--- On Wed, 12/31/08, deGraffenried, Leslie S
From: deGraffenried, Leslie S
Subject: RE: follow-up note & my resume
To: mcmillanj@att.net
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 4:14 AM
No country that I know of is looking for citizens. I'm afraid with continuing world-wide population growth, it's just the opposite.
All the best in 2009.
Les deGraffenried
US Mission to the UN Organizations in Rome
Piazza del Popolo, 18
Tel: (39)-06-4674-3528
e-mail: deGraffenriedLS@state.gov
internet homepage: http://usunrome.usmission.gov
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From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 7:14 PM
To: deGraffenried, Leslie S; Professor Karl Galinsky
Subject: RE: follow-up note & my resume
To: The Very Nice Former Stephen F. Austin High School Classmate and current U.S. State Department official in Rome, Leslie DeGraffenried, whom I will always fondly remember for your great distinction of having earned the much-deserved title of "Class Friendliest (among the male youths)" at O. Henry Junior High School in Austin, Texas.
Dear Leslie,
Thank you for your very nice reply note, which reminds me that dining out where you live these days must be a joyous and very delicious experience for you.
Incidentally, Leslie, I would like to share with you my address for my new blogspot website on the Internet:
www.johnkevinmcmillan.blogspot.com.
Also, you will note that I have an item I'm sharing with all Austin High alumni about my longstanding quest to raise my annual employment-derived income at our Austin High.org website:
http://austinhigh.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=962
Incidentally, Leslie, I want you to know that it means a lot to me to have noticed back in 1988, when I briefly attended a social party in Austin where you were one of the party guests, to myself have observed at that time that you glanced at me sympathetically from a distance as you stood outdoors at that party.
I was having a particularly challenging time during that period of my life, and you seemed to be one Austin High alumnus who kindly indicated to me at that party in 1988 (though I did not actually end up chatting with you that day, as it turned out) that you did not feel that my career-related and personal circumstances during that period were completely fair to myself.
Incidentally, Leslie, one official of the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C., Charles Hilty, himself a former journalism instructor of mine during my freshman year at Washington University in St. Louis, and an older man whom I don't keep up with anymore, did state to me on the telephone during a long-distance phone call I made to him in 1991 or 1992, "If the opportunity presents itself for you (John Kevin McMillan) to move to another country, I (Charles Hilty) would fully understand if you choose to do so."
In the late 1990s and more recently here in Austin as well, I have received in the mail a package of factual brochures about Sweden from the national Government of Sweden; and I have also received several polite reply letters from Queen Elizabeth and Prince William of The United Kingdom.
Leslie, do you have any reason to believe that possibly some foreign country of which you are aware might like me to emigrate or visit there, and then somehow might help me to find a decent-paying job for myself there in order to support myself financially?
Otherwise, do you happen to have any sense of there being a foreign nation (whether that be Canada, Sweden, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland (UK), New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Israel, Italy, Vatican City, Mexico, Germany, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Japan, Greece, France, Belgium, the Bahamas (UK), Belize (sp?), British Guyana, Costa Rica, or elsewhere, that you believe would be particularly friendly and hospitable to myself, were I to move to or visit that foreign nation?
I raise this question after recalling today that three different Texans have each directly stated to me in the late 1990s that they believed that I was myself being "persecuted" in Texas. Those three persons were:
--my sister-in-law, Sara McMillan of Austin (in 1996), who volunteered to me on the telephone, "Many people think that you are being persecuted in Texas because of your own greater affinity for and greater overall identification with and empathy toward a higher percentage of all heterosexual adult men than of the other male subpopulations";
---Kent McMillan of Austin (in 1991), who emphatically volunteered to me on the telephone, "You are being persecuted these days!" during a period in which I resided and worked as a full-time reporter in Sweetwater, Texas, and added that Kent would like to himself help to prevent any future persecution of myself, I being Kent's youngest biological brother;
---and a young man (I believe he said he was a socialist, but he may have been a libertarian instead) along Guadalupe Street near UT-Austin who one day in the late 1990s volunteered to me from his car as I stood outdoors, he having apparently identified me from televised speeches I'd given in Austin during that period for the one-member (myself, only) and non-Christian, alcohol-free, Progressive Prohibitionist Religion I'd established, that I reminded that young man of Thomas Paine, who fled to England, then later to France, for refuge from persecution, that young man volunteered to me with apparent empathy that day in 1997 or 1998, I believe it was.
