Tag: New Year

Intentional Focus for 2020

Two years ago this month I started the DreamersAndGiants.com website. The goal was to honor and remember many of the people who have been part of WVWC throughout the history of the school.

Need for Intentionality

A couple of things happened on New Year’s Day. First of all, I realized that we were in a new decade, and I needed to add a page to record things that are happening now. Secondly, I realized that I have never managed to create a biography page for some of the very biggest Giants — like Roy McCuskey, for instance!

What if I needed to

2020 Focus

The year 2020 seems like a great time to consider my focus. Most of last year I jumped around and wrote blogs on whatever happened to come into my line of sight that week. It was a lot of fun! And, I was able to write about a lot of great things. It was somewhat like Alice in Wonderland going down Rabbit Holes!

What if this year, I tried to be more like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz? She knew exactly where she wanted to go and managed to get there even while having lots of adventures and making some new friends.

New Year – New Plan

This year, I have committed to taking a more strategic approach. The basis of this approach will be Chronologies. To that end, I have reconfigured the Chronology section on DreamersAndGiants.com. Instead of having a different page for each year, it is more streamlined. Take a look! There is a lot of good information already, and it will get stronger as we go. I have been working on several of these types of tools behind the scenes.

One of the first things I will need to do is to strengthen the decade review sections. As I do this, I will still be running into various Rabbit Holes. So, I think that this is a plan that I can enjoy while still being productive.

Happy New Year, everyone! Wishing you 2020 focus in whatever the new year brings your way.

Auld Lang Syne

It is New Year’s Eve.  This is the evening of the year when we are most likely to look both back and forward.

We are all very likely to hear — and to sing — Auld Lang Syne this evening at least once. What does that even mean? Roughly translated, those three words mean Times Gone By. The song is about remembering friends and experiences from the past and not letting them be forgotten.

The first verse of the song asks,

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne.
 
 

Dreamers And Giants

On New Year’s Day last year DreamersAndGiants was launched to help us look back at those who have Dreamed West Virginia Wesleyan into being and those whose Dreams have kept us moving forward. Some have truly attained the status of Giants in this endeavor. Click here to learn more about the inspiration for such a venture. It has been a great first year, and much has been accomplished. There is still a LOT to do!!
 
DreamersAndGiants.com exists with the hope that we will all become better acquainted with the history of West Virginia Wesleyan and those who have been here in “Times Gone By.” During the past year, besides curating the stories on DreamersAndGiants.com, I have had the honor of teaching a course on the subject to a total of 70 students.
 
 
One of them had this to say:
Knowing that Wesleyan has a long good history makes it feel comfortable in the fact that it will continue down the road. Hearing that we made it through all the wars and the Great Depression and survived doing well makes me feel confident about the future of the college.
 
As we prepare to ring in 2019 this evening at midnight, I look forward to making more lists, collecting more stories, sharing more pictures, and writing more blog posts to share to help us all become more acquainted with WVWC.
 
I join former president Scarborough in his New Year’s wish from 69 years ago: