[Magdalen] church organs.... and a famous benefactor

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

We got a little boost in our retirement from Mister Carnegie. He donated
money to TIAA CREF to give them some funds to get started.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:22 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dumferline is a very nice town, with some very interesting ruins and older
> church buildings. Dumferline Abbey is the burial place of Robert the Bruce,
> and there is no doubt about this, as the name is in the stonework at the
> top of the main tower.  A short distance from the Abbey is a very nice
> park. It was off limits to Andrew Carnegie when he was growing up, so later
> on in life, he bought the place, and made it open to the public. Our group
> had lunch on the grounds in this minor historical park.  The city is
> definitely worth a visit.  When I was a kid, we were still using the organ
> that Andrew Carnegie had donated to my church.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 8:21 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> (from today's "Writer's Almanac" by Garrison Keillor:
>>
>> It's the birthday of American steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew
>> Carnegie, born in Dunfermline, Scotland (1835), the son of a weaver and
>> political radical. His father instilled in young Andrew the values of
>> political and economic equality, but his family's poverty taught Carnegie a
>> different lesson. At the age of 12, the boy worked as a milkhand for $1.20
>> per week. When the Carnegies immigrated to America in 1848, Carnegie was
>> determined to find prosperity. One of the pioneers of industry of
>> 19th-century America, Andrew Carnegie helped build the American steel
>> industry, which turned him into one of the richest entrepreneurs of his age.
>>
>> In 1868, at age 33, Carnegie wrote himself a memo in which he questioned
>> his chosen career, a life of business. He kept the letter for his entire
>> life, carefully preserving it in his files. In the memo, he vowed to retire
>> from business within two years, believing that the further pursuit of
>> wealth would degrade him. Carnegie eventually sold his steel business and
>> gave his fortune away to cultural, educational, and scientific institutions
>> for the improvement of mankind.
>>
>> Over the course of his life, Andrew Carnegie endowed 2,811 libraries and
>> many charitable foundations as well as the internationally famous Carnegie
>> Endowment for International Peace. He also bought 7,689 organs for
>> churches. The purpose of the latter gift was, in Carnegie's words, "To
>> lessen the pain of the sermons."
>>
>>
>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>>
>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
>> not a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
>> me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
>> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk
>> by Richard Rohr
>>
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