Marjie Smith:
CLASS OF 1970
Newmarket High SchoolClass of 1970
Newmarket, ON
Marjie's Story
Marjie Aldom Smith is from Newmarket, Ontario. She is Married with Jerry Smith. Her schools include Newmarket High School and Orillia Collegiate and Vocational Institute. She later attended The University of Western Ontario. She worked as a journalist and in communications.
Books she likes include Unbroken, Water for Elephants, The Sandcastle Girls. The Secret Lives Of Bees. Movies she likes include Secretariat, The Mission, Shawshank Redemption.
One of Marjie's favorite quotes is:""The adult members of society adverted to the Bible unreasonably often. What arcana! Why did they spread this scandalous document before our eyes? If they had read it, I thought, they would have hid it. They didnât recognize the vivid danger that we would, through repeated exposure, catch a case of its wild opposition to their world. Instead, they bade us study great chunks of it, and think about those chunks, and commit them to memory, and ignore them. By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.
â¦.Annie Dillard (An American Childhood)
âEverything bad was laid on the body, and everything good was credited to the soul. I t scared me a little when I realized that I saw it the other way around. If the soul and body really were divided, then it seemed to me that all the worst sins â hatred and anger and self-righteousness and even greed and lust â came from the soul. But these preachers Iâm talking about all thought that the soul could do no wrong, but always had its face washed and its pants on and was in agony over having to associate with the flesh and the world. And yet these same people believed in the resurrection of the body.â
â¦Jayber Crow (Wendell Berry), p. 49
"Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are ...Expand for more
created equal and shall not starve."
... Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)
âDonât ever make fun of the misfortunes of othersâ¦No good will ever come of it. God will bring you down. If you use his blessings to look down on other people, itâs like cussing. Itâs like taking his name in vain.â
â¦Jim the Boy (Tony Earley) p. 69
âThe cardinal principle of Christianity is that Jesus Christ died for us. He died on a cross, suffering the most extreme agony, with his arms and legs broken, as you see here. He did not die quickly, but he slowly bled to death.
âWe have, I am afraid, tried to hide this fact from ourselves. We depict Jesus in flowing white robes, or with significant little needle pricks on his brow, or lying serenely in a sepulcher. The inescapable fact is that he came from a violent God, into a violent world, to save violent men from a terribly violent hell. We fool ourselves in the most bitter mockery if we try for the sake of prettiness to gloss over the terrifying fact that Jesus Christ died in the agony you see depicted there, and by and large, only the Spanish peoples have been brave enough to acknowledge that fact.â
â¦Mexico (James Michener) p. 222".
More about Marjie:"I've lived in: Toronto, Newmarket, Orillia, London, Sault Ste Marie, Manitoulin Island, Chapleau, Timmins and North Bay, in Ontario, Canada. I have lived, briefly, in Long Hanborough, England, and in the U.S., in Beaver, PA, and Nashville
I golf: most birdies in one game, 3; one hole in one, on Highland Rim's No. 5 hole, using a well teed up 7 wood and a Nike ball;
I bike: We've ridden all over the US and Canada as well as in the UK, France and Bermuda.
We also: canoe and used to cross-country ski and inline skate before moving here.
I am a journalist: I started stringing for The Manitoulin Expositor in 79 and next step was reporter, then editor with the Daily Press in Timmins. Freelance career that followed led to North Bay Nugget, Toronto Star, Northern Ontario Business and many others. Also worked in communications for Nipissing University and The Diocese of Pittsburgh, as well as freelance work.
Three kids, three granchildren and one husband of almost 35 years.".
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