Ending The Nittany Nightmare: Penn State Pre-Game Plea, An Open Letter To President Rodney Erickson
An Open Letter to Penn State University President Rodney Erickson
With much respect -Do what I say, and do it today.
Hire the best Public Relations firm in the country for PSU’s needs. I am redacting that recommendation for the publication of this open letter, but it is included in my email to you. Don’t spend the time or manpower to run through the approved vendor lists and bid it out- not that kind of gig. The Board of Trustees can WebEx if necessary and this is the kind of emergency proxy was invented for.
Once retained, have the agency facilitate meetings through their agents with Bill Parcells and Bill Cowher immediately. Specify no leaks to the press until after they occur and by mutual agreement. Cowher may be the low hanging fruit on this one, he is returning to CBS next year.
If neither is interested in a head coach commitment of an 8-1 Big Ten team, follow their recommendations about who to contact next and ask them; beg if necessary, if they would be willing to consider a consulting gig for the recruitment process. Urban Myer is a fine coach and leader, but regardless of who PSU ultimately chooses, efforts to rebuild the PSU brand must start with a nationally recognizable face of a trusted and respected winner, like yesterday.
Champions attract champions and without that, it is like asking collegiate coaching candidates to walk into the lion’s den (pun intended) wearing a raw steak necklace. You will not even get one to tour Lasche, trust me on this.
This strategy would likely also include a public facing spokesperson effort, and worth every penny if that is all you can get a commitment for from either coach.
Pay them to sit in the lobby. Pay them to ride the elevator a few times, but get them on grounds. Pay them to have a motivational meeting with the team.
If you have some strong players they could attach to quickly and produce an “I remember when I was a young fig on the tree” memory synapses, it couldn’t hurt.
Instruct all team members never to roll the eyes should the phrase “When I was your age we played ball with pads made of glass and never wore cleats in the snow”; if they told me that I would believe it.
This is the kind of benchmarking that will revitalize wilting spirits of a young athlete, and the parents with the trembling hand over the eject button.
Half the free world is digging old milk cartons out of the recyclables to see if they recognize any kids they may have seen with Sandusky or on the sidelines of a game- they need a new visual association.
As you already know, if you are lucky enough to get this far, they will advise you to release every staffer from the interim athletic director to the water boys that were ever part of Paterno’s camp or rolled up his pants before the game. Do it.
This might be a good time to allow a try before they buy scenario if either are willing, as “guest coaches” to finish the season.
While I am at it, I might suggest a reality miniseries of the process- I know some folks from HBO familiar with the Hard Knocks of football, I would be glad to make a connection.
Donate those proceeds to Coach Parcells or Coach Cowher’s disadvantaged children’s charity of choice which is vetted in advance by a specially appointed member chosen by the new Ethics officer.
Point is, you need immediate public support and that will require immediate damage control or your Titanic does not even have the measly lifeboat option.
The public perception is that there is more to this horror movie after the commercial, and the commercials are disappearing as well.
Your job is to employ the resources that can change the channel when the public is not looking, and forget what they were watching in favor of the new programming, which includes sponsors aligned with that audience.
It is about as transparent of a plan as I can offer- with hope and promise to the innocent victims of this tragedy.
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According to this article, Sue used the football building pool to work out:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/sue_paterno_told_she_cant_use.html
I’m sorry, but that’s just odd. Sue’s been great for Penn State, and special perks et al are to be expected, but working out in the football building? I guess if she’d go in with Joe, it makes some sense.
I’m not special enough to even know there was a pool in there, although I guess I should have realized. I’ve walked by that building THOUSANDS of times.
Hershey Trust was blocked by state of PA from selling its controlling shares of the candy co. Hershey Trust decided not to sell. However, Hershey Trust Co. recently sold off its money mgt co, which has a couple of legal difficulties. Oh, one of those went away when the petitioner, Reese, withdrew it. The other is an ongoing investigation by the AG’s office. (I’m sure that’s scaring them!) Some snips here, along with my explanatory editing, in brackets.
