introversion5 - The Monday Morning Memo

Wizard of Ads Partner Dave Young interviews the amazing
Jon Spoelstra, one of our favorite members of
the Wizard Academy adjunct faculty.
Aroooooooo!
– Indy

Dapper Dave Young is one of the original 12 Wizard of Ads partners and is also a major donor at Wizard Academy, an exclusive fraternity that currently has only 45 members. Number 45, by the way, is Terry Gaudet. You could become number 46 with a cash gift to the school of $5,000 or more. Isn’t it amazing that this place was built – debt free – with thousands of gifts less than $5,000? Just 45 people have ever given $5,000 or more. That kind of blows my mind. Wizard Academy was built by a LOT of people. “Of the people, by the people, for the people.”

“At first the taxes had provoked disgruntlement, [1381] but this swiftly turned to outright fury as commissioners appointed to investigate widespread evasion were accused of heavy-handed tactics. The poll taxes tapped a deeper root of resentment that had been building in England’s towns and villages since the middle of the century. The Black Death had returned again to England in 1379 in an epidemic that eventually lasted for four years. The effect of this, coming on top of the first wave, in 1348 and 1349, and the Children’s Plague during 1361 and 1362, was to cause the entire structure of medieval society to creak and change. Labor, once abundant in an overpopulated realm, became scarce and expensive.“

- Dan Jones, The Plantagenets, (2012) p. 449-450

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