a special tribute to wallace johnson on his 89th birthday april 17th 2014

A special tribute to Wallace Johnson on his 89th Birthday April 17th 2014

Preface / Introduction

This is a celebration of one of longest standing member who is celebrating his birthday.

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Table of Contents

1. 'And the days dwindle down...' Thoughts for dear friend and colleague Wallace Johnson upon theoccasion of his 86th birthday April 18, 2011. 2. Those magnificent men in their flying machines to fly no more.... as NASA's shuttle program endsand an era with it. 3. Remarks made on behalf of Wallace Johnson, exemplary home business owner, aged 88, on theoccasion of his victory in the Worldprofit Inc. sales contest, April, 2013.

'And the days dwindle down...' Thoughts for dear friend andcolleague Wallace Johnson upon the occasion of his 86thbirthday April 18, 2011. by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Today is a special day, a festive day, a day of celebration and hijinx... today Wallace Johnson,friend, turns 86 years young; legions of his friends and well wishers will gather via the Internet totoast, to laugh with and to note the day and the man.

Wallace, for all that he was a test pilot with the Apollo Project, (and so truly flew high) is a man ofsentiment, art, culture. So I looked for a suitable song to mark this event, and had no troubleselecting "The September Song" by Kurt Weil (music) and Maxwell Anderson (lyrics). It firstappeared in the Broadway musical "Knickerbocher Holiday" (1938).

It is a grand tune with haunting music and a message that grows more apt and poignant day by day.

A host of top artists have recorded this song, and no wonder; Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, JimmyDurante (in 1955 in a particularly touching manner). I select Lotte Lenya. She did, after all, knowWeill best; she married him twice. Her rendition is mesmerizing. Go to any search engine and findit; let the music and its lyrics envelop you as you read an article straight from the heart on this hisspecial day.

".And the days dwindle down To a precious few September, November And these few precious daysI'll spend with you. These precious days I'll spend with you."

Thoughts from a whippersnapper of only 64.

Readers, if you're lucky in life you have a friend and colleague like Wallace. He is dedicated,conscientious to a fault, and he knows the fine art of handling a CEO, which (being the CEO inquestion) I appreciate more than he knows Today, greatly daring, with grave temerity, this self-sameCEO offers a few limpid reflections and observations in the hope that they are welcome...and, moreto the point, correct.

1) You've lived.

In 1955 best-selling author Patrick Dennis wrote a pip of an novel entitled "Auntie Mame". Itoffered this pithy admonition well loved by my mother, "Live! Live! Live! Life is a banquet andmost poor suckers are starving to death."

Wallace, you are a lucky man; you have lived... you have loved... and most importantly you havebeen loved, and still are. You have known and lived by the truth of Sigmund Freud's famousobservation that the best life is composed of love and work. It is not given to all to know, much lessto benefit from, this.

"Happiness is composed of love and work." (Glück ist Liebe und Arbeit zusammen.")

You have, of course, made errors; not one of us is immune from that. But I suspect, as well as onehuman can know another, that yours were the faults of generosity. You, I know, are quite capable ofgiving too much to those who may not have been worth the gift, being neither capable ofunderstanding nor reciprocating. If this is a "fault", it is a good one to have. It is, after all, alwaysbetter to have given, even if from time to time, to the unworthy. Let a man be evaluated by sucherrors...and he shall be found, assuredly, a good man, a kind man, a man of heart. That man is you.

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2) You served America proudly, regarding her as needing the support of all who love her, a bastion,not a milch cow for exploitation.

Wallace, you have been since your earliest days, a man who knew the secret of life was always tolook up, to the place beyond the rainbows, for it is only by the exertions of untrammeled people thatprogress can come. You looked up and saw the cosmos as a subject of study, as a great adventure, asa never-ending source of wonder; a place to embrace and excite, never to shrink from. As a test pilotfor the Apollo Project during the heady days of its inception and development, you saw first-handwhat this great nation can do... no technical impediment too difficult... no vision too unlikely... nodestination too remote.

