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Brown's Host Japanese Delegation |
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Dr. Myron and Charlene Brown, long time friends to Dr. Shiokawa, arranged the visit whose highlight would be a precision upper cervical chiropractic presentation. The special seminar was presented by Dr. Perry Rush on the Sherman College campus to introduce Blair analysis to the group of special guests. They were also treated to a campus tour and a demonstration of the digital x-ray analysis software by Dr. Patricia Kuhta.
Following the seminar the group, hosted by Myron and Charlene Brown, Mitzi Schwartzbauer and Perry and Vickie Rush traveled to Asheville to fulfill a special request. Their Japanese friends had heard of the famous Grove Park Inn and how it was one of B.J. Palmer’s favorite places. While in residence there, B.J. Palmer worked on at least one of the green books and in his 1949 text, The Bigness of the Fellow Within, B.J. refers to the Grove Park as “the finest resort hotel in the world.” In that same text B.J. Palmer explained how the management had given him ten days golfing and residence as a courtesy due to his notoriety as the developer of the chiropractic profession. A grateful B.J. later plugged the Grove Park Inn on his WOC radio station. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the inn has been frequented by many other authors, notables and luminaries including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harry Houdini, Will Rogers, George Gershwin, Thomas Edison, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elbert Hubbard and Henry Ford. The list also includes many United States presidents. The group enjoyed lunch with a mountain view and toured parts of the Grove Park Inn. In the Great Hall they found B.J. Palmer’s photo prominently positioned between the photos of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Completing their tour the group requested an informal visit to see the chiropractic office of Dr. Perry Rush. They wished to see how a chiropractic office utilizing the Blair approach is run. The visitors were very impressed with their visit to Grove Park Inn, Sherman College and the Blair seminar.
Before returning to Greenville-Spartanburg airport the next day, Dr. Shiokawa and the group visited Dr. Brown’s Philosophy I class and then worked out the details of another seminar to be presented in Japan. The program, scheduled for September 14th and 15th will feature Blair Technique with Perry Rush; philosophy and history presented by Myron Brown; and philosophic models with Joe Strauss. Combining chiropractic technique, philosophy and history, the next stop on the group’s whirlwind United States tour would be Sarasota, Florida to visit B.J. Palmer’s winter home before a brief stop on the west coast, and then back to Japan. (This material reprinted with permission of Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic: http://www.sherman.edu) |
