Preacher Tells
Personal History
A this-is-my-life story was told
by Rev. John Moletti at the Rotary
luncheon Tuesday at the 49
Room, which was followed by a
film, “Light On Democracy”
which was supplied by the local
post office.
Rev. Moletti said he was bom
in 1913 in Colorado, one of two
sons. His father was an immigrant
from Alsace-Lorraine in France,
and his mother, a Missouri girl,
married his father at the age of
15.
Describing the difficulties of
graduating from high school dur
ing the depression, he said his
total earnings for one summer and
fall was one silver dollar for
helping install a store window. He
said he drifted purposelessly a
year or so. He mentioned also that
although his father was a nominal
Catholic, young Moletti himself
was not even inside a church
until he was 12 years old. At this
later point in life Rev. Moletti
said he decided he was wasting
the life God had given him. and
he decided on the ministry. From
1934 until 1941 he studied and
went to college with that aim, and
then attended a seminary from
1944 to 1948.
Before coming to Kodiak in
1953 he had served in churches in
Pennsylvania, Oregon and Califor
nia. He forgot to mention that he
is married, having become so on
July 21, 1935 in Everett, Wash.,
and he also forgot to.mention six
begotten children.
Rev. Moletti told of a little of
the work of the Community Bap
tist church, founded in Kodiak in
1940, which in its history has had
31 denominations represented
among its three types of member
ships. There were 1200 persons
f
in attendance Easter Sunday, Rev.
Moletti said, and a total of 800
last Sunday.
Next week all Rotary members
will bring some article wrapped
up for a blind auction, the money
raised to be used to be$p pay for
the Rotary scholarship offered a
local student.
New student member John
Reft was introduced. Guest was
Tom Renshaw.
POETS CORNER
IMPRESSIONS OF
KODIAK ISLAND
Where the restless “Willawaws”
leap and rise
To clash above in stormy skys,
And the deepening roar, like a
mighty horde
Flaying the air with a giant
sword,
Falls screaming to the earth be
low,
Mingling forces with the swirl
ing snow.
Where Spring’s gay whistle
starts -the race
Of the new-born grasses to the
mountain’s face,
And fireweed flames over the
country-side,
Stirring the wild flower’s ances
tral pride.
Til they burst from their seed in
to riotous bloom
Scenting the breeze with their
special perfume.
Where the black and white ripple
flashing by
Is the magpie subduing the sea
gull ciy
And the black crdw ' -shouts : a
(raucous refrain * • *
As he clings to his perch , in
the drizzling rain
Here the brown bear sits by a
mountain stream
Storing up salmon for his long
winter’s dream.
An island remote, where time
slows its pace,
Delays its departure from di
verse place
Content to linger where natures
style
Displays the pattern on a peace
ful isle.
A rugged land of a true pioneer
Is this fragment of America’s
Northern frontier.
—Mary Hughes
REV. AND MRS. ROGERS HERE
Rev. and Mrs. Raymond Rogers
and daughters Jean and Dianne of
Scotia, New York have driven up
the Alaska Highway, and after
visiting m Cordova have arrived
in Kodiak for a visit with Miss
Vivienne Greene and her ‘family’
at McWhinnie Cottage, Kodiak
Baptist Mission.
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Does Mama Love Papa? •
This should never happen, particularly not in front of the
children. Of course there are bound to be disagreements
between parents. But they should never be allowed to de
velop into the sort of thing we see here.
These children are puzzled and frightened. The shrieks sf
their father and mother terrify them. Homes that rock
with family fights can’t produce happy, wed-adjusted
children.
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