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LITERARY CRITICISM - MY HIGHEST LEVEL UNDERGRADUATE CLASS - I GOT AN A ON THIS ONE....

I must admit that this whole graduation thing is a fraud (no, not a Freud). I may be receiving a fancy Latin phrase and the same pretty whatever-colored tassel that my fellow English majors receive, but deep down inside I know that I am really a History major who just loves to write. I have had such sneaky suspicions before over taking this literary criticism course - though surveyish in its nature as it may be - but it has cemented my uncertainties into truths. Thank you Salem State English department.

When undertaking the discussion of literary criticism I am always sure to bring two tools with me: Number One-my dictionary, which helps me decipher such phrases as: spatiotemporal coordinates (P. 552), concomitant utilization (P. 549), and typical double-accented, double-styled hybrid construction (P. 428). Noah never intended this, but I digress... Number Two: my sleeping pills, which help me stay awake during seemingly endless tirades over the Rule of Hyperdense Intertextuality as it applies to the assumption that any intertextual connection is interpretively relevant. I now know that any perceived overlap, no matter how small, is sufficient justification for claiming an intertextual connection in the first place (P. 143). My goodness!!! This material for discussion may appeal to some social circles out there somewhere but it AINT here (see, I am a history major at heart). Just a square peg and a round hole.

I can certainly appreciate the fact that there is a place in this world for literary critics and many various schools of thought. However, my problem is that literary criticism reminds me more of a private school than a public one - with each school screaming out from atop of their soapbox about how much greater their religion is than the next guy's It's religion mixed with politics and there is simply nothing worse in this world than that unless it starts raining NASCAR/Wrestling fans. Seriously, it's no joke. I have found that my belief in using a lone specific literary interpretative style is similar to my beliefs about organized religion and political parties: I can't yet say that there is any single one of them out there that I put my faith in. In fact, many comparisons can be drawn between the various literary schools of thought (formalism, psychoanalytic criticism, etc) and the numerous political parties of America (The Green Party, Democrats, etc), not to mention organized world religion (Christianity, Buddhism etc). Let me expand on this idea...

Although we constantly seek to see the world in black and white, life - and all that encompasses it - is filled with shades of gray. Eerily, my beliefs about literary criticism overlap my ideas on religion, which, conveniently, border upon my views on politics. Let us draw some parallels, shall we? This is my idea of literary criticism-first, let's start with the Formalists. New critics remind me of Republicans in the sense that they are very pro-war. They start fights with all of the other schools of criticism (just ask the deconstructionists what they think of the central unity of the text). Formalists are big businessmen - and their business is in the pre-mentioned centrality of the text. With Republicans, money is everything. New critics practically disregard all other factors except for the text. They don't want to pay taxes to search for other ways of critiquing literature. They think that they have found the secret to interpretation and if you differ in opinion they send a missile in your general direction. They're the big boys on the block that everybody loves to hate. Their religion is that of the Bahai - for the Bahai believe that a single world government will be led by the Bashai at some point in the future. The leader of New Criticism will be holding the sacred text at the head of the procession while leading the way to a world controlled by the Bashai formalists.

Next come the Biographical / Historical Critics. These guys are definitely Democrats and are greatly resentful of the Formalistic Republicans. They want to jump outside of the text and make connections between the author and the author's life and times and how that influences the text. These Democrats don't believe in the big business of the text and want to put the power back in the hands of the people. They're not concerned with money because they believe that time is money - and if you search throughout history...then you're sure to find plenty of time. Historical and Biographical Critics believe in education and the school system like good Democrats do and they absolutely adore History lessons. These guys pay the extra taxes in doing extra reading so that they can draw parallels between how the ideologies held within the time period of the author's life helped shaped to the text. When it comes to religion, Historical Critics are probably Jewish. They don't need a savior to rise from the dead to show them how to interpret a text. To them, the first and only testament they need is a big old history book. They worship history in a big way.

Psychoanalytic Critics are the Christians who are trapped within the tormenting torture of accepting original sin. To them, their unconscious desires are Adam's apple. How unknown thoughts manifest themselves through an artist's art is their intriguing mystery. They would be having a good old time in the garden if not for the ego, super ego, id and subconscious mind. They truly carry the cross when it comes to speculation, much like the faith that these Christians have in Heaven. If they had a platform then they'd probably end up joining the Prohibition Party since they're very radical in their belief of rejecting time honored traditional ways of critiquing literature. The psychoanalytic critics practically seek to prohibit prohibition as they attempt to repress, project, displace, deny and reverse the desires of the author, the reader, or the characters. So, sit down and tell me about your forefathers...

Reader Response Critics worship at the altar of Silkism. RRC's are sick and tired of all the names, phrases, and jargon typically associated with literary criticism. Just as the Sikhists believed in a single, formless god with many-names, the RRC's skip all of the B.S. and go with what they know. Themselves. Like the Sikhists, they're prohibited from worshiping idols or icons (i.e. other schools of thought). They focus on how the reader brings the literature to life opposed to the author or the text inciting the response. Actually, they're more like atheists because they don't believe in the text being god as the Formalists do. They're their own god. Hey, that's a good point. So, let us agree not to disagree that RRC's would appear to resemble Sikhists with serious reservations regarding the status of their own faith. That would be a more accurate depiction. They seek an ideal response that is shared by others - try imagining a room full of Beatles fans listening to imagine being sung by John Lennon. That works. That's them. RRC's idea of a political party is the Libertarian Party. Libertarians aren't on the left or the right; they maintain a complete laissaez faire ideology in
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regards to the economy. Chiefly, they're concerned with total individual liberty The RRC's don't worry about being caught up in "the big game" of literary criticism. They know they exist and they know Descartes existed. That's all they need to take stock in. They can find all the answers inside of themselves. Yeah, that's definitely an atheist.

Next in line come the Feminist Critics. Yes as a matter of fact, they are towards the bottom of the list because I'm a guy. But I digress... The feminists are Confucianists at heart. Confucianism seeks to deal with morality, ethics, and the proper exercise of political power. These are all issues that the lit crit chicks will scratch and claw to the death over. The feminist critics are fighting to be at their rightful place atop of the equal high ground with the great men of the literary world. Or what does that famous t-shirts say about what Confucius says about
sh More digression, sorry. If feminist critics were members of any
organization then it would have to be the Green Party. Not just because they've always been green with (Freud's penis)
envy of men - but because they're kind of out there in their own little isolated world. Just like Ralph Nader. They have that
single-minded theme thing going on. Where Nader wanted to make all of the tree-hugging hippies happy while killing AI
(no war, bore) Gore's chances to disgrace the country in his own personal way, the feminists just want revenge, er.
respect. Just don't forget that the females had a lot of obstacles in their way. Some patriarchal hierarchies can
sometimes be difficult to overcome.

Deconstructionists like to walk around with fat bellies because they're all Buddhists. Buddhists don't need a savior
(such as Freud to psychoanalytic theory), they don't believe in any particular type of god (such as history or the centrality
of the text) and they attain a state of Nirvana by releasing all attachment to desire and the self. Deconstructionists,
actually Reform Party members who often like to deconstruct things, find their Nirvana in the undecidedability of all texts.
Contradiction is their mantra, binary opposition their Heaven and formalism their idea of hell. Deconstructionists are
members of the Reform Party because they took a look at the institution of formalism and wanted to deconstruct it Ross
Perot doesn't care about many social issues but he's a real stickler against organic unity.

Marxists critics decided to create a new party and, since they've never had much creative energy when it
comes to naming things, they decided to call it the New Party. Much like the political institution in America that goes by
the same name, Marxist critics push the idea that literary texts are products of work that does identifiable cultural work of
its own. Just as Marxists critics believe that literary works reproduce, resist and revise cultural beliefs and ideologies, the
New Party seeks to advance social, economic, and political progress in America. The New Party doesn't find its own
candidates - it just endorses the ones that it likes. Marxist critics are big believers in Taoism since Taoism is a
combination of philosophical and psychological writings, by Lao-Tse, in his attempt to end the constant feudal warfare.
Taoism preaches planning your action in advance to achieve a desired result with minimal effort. Marxism
attempts to analyze the effect of literature on culture and we know what effect the right literature can have when read at
the right time. See Paine's Common Sense, Hitler's Mein Kampft and God's Bible.

The followers of New Historicism remind me of the America First Party, that group of Pat Buchanan disciples who
are religious right wing nuts obsessed with themselves. They might as well be believers of Islam since the history book
represents all five of their pillars. When they kneel to pray it's towards the local public library or nearest museum of
history and not Mecca. Only it's not Pat Buchanan -who's even eviler than that certain chairperson over in Meier Hall -
whom they believe in - they worship (fill in famous historian here) and yet reject Jesus...Go figure...

So that sums up what literary criticism means to me. If I go by my conversion chart: I am an atheist. so that
makes me a reader response critic according to what I have written above. I have to agree that I would tend to fall into
that category. I am also a Democrat by nature so that makes me a Biographical / Historical Critic. As I stated in my
introductory paragraph, I am a history major inside. I also agree that this is a match. Amazing. Simply amazing! Does
your conversion correspond as well as mine did? I just thought to test my alignment hypothesis right now and it was
astrologically perfect. Hmmm. Cars you get this paper published??? Test yourself for your criticism preferences.... I'm
curious if it lines up for others as well, i spent about four or five hours matching everything up and drawing parallels. I had
a ton of fun on this final process paper. I know it isn't typical of most of the papers you'd get for this assignment but I've
never strived to blend in.

Here's the quick cheat chart:
Biographical / Historical Jewish Democratic Party
Formalism Bahai Republican Party
Psychoanalytic Christianity Prohibition Party
Reader-Response Sikhism / Atheism Libertarian Party
Feminist Confucianism Green Party
Deconstructionist Buddhist Reform Party
Marxist Taoist New Party

File name - MH210

Curious about what happens because of the Y2K bug? For a glimpse of the future stop by the computer lab in Meier Hall Room 210.

As you walk in, you briefly survey the scene. There are nine or ten students typing away on their keyboards - typing up reports and E-mailing their friends. The wonderful staff in charge of the lab is busy as well. As well as figuring out why your computer won't print or why you can't log into BobDylan.com they are also using their creativity. I believe that the staff of this computer lab makes better signs than anyone I've ever met, and a lot of them too. A pretty red one reads "out of order". Over in the corner is a computer with two nicely crafted works of art "Not working, Sorry" and "Need new power supply". This is just the beginning, I mentioned the staff's creativity but I neglected to mention their resourcefulness. Immediately on your right as you walk in you see two computers set aside for the physically challenged (yes, another computer made sign complete with color). If you look closely you'll see that on one of them the monitor is being held up with two academic computing books. The last time I checked books were for reading and maybe for holding up the leg of your old broken sofa, not for holding up monitors where someone in a wheelchair might have a hard time getting out of the way if it were to fall. I do admit that it is a resourceful idea, though.

I come into this lab several times a week and don't get me wrong, the staff here does a wonderful job at working with what they have (which at the moment isn't much). If you have a problem, and the odds are you will, they always do the best they can. Six out of the twenty-three computers available to the students aren't functioning correctly. I did the math quickly and it's a little over one/fourth. Considering this is the most highly used lab on campus I expect a little more than that and I think you do too. One thing that I do like is that they have one clock on each side of the room, that way if I forget which side it's on and look hastily I'm bound to see one of them. They also have three fans located strategically around the room. It
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seems to this untrained eye that a pattern is developing here - what we don't need, they have many of, and what we do need they have few of.

The last couple of weeks they cut their weekly hours from 8:00AM - 11:00PM to 9:00AM - 9:00PM because of a budget cut. I think once word got around that I was doing a story they changed the hours back. That's what I tell people anyway.

Back to the problem; from what I see there are several issues that add to the demise of MH210. First of all, these are the oldest computers at Salem State, so of course, they're bound to have the most problems. Jared S., Rick T. and Jimmy B. have the job of fixing all the lab computers on campus. They definitely have their hands full. For example, while writing this article here at MH210, I've had a few "problems". Where do I begin? Well, for the last hour and ten minutes I've had to switch computers four (yes four) times because Microsoft Word would not work properly. But fortunately for me, there were two consecutive computers not working. So, while waiting for Jimmy to troubleshoot the problem, I set three of the comfy chairs in front of the broken computers and took a nap. It got so bad that Jamie Cowan, a contagiously effervescent computer support specialist, ended up typing my paper over to save me time. I still use the hunt and peck method so sometimes it takes me awhile (and that's aside from the hour and ten minutes wasted because of faulty equipment). Jimmy spent about half an hour searching to find the problem but by the time it was retrieved it resembled hieroglyphics more than an article. This is just a sample of the problems that the staff has to handle everyday. Keep in mind this is just one students troubles during a three hour period.

What is being done about the problem? In an interview with Jared S. I have heard some encouraging news. There is hope for the students and the staff here in Meier Hall 210. There is a plan in the works to fix what problems the computers have within the next couple of weeks. Better still, hopefully all the computers will be replaced by the fall. There was
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a plan to get the computers from Harrington Building room 100, seeing that there are four labs
there, but things don't always go as planned. Mr. S. has been on the job since
December and has already fixed many problems, however he is but one man. He maybe good
but it's hard to move ahead when there's always a problem of greater importance. "Sometimes
I have to put out fires and when that happens there's less progress than anticipated," says
S.. He also stated that he'd rather be challenged than bored, I don't think he has much
to worry about.
Rick T., the lab supervisor, spends forty hours a week here and estimates that
about thirty of those hours are used troubleshooting the problem(s) of the day. Rick explains
that, "The problem also lies with the students. About 20-30 of them are dangerous and they
mess things up for us and the other students." There have been stories about certain students
sabotaging a computer so that when they come in there is a sign that says broken. They come
right in, sit down and type in the missing command and therefore it's always available to them.
There have been many students that have been complaining about signing in. Justin
Pagano, E-mail coordinator, expresses the students thoughts quite eloquently "A pound of
flesh, a pint of blood, your first born son and three forms of I.D." What must be remembered is
that the lab attendants, like Justin, do not make the rules they only enforce them. The reason
for the inconvenience is that this is used as a safeguard against those who do not conform to
the rules. If something goes wrong then the attendants are held responsible. It seems that they
are always held responsible. Jamie Cowan sees this problem quite frequently, "Recently we
have been getting a lot of angry people, particularly night students, who come into the lab and
take their frustrations out on the attendants. We simply refuse to let a student use the
computers until he/she can show us adequate proof. When they come in with an attitude,
swearing at us and kicking doors, we call campus police and ban them from the lab for the rest
of the semester."
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The attendants also want to remind you to always bring a disk and save your work every so often. If you're unsure of something try looking around the room at the numerous signs because not only are they pretty but they also serve a purpose. There is hope, but if the lab stays this way for too long contact Salem State's president Nancy Harrington and voice your opinion.

Tom Jensen

If you have any comments or criticism please feel free to express them [private detail]

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THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
or
"The RYTHEMS of Life" | [handwritten title, the "E" in RYTHEMS struck out]

Tom Jensen
ENG 356
March 17, 2002
Professor Medoff
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The Harlem Renaissance, a movement that began in the nineteen twenties and had lasting effects throughout the century, has many roots that spring up from Washington D.C. Washington was the center of black culture at the turn of the century until the 1920's. A prosperous middle class of African Americans controlled much of the Washington area in which there were many black owned businesses and the entire culture of Washington during this time seemed to focus on the African American. Duke Ellington's Washington was for blacks and by blacks even down to the very architecture of the buildings and the pop culture of the people. ("The Music Scene," pars. 1-3)
{margin: This is not an appropriate intro. It's interesting info, but you need a more focused beginning - leading [unclear] into the thesis [unclear]. TRANSIT.? ?? There's only 1 P}
The National Negro Committee (later known as the NAACP) held its first meeting in New York City in 1909. A year later, The NAACP began publishing The Crisis," which was intended to be used as "an advocacy organ intended to 'set forth those facts and arguments which show the danger of race prejudice, particularly as it is manifested today toward colored people" as stated in (The New Crisis 79). Renowned singer and actress Eartha Kitt recounted her life in Harlem during the time of the Renaissance saying:
{margin: Underline! ; "as stated in" struck out ; punctuation marks corrected}
When I was a young kid in Harlem, people were sharing each other's cultures much more than they are now. I was living in a Latino/Afro-American neighborhood...and there was the Cuban thing and the Puerto Rican thing all over Harlem (White 3).
While Eartha may have seen a smooth intermingling of cultures in Harlem, such was not the case all throughout the country. On July 28, 1917 more than eight thousand people, mostly from Harlem, marched down Fifth Avenue to
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protest the lynching of at least 40 African Americans in East St. Louis ("Harlem Timeline," par. 3). This act signified both the tension held between whites and blacks and also an elevation in the sense of unity of the African American culture. An elevation in the unity of the black culture which was originally rooted in the founding of the National Negro Committee, later known as the NAACP, in New York City in 1909 ("Harlem Timeline," par 4).
{margin: you've already stated this}
The Harlem Renaissance certainly was a time when African American culture was beginning to bloom. However, there was a difference of opinion in what type of flower to grow. Those vying for the leadership roles if the Renaissance included Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Johnson, Paul Kellog, Aaron Douglas and others. The 1920's had also seen a boom in the publishing of African American literature, including magazines and journals. There were many groups- such as the NAACP and The Urban League, as well as many publications- like The Crisis, Opportunity and The New Negro, who were all concerned with raising the standards set for African Americans. The NAACP, DuBois, and the Crisis were a united front attempting to portray 'The New Negro' as a race trying to succeed in a world dominated by racism. The portrayal of the African American was a major point of controversy among several of these publications and individuals.
{"if" circled ; the titles underlined}
W.E.B. DuBois described a "double consciousness - the black man's sense that he is both an American and something apart" (Baker 48). Part of this
{margin: good quote}
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dilemma was the societal factors surrounding the Renaissance in which the black man was still living in a white country. Many black writers wrote for white audiences and the question that arose was what was the role that the black author should take. It was very difficult to "give an unflinching portrayal of black America... there were simply too many Jim Crow laws and lynchings and too few courageous publishers for such honesty to exist" (Baker 49). The consciousness of the African American, as well as the public perception of him, was about to become established as black culture was becoming integrated into the mainstream.
{margin: AWK (over "what was")}
Some writers, such as Countee Cullen, "told Langston Hughes that he wanted to be just a writer, not a 'Negro' writer" (Baker 59). There was a substantial group of artists involved in the Harlem Renaissance who, like Cullen, felt that the success of African American writer was found in the universal success of his or her literature. Hughes, on the other hand, was allied with Alain Locke and Charles Johnson and dealt more on the realism and the often harsh treatment against black American society. Alain Locke's essay, "The New Negro," had "smashed all the social and racial impediments that hindered black achievement" (Stuart 41). The Crisis, and other journals, was acting as springboards and soap boxes for African American society.
The Harlem Renaissance was a stretch of straight highway along the windy road on the way towards the equality of the African American. "The men of
{"windy" corrected to "winding"}
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the Harlem Renaissance were articulate, literate, and published, most having found there way through the sieve of the white world" (Baker 59). The White American culture of the 1920s considered Africa a dark continent as there was a direct correlation between the inferior status of American Blacks and that of colonized Africans. But with this mysteriousness and perceived primitivism came alluring exoticism. On Harlem's nightlife scene, "Beale Street was known as Jungle Alley and artificial palm trees decorated the Cotton Club and enhanced the prefabricated exoticism of the stage and performances" (Delgado-Tall 288). Alain Locke and W.E.B. DuBois embraced Africa's influences as writers and musicians Duke Ellington and Josephine Baker carried many "jungle themes" into their performances (Delgado-Tall 290). No one was dragged down by returning towards the African roots of their culture but was able to transcend them.
{margin: "there" circled, corrected to "their" ; AWK ?? ; transition? ; confusing ??}
Langston Hughes is one of the most celebrated artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes's diversity as a poet, musical writer, playwright, novelist, short story writer, children's author, editor and journalist lead him to become a symbol of the Renaissance. Hughes writes of the poor classes of blacks who found escape from their workday in the jazz and blues clubs of Harlem. He did so against the will of many well to do African Americans who wanted only to portray the well-educated, up and coming Negro. ("Harlem," par. 4)
{margin: What is this?? [unclear]}
The wonders of modern technology, namely the Internet, allowed me access to the greatest three-paragraph summary of the Harlem Renaissance
{"me" circled: AVOID}
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ever assembled. I cannot find the author's name but it is a website based out of the University of North Carolina. It captures practically every major theme of the Renaissance as well as giving the reader a real sense of just what the Harlem Renaissance was all about.
{margin: Tom, this kind of hype [unclear] is fine in class discussion, but not appropriate in a formal paper.}
[A long pasted-in web quotation in small print, three paragraphs, from the UNC "Harlem" page - someone else's text, not Tom's. It begins "Harlem. The 1920s and 30s. Man. What a place, what a time--WHAT AN IDEA. It seemed to embody (to coin a phrase from Dickens) 'the best of times'..." and ends "...If you wanted to compose music, you went to Harlem. If you wanted the best chance at changing your circumstances and you were black, you went to Harlem. It". Not retyped in full.]
{margin, handwritten: Tom, it would have been more appropriate to quote directly from this source, rather than to reproduce the whole passage.}
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was considered the heart of the Renaissance in African American letters, hence the name The Harlem Renaissance. It was also considered the heart of African American life, hence the designation of Harlem as Home in most black literature of the time. Harlem stands, then, not only as a designation of a geographical area, but also as a symbol for the best and worst qualities of African American life during the early twentieth century. If you want to know anything about that time, then, you must first start with Harlem ("Harlem," pars. 1-3).
{Professor's end note, handwritten:}
{Tom, when you used this source as your "script" for your presentation, you should have made it clear, right at the beginning, that you were not using your own words. As it was presented, it appeared that these words were your own. Furthermore, a long quotation, no matter how good, is no way to conclude a well-written paper.
I can appreciate the fact that you took the time to locate & view the Harlem Renn. video at SSC's library, but your presentation and this paper would have benefitted from more of your own writing and more careful assembly of your research. Enthusiasm and a quick wit count for a lot in class, but they are no replacement for demanding more self-discipline and coherence from yourself. A person with your verbal skills is capable -> [continued on the back:] of producing a much better written paper. See my marginal comments! | (B)}
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Baker, Horace A. "Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance." Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Delgado-Tall, Sonia. "The New Negro Movement and the African heritage in a Pan-Africanist Perspective." Journal of Black Studies. Vol. 31, Issue 3, p288-310. (Jan 2001)
No Author, "The Crisis was part of the literary 'Harlem Renaissance.'" Crisis (The New). Vol. 106, Issue 1, p78-80. (Jan/Feb 1999)
Stuart, Andrea. "The Harlem Renaissance in the twenties produced a wealth of black talent. But what was it...". New Statesman. Vol. 126, Issue 4340, p40-42. (June 1997)
White, Timothy, "Urgent Voices Of The Harlem Renaissance". Billboard Magazine. Vol. 112, Issue 43, p3. (October 21, 2001)
Homepage. Harlem Timeline. University of Michigan. 1/25/02 >http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/timex/1909.html
Homepage. Harlem. University of North Carolina. 1/25/02 >http://www.unc.edu/courses/eng81br1/harlem.html
Homepage. The Music Scene. PBS. 1/25/02 >http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc/musicScene.htm
{margin: How to?!! Did you actually consult this text? If so, how did you manage to get the name wrong? ; Underline titles!! ; Books & journals}

JEFFERSONIAN
AMERICA

Tom Jensen

Like Leonardo Da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin, [Jefferson] he was amazingly many-sided, in a fashion which an age of specialization has outmoded. He was the greatest American architect of his time; a follower in the footsteps of great Italian architectural stylist, Palladio. He was a diplomat, statesman, writer, social
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revolutionist, scientist, musician, paleontologist, inventor, cartographer, educator, collector and farmer. It was impossible for him to look at a thing without wanting to improve it, to make it more convenient, to increase the variety of uses to which it could be put. If nothing had been invented up to that time to serve his purpose, he drew plans and supervised craftsmen while they made the contrivances he wanted.

■ an excerpt from an April 13, 1946, Post article written by Pete Martin

In fact, when John F. Kennedy was president and entertaining a group of 49 Nobel Prize winners, he told the guests, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and human knowledge that has ever gather at the White House, with possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Thomas Jefferson's dedication to whatever task was at hand was as remarkable as any man both before and after his time. Before taking the presidency in 1800, Jefferson spent his fifty seven years performing a variety of roles. Jefferson was the minister to France, the 1st secretary of State and second Vice President under John Adams. He was constantly in the center of things during America's formative years. He penned the Declaration of Independence stating that all men are created equal as well as helping to add the bill of rights to the constitution.

