PUBLIC VIEWPOINT: Phillips Is ‘Real Deal’ In Education

I truly enjoyed your feature article on Loyd Phillips and the Outland Trophy. As a retired administrator from Texas, I had the privilege of working with Loyd his last year at Heritage High School. Loyd was a great administrator, but more importantly he was a “good” man. He took the extra time it takes to work with today’s troubled youth and their parents. He was tough, yes, but more importantly he was fair and genuinely interested in helping the student.

He was the “real deal” and not caught up in all the discipline trends that have run through our school systems in the past 20 years. His goal was to make a student a better person, not to adhere to some trendy discipline protocol that was being touted at the time.

Congratulations, Loyd.

I wish I had had the opportunity to get to know you better than the year I was privileged to work with you.

TOM LESTER

Lowell

AMUSED BY ATHEIST LOGIC

So, Doug Krueger, self

proclaimed atheist (Our Town, Jan. 10), judges himself to be a “freethinker”and claims, as the intellectual underpinnings of his oh so-logical position, his stepfather, a character from a TV show and his own deep philosophical musings.

Then, he and a gaggle of the Fayetteville intelligentsia get together to combat “intellectual carelessness” at the University of Arkansas.

Lord, you couldn’t make it up.

RICK JOHNSON Ratcliff