“In a news release announcing the sale in February [2011], LeRoy Zimmerman, chairman of the [Hershey] trust company’s board of directors, said the merger [with Bryn Mawr Trust, another money mgt co, which was expected to pick up $1.1 BILLION in assets]would allow the trust company to return its full focus to managing the assets of the Milton Hershey School Trust.
Its management of those assets has come under scrutiny over the last year. In the fall, the state’s Office of Attorney General announced it was investigating transactions involving the trust company. That review is continuing, said a spokesman for the office.
Meanwhile, in February, former trust company President and Board Member Robert Reese filed a petition in Dauphin County Orphans’ Court alleging, among other things, that the company violated Security and Echange Commission policy on the co-mingling of private retirement accounts and the company’s general trust funds.
A trust company spokeswoman said the sale of the private wealth management group has nothing to do with Reese’s petition. Reese withdrew the petition in early April citing health concerns.”
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/05/hershey_trust_bryn_mawr_trust.html
Here’s one acct of Corbett’s timeline wrt investigation the running of the Hershey Trust; my snips are of only the first and last time entries:
“Fall 2004: Telephone conference and meeting with then Attorney General candidate Tom Corbett, apprising him of Hershey Trust dysfunction and need for reform of charity’s board, one led by Corbett crony Roy Zimmerman.”
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October 6, 2010: Tom Corbett suddenly declares, “An investigation was initiated last month based on information we had received [at that time];” i.e., the precise opposite of what Corbett said in his September 2, 2010 media statement, when he belittled the allegations made against his political cronies.”
from:
http://www.protecthersheychildren.org/shame.html
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HEY! Where are all you guys? Are there football games going on or sumpthin’? (Not a football follower here)
if anybody needs the names and dates in office of PA Attorneys General, here’s the link. It has more detail. Scroll down to the Elected AGs–they weren’t till 1980, IIRC:
http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/theoffice.aspx?id=170
Boz says:
November 23, 2011 at 1:30 pm
I’m sorry, at this point I find it very hard to trust anyone.
Nor should we. I never thought this would accumulate into something so sinister and ‘black market’ like. It’s mafia mentality…funneling children like money.
Oh, THAT LeRoy Zimmerman! The one whose attorney, Gaylor Dissinger, killed himself, it’s said. Shot himself in the left side of his skull, although with his right hand. Oh, and Zimmerman found his body. Is this factual, locals?
snipped:
“In the 1980s, controversies surrounding Pennsylvania Attorney General LeRoy Zimmerman and his connections with bribery scandals and organized crime figures made Zimmerman’s campaign contributions the subject of intense scrutiny. The man responsible for Zimmerman’s 1980 contribution reports, Attorney Gaylor Dissinger, died under mysterious circumstances.
The death of Gaylor Dissinger became one of the most enduring mysteries of Pennsylvania law enforcement. Dissinger worked for Zimmerman in various capacities, in the DA’s office, in the campaign, in the AG’s office.”
http://www.yardbird.com/midnight_ride_another_missing_PA_prosecutor_1.htm
So you guys are doing a fab job picking up what I am putting down, lol.
I am just shocked at the obvious level of disinterest in cases of elected officials and their offices
Where is the media on such cases with the passing of sunshine laws and FOIA?
B
After Tom Ridge’s “success” (tongue in cheek) in designing the Dept of Homeland …, I wouldn’t appoint him to replace Judge W Adams in Aransas Tx, just my opinion, politics aside & focusing on mgmt skills.
saxey
In regards to your link to the article about the connection of UC Davis and Penn. State with Freeh, I find this to be a little disturbing.
After reading the article a second time, it occured to me that what are the names of the other eighteen schools involved in this work with the FBI? The other thing is the original purpose seems to have been dropped in order to attach themselves to other things.
Why would the FBI want to take such a position with large universities? Maybe the FBI is not the agency to depend on in regards to this investigation.
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Hershey Trust probe pits Corbett vs. ally
December 19, 2010|By Bob Fernandez, Inquirer Staff Writer
They are longtime friends and close political allies, Tom Corbett and LeRoy S. Zimmerman, one about to become Pennsylvania’s governor and the other a Republican elder who helped the younger man on his long climb from Allegheny County to the pinnacle of the state’s political power.