Pre-Jeffersonian America was a time of tremendous growth and constant change. America was developing a government which would lead them towards being super power. Americans felt a greater sense of their history as Cultural Nationalism was taking over. Trade was continually becoming more and more
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profitable and widespread and the technology was beginning to pave the way
toward industrialism. Indeed, Americans were quickly seeing the benefits of
independence.

As America was developing, there were many ideas on how to establish
this young country. The debate began to grow very fierce during the Presidential
election of 1800. Candidates began to split into two parties- the Federalists, led
by present President John Adams and the Democrat-Republicans, led by
Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Federalists were generally supporters of a strong
central government, which America severely lacked shortly after it's
independence, Federalists established a complex and diversified economy -
HAMILTON, and an increasing dependence on other countries to supply a
substantial amount of wealth. Democrat-Republicans supported stronger rights
by the states, a more agrarian and less dependent economy, and a limit on the
power of the central government.

In 1800, Thomas Jefferson became President of the United States after a
complicated election. Jefferson faced considerable odds in implementing his
plan for the future of America. The heavy increase in population and therefor,
technology, all but made Jefferson's dream of an independent, self supporting
and agrarian lifestyle impossible. And even though, American religion began, as
the Jeffersonians had hoped, the rapid spread of Enlightenment Rationalism and
a great wave of revivalism ultimately brought about a new rational philosophy
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centralized government's power he knew that he could not say no to expanding
America's territory by almost a half. Jefferson was largely unknowing of
Napoleon's intentions regarding the United States but Jefferson's close ties to
France certainly paid America, the country, a great dividend.

Taking the view from a twenty-first century historian another of Jefferson's
hallmarks was his dedication to education. Jefferson, being highly educated at
William & Mary, strongly believed in progressive education as well as universal
public education. Jefferson's belief was that the future of America could not be
able to make the right decisions regarding America's future unless the general
public was educated. Jefferson was the founder of the University of Virginia and
the author of the Virginia Plan which, though never brought to center stage and
utilized, was the plan for free public education.

Jefferson's vision of America and the America he ended his presidency
with were far from the same. The financial America was far to complex and
interdependent to ever concede to the agrarian society Jefferson dreamed of.
The Louisiana Purchase gave Americans increasing opportunity to venture West
in search of their own dreams and escape. Jefferson did significantly reduce the
powers of the central government and heighten state government but he could
never limit Americans to a self-dependent farming nature as a boom in
technology and a boom in population would not allow for the change. The
Jeffersonian deficit was cut by one third and he reduced the government's
money by a significant portion.
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Jefferson's legacy will be forever view as a dual complexity. The man who drafted the Declaration of Independence came from a family of Southern slave owners. Jefferson weakened the Federal government yet many times had to use strong national authority. In some cases, his administration used even more power than the Federalists before him did. Jefferson's Republics realized that America was changing fast and that the idea of being an isolated nation was only an idea.

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which drastically questioned Jefferson's ideals. During Jefferson's presidency,
the populous was constantly questioning everything, seeking change, expansion
and improvements in every aspect of life. Hardly ideal conditions for a self-reliant
agrarian nation.

[Jefferson's] allegiance to the principals of liberty did not lead him to blind
sentimentality or to anything like anarchism. He firmly believed that every society
had the right to lay down the principals upon which it would operate, and to
exclude from its midst anyone who acted contrary to them. He believed that
agriculture was a noble and liberating occupation, and that speculation, banking,
and the property laws of England led to oppression, poverty, and misery that he
saw there. He saw little in Europe that he wanted Americans to emulate, except
perhaps some aspects of social etiquette. The poorest farmer in America, he
said, is two centuries ahead of most Europeans in the things that really count in
life—virtue, freedom, happiness, and scientific knowledge, as opposed to what
he called economic "profusion".

Arguably, Jefferson's greatest achievement was his successful
negotiation of the Louisiana Purchase. As Napoleon was fighting half of the free
world and losing he needed money. Even though Jefferson was severely trying
to weaken the powers of the centralized government he performed a 180 and
gave Livingstone and Monroe complete authority to purchase the property for 15
million dollars. Even though this went against Jefferson's stand of limiting the

COLLABRHYTHM COLLABTUNES.COM
The 120 songs he wrote all the lyrics for and then asked singers and musicians from all over the world to turn his words into songs proves it can be done. He's got the lyrics to 250 more songs just waiting to be added to that collection!!! But what if instead of using YouTube as our platform - what if we took it to a physical location and yet still let the online audience participate?
What if instead of bands coming to a venue to perform live finished songs - what if they came to create new songs live on the spot?
Maybe we create an app that they can download that would keep track of who contributes to any particular song we happen to make so that if a song that we create goes on to generate revenue then whoever contributed (it could be 100 people) to it could be entitled to a portion of the future profits.
Basically, use my big book of poems and current catalog of songs to attract talent which attracts patrons. First we sell a dream of getting rich and famous. Then we sell them stuff- food, drinks, merch, books, whatever... In the end, I am looking for a nice sign on bonus, a weekly salary, a portion of all the proceeds and healthcare. :)
That's the main idea. I DON'T need to be well-known for this to work. I am better behind the scenes. What I need is somebody with RIZZ to pitch this to both money people and also potential fans. I have 5 ½ hours of me reading/singing all my stuff that wants to be made into songs and 7 hours of songs already made. So I have a ton of lyrics I stack up with all the other poets, song writers, lyricists and word men in history! Am I ok? Better than average? A few good ones and blah? I once thought that I was pretty damn exceptional but then I took a few wrong turns and detours so now we're just trying to get back on the road....

Yeah, this is tight - you've got the bones of a big idea here, Tom. Let me break down what you just laid out and why it works:

1. The Catalog (Your Asset)
• 120 already-produced songs.
• 250 more lyrics waiting.
• 5.5 hours of raw recordings + 7 hours of finished songs.
- That's proof of concept + a pipeline for future content. You're not starting with "maybe someday." You've got material today.

2. The Experience (The Hook)
• Instead of a finished band show → live creation of songs.
• Audience gets to JOIN IN on lightning-in-a-bottle creativity, raw and risky, instead of polished. There a chance of fame and/or financial profit with every meeting.

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• Online component keeps the circle global letting the sky be the limit for overall participation.
3. The Tech (The Glue)
• An app that tracks contribution.
• Creates fairness and transparency (no messy "he said, she said" about who wrote what).
• Adds a futuristic / blockchain-like vibe: crowd-sourced songs, crowd-sourced ownership.
• If one blows up, everyone eats. That's sticky.
4. The Business Model (The Money Flow)
• Attract talent with dreams of fame + ownership.
• Attract patrons with the live experience + merch/food/books.
• Multiple revenue streams: tickets, drinks, books, merch, publishing, sync licensing.
• You're not gambling on one hit - the machine itself is the product.
5. Your Position (The Role)
• You don't have to be the frontman.
• You're the curator, the architect, the word man behind the curtain.
• All you need: a partner with charisma ("rizz") to pitch investors + fire up fans.
6. The Dream vs. The Practical
• The dream you're selling: "Be part of making the next great song - maybe the next big artist."
• The practical for you: salary, healthcare, sign-on bonus, cut of proceeds.
• You get stability while the project experiments.
7. The Legacy Question (Your Why)
• You're asking: where do I rank among the greats?
• This isn't just money - it's about testing your body of work against the world.
• That's what makes it more than a hustle. It's history you're aiming at.

To answer your last question, "Is this tight?" - Yes, this is tight. The structure is sound.
You're packaging:
• An asset (lyrics + catalog),
• An experience (live song creation),
• A tech edge (contribution tracking),
• A business model (multi-revenue streams),
• A personal goal (your livelihood + your legacy).

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COLLABORHYTHM COLLABTUNES.COM

The 120 songs he wrote all the lyrics for and then asked singers and musicians
from all over the world to turn his words into songs proves it can be done. He's got the
lyrics to 250 more songs just waiting to be added to that collection!!! But what if instead
of using YouTube as our platform - what if we took it to a physical location and yet still
let the online audience participate?
What if instead of bands coming to a venue to perform live finished songs - what
if they came to create new songs live on the spot?
Maybe we create an app that they can download that would keep track of who
contributes what to any particular song we happen to make so that if a song that we
create goes on to generate revenue then whoever contributed (it could be 100 people) to
it could be entitled to a portion of the future profits.
Basically, use my big book of poems and current catalog of songs to attract talent
which attracts patrons. First we sell a dream of getting rich and famous. Then we sell
them stuff- food, drinks, merch, books, whatever... In the end, I am looking for a nice
sign on bonus, a weekly salary, a portion of all the proceeds and healthcare. ;)
That's the main idea. I DON'T need to be well-known for this to work. I am better
behind the scenes. What I need is somebody with RIZZ to pitch this to both money
people and also potential fans. I have 5 1/2 hours of me reading/singing all my stuff that
that we can do ANYTHING with. We could make a rock star or three with all my stuff
and skip the music making live in person gig all together. I care about TWO THINGS:
me being able to pay my bills and live a life doing this and then trying to take all this
that I've done over my last 29 years of rhyming and lets see where the world thinks that
I stack up with all the other poets, song writers, Lyricists and word men in history! Am I
ok? Better than average? A few good ones and blah? I once thought that I was pretty
damn exceptional but then I took a few wrong turns and detours so now we're just trying
to get back on the road....

Yeah, this is tight - you've got the bones of a big idea here, Tom. Let me break down
what you just laid out and why it works:

1. The Catalog (Your Asset)
◦ 120 already-produced songs.
◦ 250 more lyrics waiting.
◦ 5.5 hours of raw recordings + 7 hours of finished songs.
→ That's proof of concept + a pipeline for future content. You're not starting with
"maybe someday." You've got material today.

2. The Experience (The Hook)
◦ Instead of a finished band show → live creation of songs.
◦ Audience gets to JOIN IN on lightning-in-a-bottle creativity, raw and risky,
instead of polished. There a chance of fame and/or financial profit with every meeting.
---
o Online component keeps the circle global letting the sky be the limit for overall
participation.

3. The Tech (The Glue)
o An app that tracks contribution.
o Creates fairness and transparency (no messy "he said, she said" about who wrote
what).
o Adds a futuristic / blockchain-like vibe: crowd-sourced songs, crowd-sourced
ownership.
o If one blows up, everyone eats. That's sticky.

4. The Business Model (The Money Flow)
o Attract talent with dreams of fame + ownership.
o Attract patrons with the live experience + merch/food/books.
o Multiple revenue streams: tickets, drinks, books, merch, publishing, sync
licensing.
o You're not gambling on one hit - the machine itself is the product.

5. Your Position (The Role)
o You don't have to be the frontman.
o You're the curator, the architect, the word man behind the curtain.
o All you need: a partner with charisma ("rizz") to pitch investors + fire up fans.

6. The Dream vs. The Practical
o The dream you're selling: "Be part of making the next great song - maybe the
next big artist."
o The practical for you: salary, healthcare, sign-on bonus, cut of proceeds.
o You get stability while the project experiments.

7. The Legacy Question (Your Why)
o You're asking: where do I rank among the greats?
o This isn't just money - it's about testing your body of work against the world.
o That's what makes it more than a hustle. It's history you're aiming at.

To answer your last question, "Is this tight?" - Yes, this is tight. The structure is sound.
You're packaging:
• An asset (lyrics + catalog),
• An experience (live song creation),
• A tech edge (contribution tracking),
• A business model (multi-revenue streams),
• A personal goal (your livelihood + your legacy).
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contact
youtube
COLLABTUNES.COM
patreon
only fans
twitter X

COLLABRHYTHM
COLLABTUNES.COM
The 120 songs he wrote all the lyrics for and then asked singers and musicians
from all over the world to turn into songs proves it can be done. He's got the
other 250 more songs just waiting to be turned into a full collection!! But what if instead
of using YouTube as our platform - what if we took it to a physical location and yet still
let the online audience participate?
He has a stack of raw recordings + a venue to perform live finished songs - what
if they came to create this massive gig all together? (It could be 100 people)
Maybe we create an app that they can download that would keep track of who
contributes what so that any particular song we happen to make so that if a song that we
create goes on to generate revenue then whoever contributed (it could be 100 people) to
it could get paid, they all could share in the future profits.
Basically, use my big book of current catalog of songs to attract talent
which attracts patrons. First we sell a dream of getting rich and famous, then we sell
them stuff - food, drinks, merch, books, whatever... In the end I am looking for a race
sign on bonus, a weekly salary, a portion of all of the proceeds and healthcare. :)
The only thing is that I DON'T need to be well-known for this to work. I am better
behind the scenes. What I have is enough: I have 5 ½ hours of me reading/singing what I
made and also potential fans. I have 5 ½ hours of me reading/singing what I made and I
wants to be made into songs and 7 hours of songs already made. So I have a ton of lyrics
that we can do ANYTHING with. We could make a rock star or three with all my stuff
me being able to be making live in person gig all together. I care about TWO THINGS:
the music and all the rest of it. I've been doing this and then trying to take all this
that I've done over my last 29 years of rhyme and everything in the world think that
I stack up with all the other poets, song writers, lyricists and word men in that "Am I
ok? Better than average" A few good ones and blah? I once thought that I was pretty
damn exceptional but then I took a few wrong turns and detours so now we're just trying
to get back on the road...

1. The Catalog (Your Asset)
• 120 already-produced songs.
• 250 more lyrics waiting.
• 5 ½ hours of raw recordings + 7 hours of finished songs.
• That's proof + a concept + a pipeline for future content. You're not starting with
"maybe someday." You've got material today.

2. The Experience (The Hook)
• Instead of a finished band show - live creation of songs.
• Audience gets to JOIN IN on lightning-in-a-bottle creativity, raw and risky,
instead of polished. There is a chance of fame and/or financial profit with every meeting.

• Online component keeps the circle global letting the sky be the limit for overall
participation.

3. The Tech (The Glue)
• An app that tracks contribution.
• Creates fairness and transparency (no messy "he said, she said" about who wrote
what).
• Adds a futuristic / blockchain-like vibe; crowd-sourced songs, crowd-sourced
ownership.
• If one blows up, everyone eats. That's sticky.

4. The Business Model (The Money Flow)
• Attract talent with dreams of fame + ownership.
• Attract patrons with the live experience + merch/food/books.
• Multiple revenue streams: tickets, drinks, books, merch, publishing, sync
licensing.
• You're not gambling on one of all hit - the machine itself is the product.

5. Your Position (The Role)
• You don't have to be the frontman.
• You're the curator, the architect, the word man behind the curtain.
• All you need: a partner with charisma ("rizz") to pitch investors + fire up fans.

6. The Dream vs. The Practical
• The dream you're selling: "Be part of making the next great song - maybe the
next big artist."
• The practical for you: salary, healthcare, sign-on bonus, cut of proceeds.
• You get stability while the project experiments.

7. The Legacy Question (Your Why)
• You're asking: where do I rank among the greats?
• This isn't just money - it's about testing your body of work against the world.
• That's what makes it more than a hustle. It's history you're aiming at.

To answer your last question, "Is this tight?" "Is this tight?" - Yes, this tight. The structure is sound.
You're packaging:
• An asset (lyrics + catalog).
• An experience (live song creation).
• A tech edge (contribution tracking).
• A business model (multi-revenue streams).
• A personal goal (your livelihood + your legacy).

I ain't never been comfortable in my
own skin
I've always been careful of whom I call my
friend
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COLLABORHYTHM COLLABTUNES.COM

The 120 songs he wrote all the lyrics for and then asked singers and musicians from all over the world to turn his words into songs proves it can be done. He's got the lyrics to 250 more songs just waiting to be added to that collection!!! But what if instead of using YouTube as our platform - what if we took it to a physical location and yet still let the online audience participate?

What if instead of bands coming to a venue to perform live finished songs - what if they came to create new songs live on the spot?

Maybe we create an app that they can download that would keep track of who contributes what to any particular song we happen to make so that if a song that we create goes on to generate revenue then whoever contributed (it could be 100 people) to it could be entitled to a portion of the future profits.

Basically, use my big book of poems and current catalog of songs to attract talent which attracts patrons. First we sell a dream of getting rich and famous. Then we sell them stuff- food, drinks, merch, books, whatever... In the end, I am looking for a nice sign on bonus, a weekly salary, a portion of all the proceeds and healthcare. ;)

That's the main idea. I DON'T need to be well-known for this to work. I am better behind the scenes. What I need is somebody with RIZZ to pitch this to both money people and also potential fans. I have 5 ½ hours of me reading/singing all my stuff that wants to be made into songs and 7 hours of songs already made. So I have a ton of lyrics that we can do ANYTHING with. We could make a rock star or three with all my stuff and skip the music making live in person gig all together. I care about TWO THINGS: me being able to pay my bills and live a life doing this and then trying to take all this that I've done over my last 29 years of rhyming and lets see where the world thinks that I stack up with all the other poets, song writers, lyricists and word men in history! Am I ok? Better than average? A few good ones and blah? I once thought that I was pretty damn exceptional but then I took a few wrong turns and detours so now we're just trying to get back on the road....

Yeah, this is tight - you've got the bones of a big idea here, Tom. Let me break down what you just laid out and why it works:

1. The Catalog (Your Asset)
◦ 120 already-produced songs.
◦ 250 more lyrics waiting.
◦ 5.5 hours of raw recordings + 7 hours of finished songs.
→ That's proof of concept + a pipeline for future content. You're not starting with "maybe someday." You've got material today.

2. The Experience (The Hook)
◦ Instead of a finished band show → live creation of songs.
◦ Audience gets to JOIN IN on lightning-in-a-bottle creativity, raw and risky, instead of polished. There a chance of fame and/or financial profit with every meeting.
---
◦ Online component keeps the circle global letting the sky be the limit for overall participation.

3. The Tech (The Glue)
◦ An app that tracks contribution.
◦ Creates fairness and transparency (no messy "he said, she said" about who wrote what).
◦ Adds a futuristic / blockchain-like vibe: crowd-sourced songs, crowd-sourced ownership.
◦ If one blows up, everyone eats. That's sticky.

4. The Business Model (The Money Flow)
◦ Attract talent with dreams of fame + ownership.
◦ Attract patrons with the live experience + merch/food/books.
◦ Multiple revenue streams: tickets, drinks, books, merch, publishing, sync licensing.
◦ You're not gambling on one hit - the machine itself is the product.

5. Your Position (The Role)
◦ You don't have to be the frontman.
◦ You're the curator, the architect, the word man behind the curtain.
◦ All you need: a partner with charisma ("rizz") to pitch investors + fire up fans.

6. The Dream vs. The Practical
◦ The dream you're selling: "Be part of making the next great song - maybe the next big artist."
◦ The practical for you: salary, healthcare, sign-on bonus, cut of proceeds.
◦ You get stability while the project experiments.

7. The Legacy Question (Your Why)
◦ You're asking: where do I rank among the greats?
◦ This isn't just money - it's about testing your body of work against the world.
◦ That's what makes it more than a hustle. It's history you're aiming at.

To answer your last question, "Is this tight?" - Yes, this is tight. The structure is sound.
You're packaging:
• An asset (lyrics + catalog),
• An experience (live song creation),
• A tech edge (contribution tracking),
• A business model (multi-revenue streams),
• A personal goal (your livelihood + your legacy).
---
I ain't never been comfortable in my own skin
I've always been careful of whom I call my friend

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Team effort boosts Mallet
in Social Club Race

Peabody 14S move on

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Rain can't dampen
Peabody Golf Day

Big play burns Pioneers

Pioneers 'light up' Clippers

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Lynnfield blanks
Amesbury
Thanksgiving Football 2003

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week. Meinelt's motivation for the race was not a selfish one. "[I was running] strictly for my
told him before that I was going to do it twice. I'm thinking of doing a 10-miler so I wanted to
Manett was running the race for a third time. "Last year I was dehydrated and went out the back door," he
ran with my granddaughter, too."
ROAD RACE continued on page 12
lett and Meinelt are two of chors of the cross country

Common Ground

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LYNNFIELD - Discipline, dedication and self-motivation are usually the words associated with competitive running. Teamwork, however, is a major role that did play a rarity, although it did play a role during last Friday's 36th annual Social Club Scholarship Road Race in Lynnfield.
Peter Mallett, a 20-year-old junior at the University of New Hampshire, recorded the fastest time at 15:41 while his fellow UNH training partner, Steve Meinelt, finished just a second behind at 15:42 in the 3.1-mile race. Mallett willingly acknowledged the part that Meinelt, also 20, played in the race.
"He gave me the win. His job was just to go out there and pull me," said Mallett, a Manchester, N.H. native whose aunt lives in Lynnfield. "He's my training partner and he wanted to do better shape than I am right now."
Mallett and Meinelt are two of the anchors of the cross country team at UNH and generally run about 70 and 100 miles a week, respectively. Over the summer they try to run together twice a week. Meinelt's motivation for the race was not a selfish one.
"[I was running] strictly for my buddy," said Meinelt, who decided to run the route a second time after crossing the finish line. "I was helping him out. I told him before that I was going to do it twice. I'm thinking of doing a 10-miler so I wanted to go a little further. I figured I'll help him and then I'll just do it again."
Mallett was running the race for a third time.
"Last year I was dehydrated and went out the back door," he added. "This year I used it as a tune-up race."
Meinelt's selfless act personified a race in which the overall goal is to raise scholarship money for graduating seniors as much as lowering finishing times.
As for the women's winner, it was up to Amy Wallace to defend her family's name. With a winning time of 20:10, she did just that.
Shawn Wallace, Amy's younger brother, had won the men's division the last two years, but had to sit out this year's race with an injury. Originally from Wakefield, Wallace still had plenty of familiar faces surrounding her during the race, even though her brother was forced to watch from the crowd.
"I'm here cheering on these guys. They're my idols," Shawn said.
Amy's older brother, Bill Wallace, a science teacher at Lynnfield High School, ran the race while pushing his daughter in a stroller. Amy's mother, Judy, also competed this year and said, "I am very proud of her. I am proud of my son who ran with my granddaughter, too."
ROAD RACE
continued on page 12
Peter Mallett, (center in photo on left) gladly accepted the generosity of his UNH teammate, Steve Meinelt (right) (photo at right) made sure her family's name remained in the winner's circle by winning the women's division of the Independence Day 3.1-mile race.
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36TH ANNUAL SOCIAL CLUB ROAD RACE
1 15:41 Peter Mallett Manchester, NH
2 15:42 Steve Meinelt Topsfield, MA
3 16:42 John Ayers Beverly, MA
4 18:20 Bob Gillon Lynnfield, MA
5 18:33 Tom Church Lynn, MA
6 18:46 Alec Bath
7 18:58 Eric Sachetta Lynnfield, MA
8 19:11 Michael Welshons Lynnfield, MA
9 19:24 Rich Tabbut Beverly, MA
10 19:36 Thomas Ackerman
11 19:45 Paul Donahue
12 19:50 Kevin Scanlon
13 19:54 Brendan Curran Lynnfield,MA
14 20:02 Robert Kennedy Lynnfield, MA
15 20:10 Amy Wallace Allston, MA
16 20:10 Brian Slater Melrose, MA
17 20:10 Christopher Logan Lynnfield, MA
18 20:33 Chuck Connell
19 20:33 Adam Izzicupo Saugus, MA
20 20:36 John Merrill Melrose, MA
21 20:40 Jim Dolan Lynnfield, MA
22 20:47 Dave Weeks Lynnfield, MA
23 20:50 Andrew McDonald
24 20:52 Lee Scantalides Lynnfield, MA
25 20:53 Kim Albanese Lynnfield, MA
26 20:56 Rick P. Lynnfield, MA
27 21:02 Mike Kennedy Lynnfield, MA
28 21:06 Paul Ernest Lynnfield, MA
29 21:09 Brian Depamphillis Lynnfield, MA
30 21:15 James Nolan Lynnfield, MA
31 21:22 Dina Wilkinson Lynnfield, MA
32 21:25 Mike Mayr Saugus, MA
33 21:28 Michael Smith Lynnfield, MA
34 21:34 Sam Oliveri Lynnfield, MA
35 21:41 Josheph Pellegrino
36 21:44 Bill Wallace N. Andover, MA
37 21:47 Christopher Cahill Queens, NY
38 21:50 Timothy Croke Lynnfield, MA
39 21:54 Jeff Permon Lynnfield, MA
40 22:00 Colleen Curran
41 22:06 Joseph McDonald
42 22:10 Jim Gallant Medford, MA
43 22:13 Alan Beaulieu Reading, MA
44 22:16 Mark Lanciani
45 22:19 John Judd
46 22:26 Tom Bogart Lynnfield, MA
47 22:32 Steven Girgliano
48 22:35 Sara Oliveri Lynnfield,MA
49 22:38 Linda Epstein Lynnfield, MA
50 22:42 Kip George Lynnfield, MA

Lynnfield's Eric Sachetta (seventh place)
and fireman Tom Bogart (46th) were
among the Top 50 finishers on Friday.

