Robb Krecklow – My Sam
There have been many changes in classroom education since I left high school in 1969, but I am confident that one thing has remained constant. Good teachers influence students for a lifetime, not just for the year, or less, they have them in a classroom. That’s how I felt after learning that Cecil M. Richmond had passed away in my Nebraska hometown. He was 90 years old. You don’t know him, of...
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This post originally appeared on my personal blog – Just Flip The Dog I’ve been on a rather whirlwind tour the last 10 days or so down in Georgia promoting my new book, Everyone Needs A Sam. I’d call it a success. I’ve learned a lot, the Little Black Dress and the Sons of Thunder got play time with friends. A good trip. Yet I also learned, and saw, one of the most...
Read MoreLeon Thompson: My Sam
When I was three years of age my father abandoned my mother and me. Drugs, alcohol and womanizing were the culprit. I never saw my father again until I was 26 years of age. My mother was very young and without support and returned home. During the years that followed I was raised, for the most part, by my grandparents. My grandmother’s heritage was Pennsylvania Dutch Quaker and my grandfather...
Read MoreDenny DeWitt: My Sam
My friend Ron Pavellas has been my mentor since the mid 1970s. We met when he was a hospital administrator in Modesto, California, and I worked for the California Hospital Association. He provided guidance for about four years to me before moving to Alaska. He encouraged me to apply for the CEO of the Alaska hospital association, which is the job that brought me to Alaska in 1980. Along the way...
Read MoreAnna Falling: My Sam
One spring day my dad introduced me to a friend of his who was building his own airplane. I was 12 at the time. For some reason, I got it in my head that I sure would like to fly that little two-seater airplane. Sure enough, not too long afterward the plane was ready to fly and my dad made arrangements for me to take a ride. After an exhilarating afternoon in the clouds, flying over the rivers...
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