Now that relationship has an added dimension: Gov.-elect Corbett remains, for now, Attorney General Corbett, and his office has confirmed that it is investigating the $7.5 billion Hershey Trust, overseen by Zimmerman, himself a former two-term attorney general.
http://www.thehersheycompany.com/investors/corporate-governance/board-of-directors.aspx
From The Hershey Board of Directors
THOMAS J. RIDGE, age 65, has been a Hershey director since November 2007 and is a member of the Finance and Risk Management Committee and the Governance Committee. Mr. Ridge is President and Chief Executive Officer of Ridge Global, LLC, Washington, D.C., a global strategic consulting company. He has held that position since July 2006. Additionally, in April 2010, Mr. Ridge became a partner in Ridge Policy Group, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., a bi-partisan, full-service government affairs and issue management group. From April 2005 to July 2006, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomas Ridge LLC. From October 2001 to February 2005, Mr. Ridge was Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Prior to his service as Secretary of Homeland Security, he was Governor of Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001. Mr. Ridge’s background and experience have prepared him well for membership on our Board. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Ridge Global, he leads a team of international experts that helps businesses and governments address issues such as risk management, global trade security, technology integration and crisis management. As a partner in Ridge Policy Group, he provides strategic advice to clients to assist them in navigating the complexities of state and local government and raising awareness of their products and services that are relevant to government markets. As twice-elected Governor of Pennsylvania, he earned a reputation for high standards and results and championed issues such as health care and the environment. As Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, he formed a new agency from 22 agencies employing more than 180,000 employees. Mr. Ridge has been a director of Exelon Corporation since May 2005, a director of Brightpoint Inc. since September 2009 and a director of Geospatial Holdings, Inc. since April 2010. He was formerly a director of Vonage from August 2005 to April 2010 and Home Depot, Inc. from May 2005 to May 2007. Mr. Ridge holds a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from Harvard University and a Juris Doctor degree from The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University.
http://www.mhs-pa.org/about/contact-information/board-of-managers-bios
Milton Hershey School Board of Managers
LeRoy S. Zimmerman
Appointed: 2003; Chair 2006-present
Highlights: Partner, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC (1989-2001); Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1981-89); District Attorney of Dauphin County (1965-80). Board affiliations include Select Medical Corporation; Chairman, Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University; President, The Pennsylvania Society; The Whitaker Center for Science and Arts; The Hall Foundation.
I found this illustration useful, as a starting point:
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/women/upload/2011/11/800px-Gerald_Sandusky_Sexual_Abuse_Findings_of_Grand_Jury.png
Rather than clips and snips, I’m going to use simple talk to see if I have this right and anyone can correct me, please. The Hershey’s created a trust for orphans which eventually expanded in to many other endeavors. The assets of the trust include 77% (controlling interest) of Hershey stock. The board for the trust essentially controls the company by virtue of majority shares. Because the trust is charitable, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Attorney General, who can challenge decisions of the board if the AG office thinks the board is not acting in the best interest of the charity.
All I have to do it sprinkle the names Zimmerman, Corbett, Ridge and other governors, wanna be governors, board members and AG’s and one can see who and how the trust is controlled. The fact that these people were involved enough in the Hershey trust implies they may have been aware of a pedophile in their midst for ten years.
The control of a part public, part private, part charitable institution such as Hershey or Penn State seems like it is a lawyers cherry pickin’ dream to argue or determine what laws apply to whom and when. Hershey Trust, Penn State, very parallel situations. These are the very institutions that in one way or another, have control over some of the vulnerable children in the state and control over some of the larger assets in the state. Am I warm?
http://trustsandestates.com/news/estate_hershey_power_play/
Letter to IRS citing corruption of OAG office including Corbett re: Hershey kids.
