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1-31-2008 Mike Phillips, which Mike Phillips? Class of 1967, class of 1970 or the class of 1975? The correct answer was the class of 1970. Did you plant a seed here?" Alas, we were not so clever as to have planted any seed of thought regarding how difficult it might be to know about potential inductees of more than 30 or 40 years ago. We just didn't do our homework, choosing instead to take the first Mike Phillips we came across. Our research was sloppy and inexcusable. Of course, we must admit that we had no idea that CCS had three Mike Phillips graduate in a span of less than 10 years. But, we feel very strongly that ignorance is no excuse. And thus we apologize to all the Mike Phillips of the area and promise to do our best to keep them straight in the future. We also hasten to point out that we understand that the 1970 Mike Phillips will be nominated to the Hall of Fame and we are reasonably certain that the nominator will get the class year of the nominee correct. Difficult as it is too believe, Shrove Tuesday and its attendant Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper at Christ Church is coming up this next week. The rather early nature of this particular yearly event is dependent, of course, on Easter which will be on Sunday, March 23 this year. So since Easter is early, so is Shrove Tuesday. The pancake supper will be held on Feb. 5 from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at the Christ Church Parish Hall located at 69 Fair St. here in Cooperstown. The supper, which is $6 for adults and $3 for children under 12, will feature all you can eat pancakes, bacon and sausage, applesauce, real maple syrup and beverage. This year's supper is sponsored by the Outreach Committee of Christ Church, and will benefit the Global Mission projects of the church. We note that the next meeting of the Literary Discussion Group, sponsored by the Women's Club of Cooperstown will be held on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 2:30 p.m. at the Village of Cooperstown Library. The book for discussion will be "Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul" by Tony Hendra. The meeting is open to the public. We must say that we have been somewhat disturbed of late by the number of unwanted telephone calls we have received. And although we are registered with the Do Not Call Registry, there are still certain telephone solicitations that are not prohibited under the Do Not Call regulations. Nonetheless we find all such calls to be annoying and attempt to always have our telephone number removed from any unwanted caller's list. However, that is not always possible. For example, we received what had to be a computer generated call from Yellow Book which was conducting a survey as to whether or not we had received our copy for the "Os-de-go and Delaware area." We were bemused by the obvious mispronunciation of "Otsego" and were thus intrigued enough to listen to the entire message. If we had received our copy, we were to press one. If not, we were to press two. By pressing neither, but choosing instead to press an unnamed number, we discovered the recording would start over from the beginning. For a full five minutes, the recording asked about our copy of Yellow Book for the "Os-de-go and Delaware area" and we continued to push unnamed numbers. Interestingly enough, the computer gave up before we did, hanging up rather abruptly without even bothering to say goodbye. In another instance, we received three calls from what turned out to be a charitable organization. For the first two we were not home and only knew of the call through caller ID. The third call we answered because it was made at 8:15 in the morning and we wanted to see who was so rude as to call at such an early hour. Once we knew the organization we immediately hung up and then called the number back just to see if anyone would answer it. Surprisingly enough someone did. We explained that although we understood they had the right by law to call and annoy people, we really wished they would never call us again and so could they please remove our number from their list. The women on the other end said she could, we thanked her and hung up. And, even though we did not give our number, we have to assume that she knew what it was, as we have not heard from them since. And we hope it stays that way. We must say we do not understand why any charitable organization would want to call anyone who has signed up for the Do Not Call Registry. Even if we had donated to such a group in the past, the fact that they called us would incline us to not donate to them in the future. In closing, not long ago we had a Bassett appointment at 8 o'clock in the morning at the Railroad Avenue facility. When we arrived, the nurse explained that unfortunately she was the only one who had arrived but that the others would be there shortly she hoped. Given the weather, we could understand someone being late. And sure enough, the receptionist/ secretary arrived in a few minutes and once she got organized she started the registration process with us. We asked if the driving had been bad and she told us she hadn't thought so until she encountered cars off the road on her drive in from Unadilla. At that point the nurse appeared to say the doctor had called and was going to be late. The nurse pointed out that the doctor was coming from Schenectady and the weather had slowed him up. She, it turned out, lived the closest having only come in from Edmeston. We were stunned. We have long known that any number of Bassett employees travel to get to their jobs in Cooperstown. But we had no idea of the distances that some of them come. And we thought it was bad just getting there from Pioneer Street. We remain, In these Otsego hills, The Ellsworths The Ellsworths may be reached by mail at 105 Pioneer St., Cooperstown, N.Y. 13326, by telephone at 547- 8124 or by e-mail at cellsworth1@stny.rr.com. They look forward to hearing from you. |
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