Leslie, I would also like to take this opportunity to ask you if you believe the U.S. State Department of the U.S. Government might possibly be interested in the cited "persecution" of myself in Texas, or in any other legal issues privacy-rights issues or employment-related issues, for instance) or public-policy issues relating to myself in any way. If so, please feel free to share this entire correspondence with any of your U.S. Department of State colleagues via the E-mail, and I'd appreciate it if you would then carbon-copy that correspondence to myself, as a courtesy to me.
Thank you again, Leslie, for your wonderfully kind and people-friendly style as a former classmate of mine at Stephen F. Austin High and at O. Henry Junior High. Incidentally, Leslie, if you ever hear of any Austin-area alumni of Austin High or O. Henry who you believe would be friendly toward me at present, I would be very grateful for any possibilities you might be willing to share with me. Unfortunately, I don't currently keep up with anyone, though I did make a Holiday Season phone call to John Cannon, who was truly one of the very nicest and most humane of my Austin High School classmates during the the mid-1970s.
(John Cannon, a City Government of Austin full-time employee, did, incidentally, kindly volunteer to me in a reply E-mail letter several years ago that there appeared to be some "civil rights" issues relating to my own life circumstances in Austin, though John has not since been able to elaborate on that when I later asked him about his kind observation on that. Leslie, please let me know if you would like me to share a copy of that reply letter from John Cannon with yourself). John is married to Patty Rios, as I guess you probably already knew, and it's great to sense that they are very happy together.
Sincerely and Best Wishes, and Happy New Year!
John Kevin McMillan,
11411 Research Boulevard, Apt. 325, Austin, Texas, 78759.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
E-mail: mcmillanj@att.net
cc: Professor Karl Galinsky, a widely admired Classics scholar and former Classics Department Chairman at The University of Texas at Austin, who has himself visited Rome on numerous occasions, including during a period a few years ago when he sent me a friendly reply E-mail letter kindly inquiring about how my life circumstances have been for me in recent years. Professor Galinsky during his prior days as a first-rate administrator at UT-Austin offered me helpful words of encouragement in the late 1970s relating to my pursuit of investigative stories for "The Daily Texan" student newspaper about alleged financial irregularities at UT-Austin's Humanities Research Center or Harry Ranson Center, for instance.
John Kevin McMillan
--- On Mon, 12/29/08, deGraffenried, Leslie S
From: deGraffenried, Leslie S
Subject: RE: follow-up note & my resume
To: mcmillanj@att.net
Date: Monday, December 29, 2008, 6:52 AM
John:
I wouldn't worry too much about what you earn. It seems the more I earn, the more in debt I am...
All the best in 2009.
Les
Les deGraffenried
US Mission to the UN Organizations in Rome
Piazza del Popolo, 18
Tel: (39)-06-4674-3528
e-mail: deGraffenriedLS@state.gov
internet homepage: http://usunrome.usmission.gov
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From: John McMillan [mailto:mcmillanj@att.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 4:28 PM
To: deGraffenried, Leslie S
Subject: follow-up note & my resume
Dear Leslie,
I would be very grateful to you if you would be willing to share my resume (attached) with any wholesome, law-abiding, honorable employer of which you are aware that might make a good professional match for myself.
Thank you again, Leslie, for your very kindly conveyed interest in my own quality of life and financial earnings capacity in Austin, Texas!
Sincerely and Best Wishes,
John Kevin McMillan.
Home phone: (512) 342-2295.
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JOHN KEVIN McMILLAN >
> Address: 11411 Research Boulevard, Apt. 325 . >
> Austin , Texas 78759 . >
> Telephone: (512) 342-2295 (please leave message). >
> E-mail address: mcmillanj@att.net
> > MY EXTENSIVE PRIOR EXPERIENCE IN THE WRITING AND PUBLISHING FIELDS: >
> Four and one-half months of 2001 as a temporary full-time associate > editor on an American History textbook project at the Holt, Rinehart and > Winston book publishing company that's affiliated with Harcourt. That > position of employment involved lots of proofreading, some copy-editing, > some writing work, and some fact-checking research work.