http://www.protecthersheychildren.org/documents/IRS_9_1_2010.pdf
It’s one-tenth of a mile from Boal Mansion Museum (managed by Christopher G. Lee, previously charged with a child sex assault) to Springfield House B&B (owner/operators: Bill Speakman, VP of Development for Second Mile, as late as summer 2010, and his wife a 30 yr teacher & sports coach). I wonder if the Speakmans know anything about Lee.
http://www.springfieldhousebb.com/boalsburg_about_us.html
OOps! Posted this under Kyron’s thread. Although there’s an Oregon connection, it belongs here:
While he was at Oregon State University, Graham Spanier wrote in The Journal of Marriage and Family(Vol 51, No. 1, Feb, 1989) that his father was abusive toward both his wife (GS’ mother) and his children. I didn’t attempt access to the full article, but I’m sure there’s more of interest there to anyone wishing a fuller look at the life of GS.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/352363
Sure hope Louis Freeh’s Penn State review of policy and procedures is paying him well. Cause, if I’ve got this right, he has to come up with a $26 million bond as a requirement of new appointment as trustee in the bankruptcy of MF Global (subject to court approval; court docs just filed):
“Former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh has been tapped to be the trustee for MF Global’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
…The U.S. Trustee for the New York region requested court approval for the appointment, according to documents filed Friday.
…In the MF Global case, Freeh must obtain a bond of no less than $26 million as part of his appointment, according to a separate court filing on Friday.”
snipped from an Associated Press article, by almost everyone, but this one at:
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/142785325/ex-fbi-chief-named-trustee-in-mf-global-bankruptcy
Wow, Beejay. I guess in PA, if you are the DA, you have two ways to go from there, dead or governor?
Not funny, but lol.
Erose has her snark on.
B
@erose: you got this article with Hershey Trust Co. board compensation for the 2009-10 fiscal year? Plus other interesting stuff. Reader comments are telling, including one by Ric Fouad, a 1980 graduate of the Hershey School.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/06/hershey_trust_co_board_members.html
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If I were working on this systematically, I’d look back at everything of interest published by the Patriot-News before The Scandal broke loose.
Also more detailed info on Zimmerman and on Reese, who filed that petition, then withdrew it, citing “health reasons.” (I guess!) Scroll down to see exactly what/when Reese was involved:
http://www.themilt.com/forums/extop_hershey_official_alleges_charity_wrongdoings
Elsewhere, Zimmerman was said to be the push behind that pricey refurbishing of the Hershey Hotel, resulting in the practical joke placing a “Zimm’s Place” banner above his photo. He’s on the board for Hershey Entertainment, which includes the hotel and amusement park and golf course. (And, IIRC, didn’t somebody already try to develop that buffer area they bought? No, I think I’m getting that confused with a similar parcel up on North Fox Island.)
And, I just gotta say, if I were a pedophile looking for a place to commit crimes against kids, that whole Hershey complex seems ideal. It was one of the regular sites for those big Sandusky/Second Mile celebrations for foster families and their kids.
Correction: banner read “Zimm’s Palace” not “Zimm’s Place”
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Zimmerman’s son-in-law getting (unearned) consulting fees for years, per Reese’s petition?
“The Reese petition also contains a reference to an unnamed son-in-law:
…the payment by the Charity directly or through wholly- owned affiliates of the Charity to a government relations consulting company, one of whose principals is the son-in- law of a trustee. These payments average $100,000 per year over several years, and there is not substantial evidence that equal consideration was received by the Charity and its affiliates. These payments for many years were not included in the Form 990. The company involved and at least one of its principals (not the trustee’s son-in-law) has been indicted by the Pennsylvania Attorney-General’s Office. The Company and individual involved have denied and are contesting the Attorney-General’s charges.”
[there's more!]
link:
http://news.thesunontheweb.com/news/2011-02-17/Front_Page/The_Reeses_Revolution.html
Check out Zimmerman’s Martindale-Hubbell listing. Interesting practice areas include Gaming. Oh, plus other board positions, etc.
http://www.martindale.com/LeRoy-S-Zimmerman/1521445-lawyer.htm
Hi Blink and all.