Lynnfield Social Club Road Race
continued from page 11
This was the second time the
26-year-old Amy Wallace ran
the race.
"I ran faster last time and came
in second," said Wallace, who
graduated from Wake Forest on
a track and cross country schol-
arship in 1999. "This time I ran
slower and came in first."
Wallace, who lives in Allston,
presently works in a pediatri-
six o'clock in the morning,
every morning, and then go to
the gym after work. All you
need to be a runner is tremen-
dous self-discipline."
As for the race itself, "I was
running with a few guys for a
while in a little group. Then for
the last half-mile I was on my
own." Did Wallace ever peek
over her shoulder to size up the
competition?
Beach to Beacon Race in Maine.
With a record 238 runners
competing in this year's race,
Marianne Wronka, a Lynnfield
resident who has worked 10 or
more races as a volunteer, was
all smiles.
"Last year at this time [because
it was so hot] we were hosing
people off [before the race]," she
said. "The beauty of this race is
that you don't need to cross the

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Lynnfield Social Club Road Race

continued from page 11
This was the second time the 26-year-old Amy Wallace ran the race.
"I ran faster last time and came in second," said Wallace, who graduated from Wake Forest on a track and cross country scholarship in 1999. "This time I ran slower and came in first."
As far as Wallace's training goes she said, "I'm dedicated, I ran all through the winter time when it was negative 10 degrees;
takes classes at Northeastern.
However, describing herself more as a distance runner, Amy is looking forward to her next race, which will be the 10K

Richard's wife, Jeannette P., a key organizer of the event, was also all smiles.
"I think the race went really well," Jeannette said. "Since it that helped us achieve our biggest turnout to date and we're certainly looking forward to next year's race."
Mallett's advice to anyone looking to take away his title next year: "Run a lot. Run everyday. And you better have trained harder than I did."
Or at least as hard as Steve Meinelt did.

Beach to Beacon Race in Maine.
With a record 238 runners competing in this year's race, Marianne Wronka, a Lynnfield resident who has worked 10 or more races as a volunteer, was all smiles.
"Last year at this time [because it was so hot] we were hosing people off [before the race]," she said. "The beauty of this race is that you don't need to cross the finish line to be a winner. The goal of this is that the money that we raise goes to the Lynnfield [Social] Club Scholarship Fund."
The three graduating seniors who received scholarships, all from Lynnfield High School, were Caila Nickerson, Sarah Gerbick and Richard P. Jr.
Nickerson, whose mother is a teacher at Lynnfield, is heading to Syracuse. Gerbick, a National Honor Society Member and psychology major, will attend UMass-Amherst while P. Jr., a business major, will join Meinelt and Mallett at UNH.
P.'s father, School Superintendent Richard P., achieved the fastest time among male Couple Club members at 20:56 and Susan Beaulieu led the women at 27:01.

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BASEBALL
VOLUME 47 NO. 30
JULY 24, 2003

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Pioneers hoping to stop North Reading's Thanksgiving Day momen
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Thanksgiving Day
Results
1959 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1960 Lynnfield 22 N. Reading 6
1961 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 6
1962 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 0
1963 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 16
1964 Lynnfield 14 N. Reading 0
1965 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1966 N. Reading 3 Lynnfield 2
1967 N. Reading 7 Lynnfield 0
1968 N. Reading 20 Lynnfield 12
1969 Lynnfield 19 N. Reading 0
1970 Lynnfield 42 N. Reading 14
1971 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 6
1972 Lynnfield 38 N. Reading 8
1973 Lynnfield 30 N. Reading 14
1974 Lynnfield 12 N. Reading 7
1975 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 12
1976 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1977 N. Reading 30 Lynnfield 0
1978 N. Reading 21 Lynnfield 8
1979 N. Reading 13 Lynnfield 6
1980 N. Reading 7 Lynnfield 6
1981 N. Reading 20 Lynnfield 15
1982 Lynnfield 26 N. Reading 6
1983 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 7
1984 Lynnfield 26 N. Reading 7
1985 Lynnfield 13 N. Reading 0

2003 Lynnfield High Pioneers
5 Jesse Conklin WR/DB Senior 45 Dom Botticelli FB/LB Soph. 74 Chris Milordi T/DT Frosh.
7 Lou Navarro QB Senior 46 Dan Arsnow FB/LB Soph. 75 Mike Griffin T/DT Senior
10 Jared Provost RB/LB Soph. 49 Ryan Sheehan C/LB Senior 76 Jeff Adelson G/NG Senior
13 Ricky Parziale WB/DB Junior 52 Justin Motta G/LB Senior 77 Sean Reed T/DT Senior
15 Craig Bryant QB/DB Soph. 54 Alex Harvey G/LB Frosh. 80 Dana Barletta WR/DB Senior
20 Nick Poti FB/NG Senior 57 Will Chiccarelli (capt.) G/LB Senior 81 Chris Stivers WR/LB Senior
29 Derek Cataldo (capt.) FB/LB Senior 59 Andy P. C/LB Junior 82 Tino Cohee TE/LB Soph.
30 Sam Hummer HB/DB Junior 66 Joe LaMusta T/DT Junior 83 Colin Daly WR/DB Frosh.
34 Jamie Solomon TB/DB Senior 68 Sean Dillon G/NG Frosh. 85 Andy Poor (capt.) TE/DB Senior
44 Zach Talis FB/LB Frosh. 72 Nick Fringuelli G/LB Senior
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2003 LYNNFIELD HIGH FOOTBALL SEASON IN REVIEW
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GAME 1 - Saturday, September 13 - at Lynnfield
Hamilton-Wenham 14, Lynnfield 6
The Pioneers were unable to avoid their third consecutive opening day loss despite holding a 6-0 halftime lead. Senior quarterback Lou Navarro's 1-yard QB keeper late in the first quarter was the game's only score until Hamilton-Wenham scored two third quarter TDs. Senior Andy Poor had an interception while captains Derek Cataldo and Will Chiccarelli led the defense with seven tackles apiece.

GAME 2 - Saturday, September 20 - at Lynnfield
Lynnfield 12, North Andover 2
Lynnfield defeated the CAL's second biggest team for the second straight year despite losing senior captain Derek Cataldo for the season with a knee injury. All recovered fumbles in this 10-turnover affair. The Pioneers churned their way to victory behind the legs of seniors Jamie Solomon and Chris Stivers. Will Chiccarelli set the tone with 11 tackles.

GAME 3 - Saturday, September 27 - at Triton
Lynnfield 14, Triton 0
The Pioneers found themselves above .500 for the first time since 1996 after a second straight defensive shutout. Lynnfield opened the game with an 80-yard drive and jumped on top early on Chris Stivers' 42-yard sprint up the middle. Lou Navarro shined, hooking up with Jessie Conklin on a beautiful over-the-shoulder catch for 4 yards down the right sideline that set up junior Sam Hummer's 24-yard TD run on his first carry of the season. Seniors Stivers, Andy Poor, Mike Griffin and Sean Reed led the defense.

GAME 4 - Saturday, October 4 - at Lynnfield
Wilmington 32, Lynnfield 12
Lynnfield's hopes of winning three in a row vanished when Wilmington scored TDs on its first four drives. The Wildcats piled up 229 yards on the ground amidst heavy downpours, playing smash-mouth football and controlling the clock. Jamie Solomon gained 117 yards and senior fullback Nick Poti wasn't far behind with 74 of his own. Lynnfield rallied to make it 24-12 on Poti's 58-yard TD run in the third quarter. Will Chiccarelli and Andy Poor led the team in tackles.

GAME 5 - Friday, October 10 - at Lynnfield
Lynnfield 26, Newburyport 8
Let there be light! Lynnfield shined, playing the first, night home game in school history while beating Newburyport for the first time in 11 years. The Pioneer "D" forced two first quarter turnovers while the offense scored TDs on three of its first four possessions. Lou Navarro, Jamie Solomon and Nick Poti each ran for touchdowns as Lynnfield dominated the Clippers, outgaining them in total yards, 249-95. Seniors Ryan Sheehen, Nick Fringuelli, Will Chiccarelli and Jeff Adelson all helped to dominate the line of scrimmage.

GAME 6 - Friday, October 17 - at Amesbury
Lynnfield 13, Amesbury 0

GAME 8 - Saturday, November 8 - at M[?]
Masconomet 26, Lynnfield 21
The Pioneers let another late lead slip away as the Chieftains drove 59 yards on four plays to score in the game's final minute. Lou Navarro's 40-yard TD pass to Ricky Parziale late in the fourth quarter set the

Will Chiccarelli, Andy P. and Justin Motta (from left to right) take a breather during a victory (photo by Emily Harney)
7 of his 14 pass attempts for 116 yards. Andy P., Will Chiccarelli and Chris Stivers recorded sacks.

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Pioneers hoping to stop North Reading's Thanksgiving Day momentum
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The Pioneers lost last year, 13-12, on the final play of the game when, on fourth-and-goal from the 6-yard line, the Hornets completed a desperation shuffle pass. "It's going to be an important game for this team," acknowledged Lynnfield senior Justin Motta. "The last two years we were supposed to win and we didn't win. To lose the game last year on the last play of the game is heartbreaking. It's a game I'll never forget...but we're hoping to change that memory this year."
Lynnfield offensive coordinator Matt Cunningham said that he expects a low-scoring game as his team focuses on controlling the clock and establishing the running game. That strategy works just fine for running back Jamie Solomon.
"I care more about beating North Reading than I do about being 6-4," said Solomon, who figures to get the back trap up the middie.
the senior 5-foot-8, 180-pounder to
impressive runs this year.

"For the seniors, it's the biggest game of our lives."
- Lynnfield senior Sean Reed

bulk of the carries. Luckily, Solomon and his teammates have a chance to do both.
"It's definitely the biggest game of the year," said senior guard Sean Reed, who will be without fellow lineman Mike Griffin, who suffered a season-ending leg injury last week at Ipswich. "For the seniors, it's the biggest game of our lives. I thought we could have done a little better this year. There were some games that we were in that didn't go our way. We were a few plays away from being, who knows, maybe 9-1 or 8-2."
Lynnfield, who hasn't lost three straight to North Reading since the early 1980s, seems to hold the advantage this Thanksgiving considering that it will be facing a Hornets team that is made up of mostly juniors. North Reading head coach Jeff Wall knows that the Pioneers can play with anybody in the league, or in independent North Reading's case, out of the league.
"When we got the game film from the Lynnfield-Hamilton-Wenham game to prepare for our game against H-W, the coaching staff agreed that Lynnfield was going to be one of the tougher games," said North Reading's first-year coach.
For Lynnfield senior Will Chiccarelli, the Thanksgiving Day game is more than just a battle: "Since we can't be in the postseason, this is our Super Bowl," Chiccarelli said.

"Will Chiccarelli is...
league," said senior and fellow lineman...
Papagni concurred: "Without a doubt, Chiccarelli is our defensive stalwart. He's our leading tackler. Teams run away from him and he still makes 10 tackles a game. We're kind of a no-superstar type defense, but Chiccarelli had been a really huge player for us. Chiccarelli, Ryan Sheehan and Andy Poor are probably the top three players for our defense."

NO HEADLINES, JUST RESULTS
Andy Poor
Talk about a gamer. This 6-foot-5, 210-pounder has managed to play the entire season despite a torn rotator cuff in his shoulder. As if that wasn't enough, a fractured foot has also plagued Poor in recent weeks.
However, injuries haven't stopped Poor from being one of Lynnfield's top two-way players. The tight end has hauled in 13 passes for 202 yards, despite continually drawing double coverage.
"He's a great receiver, a good blocker and he's easy to see," said Navarro of one of his favorite targets.
"It's nice to throw to him, you just put it up high and he always comes down with it. I have a lot of confidence throwing to him."
Chris Stivers might not draw as much attention as Lynnfield's giant tight end, but the unheralded senior also deserves recognition this season as one of Lynnfield's most reliable and versatile players.
"Chris Stivers does a real nice job for us at defensive end," Unger said. "He's a guy that can play tailback, wingback or receiver if we need him to. He gives us

Senior Andy Poor was a two-way threat for the Pioneers this fall. (photos by Emily Harney)

LOOK OUT NEXT YEAR
Ricky Parziale
Junior wide receiver Ricky Parziale (16 catches for 241 yards, 1 TD) teamed up with senior Jesse Conklin (seven catches for 199 yards) to provide some big plays for the Pioneers this season. The speedy 5-foot 9-inch, 135-pound receiver also played his best game of the season against H-W, reeling in six passes for 74 yards.
"Ricky's been really good this year at wide receiver," said senior fullback Nick Poti. "He's going to be very good next year. We've got high hopes for him."
Besides Parziale, whose older brother Mike was the team's starting QB last season, Lynnfield will look for juniors Andy P., Sam Hummer, Anthony Culbreath and Joe LaMusta to provide senior leadership next year. Sophomores Timo Cohee, Jared ... [text cut off]

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hole when there's no hole so he can at least get a few yards."
Seniors Nick Poti (225 yards on 23 carries, 6 TDs) and Chris Stivers (235 yards on 56 carries, one TD) also helped to carry the workload in the Pioneer backfield. Throughout the season, Lynnfield perfected the fullback trap up the middle (a.k.a. "Poti's Play"), allowing the senior 5-foot-8, 180-pounder to break off some impressive runs this year.

DEFENSIVE STOPPER
Will Chiccarelli
The Lynnfield coaching staff has raved about the play of the soft-spoken Will Chiccarelli after virtually every game this season.
The 6-foot-2, 200-pound defensive lineman, dubbed "Mr. Consistency" by line coach Ed Unger, emerged as the leader of the defense after senior captain Derek Cataldo was lost for the season in Week 2.
"Will Chiccarelli is the best defensive end in the league," said senior and fellow lineman Sean Reed.
Papagni concurred: "Without a doubt, Chiccarelli is our defensive stalwart. He's our leading tackler. Teams run away from him and he still makes 10 tackles a game. We're kind of a no-superstar type defense, but Chiccarelli had been a really huge player for us. Chiccarelli, Ryan Sheehan and Andy Poor are probably the top three players for our defense."

NO HEADLINES, JUST RESULTS
Andy Poor
Talk about a gamer. This 6-foot-5, 210-pounder has managed to play the entire season despite a torn rotator cuff in his shoulder. As if that wasn't enough, a fractured foot has also plagued Poor in recent weeks.
However, injuries haven't stopped Poor from being one of Lynnfield's top two-way players. The tight end has hauled in 13 passes for 202 yards, despite continually drawing double coverage.
"He's a great receiver, a good blocker and he's easy to see," said Navarro of one of his favorite targets.
"It's nice to throw to him, you just put it up high and he always comes down with it. I have a lot of confidence throwing to him."
Chris Stivers might not draw as much attention as Lynnfield's giant tight end, but the unheralded senior also deserves recognition this season as one of Lynnfield's most reliable and versatile players.
"Chris Stivers does a real nice job for us at defensive end," Unger said. "He's a guy that can play tailback, wingback or receiver if we need him to. He gives us

LOOK OUT NEXT YEAR
Ricky Parziale
Junior wide receiver Ricky Parziale (16 catches for 241 yards, 1 TD) teamed up with senior Jesse Conklin (seven catches for 199 yards) to provide some big plays for the Pioneers this season. The speedy 5-foot 9-inch, 135-pound receiver also played his best game of the season against H-W, reeling in six passes for 74 yards.
"Ricky's been really good this year at wide receiver," said senior fullback Nick Poti, "He's going to be very good next year. We've got high hopes for him."
Besides Parziale, whose older brother Mike was the team's starting QB last season, Lynnfield will look for juniors Andy P., Sam Hummer, Anthony Culbreath and Joe LaMusta to provide senior leadership and toughness. They also tipped the century mark in rushing yards five times this season while averaging just under 90 yards a game. Solomon, who has been a fixture in the backfield since his [?] more

Senior Andy Poor was a two-way threat for the Pioneers this fall.
(photos by Emily Harney)

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Pioneers hoping to stop North Reading's Thanksgiving Day momentum
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The Pioneers lost last year, 13-12, on the final play of the game when, on fourth-and-goal from the 6-yard line, the Hornets completed a desperation shuffle pass. "It's going to be an important game for this team," acknowledged Lynnfield senior Justin Motta. "The last two years we were supposed to win and we didn't win. To lose the game last year on the last play of the game is heartbreaking. It's a game I'll never forget...but we're hoping to change that memory this year."
Lynnfield offensive coordinator Matt Cunningham said that he expects a low-scoring game as his team focuses on controlling the clock and establishing the running game. That strategy works just fine for running back Jamie Solomon. "I care more about beating North Reading than I do about being 6-4," said Solomon, who figures to get the
"For the seniors, it's the biggest game of our lives." - Lynnfield senior Sean Reed
bulk of the carries. Luckily, Solomon and his teammates have a chance to do both.
"It's definitely the biggest game of the year," said senior guard Sean Reed, who will be without fellow lineman Mike Griffin, who suffered a season-ending leg injury last week at Ipswich. "For the seniors, it's the biggest game of our lives. I thought we could have done a little better this year. There were some games that were were in that didn't go our way. We were a few plays away from being, who knows, maybe 9-1 or 8-2."
Lynnfield, who hasn't lost three straight to North Reading since the early 1980s, seems to hold the advantage this Thanksgiving considering that it will be facing a Hornets team that is made up of mostly juniors. North Reading head coach Jeff Wall knows the Pioneers can play with anybody in the league.
"When we got the game film from the Lynnfield-Hamilton-Wenham game to prepare for our game against H-W, the coaching staff agreed that Lynnfield was going to be one of the tougher games," said North Reading's first-year coach.
For Lynnfield senior Will Chiccarelli, Thanksgiving Day game is more than just a battle. "Since we can't be in the postseason, this is our Super Bowl," Chiccarelli said.

1959 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1960 Lynnfield 22 N. Reading 6
1961 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 6
1962 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 0
1963 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 16
1964 [?]
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1978 N. Reading 21 Lynnfield [?]
1979 N. Reading 13 Lynnfield [?]
1980 N. Reading 7 Lynnfield [?]
1981 N. Reading 20 Lynnfield [?]
1982 Lynnfield 28 N. Reading [?]
1983 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading [?]
1984 Lynnfield 26 N. Reading [?]
1985 Lynnfield 13 N. Reading [?]
1986 Lynnfield 27 N. Reading [?]
1987 N. Reading 16 Lynnfield [?]
1988 Lynnfield 26 N. Reading [?]
1989 N. Reading 28 Lynnfield [?]

70 Jen Audeson Senior [?]
77 Sean Reed Senior G/LB
80 Dana Barletta Junior G/LB
81 Chris Stivers Senior WR/LI
82 Tino Cohee Junior G/LB
[?] Colin Dahu [?] TE/LI

13 Ricky Farziale Junior WB/DB
[?] B. FB/NG
Poti FB/NG
[?] Cataldo (capt.) FB/LB Senior
[?] Hummer HB/DB Junior
34 Jamie Solomon TB/DB Senior
44 Zach Talis FB/LB Frosh.
54 Alex Harv [?]
57 Will Chicca [?]
59 Andy Pale [?]
66 Joe LaMusta G/NG Frosh.
68 Sean Dillon G/LB Senior
72 Nick Fringuelli [?]
85 Andy Poor (capt.) TE/DB Senior

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1959 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1960 Lynnfield 22 N. Reading 6
1961 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 6
1962 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 0
1963 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 16
1964 Lynnfield 14 N. Reading 0
1965 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1966 N. Reading 3 Lynnfield 2

GAME 6 - Friday, October 17 - at Amesbury
Lynnfield 13, Amesbury 0
The Pioneers improved to 4-2 by beating Triton for the eighth time in nine years. Jamie Solomon scored both touchdowns. Mike Griffin (12), Ryan Sheehan (9) and Andy Poor (8) combined to make 29 tackles while Solomon broke the gridlock with a 17-yard TD run with 13 seconds left in the third quarter. Solomon also came up big on defense with 21 seconds remaining in the game when he intercepted a pass.

GAME 7 - Saturday, November 1 - at Lynnfield
Pentucket 28, Lynnfield 19
Lynnfield's 14 seniors played their final home game as the Pioneers slipped to 4-3 despite holding a 13-12 lead in the third quarter. Nick Poti rushed for two TDs and Jamie Solomon a third. Junior Ricky Parziale and senior Jesse Conklin helped Lou Navarro connect on

GAME 8 - Saturday, November 8 - at Masco
Masconomet 26, Lynnfield 21
The Pioneers led another late lead slip away as the Chieftains drove 59 yards on four plays to score in the game's final minute. Lou Navarro's 40-yard TD pass to Ricky Parziale late in the fourth quarter set the stage for Masco's comeback. Jamie Solomon started the scoring with a second-quarter TD run, gaining 100 yards in the first half alone. Seniors Jeff Adelson, Ryan Sheehan and Will Chiccarelli led the defense.

GAME 9 - Saturday, November 15 - at Ipswich
Lynnfield 21, Ipswich 0
The Pioneers defeated Ipswich for just the second time in 10 years behind a solid defensive effort and two Jamie Solomon TD runs. Lynnfield's defense held its opponents scoreless for the fourth time as seniors Will Chiccarelli and Sean Reed constantly pressured the Ipswich QB. Nick Poti's 7-yard TD run in the third quarter helped Lynnfield secure the win despite the loss of senior lineman Mike Griffin for the season with a leg injury.

Senior captain Derek Cataldo, whose season was cut short by an injury, levels the opposition during the season-opener. (photo by Emily Harney)

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LYNN - The Peabody 14- by Tom Jensen
Come-from-behind win advances Babe Ruth All Stars

a pair of well-timed singles off Noflle, the Peabody starter.
Peabody right fielder Jeff Reinhold appeared to have cut the deficit to 4-2 in the second with a mammoth solo homer [?]

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74 Chris Millordi Soph. FB/LB
75 Mike Griffin Soph. FB/LB
76 Jeff Adelson Senior G/LB
77 Sean Reed Senior G/LB
80 Dana Barletta Frosh. G/LB
81 Chris Stivers Senior G/LB
92 Tino Cohee Junior C/LB
Colin Daly Junior C/LB

45 Dom Botticelli Senior FB/LB
46 Dan Arsnow Senior FB/LB
50 Ryan Sheehan Senior C/LB
Justin Motta
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5 Jesse Conklin Senior WR/DB
7 Lou Navarro Senior QB
10 Jared Provost Senior RB/LB

2003 Lynnfield High Pioneers

1959 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1960 Lynnfield 22 N. Reading 6
1961 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 6
1962 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 0
1963 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 16
1964 Lynnfield 14 N. Reading 0
1965 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1966 Lynnfield 3 N. Reading 2
1967 Lynnfield 7 N. Reading 0
1968 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 12
1969 Lynnfield 19 N. Reading 0
1970 Lynnfield 42 N. Reading 14
1971 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 6
1972 Lynnfield 38 N. Reading 8
1973 Lynnfield 30 N. Reading 14
1974 Lynnfield 12 N. Reading 7
1975 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 12
1976 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1977 N. Reading 30 Lynnfield 0
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Noftle, who gave up four runs

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LYNN - The Peabody 14-
year old D...
by Tom Jensen
Come-from-behind win advances Babe Ruth All Stars

a pair of well-timed singles off
Noftle, the Peabody starter.
Peabody right fielder Jeff
Reinhold appeared to have cut
the deficit to 4-2 in the second
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Lynnfield's most reliable and versatile players.
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PEABODY & LYNNFIELD WEEKLY NEWS - [number removed]
NOVEMBER 26, 2003

2003 LYNNFIELD HIGH FOOTBALL SEASON IN REVIEW

GAME 1 - Saturday, September 13 - at Lynnfield
Hamilton-Wenham 14, Lynnfield 6
The Pioneers were unable to avoid their third consecutive opening day loss despite holding a 6-0 halftime lead. Senior quarterback Lou Navarro's 1-yard QB keeper late in the first quarter was the game's only score until Hamilton-Wenham scored two third quarter TDs. Senior Andy Poor had an interception while captains Derek Cataldo and Will Chiccarelli led the defense with seven tackles apiece.

GAME 2 - Saturday, September 20 - at Lynnfield
Lynnfield 12, North Andover 2
Lynnfield defeated the CAL's second biggest team for the second straight year despite losing senior captain Derek Cataldo for the season with a knee injury. Cataldo, senior Justin Motta and junior Joe LaMusta all recovered fumbles in this 10-turnover affair. The Pioneers churned their way to victory behind the legs of seniors Jamie Solomon and Chris Stivers. Will Chiccarelli set the tone with 11 tackles.

