Heritage

The other day I was procrastinating and remembered a conversation I had with my grandma not too long ago. She mentioned that my great-grandfather August left money for an orphanage in Haiti when he passed away. In efforts to see if that orphanage is still in existence, I googled his name....sure enough, one of wickipedia's sister websites had something to say and a photo to offer. They had this picture and a brief synopsis of him being a pastor listed on the page...crazy!

http://wikibethel.bbcde.org/index.php5?title=August_Ballbach

However, Time Magazine reported this story from 1930:

Peddle Larceny

Monday, Oct. 27, 1930

In a countryside famed for pheasants, applejack, cabbages, antique furniture and Princeton University, lies a place called Hightstown, N.J., seat of Peddie Institute, foremost Baptist institution of secondary learning in the country (enrollment: 355). Last week aged Headmaster Roger W. Swetland and Peddie's trustees and alumni were mortified by the unfavorable publicity which three Peddie boys had brought upon their school. In the dead of night three students—August F. Ballbach, 16, Harold G. Newman, 18, Ralph W. Hamn, 16—stole out of the school grounds. For the past three weeks this trio had been enjoying nefarious nocturnal outings unbeknown to the authorities. Excited but confident, they made off down Hightstown's dim little main street. Belted, muscular State troopers suddenly appeared, surprised and arrested them. The charge: larceny, robbery.

They confessed having purloined three automobiles, having held up three people at pistol-point. Total profits: $85.

Nice contrast of stories huh? Guess it's not a bad thing you go from robber to pastor....sounds pretty interesting to me!