Rural School Fund,
established by Anna T. Jeanes. In recognition of his services
to education, Peabody was awarded honorary degrees by Harvard
University (1903), Washington and Lee (1903), and the University
of Georgia (1906).
Early in life Peabody developed a deep interest
in Democratic party politics. In the early 1880's, when his close
friend Edward Morse Shepard organized the Young Men's Democratic
Club of Brooklyn, Peabody helped to draw up its constitution and
was active in its work. He took a vigorous part in the 1892 presidential
campaign on behalf of Grover Cleveland. A believer in a stable
currency, he supported the Gold Democrats against William Jennings
Bryan in 1896, but as a member of the executive committee of the
Indianapolis Monetary Convention (1897) and in later correspondence
he worked for moderate monetary reform. In 1904 he served as treasurer
of the Democratic National Committee. Although he declined to
run for political office and declined President Wilson's offer
of a place on the Federal Trade Commission, Peabody was an unofficial
counselor to many in government office. From 1914 to 1922 he served
on the board of directors of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
Long interested in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where
he had often visited the estate of his partner Spencer Trask,
Peabody agreed to succeed him (1910) as chairman of the state
commission set up to purchase and conserve the famous spa. Peabody
himself acquired, in 1923, the property at Warm Springs, Ga.,
near his boyhood home, which he and Franklin D. Roosevelt later
developed as a health center. It was at Peabody's suggestion that
Roosevelt first visited the springs in 1924.
In appearance Peabody was tall and erect; in
later years his hair was white, and he wore a heavy mustache and
pointed beard. His dignified and courtly manner distinguished
him in any group. He maintained a mansion in Brooklyn, where he
entertained lavishly. He also purchased a summer home, "Abenia,"
at Lake George; here he came to live most of the year. He was
frequently a guest at "Yaddo," the Saratoga estate of
Spencer Trask and his wife, Katrina (Nichols) Trask. From Abenia
and Yaddo there radiated a wide circle of influence, many persons
from the literary world, church, business, and government coming
as guests to enjoy the gracious hospitality. In 1920, eleven years
after Trask's tragic death in a railroad accident, Peabody married
Katrina Trask, and they lived at Yaddo until her death in 1922.
Thereafter Yaddo became a great retreat for artists. Peabody continued
to live on the estate. In 1926 he adopted a daughter, Mrs. Marjorie
P. Waite, a young woman whom he had come to know in connection
with his civic and humanitarian activities and who aided him in
carrying them forward.
Although he had suffered from a cardiac condition
for some years, Peabody remained active to the end of his life.
He died at his winter home in Warm Springs. After funeral services
at Jacksonville, Fla., his ashes were removed to Yaddo and interred
near his wife's grave.
References
[Louise Ware, George Foster Peabody (1951); E. J. Koop, Hist.
of Spencer Trask and Company (1941); C. W. Dabney, Universal Education
in the South (2 vols., 1936); A. D. Wright and E. E. Redcay, The
Negro Rural School Fund, Inc.—Anna T. Jeanes Foundation,
1907–1933 (1933); Marjorie P. Waite, Yaddo, Yesterday and
Today (1933) and Seeing Saratoga (1935); N. Y. Times, Mar. 5,
1938; interviews with members of the family and friends. The George
Foster Peabody Papers are in the Lib. of Cong.; for description
see the Library's Quart. Jour., VII (1949–50), 28. There
is Peabody correspondence in the papers of Newton D. Baker and
of Ray Stannard Baker in the Lib. of Cong. and in the Edwin A.
Alderman Papers in the Univ.
Shepson Donna Is A Cover Girl Again
 In
yesterday's Times Dispatch on the front page of the Health, Science,
Technology Explore Section is a photo of Shepson Donna Brown performing
an eye exam on a little girl. Where is Rob? Is he on the golf course
or blasting kidney stones?
Two Sundays ago Pastor Mike offered a pastoral
prayer that PH thought was well stated. Mike has been kind enough
to send the text to PH. Read it below:
Pastoral Prayer
Almighty God, before the mountains were brought
forth or ever You formed the earth, before the seas brought forth
fish or the earth vegetation, before light had dispelled darkness,
You are God. Praise be to You, O God.
 Gracious
God, forgive our incessant excuse-making. Help us to see where
we have gone astray and where we need to change. Renew a right
spirit within us.
Forgive the sins we committed blatantly, knowingly.
Forgive the sins we committed innocently, without awareness. Forgive
the sins others committed against us, for whatever reason. Forgive,
O God, and heal.
This morning we intercede on behalf of those who live on the edge…those
who barely have enough to get by, who are traveling until the
money runs out, who are too sick to care for themselves, who struggle
daily to stay sane, who cannot live an hour without medication,
who are trapped in the misery of their money, who are watching
a child or parent or friend die, who desire the drink that would
reverse years of discipline.
Draw near to these who struggle so much more
than most of us do and, if it be Your will, use us to lift and
care and love them, in Jesus' name…Amen.
PH
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