[Magdalen] My favorite name...recently

[Michael Bishop]

The priest who prepared me for confirmation was Bob Parsons.

In my final year of ordination training, the members of my tutor group 
had the surnames:-

Pope, Bishop, Parsons, Clarke  - and Toogood

God bless

.....
.....
Michael Bishop
rev at michaelbishop.name

On 07/03/2018 11:44, Ginga Wilder wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Well, one of my best friends and roommate in grad school was one Dave
>> Nutter. It probably goes without saying that he became a psychiatrist.
>>
>> Chad Wohlers
>> Woodbury, VT USA
>> chadwohl at satucket.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Jay Weigel
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2018 2:10 PM
>> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] My favorite name...recently
>>
>> There was a teacher in the school system my kids were in named Teresa
>> Nutter. She was awful. She only got the job because of her mom, who was a
>> special ed teacher and was wonderful, proving that a) nepotism is really
>> bad, and b) ability doesn't run in families. Anyway, after she got booted
>> from teaching special ed, she was made some kind of "special advisor" to
>> the AP program at my son's high school, from which lofty position she would
>> send out communiques concerning your child's progress. These were almost
>> universally referred to as "Nut Letters".
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We used to have a member of our congregation named Randy Nutter.  It
>>> cracked me up.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I thought Brianna was the Susan of this generation.
>>>>
>>>> There was a gentleman in the area where I used to live whose name was
>>>> Pleasant Vineyard. I loved that name. And a lady of 93 years who was
>>>> apparently quite a lovely soul recently died in my former home town. Her
>>>> given name was Providence Mary.
>>>>
>>>> OTOH, there was an elderly African-American gentleman we used to get as
>>>> a
>>>> patient whose name was Brown Fanney. That never failed to provoke
>>> giggles.
>>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 10:36 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> Read an obit recently. One of the granddaughters surviving :
>>>>> Christian Faith [surname]
>>>>>
>>>>> I wish my mother had named me Christian Faith.
>>>>>
>>>>> Taylor is this generation’s Susan, I think.
>>>>> -M
>>>>>
>>>>> On Monday, March 5, 2018, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Nebraska has a player named Nicea Eliely. (Last name is pronounced
>>>>>> e-LIE-ly, in case you wondered) But Nicea? Wow.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
>>> you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
>>> land of Egypt.
>>> Leviticus 19:34
>>>
>>>