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ALLAN W. GARSKE

 

3101 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3420

agarske@hotmail.com Weblog: allan366.tripod.com/CV/

Phone: (410) 499-2401  MAIL: Box 27442, Baltimore, MD 21285-7442

 

 

INTERNET & COMPUTER

 

Familiar with Macintosh computer. Using Internet, created Email list of press, politicians and community groups to receive news releases and weblog opinion pieces.

 

PUBLIC RELATIONS

 

Establish positive ongoing relationships with press. Anticipate and function effectively in "crisis" situations. Press contacts have included U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, NBC Network News, New York Daily News, Baltimore Sun, Washington Post.

 

Assisted in creating educational programs for the Maryland General Assembly,  Baltimore publics.

 

As public relations director for Baltimore City Department of Social Services produced A Child Is Waiting TV program to recruit foster care and adoptive homes. Arranged for and produced radio program on city social services.

 

 

As state-level public relations director for the Maryland Association for Mental Health counseled Maryland county and city mental health association chapters on publicity and fund raising.

 

 

PRINT MEDIA

 

Develop design and content for annual reports, brochures, magazines and newsletters, advertising supported when appropriate. Supervise writers, photographers, designers, printers, advertising staff. As an entrepreneur published The Charles Street Paper, advertising supported monthly tabloid size arts paper with 15,000 free circulation in Baltimore city.

 

In order to strengthen Baltimore's Charles Village community, as volunteer changed The Charles Villager newsletter into tabloid size advertising supported neighborhood newspaper with 5,000 circulation.

 

Editor for trade magazines Airport/Services Management, International Projectionist, Greater Amusements and TV Times, a television listing magazine similar in format to small TV Guide

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

Baltimore City Department of Social Services

Maryland Association for Mental Health

Brooklyn Tuberculosis & Health Association

Minnesota State Department of Business Development

 

EDUCATION

 

Journalism BA, Radio-Television Specialty, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

 

Associate BA, Devils Lake Junior College, Devils Lake, North Dakota

 

 

MILITARY

 

US Air Force Weather Observer stationed in England near London.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Letter To Landlord

Allan W. Garske  agarske@hotmail.com  Weblog: allan366.tripod.com/CV/

3101 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3420

Phone: (410) 499-2401 MAIL: Box 27442, Baltimore, MD 21285-7442

June 21, 2007

Steve Crouch

Charles Village Apartments

2508 North Charles Street

Baltimore, Maryland 21218

 

 

Dear Mr. Crouch,

Enclosed please find my check for my June rent plus a payment on arrears.

I am also enclosing a list of damages done to my property over a period of time. I have been advised to supply you with this list by both the Baltimore City police and by Baltimore Neighborhoods Inc. In the future if there is any evidence of tampering or unauthorized entry in my apartment I will obtain a police report immediately.

I will be clearing my apartment by disposing of or donating many of my belongings. As I do so, I will also be cleaning.

Sincerely,

Allan W. Garske

 

Allan W. Garske  agarske@hotmail.com  Weblog: allan366.tripod.com/CV/

3101 Guilford Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-3420

Phone: (410) 880-2483  MAIL: Box 27442, Baltimore, MD 21285-7442

June 21, 2007

To Charles Village Apartments

Damage done in apartment:

KITCHEN:

1. Handle broken on floor fan

2. Task chair smashed

3. Torchiere lamp twisted till cord becomes unsable.

BATHROOM

1. Mirror broken

2. Sewing center broken

3. Cardboard dresser demolished

LIVING ROOM

1. Computer hard drive accessed

Baltimore's Crucial Election

In a recent column in the Gazette newspapers, communications consultant Barry Rascovar compliments the performance to date of Mayor Sheila Dixon and notes "a prosperous Baltimore is in everyone's interest in Maryland."

Rascovar is also a participant in WYPR 88.1 FM Radio's Wednesday morning politicial commentaries at 6:34 and 8:34 AM. His column can be viewed on Gazette.Net.

14 April 2005 11:26 EDT | Posted by allan366

Email To Marc Steiner Show, WYPR - April 13 - Your Show Today on State Group Homes for Children
(NOTE: The Steiner show was discussing BALTIMORE SUN articles on State Group Homes For Children)

As a former public relations director for the Baltimore City Department of
Social Services, I know how difficult it is to recruit homes for foster care
and adoptive children. As part of our recruitment efforts, I even produced a
weekly TV program titled "A Child Is Waiting".

Since that time, I believe communities have changed and recruitment is
undoubtedly more difficult. I suggest the State consider State operated
group homes administered by State employees who would certainly be paid less
than private administrators. You don't have to call them orphanages.

As public relations director for the Maryland Association for Mental Health,
I helped close State mental hospitals. I wonder if those facilities could be
put to use as children's homes. Some of them had rural locations but there
is nothing wrong with that.

The important point made in today's BALTIMORE SUN is that these problems did
not originate with the Ehrlich administration.

13 July 2005 10:36 EDT | Posted by allan366

Email to Steiner Radio Show on Proposed Convention Center Hotel
From: Allan In Charles Village

I am against the proposal to build a new city financed convention center hotel. If the demand existed, the private sector would be interested.

Better we have a temporarily underused convention center than a large new hotel and convention center that both need to be filled.

