SION, Alberta, January 11, 2010 —

 

The Wild Rose Community College, as a fantasy, traces back to the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Emma Plitt Stahl, who was born on January 11, 1910.

One hundred years after Emma Plitt's birth we have entered into our first contract, a small agreement of only five hundred dollars, aimed at slowly launching a concept which we initially called the Wild Rose College of Beekeeping.

That concept was outlined in a 32-page presentation to the Board of Directors of Adamstahl Associates Limited in September 2008, and we have now been sitting on it for more than a year.  Since that initial presentation we have become increasingly aware that what we are really launching is not merely a concept for a beekeepers' college, but rather it constitutes a vision for a community college, designed to go on for a hundred years and then hopefully be turned into the Wild Rose University.

It goes along with our vision of the Wild Rose State.  That State is an intellectual experience.  It too is a fantasy which until now has existed for about 30 years, ever since we first announced it in the name of Jesus about three decades ago, away back in the late 1970s and early eighties.

That takers me right back to another centennial—the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Dominion of Canada.  Nineteen sixty-seven was Canada's Centennial Year.  It was an exciting year for me.  That year included a trip to Montreal and Quebec City, taking in Expo 67, and then later that year a tour of community colleges in the

San Francisco area of California.

There, in the rotunda of the San Francisco Community College, I had an experience, a moment of truth, I will never forget.  Rhoda and I stood in the foyer of that beautiful college, and there, in a semi-circle along the top of the wall of the rotunda, were the words of our Lord Jesus: "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."  What a fantastic motto for a community college!!

I'm adopting it for the Wild Rose Community College!  Those words are immortal.  They are a fantastic launching pad for a community college and an independent state of free thinkers.  Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free!

I am personally past the age of 80 and I have one foot in the grave.  My Wild Rose State is a personal fantasy which exists only in the mind of an insignificant little idiot in the private sector.  Whether it ever goes public is strictly in the hands of God, and let me make the observation at this juncture that in a democracy the people are God.  Sovereignty resides in the people.

If it takes another hundred years, big deal!  Who cares?  What's a hundred years in a cosmos where a thousand years is but a day in the eyes of God?

If the Wild Rose Fantasy, after I am dead and gone, grabs a million people with the same degree and intensity with which it has gripped and held me for the past three decades, then the Wild Rose State will no longer be a personal fantasy of an idiot named Len Stahl.  It will, quite naturally and democratically, become a physical reality.

 

 

 

 

The Wild Rose Community College is leading the way.  A free society is an educated society.  Some outstanding educators are leading the way as well.  There were a good number of guys and gals with PhDs after their names at that San Francisco colleges tour in Canada's Centennial Year.  Their gentle spirits are leading the way in the formation of the Wild Rose Community College.

Leading the way particularly is an outstanding educator whose maiden name was Rhoda Sarah Adams.  I went to Bible College with her and then married her nearly sixty years ago.  She is the mother of my three children—David, Dawn and Geoffrey.  Rhoda was with me at that tour of colleges in California in 1967.

She went on in subsequent years, after the age of 40, to acquire a Master's Degree in Business Education, with honors, from the University of Alberta, and became a fantastic teacher in Sherwood Park, Alberta.  She went home to be with the Lord in 2002, at the age of 75, and has now been elevated to the stars.

Also elevated to the stars is my younger brother Clarence, who had a Master's Degree in English Literature, from the California State University at Los Angeles.  He became an outstanding educator, and is now, since his death in 2005 (at the age of 73) one of the leading lights in the Wild Rose movement

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