UPBEAT TIMES, INC. • JUNE 2017 • 5 A little History...& More! ‘Just Chillin’ by Ellie Schmidt ~ eschmidt@upbeattimes.com


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Let’s journey back in time to a place called Arpi- no, Italy. T e year is 106 BC when Marcus Tul- lius Cicero is born. May- be his par- ents grate- fully sigh: “Dum spiro, spero…” (a phrase I cherish now but felt


cranky about when learning Latin in high school) meaning:


“While


I breathe, I hope.” No one ever loved Latin more than our teacher.


As mean


teenagers can be, we felt she was as old as that hor- rible Caesar who kept marching troops across the Rubicon. Ah yes, live and learn. Cicero’s writings are


worth cherishing. A man who can write: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need” and “A room without books is like a body without a soul” –and not without humor: “Times are bad. Children no longer obey their


parents, and everyone is writing a book!”—Such a man would make a great friend. Happy Father’s Day to every father


on this planet! Most of today’s par- ents share responsibilities by active, daily caring for their children than they did in years gone by. Perhaps that is why I keep thinking about some unusual men whose life jour- neys led them to care for thousands of children. Hermann Gmeiner was born on


June 23, 1919 in Vorarlberg, Austria into a big family of farmers. Very young when his mother died, his oldest sister, Elsa, took charge of the family. Gmeiner lived by the philoso- phy that there are no winners aſt er wars, only survivors. His horrifi c experiences, witnessing so many war orphans and homeless children, convinced him to be- come a child welfare worker aſt er WWII.


Gmeiner ended his medical stud- ies in 1949 when he established his SOS-Children’s Village Association and built the fi rst Children’s Village (Kinderdorf) in Imst, in Austria’s


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Tyrol province. Maintaining all children need to grow up in a home with a mother, a house, brothers, sisters, and in a village, he dedicated


the rest


of his life to help aban- doned


children.


By 1960, SOS-Kin- derdorf-


International was founded. Today there


are SOS-


Children’s Villages in 132 coun- tries and territories. Over 130,000 children—from kindergarteners


into teens—attend schools and vocational training centers. Over 398,000 people benefi t from services at SOS Medical Cen- ters which off er emergency relief programs too. modest man, grateful


A for


the world-wide support to help children in need, Gmeiner wrote: “Every big thing in the world only comes true when somebody does more than he has to do.-- -All the children of the world are our children.” A Fa- ther’s Day greet- ing to his mem-


ory. In America, Boys Town was es-


tablished by Father Edward J. Fla- nagan, in Omaha, Nebraska on De- cember 12, 1917. It has grown into


... continued on page 18 JOKES & Humor # 2


It’s been raining for days now and my husband seems very depressed by it. He keeps standing by the window, star- ing. If it continues, I’m going to have to let him in. ~


Barista Nightmare: “Hi, can I get a half regular- half decaf, soy latte with extra foam and cinnamon but only if the cinnamon is organic and instead of all soy milk, can you just put in about a tablespoon of 2% milk? I’m lactose intoler- ant but I still love the taste of regular milk. Wait, make it whole milk. Why not, right? Wait, do you have almond milk? You do? Okay, I want an almond milk latte with caramel and choco- late sauce, extra foam, but no cinnamon on this one because it will fi ght with the taste of the caramel.”


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