HISTORY IN THE MAKING

Alice Brasky Wife, Mother, Entrepreneur If you were to ask her what she felt was her most important accomplishment in life, Alice Brasky would answer, "Raising up a fine family." Though she has met with business success in during senior years, Alice still feels having a lasting influence in the lives of her children and grandchildren has been her most satisfying attainment. Born Alice Gibbons in 1936 to Robert and Mabel Gibbons in Niagara Falls, New York, Alice was the 5th of 8 children. When she was 8 years-old her family moved to a farm in Wolcottsville, NY. With such a large family and a meager farming income, Alice soon learned to make good use of her available resources, which helped her to become quite creative. She also learned to work hard for the things she desired. Alice attended a small Lutheran school until the seventh grade when she began attending the public high school in Akron, New York. Graduating in 1953, Alice took a job as a receptionist in a doctors office in Lockport from 1953- 1955. In 1954 she met her true love, Myron Brasky, and after a whirlwind romance they were married in November of 1955, moving to Myron’s hometown of Batavia, New York. Alice took on a new job as a receptionist in a podiatrist office, but not long after she was married, she gave up her job and ideas of a career to settle down and raise a family. Alice was the loving mother of three children, Nancy, Myron, Jr. (nicknamed Buddy), and Patti. Alice was a very loving and dedicated wife and mother. She spent hours each day taking care of her home, sewing fashionable clothes for her children to wear, cooking family meals, and attending to various other household duties as well as taking time to form character in her children. While homemaking took up much of her time, Alice found ways to express her creativity in sewing, ceramics, and a variety of other hobbies. Though her husband amply provided for her family, working two jobs to supply for their increasing needs, Alice had an entrenpenurial spirit, often turning her creative energy into extra income. As her family grew into young adulthood, Alice’s role began to change. Through her children’s teen years she remained a stay-at-home mom, feeling she needed to remain available to her children, even though they no longer required her constant supervision. After she saw her children married and was no longer a mother of a young family herself, she poured her life into her grandchildren. When her eldest daughter, Nancy, having a great love and talent for dance, opened a dance studio, Alice was very supportive. Nancy’s business grew to such a large degree that she was struggling to keep up with her lessons, the business end of her studio, and raising her own family. Alice stepped in to help, taking over the billing/bookkeeping part of her daughter’s business, freeing Nancy up to spend more time with her children. As Nancy’s family grew, she decided that she needed to focus all her energies on raising her family and was planning on closing her studio. It was then that the 48 year-old Alice, with the support of her husband, decided to pursue a career herself. She joined with Denise LaBlanc, a student of Nancy’s and in1981 they opened the Dancing Place Dance Studio. For the past 20 years the Dancing Place has met with great success, providing dance lessons to over 150 students each year, closing out each dance season with an extraordinary dance recital. In 1992 Alice decided to branch out and open an dancewear shop which she dubbed The Dancewear Outlet. What began as business in the corner of her Dance Studio waiting room, over the past 9 years has grown to include a 660 square foot shop with an inventory of over 2500 items and a newly created internet store at www.thedancingplace.com. Though Alice has been a great business success in her golden years, her husband and her family still remain her first love and priority. The profits that she has earned over the years have often gone to various charitable causes and to provide those "extras" for her grandchildren, that she never had as a child. While she might be considered a business success and an innovative entrepreneur, she will always be best remembered for the way she poured her life into her family, making her house a home, and giving her children the resources and the self-confidence to become all that God intended them to be.

Dorcas (The Queen of the Needle)

Dorcas


The Queen of the Needle



The Scripture record of Dorcas is limited to a few verses in the ninth chapter of Acts, but her name to this day stands for the benevolent use of the needle. Her example has been an inspiration to women throughout church history.

The Bible is silent concerning the genealogy of Dorcas. What is know is that her home was at Joppa and she was associated with a little band of Christians, most of whom were poor. She, however, apparently was a woman of means to serve humanity as freely as she did. The words of Jesus had no doubt been the moving power in her soul: “For I was hungered and you gave me meat, I was thirsty and you game me drink; I was a stranger and you took me in; naked an you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me....in as much as you have done it unto the least of my brothers, you have done it for me”.

The Scriptures give us only glimpses of her witness and work for Christ in Acts chapter nine, yet she has influence many by her good works. She is evidently a Christian, being called “a certain disciple. It was through the ministry of Phillip the evangelist that a Christian church was established in Joppa at an early date. From the its very beginning, the church in Joppa was known as a center of fervent evangelism and a well-organized social service provider. Possibly Dorcas came to Christ in this church and there caught the vision of service.

