So Much for Church Secular Volunteerism by James Pate Williams, Jr. BA, BS, MSwE, PhD

I recall with some personal satisfaction my heyday of church secular volunteerism from sometime in 2008 to Monday, March 8, 2010. I had lost my job at Durand-Wayland and I needed some form of activity to keep intellectually engaged. I was trained by Holly Britt https://www.linkedin.com/in/holly-britt-45754699/ to run the computer and song lyrics feed for the contemporary worship service named the Morning Glory service. Later Andy Rainey http://www.lagrangefumc.org/welcome/staff/ trained me to use the audio console, but due to lack of practice I never became very adept at sound engineering on First United Methodist Church’s equipment. I do remember that the CD recorder was very delicate and if slightly shaken one could lose a whole service’s recording. In those long forgotten by most of my colleagues I was a “trustee” of the church. I had a smart-card that allowed me virtually all access to the First United Methodist Church of LaGrange, GA. Unfortunately, due to a catastrophic failure to communicate, a couple of concerned church employees had me involuntarily thrown into the Georgia mental Health Gulag Archipelago on Monday, March 8, 2010. First, I was held in captivity at Pathways Center Second Season from Monday, March 8, 2010 until Friday, March 12, 2010. After that I was summarily transferred to Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital in Rome, Georgia, a forensic psychiatric hospital. I languished in that location until Tuesday, April 6, 2010. I was freed from that imprisonment by John Leuken of Pathways Center Mental Health Clinic of Troup County which is near Pathways Second Season in LaGrange, Georgia. After that involuntary imprisonment I was still a “trustee” until I was officially relieved of my smart-card by a female associate pastor in 2010 or early 2011.

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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