Resume Philip J. Sherman 24050 Hwy. 765, Lot 36 Sedalia, Missouri 65301 www.PhilipJSherman.com www.philipjsherman.org Daniel 3, Romans 13:1, 8:28 Cell Phone: 660-287-5717 Email: philipjsherman@gmail.com Voicemail: 206-338-5852 Fax: 877-839-1496 Owner, President & CEO of Give Big LLC Pioneering the Next way to give to not-for-profit organizations Education 1985 - 2000 Sedalia School District 200 Sedalia, Missouri High School Diploma  Standard Public Education January 2001 – May 2002 State Fair Community College Sedalia, Missouri August 2002 – November 2003 Central Missouri State University Warrensburg, MO Major: Political Science Minor: History One semester from completion. Professional experience May 1990 – May 2000 Sedalia Democrat Sedalia, Missouri Newspaper boy  Distributed newspapers to local customers seven days a week on Route #538 until it merged with Route #501. June 1998 - June 1999 Four Seasons Nursing Home Sedalia, Missouri Dietary Aide Worked in the kitchen. Worked what is known as the fifth shift, setting the tables for dinner, preparing beverages for the different halls as well as for main dining room. Washing dishes before dinner, putting up dishes after dinner, and sweeping and mopping. 5:00 to 9:00 P.M. June 1999 – June 2001 Price Chopper Sedalia, Missouri Head Stocker Web & Sons Stocked new groceries, checked at the check stand, stocked the regular items that sell quickly, worked displays, and offered customers paper, plastic, either, or neither at the check stand while telling them thank you for shopping at Price Chopper, please come back, have a nice day and your welcome when finished checking out the customer. April 2000 – November 2003 HHB 135th FA BDE Missouri Army National Guard Sedalia, MO Unit Armorer Takes care of the weapons vault for the Sedalia Armory. November 2003 ¬¬¬¬-- May 2005 C Co 1/128th FA MP Missouri Army National Guard Fort Leonard Wood then Fort Bragg, NC Unit Armorer and MP I went to MP school, performed armorer duties, janitorial services, landscaping needs, supply work and finally MP patrol duties, which is why I what deployed to do in the first place. May 2005 – September 2005 Securitas USA Inc. Sedalia, Missouri Security Guard Worked on site at Waterloo Industries Inc. to ensure safety and well being of the employees, the company, and its assets. Worked with monitors, took call ins, and was the phone operator for the factory. Took rounds around plant. Additional professional activities President, Campus Fellowship, State Fair Community College Chapter, Division of Inter-Fellowship, December 2001 to May of 2002 Vice-President, Campus Fellowship, State Fair Community College Chapter, Division of Inter-Fellowship, Fall Semester 2001 Secretary, Awana's Sparkies, September 2003 to November 2003, Present Service Coordinator, Manna Church, Children's Ministry, Elementary Area, 3rd Service, August 2004 to April 2005 Service Director, Manna Church, Children's Ministry, Pre-School Area, 2nd Service, February 2005 to April 2005 Member, State Fair Community College, Student Government Association, Entertainment Committee, 2001 to 2002 Member, State Fair Community College, Student Government Association Representative, Planning Committee, 2001 to 2002 Member, State Fair Community College, Student Government Association, Elections Committee, 2002 Member, State Fair Community College, Student Government Association, Teacher of Year for 2001-2002 School Year, 2002 Member, Habitat For Humanity, Public Relations Committee, 2002 to Present Member, Central Missouri State University, Student Government Association Representative, University Wide Committee, Political and Social Justice Week Committee, 2002 to 2003 Member, Central Missouri State University, Student Government Association Representative, University Wide Committee, Strategic Planning Resource Council Committee, 2003 to Present Member, Manna Church, Vision Leadership Team, 2004 to 2005 Professional memberships Republican National Committee Missouri Republican Party Missouri Federation of Young Republicans National Forensic League National Right to Life Languages French and Sign Language Took a year of French and a semester of Sign Language in High School. Community activities Member, Manna Church (2004-2005) Attender, Maplewood Church (1980-2003). Member of Family Camp Selection Committee. (2002-2003) Usher, Maplewood Church (1993-2003) Usher, Manna Church (2004-2005) Pettis County Republican Pachyderms (2001-Present) The Association of Republicans Getting Everyone Together (T.A.R.G.E.T.) (2001-Present) Sedalia Noonday Optimist Club (2002-2003) Sedalia Habitat For Humanity (2002-2003) Member, Adopt-A-Highway, Two mile area just West of Sedalia, (2002-Present) References Matt Boatright, 29612 Pony Path Road, Sedalia, MO 65301, (660) 826-1880 P.C. Thomas, 23260 Highway B, Sedalia, MO 65301, (660) 826-9988 Pastor Dr. Eddie Brown, 20271 Highway O, Sedalia, MO 65301, (660) 827-6765 Objective To work hard for the common person as a statesman in our government. Extracurricular activities Boy Scouts Sedalia Youth Wrestling Club Sedalia Middle School Track and Field Team (1995 to 1996) Smith-Cotton