I found this transcript of a sermon (?) delivered by Tim Henderson of Cru, which is the Penn State chapter of the Campus Crusade for Christ. It is a bit long, so I hope I’m okay with the ten percent snip. Deficiency of Love, indeed. Thanks for all the love here at Blink.
…Guys, I want to suggest to you that what we’ve seen on campus this week, at multiple levels in the organization, and maybe in our own hearts as well, is a deficiency of love.
Who should be fired? Who should be in jail? I don’t know. The cops and judges and the Board of Trustees- that’s their job. But do you think that if the witnesses, coaches and administrators had loved the boys who were being raped, they’d be quibbling about obligations? Love compels action. Love moves to protect.
I’ve heard of students questioning what this means about the value of their degree, or the future of the football program. Really? You’re young. As I’d had conversations with many I’ve realized that your moral compasses are still being built. You’re still filling in the blank spaces about what’s right and wrong in different situations. But can I just poke you a little bit? Those questions should be way down your list. If it was your little brother, your son being raped in a shower by a 50 year old man, would those questions even occur to you?
I have a ten-year old son. I don’t often see my kids naked, I just don’t have occasion to. But curiously on Monday night I was in my sons’ room when they were getting ready for bed and I saw Max naked. He’s a little guy. He is a fragile, vulnerable, easily exploited little guy. You don’t have kids yet, so this part of your world hasn’t come online, but I couldn’t help but imagine Max pressed against a shower wall. And there is no one there who loves him. There’s someone there. Someone who abuses him. And there’s someone there who sees him, and whom he sees, and then footsteps.
Do you know what you are doing when you are ten years old pressed against a shower wall getting raped? You’re hoping that someone comes to your rescue. And he does. Some 6’4″ 280 pound guy turns the corner and you see him and he sees you, and he walks away, and hope turns to despair.
There’s no one there who loves him…
Danggit… Forgot link: add www
http://pennstatecru.org/deficiencyfull.html
@ erose. To summarize the Ridge recent CV you posted (businesses post-Cabinet Secr), it’s called l o b b y i s t….
in DC-speak.
@lizzy. About that Christianity Today summary-chart, while there are doubtless a lot of subscribers in western PA, personally I’d suggest it has its relationships too . I was a neighbor & friend of the founding editor til the family left DC & knew many writers. It became what the founder’s wife called a “house organ” after its sale long ago. Mostly Republicans in there, a lot of overlap with Colson’s circle of supporters back in ’80s, 90s (time I was familiar with) as well as a Fellowship Foundation relationships overlap…filled with politicians there, and secretive. I loved the mag in the 60s;haven’t trusted that mag’s reporting in several decades though.
erose,
YOU is Hot! Your portrayal is composed of exactly the research, passion, and position we need to hear. You (and others here) reveal to us the informaton that sends us to the Advocacy Phone to ask the questions and tell the story. These are VICTIMS, if someone didn’t notice–victims of heinous abuse–victims of Life-Theft, for gawd’s sake.
Thank you to all of you (so many:beejay,rose,erose,blink,lizzy,atg, ragdoll, al miller who post here and for those who care so much to make difference in the future.
My sincere thanks Word Girl, as always-
B
http://www.eurekaencyclopedia.com/index.php/Category:Opus_Dei_US
Looking to see if Freeh is active in the Family which I’d be willing to bet on (the former Oregonian Doug Coe’s outfit), I stumbled on above. Under Freeh’s name there’s a tidbit on his Pittsburgh brother
I’m not going to do the followup research, so am posting for anyone who wants to. Who was the second emailer in the Hershey school houseparent Charney case? Has he been identified? He was on the receiving end of Charney’s email, and was apparently in a position to trade boys.
Snipping from a very long series of posts; scroll down or word-search it using “Charney”:
“In late November 2009, AOL flagged suspicious e-mail communications between two e-mail users in Pennsylvania, one of whom used the screen name matthew343@aim.com.
The first of the e-mail exchanges was Nov. 27, 2009, when matthew343@aim.com wrote: “Nothing here but it is exciting to hear about your endeavors. You have any pics of the two new ones? I often think about ryan and wish I had followed through On our plan for you and him to come to hershey. Maybe some day this summer I can Get away and travl your way.”
