Summer 2011 History & Heritage — #1

This summer’s history & heritage assignment, should you choose to accept it, is
to review the past 4 exams (Summer 2010, Fall 2010, Winter 2011, Spring 2011) and to read the Christian Almanac Sketches (main article only) for Tuesday and Thursday for the months of June, July, and August.

If you have not saved the earlier test booklets, you’ll find them on the Veritas
website. For the first half of June you should review Summer 2010, and for the second
half Fall 2010.
The Almanac articles for June are as follows: June 2, 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23, 28,
30. Thus far, here’s what I’ve got in terms of possible answers to questions:
June 2 — Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919) and the Bible; please note Roosevelt’s
utterly accurate observation that, “A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than
a college education.” If only TR had lived to see our bastions of higher learning. I’m
sure he’d have amended his remark to read “ten thousand college educations.”
June 7 — Richard Henry Lee of Virginia (1732 – 1794); please note that this American Founding Father, who played such a vital role in the independence movement, was the great-uncle of the Confederacy’s Robert E. Lee (1807 – 1870).
June 9 — “Women and Children First” or Nellie Taft (wife of President William Howard Taft, an Ohioan, who was president from 1909 – 1913); please note what became of Mrs. Taft’s monument to male chivalry in the 1970’s during the height of the feminist movement. Fortunately, the monument lives still along the banks of the Potomac.
June 9 — Therese of Lisieux (1873 – 1897); please note the correct spelling of
“Lisieux” and that Therese was a French Discalced (barefoot) Carmelite nun who lived
only 24 years. Her famous autobiography is entitled Story of a Soul. She’s best known
for her simple courtesies and kindnesses, and an overwhelming mystical experience
which she took to indicate God’s approval of her self-offering in the service of His love.
Today, in the domain of Roman Catholicism, there are many claims of conversions and
miracles resulting from her saintly intercessory prayers.