A Tribute to My Teachers
May 5th, 2010 by John Creighton in Snapshots
Tags: Atwood, High School, Mentors, Teachers
This column originally appeared in the Longmont Times Call and The Rawlins County Square Deal in January, 2006. I am posting it in celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week. * * * Jim Finn was a special teacher for me, as he was for many who attended Atwood High School. Enough years have passed that I can’t recall anything specific I learned in Mr. Finn’s civics or sociology class. But his classes aren’t what made him special. Mr. Finn was one [...]
Read more...Fad Activism via Social Media
January 31st, 2010 by John Creighton in Dispatches
Tags: Mentors, Public Leaders, Public Values, Social Media
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets in mid-June to protest what appeared to be a bogus vote count to re-elect President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The protestors used Twitter to communicate with each other and the world. Americans – and people from many other countries – celebrated both the Iranian protestors’ cry for freedom and the role of the social media phenomenon Twitter. The Washington Times dubbed the June rallies as Iran’s Twitter Revolution. A craze quickly swept the [...]
Read more...A Standard for Community and Business Conduct
November 18th, 2009 by John Creighton in Snapshots
Tags: Atwood, Family, Flagler, High Plains Bank, Mentors, Neighbors
We often admire people from afar. We don’t really know that much about them. We catch glimpses of their actions. We may even have a few brief conversations. We listen to what others have to say. We take these bits of information and put together a picture, a narrative, of who the person is and what they stand for. One of the people who I admire from afar is Frankie Chvatal. We’ve only had a handful of conversations in my [...]
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