The President's Perspective (Page 9)
The regular column by Kathleen McFarlin, OCUUC's current President. Kathleen can be reached by email at president@ocuuc.org.
What’s in a Name?
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II This is my second column as your president – “El Segundo” in Spanish. Forgive me while I ramble a bit. The second half of my career I worked for a company whose headquarters are in El Segundo, California. I wondered why anyone would name their city “Number Two”. The story had more to do with…
Scarpe Diem
SCARPE DIEM. That’s my attempt at a bad pun – “scarpe”, Italian for shoes – following in the footsteps, etc. No? well I said it was bad, didn’t I? Nonetheless I will attempt, as your new President starting July 1st, to carry on after Tom Loughrey – no small task as you all know and can appreciate. He is truly a pillar of this community and will still be here for each of us who will need his help and…
President’s Corner – June 2016
Where has the time gone? It hardly seems like it could be two years since I became your president. When I first took on this job I knew that I had some big shoes to fill following Katherine Martin. She had the job of moving us from Victoria to Mesa Verde and bringing on a new minster to OCUUC. As I reflect on this what I have come to realize is that no one does this job on their own.…