Letters

In Tribute to a Great Missourian

Your latest issue is just superb. Your publication is not another slick, lightweight periodical, but has in-depth articles and great insights. It takes courage to make a statement on issues.

Also, your tribute to our late great Governor was really moving. It is one of the best that I have read.  Gale Kessler, Executive Director Missouri Women’s Council, Jefferson City

McClatchey Piece Lauded

I am writing you to extend my thanks for the article in September’s “Ingram’s” on the legal plight of Dennis McClatchey. You are to be commended for your concisely informative background of this very complex bureaucratic mess. I am the concerned uncle of Denny’s wife, Marge, and have been unable to understand the Federal Government’s imputation until reading your clarifying article. Thank you, thank you! 

The relatives of this victimized  McClatchey family are sincerely grateful for the common-sense judgements you expressed; taking into account our run-away government’s abuse of power upon god-fearing, honest and productive citizens.

We are grateful to Show-Me Publish-ing, Inc. For exposing such travesties.

Allen J Baxter, West Chester, Ohio

Mitzvah!

It’s obvious that Ingram’s is committed to giving something back to the community. In the Jewish religion, we have a word that means “good deed.” It’s Mitzvah. This is a very important aspect of Jewish life, and our children are encouraged to perform mitzvahs from a very early early age. They celebrate and commit to doing good deeds during their Bar or Bat Mitzvah year (age 13), when they become Jewish adults. I know other religions have an equal commitment to the spirit of giving. I thought you might like to know a little about where we Jews “come from” and why this topic is especially important.

Beth Schwartz, SMPS KC Program Chair

TranSystems Corporation, KCMO

Leaders For Life

We met at the Benedictine College, and with your advice have researched leadership programs published in Ingram’s. I was fortunate enough to be sponsored to participate in two of them during the spring of ‘99; Leadership Olathe, & Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership.

This spring I led a research effort while working at the Atchison Chamber that led to a $140 million appropriation through Kansas’ Systems Enhancement Program. This summer I worked for the Justice and Peace Commission of Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.

My wife, Jen and I are expecting our first child. We are both grad students at UT Austin. She is in an MSW program, and I’m pursuing public policy dispute resolution and philanthropic studies at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

Thank you for the great job of compiling information on the leadership programs. I probably would not be where I am today were it not for your publication. I also enjoy reading ingramsonline.com down here in Austin.

Nicholas J. Hernandez, Austin, Texas