You are one of the very elect who can say, and proudly, "I was there... and it mattered." And so itdid. The salary was meager; the hours long; the effect profound and inspiring. And you were there,dedicated.

3) You have been a great teacher.

Ask a new member of our Worldprofit community to name a single member, a single monitor, andthe odds are overwhelming they will name you. I know why. First because you saw in us the best ofyou and in joining did no lip service but made the most serious of commitments. You resolved notmerely to take, but to enhance, improve, and through every season and year, to give.

You learned our innovative business... you excelled. You understood, as so many have not, that theInternet is not a destination; it is a process, a process of connecting the members of our species,wherever they are located, so that they may communicate the very best of which we are capable.

You embraced this mission as you embraced all your missions: with seriousness of intent, with fullcommitment, and with an unexampled talent for training other good people worldwide whounderstood the vital importance of our monitor program and wanted to add their talents to the corpsepitomized by you. As such you have, first, touched the lives of these monitors, directly, personally,diplomatically, thoroughly. In turn these monitors, with their important tasks, have touched the livesof untold thousands, who may perhaps never know they have benefited from you and your gift ofgiving. But they most assuredly have.

4) You have helped your CEO, a "lad" still on the sunny side of Social Security, just.

Wallace, many people today, and on many days to come, will extol your virtues, and rightly so. But Iam the only man in the universe who can extol you for this: that you have helped your CEO, notleast by your empathy, diplomacy, and the art of knowing just when to offer home truths, the betterto attend to them... and to listen. I appreciate your deftness... and your unflagging assistance.

Many people, 2 decades and more senior in age, would have found ways to roil the waters. Youchose with consummate loyalty, to smooth the road... without the slightest hint of servility or arrierepensee. You have been amidst so many loyal, the most loyal of all.

You have given me the benefit of wisdom, without condescension. You have listened... you havespoken candidly... you have reminded when necessary and "forgotten" when prudent. I amappreciative, in your debt, impressed and grateful.

"And these few precious days, I'll spend with you."

If we are known and greatly defined by the company we keep, then surely we are here atWorldprofit, all of us the beneficiaries of this: that from a multitude of other companies andopportunities, Wallace Johnson selected us.

Now my 86th birthday gift to you, Wallace, is this:




May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm uponyour face...

(ancient Irish prayer).

Wherever you go, whenever you go there, you take a particle from us with you, just as we carry a bitof you on our own unique journey through time and space.

Readers: for more information on Wallace Johnson and the Apollo Project, visit any search engine.




Those magnificent men in their flying machines to fly nomore.... as NASA's shuttle program ends and an era with it.by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Author's program note. To get into the right frame of mind for this article, search any search enginefor the music and lyrics to "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" (released 1965,music by Ron Goodwin). Prepare to be aroused as one of the great stories of our lives soars...

For most of us the space age has a quite specific commencement -- October 4, 1957. That was thelaunch date of the world's first artificial satellite Sputnik I. I was there. Like every single American,my concerned, curious parents herded my brother and me into the backyard of our suburban Illinoishome... as we saw our sense of security destroyed by a 184.3 pound device called a Sputnik. In mymind's eye, I remember the event with complete clarity; I seem to remember, too, that it made abeeping sound... but that may not be so.

What was so was that all the verities of the heartland ended for a generation right then and there.

"Better Red than dead," people said. Was that our new reality? We started to look for Russkies underthe bed...

Eisenhower blinked.

Sputnik spooked us at the moment of our greatest power; we thought we were the only game intown... Sputnik was a jolting wake-up call which President Eisenhower, old and full of honors,missed. A restless Senator John F. Kennedy did not. It was Kennedy who read the thoroughlyaroused and anxious public mood better... and in due course made him President of the UnitedStates, an office Ike, who established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (October1, 1958), felt Kennedy unqualified to hold. Maybe so... but Kennedy is rightly seen as the man whogalvanized America's fears and turned them into the fuel for conquering space -- and giving us backour lost security.

