Time Machine: Graduation Day, May 26, 1969

L-R: Terrell Shaw, Solomin Lasoi, and ? Singh.

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Ivan Lasoi

Cool! You guys must have been proud of your accomplishment. I've always wondered who the Indian guy was?

Terrell Shaw
His last name was Singh... as are many Sikhs. He was a Kenyan Sikh who either went to, or taught at, the University of Kentucky. Solomon and I became acquainted with him and his family and visited them in Lexington a couple of times. They treated us to wonderful curried chicken and rice and other delicious Indian dishes.

Speaking of food, every now and then Solomon and I would go shopping and gather the ingredients for his Kenyan cuisine... I really enjoyed those meals cooked in the basement of Johnson West. It was a hearty chunky cabbage/beef stew with a corn meal almost solid but not quite mush that we ate with our hands with the stew. It was delicious.

Ivan Lasoi
Wonderful memory. When my brother and I stayed in the dorm over the summer we would make the most of the Fitch's IGA fare...maybe cooked a few things. The corn meal staple is called Ugali.

Terrell Shaw
Yes! Ugali. I think maybe Lisette had reminded me of the name a while back... I'll probably have lost it again next week, but I can look back here to be reminded. Your Dad also made a hot tea/milk drink that was quite good.

Lea Cherono Shabangi
Chai! Kenyan tea is simply the best! If every you are anywhere near our homes (IL,KY or TX), you must stop and have some! Thank you SO much for these pictures!

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Graduation day 1969, in front of Hughes Auditorium, Asbury College, Wilmore KY. Center in graduation robes L-R: Jo Riley, Terrell Shaw, Jane Nelson, Mike Bock

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Jane Nelson Risdon
Ah... Those precious memories! How they linger!

Terrell
How they ever flood my soul!

 

Moving Back to Georgia - June 30, 1954

Daddy (Charles Columbus Shaw) wrote this note in a book of sermons.

Having graduated from Asbury College and enrolled in Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Daddy was assigned by the North Georgia Conference of The Methodist Church to a charge of three churches near Griffin, Georgia -- Midway, Sunnyside and Vaughan. The parsonage was at 333 South Ninth Street at its intersection with Church Street. For some reason Daddy recorded this information on the flyleaf of a book of funeral sermons. Other earlier addresses are recorded on the next page.

Rummaging through Mother's estate I found the book with Daddy's notes about arriving at Griffin (June 30, 1954) and his first Sunday (Independence Day 1954) as a North Georgia Conference full-time pastor in Griffin, Georgia. Figured I'd hop aboard my Blogger Time Machine and deposit those notes here in 1954. We would live at on South Ninth Street where it crossed College Street in Griffin for four years while Daddy completed seminary at Candler (Emory) and became fully ordained in 1958 as an elder in the Methodist Church. During those years I attended Fourth Ward Elementary School in second, third, fourth, and fifth grades. Our family grew from five kids to six (Sharlyn Beth Shaw December 19, 1954) and then to seven (David Baird Shaw May 9, 1958).

On today we learned that our "new" home was anything but and not nearly as nice as the parsonage at Mackville, KY that we had just left after two years. This old house had grungy furniture, a kudzu covered field and railroad tracks behind it, and we were in for a war with mice and roaches.

Still I had a ball creating a maze of tunnels in the kudzu and climbing the white mulberries that lined the driveway between our house and the Butts (I though their name was hilarious) next door. I imagined a daughter named "Ima". And a slightly older boy, Herbert Leach, lived directly across College Street from our backyard. Herbert and I went into business together, first as bottle redeemers and then as lawnmowers.

Anyway, here is documentation of these dates

Another flyleaf-noted point in Daddy's life

333 South Ninth Street as it will appear in 2011.