Dorcas was well know for her good works and charitable deeds which she did. What is significant about the account of her life is that Dorcas not only thought up ways of relieving the needy, but she also carried out her plans! She knew what she could do and she DID it. She was a true “doer” of the Word. Among her good works was that of making clothes for widows and the need of her church and community with her own loving hands. The clothes that Dorcas cut out and sewed represented Christian faith in action. She was not only willing to give financially, but she was willing to invest herself in the work of charity.

When Dorcas died, she left the church at Joppa grief -stricken. The church called for the Apostle Peter, who was in a neighboring city, to come to them. They obviously had heard of Peter’s supernatural power and doubtless hoped that he might return their greatly-love patron to them. When he got there he found that the widows Dorcas had helped had laid her out and prepared an eloquent eulogy on the life and character of Dorcas by showing some of the many coats and garments which she made for them. Here were aged widows whose hands were too feeble to hold the needle and too poor to pay other for their work. They showed the warm garments Dorcas had made them to protect them from the cold winds which often swept in from the Mediterranean. And here were younger widows with little children who had been clothed by Dorcas. How could they ever find another friend like her?

But Dorcas was given back to them by a great miracle. Apparently this scene touched Peter’s emotions. He sent them all out and kneeled down and prayed. When he felt his request had been received by God, Peter spoke the word of power and authority and raised Dorcas from the dead, thus presenting her alive to the saints and widows at Joppa. What a moving scene that must have been! What joy to receive this blessed woman back from the dead. The mourners tear’s were wiped away and the work of the Lord grew mightily.

While Dorcas was greatly loved and respected among the people of Joppa, it seems that she wasn’t conscious of the magnificent work she was doing and of its far-reaching consequences. Dorcas did not strive to be a leader, but was content to stay in her own home and try to do all she could to serve the Lord in her sphere of influence. But because of her faithful service, she indeed became a leader in an almost universal philanthropic cause. Many women throughout history have sought to emulate the life of Dorcas by establishing “Dorcas Societies” that hold humanitarian ideals, engage in various relief activities, and whose sole purpose in existing is to do good. We can hold Dorcas as an example to all of us to look after the welfare of others. After all, James 1:27 tells us that: “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” We can find no finer model of this pure religion than Dorcas.

Fanny Crosby

Fanny Crosby, Hymnwriter

As the author of more than 9000 hymns plus 1000 secular poems and songs, hymnwriter Francis Jane (Fanny) Crosby was one of the most beloved Christian figures in the late 1800s. While providing many of the appealing gospel hymns that would replace the formerly popular more staid and sober songs, she also gained renown as a preacher, lecturer and home mission worker. And she accomplished it all - despite being blind since infancy. Still, Fanny never allowed what could have been a seriously limiting handicap caused by a careless mistake to keep her from using her God given talent to create songs that would provide inspiration and encouragement to many.

Born March 24, 1820, Frances Jane Crosby had normal vision at birth but at six weeks suffered an eye inflammation. Their usual doctor was unavailable and so the family sought help from a man who claimed to be medically qualified but who put a poultice on her eyes that left the infant's eyes scarred. The "doctor" hurriedly left town.

Not long after Fanny's father died and her young mother sought domestic work in nearby town, leaving her blind daughter in the care of her mother Eunice and other relatives.

Resolved that Fanny would not be completely dependent on others, as were many blind people at the time, Eunice set about to educate Fanny about many aspects of the world around her as she helped her memorize great portions of the Bible and other books.

Though other physicians reluctantly told her family there was nothing to be done to restore her sight, Grandma Eunice continued to help develop her memory as she grew and played as nearly as possible as normal children. Still when she became discouraged she prayed and asked God to use her, refusing to let her handicap limit her. Her new resolve was expressed in her first poem:

O what a happy soul am I!
Although I cannot see,
I am resolved that in this world,
Contented I will be.
How many blessings I enjoy,
That other people don't.
To weep and sigh because I'm blind,
I cannot and I won't!

Fanny had attended local schools occasionally but since the teachers did not know how to help her she never attended long. However, as Fanny became a teenager it became evident that she had great creative talent - she sang well, played the piano and became quite well known locally as a poet. Then at age 14 her mother heard about a new opportunity for Fanny in the newly opened New York Institute for the Blind. In 1835, Fanny enrolled in the school and there she finally she found what she'd been praying for - a chance to learn among people who could teach her all she wanted to learn.

