The Writer's Life 6/9 - The Right Stuff

From Yahoo Sports, edited by yours truly: Golf is frequently referred to as "the great game of honor." A South Dakota high school student takes the idea to heart. Kate Wynja won the state tournament by several strokes. As other players began recording their scores, she came to a wrenching realization: she had written a four instead of a five on her scorecard for the 18th hole. Under the rules of golf, that is grounds for disqualification. Making the circumstance doubly excruciating, she had to report it herself. No one flagged the error. No one else noticed. She told her coach, and the two broke the news to tournament directors. She lost the state title, and her school fell to second place, losing out on the team title. The most infamous such instance occurred in 1968 when Roberto di Vicenzo lost the Masters by signing an incorrect scorecard. Here's hoping there are other titles in Miss Wynja's future. She certainly has the right stuff. She is a true winner, a big leaguer in the field of humanity. Kudos. Here's a pic:

My thanks to the gentleman who bought James Michener's Mexico, and to the young Latino couple who purchased Mind over Money: Match Your Personality to a Winning Financial Strategy by John W. Schott and Jean S. Arbeiter; to the elderly woman who selected romances by Debbie Macomber and Barbara Taylor Bradford; to the young man who snapped up a plate emblazoned with a colorful depiction of Moses and The Ten Commandments; and to the woman who did a swap of books in Russian. The highlight of the session came when Tante, a Filipino who has self-published several books in his first language, pulled up in his SUV, said he was cleaning out his library, and donated two boxes filled with non-fiction on religion, politics, etiquette, and other subjects. The only fiction included was George Orwell's 1984 and a hardcover of Edith Hamilton's world famous collection of Greek Mythology. One of the books is particularly interesting: Songs and Poems: For Better or Verse by Henry Foner, a union leader and social activist heretofore unfamiliar to me. He and his three brothers were ousted from NYC teaching positions because of their ties to communists. He became director for welfare and education at what was then the Joint Board Fur Dressers' and Dryers' Union. Not surprising, he was a friend of Pete Seeger. Since his politics were/are the opposite of mine, I did not plan to mention him until I saw he was awarded both the Legion of Merit and the Italian Military Valor Cross during WWII. That's infinitely more than anything I've ever done for this great country. He died in 2017 at 97. (Facts from Wiki)

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