Wednesday, October 16, 2019

Look Out! Ethical Dilemma Ahead! What would YOU do?

Let's just say, hypothetically, that you were the caretaker of a blog featuring news about your high school classmates.  (Just randomly picking a town in America, let's say your high school was, oh I don't know, Brookings, SD, Class of, perhaps, 1969.)  And let us further conjecture that YOU YOURSELF  were to receive a well-deserved award by a large university in that town.  Here's the ethical quandary:  Do you announce YOUR OWN great honor on the very blog you maintain?
Is that not vanity?
What about the virtue of humility?
What to do!  What to do!

Luckily, we have historical precedent for such a predicament!  By sheer random chance, the very blog you are reading at this moment has a caretaker who will be honored (by the very university mentioned above! What are the odds!) as the 2019 recipient of the Ralph Ginn Award for Coaching Excellence.  Your very own John Iverson's 33+ years of coaching basketball, cross country and track and field are being recognized at the Jackrabbit Sports Hall of Fame Banquet on November 9th.

John's answer to the Ethical Dilemma appears to be ... Toot Not Thine Own Horn!   

Well, doggone it, someone should toot that horn.  Let's all do so.

Here is the Brookings Register announcement of the event:

https://brookingsregister.com/article/iverson-to-receive-ralph-ginn-award

Join me in congratulating John
for a well-deserved award!


1 comment:

  1. Congratulations, John! I saw the Brookings Register link on several Facebook groups.

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