Other work > experience of mine in the publishing industry includes:
Full-time duties > as the editor-in-chief and primary reporter and primary photographer for "The Denver City (TX) Press," January 1996 to December 1996.
Among the > general-circulation newspapers that employed me as a full-time reporter > in the 1990s and/or 1980s were: "The Baytown (TX) Sun," "The Pampa (TX) > News," " Zapata County (TX) News," "The Big Spring (TX) Herald," "The El > Campo (TX) Leader-News," and "The New Ulm (MN) Journal." <
I was a > full-time copy editor for "The Patriot Ledger" daily newspaper in > Quincy , Mass. , for one year in the mid-1980s. Approximately 10 total combined years of professional experience as a reporter, editor, columnist, photographer, proofreader, or copy editor for a newspaper or magazine or publishing company. >
> MY SEVERAL YEARS OF LEGAL SECRETARY-RELATED EXPERIENCE: >
> Two and one-half years of full-time permanent clerical employment at > law-enforcement agencies of the State Government of Texas in Austin , > including 1 1/2 total years as a telephone interviewer and scheduler, > data-entry clerk, and/or file-retrieval clerk working with legal > documents and legal-file entries for the Texas Board of Pardons and > Paroles. I was employed for one year as a full-time permanent > data-entry/clerical employee working with legal documents for the Texas > Department of Public Safety in Austin . Also, I was employed as a > temporary full-time data-transcription technician doing assigned > copy-editing and assigned word-processing on legal documents for the > Texas Legislative Council in Austin for a half-year during 1998-1999. > I've also been employed as a full-time or part-time clerical employee > and/or telephone interviewer for the Texas Workforce Commission for > several total months in Austin . >
> MY PRIVATE-SECTOR HUMAN-SERVICES EXPERIENCE: >
> I was officially employed from November 24, 2001, through March 13, > 2002, as a mental-health worker for Brown-Karhan mental health center in > Dripping Springs , Texas . My total career experience also includes > several combined months of professional experience as a hotel desk clerk > in Minneapolis , Minnesota , and in Braintree , Massachusetts , in the early > and latter 1980s, respectively. I am currently employed as a > part-time waitperson at two chain restaurants in the Austin area. I previously > was employed for much of 2002 by Burnett temp service in Austin as a > full-time clerical employee doing mail-processing work, data entry, > typing, photocopying duties, filing duties, and messenger duties. >
> MY AWARDS AND TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL DEGREES: >
> ---Selected in 2001 by the American Biographical Institute of Raleigh , > North Carolina , to be included in its "Great Minds of the 21st Century" > directory. >
> --- Second Place in a Texas Press Association statewide feature-writing > contest, 1990. >
> ---Most Valuable Staff Member, "The Daily Texan" student newspaper at > UT-Austin, Summer of 1978. >
> ---National Merit Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis , Missouri , > 1975 to 1977. >
> ---Salutatorian, Stephen F. Austin High School , Austin , Texas , May 1975. >
> ---Debate Club President, Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin , > Texas , for the 1974-75 school year. >
> ---Many prior years of Spanish instruction, including at college. >
> ---Master's in Journalism and Mass Communications, The University of > Minnesota at Minneapolis , June 1984. >
> ---Bachelor's Degree in History, The University of Texas at Austin , May > 1979. >
> SKILLS AND TALENTS OF MINE: >
> --I can type 79 words per minute, with only two errors, according to a > June 2001 typing test administered to me by the Texas Workforce > Commission. >
> --I typed 61 gross words per minute, with a 2 percent error rate, on a > legal typing test administered to me on September 25, 2001, by the Human > Resources staff of the Texas Attorney General's Office in Austin . >
> --I received a near-perfect 98 percent score on the spelling test I took > with the Texas Workforce Commission in July 2001, with my spelling test > result featuring only one total error. >
> --I have worked with Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, and Windows on > IBM-compatible and Macintosh computers at my various workplaces. >
> --I have very strong writing skills, copy-editing skills, and > proofreading skills. >
> --I can communicate orally in the Spanish language, and I know how to > spell in Spanish. I can also write in Spanish at an intermediate level. >
> --I excel at creative brainstorming and in generating ideas for my > employer. >
> --I excel at telephone interviewing and in-person interviewing of other > persons. >
> > > > John Kevin McMillan
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