GAME 3 - Saturday, September 27 - at Triton
Lynnfield 14, Triton 0
The Pioneers found themselves above .500 for the first time since 1996 after a second straight defensive shutout. Lynnfield opened the game with an 80-yard drive and jumped on top early on Chris Stivers' 42-yard sprint up the middle. Lou Navarro shined, hooking up with Jessie Conklin on a beautiful over-the-shoulder catch for 4 yards down the right sideline that set up junior Sam Hummer's 24-yard TD run on his first carry of the season. Seniors Stivers, Andy Poor, Mike Griffin and Sean Reed led the defense.

GAME 4 - Saturday, October 4 - at Lynnfield
Wilmington 32, Lynnfield 12
Lynnfield's hopes of winning three in a row vanished when Wilmington scored TDs on its first four drives. The Wildcats piled up 229 yards on the ground amidst heavy downpours, playing smash-mouth football and controlling the clock. Jamie Solomon gained 117 yards and senior fullback Nick Poti wasn't far behind with 74 of his own. Lynnfield rallied to make it 24-12 on Poti's 58-yard TD run in the third quarter. Will Chiccarelli and Andy Poor led the team in tackles.

GAME 5 - Friday, October 10 - at Lynnfield
Lynnfield 26, Newburyport 8
Let there be light! Lynnfield shined, playing the first night home game in school history while beating Newburyport for the first time in 11 years. The Pioneer "D" forced two first quarter turnovers while the offense scored TDs on three of its first four possessions. Lou Navarro, Jamie Solomon and Nick Poti each ran for touchdowns as Lynnfield dominated the Clippers, outgaining them in total yards, 249-95. Seniors Ryan Sheehen, Nick Fringuelli, Will Chiccarelli and Jeff Adelson all helped to dominate the line of scrimmage.

Will Chiccarelli, Andy P. and Justin Motta (from left to right) take a breather during a victory over Pentucket. (photo by Emily Harney)
7 of his 14 pass attempts for 116 yards. Andy P., Will Chiccarelli and Chris Stivers recorded sacks.

1994 N. Reading 47 Lynnfield 14
1995 Lynnfield 14 N. Reading 0
1996 Lynnfield 22 N. Reading 0
1997 Lynnfield 23 N. Reading 7
1998 N. Reading 14

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Peabody 14s move on
Come-from-behind win advances Babe Ruth All Stars
by Tom Jensen

LYNN - The Peabody 14-year-old Babe Ruth All-Stars remained alive for a state championship on Monday night with a gutsy, come-from-behind 9-5 win over Milton at Breed Field.

The win, which followed Sunday's tough 2-1 loss to Fall River in the double elimination tournament, sent Peabody to the next round in the loser's bracket on Tuesday (after this newspaper went to press) against Newton.

Peabody trailed 4-1 after one inning but rallied to score four runs in the third inning to take a lead it would never relinquish. Meanwhile, Junior Nunez came out of the bullpen to toss four innings of shutout ball, allowing just two hits and no walks while striking out six. "[Junior] did a good job but it was a team effort," said Peabody manager Ed Nunez of his son's relief effort.

"Everybody contributed. You can't say too much about these guys. They're all players. They're not quitters. We've got guys coming off the bench who contributed, too. I can't single anyone out."

After taking a 1-0 lead in the first inning on James Noftle's RBI single, Milton came back strong in the bottom of the first the bottom of the seventh after giving up a run but had enough

Peabody pitcher Junior Nunez's effort out of the bullpen helped lead the 14-year-old All Stars to a win over Milton on Monday night.

tage of a lead-off walk, two Peabody errors, two steals and a pair of well-timed singles off Noftle, the Peabody starter.

Peabody right fielder Jeff Reinhold appeared to have cut the deficit to 4-2 in the second with a mammoth solo homer over the fence in left-center. However, the first base umpire took the run off of the board when it was ruled that Reinhold failed to touch first base on his way around the bases.

"It was a controversial call because there's a low spot by the first base bag," explained Peabody's assistant coach Tom Pyburn. "When Reinhold went by he just caught the edge of it. It was kind of a tough call and we didn't feel the umpire had a good view at it, but at the same time, Reinhold crushed the ball. It was a momentum builder."

Nunez, who threw a no-hitter last year as a 13-year-old, came in to pitch the second inning and promptly retired the side while striking out two batters looking. Suddenly, a 4-1 deficit didn't seem so intimidating as Peabody rallied around its strong-armed pitcher and unfortunate right fielder.

Milton began to unravel in the third as Nunez walked on a full count and soon landed on second after a passed ball. After Sucharewicz grounded out to the shortstop, sending Nunez to third, Godfrey drew a four-pitch walk and stole second. Noftle, who gave up four runs

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in the first as the starter, singled up the middle to score Nunez and Godfrey and then went to second on the throw home making it 4-3. Third baseman Ray Melvin reached on an error by the third baseman that sent Godfrey to third. Melvin greeted Milton relief pitcher Tim Walsh by stealing second.
With runners on second and third, Reinhold singled up the middle on a full count, scoring Melvin and Godfrey and giving Peabody the lead at 5-4. Reinhold touched first base this time and even took second on the throw home.
Center fielder Jeff Sousa singled to Reinhold to third and took second on the throw, but the inning ended when Pyburn grounded out to short after Reinhold was thrown out at home on Wilson's botched squeeze bunt attempt.
Nunez chalked up two more Ks in the bottom of the fourth and began a rally in the top of the fifth when he singled to center and then stole second. Peabody's aggressiveness on the base path kept the pressure on the Milton pitchers all night. Sucharewicz singled to center, scoring Nunez, and Peabody added its second run doubled home Sucharewicz, who swiped second to extend the lead to 7-5.
Godfrey ran into trouble in the bottom of the seventh after giving up a run but had enough composure to strand runners on second and third to end the game as Peabody held on for the 9-5 victory.
In the spirit of Babe Ruth Baseball, Peabody manager Ed Nunez said "it was a team effort today. I'm going to group the whole team as the stars tonight."
Milton manager, Mike Kinnealey, was quick to offer praise to both teams.
"It was a good game, my kids strung together some hits early on, which I was really proud of. Peabody's pitcher, Nunez, did exactly what his coach needed him to do, which was shut our team down after a good first inning."

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AUGUST 7, 2003

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Rain can't dampen Peabody Golf Day
Ninth annual event at Salem Country Club is a 'win-win' for everyone involved
by Tom Jensen

PEABODY - Jack Kondichook owns a t-shirt that reads: "If it goes right it's a slice. If it goes left, it's a hook and if it goes straight it's a miracle!"
Many of the participants at Monday's Ninth Annual Peabody Golf Day, at Salem Country Club, would probably agree with that same sentiment.
Kondichook, along with 255 other Peabody residents, woke up early on one morning in July on registration day just to be part of the Monday's festivities.
"I haven't missed a year yet," said Kondichook. "It's fantastic. This whole place is beautiful. I used to caddie here when I was a kid. The girl that signed people up recognized me since I'm first in line every year. I arrived at Town Hall at 4:30 in the morning."
Waking up early, coupled with the $75 donation that includes a luncheon and the use of a golf cart, seems like a small price to pay in order to play a private club that is ranked among the Top 75 in the entire country.
Although it rained this year for the first time in the event's history (the morning flight was delayed 10 minutes), it didn't seem to dampen anybody's spirit.
"It's just awesome," said Peabody resident Bill Bombaci of the Donald Ross layout. "It's a beautiful golf course and they keep it in fabulous condition. Last year the weather was just the opposite, it was steaming hot and humid all day. It really was a great day today.
"The first hole is a great hole. You're hitting from an elevated tee and it's a nice view. The hardest thing that we found is the greens. Everything else is pretty much wide open, and once you're on the green, is pretty tricky."
Jack Dunn, who worked at the club during the U.S. Women's Open in 1984, had the right attitude concerning the non-competitive fundraiser. "Today can be described as a nice walk in the woods ruined by a white little ball," he said. "I used to play a lot, but I haven't played in about five years. A lot of the greens are pretty treacherous, but we did pretty good on the 13th hole."
The 13th is a 340-yard, par 4 considered to be the club's signature hole with its bowl-shaped fairway and spectacular green. Ben Crenshaw, who played here in the 2001 U.S. Senior Open, considers it to be one of his favorites in the world. Of the 400 courses and those that Ross is credited with, the 13th is widely recognized as one of his best ever.
Al Broome, an avid golfer, certainly looked like a professional golfer, even if he didn't necessarily hit the ball like one.
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The wet weather at Monday's Ninth Annual Peabody Golf Day at Salem Country Club didn't seem to bother Jack Sullivan (left) as he putted out on the 18th hole. The conditions may have played a part, however, in George Hennessey (right), the former Peabody High golf coach, missing a putt on the 11th.

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Broome explained with a big grin while enjoying a hearty sandwich at the luncheon. "I'm going to have to go home and have it exorcised or something. I played well with my irons, I stayed in the middle of the fairway, but I couldn't putt to save my soul.
"This is my second year playing the course. It's a great time and it's a chance to meet your neighbors."
Unfortunately, Broome had to let his next-door neighbors win because he had to ride home with them.
"Actually," he said, "Maybe I should have tried to win because it's only a 15-minute walk."
Broome considered this to be the opportunity of a lifetime for any golfer.
"I have friends of mine who I tell about this and they want to move to Peabody just to play here once a year," he said.
Credit has to be given to the Salem Country Club for genuinely reaching out to the community.
"We feel very special that we can be involved in the community affairs within Peabody," said Robert P. McCormack, president of the club. "Not that we were the reason, but I understand that now the cities of Beverly and Salem are doing the same thing as us."
McCormack also praised the man who has been behind the organization of Peabody Golf Day.

"Over the past nine years, Joe O'Boyle has gotten the whip out and he's asked these volunteers to help out to make this day a success," McCormack said. "The commitment will always be there for the Salem Country Club to do our part to be part of the community of the city of Peabody."
Commitment to the community is the driving force behind the fundraiser.
"Back in 1995, we were celebrating our centennial just as the city was celebrating their bicentennial," explained the 83-year-old O'Boyle, a Salem CC member since 1967. "I was part of a committee that was brainstorming ideas for how to celebrate the club's centennial. Having a big mouth, I suggested that we try to do something community-related and the committee thought that was a great idea and they elected me chairman.
"We're going to put $21,000 in the bank from this year's tournament, so we're up to $184,000 [overall], and what we do is pay out the interest every year to the students so that if something happens for some reason and we have to discontinue the tournament, the students will still be able to benefit."
In addition to the scholarships, the club picks up all of the costs for the event, ensuring that every nickel goes to the community.

The Mayor of Peabody, Mike Bonfanti, does not golf, but was one of those attending the luncheon.
"I was here today to honor the two young people being given scholarships and also to show support for Salem Country Club for the good work that they do in having the Peabody Golf Day, which benefits the residents in two ways: to play golf on a private course and also to raise funds for the kids," Bonfanti said. "It's a real win-win situation."
The recipients of the George

Peabody Golf Day Chairman Joe O'Boyle (left) and volunteer Kathy Trainor shield themselves from the rain during Monday's event.

Memorial Scholarship Fund were Jessica Cyr and Jesse Correia. Cyr will attend the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth while double majoring in Portuguese and Political Science while Correia will be enrolling at Merrimack College.
"We had a great day as usual," added Peabody resident Tom Moran, who has played in all nine Peabody Golf Days.
"It's a great course and I can't say enough about it. We're lucky to be able to take advantage of it. It's nice of the club to do it for us and the kids."

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Big plays burn Pioneers
by Tom Jensen
LYNNFIELD - While the names and faces may change, the story remains the same. For the third straight year, the Lynnfield High School football team lost its opening game of the season in dramatic fashion. Saturday's 14-6 loss against Hamilton-Wenham at the Lynnfield Middle School was a mirror image of last year's 19-13 season opening defeat at the hands of Ipswich. In addition, the game marked the sixth win for the Generals over Lynnfield in the last seven years.
Lynnfield led 6-0 going into halftime thanks to quarterback Lou Navarro's one-yard QB sneak with 2:55 left in the first quarter that capped a nine-play, 67-yard drive. The rest of the game, however, belonged to the Generals' running back Ryan Herrick, who amassed 187 yards rushing on 15 carries and two scores.
Despite a huge game from tight end Andy Poor (above), Lynnfield dropped its season-opener on Saturday.
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"I thought Lou did ve well. He has some talent and we like him."
The Pioneers struggled with
going to work hard and hopefully have an even better outing next week [Saturday at home against North Andover at 11 a.m.]. We gave them a tough

"No doubt about it," Weinhold said. "He's had runs like that in every scrimmage that we've had. He's only 165 pounds but he's a tough kid; a mentally tough kid."
Adams also took notice of Herrick.
"That kid's an excellent runner," said Adams. "He's got some breakaway speed. The first one he popped free, which is very difficult to do. On the second one he broke two
tackles or maybe even three."
Lynnfield's defense stopped Hamilton-Wenham's passing game cold, as evidenced by Generals quarterback Jeff Jensen's one completion out of eight attempts for just nine yards. Generally speaking, making an offense become so one-dimensional is a key to success for the defense. But while the Pioneer "D" shut down the passing attack, it failed to contain Herrick.
"Our defensive backfield obviously covered them well," said Adams.

Herrick took his first handoff of the third quarter and broke it 80 yards as Hamilton-Wenham scored on its first offensive play of the second half to take a 7-6 lead. Seven minutes later, with only 25 seconds left in the third quarter, Herrick got the ball on 2nd-and-9 at the Lynnfield 46-yard line and broke two tackles before cutting back across
the field to scamper all the way to the end zone to give the Generals all the cushion they would need. "I hate to say it," r Lynnfield head coach Bill Adams said, "but it was the same thing in the opening game last year against Ipswich. One kid [Ipswich RB Rich Sotiropoulos] had two long runs in the second half and he scored three touchdowns against us."
H-W coach Bob Weinhold calls Herrick the emotional leader of his team.

Navarro hit WR Ricky Parziale on consecutive passes, which were good for 11 and four yards to put Lynnfield at the Hamilton-Wenham 49 yard line with 1:35 left on the clock.
But on 2nd-and-6, the senior QB completed an ill-advised pass to FB Nick Poti, who was stopped for a five-yard loss. After an incomplete- ion on 3rd-and-11, Navarro had his
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"They didn't hay a tremendous number of opportunities to even complete passes because we were around and knocking balls down."
Lynnfield safety Andy Poor made a key interception with 2:05 to go in the game to give the Pioneers one last drive to try to pull even.

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fourth down pass batted up into the air by linebacker Tim Puopolo and the ball landed into the hands of Herrick, who returned it all the way to the Pioneer 27-yard line.

Among the bright spots for Lynnfield was the play of co-captain Poor.

"I thought Andy Poor was immense," Adams said of the 6-foot-5, 210-pound Poor, who caught four passes for 62 yards from his tight end position. "With his height and athletic ability he made a couple of catches with the defense hanging all over him. He's a real nice all-around player. We feel that a healthy Andy Poor is probably the best tight end in the league and arguably one of the best players in the league."

Another bright spot was the punting of sophomore Tino Cohee, who buried H-W deep in its own territory with some terrific kicks, including punts of 42 and 50 yards.

While the Pioneers didn't win the game, they certainly raised some eyebrows. Hamilton Wenham coach Bob Weinhold said, "Lynnfield's going to win games this year. They're a physical team up front, their line is excellent, their linebackers are excellent and that quarterback has come a long way in a week."

It was Lynnfield's Navarro who looked like the experienced quarterback on the field. Though he threw two interceptions, Navarro finished the game 14-for-23 with 145 yards passing.

"I thought Lou did very well," Adams said. "He was pretty calm and he performed very well. He has some talent and the like him."

The Pioneers struggled with their running game due to the fact that running back Jamie Solomon was playing both ways for the first time in his career while nursing a muscle pull in his leg suffered earlier on in the week. Solomon finished with 31 yards on 12 carries. The performances of Poor and Parziale (five catches for 59 yards) prove that Lynnfield should put some points on the board this season and a healthy Solomon will only add to an offense on the rise.

On the defensive side of the ball, Lynnfield captains Derek Cataldo and Will Chiccarelli led the Pioneers in tackles with seven apiece.

"I'm proud of the kids' effort," concluded Adams. "Hamilton-Wenham is a good team. We're going to work hard and hopefully have an even better outing next week [Saturday at home against North Andover at 11 a.m.]. We gave them a tough game and I would like to hope that we earned their respect."

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VOLUME 47 NO. 42
OCTOBER 16, 2003

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Historic night for Pioneer football team
OCTOBER 16, 2003

Pioneers 'light up' Clippers
Night game debut produces first 'W' vs. Newburyport in 11 years
by Tom Jensen

LYNNFIELD - The Lynnfield High football team had never played a home game at night before. It also hadn't beaten Newburyport High in 11 years. Well, at least that was the story before last Friday night's 26-8 win against the Clippers that came under the lights at Lynnfield Middle School and improved the Pioneers' record 3-2.

"We wrote history tonight," said Lynnfield head coach Bill Adams, whose team decided to play the night game in order to give the players the day off on Saturday for SATs. "We made our own little piece of history. There has never been lights for Lynnfield football at home [before]. Tonight, it was a total team effort, and we have to give credit to coach [Matt] Cunningham, who 20-something points on the board for the first time in a long time."

The Pioneers shined right from the start, as their defense forced two Newburyport turnovers in the first quarter, opening the door for their offense to score touchdowns on three of their first four drives to start the game. Lynnfield controlled the tempo of the game right from the start, a stark contrast to their previous game, a 32-12 turnover-
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Senior Chris Stivers turns the corner during his team's 26-8 win over Newburyport Friday night under the lights at the Lynnfield Middle School.

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second quarter."

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the game with a pulveriz-
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yards. After a four-yard run by Solomon, who finished with 88 yards on 20 carries, Navarro found pay dirt with a six-yard scramble giving Lynnfield a 7-0 lead.
Navarro (3-for-6 for 64 yards) led another Lynnfield scoring drive after Pioneers' defensive back Andy Poor intercepted a Kevin Sullivan pass on Newburyport's 19-yard line. The and returned it back to the 6-foot-5 Poor reeled in a seven-yard TD pass from Navarro three minutes later to increase the Pioneer lead to 13-0.
"We think Lou is an excellent quarterback," said Adams. "He's got great courage and determination. The touchdown pass was good evidence. It was a nice fake, he waited and he had a nice target [in Poor] and he drilled him."
The Lynnfield running attack racked up 185 yards on 38 carries and scored three touchdowns on the night. Midway through the second quarter, with Lynnfield already up 13-0, it took Solomon just three carries to bring the Pioneers from their own 42-yard line all the way into the end zone.
After a bruising 13-yard run in which he overturned two defenders, Solomon took a pitch 43 yards up the right sideline down to the Clippers two-yard line and then scored up the mid-dle on the next play.
The Pioneers scored their final touchdown on 5-foot-8, 180-pound fullback Nick Poti's 42-yard TD run in the third quarter to up the lead to 26-0 "Solomon's] a kid we've seen

"We made our own little piece of history."
- Lynnfield head coach Bill Adams

for three years and I've just seen him get better and better," said Guadiano, whose team mus-tered just 95 yards from scrimmage on the day.
"He's bigger and stronger now and he runs real hard."
"We're big fans of controlling the clock and controlling the way the game is played," acknowledged Lynnfield line-man coach Ed Unger. "If we're able to do that then we feel we can muscle up on almost any team in the league. We could see Thursday night that the kids were pumped up when we prac-ticed under the lights. They were just ready to go."
"The fact that Newburyport has beaten us 11 straight years showed up in one newspaper," said Lynnfield defensive coordi-nator Joe Papagni, "and we kind of used that as motivation say-ing, 'we don't want to live his-tory; we want to make history.'"
On this historic night, the only offense that Newburyport was able to manage was a fourth-quarter, 34-yard TD run by Sullivan, who completed just one of his six pass attempts for 10 yards. Poor and Conklin had interceptions while Poti, Chiccarelli and linebacker Justin Motta each recorded a sack on the night.

Ryan Sheehan, Chiccarelli, and unheralded senior lineman Nick Fringueli led the Pioneers with four tackles apiece. Senior Jeff Adelson also chipped in with three tackles.
"Adelson has helped us out on defense," said Unger. "We rotate in a lot of guys and he gives the starters a lot of rest. He's really worked himself into a player this year."
"Our defense was fantastic, and except for Wilmington, has been all season long," said Adams, whose Pioneers will once again be playing under the lights this week, only this time at Amesbury on Friday in a 7 p.m. kickoff.
"I can't be too disappointed with the score being what it was. It was about the only thing that they accomplished."

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VOLUME 47 NO. 43
OCTOBER 23, 2003

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by Tom Jensen

AMESBURY - The Lynnfield High football team improved its record to 4-2 at the expense of Amesbury High last Friday night with a hard fought 13-0 shutout victory.

After clinging to a precarious 6-0 lead for most of the second half, Lynnfield senior Jamie Solomon intercepted a pass with 21 seconds remaining in the game and returned it 20 yards to the end zone to ice the victory. Lynnfield has now shut out Amesbury two straight years and has outscored the Indians 62-6 during the last three seasons. Overall, Lynnfield has won five straight meetings and eight of the last nine.

"We came out a little more determined [after halftime]," said Lynnfield head coach Bill Adams, whose defense has allowed less than 10 points per game this season. "We played good defense and we took charge of the second half. Our defense has gotten tougher and tougher."

After a scoreless first half, the Pioneers got a huge defensive stop midway through the third quarter. On 4th-and-2 from the Pioneer 24-yard line, senior linebacker Ryan Sheehan burst through the middle of the line and stopped Amesbury running back Evan Therrien just short of the first down marker.

Lynnfield proceeded to drive 76 yards behind the accurate passing of Lou Navarro (3-for-3 on the drive for 38 yards), who hit wide out Ricky Parziale on a key third down completion. Solomon, who accumulated 111 yards on 23 carries, scampered into the end zone on a pitch to the outside from 17 yards out with just 14 seconds left in the third quarter to break the scoreless tie and give his team a 6-0 lead.

"That was a real crucial drive in the second half," Adams said. "That was some great passing by Lou Navarro [4-for-7 for 48 yards on the night] and Solomon really came to play in that second half. He ran like a man in that second half."

[Navarro's 23-yard completion to Parziale] was just a big play," concurred Amesbury coach Tom Connors. "It was 3rd-and-13 and we were in the right coverage but we got beat. If we could have kept them out of the end zone that time then you never know what could have happened."

The Pioneers failed to capitalize on three consecutive possessions inside the Amesbury 30-yard line to open the game. Pioneer junior defensive back Sam Hummer intercepted an E.J. Flannigan pass during the opening series to give Lynnfield good field position at midfield. However, the Indians defense forced a Navarro incompletion on 4th-and-7 at the Amesbury 27-yard line.

On the Indians following possession, Lynnfield senior lineman Nick Fringuelli sacked Flannigan for an eight-yard loss on 3rd-and-4 at the Amesbury 25-yard line to force an Amesbury punt. Once again, Lynnfield was able to get yards, but not points. A 32-yard run by Solomon brought the ball down to the Amesbury 36-yard line and put the Pioneers in good position to tally their first score, but the offense couldn't deliver.

"Mike Griffin is only a second-year player," said Adams, who needed his line to step up with the injury to linebacker Justin Motta (foot). "[Griffin] is doing a strong athletic bid and our plays later, it was the Indians who came away with a big stop when Solomon was stood up on 4th-and-2 deep inside Amesbury territory. Lynnfield caught another break.

The Pioneers head into a bye week this week with good spirits, but will have to face four-time defending CAL champs, the

OCTOBER 23, 2003

Stingy Pioneers head into bye week with 4-2 record

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"Mike Griffin is only a sec-
ond-year player," said Adams,
who needed his line to step up
with the injury to linebacker
Justin Motta (foot). "[Griffin] is
a big, strong athletic kid and
he's learning more and more as
we go along. Last year he only
played offense. This year he's
coming through. We're driving
him to make him better. Mike
Griffin grew up in the second
half. He's staying lower and
he's taking more control at the
line of scrimmage. He's getting
better and better every week."

The resilient Indians, howev-
er, still had a chance to pull out
the win with two minutes left in
the game and a little more 80
yards to go. On first down from
the Amesbury 16-yard line,
Parziale read the eyes of
Flannigan and stepped in front
of his ill-advised pass to put the
Pioneers back in the driver's
seat. The Indians defense
stopped Lynnfield's offense
cold and, miraculously, took
over on downs with 21 seconds
left, still needing to go 80 yards
for a potential game-winning
score before Solomon ended
the game with his dramatic
interception.

