GB: When I shook hands with Albert D. Schroeder

by Gorbatchov 2 Replies latest jw friends

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  Gorbatchov

  With the decease of Guy Pierce, I was thinking tonight about the day I shook hands with Albert D. Schroeder.

  It was during his zone visit talk in a convention hall in The Netherlands. I was 12 and walked with my father in the hall. There were

  a lot of people around someone. My father told me "There he is, give him a handshake".

  I walked - a litle bit shy - to him. He was very tall from my point of view. He watched to me strict and asked in German

  "Sprechen sie Deutsch?". I answered "Ein bisschen". He answered "Ah, ein bisschen!" and went away.

  It was not a nice chat. It felt somehow strange. He behaved like he was far above us, the rank and file.

  Since then, I did not like those men anymore.

  Gorby
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  EndofMysteries

  I remember when I was maybe 9 years old, Karl Klein visited. Not only could I not understand a single word from marble mouths talk, but he was a mean cranky old man. I just remember he yelled at us kids for something.
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  prologos

  these seven are missing something by the ivory-tower mentality, they would be surprised at the profondeur available among the R&F.

  Among the 7 we have come close enough to talk to for a few isolated minutes at least:

  F.Franz stood out, to be truly delighted to talk to my young daughter as he sat alone on a stage after a talk, and S. Herd stopped long enough mingling in a convention crowd to exchange some meaningful words.

  Henschel as said here before, a man of few-if any-words.

  of course there is a million of us for one of them. that puts a premium somewhere.