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Ricard Inducted into CCC Hall of Fame

1974 portrait of Charles J. Ricard. (Image courtesy Linnea Ricard Brown.)

The Chicago Coin Club announced that the final person to be inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2019 is Napoleon medal specialist and hobby leader Charles J. (Charlie) Ricard (March 19, 1930 – Aug. 14, 2017). 

After moving to Northbrook late in 1962 to accept the position of auditor of Chicago’s Lakeshore National Bank, Rochester (New York), native Charles J. (Charlie) Ricard joined the Chicago Coin Club Jan. 9, 1963 as member No. 766 and remained a member for over half a century. Mr. Ricard served as Financial Chairman for the 1966 ANA Convention in Chicago, personally handling over $100,000 in bourse fees, etc. That year, the Club awarded him its Medal of Merit. From 1987-88 he was President, and in 1989, he received a Literary Award and a Second Place Cabeen Exhibit Award for his exhibits at meetings (including an original Castorland medal in silver). He was recognized as Honorary General Chairman at the 2011 ANA World’s Fair of Money hosted by the Chicago Coin Club.

Mr. Ricard served in the U.S. Army Finance Corps  from 1951-1953, then used the G.I. Bill to attend the University of Rochester. He could not afford to go full time, and attended night school for six years. At the time of his move to the Chicago area, he was still lacking some credits. However, he was able to arrange his schedule to take night courses at Northwestern and DePaul and have the University of Rochester accept them, completing his Bachelor of Science degree in 1964 from the University’s Simon School of Business with majors in History and Classics. A lifelong bank auditor, he worked for the Marine Midland Bank in Rochester before moving to Illinois, where he joined the First National Bank of Chicago as Assistant Vice President in their Trust Audit Unit in 1969. He retired from a successor bank in 1995 and became a Chartered Bank Auditor and a Certified Internal Auditor.

In 1947, he began attending meetings of the Rochester Numismatic Association and joined the following year. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, he presented many programs and exhibits, and was club President  from 1959-1961. Though he had wide interests in U.S. coins, he was most known for his collection of Napoleonic medals. He published a number of articles, primarily on medals, one garnering a Third Place Heath Literary Award, and placed award-winning exhibits of medals at conventions, receiving a First Place at the 1962 Detroit ANA. He served on the 1965 Assay Commission, and in 1966, lectured at the Roosevelt University, Chicago, course in numismatics.

A willing worker, Mr. Ricard served as President of five numismatic organizations and Vice President of a sixth. As Chairman of the ANA’s 1891 Club from 1990-1991, he attracted over 800 member-donors. He was elected a Numismatic News Ambassador in 1987. The ANA awarded him its Medal of Merit in 1991, the Glenn Smedley Memorial Award in 1993, a Presidential Award in 1994, the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996, and the Farran Zerbe Award in 2003 – the last also honoring his great grandfather, J.C. Lighthouse (ANA Governor 1904-07), and his uncle, Charles N. Ricard (President of the Cleveland Coin Club and a founder of the Token and Medal Society). The Rochester Numismatic Association named its speaker’s medal for him.

Numismatic literature dealer George Kolbe, who knew him well, recalled him as “a gentleman of the old school. His love of numismatics and its literature was infectious and enduring.” 

Twelve Hall of Fame inductees were selected to commemorate the Chicago Coin Club’s centennial year, 2019. However, additions may be made from time to time. His Hall of Fame citation has been published on the club’s Hall of Fame web page, www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/hof.

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Movie Review: Passion of the Christ star plays Luke in “Paul, Apostle of Christ”

I learnt that changing one little, one tiny letter, that we can become great in the eyes of God. But He requires us to be little, if we wish to be great.

Passion of the Christ actor, Jim Caviezel spoke with a fiery voice as he delivered his passionate speech during 2018 SLS conference near Chicago early January.

You cannot but be blown away by his gumption and candor which at different points of the fervent delivery left the college students screaming and applauding him.

Soft start to a fervent speech

 “The name Saul means Great One. The name Paul means little One,” he began, calmly.

James Patrick Caviezel, one would think, would go ahead to speak effusively about his role in his next movie project “Paul, Apostle of Christ,” where he played Luke wending his way to Rome to see Paul, the imprisoned Apostle. Perhaps, that was his unspoken intention before it was overtaken by his yearn to investigate the whole idea of what Jesus Christ and his Apostles were tyrannized and eventually murdered for. What better way to promote the movie than such an excellent spirit-lifting delivery?

Making “Paul, the Apostle of Christ”

 “While making this film,” he continued, “I learnt that changing one little, one tiny letter, that we can become great in the eyes of God. But He requires us to be little, if we wish to be great. This is the way of the saints, this is the way of the holy and this is the way Saul became Saint Paul.

Callings come when we least expect them. I remember mine vividly. I had this experience. I was 19 years old sitting in a movie theatre in my home town of Mount Vernon, Washington. The movie had ended and out there in the darkness, befriended only by my basketball and the aged seat, I had a sensation in my heart that made me think that I’m supposed to be an actor, that this is what God crafted me for, that this is what He wanted of me.