"We knew that Lynnfield was
a senior-laden team and we
knew that they were big up
front," said Connors, whose
team fell to 2-4. "They were
inviting us to run up inside and
that's what we did. We've been
playing good defense all year
and we thought that we played
good defense again tonight.
This is exactly what we expect-
ed for a game. We were hoping
to come out on the other side of
the scoreboard!"

The Pioneer 'D' stepped up
time and time again in the
fourth quarter after securing the
late third quarter lead on
Solomon's TD run. When it
mattered the most, the Indians
could manage only a 21-yard
drive, their longest of the game,
against the stingy Lynnfield
defense.

Behind a power running game
and the legs of Solomon and
Stivers, Lynnfield was able to
eat up almost five minutes of
the clock in the fourth quarter
before being forced to punt
from midfield with just under
two minutes to play.
Mike Griffin (12 tackles),
Sheehan (nine), defensive back
Andy Poor (eight) and Stivers
(five) all helped Lynnfield con-
trol the line of scrimmage in
what was a classic battle of two
power running games.

Four plays later, it was the
Indians who came away with a
big stop when Solomon was
stood up on 4th-and-2 deep
inside Amesbury territory.
Lynnfield caught another break
when they sniffed out a little
Amesbury trickery and stuffed
Flannigan's running attempt on
a fake punt on 4th-and-5 from
his own 30-yard line to open up
the second quarter. Running
back Chris Stivers, who fin-
ished with 42 yards on 10 car-
ries, brought Lynnfield down to
the Amesbury 16-yard line with
a 13-yard run, but Flannigan
saved his Indians with an inter-
ception of a Navarro pass near
the goal line to evade anoth-
er Lynnfield scoring opportuni-
ty.

The Pioneers head into a bye
week but will have to face four-
time defending CAL champs,
Pentucket (4-2), in their final
home game on Saturday, Nov. 1
in a 2 p.m. start.

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"We're very committed to each other," acknowledged Brendon, a junior at UMass-Amherst majoring in comparative literature. "I'm coming back from school these weekends to come and watch Sean wrestle his senior year. I came back for as many football games as I could without affecting my grades too terribly. We go out there and support each other

The newest members of the Lynnfield High Wrestling Hall of Fame are, from left,
Sal Gesamondo, Chas Ryan, Brendon Reed and Luke Kimball.

Common Ground
Wrestling Hall of Fame inductees share similar traits
by Tom Jensen

LYNNFIELD - The
Lynnfield High wrestling
family inducted four
members into its Hall of
Fame last Friday night,
sparking a 54-30 win in a
dual meet against Shep-
herd Hill.

Brendon Reed and
Chas Ryan, both 2001
graduates were inducted
along with 2002 team-
mates Luke Kimball and
Sal Gesamondo. The
induction, originally estab-
lished in 1988, recognizes
wrestlers who have placed
on the state, all state or
New England level.

"I'm really proud of
their accomplishments as
wrestlers," said Lynnfield
coach Craig Stone. "But I
am more proud of their
accomplishments as
young men. When people
ask you why you teach or
why you coach those are
four reasons right over
there.

"As a coach, you're
always looking to see
who's coming up, who's
going to have the opportu-
nity to help you out...the
light at the end of the tun-
nel, so-to-speak. They not
only provided the light, but
they provided the direc-
tion. They were great role
models; they worked real
hard and that work ethic
filtered down to everybody
else.

"We've had 25
wrestlers that have placed
43 times at the state level
and in a small school the
size of Lynnfield, which is
the smallest school in the
North Shore that wrestles,
that's quite a testament to
what's going on here."

The ceremony was
originally slated for Janu-
ary 15, but was postponed
due to frigid weather con-
ditions. The makeup date
offered a new twist to the
festivities as Brendon
Reed, who is tied for
fourth in Lynnfield history
with 105 career wins,
watched on while his
younger brother Sean, a
senior heavyweight and
brother's win total with a
first period pin. Brendon
was a two-time Cape Ann
League Champion in 1999
and 2001 and runner up in
2000.

Mission (54-5), Gardner (18-12) and
Hanover (42-37) and
improved to 12-8. Freshman Nick
Vardaro won two matches at 103
pounds and his pin against
Hanover clinched the win as his
match. Reed was the lone triple
winner for Lynnfield while Mike
Smith (119), Stringi (130),
Iacopino (160) and Motta (215)
were double winners.

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The Reeds' wrestling roots can be traced back to Vinny, a 1997 graduate and the first Reed to be inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame.

"My brother Vinny started wrestling," explains Sean Reed, the senior tri-captain who is 25-1 this year and 105-46 in his career, which places him 18 wins behind Lynnfield High School graduate Randy Greenstein, the school's all-time leader in career wins with 123. "And then Tony [a 1999 Lynnfield High School graduate who fell one win short of joining his brothers] kind of got into it and I went to their matches a lot. "I would have to say that Brendon was the best wrestler among all of the Reeds. Three times he's wrestled at states and three times he's placed...that's tough."

Kimball, a two-time state-place finisher who wrestled as both a 135 and 145-pounder, also comes from a wrestling family, first being exposed through his older brother Matt.

Kimball, a business administration major at Merrimack College, said "I think that when you put yourself around great people that only great things are going to happen. With Coach S., Coach W. and all of the other wrestlers there was a formula for success and it was fantastic. It just goes to show, I won just four matches as a freshman and as long as you keep putting in that work and keep showing up you are going to be successful. I almost quit as a freshman. I didn't understand the process of putting in the hard work and appreciating the time that it takes to improve. "To be in the Hall of Fame with guys like Chas, Sal and Brendon is just unbelievable," continued Kimball, who ranks ninth all-time in career wins with a record of 86-61, "I don't think it's too far of a reach for anybody because I was nothing when I started. As long as you show up, you're committed and you put in the effort then you're going to be successful."

The postponement of the ceremony also allowed Shepherd-Hill's wrestlers a chance to see the induction of Gesamondo, their assistant coach, who is seventh on the career wins list with a record of 95-41. Gesamondo, who presently plays baseball at Nichols College, illustrated his coach's point about the importance of good teammates.

"Luke Kimball not only was a great co-captain with me, but he's also one of my best friends. I think that he was half of my success, especially at states. I would have been knocked out in the second round. I had a tough match, but Luke gave me the good old 'get tough and if you lose I'm going to beat you up' so I had to get tough."

Ryan, a junior majoring in business at Suffolk University, explained that wrestling "gives you skills in so many different ways. You come and you're working out for yourself, you want to be the best you can be, but at the same time you're working out for your team. There are no excuses out there on the mat. If you lose then you're going to be your fault...nobody else's.

"I played football, where you have 11 other guys on the team," said Ryan, who was a state finalist at the 171-pound level as a senior and finished his career 73-40, which places him 11th all-time. "If you lose then there's a couple of other guys to point your finger at. Here, it's all you. You didn't work out in practice; you missed an opportunity, it shows you how to take responsibility!"

Lynnfield wrestling coach Craig Stone on his new Hall of Fame inductees

'I'm really proud of their accomplishments as wrestlers, but I'm more proud of their accomplishments as young men.'

In addition to Sean Reed's win, the Pioneers also got victories Friday night from Andrew Iizkowitz at 112 pounds, Chris Spinelli at 125, Dave Stringi at 135, senior captain Chris Stivers at 145, Fabio Iacopino at 160, Dan Arsnow at 171 and Justin Motta at 189.

On Sunday, the Pioneers swept a quad-meet with wins over New Mission (54-5), Gardner (18-12) and Hanover (42-37) and improved to 12-8. Freshman Nick Vardaro won two matches at 103 pounds and his pin against Hanover clinched the win as his team trailed 37-36 entering the match. Reed was the lone triple winner for Lynnfield while Mike Smith (119), Stringi (130), Iacopino (160) and Motta (215) were double winners.

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NOVEMBER
2 Steve Schedin
5 Jesse Conklin
7 Louis Navarro
12 Mike Parziale
13 Ricky Parziale
20 Nick Poti
29 Derek Cataldo
30 Sam Hummer
33 Chris B.
34 Jamie Solomon
35 Jared Polansky
Senior 35 Andrew [?] M/R/DE Junior

INDEX

Social Club Race
Baseball
Golf Day

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Football
Football
Football
2 St
5 Je
7 Louis Navarro QB/DB Junior TE/DE Soph. 72 Nick Frinquelli
12 QB
13 Nicky Farzian QB/P
20 Nick Poti
29 Derek Cataldo FB/LB Junior 54 Paul Humphries T/DT Junior 77 Gaven Josi T/NT Soph. 1990 N. Bowling

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2002 Lynnfield High Pioneers

2 Steve Schedin WR/DB Senior
5 Jesse Conklin WR/DB Junior
7 Louis Navarro QB/DB Soph.
12 Mike Parziale QB Junior
13 Ricky Parziale QB/DB Junior
20 Nick Poti FB/LB Junior
29 Derek Cataldo FB/LB Junior
30 Sam Hummer HB/DB Soph.
33 Chris B. HB/DB Senior
34 Jamie Solomon TB/DB Junior
35 Jared Polansky (capt.) FB/LB Senior
44 Matt Talis (capt.) FB/LB Senior
45 Justin Belio TE/DE Soph.
50 Trevor Schwartz C/DB Senior
52 Justin Motta G/LB Junior
53 Jeff Adelson G/DT Junior
54 Paul Humphries T/DT Junior
57 Will Chiccarelli G/DE Junior
59 Andy P. C/N Soph.
65 Joe Gehret (capt.) T/DT Senior
66 Nick Francucci C/DE Soph.
68 Ryan Sheehan G/DT Junior
70 Joe Lamusta T/DT Soph.
72 Nick Fringuelli G/DE Junior
73 John O'Donnell T/LB Senior
75 Mike Griffin T/DT Junior
76 Garrett Tsui T/NT Soph.
77 Sean Reed T/DT Junior
80 Joe Poti WR/DB Senior
81 Chris Stivers WR/DE Junior
83 Andrew Guralnick WR/DB Senior
85 Andy Poor TE/DE Junior
89 Mike Petrillo WR/DB Senior

Thanksgiving Day Results
1959 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1960 Lynnfield 22 N. Reading 6
1961 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 6
1962 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 0
1963 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 16
1964 Lynnfield 14 N. Reading 0
1965 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1966 N. Reading 3 Lynnfield 2
1967 N. Reading 7 Lynnfield 0
1968 N. Reading 20 Lynnfield 12
1969 Lynnfield 19 N. Reading 0
1970 Lynnfield 42 N. Reading 14
1971 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 6
1972 Lynnfield 38 N. Reading 8
1973 Lynnfield 30 N. Reading 14
1974 Lynnfield 12 N. Reading 7
1975 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 12
1976 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1977 N. Reading 30 Lynnfield 0
1978 N. Reading 21 Lynnfield 8
1979 N. Reading 13 Lynnfield 6
1980 N. Reading 7 Lynnfield 6
1981 N. Reading 20 Lynnfield 15
1982 Lynnfield 26 N. Reading 6
1983 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 7
1984 Lynnfield 26 N. Reading 7
1985 Lynnfield 13 N. Reading 0
1986 Lynnfield 27 N. Reading 6
1987 N. Reading 16 Lynnfield 6
1988 Lynnfield 26 N. Reading 24

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HEAD COACH BILL ADAMS

2003 CHEERLEADERS: Bottom row from left: Alexa Guiffre, Katy Selvitelia, Danielle Nolan, Athene Hennesse. Second row: Erica Piper, Selena Donovan, Sandra Smyly, Alison Nobil, Cailin McClaud, Cristina Lynch. Third row: Meredith Milordi, Lauren Zebniak, Jess Ferrara, Allie Lange. Top row: Sarah Inglese, Caroline Rourke, Ann-Marie DeLuca, Brittany Milordi.

1986 Lynnfield 27 N. Reading 6
1987 N. Reading 16 Lynnfield 6
1988 Lynnfield 26 N. Reading 24
1989 N. Reading 28 Lynnfield 14
1990 Lynnfield 14 N. Reading 13
1991 Lynnfield 27 N. Reading 10
1992 Lynnfield 7 N. Reading 0
1993 N. Reading 34 Lynnfield 14
1994 N. Reading 47 Lynnfield 20
1995 Lynnfield 14 N. Reading 0
1996 Lynnfield 22 N. Reading 0
1997 Lynnfield 23 N. Reading 7
1998 N. Reading 28 Lynnfield 6
1999 N. Reading 28 Lynnfield 12
2000 Lynnfield 29 N. Reading 23
2001 N. Reading 21 Lynnfield 6
2002 N. Reading 13 Lynnfield 12

Totals:
Lynnfield: 28 wins
N. Reading: 16 wins

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Thanksgiving Football 2002
NOVEMBER 27, 2002
PEABODY & LYNNFIELD WEEKLY NEWS • [number removed]

Winning attitude captures Pioneers
Resurgent Lynnfield heads into Turkey Day showdown brimming with confidence
By Gary Trask
They may be the smallest team - both literally and physically - in the Cape Ann League, but the 2002 Lynnfield High Pioneers proved just ask Wilmington, North Reading or whoever else is on the schedule. Or even dare take the Pioneers lightly if a were to face them again this weekend.
Part of the reason for Lynnfield's turn-around is that they are expected to not only play well, but to win on the road against the four-game defending league champion.
The Pioneers, who are 4-5 overall heading into Thanksgiving Day, are no longer a pushover.
Just ask Wilmington, North Reading or whoever else is on the schedule. Or even dare take the Pioneers lightly if a were to face them again this weekend.
Part of the reason for Lynnfield's turn-around is that they are expected to not only play well, but to win on the road against the four-game defending league champion.
The Pioneers, who are 4-5 overall heading into Thanksgiving Day, are no longer a pushover.

Vengeful Lynnfield seeking elusive .500 mark
By Gary Trask
The Lynnfield High football team has a pretty good idea what North Reading is going to do on offense when the two teams meet on the turf at the Lynnfield Middle School.
"It's going to be emotional... I've been anticipating this game for four years now," Lynnfield senior Chris B.
The problem is that the Pioneers aren't sure if they can stop the Hornets coming the other way. They're going to line up and run right at you, and they really don't do anything that we weren't expecting. We just couldn't stop it. We have to play more disciplined on defense if we want to win."

"It's going to be emotional... I've been anticipating this game for four years now,"
- Lynnfield senior Chris B.
3rd annual meeting between the two schools, 21-6, on the strength of talkback. John Murphy's 231 rushing yards and two touchdowns. If you watch the film of last year's game, you know the North Reading front was better than ours. We had to have our offense playing well to move the ball.

LYNNFIELD-NORTH READING
The Pioneers are 1-1 in the CAL Hornets third-year coach, whose team is 1-1 in the CAL Hornets third-year coach,

PIONEER FOOTBALL
Junior Jamie Solomon (top) carried a good portion of the offensive load this fall for Lynnfield while seniors Matt Tails (bottom left) and Chris B. (bottom right) were both key two-way players. (photos by Greg Mironchuk)

OFFENSIVE STUD
Jamie Solomon
The Pioneers got equal production from both Solomon (573 yards on 118 carries, 5.09 yards a carry) and Chris B. (509 yards on 111 carries. Three TDs) this season. But it was Solomon, who is also the team's place-kicker, who had a knack for the big play, scoring three of the biggest touchdowns of the entire season.
Against North Reading, who have a knack for 7-6 game with a 10-yard TD run with just over four minutes remaining and, with B. hobbled by a pulled leg muscle, carried the ball 24 times. He averaged 4.6 high 483 yards. He followed that per-

"Jamie really worked hard this year to improve his quickness and his strength," said Lynnfield head coach Bill Adams of his 5-foot-8, 173-pound junior back that has been the hub of Coach Chris B. (509)
"He's got that natural cutting ability that you can't teach and he's very explosive. I would expect him to be one of the top backs in the league next year."

2002 Lynnfield High Pioneers
2 Jesse Conklin WR/DB Senior
5 Louis Navarro QB/DB Soph.
7 Justin Motta QB/DB Junior
12 Mike Parziale QB/LB Junior
13 Nick Poti QB/LB Junior
20 Derrick Cataldo FB/LB Senior
30 Sam Humner HB/DB Senior
33 Chris B. HB/DB Senior
34 Jamie Solomon TB/DB Junior
35 Jared Polansky (capt.) FB/LB Senior
44 Matt Tails (capt.) FB/LB Senior
45 Justin Belio TE/DB Soph.
50 Trevor Schwartz G/LB Junior
52 Justin Motta G/LB Junior
53 Jeff Adelson G/LB Junior
54 Paul Humphries HB/LB Junior
57 Will Chiccarelli G/DB Soph.
59 Andy P. C/N Soph.
65 Joe Gehret (capt.) T/DT Senior
66 Nick Francucci TB/DB Soph.
68 Ryan Sheehan C/DE Soph.
70 Joe Lamusta TE/DB Soph.
72 Nick Ringuelli T/DE Soph.
73 John O'Donnell T/DT Junior
75 Mike Griffin T/DT Junior
76 Garrett Bui T/DT Junior
77 Sean Reed WR/DB Senior
81 Chris Stovers WR/DB Senior
83 Andrew Guranick WR/DE Senior
85 Andy Poor TE/DE Senior
89 Mike Petrillo WR/DB Senior

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Thanksgiving Day Results
1959 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1960 Lynnfield 22 N. Reading 6
1961 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 0
1962 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 16
1963 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 0
1964 Lynnfield 14 N. Reading 0
1965 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 2
1966 N. Reading 3 Lynnfield 2
1967 N. Reading 20 Lynnfield 12
1968 N. Reading 20 Lynnfield 12
1969 N. Reading 19 N. Reading 0
1970 Lynnfield 42 N. Reading 14
1971 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 8
1972 Lynnfield 38 N. Reading 14
1973 Lynnfield 30 N. Reading 7
1974 Lynnfield 12 N. Reading 7
1975 Lynnfield 16 N. Reading 0
1976 Lynnfield 6 N. Reading 0
1977 N. Reading 30 Lynnfield 8
1978 N. Reading 20 Lynnfield 6
1979 N. Reading 13 Lynnfield 6
1980 N. Reading 7 Lynnfield 6
1981 N. Reading 20 Lynnfield 15
1982 Lynnfield 26 N. Reading 6
1983 Lynnfield 20 N. Reading 7
1984 Lynnfield 13 N. Reading 0
1985 Lynnfield 13 N. Reading 0
1986 Lynnfield 27 N. Reading 0
1987 N. Reading 36 Lynnfield 0
1988 Lynnfield 28 N. Reading 13
1989 Lynnfield 28 N. Reading 0
1990 Lynnfield 28 N. Reading 20
1991 Lynnfield 27 N. Reading 10
1992 Lynnfield 7 N. Reading 0
1993 N. Reading 34 Lynnfield 14
1994 N. Reading 47 Lynnfield 20
1995 Lynnfield 14 N. Reading 0
1996 Lynnfield 22 N. Reading 0
1997 Lynnfield 23 N. Reading 6
1998 Lynnfield 14 Lynnfield 6
1999 N. Reading 28 N. Reading 12
2000 Lynnfield 29 N. Reading 23
2001 N. Reading 21 Lynnfield 6

2002 PIONEER CHEERLEADERS: Bottom row (from left)
Captains Jen K., Sandra S., Nicole N.. Middle
row (from left) Krista G., Jen S., Christina
A., Andrea S., Erica P.. Top row (from
left) Caroline R., Alison N., Cali D., Ann
Marie D., Sarah I.. (Missing from photo
Ashley C.)

HEAD COACH BILL ADAMS

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Hearing on retired teachers' health insurance proposal Monday night

by Robert Curtin

LYNNFIELD - The Board of Selectmen will take up the issue of whether to switch retired teachers' health insurance from the state Group Insurance Commission to the town plan on Monday, August 11.

The selectmen will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the Lynnfield High School media center.

The committee to proceed the meeting was proposed by selectman William Gustus at the July 23 meeting.

Gustus said that while the town and state plans differ in some respects, the town plan is generally equivalent to and in some respects better than that plan retired teachers now have. He urged retired teachers to review the plans to best suited their particular needs. That to end, Gustus mailed a detailed report on the provisions of the state and town plans to all retired teachers.

Chairman of the Board of Selectmen Robert Whalen said it is the board's intention to vote on the matter after the hearing but during the same meeting.

The hearing will also include a vote of the retired teachers present; although state law requires that vote, it is not binding of the Board of Selectmen.

To make the change from the state to the town system, the Board of Selectmen would have to rescind the 1972 acceptance of a local option of state law.

At the July meeting, Gustus selected that when the town moved in 1972 retired teachers were moved to the state system, insurance-wise. Since that time, the state has increased the cost of insurance to the town.

Recently, however, the state has increased deductibles and co-payments for insurance for retirees and increased the percentage retirees must pay for one type of plan. "Currently, teacher retirees pay more in copays and deductibles than town employees and retirees," said Gustus.

The recent changes by the state Group Insurance Commission, effective July 1, have retirees now paying 100 percent of the Medicare Part B premium, which is a portion of the state's managed care plan. Of the town's retired teachers, 71 are enrolled in this plan. As a result of the change, said Gustus, retirees on this plan went from paying 12.5 percent of the overall premium to 27 percent. Another change requires retirees to pay the entire difference in cost between generic drugs and brand-name drugs if their physician requires the brand name.

For years, retired teachers paid less for health insurance than did town employees and retirees. "That situation was reversed over the last few years," said Gustus.

The state, in sharing the cost, also cut the town's share of retiree health insurance costs and a higher rate.

Gustus said that both the state and the town plans offer Blue Cross/Blue Shield products, and while the benefit packages offered may differ in certain respects Gustus noted that the differences could make one plan preferable to another for individuals, based on their specific needs. But he said that on the whole, the town plans are equivalent to, and in some cases better than, the state plans. "In many cases, the town plan is superior," he said.

Teachers at the July meeting thanked the selectmen and Gustus for taking the time to share the details of the proposal, but were concerned that the board in the future would reduce the town's share of premiums in the future unilaterally.

INSURANCE
continued on page 6

SUNDAE BEST: Angela Borsell helps a youngster with her sundae during the recent children's ice cream party at the Lynnfield Library. photo by Ray Wellman

LET Calendar, featuring student artwork and all school dates, now on sale

LYNNFIELD - The Lynnfield Educational Trust Calendar is now available.

This 13-month (September 2003-September 2004) calendar provides information to all Lynnfield residents and includes holidays and school vacations, school activity and conference dates, organization meetings and town-wide event.

The calendar is part of the LET fundraising efforts to support educational programs, projects and services.

Last year, the LET reported an increase of more than 25 grants included the Easy-to-Read Book Collection at Huckleberry Hill and Summer Street. Highlights include a presentation on "Abigail Adams" at the Revolutionary Mom at Middle School, and a Press conference entitled "Up at Night" at Lynnfield High School.

Once again the LET has increased the overall size of the calendar, which features an array of art, photography and computer graphics from all Lynnfield school system.

The LET calendar can be purchased for $10. All profits from the calendars will go to funding grants for enhancing the educational experience at Lynnfield Public Schools. The calendars are now available at the following locations: Lynnfield Public Library, Lynnfield Post Offices (Center and Post Office Square) and Village Pharmacy.

LET CALENDAR
continued on page 5

Tree planted at LHS to be dedicated to memory of Kimberly Cochrane

LYNNFIELD - Friends of Kimberly Cochrane, a 2001 Lynnfield High School graduate who died in a car crash on July 5, of last year, will hold a tree-planting ceremony in her honor on Sunday at 11 a.m.

A tree will be planted at the rear of the High School, on Essex Street, near the soccer fields on which she played.

The tree will include the dedication of the tree, with a plaque to be placed in the ground near it, in Kimberly Cochrane's memory.

The 19-year-old in the Northeastern University freshman had been an outstanding student-athlete at Lynnfield High School. She was the daughter of Bob and Vicki Cochrane.

