Shane Parrish
speaker
20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Upon their high school graduation, the title of her address to the class tells you most of what you need to know about her.
I can paddle my own canoe.
She came from an abolitionist household and not the quiet kind.
Her father had run a station on the Underground Railroad, hiding men and women fleeing north and helping them on towards Canada.
And her mother gave herself over to the temperance cause, advocating for complete abstinence from alcohol.
Theirs was a home where faith meant action.
At 22, Setti was an assistant principal, real authority for a woman of her time.
Even though the Spellman family was a rung above the Rockefellers economically in Cleveland, they valued a young man with ambition and sound Christian character.
And Setti was above all else practical.
She saw something in Rockefeller earlier than almost anyone else—
A friend of hers put it this way.
She saw that he was ambitious and she thought that he was honest, which probably appealed to her more than anything else.
She was short and slender with a round face, dark brown eyes, and chestnut hair parted down the middle.
Like Rockefeller, she was soft in voice and manner, but that softness sat on top of something hard.
Her own sister called her gentle and lovely, but resolute with an indomitable will.
She was never known to lose her temper, something she shared with the man she would marry.
She'd be more than just a spouse, though.
She would be a silent partner in everything he did.
They were two quiet people, each with a core of iron.
His courtship started in high school, where he'd walk her home at the day's end.
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