The students learned by means of lectures and readings, and her subjects included English, grammar, science, music, history, philosophy and astronomy. The pupils would hear the lesson several times and then be expected to not only answer detailed questions but also even paraphrase the lessons. Fanny learned it so quickly and so completely even years later she could recite the entire contents of her grammar text.

Fanny continued to demonstrate her poetic talent as she was frequently asked to compose verses for special occasions and to honor prominentvisitors to the Institute where she became a teacher in 1842. In her role as institute poetess she became acquainted with such celebrities as famed singer Jenny Lind, President James K. Polk, Henry Clay, General Winfield Scott, and Horace Greeley. She even published poems for his newspaper. There was another employee who not only copied her poems but also became her life
long friend. His name was Grover Cleveland.

In 1844 she published a collection of her verse as "The Blind Girl and Other Poems," the first of several later volumes of poems. Later she met a fellow instructor a somewhat younger man named Alexander Van Alystyne who was an accomplished musician. They married in 1858 when she was 38 and he was 27 then left the Institute because of what they felt were deteriorating conditions and relationships with the school. In 1859 Fanny gave birth to a baby but the child died shortly after birth. Fanny rarely spoke about the incident so it isn't even clear if it was a girl or a boy. Also, while she and "Van" as she called him would remain married till his death in 1902 they followed their own career paths and eventually lived apart though always remained good friends.

As Fanny recovered from the loss of her child she may well have found solace and comfort in her deep and life long faith in God, and as she did so she became part of a religious revival that was sweeping the country. One aspect of it was the development of the Sunday school, which had evolved from an effort to offer secular education to workingmen on Sundays that evolved into the church's education ministry.

Part of this element was the "Sunday School" music or what would be later called "gospel songs." Hymns had long been traditionally grave, and sober with an emphasis in sin and judgement. However,
worshipers preferred the more personal songs and Fanny was among many poets and composers whoprovided what the church needed.

One of these composers was William Bradbury who had studied and performed widely in Europe as well as America. Yet he disliked the poems he was presented so he was anxious to find more suitable lyrics. Fanny's pastor brought the two together thus beginning a business and personal association as Fanny provided verses for his publishing company. She also later collaborated with businessman and part time composer William Doan, who would
become her close friend for more than 40 years.

One day Doan asked Fanny to write a poem using the phrase "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior, but she lacked inspiration. A short time later as she was speaking at a prison one of the inmates called out: "Good Lord! Don't pass me by!" That was what she needed and after Doan provided the melody the hymn was later used at the same prison and inspired several conversions

Another time Doan arrived at Fanny's home with a melody in mind along with an urgent request. He was on his way to catch a train and he needed a poem to fit the tune. Upon hearing the melody Fanny clapped her hands together and exclaimed. "That says 'Safe in the Arms of Jesus'!" After a period of private prayer Fanny returned to dictate the entire poem. It was immediately popular and eventually it became a worldwide inspiration particularly for those who had lost a child - as Fanny had.

Not long after this Fanny accepted Doan's invitation to address an audience where she described an impression she had. "There's a dear boy here who has wandered away from his mother's teaching. Would he please come to me at the close of the service?" A young man did come forward and related how he had promised his mother he would meet her in heaven, but after the way he'd been living now he wasn't sure he would. After a period of prayer the new convert was exuberant "I've found my mother's God and I'll meet her in Heaven!" With that inspiration came the words Fanny needed and "Rescue the Perishing" took form to go with Doan's melody.

In 1876 Fanny met Dwight L. Moody, the renowned evangelist of that period and Ira Sankey his featured soloist, beginning a long personal and professional relationship with both. They utilized many of her hymns, recognizing her gifts as a vital part of their ministry. Sankey published many of her hymns as well as providing music for her verses.

When she did write a hymn Fanny received only a few dollars and no further royalties, since the hymns became the property of the
composer. Though many thought Fanny had been exploited or should ask for more money she did not agree. She felt her hymns were her work for God and her reward was the effects of the song on those who came to Him. Fanny herself defined a hymn as a "song of the heart addressed to God." She published her many hymns under her own name but also used many pseudonyms, including such labels as "the Children's Friend" or initials, or even such symbols as asterisks and number signs. One reason she did this was at her publisher's insistence because they did not want it known they relied so much on one person.

