Inspirational Email

My friend Ron, yesterday sent me an inspirational email. Although I'd read it before, it was great to read the philosophy of Charles Schultz again. It's also featured on the Roger Knapp website as one of his inspirational stories.

Roger is a Texas A&M Aggie, a graduate of Southwestern Med. Sch. at Dallas; a member of the American Board of Pediatrics , Board Certified. Here he is with his family:


He further writes that Seaman A. Knapp - Great-Grandfather - was Co-Founder of the Texas Agriculture Extension Service and the 4 H Clubs of America. According to my research, Texas agriculturist, college administrator, and entrepreneur, Seaman Knapp, initiated in 1906 the county-agent plan, and in order to promote the plan, he organized boys' cotton and corn growing clubs. In 1910 a girls' corn and poultry club was added. These organizations were the forerunners of the modern 4-H Clubs. As a youth, I was a member of a 4-H Club in southern Minnesota. We pledged our heads to clearer thinking, our hearts to greater loyalty, our hands to larger service, and our health to better living - 4 H - for our homes, our country . . . and, at the time, to win the war (WW II, that is).

As to the origins of the CS Philosophy, check out the Snopes website. Snopes tells us that this philosophy was not dictated by Schultz. I haven't discovered who created it.

Amazing what's available online about any one of us. Have a great day!