Thoughtful greetings to our alumni

This year, instead of sending holiday greetings, ELI teachers and staff have decided to share some “bits of wisdom,” a saying or quote that is special to them. We hope you find some food for thought in this new addition. Sources are listed where known.

Baerbel Schumacher: baerbel@udel.edu
To all my friends: remember, life is an adventure—throw caution to the wind!

Barbara Gillette: gillette@udel.edu
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Barbara Morris: bmorris@udel.edu
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Bonnie Dawson: bddurh@aol.com
Reaching for dreams is difficult, but those who do walk in starlight!

Chris Wolfe: cbwolfe@udel.edu
We make a living by what we get.We make a life by what we give. ~ Winston Churchill

Deb Detzel: debdetzl@udel.edu
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back but they are gone.We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. ~ Marian Wright Edelman

Dru Arban: druarb@udel.edu Live life! Dance to your own drummer!!

Grant Wolf: grantw@udel.edu and Debra Darrell: ddarrell@udel.edu
If you desire with all your heart friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread . . . growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all . . . ~ Abdu'l-Baha

Jan Lefebvre: janlef113@yahoo.com Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. ~ Emily Dickinson

Janet Louise: jlouise@udel.edu
Failure is impossible. ~ Susan B. Anthony

Jo Gielow: gielowj@christina.k12.de.us
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. ~ Mark Twain

June Quigley: junerq@netzero.net
Life is an adventure: it depends on you to make it worthwhile and keep your dreams always in front of you!

Kathleen Vodvarka: chessie@udel.edu
Never lose your sense of humor. The happiest people are the ones who are able to laugh at themselves. ~ Bessie and Sadie Delany

Kelly Galvin: kgalvin@udel.edu
May the roof above us never fall in, and may the friends gathered below it never fall out. ~ Irish blessing

Ken Cranker: kjcranker@yahoo.com
Whatever you do, do it with all your heart. The more you put into something, the more you get out of it.

Ken Hyde: kenny@udel.edu
If you of all your worldly goods are bereft, And unto you, but two loaves of bread are left, Sell one, and with the dole, Buy hyacinths to feed your soul. ~ Sa’di

Kristen Shrewsbury: shrewskm@udel.edu
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness. ~ Mark Twain

Laurie Fuhrmann: lfuhrman@udel.edu
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Lee Horzempa
Justice shall be achieved when those of us who are not injured are as angry as those who are.

Leslie Criston: greece@udel.edu
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. ~ Jerry Seinfield

Lisa Grimsley: grimsley@udel.edu
You can either get busy living or get busy dying! ~ from the movie “Shawshank Redemption”

Mary Beth Worrilow: worrilow@udel.edu
Behind every successful woman is a substantial amount of coffee.

Mary Long: mblong@udel.edu
I was gonna say, the problem is they know what matters, but they don't choose it. The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters. ~ The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd.

Rebecca Nessenthaler Toner: rebeccaness@ yahoo.com
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. ~ Confucius

Russ Mason: rmason@udel.edu
Only one who is willing to give his body for the sake of the world is fit to be entrusted with the world. Only he who can do it with love is worthy of being the steward of the world. ~ from Tao Teh Ching #13 by Lao Tzu

Sarah and Jerry Petersen: gerald.petersen@verizon.net
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better person. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Scott Stevens: sstevens@udel.edu
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. ~ Helen Keller

Susan Coakley: scoakley@udel.edu
As I get older, I have discovered that skills I learned when I was young I still have today. So, learn as much as you can while you're young—it's a good investment!

Walt Babich: wcbabich@udel.edu
Mr. Fox, sir, I won't do it. I can't say it. I won't chew it. ~ Knox in Dr. Seuss's “Fox in Sox”

Wendy Bulkowski: delwindo@yahoo.com
Keep curious.