Yes, my rational sense intervened. I knew nothing about acting or agents or managers. I can’t memorize to save my life. Yet I had a conviction. I had a call.”

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Caviezel’s Career

He went a bit into how he started his career. “Cut to the spring of 2000, I was off for the role of Edmond Dantes in “The Count of Monte Cristo.” It was a new adaptation of the Dumas classic. Very stressful Period. This is the first time I ever had to carry a film on my own and here I was, what I long wanted to achieve but I had no peace. Everything on that film was a battle. My character, Edmond Dantes is unjustly imprisoned while there both in the book and in the film he carves on the wall ‘God will give me justice.’ …”

Encountering Mel Gibson

Caviezel who has done almost forty movies elucidated his encounter with Mel Gibson. “God loves each one of us personally. He is there for us, even in our darkest moments of despair... I inexplicably got a call from Mel Gibson. My agent didn’t call, my manager didn’t call. I didn’t know Mel Gibson. I wasn’t politicking for the role because nobody knows what’s happening.

Mel Gibson wants me to play Jesus Christ. He wants the guy with the initials of J.C who just happens to be 33 years of age to play Jesus Christ. Is that a coincidence? I don’t think so. Is your life a coincidence or is it all just a chance? Some of you may be miserable right now. Confused, uncertain of your future, hurting? This is not the time to back off or to give in.

Be ready for your cross

Jim vividly recounted his ‘cross’ experience as Jesus and challenged the audience to be ready to carry their own cross. “When I was up there on the cross, I learnt that in the suffering was our redemption. Remember the servant is no greater than the master; each of us must carry our own cross. There is a price for our faith, for our freedoms. I have been literally scourged, hit by the whips, crucified, struck by lightning, yes open-heart surgery; it’s what happens after five and a half months of hyperthermia.

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One day, during the shoot, my arm was wedged under that heavy beam, when someone yanked it in the other direction, my muscles wrenched, my shoulder separated. I fell to the ground, dropped my head into the sand…. Without this being shot in the studio, you never would have seen that performance. The suffering made my performance just as it makes our lives.”  

Fake Christianity

The actor came frankly against the ‘new’ Christianity now peddled all over the world. “Some of us now, you know them, embrace a fake Christianity where it’s all happy talk. I call it happy Jesus and glory. Guys, it was a lot of pain and suffering before the resurrection. Your path would be no different. So embrace your cross and race towards your goal. I want you to go out into this pagan world, I want you to have the courage to step into this pagan world and shamelessly express your faith in public.

 The world needs proud warriors, animated by their faith, warriors like Saint Paul and Saint Luke who risked their names, their reputations to take their faith, their love for Jesus into the world. God is calling each one of us, each one of you to do great things but how often we fail to respond, dismissing it as some mental blurb.

It is time for our generation now to accept that call, the call of God urging all of us to give ourselves entirely to Him, to see that gentle Hand guiding your path. But you first must make the commitment to start praying, to fast, to meditate on the Holy Scriptures and to take the holy sacrament seriously…”

A reference to Saint Kolbe

He made a reference to Saint Kolbe’s 20th century assertion that indifference was the greatest sin of his century. While agreeing with Kolbe, Jim further stretched that the greatest sin ideology of the 21st century is still indifference. “The great saint of Aushwitz, Saint Maximilian Kolbe said that indifference is the greatest sin of the twentieth century. Oh, my brothers and sisters it is the greatest sin of the twenty-first century as well.”

Caviezel spurred the audience to work on their faith, stand out from the normal church-going crowd that practice “fake Christianity” and pull off the toga of indifference. He himself admitted only warriors of faith can do this.  “We must shake off this indifference, this destructive tolerance of evil. Only our faith and the wisdom of Christ can save us, but it requires warriors ready to risk their reputations, their names, even our very lives to stand for the truth. Set yourselves apart from this corrupt generation. Be saints, you weren’t born to fit in, you were born to stand out…”

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We are a culture now in decline. For in our country now we are only too happy to go with the flow.”

A different definition of freedom

He bravely debunked the old concept of American freedom and gave a different definition that obviously would not sit well with many people. “We have a shrine to freedom now where all choices are equal no matter what the consequences are. Do you honestly think this is true freedom? Every generation of Americans needs to know that freedom exists not to do what you like but having the right to do what you ought. You, you, you, we all must fight for that authentic freedom and live, my friends.”

Metaphorical ending

He finished the speech on a splendid note drawing up the images of Holy Spirit as a shield and Jesus Christ as a sword – perfect war weapons in the life of a keen Christian. When a Christian overcomes the world, he will certainly live with God and the Saints in the hereafter. “By God, we must live, and with the Holy Spirit as your shield and Christ as your sword, may you join St. Michael and all the angels in sending Lucifer and his henchmen straight right back to Hell where they belong!”

Written by Omidire Idowu.

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