"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right
thing to do. The hard part is doing it."
- General Schwarzkopf

"Be committed to doing the right thing all the time."
- Coach Ceal Barry

"The purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be
honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter, to stand for
something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."
- Leo Rosten

"Name the greatest of all inventors – Accident."
- Mark Twain
               
"Keep an open mind – you may stumble across success."
- Harry Wesley Coover Jr. (1919-2011)

If duct tape, band-aids, or super glue can’t fix it,
you’ve got serious problems.

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) – Harry Wesley Coover Jr., known as the inventor of
Super Glue, has died. He was 94.

Cyanoacrylate, the chemical name for the glue, was first uncovered in 1942 in
a search for materials to make clear plastic gun sights for World War II. But
the compound stuck to everything, which is why it was rejected by
researchers, the website said.

During the Vietnam War, Coover developed a cyanoacrylate spray based on the
same compound, which was sprayed onto soldiers’ serious wounds to quickly
halt bleeding, so the injured could be transported to medical facilities
instead of morgues. Cyanoacrylates are now used for sealing dental repairs,
lesions, and bleeding ulcers, and for suture-free surgery.
President Barack Obama honored Coover in 2010 with the National Medal of
Science. Coover died Saturday at his home in Kingsport, Tenn. He was born in
Newark, Del., and received a degree in chemistry from Hobart College in New
York before getting a master’s degree and Ph.D., from Cornell.

Coover also had a part in early television history, appearing with Garry
Moore for "I’ve got a Secret." Moore, the show’s host, and Coover were hung
in the air on bars that were stuck to metal supports with a single drop of
his glue during a live television broadcast.

Super Glue did not make Dr. Coover rich. It did not become a commercial
success until the patents had expired, his son-in-law, Dr. Vincent E. Paul,
said. "He did very, very well in his career," Dr. Paul said, "but he did not
glean the royalties from Super Glue that you might think."

The Industrial Research Institute, for which he served as president in 1982,
honored Coover with a gold medal and the U.S. Patent Office inducted him into
the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio in 2004.

Monday’s recycled Thought of the Day favorites…

"There are those who have crashed and those that will crash."
- Officer Steve Jenkin                

Drive defensively…as if your life depended on it!

At the center of the universe is a loving heart that continues to beat.

Our job is to do anything we can do to help foster the intellect and
spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings.

Life is for service.
– Fred Rogers

"Be true to your faith.
Be true to your family.
Be true to your country.
Be true to your school.
Be true to yourself."
- Joe Acito 1945 -2011)

Make the time to write or meet with your favorite teachers or
coaches to thank them before it’s too late.  
(Or just forward them this email and say "Let’s get together"
….then Do it!)

The Joe Acito Line
By Paul Daugherty
Joe Acito died yesterday afternoon. He was one of my best friends.
Joe had a heart attack earlier in the week and died soon after they removed
him from life support at about 1 Thursday afternoon. We can meet new
people, make new acquaintances, but some friendships are written in stone.

They simply can’t be replaced.

Joe was just a good guy. He was one of those West Side guys that make you
wish you were a West Side Guy: Graduated from Elder in 1963, went back to
Elder to teach English in 1968. Never left. For the past 16 years, he was
the school’s alumni director.

Joe was easy with a joke and just as easy being the object of one. We
shared many common things: Our love of the language, our appreciation for
literature, our lousy golf games, our comical sense of (mis)direction.
The last time I saw Joe was at the Elder Stag, to which he’d given me wrong
directions.

The last thing Joe ever said to me was, "You think you can make it out of
here this time?" I don’t know now. I don’t know if I can make it out of here.
We’d been trying to get to lunch for months. We got snowed out twice. Once,
I was too busy. Another time, he was. Now we’ll never go again.

Take the time. Make the time. Do not let work or errands or trivia get in
the way of seeing your friends. Don’t let anything get in the way. Last
fall, Joe and two other guys, Norb and Andy Mac, invited me to be a regular
in a foursome that gathered once a month to commit lousy golf. I was
replacing a longtime friend of theirs. I was truly honored, even as I knew
they were all West Siders, and the treks over there would be arduous and
fraught with directional peril.

We played the first time at Western Hills CC. Norb paid.
The next time was to be mine. October was my month. I was to schedule the
round at Hickory Woods. I never did.

Work obligations got in the way. Here’s what I know and don’t practice:
Don’t put off times with friends. Don’t allow work to rule how you treat
those most important to you. I have flexible hours and I still didn’t make
the time. Inexcusable.

There will always be another TML, another Traditional Media column, another
piece for SI.com. There will never be another round of golf with my friend
Joe Acito. Nobody ever lay in his death bed saying, "I wish I’d spent more
time at the office."

If I take one thing from Joe’s death, I pray it will be that. Make the
time.  Rest in peace, my friend. The world’s a lesser place today.

"Gossiping and lying go hand in hand."
- Proverb                

"Don’t repeat anything that you will not sign your name to."
- John Jelinek