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Beardsley Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc.
113 North Third Street
Clearfield, Pennsylvania
UNITED STATES
16830
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As a junior high student, sometimes the goof, seldom serious, 'Mr. Selner' as we refered to him in school saw more in me. On one of the early Educaton Weeks Barry had a new thing, a personal computer! To me at the time an amazing thing. He had ask me if I wanted to help him with a project, a program to provide the Education Week schedule. We took what at the time was state of the art 'BASIC' programming and created a loop program that included a crude animation, although at the time as sophisticated as Pitfall Harry or Barnstormer for the Atari game console. Once we had done that we drove the computer to 'downtown' Curwensville to be set up in the window of the drug store to run through the week informing people of the events happening. That action that Barry had taken opened my life to a whole new world and actually accomplished setting my feet onto a more serious path. A little less goofing and a little more direction.
Spending time with Mr. Selner on study halls and lunches also created other things in my life that I cherish to this day. Some days when I was in his room his daughter Della would stop in. We would talk on those days and as years went on participate in events together such as chorus. In those years I developed a friendship with Barry and a deep respect as well as a friendship and deep love for Della as one of the most amazing people I know. The opportunities that arise that allow us to get together and talk, emails, and brief passings are some of the best memories I have.
So, that one action of a man who Loved education, who truly invested in his students even the ones who hadn't got their directions in life figured out, taught me so much more than just BASIC programming or mathmatics. He taught me the value of education and the depth and value of friendship, something that seemed easy for him. His passing is a sorrowful event but the lives he touched, the minds he helped to form, the consideration he had for people will live on as constant tribute to a life well lived.
He will be missed...
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