Debate Team (1998 to 1999) Smith-Cotton Cross Country Team (1996 to 1999) Smith-Cotton Freestyle Wrestling Club (1997 to 2000) Smith-Cotton Wrestling Team (1996 to 2000) Smith-Cotton Student Council (1999 to 2000) Promise Keepers (1996 to Present) Member, Blockbuster Member, Smith-Cotton Alumni Association Member, Boonslick Regional Library Compassion International, Adopted child since 2000 Member, Campus Fellowship (2001 to 2002) Member, Student Government Association, State Fair Community College (SFCC) (2001 to 2002) Awana’s Helper, (January 2002 to May 2002) Member, Missouri Right to Life, (2001 to Present) Gallery member, Student Government Association, Central Missouri State University (CMSU) (2002 to Feb. 2003) Member, Campus Crusade for Christ, CMSU Chapter, (2002 to May 2003) Member, Christian Campus House, CMSU Chapter, (2002 to Nov. 2003) Member, Baptist Student Union, CMSU Chapter, (2002 to Nov. 2003) Member, Central Truth Ministries, CMSU, (2002 to Nov. 2003) Member, College Republicans, CMSU Chapter, (2002 to Nov. 2003) Member, Political Science Student Association, CMSU Chapter, (2002 to Nov. 2003) Member, Student Senate, Student Senator-At-Large, Student Government Association, CMSU, (Feb. 2003 to Nov. 2003) Student Governor Applicant, Central Missouri State University, (2003) Interests and activities I am currently trying to develop my niche in life -- Biblical Principles in Government and Politics as I am a christian who intends to have a political career. Volunteer experience 1994 Roger Denker Open, CMSU Wrestling Tournament 2001 – Present Compassion International 2001 – 2003 Salvation Army Bell Ringer 2002 – 2003 Meals on wheels 2002 – Present Adopt-A-Highway 2002 – 2003 Sedalia Noonday Optimist Club 2004 -- 2005 Manna Church 2007 -- Present Cornerstone Baptist Church	World's Oldest Person Dies in Netherlands Tue Aug 30,11:56 AM ET AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A woman listed as the world's oldest person died Tuesday at age 115, according to the director of the home for the elderly where she lived. Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper died peacefully in her sleep, according to the home's director, Johan Beijering. "She was very clear mentally right up to the end, but the physical ailments were increasing," Beijering said. "She said, 'It's been nice, but the man upstairs says it's time to go.'" Known as "Henny," she lived in Hoogeveen since World War II, moving to the Westerkim elderly home when she was 106. A fan of the soccer club Ajax, she was born in 1890 and celebrated her 115th birthday on June 29. Her status as "oldest person" was recognized by Guinness Book of World Records last year. She advised others who wanted a long life to "keep breathing" and eat pickled herring, a favorite Dutch snack. She had no children or immediate family and her husband, Dick van Andel, died of cancer in 1959. Beijering said her closest living relative was a nephew who lives in Spain. "She wanted me to tell everybody that she enjoyed the attention, the friends, and the good care she had," Beijering said "She felt that being the oldest person in the world for more than a year was long enough." Guinness spokesman Sam Knights said the oldest authenticated person now is Elizabeth Bolden, 115, of Memphis, Tenn., born Aug. 15, 1890. The oldest man is Emiliano Mercado del Toro, 114, of Puerto Rico.
Blinded by Bias Jason Mattera, Spokesman August 26, 2005 As colleges and universities start another academic year, Congress prepares to debate a non-binding resolution in the Higher Education Act which will bring positive change to our educational institutions. Among other things, the act prohibits the following: professors from using their position for ideological indoctrination, the obstruction of controversial speakers, and the penalizing of students because of their philosophical beliefs. Furthermore, a school’s selection of speakers should promote basic intellectual diversity. The resolution is premised on the notion that students should be exposed to varied curricula because the central purpose of any university is the pursuit of truth. However sensible this legislation may be, it has been branded as "improper and dangerous" by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and recently, Steven Burg, Brandeis University’s political science department chairman said in an interview with the MetroWest Daily News that the motion was “completely silly” and “distasteful.” Burg also noted that colleges do not need scholastic direction from legislatures. Unfortunately, Brandeis is a prime example of why outside help is desperately needed. Burg and the AAUP should get out their pens and pads. Brandeis University—ranked 32nd nationally by U.S. News and World Report—is a haven for socialists (literally), liars, and multiple Bush-bashing faculty members. Furthermore, the institution has a history of obstructing conservative speakers and frequently nourishing anti-capitalist values. Although Brandeis has welcomed a slew of leftists to speak on campus—including Senator Ted Kennedy, Michael Dukakis, avowed Marxist revolutionary Angela Davis, former