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Fraternities host a blood drive to honor a friend.

In an email to all of USC:

The event is sponsored by the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and Alpha Gamma Omega Fraternity, marking one of the first joint philanthropic endeavors by USC fraternities.

In addition, the event is in coordination with the USC-UCLA Rivalry Blood Drive (which is held Nov. 24 and 25 and Dec. 2-4 from 10am-4pm in Marks Hall.

Chase touched so many people with his happy-go-lucky attitude and appreciation for life. Even in his tragedy, Chase found a way to benefit others who were in need. Hundreds of people donated blood to help Chase, and in doing so, much of that blood went to help other sick and dying individuals. Thus, one of the goals of the Chase Edler Memorial Blood Drive is, of course, to raise awareness for the need for blood donations among college students. The Red Cross will be providing blood vans on campus throughout the week and we will be providing various opportunities and incentives for people to donate blood.

After Chase’s passing, students from all walks of life in the USC community were united together to heal wounds and comfort one another. Chase was a man who strove for unity and believed all people were to be loved as God’s children. The Memorial Blood Drive seeks to help reunite the student body throughout the week of the event, and to ensure Chase’s memory lives on in the upcoming generations of USC students. In doing so, we hope that together we can create a stronger university community.

My thoughts:

I came across this book the other day, and it is one my top books to read. I believe that in whatever you do, whether it’s business or just leading a group, it is imperative to leave a Legacy. I think Rick Warren says it the best, “Relationships, not achievements or the acquisitions of things are what matters most in life.” Love, and the relationships you have with other people, leave a Legacy.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Part of the Ken Blanchard series of business books, which aims to show how “Simple Truths Uplift the Value of People in Organizations,” this sentimental volume ascribes to the Nice Guy theory of management: i.e., treat people well and business will take care of itself. Brooks, Stark and Caverhill pass along their ideas in story form. An arrogant, young CEO named Doug is placed on a six-month apprenticeship program to determine whether he can develop the qualities necessary to lead the Mooseland Stoneware company. Doug begins the story as a no-nonsense, bottom-line type of manager, uninterested in the touchy-feely aspects of nurturing workers. However, mentored by a plant-shop owner named Adoi, Doug learns timeless truths of business leadership: “Dare to be person, not a position”; “Dare to connect with people”; and “Dare to drive the dream.” At the end of his training, not only has Doug won the CEO’s job at Mooseland, he has also learned to care for a small fern. It’s a comforting tale, but the authors’ warm and fuzzy management ethos seems quite opposed to that of successful real-life CEOs like Jack Welch, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison. None of these would appear to follow the leadership maxims in this book: “Keep your ego in check”; “Respond to the perspectives of others with empathy”; “Genuinely have fun.” Certainly the authors’ advice could still apply usefully to small businesses, where executives and employees have more day to day contact. But, for better or worse, the principles they describe here are not the ones that guide the leaders of most large companies.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Anyone who inspires change in the lives of others is engaged in an act of leadership. “Leadership legacy” is the sum total of the difference one makes in those lives, directly or indirectly, formally or informally. The newest title in the Ken Blanchard Series: Simple Truths Uplifting the Value of People in Organizations, this book shows how to ensure that the legacy is positive and transforming.As the book explains, a positive legacy doesn’t just happen. The authors lay out a blueprint for success in this often daunting area in seven chapters: The Reading of the Will, Every Journey Begins with One Step, The Fern Is as Good as Dead, The CEO, Back to School, Eagle Junction, and Mooseland Stoneware. The book uses a gardening metaphor, with master gardeners mentoring the reader until they gain the courage it takes to forge a meaningful legacy. The basic principles, supported by years of study and research, include living by certain values and living authentically, which are more inspirational than one’s strength of position; fostering emotional connections and trust with the people one works with; and turning a company’s dreams and goals into a future that people will want to live in.

What it means: Simply, Love Never Fails.

