Hello Big Sister,
Should have sent you this email much sooner. Sorry about this.
Was hoping you could bring a few things with you on this visit.
1. Have Mother bring the framed photo collection from my bedroom with the missing photos with you on this visit and I will put it back together for her to take back home and put them both back up on the wall. The one already here is ready for her to take back with you when you return home.
2. Know she not going to want bringing these photos with her, but would like for Mother to bring the photos of David from C.I.D when he was in that play as Huckleberry Finn. Want me and Mother to write this one together to upload to my blog. I want Mother to mostly write about David's three years there, and I will add to same blog article my being left in the care of other Methodist families on those trips Mother and Dad took to St. Louis without me. The Daniels, The Culps, and The Calhoun's were all three so completely different. My angle on this blog entry, how I'm actually the son by several Methodist Mothers.
3. Picture of Dad in military uniform holding you.
4. Picture of Dad in uniform Mother has of him receiving some award.
5. The picture you have of me and David you refer to as the Preppy/Redneck picture.
6. Any pictures of Angela Pain and you with State Championship basketball team. If any basketball picture of Vicki Harris, would be great. That time you took me to Henderson to watch her play was my first time seeing girl's basketball played full court. Also any pictures from her wedding to Tommy Tubberville. He refereed a 9th grade basketball game between Prescott and Cale on their home court I want write about. The only reason I knew it was him because I recognized him from their wedding we had just attended.
7. Have Mother bring family photos albums again. Now that I'm blogging, different set of photos might appeal to me this time than before when was only thinking of hanging them up on bedroom walls.
Will stop here with list. The Huckleberry Finn pics the most important. Mother can refuse to let me scan them after she gets here and hears my idea first.
Love,
Jim Ed
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Production of Tom Sawyer at Central Institute for the Deaf
starring
my brother, David Densen Avery, the gun collector.
"David doesn't want you uploading his shit to the Internet."
~(Our Mother)~
"This is his punishment for purchasing a BUSHMASTER while I'm not allowed to own a CRICKETT."
~(Simply Jim)~
"I told them what you said about coming home just to have your picture taken with the gun so you could upload them to you blog and drive your neighbors crazy. They all laughed."
~(Our Mother)~
"Of course. You guys are all Conservatives."
~(Simply Jim)~
Central Institute for the Deaf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) is a school for the deaf that teaches students using listening and spoken language, also known as the auditory-oral approach, to education. Founded in 1914 by otologist Max Aaron Goldstein, MD, the school is located in St. Louis, Missouri. CID is also an affiliate of Washington University in St. Louis.
CID was founded by Max Aaron Goldstein in 1914, with a mission of teaching the deaf to talk.[1] Goldstein built on techniques he had learned at the Vienna Polyclinic in Austria from Victor Urbantschisch regarding methods of teaching the deaf how to speak. Goldstien's plan was to have doctors and teachers at the institute work with parents to help their children speak and included the nation's first training program in auditory-oral deaf education for teachers.[2]
Heather Whitestone-McCallum attended CID from 1984 to 1987. In 1995, Whitestone became the first deaf woman to be crowned Miss America.
In fourth grade, Heather learned about the story of a young woman from Alabama who would forever change her life — Helen Keller. Keller became her role model. She was unable to keep up with her classwork and began to fall behind her peers. She asked her family to send her to a special school that would enable her to catch up with other students in her class. While at the Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis, Missouri, she learned two grade levels per year.[1] After three years, she caught up with her peers and returned to Alabama to graduate from public middle school with a 3.6 GPA.
She moved to Birmingham at age sixteen, following her parents' divorce. She attended the Alabama School of Fine Arts for a year and graduated from Berry High School (now Hoover High School) in 1991. Her passion was ballet and because of her deafness, she had spent most of her time developing her ballet skills.
As Miss America, she showcased her S.T.A.R.S. program around the country. S.T.A.R.S. stands for "Success Through Action and Realization of your dreams." It has five points which are: positive attitude, belief in a dream, the willingness to work hard, facing obstacles, and building a strong support team.
She also served as an executive member on the President's Committee on Employment of People Disabilities.
Since her Miss America win, Heather has completed her studies at Jacksonville State University and continued to promote awareness of Deaf issues. She has also spoken out in detail about her close relationship with God, one that she has had ever since she rediscovered church as a teenager. She wrote about her life experiences in her third book, Let God Surprise You: Trust God with Your Dreams.
A volunteer for Republican causes, she spoke at the party's National Conventions of 1996 and 2000, for GOP presidential nominees Bob Dole and George W. Bush.[3]
She is a motivational speaker and lives on Saint Simons Island with her husband John McCallum, whom she met when he served as a Congressional aide to Speaker Newt Gingrich. They have three children, John, James, and William.[5]
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