public@wheaton (Joe Public) (09/16/86)
In article <1111@masscomp.UUCP> alang@masscomp.UUCP (Alan Groupe) writes: >My what a small world! I remember Brother Jed on the U of Ill. campus >about 10 years ago. At that time, he was travelling with Brother >Max Lynch, a math professor from IU who had "discovered that math was >wrong and G-D was right." > Last I saw of Brother Jed, he had married Sister Cindy (a convert of his from the University of Florida--a friend of mine knew her in her "sinful days"--where she was known as Disco Cindy) and were making their home at my alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the "wickedest of all the secular humanistic campuses in America" (aw, come on, Jeddie-kins, I betcha say that to all the campuses), trying to start up a small church. This was a year or so ago. Don't know if they're still there; I'm not so I can't say for sure. There was also a local woman (Sister Pat) who teamed up with Jed and Cindy whenever they were in town, and who was a carbon copy of Brother Jed. Jed once said of Cindy that she was the best preacher he ever heard (probably why he married her). They made for a good show. Sister Pat had this routine that she preached so often the crowd knew it by heart and would recite it along with her. Got to the point where she would start it out and then just cue the audience for the punch lines. What a riot! Got a chance a couple of times to talk to each of them one-on-one when I was at Madison, though, and it turns out that they were just ordinary folk once they dropped the preacher mode. A little eccentric, maybe, but I certainly preferred their company to that of many of the students who heckled them out on Library Mall. --calvin richter--