We had to conquer space... and that meant having a space station and the means to get back andforth to them. From the moment Sputnik flew, 1440 orbits of Earth in only 3 months, the shuttleprogram was a given. And we put all the king's horses and all the king's men to work on it. The resultwas the launch of Explorer I (officially Satellite 1958), January 31, 1958. It was the U.S.'s first earthsatellite. It was rushed to launch so fast that its tape data recorder was not modified in time to makeit onto the satellite. Nonetheless, the nation breathed a sigh of relief... we were back in the game.

Project Mercury followed and the grand era of magnificent men in their flying machines....menwhose names the nation knew and whose pictures could be found in every schoolroom of a gratefulAmerica... astronaut Alan Shepard (first American in space May 5, 1961)... astronaut John Glenn(first American to orbit the Earth, February 20, 1961)... and all the others... culminating in thatnever-to-be-forgotten day of American pride, July 20, 1969 when astronauts Neil Armstrong andBuzz Aldrin walked the lunar landscape while Michael Collins orbited above.

These were truly the up, up and away days! We were late to the space game, but having started weapproached the matter with characteristic energy, imagination and determination, a great peoplecommitted to a great goal.

The first shuttle launch, February 15, 1977.

The shuttle program was our way of saying that our connection with space was a permanent one, thatwe'd be going back and forth as part of our preparation for ever grander explorations. And so...




2/15/77, OV-101, Enterprise (yes, it was named after the television series), performed its first (taxi)test flight as part of the shuttle program. It never flew in space and was cannibalized for parts.

Then April 12, 1981, OV-102, Columbia, blasted into orbit, becoming the first successful spaceflight in the space shuttle program. (STS-1, Space Transportation System.) It returned on April 14,1981, after orbiting Earth 36 times. Columbia carried just two crew members: Apollo veteran JohnW. Young and rookie pilot Robert L. Crippen.

August 30, 1984, OV-103, Discovery, was first flown on mission STS-41-D, launching twocommunications satellites and becoming the third operational NASA orbital shuttle followingColumbia and Challenger.

But tragedy lay dead ahead.

We must never forget that at the core of the shuttle program was danger. Good men and women,dedicated, our nation's finest, always understood that death was always a possibility. That no matterhow often the system was tested; no matter how many experts signed off on the matter, catastrophewas always a real possibility. They all accepted that as part of the adventure, the great game, the costof doing business.

January 28, 1986, STS-51-L Challenger, a nation shocked, a nation mourns.

This was supposed to be another day of American triumph; instead, with the disintegration of theChallenger over the Atlantic Ocean it became a signature day of national mourning.

These 7 crew members gave their lives:

Francis (Dick) Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnik, Ronald E. McNair, Ellison S. Onizuka,Gregory Jarvis, and Christa McAuliffe; the plucky teacher who meant to teach the world's schoolchildren about space and instead taught them all about the shortness of life and the costs ofcommitment. That day the nation was reminded of the terrible costs that may come when frontiersare challenged. That day, too, the nation was fortunate in its president; Ronald Reagan's decency andempathy were notable. We were all grateful for that.

975 days later, September 29, 1988, STS-26 Discovery launched with five crew members intospace, always beckoning, always challenging, with so very much more to discover, study and know.

On February 1, 2003, tragedy struck again and again it was brought home to the nation that the costsof "conquering" space included periodic tragedy as it did this day when STS-107 came to an abruptand tragic conclusion. Seven crew members died...

Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, Ilan Ramon, Kalpana Chawla, DavidM. Brown, Laurel Clark.

And again the shuttle flew. It was the American way.

Now, however, changing budget priorities have done what no great tragedies succeeded in doing.Thus the shuttle, after just a few more flights, will end, thirty years and 133 missions later. Is this thelast word on the matter? For the shuttle, probably; but for space? As long as one child looks up andwonders what there is in the great beyond, determined to find out, this story will never end...

