Memorial Scholarship Aphorisms

Applicants were not judged against the named virtues so much as against a room’s memory of a person. The system kept the ritual and misplaced the function.

The honoree had ceased to be an inspiration and become an undocumented rubric. Silence entered the record with full procedural honors.

Resemblance to the deceased is not an eligibility class. Administrative clarity arrived after usefulness had departed.

Managing service providers is the process of delegating the blame.

We outsource the failure so we don’t have to look at it.

A managed service is one that is consistently mismanaged.

The human pays the invoice; the system ignores the delivery.

True partnership is shared incompetence documented in triplicate.