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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting October 19th 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End Six years is a long time to spend in the board room but I have been a willing participant and I have no one to blame but myself. It has not always … Continue reading
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Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting March 2nd 2011
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting – Milan Kundera There must have been a time in the human chronicle … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee Open Board Meeting December 1st 2010
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks he can do something better than reason. -Percy Bysshe Shelley The last meeting … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee June 16th 2010 Open Board Meeting
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. – Jonathan Swift In a report or two ago I … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee May 5th and May 12th 2010 Open Board Meetings/1st and 2nd Reading of the Budget
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. - … Continue reading
Diary of a Mad Trustee April 21st 2010 Open Board Meeting
Principiis Obsta…Finem Respice Resist the Beginning…Consider the End Tonight something rather quiet but significant happened. Very few people in the room would be aware and why would they? Sometimes you pass a policy or a revised policy and it all … Continue reading
Report from the May 25th 2009 CAPE meeting
We had our monthly CAPE meeting at my place last night(May 25 2009) starting at 5 pm -well a few minutes after- we had to chat and fuss over the cats. We had 7 people there and those present gave … Continue reading