Two days later, the second e-mailer wrote to matthew343@aim.com: “Sure, here you go, i think i’ve already shown you zack’s pics, right? these are the two new ones. let me know if you ever want to make it happen with one of my boys, they’re always available.”
Less than an hour later, the second e-mailer added that he might need to trade for pictures. Matthew343@aim.com responded: “i am up for trading.” The traded pictures were graphic and contained images of young boys engaged sexual activity, according to court documents.”
link:
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?8900-Rumor-Claims-Sandusky-%93Pimped-Out%94-Boys-to-Rich-Donors
Acc. to this same post, the FBI raided Charney’s campus home in Feb. 2010; in April, 2011 he pled guilty to one count of receiving and distributing child porn.
Daryl F. Bloom was the asst U.S. attorney on that case. He said that Charney had cooperated in a government investigation. Parts of the case remain sealed. And that as of April, 2011 the U.S. Attorney’s Office would not comment on the second e-mailer.
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There’s a lot more there for data-mining, including more of Ric Fouad’s efforts on behalf of Hershey school kids.
Did someone post this?
http://articles.philly.com/2011-02-11/news/28350544_1_dauphin-county-orphans-court-hershey-trust-hershey-organization/3
talk about looting a charity for children to the extent of bankrupting a gold-plated business
If the DOJ isn’t investigating, I’ll be saddened.
Not too long ago Corbett did some kind of physical relocation and/or merging (??) of PA State Police, headed by Frank Noonan, and some other investigative body–for reasons of efficiency. I’ve lost that reference, but Noonan bears a critical look. Long post, #22 at the link; scroll down near page bottom for more:
“…the head of the Pennsylvania state police, who also leading the state investigation into Sandusky along with the current attorney general, worked at the FBI when Freeh was its director.
Frank Noonan was named Chief of Criminal Investigations for Tom Corbett in July 2009, after Sandusky case allegedly came to Attorney General Corbett in March 2009.
Noonan was at the FBI from 1971 until his retirement in 1998.
Freeh was the director of the FBI from September 1993 to June 2001.”
https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?8900-Rumor-Claims-Sandusky-“Pimped-Out”-Boys-to-Rich-Donors/page3
@Rose: Is Peggy Noonan (active in Opus Dei) related to PA State Police head Frank Noonan?? And, then, is Frank in Opus Dei? And will you ‘splain to Blinksters what Opus Dei has to do with the Franklin Coverup?
” Frank Noonan, Pennsylvania Police Commissioner and former FBI Special Agent, could not be reached for comment, nor was it immediately apparent whether Noonan is related to the Reagan-Bush Presidential speech writer Peggy Noonan who coined the term 1000 Points of Light for the George Herbert Walker Bush Presidential campaign.”
snipped from:
http://www.franklinfiles.net/t46142772/penn-state-child-rape-scandal-no-tailgate-party-franklin-inf/?page=1
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Remembering that The Second Mile won that Point of Light award once.
hershey operates a plant in memphis ,tenn.
A Texas Grandfather says:
November 25, 2011 at 8:12 pm
saxey
In regards to your link http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/10250-the-fbi-link-between-penn-state-and-uc-davis.html to the article about the connection of UC Davis and Penn. State with Freeh, I find this to be a little disturbing.
After reading the article a second time, it occured to me that what are the names of the other eighteen schools involved in this work with the FBI? The other thing is the original purpose seems to have been dropped in order to attach themselves to other things.
Why would the FBI want to take such a position with large universities? Maybe the FBI is not the agency to depend on in regards to this investigation.<
ATG: Not only was PSU a member of this 'elite' organization, Spanier was the chairperson as recently as February 2011. He must enjoy a very close relationship with the FBI. In this article Spanier emphasizes monitoring terrorism threats as one of the purposes of this council.
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-universities-major-role-national.html
Ugh…this is getting very very concerning.