President of the NAACPKweisi Mfume, anti-tobacco lawyer Scott Harshbarger, Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshal, and former Democratic National Committee Chairman Steve Grossman—without hassle, students requesting conservative speakers are often asked to fulfill insane requirements. For example, in 2000, when Charlton Heston was requested, student organizers were told they needed to pay for a bomb-sniffing dog, ten police officers, two full-body metal detectors, two metal detector wands, a paramedic team, and four pints of Mr. Heston’s blood type. A few years later, College Conservatives hosting David Horowitz were not allowed to use the“Atrium” room because school officials said that students potentially passing through the hallway might be offended at what Horowitz had to say. (The dearth of conservative speakers invited to speak at Brandeis forces me to go back to the year 2000.) University spokesmen went on to tell the MetroWest Daily News that their institution has “both stripes” represented ideologically.If conservative students alone are expected to engage professors, programming, and department structures, that may be an accurate statement. However, unless there are several closet conservatives within the staff and faculty, Brandeis is home exclusively to numerous professors who despise free markets, a strong national defense, and traditional values. Robert B. Reich, professor of social and economic policy at Brandeis, was a chief Clinton apologist and authored the book Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America, which argues that Americans are tired of conservative intolerance. Dessima Williams, assistant professor of sociology, was a member of Grenada’s former communist regime. At a Boston Democratic Socialists of America reception, Williams said, “Socialism without democracy cannot survive, but ultimately, neither can democracy without socialism.” Anita Hill, made famous through her slanderous accusations at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s hearings, is another one of Brandeis’s touted faculty members. She’s a professor of social policy, law, and women’s studies. Looking for another nominee to malign, Hill lambasted John Roberts for not being a woman or Latino. Gordon Fellman, professor of sociology, started the “Faculty Coalition Against the War” and is chairman of the “Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies Program.” Fellman has self-described expertise in Marxism and Freudianism. Then there’s “academic” institutions and programming which advance socialism, pacifism, and moral decadence under the façades of “poverty, peace, feminism, and justice.” Brandeis’s Center of Hunger and Poverty teaches that more federal funding is needed to expand the Food Stamp and Child Nutrition initiatives. Greater redistribution of wealth is pursued because “Charity is not the answer to insuring the nutritional well-being of people in a wealthy democracy.” Students enrolled in the Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies Program learn from their discussions that “centuries of colonialism and imperialism” is responsible for inciting terrorism, not crazy Muslims. The Women’s Studies department at Brandeis encourages students to gain internship experience with leftist groups including NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood, the Feminist Majority Foundation, and the National Organization of Women.Conservative female institutions such as The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute are left out. Gloria Steinem’s Revolution from within: A Book of Self-Esteem is recommended reading; Phyllis Schlafly’s Feminist Fantasies is not. In addition, Brandeis offers a social justice tour where students meet “with well-known activists, such as Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority Foundation” and “Sister Helen Prejean and her anti-death penalty group in New Orleans.” Here’s the problem. The Left decries so-called institutional discrimination, yet on the university front, they are the biggest perpetuators. Places such as Brandeis offer no conservative counterpart to issues of war, feminism, social justice, and other political topics. These deliberate machinations cause schools like Brandeis to explore “peace” from only one angle—pacifism, not “peace” attained through the military’s killing of terrorists; “feminism” is viewed as favoring abortion, lesbianism, and open sexuality, not motherhood and other traditional values; “social justice” is defined as abolishing the death penalty and creating total economic and racial parity, not as protecting property rights through gun ownership, a less-burdensome tax system, and free enterprise. The problem is not with leftists occupying seats in academia, but that conservatism’s solutions to ongoing problems go untold, thus depriving students of a balanced education. It’s sad that our institutions of “higher learning” need nudging from Congress, but university administrators, professors, and department heads are unwilling to examine their own shortcomings and are dishonestly renouncing the existence of these prevalent biases.