Tip of the Week

Recently, a national competition of over 1,000,000 high school Jr. ROTC cadets, representing all four services, ended up with 500 young people coming for the finals in Washington, D. C.  The Navy team won the competition, but what was most noticeable was the performance of Cadet Logan Mellaci, who single-handedly answered enough questions to secure…

Carlos Beltran of the St. Louis Cardinals just flew down to his native Puerto Rico to the first graduation class of the academy he founded there. Here is part of a recent article in USA Today about him: “I want to be a good person, to help kids get an education, to help them achieve…

Whether we are graduating or not we have come to the end of the school year.  It’s a good time to stop and evaluate how we’ve done in living out the Code.  We should see the many ways in which we have done our best as individuals, teammates and members of our family, school and…

Cameron Lyle throws the shot put on the track and field team at the University of New Hampshire.  Or he will until this Wednesday – when he goes in to give some of his bone marrow to save the life of an unknown person.  Cameron signed up for the bone marrow registry two years ago…

At the Wooden Cup banquet collegiate recipient Nathanael Franks told the story of an autistic child he tutored in a school.  One day he discovered the child’s love for rocks.  Nathanael began to do things with the child involving rocks and a new relationship began, with the result that the child’s grades improved.  Franks learned…

The Masters golf tournament has come to symbolize “tradition” in golf.  All sports have traditions, all schools have traditions, teams, individuals and families also have traditions.  What are the positive values of these traditions?  Are there any negative aspects to any of the traditions you think of?  Does the Code have anything to say about…

NBC has announced that Jay Leno will retire and be replaced by Jimmy Fallon in 2014.  First, it is understood that Leno is 62 and that NBC has decided that it needs a younger host to attract younger viewers; Fallon is 45.  On every team there are older and younger players.  Part of the responsibility…

Nike has created a controversy with its latest ad featuring Tiger Woods and his quote, “Winning takes care of everything.”  Winning, of course, does not take care of everything – actually, the ONLY thing that winning takes care of in Tiger’s case is the idea that he would never win again.  The use of the…

Twenty teens have died in the past week in five different accidents in five states.  What does the Code have to say about this?  The Code says, “I will play by the letter and spirit of the rules…”  All of these accidents were caused by “not playing by the rules” – by speeding or not…

In an interview on the news this morning a Navy Seal said that what makes the Seals great is not the physical training, but the results of everything that leads each of them to care more about the others than they do about themselves.  You finally get to the point where “it is not about…