Welcome to Jerry's podcasts, a series of true stories from his life. These events and interactions offer glimpses into one man's quest to understand life's truths. They provide peeks into the development of American culture from the mid 1940's to the present. Having attended eight different public schools, lived in nine states, been in the army, held multiple work positions and obtained a doctorate in school psychology, he has found his way of living in the world.
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An exploration of the rational for doing what we do when we are trying to introduce new strategies to make the world a better place.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 89, "Learning the Culture," provides examples of the importance of valuing the uniqueness of every subculture we encounter. In the case of the sub-cultural issues within the educational cooperative's school systems, it was critically important that I and the graduate assistants understand and honor their sub-cultural processes in accomplish…
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Podcast 88, "Humor in the Stress," relates the high degree of stress the providers of the psychological services encountered due to the lack of understanding of the new 1973 special education law. This lack of preparedness to implement the law produced a great deal of misunderstanding and fear in the minds of many educators. The educational coopera…
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Podcast 87, "Startling Revelations," reveals some of the things I learned about the cooperative after my employment began in July 1973. I was surprised by the reactions of a school system's staff members when I made my first in-service presentation concerning the implementation of the new special education law. There were funding issues in the begi…
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Podcast 86, "Getting Started," finds me reviewing my past experiences that had prepared me for my role of creating and implementing the psychological services delivery model for the cooperative's member school systems. This entailed delivering the bulk of the services through the use of senior doctorial level graduate students in school psychology …
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Podcast 85, "The First Task," relates unexpected difficulties I had to face with the educational cooperative in my new role as its Director of Psychological and Educational Services during the beginning days of July 1973由Jerry Morton
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"Employed" relates how the Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative employed me and what I learned concerning the creation and mission of the cooperative (LTVEC) in the summer of 1973.由Jerry Morton
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Welcome to season three of the podcast series, "Finding My Way," by Jerry Morton. Season three begins with several stories about my early years with the Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative. Podcast 83, "Finding Employment After Graduation," relates my search for employment in anticipation of completing the training as a Ph.D. school psy…
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Podcast 82, "A Water Tower Adventure," is an account of a college prank in the spring of 1963, that became more consequential than planned.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 76, "Catching an Error," is an account of an observation I made of interactions between children with serious disabilities enrolled in a birth-to-three year old program, One child in the program became my teacher. I think the year was 1989.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 81, "A Dental Story," is an account of my childhood dental experiences, the adventures of my capped front tooth and the extraction of an impacted wisdom tooth while in the army.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 80, "Courage Comes to Town," is an account of a special happening during the Knoxville, Tennessee's 1982 World's Fair. By chance, Jerry witnessed a display of courage by the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 79, "Prader Willi," is a story about the committed efforts of professional service providers working together to create and implement life-changing strategies in assisting someone with Prader Willi syndrome由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 78, "The Other Side," is a story about assisting an elderly woman at a large store. She is very gracious, sweet and kind as she accepts my assistance. Unintentionally, she presents me with one of life's important lessons.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 77, "Raise the Hood," is an account of obtaining a used Ford Falcon to drive back and forth between our Tennessee home and the university. The car had a manual transmission that took me a while to master. The Falcon taught me a lot about maintaining your vehicle.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 75, "Stuck and Unstuck," relates events I observed and was involved in that demonstrated the strength of one's beliefs when making decisions or interpreting the behaviors of others. These interactions took place during my time at an alternative school. I estimate that these events happened around 1990.…
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Podcast 74, "If You Believe It," relates how one's belief system often determines the way we interpret the meaning of agreed upon facts. A student suspended from his public school for a long period of time explains why he thinks he was suspended while he was attending an alternative school around 1989.…
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Podcast 73, "A Lot Going On," is an account from the 1970-1971 school year. It was my second year of working as a school psychologist in St. Petersburg, Florida's inner city schools and their second year of school integration. I was very busy testing children; assisting teachers to improve their classroom management skills, implementing new strateg…
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Podcast 72, "Neither Did I," is an account from the 1979-1971 school year in St. Petersburg, Florida, in which my interventions appeared to fail to produce the desired results. This was my second year of being a school psychologist. It was also the second year of the school system's integration plan. This year, black and white children were to atte…
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Podcast 71, "Struggling to Understand" is an account of encountering an unusual attempt by my school system to integrate one of my formally all black elementary schools during its second year of integration. The 1970-1971 school year found the elementary school mixing black and white children together for the first time. There were problems.…
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Podcast 70, "More of the Unexpected," is an account of several more unexpected challenges before me during the second year of being a school psychologist in seven inner city schools in St. Petersburg, Florida, during the 1970-1971 school year. This was the first year that the school system began bringing white children into the formally all black s…
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Podcast 69, "The Unexpected," is an account of being confronted with an unexpected situation I encountered in my second year, the 1970-1971 school year, as a school psychologist in the inner city schools of St. Petersburg, Florida. My seven schools had white teachers and other white professionals, such as myself, working in them for the first time …
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Podcast 68, "Year Two," is an account of my work as a school psychologist during the 1970-1971 school year in St. Petersburg, Florida. This was my second year in the school system and the second year of integration for my seven previously all black inner city schools. The first year of integration had white professionals going into the all black sc…
