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George Pollock 9 Tuesday ~~ |
Devoted To Faith And Books
GEORGE POLLOCK
In a Carverton home hidden by
whispering evergreens George Pol-
lock sits in his arm chair, pipe and
books at hand. To a knock at ithe,
door George calls out welcome. You
walk in, draw up a chair; and in
something of awe try to think what
to say to one who has lived within
four years of a century.
He is not one to do much looking
backward, for, as he says, ‘Keep
something ahead”. He thanks God
continually for letting him live so
long. His health is good, and he en-
joys eating as much as ever. His
only weakness is his legs. Certainly
not his head!
George Pollock’s 96th birthday is
Tuesday. He doesn’t go in much for
celebrations, but each year more
and more he contemplates the won-
der of living. Last year the Masonic
Lodge presented him his 50-year
membership pin. He enjoyed his
years of teaching school but regrets
that doctor’s orders were for him
to stay away from the class-room.
His work has been varied, from help-
ing in a butcher shop, keeping store
which he disliked very much, and
truck gardening on land he felt was
not suited for the purpose.
His life was and is books and peo-
ple. Teaching school gave expression
to that ambition, and he asks the
question, “Why does God put with-
in a man ambitions which he can-
not fulfill?” Doubtless others have
asked that same question, but Geo-
rge has made use of the materials
of that ambition in the form of love
of books, He used to teach the men’s
by Rev. Charles H. Gilbert
class in the Carverton Sunday
School. It is remembered that his
method was not lecture style but
that of Socrates who drew out peo-
ple by asking questions te promote
thought. The class seemed to be do-
ing its own teaching for they would
begin with a question from George
and go on to a rich variety of ideas
kindled by the flint and steel of
discussion. He spoke of the best TV
programs as those with maximum
audience participation.
As we talk of books his conver-
sation ran to poetry. Without a
moment’s hesitation he began quot-
ing Whittier’'s “Barefoot Boy”, in
which he agreed with the author
that money is not what makes one
rich. Then he picked up a well-
marked volume and turned to a
page asking me to read Markham’s
“A Creed”:
“There is a destiny that makes
us brothers,
None goes his way alone;
Al] that we send into the lives of
others
Comes back into our own.
1 care not what his temple or his
creeds,
One thing holds firm and fast—
That into his fateful heap of days!
and deeds |
The soul of man is cast”.
After I read that brief poem aloud
George commented that he prefer-
red’ the statement in Ella Wheeler
Wilcox's poem ‘Thoughts are Things’
in which she also says that thoughts
we think come back to us again.
George is familiar with the real-
ity of religious experience. He says,
“T talk to God in my mind”, not for
the purpose of asking God for things
as for the sheer pleasure of knowing
God in his mind and giving thanks
to Him. The home, the teacher and
the preacher he feels are the major |
influences for good on the young. |
He is aware of the trend among!
churches to come closer together in |
work and fellowship, both Protestant |
and Catholic. He has noted also the |
increasing trend in recent years for |
doctors and ministers to consider
their work together. He has recently
been reading Sholem Asch’s book
“Passage in the Night” in which the
author gives the opinion that God is |
more willing to forgive man’s sins
against God than man’s sins against
man, that man needs first of all to
seek forgiveness from man whom
he has wronged.
One significant statement was
this: “I have inherited many things
Hat And Bake Sale
Now that Mrs. Betty Meeker,
Worthy Matron of Dallas Chapter
‘| 396 Order of the Eastern Star, has
returned from Florida she is com-
pleting plans for the “HAT AND
BAKE SALE” in ‘the Lundy Building,
Main Street, Dallas this Friday eve-
ning, March 29 and Saturday,
March 30.
The chairman, Mrs. Evelyn Smith,
has done the window decorations |
and poster advertisements while
Mrs. Elsie Jolley, co-chairman, has
been taking orders for the “BAKE
SALE” Saturday when the public
is invited to shop for hats and |
baked goods.
Completes Course
At Okinawa Base
Marine Private First Class Leslie
W. Dickson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Nicholas Dickson, R.D. 3, Dallas re-
cently completed the basic supply
course at Davidson Schools, Third
Marine Division, - Camp Hansen,
Okinawa.
Students learn basic supply pro-
cedure used by the Fleet Marine
Force.
The Third Marine Division is ‘the
“force-in-readiness” ground element
of the Seventh Fleet in the Far East.
Dickson graduated from West
moreland High School in 1960.
good and bad from people who lived
before I was born. I have been in-
fluenced by many things over which
I had no control”.
George Pollock plainly lives much
in the realms of ideas. Among the
things of nature he loved beautiful
trees. It was he who donated the
evergreens in front of Grange Hall.
And I recall the time when I dug up
some small evergreens from his land
and set them on ‘the parsonage
grounds. One of them now is taller
than the parsonage. Well, George
Pollock’s thoughts have grown tall
with the years and have rooted deep
{ within the soil of eternal reality.
‘George asked me a startling quest-
ion, “Do you ‘think I'm queer?” I
certainly do not. His mind is clear
and keen. What I do think is that
George is unusual in that he has
something in the way of thoughts
to live on as he pushes toward a
century of full living. My observation
is that many people along in years
are in poverty of mind because they
have not attended to the matters
which by contact have made George
Pollock a spiritual millionaire.
George urged me to come again.
“Sometime when you have some dia-
monds of thought to share come in”.
And I went down the: tree-shaded
walk enriched with such diamonds
from George's own treasure-house.
~
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1963 =~
Dallas Junior High
PTA Membership 4700
Dallas‘ Junior High School PTA
' membership is up to 470, a ten per-
cent gain in membership entitling
| the organization to a Gold Leaf Cen-
| tificate from the State, reported
| Dorothy Peifer at a recent meet-
ing of the PTA.
Membership voted to use money
available from present funds to help
furnish a teachers lounge, and to
abandon plans for a spring dance
originally projected to raise addi-
tional funds. Action was taken be-
{cause of healthy ‘financial condition. |
It was voted to support by letter
of approval a proposal by Dallas
| Senior Woman’s Club to set in mo-
j tion tentative plans for a possible
! community building, designed to
, house a medical center and with
{ various rooms for use of area or-
| ganizations. No financial help, it
was felt, could be offered. |
| Mrs. Henry Otto and Mrs. Frank |
| Huttman were named to the nomi-
nating ccommittee, to meet at the
home of Mrs. Jack Barnes.
“Ghost For Rent” was presented
by the Junior High School Dra-|
| matic Club under direction of Miss
| Judith Richards and student director
Pat Martin, a one-act comedy. Play- |
ers ‘were George Block, Jack Up-
dyke, Patty Sickler, Jeri Jordan, |
Sally Otto, Susan Banks, Tom Row- |
ett, Kim Rowddy, and Pat Martin, !
substituting for Colleen Conaghan.
Ann Barnes was stage manager, Bob
Graham and Jim Snyder, Stage crew.
Mrs. Welton Farrar presided, Miss
Esther Saxe led devotions.
Basketball Wizard
Starts Temnis Term
Not satisfied with being high
scorer for Susquehanna University’s
red-hot basketball team which he
led to Middle Atlantic Conference
games this year, tennis letterman
Clark Mosier, Dallas, is scheduled to
return to the courts in a 12-match °
schedule opening April 9. |
|
The Susquehanna team, which ex-
pects a winning season, has three
other returning lettermen in addition
to Clark. |
Susquehanna racquetmen were
forced to hold a number of their
pre-season practices from 11 p.m.
until midnight this year, because |
that was the only time the gymn-
asium was open.
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