Readers: for a thorough bibliography on the history of the space shuttle, search for "Toward aHistory of the Space Shuttle: An Annotated Bibliography " compiled by Roger D. Launius andAaron G. Gillette.




Remarks made on behalf of Wallace Johnson, exemplaryhome business owner, aged 88, on the occasion of hisvictory in the Worldprofit Inc. sales contest, April, 2013.By Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Author's program note. Since the beginning of human society and civilization, we homo sapienshave extolled... and rightly so... the achievements of our fellow Earth travelers, not just to honor thepeople who have advanced our collective cause but to point to them as models of our kind, rolemodels for our present, abiding models to inform and inspire all who follow us.

The ways in which notable people are so honored are as various as the people themselves.Sovereigns lift subjects to milords by their "mere motion." Medals are given the worthy for thegreatest action of all... saving life while risking their own. Even our pets are honored for "best ofbreed", their awards and meritorious mentions covering thousands of walls in jurisdictionsworldwide. We all know the value of honor. We all strive to recognize it... and if we have any gritabout us, we all work hard to be such an honored person and enjoy the plaudits and the respect of thegood people who matter.

It is my privilege as Chief Executive Officer of Worldprofit.com to present such a person to you andto do it in the most honorable of ways... modeled after a great Guildhall banquet in London... forthere is no people on Earth which values its great events as much as the British do... and which goesto greater exertion to ensure all such occasions are rendered just so... absolutely perfect in everysingle important and time-honored detail; just as we trust this event is rendered.

Honored friend, Wallace, such punctilio is your due for you have honored your colleagues everysingle day with your signal service... no more so than in April, 2013. Thus we gather to praise you...to recognize you... and to make merry in grand fashion for you have earned such an event, suchhonor, such recognition and the friendship of all who stand forward in this article with their laudablewords.

Musical accompaniment.

To accompany this homage I have selected one of the most well-known and stirring of songs, thesong that celebrates the great days of England's imperium, "Heart of Oaks." Go find it in any searchengine now.

The music was composed by Dr. William Boyce, and the words were written by the celebrated actorDavid Garrick. It was originally written as an opera and premiered New Year's Eve 1759 at theGarrick Theatre.

The "wondrous year" referenced in the first verse is 1759-1760, during which British forces werevictorious in actions as disparate and universal as the Battle of Minden on 1st August 1759; theBattle of Lagos on 19 August 1759; the Battle of the Plains of Abraham (outside Quebec City) on 13September 1759 and the Battle of Quiberon Bay on 20 November 1759, foiling a French invasionproject. These were followed a few months later by the Battle of Wandiwash in India on 22 January1760. >From these victories emerged an empire on which the sun never set... and lyrics grandenough to celebrate such an achievement, especially this line:

"We always are ready; steady, boys, steady."

And Wallace, that line embodies the way you have lived your life, from the Apollo Project whereyou were a distinguished Test Pilot, to your current career as home business entrepreneur, counselor




and champion. At an age where so many of your peers have long ago retired, you have foundhappiness, purpose and a constantly renewed zest in being a source of wisdom, a veritable Nestor...and you have done it through a cocktail all your own, part determination, part focus, part, teammember, part a giving nature.... the sum total being all your own and helpful to each. See foryourself. These are the comments of your Worldprofit colleagues. Mirabile dictu! How fortunate theman, Wallace, who inspires them... as you daily do.

Worldprofit Co-Founder and President Sandi Hunter. "Wallace Johnson is a tremendous humanbeing and shining example of what can be accomplished (at any age) with a strong will and solidwork ethic. He sets a goal, rolls up his sleeves and does the work he needs to do to accomplish thatgoal. Wallace, you are a gentleman, a man of integrity and someone who will always hold a specialplace in my heart."

Mohammed Clayborne. "Wallace, you are a man of integrity and determination which is to beenvied by all. We all strive to reach the pinnacle as you did in April and may you have many moremonths in this position...that is, until I catch up with you!!!"