Baltimore might market to smaller conventions combining convention attendance and family vacations.

An interesting promotion might be:

WE’RE NOT WASHINGTON D.C. BUT WE’RE CLOSE ENOUGH (AND WE’RE CHEAPER)

with a list of things a family can do while the father (or mother) attends their convention.

24 August 2005 10:28 EDT | Posted by allan366

O'Malley Vs Duncan on Schools
An August 19 column by Barry Rascovar in The Gazette community newspapers calls schools key in governor’s race. The entire article may be viewed at www.gazette.net in the archive of Rascovar's columns.

Barry Rascovar is a strategic communications consultant. His Wednesday morning commentaries can be heard on WYPR, 88.1 FM.

The Gazette publishes 35 weekly newspapers in Maryland including a subscription-based weekend edition covering business and politics throughout the state. Part of the Community Newspaper group of Post-Newsweek Media Inc., a division of The Washington Post Company, The Gazette has been publishing weekly newspapers in the Maryland suburbs since 1959. Internet address is http://www.gazette.net/aboutus/

15 December 2005 10:47 EST | Posted by allan366

PICKS & FINDS: James Salter
James Salter seems more like a European writer than an American. The author of six novels, his erotic “A Sport and A Pastime” was selected as a title in The Modern Library in 1995. His short story collection “Dusk” won the Pen/Faulkner Award in 1998 and in 2000 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Never a best seller, he has been honored for his style perhaps as much as anything else and has made a living through teaching and film work. A graduate of West Point, he flew more than 100 missions during the Korean War.

“Gods of Tin”, (Shoemaker and Horn, Washington, D.C., 2004, Edited and introduced by Jessica Benton and William Benton) is a narrative of Salter’s Korean War experience including sections from his novels and memoirs as well as sections of a journal he kept during the War.

Salter writes:

“You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried with you into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle.”

Large numbers of the latest Soviet fighter, the MIG-15, flown mostly by Russians, challenged American control of the air. For American fighter pilots, the tour was 100 combat missions.

The War began in 1950 when North Korea invaded the south. A bit later, a friend of mine, tiring of junior high school in North Dakota, attempted to dynamite our school. He was given the choice of reform school or joining the Marines.

He chose the Marines and as a large boy, was named BAR man of his squad, carrying the large World War I assault rifle. When an overwhelming number of Chinese “volunteers” crossed into South Korea, my friend took part in the American retreat, exchanging his BAR for a lighter Garand and finally carrying a light carbine. He spent some time walking with the brains of his best friend frozen on his face.

The War was easier for me. Unable to afford to continue college, I was unable being eligible for the Draft to find a full time job. I enlisted in the Air Force and as an Air Weather Observer found myself in a war room under an English hill, plotting weather maps for bomb runs we helped plan daily into Russia.

My friend survived his first tour of duty, was discharged, came back to North Dakota, spent a few weeks driving a motorcycle around town, an Indian girl on the back, then reenlisted. I sometimes wonder if he has survived our wars between then and now.

It is worth noting that the North Koreans twice occupied the South Korean capitol of Seoul.

Over the recent Thanksgiving holiday a Baltimore television station had repeat showings of the superb 1989 film “Glory” starring Matthew Broderick as a young white Civil War officer leading America’s first unit of volunteer black soldiers portrayed by such actors as Denzel Washington, Andre Braugher and Morgan Freeman. As much as anything, it is the story of the creation of a fighting unit.

It is presently shown as part of American military training.

When I went through basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, I found myself with a cross section of America including Southerners with whom we refought the Civil War an argument which could always be ended by saying to the man in the bunk beneath us: “Well, we won”, leaving him grumbling.

Also with us were pachucos with their black baggy pants with the silver stripe down the side and their temporarily greasy haircuts, always telling each other what to do to their mothers.

As part of our training, we were shown the 1943 film “The Ox-Bow Incident”, about the lynching of three cowboys suspected of the murder of a rancher. When the men were suspended strangling, a lyncher stepped forward with a rifle and put two of them out of their misery, leaving the third, a Mexican played by Anthony Quinn, to die slowly.

Our instructor mentioned that Quinn was left to die horribly because he was Mexican, and thus began for many of us an education about discrimination.

Some of us continued in the military but many, like Salter, left to return to civilian life. But for many of us the military was a transforming experience, and one that many young people are poorer for never having known.

However and whenever our present war in Iraq is resolved, it might well be worth considering some form of national service for young Americans, whether basic military training or some form of civilian service like the Peace Corps or the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s.

Such service might be rewarded by a modified version of a G.I. Bill helping to finance perhaps two years of Junior College or training in a technical school, helping to close what seems to me a growing gap in American education.

And in an America where I see the races growing apart, such a program might help to bring us together again.

20 December 2005 10:17 EST | Posted by allan366

PICKS & FINDS: Fleet Street's finest
From Evelyn Waugh to Michael Frayn, novelists have portrayed journalists as bibulous, cynical and slothful. But for Christopher Hitchens, the tales of 'unredeemed squalor' and fiddled expenses evoke nostalgia for a vanished age
Christopher Hitchens
Saturday December 03 2005
THE GUARDIAN
To see this story with its related links on the Guardian Unlimited Books site, go to http://books.guardian.co.uk