Issue 765 - George Washington Carver 2 of 3 (Tony Fuller) "The man who lived the Creed!" Help others.


Wooden's Wisdom - Volume 13	Issue 764
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GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER 2 OF 3 (TONY FULLER) "THE MAN WHO LIVED THE CREED!" HELP OTHERS. John Wooden Video Clip (1 min. 38 sec.): Coach Wooden defines Team Spirit. When our author Tony Fuller began telling me about the extraordinary life of George Washington Carver, I realized I knew only a small part of his remarkable story. Few Americans have been more widely honored for lives of service than George Washington Carver. He would become one of the nation's most respected scientists and educators, eventually earning a national monument, a U.S. postage stamp, commemorative coins, and countless other tributes recognizing a life devoted to helping others. Coach Fuller has written an inspiring three-part series for Wooden's Wisdom about this extraordinary American. Here is Part Two. "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." - Albert Einstein "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi In 1896 George Washington Carver made the decision to resign from his prestigious assignment on the Faculty of Iowa State University, and his position in its PHD program to come and work at struggling Tuskegee Institute. His initial job responsibilities were to serve as Chairman of the Agriculture Department, teach a Full Load of classes, serve on the Tuskegee Executive Committee, serve as the School's Landscape Architect and Veterinarian, plus, establish an outreach program to assist and educate the local farmers of Tuskegee, Alabama and it’s surrounding area! #3 On Coach Wooden’s 7-point creed is: "HELP OTHERS!" When Dr. Carver packed up and left ISU for Tuskegee, he didn’t do so because it had better laboratories (it had none), or because it paid more (it didn’t). He went because he believed that his knowledge belonged where it could do the most good! The newly emancipated farmers, the sharecroppers, and the former slave owners all needed his help and guidance. He showed up determined to help them all! Upon his Tuskegee arrival, Dr. Carver discovered that the soil on campus and the local farms had become depleted from planting cotton year after year. He introduced crop rotation. He encouraged planting peanuts, sweet potatoes, soybeans, black eyed peas, and other crops (that he somehow knew had the ability) to restore nitrogen to the depleted soil. His students quickly learned and eagerly managed the on-campus crops that fed the student body. He would travel all around the county in his mule driven wagon giving lectures and passing out instructions that enabled everyone he encountered to harvest better quality food with more variety and become more productive overall, while conserving and rejuvenating their precious soil along the way! Independence and sustainability were what he wanted most for the farmers of the area. Character is what he wanted for his students! Dr. Carver never married and had no children. He considered his students his family and treated them as such. He would share with his students this list of what he considered his "8 cardinal virtues" that he hoped they would follow: Be clean both inside and out. Neither look up to the rich nor down on the poor. Lose if need be without squealing. Win without bragging. Always be considerate of women, children, and old people. Be too brave to lie. Be too generous to cheat. Take your share of the world and let others take theirs. "Success isn’t what you get it’s what you give!" - George Washington Carver In our next issue on Dr. Carver, we will explore how he showed Coach Wooden’s definition of "Competitive Greatness!" Blessings, Coach Fuller George Washington Carver - Booker T. Washington Commerative Half Dollar (U.S. Mint produced 1951-1954) A great biography of George Washington Carver Click here for personal development exercise: Issue 765. Click here for Printable Poetry: Issue 765. Yours in Coaching, Craig Impelman www.woodenswisdom.com Follow @woodenswisdom	COACH'S FAVORITE POETRY AND PROSE For Anne Gregory Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.’ ‘But I can get a hair-dye And set such colour there, Brown, or black, or carrot, That young men in despair May love me for myself alone And not my yellow hair.’ ‘I heard an old religious man But yesternight declare That he had found a text to prove That only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)
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