COCHRANE
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Births................................... 19
Classifieds......................... 20-22
Dining & Entertainment...... 17
Home & Garden................... 19
Letters to the Editor........... 4, 8
Police Log........................... 2
Real Estate......................... 23-28
Religious Notes................... 18
Senior Spotlight................... 5
Sports.................................. 11-16
Weddings & Engagements... 3
Weekend Dining &
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Sports
Rain can't dampen Peabody Golf Day
Ninth annual event at Salem Country Club is a 'win-win' for everyone involved
by Tom Jensen

PEABODY - Jack
Kondichook owns a t-shirt
that reads: "If it goes right
it's a slice. If it goes left,
it's a hook and if it goes
straight it's a miracle!"
Many of the participants
at Monday's Ninth
Annual Peabody Golf
Day, at Salem Country
Club, would probably
agree with that same sen-
timent.
Kondichook, along with
255 other Peabody resi-
dents, woke up early on
one morning in July on
registration day just to be
part of the Monday's fes-
tivities.
"I haven't missed a year
yet," said Kondichook.
"It's fantastic. This whole
place is beautiful. I used
to caddie here when I was
a kid. The girl that signed
people up recognized me
since I'm first in line
every year. I arrived at
Town Hall at 4:30 in the
morning."
pled with the $75 dona-
tion that includes a lunch-
eon and the use of a golf
cart, seems like a small
price to pay in order to
play a private club that is
ranked among the Top 75
in the entire country.
Although it rained this
year for the first time in
the event's history (the
morning flight was
delayed 10 minutes), it
didn't seem to dampen
anybody's spirit.
"It's just awesome," said
Peabody resident Bill
Bombaci of the Donald
Ross layout. "It's a beauti-
ful golf course and they
keep it in fabulous condi-
tion. Last year the weather
was steaming hot and
humid all day. It really
was a great day today.
"The first hole is a great
hole. You're hitting from
The wet weather at Monday's Ninth Annual Peabody Golf Day at Salem Country Club didn't seem to both-
er Jack Sullivan (left) as he putted out on the 18th hole. The conditions may have played a part, however,
in George Hennessey (right), the former Peabody High golf coach, missing a putt on the 11th.
nice view. The hardest
thing that we found is the
greens. Everything else is
pretty much wide open,
but getting onto the
greens, and once you're
on the green, is pretty
tricky."
Jack Dunn, who worked
at the club during the U.S.
Women's Open in 1984,
had the right attitude con-
cerning the non-competi-
tive fundraiser. "Today
can be described as a nice
walk in the woods ruined
by a white little ball," he
said. "I used to play a lot,
but I haven't played in
about five years. A lot of
the greens are pretty
treacherous, but we did
pretty good on the 13th
hole."
The 13th is a 340-yard,
par 4 considered to be the
club's signature hole with
its bowl-shaped fairway
and spectacular green.
Ben Crenshaw, who
played here in the 2001
U.S. Senior Open, consid-
ers it to be one of his
favorites in the world. Of
the 400 courses and some
7,000 holes that Ross is
credited with, the 13th is
widely recognized as one
of his best ever.
like a professional golfer,
even if he didn't necessar-
ily hit the ball like one.
"I've got all the
PEABODY GOLF
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Gagnon wears Open crown Friday night
Peabody resident Meadow title football to

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concept
circle of theory

[Main text]
Close your eyes for a second, I promise this won't hurt. Okay, now I want you to picture the people in this world whom you really care about. The way I do it is to think of it this way: I am Noah and God has just come down to me this afternoon and he told me that the flood is coming. Only this time it is raining chickens.

"Tom," God says, just as the wrinkles of his eyebrows begin to lift, "You're a good human yourself, but quite frankly, I'm just not impressed with the way things are turning out lately. I think it's time to start over...again."

"Well, Mr. God," I respond very straight-faced as I look up at him, "I can't say that I much blame you for feeling that way. To be honest, I would have sent a flood down back in the eighties."

"You know, Tom, I sure came pretty close after the Reagan Administration took over. It would have given a whole new meaning to 'trickledown economics.'"

On that note, God cut through the chase and told me that I had to build a chicken coup.

"Tom," God says, "Here is what you must do...you must gather together all of the good people you know. Once you have selected them you must build a giant chicken coup. The largest chicken coup ever made by man. This is your 'circle,' and this 'circle' will protect you from the chickens so that they can't come in and get you. These chickens will destroy all of the other humans in the world.

Tom, are you up to the challenge?"
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"Yes, God" I responded. But just then my eyebrows slowly began to rise.
"Excuse me, Mr. God? I only have one question..."
"Yes, Tom," God answered me before I even asked him in the spoken word. "You can still eat chicken."
"Thank you, God. You know chicken's my favorite."
Okay, this is the circle/chicken/Noah theory: Happiness on earth is achieved through the avoidance of conflict. Because we have never been free of conflict, we have never been happy. Most of us, anyways. The circle theory involves eliminating any person in your life who causes you to be unhappy. Now, of course, we're not talking about killing anyone, just simply placing them on the outside of your circle. Almost every relationship has some tension in it at certain times. That is part of being human. The circle theory applies to those individuals who constantly act in an abusive and ill manner towards you. Those whom you shudder at the sound of their name, and yet are "forced" to interact with them. Do not continue to spread conflict- avoid them.
Precious few people realize the impact that stress and conflict can have on an individual. And what do you call a collection of individuals? How about a town, a state, or even a nation? If individuals continue to interact with other individuals who cause them conflict then the negative effect is doubled. There is stress placed, not only on you, but to the other person as well. Think of it this way: When you are with someone who continually wrongs you, conflict is created. Not only are you being wronged, but you are also reinforcing a negative action. You are telling that person that it is okay to treat you badly. Therefore,
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that person will "learn" that it is all right for him or her to continue to act in a
manner that causes conflict. And conflict leads to unhappiness. By placing a
person outside of your circle you are attempting to make the person realize that
he or she is not treating you as he or she would want to be treated. This is "The
Golden Rule" and the basis of organized religion. The circle theory does not
preach -- it creates action, causes change and generates reflection.
The circle theory has numerous other benefits as well. Most of us will
admit that often there are not enough hours in the day. Everything in life is a
trade off. The first day of class in Economy 101 you learn about guns and butter.
You can't produce for all your needs and desires so therefore you are forced to
chose one or the other. Guns or butter. Conflict or avoidance of conflict. People
you love or people you dislike. The circle theory allows you to focus more of your
time, energy and resources on the people whom deserve it. The time you have
gained, now that you have place the said individual(s) out of your circle, may now
be spent on either the people inside of your circle or be used to find new
members of your circle.
I assume that God would want us all to maximize the effectiveness of our
ability to help others. I also think that God would want us all to live in this world
and really make a difference. I picture God coming down and saying, "Hello Tom,
this is God. I would like to see you go out and help out your fellow neighbors in
this world. Your neighbor is your brother - go out there and make this world a
better place to live in." And just then those big, old, eyebrows would start to bend
up again as God's nostrils would start to flare out just a little.
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"Oh yeah, and by the way, shave that little patch of hair under your chin. It
looks like shit."
"Okay Mr. God, I will. Oh yeah, sorry about the chin thing. Bye."
"See you in six years, oops, I mean decades."
I picture God as being funny. The circle theory isn't very funny but it will help you
have more fun, as well as help you help out those you are close with. You can
only spend so much of your time, energy and resources helping others. When
you create a circle of people who are your family by choice then you focus your
attention on a smaller group of people. If you had a million dollars, do you think
that you could make more of a difference in this world by giving everybody you
ever met a dollar? Or do you think you might do more good if you gave ten
people a $100,000? Or maybe twenty people $50,000? Perhaps, if we added to
this question the fact that maybe you don't like some of the dollar people very
much, yet you love all of the $50,000 people and you really love the $100,000
people. Is it still a hard choice?
The definition of marriage from Noah Webster, himself:
MARRIAGE:: 1.) The institution whereby men and women are joined in a
special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and
maintaining a family. 2.) An intimate or close union. (Webster's New Collegiate
Dictionary. G.&C. Merriam Company. Springfield, Massachusetts. 1973.)
Marriage is the formation of a family by one's choice - unless you are from some
very un-American-like country where marriages are arranged. You are free to
choose your spouse. As new combinations of husbands and wives form new
families are created. So one's legal family, or family tree, is always rooted in the
---
soil of choice. Therefore, the essence of a family is based on choosing which
individual you allow into your circle. The symbol of marriage is, of course, a
circular-gold ring. This is why the circle theory makes sense.
There are some cases in which present family members must be placed
outside of your circle. When members of your family are concerned, the key to
effectively using the circle theory is politeness and avoidance. When you see
them, be polite; yet send them a clear message. Tell them that they are treating
you as they would not want to be treated (Exodus 20). The idea is that when you
can back up your action (which will be avoidance) with the Golden Rule that
organized religion is based on, then there is little that the de-circlized family
member can say or do. Tell them that your circle never acts as a wall but only as
a defense against unhappiness. Let them reflect on why you feel this way. If they
truly love you then they will alter their behavior in order to create a peaceful
coexistence. And you let them back into your circle. If not, then I guess they flew
the coup.
If everyone adopted the circle theory as his or her mantra then human
society would achieve an almost utopian-like state. Individuals would avoid
conflict with those who caused them unhappiness, as well as teach people to
treat others the way that they, themselves, would want to be treated. The circle
theory allows its subscriber to spend more quality time with loved ones and it
also gives users a feeling of importance in life because they are in charge of their
own circle. Even the meekest of the meek can feel like they have power. This
circular theory, based on the principal of family by choice, transcends both
---
religion and race as there are no limitations on who you can let into your circle.
And above all else, the circle theory will save you from the chickens!

1512

THE CIRCLE THEORY by Tom Jensen

Close your eyes for a second, ! promise this won't hurt. Okay, now 1 want you to picture the people in this world whom you really care about. The way ! do it is to think of it this way: 1 am Noah and God has just come down to me this afternoon and he told me that the flood is coming. Only this time it Is raining chickens.

"Tom," God says, just as the wrinkles of his eyebrows begin to lift, "You're a good human yourself, but quite frankly, I'm just not impressed with the way things are turning out lately. I think it's time to start over..again."

"Well, Mr. God," ! respond very straight-faced as I look up at him, "I can't say that 1 much blame you for feeling that way. To be honest, I would have sent a flood down back In the eighties."

"You know, Tom, ! sure came pretty close after the Reagan Administration took over. It would have given a whole new meaning to 'tnckledown economics.'" On that note, God cut through the chase and told me that I had to build a chicken coup.

"Tom," God says, "Here Is what you must do...you must gather together all of the good people you know. Once you have selected them you must build a giant chicken coup. The largest chicken coup ever made by man. This is your 'circle,' and this 'circle' will protect you from the chickens so that they can't come In and get you. These chickens will destroy ail of the other humans in the world. Tom,
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are you up to the challenge?"

"Yes, God!" responded. But just then my eyebrows slowly began to rise. "Excuse me, Mr, God? 1 only 'have one question..."

"Yes, Torn," God answered me before I even asked him in the spoken word. "You can still eat chicken."

"Thank you, God. You know chicken's my favorite."

Okay, this is the circle/chicken/Noah theory: Happiness on earth is achieved through the avoidance of conflict. Because we have never been free of conflict, we have never been happy. Most of us, anyways. The circle theory involves eliminating any person in your life who causes you to be unhappy. Now, of course, we're not talking about killing anyone, just simply placing them on the outside of your circle. Almost every relationship has some tension in it at certain times. That is part of being human. The circle theory applies to those individuals who constantly act in an abusive and ill manner towards you. Those whom you shudder at the sound of their name, and yet are "forced" to interact with them.

Do not continue to spread conflict- avoid them.

Precious few people realize the impact that stress and conflict can have on an individual. And what do you call a collection of individuals? How about a town, a state, or even a nation? If individuals continue to interact with other
---
individuals who cause them conflict then the negative effect is doubled. There is
stress placed, not only on you, but to the other person as well. Think of it this
way: When you are with someone who continually wrongs you, conflict is
created. Not only are you being wronged, but you are also reinforcing a negative
action. You are telling that person that it is okay to treat you badly. Therefore,
that person will learn" that it is all right for him or her to continue to act in a
manner that causes conflict. And conflict leads to unhappiness. By placing a
person outside of your circle you are attempting to make the person realize that
he or she is not treating you as he or she would want to be treated. This is "The
Golden Rule" and the basis of organized religion. The circle theory does not
preach - it creates action, causes change and generates reflection.

The circle theory has numerous other benefits as well. Most of us will
admit that often there are not enough hours in the day. Everything in life is a
trade off. The first day of class in Economy 101 you learn about guns and butter.
You can't produce for all your needs and desires so therefore you are forced to
chose one or the other. Guns or butter. Conflict or avoidance of conflict. People
you love or people you dislike. The circle theory allows you to focus more of your
time, energy and resources on the people whom deserve it. The time you have
gained, now that you have place the said individual(s) out of your circle, may
now be spent on either the people inside of your circle or be used to find new
members of your circle.
---
I assume that God would want us all to maximize the effectiveness of our
ability to help others. I also think that God would want us all to live in this world
and really make a difference. I picture God coming down and saying, "Hello
Tom, this is God. I would like to see you go out and help out your fellow
neighbors in this world. Your neighbor is your brother - go out there and make
this world a better place to live in." And just then those big, old, eyebrows would
start to bend up again as God's nostrils would start to flare out just a little.

"Oh yeah, and by the way, shave that little patch of hair under your chin. It
looks like shit."

"Okay Mr. God, I will. Oh yeah, sorry about the chin thing. Bye."

"See you in six years, oops, I mean decades." I picture God as being
funny. The circle theory isn't very funny but it will help you have more fun, as well
as help you help out those you are close with. You can only spend so much of
your time, energy and resources helping others. When you create a circle of
people who are your family by choice then you focus your attention on a smaller
group of people. If you had a million dollars, do you think that you could make
more of a difference in this world by giving everybody you ever met a dollar? Or
do you think you might do more good if you gave ten people a 3100,000? Or
maybe twenty people $50,000? Perhaps, if we added to this, question the fact
that maybe you don't like some of the dollar people very much, yet you love all of
the $50,000 people and you really love the $100,000 people. Is it still a hard
---
choice?

The definition of marriage from Noah Webster, himself:

MARRIAGE:: 1.) The institution whereby men and women are joined in a special kind of social and legal dependence for the purpose of founding and maintaining a family. 2.) An intimate or close union. (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. G.&C. Merriam Company. Springfield, Massachusetts. 1973.)

Marriage is the formation of a family by one's choice - unless you are from some very un-American-like country where marriages are arranged. You are free to choose your spouse. As new combinations of husbands and wives form new families are created. So one's legal family, or family tree, is always rooted in the soil of choice. Therefore, the essence of a family is based on choosing which individual you allow into your circle. The symbol of marriage is, of course, a circular-gold ring. This is why the circle theory makes sense.

There are some cases in which present family members must be placed outside of your circle. When members of your family are concerned, the key to effectively using the circle theory is politeness and avoidance. When you see them, be polite; yet send them a clear message. Tell them that they are treating you as they would not want to be treated (Exodus 20). The idea is that when you can back up your action (which will be avoidance) with the Golden Rule that organized religion is based on, then there is little that the de-circlized family member can say or do. Tell them that your circle never acts as a wall but only as
---
a defense against unhappiness. Let them reflect on why you feel this way. If they
truly love you then they will alter their behavior in order to create a peaceful
coexistence. And_you let them back into your circle. If not, then I guess they flew
the coup.

If everyone adopted the circle theory as his or her mantra then human
society would achieve an almost utopian-like state. Individuals would avoid
conflict with those who caused them unhappiness, as well as teach people to
treat others the way that they, themselves, would want to be treated. The circle
theory allows its subscriber to spend more quality time with loved ones and it
also gives users a feeling of importance in life because they are in charge of
their own circle. Even the meekest of the meek can feel like they have power.
This circular theory, based on the principal of family by choice, transcends both
religion and race as there are no limitations on who you can let into your circle.
And above ail else, the circle theory will save you from the chickens!

1512

A-

Buckly's Quest:
(a.k.a. the retiring of Tony C's 25)

Tom Jensen
HIS 415
Mr. G.
April 24, 2003
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Here is the premise of my argument against the retiring of Tony
Conigliaro's number: The Red Sox have only retired five numbers in their ninety-
plus year history and the numbers that Tony C. put up while he was healthy are
not as good as comparable Red Sox Hall of Fame and number retiree hopefuls
Jim Rice and Dwight Evans. In a nutshell, Tony C. was a baseball player with an
incredibly high ceiling who was tragically beaned in the prime of his career,
resulting in his career being shortened and ultimately finished. Cincinnati Reds
first baseman Tony Perez has been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and
had his jersey retired by the Reds. Take a look at the statistics and pretend
you're the general manager of a team looking to make a big trade. If you could
trade for just one of these four players which one would you want? What if you
could retire just one of their numbers, who deserves it the most?
Jim Rice played in Boston for 16 years and Dwight Evans for 18. Tony C.
was here for just over six seasons. Will I be angered if the Red Sox retire Tony's
number? No, not at all. I would actually back the retiring of his number if the Sox
had about five of the following names/numbers up there right now: Cy Young,
Babe Ruth, El Tiante, Wade Boggs, Jimmie Foxx, Lee Smith, Jim Rice, Fred
Lynn, Dwight Evans, Duffy Lewis, Waite Hoyt, Johnny Pesky, Luis Aparicio, Tom
Seaver and of course, Lovable Lou Merloni.

Exhibit A: 162 game averages for Jim Rice, Dwight Evans, Tony Conigliaro and
Tony Perez:

Statistics Key:
batting average on-base percentage slugging percentage total bases runs
hits doubles homersuns runs batted in stolen bases walks strike outs
at bats

- "one season" (written next to "Tony C. put up...")
- "one season" (written next to "Luis Aparicio, Tom")
- "not the player" (written next to "Lovable Lou Merloni.")
- "An unfair comparison. All had longer careers. All had 100 hrs @ one season? Explain!!" (written in the bottom left margin)
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162 game averages:
AVG OBP SLUG TB R H 2B HR RBI SB BB SO AB
Rice .298 .352 .502 320 97 190 29 30 113 4 52 110 638
Evans .272 .370 .470 263 91 152 30 24 86 5 86 105 559
Tony C. .264 .327 .476 283 86 157 26 31 95 4 53 116 596
Tony P. .279 .341 .463 264 74 159 29 22 96 3 54 109 570
Best: JR DE JR JR JR JR DE TC JR DE DE

Exhibit B: honorable mentions:
voted times leading
times voted gold within top career league in
an All Star gloves ten for MVP homeruns RBI's home runs
Rice 8 0 6 382 43rd 1451 46th 3
Evans 3 8 0 385 41st 1384 57th 1
Tony C. 1 0 0 166 516 1
Tony P. 7 0 4 379 47th 1652 19th 0

I do not think that the Red Sox should retire Tony Conigliaro's number.
This statement is not a reflection on statistics or longevity, but almost solely
based on the Red Sox ninety-year policy of exclusivity. Only five players in
almost a hundred years? Babe Ruth isn't in? I am sorry, but I believe that players
who have awards (Cy Young) and adjectives (Babe Ruth) named after them
deserve to have their number or name on the wall of the team that they played
for. I simply cannot enshrine Tony C. when so many other more deserving
players are kept out. If the Red Sox suddenly put up the numbers of Clemens,
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still playing!
Boggs, Rice, Evans, Lynn, Pedro, Manny and Nomar on the wall then I will hoist
up Tony's 25 myself. But until that day comes, I will continue to be against it until
more numbers are retired.
I must observe the fact that all of the interviewed people have read or
heard my thoughts on the subject and may have been slightly to dramatically
influenced by them. Thank You.
Mark Connolly is a 27-year-old electrician from Lynnfield and long time
Red Sox fan. Mark believes that, "Tony C. was a great player for the Sox and his
number should definitely up there." Mark agrees with the fact that, "[Tony C.] He
should be up there along with Boggs, and Evans. Clemens should never go up
there, though. Ruth neither. They're Yankees and we hate them!" I can see his
point. "Because Tony C. was a home grown player, it adds even more reason to
put him up on the wall," Mark argues. "I can see your point on not putting him up
alone without some other players, but just get him up there!" Okay...
Robert Jensen is a local carpet cleaner and has been a cynical Sox fan for
almost fifty years. "I think that Tony C. should be up there and I will go along with
your idea to not put him up there by himself. I think that Evans, Rice and Lynn
belong right up there with Carlton Fisk. If Fisk passed the requirements then I
see no reason to wait on some of his teammates. Tony was a hell of a hitter and
it was a real tragedy that he got beaned. The Sox mighta won one had Tony
never been hurt." True, true.
Dan Aaronson is a twenty-eight-year old student at Framingham State
College and is a transplant from New York. A lifelong Met fan, Dan would have
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never have been interviewed had he loved all things Yankee. Dan feels that,
"Tony C., from what I know, was a really young kid when he came to Boston. He
had some pressure on him with all the history of great Sox outfielders that
preceded him. He would have been right up there with anyone had his career
lasted longer. However, since you said that the Red Sox have only retired four or
five numbers in their career, I think I might agree that they need some more
numbers up there before Tony's. Put him in and put in Rice and Evans and
maybe Boggs - he's kinda a jerk so maybe they should wait a few more years.
Definitely leave Boggs out if he goes to the Hall in pinstripes." Rock on Dan!
So there you have it... Put in Tony C. but make sure that you don't forget
Dewey and Jim.

Tommy,
You pose a very good argument as to why
#25 should not be retired. Well done!

I must admit that this whole graduation thing is a fraud (no, not a Freud). I may be receiving a fancy Latin phrase and the same pretty whatever-colored tassel that my fellow English majors receive, but deep down inside I know that I am really a History major who just loves to write. I have had such sneaky suspicions before ever taking this literary criticism course - though surveyish in its nature as it may be - but it has cemented my uncertainties into truths. Thank you Salem State English Department.

When undertaking the discussion of literary criticism I am always sure to bring two tools with me: Number One- my dictionary, which helps me decipher such phrases as: spatiotemporal coordinates (P.552), concomitant utilization (P.549), and typical double-accented, double-styled hybrid construction (P. 426). Noah never intended this, but I digress... Number Two: my sleeping pills, which help me stay awaking during seemingly endless tirades over the Rule of Hyperdense Intertextuality as it applies to the assumption that any intertextual connection is interpretively relevant. I now know that any perceived overlap, no matter how small, is sufficient justification for claiming an intertextual connection in the first place (P. 143). My goodness!!! This material for discussion may appeal to some social circles out there somewhere but it AIN'T here (see, I am a history major at heart). Just a square peg and a round hole.

I can certainly appreciate the fact that there is a place in this world for literary critics and many various schools of thought. However, my problem is that literary criticism reminds me more of a private school than a public one - with each school screaming out from atop of their soapbox about how much greater their religion is than the next guy's. It's religion mixed with politics and there is simply nothing worse in this world than that unless it starts raining NASCAR/Wrestling fans. Seriously, it's no joke. I have found that my belief in using a lone specific interpretative style is similar to my beliefs about organized religion and political parties: I can't yet say that there is any single one of them out there that I put my full faith in. In fact, many comparisons can be drawn between the various literary schools of thought (formalism, psychoanalytic criticism, etc) and the numerous political parties of America (The Green Party, Democrats, etc), not to mention organized world religion (Christianity, Buddhism etc). Let me expand on this idea...

Although we constantly seek to see the world in black and white, life - and all that encompasses it - is filled with shades of gray. Eerily, my beliefs about literary criticism overlap my ideas on religion, which, conveniently, border upon my views on politics. Let us draw some parallels, shall we? This is my idea of literary criticism:

First, let's start with the Formalists. New critics remind me of Republicans in the sense that they are very pro-war. They start fights with all of the other schools of criticism (just ask the deconstructionists what they think of the central
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unity of the text). Formalists are big businessmen - and their business is in the pre-mentioned centrality of the text. With Republicans, money is everything. New critics practically disregard all other factors except for the text. They don't want to pay taxes to search for other ways of critiquing literature. They think that they have found the secret to interpretation and if you differ in opinion then they send a missile in your general direction. They're the big boys on the block that everybody loves to hate. Their religion is that of Bahai - for the Bahai believe that a single world government will be led by the Bashai at some point in the future. The leader of New Criticism will be holding the sacred text at the head of the procession while leading the way to a world controlled by the Bashai formalists.

Next come the Biographical / Historical Critics. These guys are definitely Democrats and are greatly resentful of the Formalistic Republicans. They want to jump outside of the text and make connections between the author and the author's life and times and how that influences the text. These Democrats don't believe in the big business of the text and want to put the power back in the hands of the people. They're not concerned with money because they believe that time is money - and if you search throughout history...then you're sure to find plenty of time. Historical and Biographical Critics believe in education and the school system like good Democrats do and they absolutely adore History lessons. These guys pay the extra taxes in doing extra reading so that they can draw parallels between how the ideologies held within the time period of the author's life helped shaped to the text. When it comes to religion, Historical Critics are probably Jewish. They don't need a savior to rise from the dead to show them how to interpret a text. To them, the first and only testament they need is a big old history book. They worship history in a big way.

Psychoanalytic Critics are the Christians who are trapped within the tormenting torture of accepting original sin. To them, their unconscious desires are Adam's apple. How unknown thoughts manifest themselves through an artist's art is their intriguing mystery. They would be having a good old time in the garden if not for the ego, super ego, id and subconscious mind. They truly carry the cross when it comes to speculation, much like the faith that these Christians have in Heaven. If they had a platform then they'd probably end up joining the Prohibition Party since they're very radical in their belief of rejecting time honored traditional ways of critiquing literature. The psychoanalytic critics practically seek to prohibit prohibition as they attempt to repress, project, displace, deny and reverse the desires of the author, the reader, or the characters. So, sit down and tell me about your forefathers....

