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May 25, 2007
Little Virtues
This week has seen many of our former students who are now in college return to the Austin Tennis Academy. It has been great to see the growth and maturity of young men and women like Ryan Berber, Brent Werbeck, Simone Templeton, Gigi Lopez, Brett Powers, Adam Slagter, Santiago Montoya and others. Many of them will be attending our end of the year party and some will speak at the party. If you would like to see what your young tennis player might look, act and sound like in a few years, have chat with one of these college students.
Some of what we hope to impart to our students is encapusulated in Natalia Ginzburg's "Little Virtues". I was reminded of it seeing many of our college students coming back to ATA. Here is a quote I like and what I hope is some of what we are imparting to our students:
"not the litte virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money, not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness, but a frankness and a love of truth; not tact but a love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for sucess but a desire to be and to know."
End of the year party, Sunday, June 3, Commander's Point.
Posted by Jack Newman at May 25, 2007 7:54 AM
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