As of 2007, the 20 members of the FBI-sponsored National Security Higher Education Advisory Board were the presidents of these universities: PENN STATE, Carnegie Mellon, Iowa State, Johns Hopkins; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the Universities of California at Los Angeles and San Diego, Florida, Maryland at College Park, North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin at Madison; also Rice, Arizona State, University of Colorado at Boulder, NYU, Michigan State and Cornell.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/10/04/fbi
@lizzy: Matthew Jones have any meaning to you?
Correction: that martindale-hubbell link is NOT the
Leroy Zimmerman under discussion here. Our guy’s middle initial is M. Our guy died in 2002, IIRC. I read that our guy admitted having ties to a gang member.
Thanks for the links Saxey.
The more we dig, the more we find things to question. This is going to be one big, big can or a multitude of cans filled with wormy activities and ugly misguided people.
We have to remember that “Power Corrupts and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely”. Leaving people in charge of something too long leads to this type of problem.
It is appearing that the Hershey school and the Hershey Trust may be involved in several ways with criminal activities including a tie to Sandusky.
One of my very fave quotes, ATG.
I have a slightly optimistic slant today, that on the surface may seem odd.
Charitable institutions of any proportion come under the jurisdiction of the Attorney General office.
Might be a secant approach.
Yeah Jets.
B
After reading the Inside Higher Education piece, it appears that in the name of security, the schools have opted to embrace the FBI. This may or may not be good.
Anyone remember CREEP?
12/5/72 @ 12:31:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BvW-3H3SLG4J:www.nixonlibrary.gov/virtuallibrary/documents/PDD/1972/061%2520December%25201972.pdf+leroy+s+zimmerman+1973+Harrisburg+national+prayer+breakfast&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
bTW “National Prayer Breakfast” is a synonym for the Family.
Others affiliated with Hershey:
Joe senser. Board mgr for the school-trust. Keynote speaker woodsbury prayer breakfast 2009
Ron Glosser. CEO Hershey Trust. (has a comment on june scobee rogers page endorsing her as a speaker)
See for Glosser bio (ceo of the trust (H Myra, longtime in charge of mag Cristianity Today here too):
http://www.dbu.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=237
The very Fellowship Family involved C Stenholm organized the first Congressman’s retreat at Hershey claiming the 200 Congressmen plus wives & kids went without taxpayer or interest group expense:
http://www.washcampus.edu/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=Congressman%20Charlie%20Stenholm&category=Core%20Speakers%20and%20Bios&submenu=About_Us. So did Hershey Trust underwrite? The 2nd one had Pew backing.
Lizzy, you can touch base maybe with fellow faculty Lucy bryan green, although her apologetic for the Family in Sojourners was based on a mere summer with them
how far afield is Hershey’s issues from Sandusky & the victims?
Political ties? Business ties? Club ties? Any effect on investigations & prosecutions?
I see a scandal that has been associated with the Trust involves wasting assets on a golf course purchase. Golf was a biggie with Coe. A close friend of my husband’s, who was extremely into the Fellowship, said he did much of his “ministering” to people in power while on the course.
Hejlena
Thanks for the snip and link to the Tim Henderson sermon.
The two main ways that the Master taught were by parables and the astute use of questions.
The parable of the “Good Samaritan” was based upon the fact that in that time the Samarians were thoght to be the less civilized of the tribes. Its purpose was two fold. First to illustrate love and care for others. The second was that even in a supposedly less civilized group, there were those who understood the admonition that it was necessary to love and care for your neighbor as yourself and further were willing to extend that to a stranger thereby extending the concept of neighbor.
We find in this case that coach McQuery lacked the development of his moral compass and did not understand what love represented. Twenty-eight years of age and was not yet a loving adult. We need to be a lot more careful of those that are charged with teaching our children and young people. Those that do not understand love and have not developed a good moral compass should not be allowed to teach at any level.
As evil as we find these activities, there is hope that a great lesson can be gained by confronting those who are participants and taking steps to make it difficult for it to be repeated. It is only when evil is confronted by good that it can be removed.
Hellp! Can somebody straighten me out as to who is who?