As she got older Fanny continued her speaking tours and home mission work but as she entered her 90s, she gradually stayed closer to home, which at this time was with a niece in Bridgeport, Connecticut. However there was still a steady stream of visitors wanting advice, an autograph or just a glimpse of the fabled "Queen of the Gospel Song." She still retained her sense of humor, often playing the piano in the parlor - starting with a classical number, then lapsing into ragtime and from there she "pepped things up" with a jazzed up version of one of her hymns!

Then on February 11, 1915 she dictated a letter of sympathy and a poem to a neighbor family on the death of their child, assuring them that their daughter was "Safe in the Arms of Jesus". Later that night she slipped into in the presence of the Lord she'd served through her verses and her life.

Fanny's life had been long and productive, and despite a handicap that might have discouraged and limited someone else, she did not let it prevent her from providing the sacred words that inspire and
encourage even a century after her death.

HISTORY DATES AND EVENTS FOR MARCH 28

March 28, 1994:
In South Africa, Zulus and African National
Congress supporters battle in central
Johannesburg, resulting in 18 deaths.

March 28, 1939:
Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco
Franco conquers Madrid.

March 28, 1913:
Guatemala becomes a signatory to the Buenos
Aires copyright treaty.

March 28, 1809:
Battle of Medelin

March 28, 1802:
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers
2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.

March 28, 1797:
Nathaniel Briggs patented a washing machine.

March 28, 1930:
The cities of Constantinople and Angora
changed names to Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey.

March 28, 1939:
The Spanish Civil War ended.

March 28, 1941:
Author Virginia Woolf drowned herself.

March 28, 1979:
Nuclear power plant accident at Three
Mile Island, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

March 28, 2000:
Supreme Court rules unanimously that an
anonymous tip does not justify a
stop-and-frisk action against a person.

March 26 History Quotes

March 26, 1780
- First British Sunday newspaper appears
(British Gazette and Sunday Monitor).

March 26, 1872
- Thomas J. Martin patents fire extinguisher.

March 26, 1878
- Sabi Game Reserve, world's first official
designated game reserve, opens.

March 26, 1886
- The First cremation in England look place.

March 26, 1934
- The driving test is introduced in the
United Kingdom.

March 26, 1953
- Dr. Jonas Salk announced a new vaccine to
prevent poliomyelitis.

March 26, 1971
- East Pakistan proclaimed its independence,
taking the name Bangladesh.

March 26, 1979
- The Camp David Accord ended 30 years of
warfare between Israel and Egypt Prime
Minster Menachem Begin of Israel and Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat signed the treaty of
mutual recognition and peace, fostered by U.S.
President Jimmy Carter.

March 26, 1989
- First free elections in U.S.S.R.; 190 M
votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins.

The Past Historys for March 25

March 25, 1655
- Saturn’s largest moon, Titan,
is discovered by Christian Huygens.

March 25, 1807
- The Slave Trade Act becomes law,
abolishing the slave trade in the
British Empire.

March 25, 1957
- The European Economic Community is
established (West Germany, France,
Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and
Luxembourg).

March 25, 1965
- Civil rights activists led by Martins
Luther King, Jr. successfully completed
there 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to
the capital in Montgomery, Alabama.

March 25, 1968
- US performs nuclear test at Nevada
Test Site.

March 25, 1971
- Bangladesh Liberation War: Beginning of
Operation Searchlight of Pakistan Army
against East Pakistani civilians.

March 25, 1975
- Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed
by a mentally ill nephew

March 25, 1993
- President FW de Klerk admits that six
South African built six nuclear bombs and
states that they have since been dismantled.

March 24 History in Archive

March 24, 1663
- Charles II of England awarded lands
known as Carolina in America to eight
members of the nobility who assisted
in his restoration.

March 24, 1837
- Canada gives African men the right
to vote.

March 24, 1882
- Robert Koch announces the discovery
of the bacterium responsible for
tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).

March 24, 1923
- Greece becomes a republic.

March 24, 1972
- The United Kingdom imposes "Direct
Rule" over Northern Ireland.

March 24, 1976
- In Argentina, the armed forces over-
throw the constitutional government of
President Isabel Peron and start a 7-year
dictatorial period self-styled National
Reorganization Process.

March 24, 1987
- French Premier Jacques Chirac signed a
contract with Walt Disney Productions
for the creation of a Disneyland amusement
park, the first in Europe.

March 24, 1998
- The UN announced a pullout from Afghanistan
after the governor of Kandahar slapped the
face of a UN employee.