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What this shirt means:

In a city where time is money and everything is fast paced and rushed, we often forget to slow down. We often forget that things are out of our control. We often forget about the important things in life, like relationships. There is a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace. There is a time for everything.

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Special Thanks to LJ and Garland Hunt for helping us with the photo shoot!

The photo shoot and hanging out with Garland and LJ was inspiration, encouraging, and just a lot of fun.

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So after a long awaited wait, the shirts finally came in!

Stanley did a great job at driving all the way over to Costa Mesa to pick up the shirts.

Displaying the shirts on my bed.

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Dick and Rick Hoyt

Dick and Rick Hoyt are Father and son runners for many triathlons, running a combination of of 26.2 miles of running, 112 miles of bicycling, and 2.4 miles of swimming. Together they have climbed mountains, and once trekked 3,735 miles across America. Remarkably, Rick, Dick’s son is in a vegetable state–he can’t walk or talk.  In fact, he uses a computer to communicate to his father.  Yet despite this, for more than 25 years, both Rick and his father have participated in many marathons and triathlons.  When his father runs, Rick is being pushed by a wheelchair.  When Dick is cycling, Rick is in a seat-pod, which is attached to the bike.  And when Dick is swimming, Rick is being pulled in boat.  Dick never thought it would be possible to run, bike, or swim with his son, until one day Rick typed to his father, ”Dad, I want To do that.” Although Dick thought it was impossible, he still did it.  That day changed Rick’s life when he typed, ”Dad, when we were running, It felt like I wasn’t disabled anymore!”

One of my favorite authors and speakers, Kris Vallaton, says that, “Love germinates in the soil of sacrifice, sprouts in the garden of surrender, and matures in the matrimony of servant hood. Love isn’t love unless it cost you something to give it away.”  What really stood out to my about this story was the amount of sacrifice Rick’s father had to go through to do this for his son.  After running with his son for the first time, Dick was sore for about 2 weeks! “Anyone can give something expensive, but only those who understand sacrifice can give something valuable.”

Dick Hoyt is an inspiration to me, and I hope one day, when I have a son, that I can share the same pure unconditional love to him.

Another purpose of The Legacy Movement blog will also be to tell of the legacies that others have left behind. Many of these people are ordinary people coming from ordinary backgrounds, but what set them apart was the vision they saw to improve the world around them and their determination to let nothing stop them from making that vision become reality.

One such person is Dr. Paul Farmer. Many people living in the US grew up with more than Paul had in his childhood. He spent much of his childhood living in a bus with his six other siblings and mother and father. In spite of his upbringing (or perhaps because of it), Farmer dedicated his life to the fight against poverty. After working his way through Harvard Medical School, he founded Partners in Health and helped raise the money to build the Zanmi Lasante Clinic in Haiti. Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, and its people live in fear of crime and oppression. Farmer spent the next several years splitting his time between working in the States to pay his bills and building up the Zanmi Lasante Clinic from scratch. Since its inception in 1987, the Zanmi Lasante Clinic has reduced infant mortality and malnutrition dramatically, vaccinated all the children in its area, and built schools, houses, and water/sanitation systems in the neighborhood. The most amazing thing is that Partners in Health has brought tuberculosis infection to a standstill on the island.

Fmr. President Bill Clinton wrote about Dr. Farmer in his book Giving and asked him why he didn’t simply volunteer a couple weeks out of the year and spend the rest of his time working for his own benefit. Paul’s answer was that even while he grew up in hard conditions, his parents were always concerned about those who were even worse off than they were and showed as much generosity as they could afford. The families he met in Haiti lived in conditions that made his bus look like a palace. Paul wanted to empower the people he met in Haiti with the same medical conditions available in America, and his vision resulted in changing the way health care works in an entire country. That is the kind of legacy that one person with a vision can leave on the world.

Dr. Paul Farmer is now in Rwanda implementing his Partners in Health model and leaving a legacy there.