The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values."

Many people look but they do not see.

The Japanese are hard to understand, but once you do the world is your oyster.

Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.

You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.

I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled in the arts. So that recognition I credit for my growing interest in art that continued to evolve later on.

I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art program.