Everyone Should Have a Moniker Nancy Macduff 1/20/12 Everyone should have a name descriptive of his/her life.

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Dickens was dubbed Dickens the Inimitable in mid-writing career. Czars and czarinas are dubbed as Michael the Saint, Catherine the Great, Alexander the Liberator. Everyone needs a moniker. Maybe more than one. Why not

dub the eras of our lives in the same fashion? What follows is an irreverent homage to the colorful titles given writers and Russian royalty, to name a few. Ivan the Terrible

Nancy The Imp

When Nancys mother was asked to describe her oldest daughter she recited a poem. There was a little girl Who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good She was really, really good. When she was bad She was horrid. Vsevolod the Big Nest

Nancy the Big Nest

Nancy began in high school collecting electic friends. She hung out with the greasers and the "grinds," attending parties for with groups. Knowing and befriending a variety of people is a life long pursuit. Her Big Nest includes; college professors, garbage collectors, Hispanics, engineers, yard workers, truck drivers, African Americans, 89 year olds, and 15 year olds, scientists, and artists. The bigger Nancys nest the richer the resources to fill her insatiable curiosity about life and people. Mikhail the Exile

Nancy the Beltway Maven

Moving to Washington DC is not a pining goal of one from the Northwest, but an offer to impact the world of volunteerism led to a voluntary exile of three years inside the Beltway. (1) An apartment near public transportation was a home away from home. The 1930s era apartment building abutted Rock Creek park and raccoons and deer were frequent visitors to the garage and grounds. Season tickets to the Shakespeare Theatre, regular visits to the National Zoo, the Kennedy Center, and numerous museums were delightful changes from wheat fields and babbling brooks. Trips to Walla Walla helped ground Nancy in reality,

which Washington DC is not.

Yaroslav the Wise

Nancy the Curious

Anything related to the world of volunteerism is the lake in which Nancy swims. For 40+ years she has explored the world of service. How does it work? Who is involved? Who is doing it the best? What can volunteers do? She wanted answers. The curiosity led to research projects on such things as volunteer engagement in faith-based organizations, the advent of short term volunteering (episodic), and supervisory attitudes of volunteers and staff at the Kennedy Center. This research led her to author numerous books, chapters in the books of other, papers for professional conferences, and trainining session in more than 35 states and Europe. She currently teaches online classes in volunteer administration for two universities. In 2010 she was asked to work in an advisory capacity for the United Nations Volunteer program in preparing a recently released report on the state of volunteering throughout the world.

Dmitry the Terrible Eyes

Nancy the Challenged

Not only are Nancys eyes challenged, but for 20 years an electric scooter has been her legs. Missing ligaments in her knees, a life long passion for the active-swimming, racquetball, running, biking, , and too much weight, conspired to destroy her knees. Never one to quit she took to her first Rascal scooter like a duck to water. She gardens, shops at Farmers Market, brought a fax-copy machine home on the scooter in DC, rakes the leaves in fall, goes grocery shopping, hosts parties indoors and out. Nancy takes every opportunity to educate her family and friends to look for accessibility and tell merchants or movie houses when it is done right.

Sviatopolk the Damned

Nancy the Accursed

Svaitopolk got into trouble for killing a couple of brothers and hence his descriptive name. Nancys claim to being cursed is based on research she started in 1989 on how people were changing the traditional modes of volunteering. When you are trying to find board members for 3 year terms, or recruiting Hospice volunteers to spend weeks in training before seeing a patient, or looking for a museum volunteer who needs a year of training

before he/she can start working, having some academic smarty pants tell you that many people do not wish to volunteer like that can be unnerving. Imagine the reaction when she started talking about the thousands of people who enjoy volunteering via their cell phones! Nancy has been chewed out by the best in the world of volunteering. She is patient (to a degree). Her predictions of the early 1990s have come to fruition. Nancy likes the motto in the baseball movie with Kevin Costner: If you build they will come.
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Class notes: Quote from Hindmann "Real people and real hasles often cause spiritual hearing loss." Notes from class 1/27/12 Use concrete words, not abstractions in writing Avoid cliches

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