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Podcast 67, "The Work," is an account of my work as a school psychologist during the 1969-1970 school year serving seven all black inner city schools being integrated for the first time. This was my first year as a school psychologist after serving three years in the army.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 66, "Seven Schools," is an account of my first year as a school psychologists serving seven all black schools in the inner city of St. Petersburg, Florida which were being integrated for the first time. In June 1969, I left the army searching for a job. Not until that August day, the day before I began work, was I made aware of my assigned …
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Podcast 65, "Employed," is an account of finally obtaining a position after being discharged from the army in June 1969. My new employment required a move across several states to start in a position that was far more complicated than I had anticipated.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 64, "Frustrations Abound," relates my disappointment with the loss of various employment opportunities I thought I had secured before leaving the army and my last minute difficulties in actually leaving the army.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 63, "Unexpected Frustrations," relates my continuing search for a position in the civilian world in preparation for leaving the army in June 1969. The search now includes explorations with a corporation and a school system.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 62, Searching for a New Life, is an account of the options I encountered as I prepared to become a civilian in the spring of 1969. My active duty army obligation would end in June. Since leaving graduate school in August, 1966, my life experiences had caused me to want to explore the opportunities that might be available for me in the civil…
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Podcast 61, Introduction, is the actual introduction to the Reluctant Lieutenant book. It was written by G. Kurt Piehler, a military historian. Dr. Piehler provides an excellent review of the historical development of the military draft system into the Vietnam era as well as important demographics concerning the Vietnam draftees. At the end, he rai…
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Podcast 60, Preface, is an account of the situation that caused Jerry to be forced into the army, why he wrote the Reluctant Lieutenant, his attempts to write it as factually as possible and his appreciation of those who assisted him.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 59, Epilogue, is an account of Jerry's primary assignment at the JFK Special Warfare Center, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, after completing infantry OCS in 1967. He provides a brief picture of his professional career after fulfilling his military obligation.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 58, Experienced Soldiers, is an account of Jerry's last few weeks of infantry OCS in June 1967. Jerry's wife joins him, he encounters lieutenants who have not received their commissions the OCS way and listens to a graduation speech.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 57, The Chipmunk, is an account of Jerry being assigned an impossible task to accomplish at the celebration party for achieving senior candidate status a month before graduating from infantry OCS in the late spring of 1967. No one knew if the mission could be accomplished until the last possible second.…
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Podcast 56, Camping Out, is an account of the ten days of war games Jerry's infantry OCS company engaged in during the spring of 1967. The activities demonstrated the need to have a backup plan for every operation in the field.由Jerry Morton
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The Ambush is an account of the last two weeks in the woods engaged in war games at Ft. McClellan, Alabama in late November, 1966. Jerry's spontaneous behaviors produce unusual results.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 55, Tactics, is an account of the training provided to infantry OCS candidates in the spring of 1967. The tactics included navigation, calling in artillery fire, being ambushed, making sure your men had all their field equipment and the use of specialized weapons.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 54, Second Lieutenant Ken Strauss, is an account of Jerry's platoon in infantry OS getting a new tactical training officer (TAC) in the spring of 1967. The TAC quickly earns his respect as Jerry tries to fulfill new tasks assigned to him including being an instructor, writing a poem and filling the role of acting platoon leader.…
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Podcast 53, Troubles, is an account of a series of problems Jerry had to cope with during his infantry OCS training in the spring of 1967. These difficulties include receiving forbidden food, failing to follow an officer's order and being ordered to accomplish the impossible.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 52, Zero-Eight-Hundred, is an account of infantry OCS training in the spring of 1967. Jerry is caught polishing his shoes during study time. He is required to produce a military letter under seemingly impossible conditions.由Jerry Morton
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Lenny's Reign is an account of infantry OCS training in the spring of 1967. Jerry is pressured into smuggling a risque film into the platoon bay, concealing it despite a footlocker inspection and finally getting it off post.由Jerry Morton
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Podcast 50, Make Way, is an account of the first weeks of infantry OCS in early 1967. Jerry learns to navigate the daily routine and how to manage the harassment of a senior candidate.由Jerry Morton
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Chowing Down is an account of Jerry's first meal of eating on the square and other unusual activities during the strange start of OCS in January 1967.由Jerry Morton
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"Are There Any Questions?" is an account of the beginning of Infantry Officer Candidate training in January, 1967. Jerry becomes platoon morale officer, learns about "eating on the square" and becomes oriented to the various OCS was of existing.由Jerry Morton
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Odds and Ends is an account of the last week of advanced infantry training at Ft. McClellan, Alabama, and Christmas vacation before starting Infantry Officer Candidate School,OCS, at Ft. Benning, Georgia, on January 11, 1967.由Jerry Morton
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In the Field is an account of Jerry's introduction to army war games at Ft. McClellan, Alabama, in the fall of 1966, as part of his advanced infantry training. He experiences the inherent fear of sentry duty, an encounter with the enemy and a lesson in civil rights.由Jerry Morton
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Part two of podcast 38, Soldier Skills, is a continuation of podcast 38, part one. The skills described in part two include the use of a gas mask, the use of a compass, guard duty and interacting with officers. Jerry encounters problems in this learning process.由Jerry Morton
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Soldier Skills, part one of two parts, is an account of the army's teaching Jerry the skills required of a soldier during the eight weeks of basic training in the fall of 1966 at Ft. Dix, New Jersey. Those skills included hand-to-hand fighting and bayonet training. Jerry's frustrations produced unique behaviors.…
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In August of 1966,Jerry begins basic training in the army. He struggles through an obstacle course, fails his first inspection and barely passes the first PT test.由Jerry Morton
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Advanced Infantry Training, part two, is an account of Jerry's attempts to cope with unexpected events such as lots of ammo to burn off and a gift of free time that provides insights into race relationships.由Jerry Morton
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