Reader Response Critics worship at the altar of Sikhism. RRC's are sick and tired of all the names, phrases, and jargon typically associated with literary criticism. Just as the Sikhists believed in a single, formless god with many names, the RRC's skip all of the B.S. and go with what they know...themselves. Like the Sikhists, they're prohibited from worshiping idols or icons (i.e. other schools of thought). They focus on how the reader brings the literature to life
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opposed to the author or the text inciting the response. Actually, they're more like atheists because they don't believe in the text being god as the Formalists do. They're their own god. Hey, that's a good point. So, let us agree not to disagree that RRC's would appear to resemble Sikhists with serious reservations regarding the status of their own faith. That would be a more accurate depiction. They seek an ideal response that is shared by others - try imagining a room full of Beatles fans listening to Imagine being sung by John Lennon. That works. That's them. RRC's idea of a political party is the Libertarian Party. Libertarians aren't on the left or the right; they maintain a complete laissaez faire ideology in regards to the economy. Chiefly, they're concerned with total individual liberty. The RRC's don't worry about being caught up in " the big game" of literary criticism. They know they exist and they know Descartes existed. That's all they need to take stock in. They can find all the answers inside of themselves. Yeah, that's definitely an atheist.

Next in line come the Feminist Critics. Yes as a matter of fact, they are towards the bottom of the list because I'm a guy. But I digress... The feminists are Confucianists at heart. Confucianism seeks to deal with morality, ethics, and the proper exercise of political power. These are all issues that the lit crit chicks will scratch and claw to the death over. The feminist critics are fighting to be at their rightful place atop of the equal high ground with the great men of the literary world. Or what does that famous t-shirts say about what Confucius says about sh.... More digression, sorry. If feminist critics were members of any organization then it would have to be the Green Party. Not just because they've always been green with (Freud's penis) envy of men - but because they're kind of out there in their own little isolated world. Just like Ralph Nader. They have that single-minded theme thing going on. Where Nader wanted to make all of the tree-hugging hippies happy while killing AI (no war, bore) Gore's chances to disgrace the country in his own personal way, the feminists just want revenge, er, respect. Just don't forget that the females had a lot of obstacles in their way. Some patriarchal hierarchies can sometimes be difficult to overcome.

Deconstructionists like to walk around with fat bellies because they're all Buddhists. Buddhists don't need a savior (such as Freud to psychoanalytic theory), they don't believe in any particular type of god (such as history or the centrality of the text) and they attain a state of Nirvana by releasing all attachment to desire and the self. Deconstructionists, actually Reform Party members who often like to deconstruct things, find their Nirvana in the undecidedability of all texts. Contradiction is their mantra, binary opposition their Heaven and formalism their idea of hell. Deconstructionists are members of the Reform Party because they took a look at the institution of formalism and wanted to deconstruct it. Ross Perot doesn't care about many social issues but he's a real stickler against organic unity.

Marxists critics decided to create a new party and, since they've never had much creative energy when it comes to naming things, they decided to call it the
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New Party. Much like the political institution in America that goes by the same name, Marxist critics push the idea that literary texts are products of work that does identifiable cultural work of its own. Just as Marxists critics believe that literary works reproduce, resist and revise cultural beliefs and ideologies, the New Party seeks to advance social, economic, and political progress in America. The New Party doesn't find its own candidates -- it just endorses the ones that it likes. Marxist critics are big believers in Taoism since Taoism is a combination of philosophical and psychological writings, by Lao-Tse, in his attempt to end the constant feudal warfare. Taoism preaches planning your action in advance in order to achieve a desired result with minimal effort. Marxism attempts to analyze the effect of literature on culture and we know what effect the right literature can have when read at the right time. See Paine's Common Sense, Hitler's Mein Kampft and God's Bible.

The followers of New Historicism remind me of the America First Party, that group of Pat Buchanan disciples who are religious right wing nuts obsessed with themselves. They might as well be believers of Islam since the history book represents all five of their pillars. When they kneel to pray it's towards the local public library or nearest museum of history and not Mecca. Only it's not Pat Buchanan -who's even eviler than that certain chairperson over in Meier Hall - whom they believe in - they worship (fill in famous historian here) and yet reject Jesus... Go figure...

So that sums up what literary criticism means to me. If I go by my conversion chart: I am an atheist... so that makes me a reader response critic according to what I have written above. I have to agree that I would tend to fall into that category. I am also a Democrat by nature so that makes me a Biographical / Historical Critic. As I stated in my introductory paragraph, I am a history major inside. I also agree that this is a match. Amazing. Simply amazing! Does your conversion correspond as well as mine did? I just thought to test my alignment hypothesis right now and it was astrologically perfect. Hmmm. Can you get this paper published??? Test yourself for your criticism preferences.... I'm curious if it lines up for others as well. I spent about four or five hours matching everything up and drawing parallels. I had a ton of fun on this final process paper. I know it isn't typical of most of the papers you'd get for this assignment but I've never strived to blend in.

Here's the quick cheat chart:

Biographical / Historical
Formalism
Psychoanalytic
Reader-Response
Feminist
Deconstructionist
Marxist

Jewish
Bahai
Christianity
Sikhism / Atheism
Confucianism
Buddhist
Taoist

Democratic Party
Republican Party
Prohibition Party
Liberatarian Party
Green Party
Reform Party
New Party
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New Historicist
Islam
America First Party

My main point is that I am not the type of person to place all of my faith in any one institution and I would give the same advice when it comes to literary criticism. While they each have their strong and weak points, I tend to favor RRC the most, especially if the author states his intentions and the reader responds in a manner that is consistent with the author's intentions. I view Formalism in the dimmest light for its narrow-mindedness and lack of supporting material. I have grown to realize that I do not enjoy literary criticism and have found it especially difficult to get myself motivated to delve into literary conversation. I have made numerous attempts but continue to struggle. However, I did the best I could and have no regrets. I have blossomed in the sense that I know the meanings of most of the words that I wrote about. And you can't put a grade, a price or a number on that.

Thank you for all of your help and have a terrific summer,
Tom Jensen

THE BUSINESS PLAN

I want to join forces with a bar/restaurant to attract local musicians who want to come and make music from my poems/lyrics.

The idea is that I am an excellent poet/lyricist who has a YouTube channel that invites musicians from all over the world to create songs from my poems/song lyrics. People really love the idea and I have made 50 songs (35 of them really good!) so far.

However, I'm not making any money and getting famous and a record deal isn't something anyone can bank on no matter how much talent you have. So...how can I make a living off of my life's work?

I can sell hope. I can sell love. I can sell knowledge. I can sell the idea of getting famous...put videos of songs made at restaurant/bar up on my Youtube channel...

You can sell drinks...

It's a win/win situation where we can both mutually benefit: I need a place to write lyrics/make music/socialize/ get more active in the community/and make some money from all these years of writing. This economy is going to squeeze everyone - it's not getting better. People will always need to be entertained - together we can give them a dream of being part of something big...

I've got million dollar talent and I'm not overly greedy. I'm just looking for the right match - a believer in my talent who is in a position to help me. My YouTube channel unites
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people from all over the world...now I'd like to use myself as
a magnet for local musicians/talent.

PROMOTIONS

I have 400 CD's of songs made from my lyrics that I
can give away/sell.

I have a ton of awesome musical friends on Youtube -
there could be opportunities to do something like WEB CAM
JAMS (where the best musicians from other countries play
songs live on Skype over the webcam and we broadcast it
live over the Internet onto a screen at the restaurant/bar).

I can sell my book of poetry.

Themed T-shirts: LET'S GET FAMOUS or THE
SONGWRITER'S CLUB or something similar.

If my music ever does make it big time and I do get
offered a deal or something then part of the agreement can
be a buyout of my "contract" with restaurant/bar. Cha-ching.

Potential sponsorship could include music publishers,
book publishers, local businesses, advocates of
reading/music/creative art programs/ideas.

My idea is unique enough to warrant local media
attention at least...people LOVE the idea of my Youtube
channel. I like the idea of linking up with or starting a charity
as well.

KARAOKE NIGHT WITH SONGS
MADE FROM MY LYRICS !

Before Class Entry 3/27
MAJOR BLUES
Hemingway and his time has been interfering with my time.
I've read so many books lately I do believe I'm going blind
Conrad may have a heart of darkness but my light is always on 'cause I always reading
And Lady Macbeth is not the only one who's hands are bleeding
So aren't mine from the pages I've been turning
seems like the symbolism in Hawthorne is all I be been learning.
This week I'm into Edgar Allen Poe
But what the raven said I still don't know
Somebody called so I said hello
Seemed to be the man they call Othello.
I've been hearing about revolutions,
Darwin's evolution and even Mrs. Warren's prostitution
Even my poetry is now dead to me
I've been handed my sentence with an apostrophe!
With Am Lit one and Am Lit two, Shakespeare
and even English Lit two I don't know what I'm gonna do.
It's always reading and writing
Very little time for socializing
I've been at it for three years
I don't know why it's still surprising
But with every paragraph I pass
I feel a part of me dying
I got a major case of the blues

It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

Tom Jensen
Literary Criticism
February 11, 2004
Dr. S.
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Connection to
formalism

Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, "The individual has always had to struggle to
keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and
sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning
yourself."

At the risk of being guilty of the heresy of paraphrase, I do not think that even Mr.
Bob Dylan himself would argue that his intentions in the creation of his illuminating song
entitled, "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," were to emphasize the importance of
individualism while rejecting the herd mentality so prevalent in American culture. This
piece has clearly didactic intentions. But this critique is not concerned with the author's
intentions, nor is it interested in giving a history lesson on 1965, the year this song was
first heard. And for that matter, there will be no talk of hippies or crew cuts,

The title: "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" represents the ultimate form of
individualism and also acts as one of the motifs that help unite this piece. Your average
person would probably name this song: I'm in trouble ma (get me to the hospital,
QUICK!). Hence the title further emphasizes the fact that individualism is the key to
freedom from the 'rat race' that is society, or rather, the collective herd mentality of
society. Two motifs are present throughout this poem - the first concerns itself with
overcoming the herd mentality and seeking to find one's own individuality - and the
second motif deals with the ambiguous idea of the eclipse, both literally and figuratively,
in the sense that what is truly important is being forsaken for something that is not. These
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tensions run parallel and begin to blend into one another: thus validating the achieved
context of the text. The third motif can be found in the five refrains to 'Ma.'

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies 13
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.

The thirteenth stanza reflects the herd mentality of them. Them refers to those
people who have bought into the idea of commercialism (or a false god) and have ceased
to find the proper place in their life for aesthetics and other "non-profitable" (as far as
material worth) ideologies. The concept of art has been lost to this collective group.
Dylan uses this allegory of cultivating their flowers to illustrate how the simple beauty of
a flower is surpassed by the thought of personal gain and the accumulation of wealth.
These people, or them, would choose to cultivate an entire field of magnificent flowers in
the name of the mighty dollar rather than enjoy them in their natural state. They have
become jealous of the person who can appreciate the natural aesthetics of things in the
world without manipulating them for some type of personal or material gain. A flower
remains free in its natural state. Free and pleasing to the senses. Once it has been
separated from the root, a flower will die. Perhaps if art is commercialized it too will die.

What is
your
sense
of the
word?

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Why would a tongue catch fire? Perhaps the friction of talking too fast? But if one
were to speak that quickly then he or she certainly would not be able to fully comprehend
all that he or she was saying. Why else would a tongue catch fire? Perhaps the speaker
was telling lies or distorting the truth and fire acts as a form of punishment? I might argue
that this objective correlative holds the central theme of this piece of literature. I say that
one's tongue is on fire because he is gargling in the rat race choir. This one has
become part of the collective group that has lost its individuality and been "bent out of
shape from society's pliers." When one loses his or her individuality then he or she also
loses the drive to change his or her environment. If one was to gargle in the rat race choir
then he or she most likely become the victim of complacency, no longer seeking become
an agent of change for the better. Dylan shows through his first person point-of-view tha
these are the dangerous people.
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Transition?
define for your audience?
to
a
a separate sub topic (p.o.v.?)

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Adolph Hitler was once quoted as saying, "Confusion, indecision, fear: these are
my weapons." When an individual fears being ostracized from the group, that individual
will generally let him or herself be governed by the prevalent mob, or herd, {struck: mentality}. As
soon as somebody realizes that he or she is in danger of being criticized for being seen as
different from the group, he or she generally tends to acquiesce. Yet Dylan, through the
first person voice of the poem, rejects falling into "the hole that he's in." Dylan
understands (?)
both realizes and attacks this herd mentality. In stanza 17, Dylan proclaims that this,
"propaganda, all is phony," clearly building on the motif that what should be revered is
being eclipsed. Dylan refuses to be bound by these chains: believing that "it's alright ma,
if I can't please him." Two distinct groups of people are mentioned in the fifth stanza:
those who would seek to humiliate those to be put to death, and conversely, those who
hate hatred. In a sense, every member of society would most probably fall into one of
these groups, allowing this text to take on an almost mimetic tone. define
4
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Transition?
The first line of the song begins with the ambiguous line, "Darkness at the break
of noon," immediately drawing attention to the fact that the world in not as it should be.
If there is darkness at the break of noon then one is either vacationing in Alaska or else
which "Webster"?
there has to have been some type of an eclipse. As Webster states: the noun eclipse can
be defined as "the state of falling into obscurity or decline." The verb eclipse can also
mean: "to reduce in importance." The motif of the eclipse of morality is further
emphasized in stanza six. "Disillusioned words like bullets bark" illustrates the fact that
slow down
people who put their faith in false gods or idols (such as materialism, commercialism,
demagogues, etc...) become the cannon fodder of ignorance, hate and evil. See Adolph
Hitler. The use of the rhyme 'bark' also acts as a good example of onomatopoeia.
good

The highly ambiguous reference to "human gods" has several connotations: the
first being the idea of hubris - an exaggerated pride or self-confidence often resulting in
retribution. In one sense, Dylan -through his first person voice- is waiting for this
collective body of disillusioned people to be dealt with by some higher power.
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These people make both toy guns and flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark:
two material objects that teach completely conflicting values. Such as in the case with the
opening lines of the song that mention "the handmade blade, the child's balloon" -
Dylan is using the motif of contrasting objects with completely opposite meanings. He
does it again in the first stanza with the "sun and moon." The reader becomes aware that
society attempts to force an individual to choose allegiances with either the former or the
awk
latter. However, it is possible that he is giving the reader an epiphany into the fact that
both the blade and the balloon, as well as the glow-in-the-dark Christ and the toy guns,
were all made with the idea of strictly profit in mind without regard to any other
consideration. While Nietzsche says that it is the individual who becomes frightened and
lonely when attempting to struggle against the tribe, Dylan has already rejected the herd-
mentality and thus found his own individuality. To Dylan, it is the tribe who should be
afraid of retribution at the hands of some higher power. When comparing this piece to
Nietzsche's quote, one can sense the dramatic irony at work.
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OK - good
So even spirituality has been commodified?
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American society?
Dylan is familiar with the state of the world. He knows how corrupted and misled
society is. But he has faith in his ability to see past the dangerous collective mindset of
the culture he refuses to be dictated by. He will not conform, thus he is dodging people's
games. He has insinuated that this "game" that society plays and is also trying to get him
to play, has long been in existence. The "fools" are engaged in the game; yet this "wise
man" does not wish to "live up to" these standards.
is Dylan necessarily the "I" of the poem

Elbert Hubbard once said, "To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be
nothing." Dylan clearly is not afraid of his actions. He is doing something; he is standing
up to something he does not believe in. He is voicing his displeasure at the herd-mentality
and the deterioration of morality. In this poem, Dylan has become the antitheses of the
collective mob. Dylan is the one voice whom they cannot control, cannot conquer. It is
his book that the mob would wish to burn; his voice the one they would wish to silence.
again - is the necessarily the subject of the poem?
singular pl

An anonymous person (possibly Jim Morrison) once said that, "When others
demand that we become the person they want us to be, they force us to destroy who we
really are. It's a subtle kind of murder the most loving parents and relatives commit with
smiles on their faces."
To which Bob Dylan, though still bleeding, responded, "But it's alright, Ma, it's
life, and life only."
accurate verb tense?
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Biography of Tom Jensen

This book is dedicated to me. I lived it and breathed it and spoke it and seen it. I could have concocted a story so beautiful and courageous that people would have erected statues in my honor for it. Sorry guys and gals. Nothing but me.

Some people like writings which are very easy to follow. We are taught to worship law and order yet law and order strip us of freedom.. Welcome to non-chronological and illogical. You are lucky to get years let alone dates. Law and order takes away freedom. My friends, I'm here, there and everywhere. No rhyme no reason: well, actually there's a whole lot of rhymes and even more reasons but that will come beginning in the second sentence of my dedication and also the future. I have a job and I go to school and write poetry and attempt to be the nicest kid you know. Dedicating complete focus and attention is impossible - just ask my ex girlfriend.

A poetic life is so hard to lead
When distracted by sloth and greed
You just meet your need
As you pretend to succeed

Wear a false face
Make decisions in haste
When life quickens the pace
Just race the race

Finish first and someone must finish last
History teaches to remember the past
In the life we know the sun fades too fast
As soon as we turn the shadow's been cast

Let me tell you something friend, last night I didn't see any shadows. Pretty much coincides with a 4:00 AM walk home doesn't it? All in all a pretty memorable night. Started pounding Budweisers at 3:00 PM so you can do the math. The day began right on key. I painted seventeen walls during the day (Michael Angelo would have been proud) and all the while I was singing songs about which drugs I was going to be using later. I guess when it is a Friday and you have $86 dollars burning a hole in your pocket you begin having high expectations. Got out of work and by 3:30 I was well on my way. By 3:30 AM I was walking home in the freezing cold feeling a Hawaiian breeze at my back. I snorted a white line for every blue line on this paper. Right now after the 4 pills I ingested the keyboard is about half an inch from where it was yesterday and I'm a hell of a typer. I find myself often staring into oblivion as I sit in front of a computer screen that may be a little too bright. To make the story quick and easy

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I had two young mothers, 20 and 23, trying to test out a potential relationship
with me. One was too young and too heavy. The other was quite intriguing.
Anyways, I tried to stay straight again. I failed. Within the last hours the demons
spoke and I followed. Walking miles in the freezing cold to get to where I had to
go. Get it, got it, good! An unruly blend of physical and emotional dependence. I
just came back from the twenty year old's house.

She made the call and I made the fall
The perching sparrows have yet to sing of the coming of spring
I made the team but I dropped the ball
They made me the captain and I made myself king

Here I sit and write again
No further on then where I began
Memories became my future
Of self inflicted torture

With my Jell-O legs I'm glad I'm sitting
With heart on my shoulder I must not be kidding
I pride myself on my both the good and the bad
On what I'm seeking and what I've had

My life in a nutshell: a small window into the scene of my reality. After one
of the craziest nights of my life I was hopping to turn the page. I waited out the
hangover and put my time to good use. I started reading a book for college and I
had to read a chapter on addiction. Four pages into it I took some pills that I had.
Seven pages into it I was walking in the cold to meet my dealer. I've made up my
mind not to read anymore tonight. Something inside me gets triggered when I
see pictures of girls smoking hay bars and four lines of coke sitting on a mirror.
That was page 156. I made it one more page and it was all over.

I have to go to court ordered weekly alcohol classes and some of my
biggest times of weakness is when drugs and alcohol is brought to the forefront
and rammed down my throat, bled into my veins and shoved up my nose. Not
everyone can carry their cross all the way down to the end the road. I sometimes
wonder that if I was blind and deaf would I still have the urge to party? No
outside influences or passing temptations. See no evil, hear no evil. But I guess
we all have our crosses to bear.

Everybody's got something
When they got nothing
A little escape
A little freedom
A little something

To make the time pass

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But that time
Catches up to you
Especially when you feel
You have nothing to lose

I saw your eyes
And you knew that I knew
You held a fist full of nothing
A whole lot of something
A little this
A little that
A little booze

There are winners
There are losers
There are sinners
There are boozers

Night and day / heaven and hell / good and evil / god and devil - whatever
colorful and overdone metaphor you prefer we all have two sides. To me, it is all
about faith and temptation. I know the obstacle that I must overcome and I know
the ramifications of my own actions...There are two men on my shoulders:

When my baby said "You've got to chose"
I knew right there that she would lose
You see, I've never been good at multiple choice
Why do I always listen to the wrong little voice
I knew that that minute would be the last time I got to hold her
Two little guys at war, one on each shoulder
One is good and the other bad
The good one knew that I'd been had
This is the way they play their game
One-hundred to nothing and I'm to blame
Once and awhile I knock the bad one off
But he climbs back up and them he begins to scoff
"I know deep down inside that you want me to win"
"Who would care about angels surrounded by this world of sin?"
Maybe he's right...just what's the use?
But I'm still sick and tired from all his abuse

This is my life. America, as a whole, may be at peace yet America on an
individual basis (You and I, which represent America) we are always
strengthening our bunkers getting ready to fight. Drugs, sex, booze, dishonesty,
laziness, you name it. We are always fighting. There maybe a perfect world in up
in heaven among the clouds but in the world we live the cloud comes as fog.

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A PERFECT WORLD

The whole world's a fight I can't get no peace
My mind gets disrupted when it's at ease
Watching the sunrise is a long forgotten art
Feet so busy walking separate from the heart
When was the last time you noticed the moon?
I'm surprised you've forgotten so soon
There's so much more than what you've been told
Rise up in rebellion, could you be so bold?

This set pattern you follow is just one of their lies
A world lacking communion, only ME's and I's
Through competition our brotherhood has been broken
As no one's acknowledged these words that I've spoken
Everything, even people, filed by order and rank
Number one built the Titanic yet down it sank
There's still time left to return these ideas you've been sold
Rise up in rebellion, could you be so bold?

Some say if winning isn't everything than why keep score?
Those same people send other mother's sons to war
I could be like you or maybe someone else
One step towards them and one away from myself
Sometimes they see me and ask me "How I feel?"
I respond "A hamster on a rusty wheel"
If you feel trapped like a rat in this world so cold
Rise up in rebellion, could you be so bold?

I'll keep on fighting no matter what's in store
But at least I'll know what I'm fighting for
My own little peace and quiet in this world so vast
This world makes me dizzy because it's moving to fast
Round and round they go as they spin their wheels
Trying hard to keep their poker face on when the dealer deals
Stop going for broke when you'll win if you hold
Rise up in rebellion, could you be so bold?

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The brokers in the suits and ties walking down Wall Street
The ones with the diamond watches and their hair so neat
They get so stressed out playing all their Wall Street games
They get home and yell at their wives and forget their own kid's names
All for the love of money and nothing more
If they call that rich then you can call me poor
If they tell you the lie 'all that glitters is gold'
Rise up in rebellion, could you be so bold?

As I climb up the mountains or float over the sea
I find myself alone and contented and alive and free
No need to look at my watch or punch a clock
And I notice my feet when I go for a walk
It could be like this if enough people believe
Just as the wind blows a flower, I'm planting my seed
The time has come for us to break the mold
Rise up in rebellion, could we be so bold?

Let's talk about my hobbies: teaching people about life through poetry and
meant-to-be songs, schooling (3.7 GPA), being my own psychiatrist and all it
costs me is time and effort, making the world better a little at a time, sports, my
cat, my maintenance job as carpenter, painter and jack of all trades, my 60's and
70's music, and lots and lots of drugs and beer. In fact, the coke I'm on now
keeps making me feel like I have to piss so I type a sentence, get up and sit
down again. It is making me quite disturbed. I've been like this for hours. Have
you ever tried to get coke in a snow storm? Let me tell you, an over two hour wait
isn't exactly bad. Tonight the high of getting it was higher than the high of doing it
(although I'm not done yet). I've had a freaking feeling of "Knocking on Heaven's
Door" -- Bob Dylan - all night long. I'm almost afraid to do another line. The
positive thing is that it is 11:00PM and I've been drinking and snorting all night
and I'm still pretty coherent. At least the hangover won't be that bad for work
tomorrow. Hey, I just wrote five sentences in a row without pissing... Oh, speak
of the devil! Funny how the space between sentences in books can be seconds,
hours and days. A half an hour just passed between sentences and you'd never
know.