Leroy S. Zimmerman (as I incorrectly posted at 1:15pm today) IS the guy we’re interested in. He IS the very-much-alive heavy hitter at Hershey trust and school. An atty, and twice ATTY general of PA
So, then who is Leroy M Zimmerman, a former, now deceased, PA legislator? And have I/anyone else here gotten these two mixed up earlier? I think it’s gonna be relevant later on.
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@erose: I thought you’re comment about the career paths was hilarious! Laugh so you don’t cry genre.
My link to Nixon’s appointment on 12/5/72 notes the DA Zimmeeman was the head of Pennsylvania organization
Beejay, I don’t think Opus Dei relates to anything, except Freeh’s brother is a bigwig in Pittsburgh, and I think those noted attwnding the VA church (Freeh, Scalia, etc, probably owed their Federal jobs perhaps due to Fellowship connectivity. If I remember right, the Quales & Bill Bennetts were very involved too at one time (latter’s son at same school as Freeh’s was).
@beejay. I bought the lady’s autobio long ago, but promptly forgot contents.
http://www.peoplefinders.com/p/Peggy+Noonan
lists a NY Peggy related to a Frank, but plenty of Frank Noonans in the world.
She had 1 brother–could be.
interesting this FBI retiree Noonan walked into a job at top of PA State police.
for political connections? I guess he’ll return Freeh’s calls.
How much confidentiality will the
PA AG expect of him versus his enabling Freeh’s Peen State work.
What a choice Freeh was!
Nice quotes from Frank Noonan here:
http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/555300.html
eRose-
I wish I could be more helpful, you don’t know the number of comments I have crafted, then deleted out of “misgivings”. All this stuff all links up. If you follow pedo rings in the military, Intelligence, DC, at the tippy top of the stinkin’ heap, the same names, the same deals, the same same. Even Deborah Jean Palfrey always reminded people interviewing her to ask “WHY NOW”, when stuff like this (and hers) had been going on for years and years and decades and decades, with ppl going to LE all. the. time. Ask yourselves *the* most important question: Why Now. The answer is the election next year. Don’t let politcal dirt bag scum on both sides of the aisle play politics with this vicious child-mind-killing scandal.
@beejay–Well, MJ’s a pretty common name, and I’ve met more than one such person over the past couple of decades. Without context or a middle name, I can’t say.
@Rose–Green finished her graduate degree and I’m not sure if she’s still teaching. But I know the name because she’s the editor of a local alternative newspaper that I often read, and for which a friend sometimes writes. Voices of Central PA.
@Rose–Embarassing confession–as a teenager, I was one of “Charlie’s Angels” when Stenholm first ran for Congress. Can’t believe anybody ever talked me into wearing a t-shirt like that, lol. Better memory–had lunch with a group including him and Ladybird years later in D.C. I pretty much faded out of my political bent through the years since.
@beejay–It’s really over half a mile from Springfield House to the Boal Mansion; the Mansion is at 300 Old Boalsburg Road while Springfield House is at 126 East Main. (And, for the record, I live around 3 miles from the Mansion.) Also, Speakman retired from his Second Mile position some years ago.
@rose: thanks for responding.
BTW, looks like Frank Noonan had a couple of short interim jobs betwn FBI & top cop now, but he sure was on the fast-track.
“Noonan, who graduated from West Chester University, began his career as an investigator as an FBI agent in 1971. After retiring from the FBI, Noonan was appointed northeast regional director for the Attorney General’s Bureau of Narcotics Investigation.
He was promoted to Chief of Criminal Investigations for the Office of Attorney General in July 2009.”
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2010/12/gov-elect_tom_corbett_nominate.html
Blinkers- great job with information! The truth is out there. May those (it seems many) be brought down with a major dose of the wrath of God. This is so sickening.
Syracuse basketball coach fired amid sex abuse investigation.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/27/justice/syracuse-coach-allegations/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Yep, Rose, here’s Zimmerman’s law firm’s lobbying registration in 1999; client: GM
http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=BAA4592F-5E7D-498A-A791-C7A0F41C0857