Thoughts and Reflections on the Life of John Grady
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Thoughts and Reflections on the life of John Grady
| << Previous 5 | Next 5 >> | 1951-1955 - John Grady and I are High School Classmates- North Catholic - All Boys - and a Graduating Class of 1,250 - seemingly impossible to make a connection - yet John and I spent 3 yrs in the same class, same roster [Soph 7, Junior 4, Senior 1]. Even then, I sensed [and subsequently came to Know] the greatness of this Wondrous Soul-Spirit. As our individual lives unfold, John continues to Bless my Family... Donna Ruzicka [Farrell] ... Honors Program ... La Salle Grad '84, Frank Farrell ... Honors Program ... Incoming Freshman '08 ... March '08 - I become aware John is "physically hurting" and I email to inquire and send "Good Vibrations". The response is immediate and so very typical and revealing of John Grady....Immediate recognition of our North Catholic Experience [dating now over 50 yrs] [the reference to Soph 7, Junior 4, Senior 1 ... comes from John's reply] ... an acknowledgement of Donna, [now Dr. Donna R. Farrell D.O. [John Grady as well as Bro. James Muldoon a significant influence] ... and an "Enthusiasm" [God in Us] to Welcome Grandson Frank in August.. While ... NOTE ... the email reply makes NO comment on John Grady's physical health ... Typical of GREAT Souls ... "Most of Us" Spend a Lifetime as "a Soul/Spirit within a Humanity"... Some of Us [John Grady the living example] ... become the very Best We Can Be ... a "Humanity within a Soul/Spirit" ... that is a Lifetime of "There You Are" rather than "Here I Am": Mrs. Grady ... Helen ... Grady Family ... Thank You for this Wondrous Soul and sharing him with all of us. John [Jack] Grady ... Classmate ... Way to Go..Your Reward is Safe and Secure ... Pray for Us all ... I'll see you soon enough ... Jim
Jim Ruzicka, High School Classmate
submitted: July 18, 2008, 12:04 am |
| To this young student in 1972, John Grady was a Godsend. He had a profound influence on my life. I will always remember his steady hand. He was a wonderful man. My condolences to the Grady family.
Frank Buzydlowski, Honors Program Student
Class of 1976
submitted: July 17, 2008, 9:16 pm |
| I am an Honors Program student who had Mr. Grady as a professor and I have been a member of the Honors Program Student Board for the past three years. As a result, I have had the opportunity to work with Mr. Grady one on one and I can certainly say that he was dedicated to his work and his students. He always wanted to hear students' opinions and he made himself accessible by giving me both his home and cell numbers in case I ever needed to reach him. In the classroom, he made sure we realized the real life applications of what we were learning. He is the first person to come to mind when I think about the Honors Program at La Salle, and I will certainly miss working with him.
Megan Donnelly, Honors Program Student
Class of 2009
submitted: July 17, 2008, 3:34 pm |
| "The impertinent question is the glory and engine of human inquiry. Copernicus asked it and shook the foundations of Renaissance Europe. Darwin asked it and redefined humankind's very sense of itself. Thomas Jefferson asked it and was so invigorated by the asking that he declared it one of our inalienable rights.
Two hundred years years later, Martin Luther King asked it, and forced the country to honor those rights. Daniel Defoe asked the impertinent question and invented the novel. James Joyce asked it and reinvented the novel, which was promptly banned. Jean-Paul Sartre asked it and inspired Simone de Beauvoir, who asked it and inspired a whole generation of women to question what they were doing with men like Jean-Paul Sartre. The Wright brothers asked it and were ignored for five years. Bill Gates asked it and was ignored for five minutes, which was long enough for him to dominate the industry.
Whether reviled or revered in their lifetimes, history's movers framed their questions in ways that were entirely disrespectful of conventional wisdom. Civilization has always advanced in the shimmering wake of its discontents."
Wriiten by Gary Trudeau
Retold Every Year to Honors Program Freshmen by John Grady Never have words so reflected one man's passion nor his life's work. Mr. Grady made us all better than we thought we could be.
Meg Kane, Honors Program Graduate
Class of 2003
submitted: July 17, 2008, 3:27 pm |
| Like an unexpected punch to the stomach, our breath was taken away when we learned that Mr. John Grady, a man full of energy and life, had died. In true testament to the man and his work, many former and current students – some separated by 40 years or more – give voice to a similar story of a caring, intelligent and dedicated man with a welcoming and knowing smile that said you were important to him. With condolences to his immediate family, we also express our thanks to them for sharing their husband, father and grandfather with the wider La Salle community. It was truly an “honor” and we are better people for having known and shared time(s) with Mr. Grady. We pray that God has rewarded Jack Grady’s faith and zeal in this life with the kind of campus in Heaven we think he richly deserves.
Anne (Galasso) and Jim Templeton, Jr., Honors Program Graduates
Class of 1983
submitted: July 17, 2008, 10:47 am |
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