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Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR. SEUSS!

I really believe that ALL of us need to focus on DR. SEUSS birthday anniversary today! I confess Dr. Seuss was one of my most favorite children’s authors when I read for my own children, Beth Kari and Mark Erik. Is there anyone who is able to file a NEGATIVE comment regarding Dr. Seuss?! I’ll be reading your comments today with special interest.

Just think, Theodor Geisel = Dr. Seuss wrote MORE than 60 children’s books! YOU know his most popular books, I am sure, including: Horton Hears a Who! (1954), One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960), Green Eggs and Ham (1960), Hop on Pop (1963), Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (1975), The Butter Battle Book (1984), and of course, The Cat in the Hat (1957).

THANKS to GARRISON KEILLOR, I learned details about Dr. Seuss this morning reading his daily, “Writer’s Almanac.” Click on this link IF you want to read today’s Almanac feature which includes the information about Dr. Seuss. Let me urge you to read Keillor’s report on Dr. Seuss.

I hope you will comment identifying YOUR favorite Dr. Seuss book. My own is: HORTON HEARS A WHO. (1954)

WHY? There is the resounding message that ALL persons are to be heard, respected and taken care of! Remember the resounding assertion by HORTON, ‘‘even though you can’t see or hear them at all, a person’s a person, no matter how small’’?

This message was also articulated by the slogan at Parker High School in the days of HUGH HORSWILL, the Principal at Principal at Parker who hired me in 1971 and the educational administrator who bought my vision of a WASHINGTON SEMINAR field study to enhance democracy/civics education and who defended the Seminar through its early years. IF it were NOT for HUGH HORSWILL, the WASHINGTON SEMINAR would have died within a couple years of its creation in 1973. THANKS, HUGH! God bless the memory of HUGH HORSWILL!

So, what was the slogan? Do YOU know/remember? (Yes, I realize that this slogan drove the English teachers to distraction or crazy! HA! DAH!)

Let me close this blog posting with the greeting which GARRISON KEILLOR uses every single day with his “Writer’s Almanac, “Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.®”

Mr. E.

FOOTNOTE: Having advocated for “reconciliation” to be the way to get Health Care Reform legislation to President Obama’s desk, I was very happy to see another clarification of the “reconciliation” process in the most e-mailed articles from the Washington Post originally posted on March 1, 2010, Ezra Klein’s column, “A reconciliation primer.” If you want to know details about the “reconciliation” process, I recommend Ezra Klein’s primer. Here we go…

John Eyster lives in the Edgerton area. He is an adjunct professor of political science at UW-Waukesha and an advocate for democracy/civics education in Wisconsin high schools. John is a community blogger and is not a part of The Gazette staff. His opinion is not necessarily that of the The Gazette staff or management.