Howard Martell. "When I first joined Worldprofit back in December 2009 I had the honor of beingmentored by this senior monitor who helped show me how to run Worldprofit's Live BusinessCenter the right way. Wallace, I am so proud of your determination. You inspire me to work harderas serious business owner."

Vanda Strange. "I have had the privilege of knowing Wallace Johnson MBA for the past four and ahalf years and I can honestly say, I have never met a man with such honor, integrity and zest for lifethat can touch every person he meets. Thank you, Wallace, for being you! "

Michael Harris. "Wallace Johnson worked diligently in helping the Apollo Project soar to newheights during his stay as an Apollo Astronaut. But as I often listen to his voice and watch him at thehelm of the Worldprofit Live Business Center, his leadership draws me to soar to new heights aswell! Thank you, Wallace Johnson."

Liz English. "Wallace, Congratulations. You are the perfect example of an Entrepreneur. At the ageof 88 you have pulled out all the stops. Done what needed to be done, followed directions, listened,learned, and put into action the necessary steps that were needed to become the Number One SalesPerson, April 2013 at Worldprofit. You have shown us all 'the secret to success'...is no secret. It'scalled constant exertion; finding ways to add more value to peoples' lives; more than anyone elsedoes! You have indeed done this for me and for all of us at Worldprofit."

Sherry Hamilton. "Wallace Johnson is a man full of heart and humor, and I am certain, a youthfulvigor that most younger people do not have. This, I believe is what ensures his success in everythinghe attends. I would like to thank Wallace for sharing his heart with me while I was training as amonitor with Worldprofit. He went 'above and beyond' to help me feel 'at ease'."

Robert Rehling. "Wallace, I would like to congratulate you on your April achievement of top sellerin our Worldprofit community. It is an honor to know you and work with you in the Monitor Team.Keep up the excellent job you do for all of us here at Worldprofit."

Mike Pachuta. "Sir, it is and has been a pleasure to serve with you in our great community. At first Ithought you were just another in our community. But you have shown that to be far from true. Youare a true leader as well!!"

Barbara Buegeler: "Wallace has been a friend to me, helping me when I first started as a monitor andwas scared to death. Over the period of time I have been a Dealer, he has had a number of healthchallenges which he overcame. He is a spirit to be reckoned with, as he has a strong work ethic, akind heart, and LOTS of chutzpah, which I thoroughly admire."




Mark Anderson. 'Wallace Johnson is an inspiration for all that are a part of the Worldprofit family.He sets at his respectable age the example for all to follow and has a spectacular decorum whenmeeting and greeting people, associates and dealers alike. I tip my hat to him with the highestrespect."

Lisa Martiniuk. "Wallace, I think of you as that soft, warm glow emanating from the Moon. Asubtle, yet steady source of light, to guide lost travellers, whilst keeping darkness at bay."

Minta Beard: "I am honored to express my sincere gratitude to Wallace Johnson for being aninspiration to all of us. His success shows that dedication, determination, focus, and commitment areimportant factors for making it to the top. Wallace is an individual that I admire and respect hisleadership."

Daniel Fischer. "Wallace, you know and I know that absent your help, faith and conviction that Icould succeed, I would never have become a Senior Monitor and watched my skills and businessimprove and increase every single day. 'Thank you; doesn't begin to express my deep feelings aboutyou. You literally changed my life and I am grateful." The Toast.

Ladies and gentlemen, entrepreneurs all, please be upstanding as we say, each and every one,'Congratulations, Wallace Johnson'. The man who made a difference, the great goal we should all bestriving to achieve... and which Wallace has done, with good cheer, warm heart, constant giving andthe friendship and good wishes of all.

""Come, cheer up, my lads, 'tis to glory we steer To add something more to this wonderful year."

That "something" is Wallace Johnson!




ResourceAbout the Author Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a widerange of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18best-selling business books.

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