Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.

Relativity must replace absolutism in the realm of morals as well as in the spheres of physics and biology.

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

John's vision and sense of dedication to supporting, planning and executing activities that enrich his community and his unflagging loyalty to Delaware County are the reasons he was selected for the honor.

These people are not lords of the manor but farmers, part of the working community. The problem we have had is with people from outside buying the farms and acquiring the status of Chief Pleas, but not understanding the sense of community and sense of family.

The world accepts that everyone makes mistakes and he's got a big future as a politician, member of this community and as a father. We wish him well and we want to encourage him to move beyond this thing.