What is time? Is it a schedule meant to make the day difficult? Is it reality meant
to make dreams unreachable or is it just man's creation to assemble order and
balance? Whatever it is, it is running out on all of us. We've all heard of babies
dying so if they can pass then so can we. Listen, life is precious so don't waste it.
Life revolves around time which is a set amount of time. A set amount of time in
which you have less than total control over how long you remain breathing. Why
am I writing right now? Because sleeping is forgettable and anything but unique.
I have been compulsively obsessed with what my legacy will be since I watched
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some four hour documentary on Napoleon - the ruler and emperor of France you
know? Now that guy made history. Hell, every time I set the radio on the oldies
station ( my favorite, of course) I hear the overplayed, overappreciated noise of
some one hit wonder. To think that they will be remembered. It's a sham to think
that catch phrases rank higher than message and meaning to the common
public. I'm 22 and I already know that I'm gonna do something great as long as I
don't die in a drinking and driving accident or a drug overdose. The past is there.

My poetry is my dying word
Some think that at twenty one is sounds so absurd
But in my soul I know I'm fading fast
If I fall right now at least what's left will last

It is still early although far too late
The time has come so I no longer wait
They set the trap
I took the bait
Inside my own wilderness
I have met my fate

Team effort boosts Mallett in Social Club Race

by Tom Jensen

As printed in Peabody & Lynnfield Weekly News

July 10th, 2003 Edition

LYNNFIELD - Discipline, dedication and self-motivation are usually the words associated with competitive running. Teamwork, however, is a rarity, although it did play a role during last Friday's 36th annual Social Club Scholarship Road Race in Lynnfield.

Peter Mallett, a 20-year-old junior at the University of New Hampshire, recorded the fastest time at 15:41 while his fellow UNH training partner, Steve Meinett, finished just a second behind at 15:42 in the 3.1-mile race. But while Peter, an English major, was getting hosed off in the shade, Steve was just beginning to run the race a second time. Peter willingly acknowledged the roll that Steve, also 20, played in the race, "He gave me the win. His job was just to go out there and pull me. He's my training partner and he wanted to do another round. He's in a little better shape than I am right now."

Mallett and Meinett are two of the anchors of the cross-country team at UNH and generally run about 70 and 100 miles a week, respectively. Over the summer they try to run together twice a week. Steve Meinett's motivation for the race was not a selfish one,
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"[I was running] strictly for my buddy. I was helping him out. I told him before that I was going to do it twice. I'm thinking of doing a ten-miler so I wanted to go a little further. I figured I'll help him and then I'll just do it again." This win marks the third time that Mallett, a Manchester, NH native whose aunt lives in Lynnfield, has competed in this race. "Last year I was dehydrated and went out the back door. This year I used it as a tune-up race."

Meinett's selfless act personified a race in which the overall goal is to raise scholarship money for graduating seniors as much as lower finishing times. Meinett, a junior majoring in sociology, enjoyed running in Lynnfield for the first time but admitted that, "the second time was definitely tougher. I was feeling the heat."

As for the women's winner, it was up to Amy Wallace, whose younger bother Shawn had won the race the last two years yet had to sit out this year's with an injury, to defend the family name. With a winning time of 20:10, she did just that.

Originally from Wakefield, Wallace still had plenty of familiar faces surrounding her during the race, even though her brother was forced to watch from the crowd. "I'm here cheering on these guys. They're my idols," said Shawn, last year's injured winner.

Amy's older brother, Bill Wallace, a science teacher at Lynnfield High School, ran the race while pushing his daughter in a stroller. Amy's mother, Judy, also competed this year and said, "I am very proud of her. I am proud of my son who ran with my granddaughter, too." While Amy's mother didn't run last year
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because it was too hot, "I got up this morning and I said I
think it's okay."

26 year-old Amy Wallace, who graduated from Wake Forest on
a track and cross-country scholarship in 1999, has run this race
once before. "I ran faster last time and came in second. This
time I ran slower and came in first." Wallace, who lives in
Allston, presently works in a pediatrician's office in Boston
while she takes classes at Northeastern.

As far as Wallace's training goes, "I'm dedicated, I ran all
through the winter time when it was negative 10 degrees. Six
o'clock in the morning, every morning, and then go to the gym
after work. All you need to be a runner is tremendous self-
discipline."

As for the race itself, "I was running with a few guys for
awhile in a little group. Then for the last half-mile I was on
my own." Did Wallace ever peek over her shoulder to size up the
competition? "Never look behind you!" However, describing
herself more as a distance runner, Amy is looking forward to her
next race, "I'm definitely running Beach to Beacon up in Maine,
a 10K."

With 238 runners competing in this year's race the most
ever, Marianne Wronka, a Lynnfield resident who has worked 10 or
more races as a volunteer, was all smiles,

"Last year at this time [because it was so hot] we were
hosing people off [before the race]." The beauty of this race is
that you don't need to cross the finish line to be a winner.
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"The goal of this," Wronka says, "is that the money that we raise goes to the Lynnfield Couples Club Scholarship Fund."
The three graduating seniors receiving scholarships, all from Lynnfield High School, are Caila Nickerson, Sarah Gerbick and Richard P. Jr. Nickerson, whose mother is a teacher at LHS, is heading to Syracuse. Gerbick, a National Honor Society Member and psychology major, will attend UMass Amherst. You'll get to see Richard P. Jr., a business major, jogging with Peter and Steve at UNH.
School Superintendent Richard P. achieved the fastest time among male Couple Club members at 20:56 and Susan Beaulieu led the women at 27:01. Richard's wife, Jeannette P., a key organizer of the event, was also all smiles, "I think the race went really well, since it was cooler than last year I think that helped us achieve our biggest turnout to date and we're certainly looking forward to next year's race."
Peter Mallett's advice to anyone looking to take away his title next year: "Run a lot. Run everyday. And you better have trained harder than I did." Or at least as hard as Steve Meinett did?

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Best scene ever:
Guy walks into a gas
station and buys something
and asks for a 5 dollar
Ticket. The pretty cashier
asks him which one? He says,
"A winner, please." She smiles.
He says: "If I win
will you let me buy you dinner?"
She smiles and non-chalantly
answers; "Yeah, sure...
whatever..." Not taking
it seriously at all...
as soon as she hands him
the card he loudly proclaims
"I won" - he gives the unscratched
ticket to the woman in line
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[PAGE 2]
behind him and shows
a pre-planted crisp
hundred dollar bill
to the cashier,
smiles and
asks: "Where would you
like to go?"

It's at that Moment
She realizes it
was a big set up,
and involved
planning and effort.
That should get you the
date.

Even if you've never seen her
before if you always carry
a crispy $100.00 you can
give yourself a good chance to
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[PAGE 3]
get a date with any
chick at any place
that sells scratch
tickets.

Note: If she's a stranger you
can lie and say you saw
her once before but were
too shy to talk to her or
something.
HA HA!

[SHEET 1 - white, the blanks empty]
Fill in The missing word:
________ Smarter
________ Phone
________ Dumber
________ Human
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[SHEET 2 - white, the blanks filled in red]
Fill in the missing word:
___the___ smarter
___the___ Phone
___the___ dumber
___the___ human
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[SHEET 3 - lined paper]
the smarter
the phone
the dumber
the human

The Quick Version:

I've been writing poems meant to be used as song lyrics ever since I was 17 years old and heard Bob Dylan's LIKE A ROLLING STONE on the radio in my father's minivan. Shortly after that I got drunk, blacked out and totaled the minivan when I hit a telephone pole at a rather high rate of speed. I crawled away and was largely unhurt but the engine was now riding shotgun. A foot to my left and I'd have been dead. If my friend came with me then today he would have no legs. That's when I became a public servant and dedicated my life to trying to making a difference in this world. I've been doing that for the last 18 years or so... on my own dime... full-time... all while hiding behind a computer screen... and now it's time to show you what I have got... no more hiding - I'm looking to take it LIVE TO THE PEOPLE, THE MUSICIANS AND THE SINGERS THEMSELVES.

I put out a book of 130 poems (with commentary) inviting musicians from all over the world to turn my words into songs. That was in 2008. I didn't have any songs at this point. I put videos of my poems on YouTube and found artists (or artists found them) and...

Today I have had 130 songs made from my lyrics. That's about seven hours' worth of original music, right there. The enclosed CD has 22 of them - a nice assorted sampler. My website is filled with goodies...

My current book of poems waiting for music now has over 400 poems in it. At least 20 albums worth of songs are just waiting for musicians and singers. I want to start by creating or taking over a bar or venue and naming it SONGWRITERS' or joining a current establishment where I can use this place as a central location to create new songs by day (with audience participation and feedback, of course) in person and have musicians play the songs at night. There are a million possibilities and ways to go and potential offshoots of this idea but that's the main idea. It can start as tiny as a hole in the wall bar and restaurant idea or as big as a multimillion dollar investment opportunity... it can start with local musicians or big names in the industry...

Think of it like this - We all have our favorite filmmakers, right? But who has a favorite songwriter who acts as the voice behind the songs but NOT as the singer or musician themselves? In essence, I create a "song script" and then find the proper actors or actresses (in this case singers or musicians) to fill the part. That allows me, as a writer, to write without limits and if there is a story that needs to be heard then I can tell it and worry about whom re-tells it later... TOTAL FREEDOM.

This is just the very tip of the iceberg of ideas that I have but this one is the one that is easiest to start as I begin getting myself ready to sell the only thing that I have - and that's me! But luckily, that's a lot...

Enjoy and thank you for your time. My website is brianrainstorm.com

Tom
[private detail]

P.S. The free book is one I just put out... I write, too. I will be in the SF area on October 1st for a few weeks and my name is Tom Jensen although I now write under the name of Brian Rainstorm.

QUESTION...
WHY SHOULD YOU TAKE UP YOUR VALUABLE TIME TO READ THIS RÉSUMÉ?

ANSWER...
- If you enjoy working with good people then you can hit the delete button right now. However, if you enjoy working with GREAT people then by all means continue...

- My life philosophy is simple: I treat everyone I meet like family until they give me a significant reason not to.

- I believe in being hard-working, honest and moral at all times. If your company lies, cheats, practices deception or steals for its money then there are plenty of other people you should hire. Not me!

- I believe that you can tell the true nature of a person by how well they handle adversity and presently I feel like I've got the world pressing down on me - but I still wake up happy every morning with my absolutely beautiful wife next to me and our seventeen year-old cat snuggled somewhere in between us.

- I have undertaken every job I've ever had with an owner-like mentality. Yes, I take my job home with me. There is no such thing as a 9:00-to-5:00... maybe when I was eighteen but not at my current age of 28.

- I work great at independent projects but I am much more of a people person. I've worked at a restaurant as a server, I've been a journalist who always interviewed more people than was necessary for whatever story I was writing and I always make a very positive first impression. I'm the type of guy who will tell my life story to a complete stranger on the bus. High-energy doesn't even begin to describe me.

- I can talk to anybody on any level. I have a large vocabulary at my disposal and a true gift for the English language. I have written over 600 poems and songs along with numerous essays, short stories and published newspaper articles.

- My creativity is boundless. I will thrive in a(n) vocation/atmosphere where I am constantly challenged and so far in life I have noticed that the more that is asked of me the better I perform. I have felt underutilized and hence unfulfilled with every job I
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have had up to this point. It is time for me to really spread my wings.

- And finally, you should review this résumé because I am the type of team-orientated and dedicated employee who WILL make your company money and make you look great at your job for finding someone such as myself.

Tom Jensen
[address removed]
[number removed]
[private detail] (Red Sox fan)

EDUCATION
SALEM STATE COLLEGE Salem, MA
Bachelor of Arts in English
History Minor
Final GPA: 3.524 (Magna Cum Laude)
- made Deans List all 10 semesters
Relevant Courses: Principles of Marketing, Business Ethics, Survey of Communication, Creative Writing, Writing for Media, Introduction to Poetry, Small Business Management, Adolescent Psychology, Advanced Writing, Literary Criticism

JOB HISTORY
BUGABOO CREEK STEAK HOUSE Peabody, MA
Waiter/Server October 2006 - Present
Description: Interacting effectively with customers by answering questions and resolving concerns. Gaining the skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, team-orientated environment. Closing out day's receipts, documenting sales and utilizing computer system. Up-selling food products by means of tantalizing verbal descriptions, subliminal messaging, and proper baiting.

DEAN'S LIST HANDYMAN SERVICE Lynnfield, MA
Owner and Operator Dec. 2004 - Sept. 2006
Description: Started my own small business and proceeded to fix several houses that were owned by members of my family. Spent almost a year in Plattsburgh, New York rehabbing a duplex and a 6-family house that my father had recently acquired. I finally decided that I greatly prefer to shower before work as opposed to after.

PEABODY/LYNNFIELD WEEKLY NEWS Peabody, MA
Journalist July 2003 - February 2004
Description: Covered local sporting events for a small weekly newspaper. Developed communication skills

My book of songs and poetry weights exactly thirteen pounds. What just that number mean in real life? Well, for example a pretty good-sized house cat would be around this weight. When my cat was in his prime he weighed around eleven pounds, that was ten years ago. My little black man now tips the scales at a mere seven pounds. The dude will have been my right-hand man for seventeen years in another month or so. That little BO-E-O has seen virtually my whole life. From seventh grade to high school graduation to college graduation all the way up to marriage. I don't see any children coming for at least another four or five six or seven or eight years. I want to wait until I am financially stable before undertaking another dependent. Being a novel writer, a journalist, a poet, a song writer, a landscaper, carpenter, painter, and a husband I have never been especially great at specialization. Kind of like a typewriter machine repairer living in the age of the computer or another walking fossil... a legal landscaper. But I digress, there are a few things that I do specialize in and always pay careful attention to: My cat, my wife, my writing, my songs and most importantly my integrity.

The Big Ham (referenced to before as either little black man, the dude, or BO-E-O) is a long and slender, fixed male, short-haired, black cat. He's pretty much as black as black can be; nose included. But if you look at Dude-a-roo in the light (and especially in direct sunlight) he isn't black at all...... he turns red. As if he just came prancing out of some fancy pants Hollywood Salon after requesting the shampoo, blow dry with red highlights special advertised in the window. I'm staring at him right now and wherever there aren't any shadows there is a vibrant red hue-filled glow upon his old and fading fur coat. We are poor and don't have a lot of extra money to spent on heat. Living in Massachusetts during even Thanksgiving can get pretty cold and Dude-a-Rooski has been losing fur under his back legs and under his belly for about four or five years now. When we set the thermostat at 60 degrees he either jumps up onto the bed and curls up on the down comforter or else he'll sit under his heat lamp on the couch.

The heat lamp is a creation from about ten years ago. When I was stretched out on my bed doing homework I used to have a little bendable lamp that I would use to shine light onto whatever I was reading. It had a light bulb shielded by a half-circled backing put there to direct the light down towards its heavier base. A flexible hose allowed the light head to be aimed into all different angles and directions. Well, one night I'm reading my history book and BO-E hops up onto my bed and sees me paying close attention to my studies and more specifically to my book. Since Little Dude loves to walk all over any and all paper that I am paying attention to he plops down right on top of my book. Directly under the lamp. Which shall from this point on forever be known as the heat lamp. When Slamma Lamma Hamma realized that this light created an impressive amount of heat he had found a new best friend.

My father's side of the family has somehow all learned to handle the cold weather. His father and his father before him were Maine fishermen - a tough breed, indeed. Me? I'm a pussy when it comes to the cold but if you compare me to my cat then I look like a survivor of a nuclear explosion... I went all fifteen rounds, baby! Little Dude is the biggest whiner and complainer this side of the Mississippi River. He speaks when spoken to, and me and him, we talk a lot. I often call him Big Crying Ham in the morning for obvious reasons. He's been a Big Ham for at least half of his life - ever since I realized that he loved being the center of attention when he was surrounded by familiar faces. He would always "ham it up" in front of the crowd. If you decided that you didn't deem a cat worthy of acknowledgment then the Big Jerk would stand in front of
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you and stare directly at you until he felt that you had properly acknowledged his presence. It was like he was royalty for heaven's sake. If you further refused he would bellow out a deep, "Meow!" with an added emphasis on the "Me" part in the beginning - staring at you all the while. And then he'd rub up against your leg. He never had to resort to any further actions because once he got to your leg there was never any way to resist him. Welcome to ancient Egypt. Egyptians worshipped cats and they worshipped the sun and here we have a cat who worshipped the sun (or else the heat lamp). He is under the heat lamp right now- the right side of his face glowing red fire and the left side coal black. So he's a cat who loves being warm...and he has a heat lamp that is plugged in for five months a year virtually 24 hours a day. It's just a perk of having a daddy who loves his little buddy. Mighty Ones, as my dad would call him, also has a door. In fact, he's had several.

"What would possess you to give a cat its own door?" It is certainly a logical question one might ask. Because I come from a long line of cold-house-people. Picture this scene: You are seventeen years old and you just got home from a day of high school. It's winter and you enter the door and you see that the thermostat tells you that the house is 58 degrees. You are cold as hell and your cat is screaming at you to acknowledge his presence. "Meow!" pause... "Meow!" silence. Have to pet the cat yet have to warm up quickly. Hmmm. So I turn up the house heat and we both run into the bathroom and shut the door. And turn on the red fluorescent heat lamp in the bathroom ceiling while also turning on the portable plug-in space heater and aiming it right in front of the toilet. The bathroom, being the smallest room of my father's house, also heated the quickest with the help of the added heat lamp up high and the heater down below. Once the seat had thawed for a moment I would proceed to sit down and go the bathroom and read the sports paper and Buddy Dudes would paw at the corner of my newspaper until he had a clear path to jump onto my lap. With the portable heater, which shall now be known only as "the heater" just a foot away from my legs the heat would start pouring up into the channel created by the toilet, myself and the unfolded newspaper I was reading. And we would be warm. Fifteen minutes later we could open the bathroom door and then we would no longer see our breath in the kitchen.

So with the cold house/warm bathroom relationship still fresh in our minds let us transfer a warm bathroom into a warm bedroom - mine. My father liked to keep the house at 60 degrees. At night he would put on his hooded sweatshirt, zip up his sleeping bag and sleep like a hiker. Meanwhile, my bedroom would have a heat lamp on as well as another space heater going full blast. Daddy called my room Miami. So you know who always slept with me...Dude. Well, once upon a time I got into a war of words with my father and ended up kicking my closed door open. It still shut but it wouldn't ever lock tight. Big Ham soon realized that all he had to do was to use his paw and pull against the bottom of my hollow, light door to make an easy escape from my room. The land of chow chow, also known as the kitchen, was just on the other side of this door. But it was cold out there. And Big Ham never once bothered to close the door. I put up with the excessive door openings for about a month - I'm a good daddy. But after the 543rd time it had to stop! I finally fixed the damn door but soon another problem arose...Scratch, scratch, scratch...."Meow!" Scratch, scratch, scratch..."ME-ow!" Now I had to get up and open the door to let him in and also to let him out. If I refused to let him out then he'd start staring at me. This went on for one week until it had to stop!

Alright, so we have a door. On one side of this door is a 75 degree room and on the other side is a 60 degree hallway. We have a cat that wants to go from one side to the other at absolutely any time he feels like. That cat wants to walk through walls.
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Jesus Christ! Nobody's ever done that before. Hmmm... Let's see... Yeah, that would work... Brilliant! When I was finished I had cut a small rectangular, arched-at-the-top hole into the bottom part of my door that was just a little higher and wider than BO-E-O. To reduce drafts I had cut an old sweatshirt into vertical strips and hung them neatly just above the cut away entrance. Two or three layers of sweatshirt strips kept the bedroom pretty well insulated and Little Dude was free to enter and leave once he was convinced that he wouldn't bang his head upon poking through the hanging strips of fabric. And yes, it was fun shoving his little head through the little doorway the first couple of times in order to prove that there was no actual wood behind the covered opening. I had finished constructing my first kitty door for Dude.

The Dude's also got a sock full of drugs, at least three hoppers, one grizzly bear and a litter box that is so spatial that it has its own curtain. Yep, this is the life of the Big Ham.

Today I won't lose my way like last time
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Plate in your head
it could be rod

only one
person who
[crossed out]
it worse
than
you and me

whoever it
was who
chose
Sarah Palin
to be
McCain's
VP
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- contact info,
- Showing info
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what is concrete!
bed, bath,

Poem...
they'd like to Feature...
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my open house

channel info
looking for
particular
listing
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in search box

featured
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owner
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houses
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my
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Listing 1001 Salem, MA
my open house

white message box
House for sale in Salem, MA
$ 350,000 4 bed, 3 bath
info... charming...

address/location
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showing info

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my open house

channel info
looking for particular listing type number in search box

featured house/apt

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apts houses for rent

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my vids (houses)

my favs (apts)

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the'd like to feature
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Tom fire
kereohe bar
121
5☆ rating
197 coment
1222 vıews

"I don't wanna be
famous... I want
YOU to be famous." -
Tom Jensen
readtom.com

[Big sheet, blue marker]
In the winter
I made the book
In the SPRING
I MADE the videos
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[Small spiral page, pen]
optimist
pessimist
Realist

conservative
Liberal
apolitical
in the middle
Don't trust anyone
at all

[PAGE 1]
GLOBAL POLICY

1 WISH PLAN:
- every country -> what can we do
to make your life better?
- see which wishes contradict
and politic until all countries
are happy.
- More guns! We become the Mafia
and the anti-bully of the world.
- We become/Act as "The House"
of all the poker playing Nations.
- We become the feared God Father
- but fair and respected

-> Creed: We are the arsenal of democracy!
we are the only ones who make guns.

Check & Balance. we give the U.N.
"teeth" | 60/40 split.

Detroit - new weapons mecca of the
world.
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[PAGE 2]
UNIFICATION PLAN [a scribble beside it]
[margin note: up up]
TARIFFS & Borders [arrow pointing up]
[margin note: populous vote]
GAY MARIAGE (STATE-BY-STATE)
TO BE A LEGAL CITIZEN (PARENTS MUST
be document & legal)
Jobs program for homeless/under employed
10 bucks an hour - find/make work
Guaranteed employment (relocation may be required)

Tom's Family
A.
C.
Daddy
Kristin
Judy
Tom S.
Lisa
Priscilla
Breda
Mr. J
Klaus
Yuliya
Monica
Jen
Julia Johns
Olga B.
Karen B.
Sylvia
Tyler
Abs.
Mumsie -> Joette -> Karen
Core
2.5 there
3.0 here

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Who doesn't have two ways to tell their story?
Yeah, one's okay... but {struck: [?]} at times it tends to get
too tedious, repetitious, monotonous, long-winded redundant, tiresome and stale and plain old boring...
Oh, but the second one is great because the picture you paint
Is that of a glorified saint with the background of a legendary hero

All the children chant your name
As the soldiers proudly proclaim:
If they die for you 'tis not in vain
You who can hold power yet yield restraint

Yet there's no tone 'tis all black and white
{struck: [?]} not even gray
No imagination of a world of colors
No varience, {struck: [?]} no vibrance no blending or shades

I'd rather be me and be boring
Than be {struck: [?]} king with all his {struck: [?]} cutout cardboard subjects the same

Yeah, that's not exactly what I'd call glory
Actually to me, it sounds pretty lame

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Who -> Me... ???s
✓ What -> Job, money, family
Where -> ???s
✓ When -> Now
✓ Why -> Love
How -> ???
(Life)

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Booking Cheap Air
[private detail]

Iceland Air #207
Copenhagen 2:30 pm -> Reykjavik 3:40 pm
Iceland Air #631
Reykjavik -> Boston
5:00 pm -> 6:35 pm

THURSDAY
Oct 4th
Price
$858.55

Quantum Physics: Which side of the
cube is facing you? You say 'Red' and I
say 'Blue' or you say 'Blue' and I say 'Red'.
We're both right and wrong and what does
the cube say? The cube don't say sh*t!
That's the Problem... Haha. This isn't Quantum
anything but just a way to get your brain
warmed up to Quantum-based thinking...

[blue cube] | [plain cube] | [red cube]

[boxed:] brianrainstorm.com

[Left side labels, top to bottom]
The Elite
Power Servers
The New VOID
The Dwindling
The Masses

[Pyramid, top to bottom, with the percentages beside it]
[tip] | (less than one percent)
[thin band] | (3 - 5 %)
[big black area] | (empty space)
middle class | (10 - 20 %)
POOR | (75 - 90 %)

[Box, top right]
OUR NEW PYRAMID
[blue triangle] --> [low wide trapezoid in red/green/yellow/brown]

[Color key]
[brown] = ELITE
[yellow] = Power Servers
[green] = Middle Class
[red] = Poor
[blue] = OLD PYRAMID

brianrainstorm.com

"I know I'm on the
Right track when
all of these pieces
of my pie chart agree"
- Brian Rainstorm

[Pie chart labels]
[blue] | With Family and Friends Persona
[orange] I'm All Alone MY TRUE SELF person
[red] | Internet & Social media self
[green] Public & Business Self/Persona