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12-year Learfield engineering veteran, Jim Foucault, retired today. The occasion was celebrated in Jefferson City with a cake and nice words from his boss, Charlie Peters.
In other Learfield news, the Jefferson City ladies lunched at the Country Club in celebration of, well, Spring. It was a time to be together and laugh.
And Bob [...]
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Continue ReadingMaybe ten years ago a Learfielder came to me admitting he’d altered a broadcast log which caused us to mis-bill an advertiser. It was his only transgression, he admitted his failing and today he–and Learfield–are better for it! He’s a valued employee and does a great job for us. In another situation we had a [...]
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Continue ReadingDave South (PxP for Texas A&M) sent around his daily thought this morning. It was about the importance of forgiving people. For me, this is a continuing struggle. It isn’t that I hold grudges, it is that I almost always think I’m right. I wrote a post on this on March 2, 2009 and suggest [...]
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Continue ReadingTwo Learfielders are in Haiti helping with relief efforts: Greg Brown and Joshua Madden. Give attention to Greg’s blog for frequent updates. They’re very interesting. Pics too!
Be in prayer for their safety and mostly that they are both impactful and inpacted!!
–clyde
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Continue ReadingWe had two of our grandkids this weekend. It’s always fun until dinnertime; when it can be a battle to get them to eat–and to eat what we’re having for dinner! But also this weekend I was reading a book from Pritikin–the nutrition people–and had an “ahaa”.
“When a child doesn’t finish his or her food, [...]
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Continue ReadingI DO love St. Louis: The Cards, the Blues, The Hill, The Symphony, the Zoo, Shaw’s Gardens, Clayton, Tony’s, picturesque neighborhoods and home to a number of America’s leading companies. A-B used to be one of those. When InBev of Belgium bought the storied beer biz last year there were promises nothing would change.
This week [...]
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Continue ReadingSue and I escaped Washington Friday morning ahead of any snow; one of the last planes out of Reagan. We were there all last week at the National Prayer Breakfast. Some highlights for us:
President Obama: urged civility in public discourse. I couldn’t agree more and most of the three-thousand-plus there [...]
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Continue ReadingTwo years ago when Sue and I were on a cruise ship, I thought it would be a treat to get a real shave from a barber. As a kid, I remember watching the barber prepare the beard with a hot towel, then using the chair-side strop, sharpening the razor before ever-so-gently drawing the blade across face and neck [...]
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Continue ReadingThis is the man who founded Walmart and regarded as maybe America’s most successful business entrepreneur. And, he came to my office one day. How’d that happen?
The link is my assistant, Jan Prenger. Jan, you see, was Sam’s executive assistant when the Prenger family lived in Bentonville, Ark. Jan’s husband, Mike, was a banker there. [...]
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