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Friends of Thomson Park Volunteer Work Dates
** News From The Mason Mill Civic Association
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The Civic Association encourages all neighbors to join in supporting the Friends of Thomson Park. This is an especially good way for neighbors to become better acquainted with each other. Here's the latest work schedule from the Friends:
Greetings Park Friends and Neighbors!
With the arrival of autumn, we begin our new year - our SIXTH year as an official "Friends of" group - tending to our wonderful W. D. Thomson Park. I hope we can again count on the great support, in its various forms, from all of you.
First, our work schedule for the year: We will be simplifying the timing this year, so that our *regular* work day will always be the first Saturday of each month, October through June, from 9a-12p.
We will shift in January to coincide with the MLK Day service tradition, and of course we will be organizing additional days around the availability of any group that would like to pitch in. (In particular, some of our local friends from the Orthodox community have requested some Sunday afternoon work sessions, and we definitely will add such opportunities, with our thanks.)
Please put these work days on your calendar:
* October 7
* November 4
* December 2
* January 15 ( = MONDAY, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
* February 3
* March 3
* April 7
* May 5
* June 2
There is much more news to share, and more specific things to ask of you, but we'll save that for our next email updates.
However, I'd like to thank our exceptional volunteers from the 2016-2017 season:
* Overall, volunteers put in 345 hours of work, blowing by our 2015-2016 record of 271 hours.
* Two organizations - Community Bucket, and the Univ. of Tennessee - contributed big chunks of time that helped set that new record.
* Our biggest individual contributors of time were Reed O, Craig G, Carol U, Emily K (and family!), and John B.
* New Volunteer of the Year award goes to Jody C of Mason Woods Dr.
* Special shout out to Parlee C for her cheesecake and healthy snacks, and to the amazing Mary S for baking something new & different & delicious EACH & EVERY MONTH!
* The DeKalb County Parks department and Park Pride, too, have been terrific partners once again.
And thanks to everyone who has supported the park work through donations of time, money, expertise and ideas.
Patrick S. Noonan
coordinator & chair, Friends of Thomson Park
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PATRICK NOONAN
Professor in the Practice of Decision & Information Analysis
P: (404) 727-0549
1300 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
Professor Noonan came to Goizueta in 1993 from the faculty of the Harvard Business School, where he earned his Ph.D. in Decision Sciences. He also holds a BS in Engineering & Applied Science and an MBA, both from Yale University.
He served as Goizueta's first Associate Dean for Management Practice Initiatives from 2012-2015, and as Assistant Dean and Director of MBA Programs from 1996-2000. He has been a Visiting Professor at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, and he has taught short courses at Aalto University (Helsinki), Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá), ESAN (Lima), and Universidad ORT (Montevideo).
Patrick's field is "decision analysis," which draws on both the wisdom and the analytical methodologies of economics, psychology, statistics, sociology and engineering to provide prescriptions for improving decision making in business, in the professions, in health sciences, in politics and in life. The objective of decision analysis has been described as "facilitating a high-quality conversation about a decision situation," thus marrying rigorous analytical thinking with the native human strengths of judgment and intuition, embedded in the interactivity of decision making in real world organizations.
His analytics coursework at Emory – which included decision modeling, game theory and data analysis –earned the Distinguished Educator award 13 times and “Last Lecture” speaker role six times. In 2001 he received the Adler Prize for Teaching Excellence. He has been honored by inclusion in Emory’s “Great Teacher Lecture Series” and earned the Keough Award for Excellence. In 2005 he was awarded a Fulbright grant to serve as a Senior Specialist to a university in Uruguay.
Patrick's research and teaching in the area of managerial decision making combines his academic training with his real-world experience as a management consultant. He learned the profession at McKinsey & Company in the 1980s, and later as a Director at Planning Technologies Group (which he co-founded in 1990 and sold to Knowledge Universe in 1998), and offers workshops in the "craft skills" of consulting and problem-solving. He also is an expert on teaching & learning, especially in the business school context, and is a frequent facilitator of workshops for B-school and engineering faculty in the techniques of case teaching and other active learning techniques. Noonan’s consulting and executive education clients have included such diverse organizations as Microsoft, Bertelsmann, NewsCorp, The New York Daily News, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Merrill Lynch, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), Sea-Land, Accenture, the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Economics Institute, Johns Hopkins University and Greenpeace USA.
Prof. Noonan retired from his fulltime faculty role at Emory in 2015.
SPECIALIZATIONS
- Decision making, data analysis, game theory, and the economics of negotiation & bidding
- Production, distribution, and consumer behavior in the media & entertainment industries
- Improving communication about risks and uncertainties
- Strategic planning and executive decision processes
- Management education and professional development
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. Decision Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1992
- Master's Science Engineering Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 1989
- Master's Business Administration Public & Private Management, Yale School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1984
- Bachelor's Science Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1977
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If there are only three way of making money:
- Be First
- Be Smarter
- Or Cheat
Wonder which one Patrick Noonan's Friends of Thomson Park would fall under?
It's practically his backyard!
http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2016/05/nextdoorcom-mary-hinkel-closed.html
If you carefully read all the comments posted up to a Nextdoor.com tread against my property started by President of Mason Mill Civic Association Mary Hinkel, you will notice that I thanked everyone having taking the time, uploading to the Internet, their thoughts on inappropriate signage 1840 Mason Mill Road.
Then take the time noticing how our coordinator and chair of Friends of Thomson Park, Patrick Noonan, went about thanking these very same comments uploaded against my property.
http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2017/09/helpnextdoorcom.html
Also realize that everything posted in red were comments of mine calling out the perniciousness and prevarications by these next door, not so next door, Nextdoor.com neighbors of mine ... DELETED ... before eventually ending up banned from Nextdoor.com entirely.
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Hello James,
Your neighborhood Lead Patrick Noonan has removed your content from Nextdoor Mason Mill.
Posted on Apr 20, 2016
"I'm going to try posting...THESEUS... one deleted...TRICE... again. As this is a "thread" I've started, I really do believe I should have..."
Patrick Noonan marked this post as being Inappropriate with the following message:
"Jim Ed, please remove the profanity from this post, and it will be spared future deletions. Your "rights" on this public forum do not extend as far as you appear to believe; specifically, the Community Standards you agreed to when you signed up for your NextDoor account prohibit profanity."
If you would like to contact your neighborhood Lead(s) for clarification, you can contact them by clicking the “Message” button next to their name in the Leads Directory. You may also contact contact Nextdoor support.
To learn more about what types of posts are appropriate on Nextdoor, please see the Guidelines for Neighborly Behavior and our Guidelines FAQ.
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