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Linda:

I give up. What's a jiggle-claud? Is that some kind of a tambourine?
It must have been some kind of high tech thing. Anyways the sticks were
still better than a crummy kazoo.

How can anyone our age type 80-90 wpm like you do? I'm impressed.
Plus being able to "cut and paste", attach stuff to e-mails, scan
photos, reformat, etc. is indeed a skill. I'm lucky to be able to
write anything for this yahoo group, let alone send photos.

Speaking of e-mails, what am I doing wrong when what I write comes out
weirdly spaced when I know when I write the e-mail it looks ok? Look at
the stuff below. Your e-mail is nice and neatly spaced. My stuff
looks weird. Maybe that's some kind of omen. Only weird people compose
e-mail that is weirdly spaced. Is there a way to reformat so the
written text looks like it was when it was written? The same thing
happens when I print a copy of the e-mail. Just don't use any
techno-babble trying to explain it. Please use one syllable words in
short sentences to explain.

Was the superintendent before Mr. Berg a Donald Baker? I think Helen
Shankleton taught one of those memorize and forget history courses. It
must have worked well because I learned how to forget history (mostly).
Those tv shows about "Are you smarter than a 5th grader" are
embarrassing. Just wait. Those little smarty pants fifth graders
someday won't be smarter than a fifth grader themselves. Serves them
right.

Glad to hear you're getting together with some of the Texas classmates
this weekend. As an aside, one of our sons lives in Allen, Tx too.
Small world that you live there too.

Thanks for the memories.

The Weaselmeister

--- In dalton59@yahoogroups.com, "Linda L. Fahrney Freeland"
...> wrote:
>
> OK - John D. and all you other classmates, I'm finally going to jump
> in here and join the conversation. Hi Everybody. I have been so busy
> this week - trying to learn a new temp job and earning a living that
> I haven't had the time to participate. I would come into my email
> and have 69 emails waiting for me.
>
> I have been reading all these email Sat. night Memorial Weekend and
> having a blast. John, you are so funny and have me belly-laughing and
> rolling off my chair. I wanted to go to a movie tonight, but maybe
> this is much more fun! Glad to hear from John, Lanny - all you
> newcomers to the group!
>
> I loved the one on 1st Grade trauma on the rhythm band. Yes, I very
> well remember it. You forgot the "sticks" and the jiggle-clauds. I
> think I had to play either one of those and they weren't so great
> either, but I don't think I ever stooped to play a kazoo !! Ha!
>
> Now in regards to Most Useful High School Course...
> Of course, being a Secretary (now's it's refined to an Administrative
> Assistant), I still use what I learned in Typing, Bookkeeping, and
> Shorthand-sometimes. It's impressive to tell them you helped win the
> High School Shorthand trophy (I think we just had a 4 member team-
> myself, Barbara M., not sure if it was Shirley M., Betty Ann H.)
> maybe somebody remembers, but we brought back a trophy the first year
> we tried it. BUT - when you tell somebody this, it just DATES you,
> of course. I use these 3 subjects still to support myself and am
> working right now on a contract assignment at Bombardier Aerospace in
> Richardson, Tx. I love to type and can type 80-90 wpm. on a good
> day.
>
> I can remember telling some of the teachers or some authority when I
> was Freshman or Soph. - whatever year we were supposed to start
> taking Algebra - that I would never use this in my life and didn't
> want to take it. I wasn't in college preparatory. So I guess I
> persuaded them because they offerd a General Math Class. But to this
> day, I have problems with "formulas" on Excel. Because all the
> really smart kids were in Algebra, that made it easier for me to do
> well in the Math Class and win some of the arithmetic contests that
> we would have on the blackboard. I think Mrs. Shankleton taught this
> class. No, I'm just remembering - who was the superintendent before
> Glen Berg - nice guy - that's who taught it. Mr. Baker?? Anybody
> else remember being in this class?
>
> I also told them I could not stand all that gutty junk, cutting up
> animals, worms, whatever etc. in Biology and may have been the only
> one to not have to take it. I didn't! Different strokes for
> different folks - I hated Government Class - just endured it and
> tried to memorize everything I needed to know just for tests.
>
> John, I love your description of the typing tests. I had Ms.
> Santschi for my typing classes. I remember how hard you had to hit
> the keys and yes the metronom. In Corrine's pictures of all the
> teachers at the table, was Mrs. Eshleman in that picture?
>
> Now I'm laughing again uncontrollably about the "train leaving Chico,
> stopping in Muncie, and arriving at Columbus - I HATED THOSE STORY
> PROBLEMS - you are sooooo right - who in the heck CARES??? What a
> good laugh I have had over this! I just got rid of a lot of stress -
> Thanks!
>
> I'll stop now on this email and maybe respond to some other ones.
>
> I'm meeting with Keith Goudy, and wife Sharon, and Nancy Withrich
> Davis tomorrow after church at Nancy's house - for a MINI-1959
> REUNION! It will be a blast and sure the highlight of this weekend
> for me!
>
> Corrine's pictures were unbelievable! She must have been the class
> photographer. Thanks Corrine
>
> More later,
> Linda Freeland (formerly Fahrney)
>
>
> --- In dalton59@yahoogroups.com, "jhdouglas59" jhdouglas59@
> wrote:
> >
> > I've been thinking about DHS most useful courses.
> >
> > Mine is Mrs. Eshleman's typing class with the old klutzy
> typewriters
> > and that ticking metronome. She would speed up that metronome to
> > super sonic speeds (or so it seemed at the time). I think my best
> > typing speed speed was 60-70 cwpm. Now it is probably 20-30
> > incorrect words pre minute (iwpm). I never have gotten accustomed
> to
> > the light touch of the computer keyboard. I believe the
> typewriters
> > were manual pre-
> > electric vintage. You had to hit those keys hard and then hit that
> > lever to get to the next line. Now is the time for all good men....
> >
> > Little did we know then that typing would be so valuable for typing
> e-
> > mails. She was ahead of the times.
> >
> > I think the most fun course was American Government where Mr. Biggs
> > made us memorize the three branches of government: legislative,
> > executive and judicial. He made the course entertaining.
> >
> > The worst course I can remember is Algebra (or maybe Geometry).
> Mr.
> > Eldridge (or something like that name) taught one of those courses.
> > I never could figure out all those equations and hypotheses.
> >
> > Also some of those stupid math things like if a train leaves Chico,
> > California at 2 pm and stops for 37 minutes in Muncie, Indiana,
> what
> > is the elapsed time to arrive at Columbus, Ohio if the train is
> > traveling at 38 mph? Who cares?
> >
> > What's your most useful or memorable high school course?
> >
> > The Weaselmeister
> >
>