My Dad’s name is Americo Vincenzo Vasso, and today is his 97th birthday! His mother called him Americo, his employees called him Vince, and most friends and relatives call him Mertz (a childhood nickname), but he’s Dad to me. He has many names, but he has many more years of life—97 as of today!
When I wished him a happy birthday today, he said, “Wow! That’s a big number!” Yes, it is a big number for quite a big man,…
Shakespeare once queried, “What’s in a name?” but I don’t think he was thinking about Santa’s nice and naughty list. However, when School Stickers, an education rewards program for schools all over the world, in a light-hearted way asked the same question, they WERE thinking “naughty” and “nice”.
Approximately 60,000 children at 10,000 schools use School Stickers’ system and when these students received stickers for good behavior they were able to digitally log their stickers on the website. Based on this data, totaling over one million stickers, it was determined…