HOORAY

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The idea started small.  What could we do for Fred?  We said, “Please don’t send flowers to the Service – We want something lasting.” 

Nancy came up with a suggestion.  “Fred didn’t finish the teaching that he loved.  Let’s do it for him.”  Next came phone calls and talking it out.  Yes, it can be done.  It takes $10,000.00 to set up an endowed Scholarship – the kind that keeps growing and stays around forever.  Who’s got a spare 10 g’s in their pocket?

We found out -- Friends and students and caretakers and family and teachers and people from the past and people who care about him now. 

WE  GOT  A  NICE  SURPRISE

IT  TOOK  FOUR  MONTHS TO MEET OUR INITIAL GOAL

Fred’s work will continue!

DR. FREd CHESHIRE SCHOLARSHIP

Glendale College Students needing English language Tutoring

Who did this?  One donation, maybe from a piggy bank, totaled Eight Dollars.  Another letter said “You’re not growing fast enough.  I will double my hundred dollars.”  A former student contributed the largest amount and said:  “His class made all the difference in my life.  I had been bullied and told I was stupid.  Mr. Cheshire didn’t believe that and, when in his class, I had the chance to grow and believe in myself.”

Our Anonymous Donor kept up with all of the contributions and matched until we reached our goal. 

This adds up to a stew-pot mixture of wonderful love for Fred.

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Every contributor receives a notice from Maricopa Community Colleges Foundation that your contribution is income-tax deductible.  You should also have a personal letter signed by Mariam and Magaly to say ‘thank you’ and enclosing “My Story for the Service.”  If you have not received this, please let me know at: MIMAR102@cox.net. 

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The dollars* (see below) that are donated from now until March 16, 2018 will go directly for a Fall 2018 Scholarship.  After that donations will go back into the seed money for growing and awarding.  Sister Nancy insisted that we have the first Scholarship this year due to my 90 year old age.  She wants to be sure that I’m around to give the first Award to one of Dr. Fred’s students. 

THERE’S  NOTHING  I  CAN’T DO

Fred’s biography is progressing.  After leaving the Rio Grande Valley, we are in Phoenix and Fred enrolled in Phoenix College. Anyone with anecdotes of those days please get in touch with me.  I’ve already found out that a mother misses a lot.

*Dollars may go to:    https://mcccdf.org/Cheshire  for credit card Checks may be mailed to:   Please indicate Fred’s name and 5629            Maricopa Community College Foundation,                     2419 West 14th St., Tempe, AZ 85281   . . . or . . . Maricopa Community College Foundation c/o Mariam Cheshire, 613 N. 4th Ave., #616, Phoenix, AZ 85003

Time Travel: Myrt-ty-Ky-Ly Review

Time Travel: Myrt-ty-Ky-Ly Review: Hello Everybody I got a review on my new book – I’m not sure if it’s good or bad – but here it is anyway.   “Lifes and Loves of ...

Myrt-ty-Ky-Ly Review

Hello Everybody

I got a review on my new book – I’m not sure if it’s good or bad – but here it is anyway.  

“Lifes and Loves of Myrt-ty-ty-Ky-Ly, Dragaan Princess.”

Today it would be called "reality" and could be printed on the front page of the newspaper. In the 50's it was hidden, Louey couldn't talk about being raped, not even to her family.
   Louey invented a friend, Myrt-ty-Ky-Ly, the Dragaan Princess, so she had someone to call for help. The author goes back and forth -- first a chapter on Myrt-ty and then a chapter on Louey. They both grow up together. The author admits that Louey's life is based on the treatment she had when she was young. It begins with the way it was in the 1930's and a lack of money, then the 1940's with the war heroes returning, and in the 1950's the treatment of women in the workplace and the result of drugs.
   Myrt-ty's dragaan life seems just as real as Louey's life. Her family might be next door, especially GrandMyrt, who has the same bossiness that my grandma did. Growing up she fights the rules. Why can't she do what boy dragaans do?  Then I can't begin to explain about her love life -- it seems rather powerful in the dragaan society.
   When I heard that Mariam had published a new book, I hoped it would be a sequel to Sanctuary. (The Alternate Safe World of Sanctuary). Although both are 'what-if' books, in Myrt-ty-Ky-Ly she presents more to mull over. One such chapter is when Myrt-ty walks in someone else's shoes. Also, is Louey substituting a Dragaan Princess for God?
   As I write this review I'm reading Myrt-ty for the second time and more slowly to understand what I missed the first time. I definitely give it five stars and recommend it to everyone except children.

Available on Amazon now and will have it available on Kindle shortly.  I’m waiting for answers on how to change the format.  First chapter can be read on:  www.taswos.com

“There’s Nothing I Can’t Do.” Fred’s biography, is up to 20,000 words and he is now in college.  I’ll either have to cut a lot or make this a book of three volumes.  Sigh.  I’m waiting for further stories from people who knew him.

Hugs and blessings to all, Mariam