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Small World
By Pastor Fred Greco | June 29, 2007
Some of you may have heard of the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding affirmative action in which the Court by a 5-4 vote (with Justices Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Kennedy in the majority) rejected a school diversity plan based on racial criteria. The Court’s decision actually covered two cases with the same issue, one from Kentucky and one from Washington state. You can read a PDF copy of the opinion here.
What you probably didn’t know is that this is yet another instance of the “small world” syndrome. Many in the Christ Church PCA family have head me comment about this minister or that elder in the PCA that I know from various places and times. But I did lead a “former life” as a lawyer - and even before that, as a classics graduate student. In the earlier 1990s (yes, kids, I am that old) I was at the University of Chicago studying Latin and Greek. I became friends with many law students at the University of Chicago’s Law School through a debating society called The Edmund Burke Society. (Yes, talking is nothing new to me!) One of my good friends there was a young law student who after graduation took a job in Seattle. His name was Harry J.F. Korrell. Why this lesson in history?
Because Harry was the lead attorney representing the parents in the Washington State case. He argued before the Supreme Court and won. A lesson for the younger among us: (1) you never know what you can do if you work hard, study hard and strive for excellence; and (2) you often only get one chance to form relationships, and you never know who the person next to you will “turn out to be.” But the one thing that you can be sure of is that the person is made in God’s image, is valuable and is worth your time and commitment.
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June 29th, 2007 at 10:06 am
I think this Korrell fellow is a distant cousin of mine who owes me $10. He moved to WA and changed the spelling of his name. I should now be able to collect.
July 1st, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Fred, is there *anyone* that you don’t know?!
Your last sentence is one I’m going to hang on to and remind my kids of the first day of school.
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:55 am
It is funny, isn’t it, how small the world can be. I am continually amazed at running into people here and there that know people I know. Like running into the assoc. pastor of a PCA church from Tulsa that knows the Bergmans, Van Zants and Comers. Who would think that you would run into people that know your people in Paris?