[18011] in APO-L
Re: Encouraging Membership Diversity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JR&BR Anderson)
Wed Dec 17 07:05:09 1997
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 07:06:19 -0500
Reply-To: JR&BR Anderson <jbanderson@GREENAPPLE.COM>
From: JR&BR Anderson <jbanderson@GREENAPPLE.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
It has been some time since I have posted and I must confess that it has
been difficult at times to keep still. I have been somewhat amazed at some
of the tones of the messages I have read of late. While I can understand
the viewpoints of the authors, I still cannot help but wish that a little
more time and thought were invested before keys were struck by emotion.
Whether you agree with your brother, and I will use that term here based on
Board Policy and a past convention resolution, as well as my own beliefs, or
not is not the important issue. In order to be a brother in this fraternity
belief in our principles is not just a pre-requisite. Nor is it something
that we should trot out at chapter meetings, ceremonies, projects, or social
events then go home and turn it off or put it away. No, APO is a way of
life. We need to work at it constantly. By working at this way of life, we
should be able to cherish all of our brothers regardless of his/her
viewpoint. By so doing we should respond to those viewpoints with which we
take exception with the respect all the brotherhood expects and all
individuals deserve while still making effective counterpoints to those views.
It is not easy being a brother of APO. It takes work, work, work...More
importantly, it takes love, love, love...We all need to have love in our
hearts in order to help each other, the fraternity, and the world achieve
Brother Horton's dream.
At this time of the year, I ask all of us to remember the dream, our active
membership oath, and the spirit of our brotherhood to spread the joy and
hope we all so desperately need.
An old dog
J R Anderson
