Education

• Southwest Missouri State University
• Marshfield High

Favorite saying

• "That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse. - Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it. - C. S. Lewis A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain If you can't be a good example, then just be a horrible warning. - Catherine Aird HUMOR: You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - even poverty - you can survive it. - Bill Cosby Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother. - Barbara Johnson~ Writer TRUTH: If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain I've got one story and I'm stickin' with it. - Wanda Robb CLOTHING: If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair. - Erma Bombeck Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain POLITICS: It is obvious that all the powers of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us, to work us into their real or imaginary balances of power...I think it ought to be our rule not to meddle, and that of all the powers of Europe not to desire us, or perhaps even to permit us, to interfere, if they can help it. - John Adams If there is one central truth to be collected from the history of all ages, it is this: that the people's rights and liberties, and the democratical mixture in a constitution, can never be preserved without a strong executive, or in other words, without separating the executive from the legislative power. If the executive power, or any considerable part of it, is left in the hands of an aristocratical or democratical assembly, it will corrupt the legislature as necessarily as rust corrupts iron, or as arsenic poisons the human body; and when the legislature is corrupted, the people are undone. - John Adams Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. - Thomas Jefferson"