In October I gave a presentation at the annual Religious Research Association meeting - which this year happened to be in Louisville - and participated in a monthly meeting of our church's board - called the session - with two guests from our presbytery (mid-KY) and took Vincent which what will no doubt turn out to be his final high school era standardized testing. Above - at the RRA meeting - at Louisville's historic Seelbach Hotel - is the presenter who preceded me and Marty - a peer from the Lutheran research office. Below are people listening into this presentation.
I talked about research that myi colleague Ida and I had worked on showing that the Presbyterian congregations most likely to have female pastors were those that had had female pastors five years earlier, those that had turned over pastors in the previous years, and those with smaller memberships. Other theories about which congregations might be more likely to have female pastors - rural congregations, liberal congregations, etc. - did not pan out. Picgtured below is a presentation that followed ours.
Our session usually meets in the wonderful Fireside Room of our church's Fellowship Hall building. Below is - left to right - our pastor, Jane; Evelyn, who I've worked with who is on the Mid-KY Presbytery Committee on Ministry who praises for our church every day; and Jeff, who chaired the Outreach Council that I'm also part of for the past two years.
Pictured below are session members Laura, anita, Rachel, Ben, Elaine, and Ted (plus student pastor Carlos (to Ted's left)
Unlike FL, KY is an ACT state. Vincent did well on the mandatory ACT testing the KY paid for the spring of his junior year (with a 27). You might recall that he took the SAT on his fourth day in Denmark and - jet-lagged and confused about the instructions - did not so great. His teachers and de facto we pushed her to review, and his math score ended up going up by just 1 point - but two other section scores declined and he wound up with a 26. (He had correctly predicted that his score would not improve.) Vincent - who had trouble getting up after that South End party (see "Friday night out") - actually complained subsequently that I had not signed him up for the ACT plus writing. His 27 would have been good enough - with decent grades - to get him in the Honors College of the college he supposedly wants to go to - Western KY University. But he seems unlikely to graduate from high school at this point - so that score won't help him much unless he graduates later. With a score like that, with whatever grades no matter how bad - he could have gotten into a school like Western if he just would have graudated. Vincent took the test at the nearby Catholic boys' school, Trinity, whose $5 million football stadium ends just two blocks from our house. He lingered long enough outside that I was afraid he wasn't going to go in. Friends from church - Rachel and Luke (both from the Guatemala trip) - arrived to take the ACT with writing.
Frisco and I walk past Trinity on one of our walk circuits and we frequently cut through the Trinity campus - right by the pictured area, in fact - as a way to cut through from Shelbyville Road to Westport Road - when the lights earlier on don't go our way.
Finally figuring Vincent was headed in (this is back when i was still trying to keep an eye on him) in to take the test, Frisco and I walked some more, then headed ack home. And then it was on to the Guatemala Heine Brothers meeting (see "Ready, set, go!").
Unlike FL, KY is an ACT state. Vincent did well on the mandatory ACT testing the KY paid for the spring of his junior year (with a 27). You might recall that he took the SAT on his fourth day in Denmark and - jet-lagged and confused about the instructions - did not so great. His teachers and de facto we pushed her to review, and his math score ended up going up by just 1 point - but two other section scores declined and he wound up with a 26. (He had correctly predicted that his score would not improve.) Vincent - who had trouble getting up after that South End party (see "Friday night out") - actually complained subsequently that I had not signed him up for the ACT plus writing. His 27 would have been good enough - with decent grades - to get him in the Honors College of the college he supposedly wants to go to - Western KY University. But he seems unlikely to graduate from high school at this point - so that score won't help him much unless he graduates later. With a score like that, with whatever grades no matter how bad - he could have gotten into a school like Western if he just would have graudated. Vincent took the test at the nearby Catholic boys' school, Trinity, whose $5 million football stadium ends just two blocks from our house. He lingered long enough outside that I was afraid he wasn't going to go in. Friends from church - Rachel and Luke (both from the Guatemala trip) - arrived to take the ACT with writing.
Frisco and I walk past Trinity on one of our walk circuits and we frequently cut through the Trinity campus - right by the pictured area, in fact - as a way to cut through from Shelbyville Road to Westport Road - when the lights earlier on don't go our way.
Finally figuring Vincent was headed in (this is back when i was still trying to keep an eye on him) in to take the test, Frisco and I walked some more, then headed ack home. And then it was on to the Guatemala Heine Brothers meeting (see "Ready, set, go!").
-- Perry
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