March 24, 1998
- In South Korea the government fired two-thirds
of the senior officials at its spy agency in a
move to get the agency out of domestic politics.

MARCH 23RD HISTORY ARCHIVE

March 23, 1775
- American Revolutionary
War Patrick Henry delivers his
famous speech - "Gives me
Liberty or give me Death",
at St. John's Church in
Richmond Virginia.

March 23, 1840
- Draper took first successfully
photo of the MOON
(daguerreotype).

March 23, 1857
- Elisha Otis installed the first
modern passenger elevator in the
5-story Haughwout and Co. building
at 488 Broadway in New York City.

March 23, 1889
- The Ahmadiya Muslim community is
established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
in Qadian India.

March 23, 1880
- John Stevens of Neenah, Wils,
patented the grain crushing mill.
This mill allowed flour production
to increase by 70 percent.

March 23, 1903
- The Wright brothers obtained an
airplane patent.

March 23, 1919
- Benito Mussolini founded his
Fascist political movement in
Milan, Italy.

March 23, 1933
- The Reichstag passes the Enabling
act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler
dictator of Germany.

March 23, 1950
- UN World Meteorological Organisation
was established.

IMPORTANT HISTORY DATES FOR MARCH 22ND

March 22, 1765
- Britain enacted the Stamp Act
to raise money from the American
Colonies. This money was the
first direct British tax on the
colonists. The tax covered just
about everything produced by the
American colonists and began the
decade of crisis that led to the
American Revolution. The Stamp
Act taxed the legal documents of
the American colonists and
infuriated John Adams.

March 22, 1872
- Illinois became the first state
to require sexual equality in
employment.

March 22, 1882
- US Congress outlawed polygamy.
The Edmunds Tucker Act was adopted
by the US to suppress polygamy in
the territories.

March 22, 1904
- The first color photograph was
published in the London Daily
illustrated Mirror.

March 22, 1919
- The first international airline
service was inaugurated on a weekly
schedule between Paris and Brussels.

March 22, 1953
- 2,500 Tribesmen are arrested in
Kenya as part of the continuing
crackdown by British authorities
against the Mau Mau.

March 22, 1977
- President Carter proposed the
abolition of the Electoral College.

THE PAST HISTORY DATES THAT GOES WITH TODAY'S DATE

March 21, 1933
- Constructon of Dachau,
the first Nazi Germany
concentration camp, is
completed.

March 21, 1935
- Persia offically renamed
Iran.

March 21, 1960
- Apartheid:
Massacre in sharpeville,
South Africa: Police open
fire on a group of unarmed
South African demonstrators,
kiling 69 and wounding 180.

March 21, 1963
- Alcatraz Prison in
San Francisco Bay, a harsh
maximum security jail which
once housed gangster Al Capone,
closed.

March 21, 1965
- Martin Luther King Jr leads
3,200 people on the start of
the third and finally successfull
civil rights march from Selma to
Montgomery,Alabama.

March 21, 1975
- Ethiopia ends monarchy after
3000 years.

March 21, 1980
- US president Jimmy Carter
announces a United States
boycott of the 1980 Summer
Olympics in Moscow to protest
the Soviet Invasion of
Afghanistan.

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March 20, 1995
- A nerve gas attack occurred on the Tokyo Subway system during
rush hour resulting in 12 persons killed and 5,000 injured. (Japanese religious cult suspected in the attack)

March 20, 1916
- Albert Einstein published his general theory of relativity

March 20, 1727
- English physicist/astronomer , Sir Isaac Newton, died in London at age 84

March 20, 1899
- Martha M. Place of Brooklyn, N.Y., because the first woman to be executed in the electric chair. She was put to death at Sing Sing for the murder of her stepdaughter.

March 20, 1990
- Ferdinand Marcos' widow, Imelda Marcos, went on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering.

March 20, 1792
- In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approved the use of the guillotine.

March 4, 1665
- English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands

March 4, 1801
- Thomas Jefferson is the first president inaugurated in Washington D.C.

March 4, 1809
- Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes

March 4, 1849
- U.S. had no president,
Polk's, term ends on a Sunday,
Taylor couldn't be inaugurated,
Senator David Atchison's (President protempore) term ended March 3rd.

March 4, 1972
- Libya and U.S.S.R. signs cooperation treaty

March 4, 1980
- Robert Mugabe wins election to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister

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February 23, 1874
- Major Walter Winfred patents a game called "Sphairistike" (Lawn Tennis)

February 23, 1886
- London Times publishes world's first classified advert