Gene (Skip) Schwerin

Patty, maybe this well help you get over the use of a perfectly good English word in the appropriate context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EXqPriuHHI

Burt Weiss

Hello Alan

Mr. Hansen was my 11th grade English teacher.  You may be thinking of  Mr MacKeigan, who was something of a punster.  Mr. Kee at Byron loved to crack corny jokes.  I will always remember the joke that ended with the punch line "pas de l'on que nous."  If you don't get it, read it ten times.

Burt
 

Betsy Dennis (Frank)

Dana, I  fully agree no matter. The affiliation great for Cleveland. 

Phyllis Hammer (Gubanc)

Dana, I love your comment and I agree! When I saw that my home town had scored the convention, I thought it was a terrific opportunity. Particularly since I now live in Cowlumbus, and I can't help but smirk a bit over this feat. Columbus has an ego roughly the size my posterior used to be. And it's refreshing to see Cleveland doing so well. And speaking of Cleveland, I always thought, when I was a teenager, that I could leave Cleveland without so much as a backward glance in my rear view mirror. But now, despite having traveled a lot, lived elsewhere since 1984, Cleveland has lodged in my heart. Always my home. I know. I have no taste... ;-)

I look forward to seeing you all in August.

Phyllis Hammer (Gubanc)

Patty, I didn't find your comment to be the least bit offensive. I've come to think that the f-bomb is merely another adjective. Of course, I *am* married to a sailor...

I remember, vividly, the day of Kennedy's assassination. As I recall, I was in a basement classroom, a health class, if I'm not mistaken. They announced the assassination over the PA, and it just wasn't ... real... Not until I went home and began watching live coverage on TV. I remember having a similar reaction to 9/11. I was at work, and my boss called to tell me that about an "accident," a plane that crashed into one of the World Trade Center towers. We talked for a few seconds, and then he said "[fill in Patty's word]! That was no accident! A second one just crashed into the building!"

Joseph G Blake

Patricia Ann Richards (Armstrong)

Darling Phyllis,

Do you remember walking home together, upon occasion?  Talking about anything and everything...thanks for your vote of confidence:  I SO look forward to seeing and talking, laughing with you.  PTFB aka Pat the Fat Brat.

Alan M Cohen

It was MacKeigan. Thanks .  Terrible teacher.  Mr Kee was unique

Lesley Dormen

Hey, Joseph Blake, I saw your daughter on Newshour last night. You're entitled to a jumbo helping of parental pride.She was delighttful--poised, articulate, charming. And she has a great job!

Alaina Weisman (Zachary)

Alan Cohen, do you remember that M. Kee used to make a little clicking noise?  He was cute - at least to me!  And fostered the beginnings of my life long love of all things French.  I actually had an apt in the 7th back in the late 70's and managed many trips to France.  And recorded a CD of lost French repertoire around 20001: Mon  Coeur Chante! The Songs of Cecile Chaminade.  And to think it all started with M. Kee....

Betsy Dennis (Frank)

And while we are talking about teachers, does anyone else remember Mr. Burnett and his eccentricities. He didn't like nicknames. Since I never went by Paula, he called me Elizabeth. I am not sure he really believed that Sally Leska was not a Sarah. He was a great teacher, however. He taught me to appreciate format (to the horror of my students that I teach.). I remember getting a C+ on a paper because I didn't have a period at the end of each reference on a references list. Part of my succes in the class, over-all, was due to my mother who recognized a need for a writing tutor. She sent me to the tutor the summer before our Senior year. Since I have published professionally, I owe part of my success to Mr. Burnett and my Mom. Betsy

Joseph G Blake

Thanks Lesley for your comments about seeing My daughter Meredith. I should have added that Bill O'Reilly called Meredith incompetent on his program because she said his election night coverage in 2012 was a lament. While I am a lifelong Republican, I am not a fan of talk radio or most cable news. I wrote him to say that Harry Truman threatened to punch Paul Hume in the nose when he criticized Margaret Truman's singing ability in his WP column. This link is for the interview on PBS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UBUuiNPzFI&list=UU6ZFN9Tx6xh-skXCuRHCDpQ

Yes Betsy Frank i too am grateful to Mr Burnett. He taught me to write a simple sentence. Do you recall his Pariah list of students who were late with an assignment. Or better yet the writing rules you had to follow. One was that you could not use the passive voice. Anything I ;learned about writing I learned from him.

Does anyone still have the list of his rules? I recall three of them but memory now fails me.

Betsy Dennis (Frank)

Thanks for the link. I will watch later. I don't remember the Pariah list at all. But I do remember a few of the assignments. Betsy

Lawrence M Fields

Who was the 11th grade English teacher that required we memorize the prologue to Canterbury Tales? I think I couldn't do that until the last day of the semester. (I started to type it now, but my ability to type in Old English is quite rusty!!)

Alan M Cohen

Gene (Skip) Schwerin

I understand that Coach Sanna has recently died.

Joseph G Blake

Alaina Weisman (Zachary)

Lawrence, remember having to memorize it as well: When that Aprille withthe surest..etc.  Was it a woman?  If so, I do recall that I did a final paper for her on witchcraft.... of all things.  I'll post her name when I remember or if I dig out my yearbook.  Alaina

Lawrence M Fields

Alaina, it was a woman, and I still have nightmares about the memorization requirement. Speaking of nightmares, the other one I have is from Byron swim class, where the swim teacher had a long bamboo rod that we had to dive over from the diving board. He would threaten to snap the rod at our legs if we didn't dive. Larry

Joseph G Blake

William J Lavin

Alaina & Lawrence:  Her name was Mrs. Henderson if my failing memory serves me right.  Amazingly, after 50 years, I can still remember the first 2 lines of that Prologue (and I can't recall what I had for breakfast 2 days ago).  This answers the question for me now that we sometimes asked ourselves over the years regarding the necessity of some of the things we were required to learn/know in High School?   It was so we could participate in messages like this 50 years later!

Dana Shepard (Treister)

Larry and Alaina~ 

I absolutely remember memorizing, "Wan that Aprille with her shura sotah, the draught of March hath..."  and then my memory fades just a bit...  as does amy recollection of the Olde English spelling... or the meaning!!

Another AP English memory from junior year -- I wrote a paper 10/22/62 entitled "Heritage" about my maternal grandfather. Fast forward to Spring, 2014 when my twin grandchildren had an 8th grade assignment to write a paper about someone's immigration story, and both opted to focus on my maternal grandfather (who died long before they were born -- even before I wrote MY paper).  And they each used the paper I wrote at SHHS as SOURCE MATERIAL for THEIR papers!  Along with interviewing me, collecting old family photo images, etc!  LITTLE did I know that future generations would benefit from research I did in AP English class!

Phyliss~

Amusingly, the last paragraph of the report in the NYTimes about Cleveland landing the 2015 Republican convention reads, "They're not rich and glitzy, just hard-working Americans..."  -way to go, Cleveland!

DANA

William L Kahrl

Regarding Larry Fields' aquatic memories, I don't know what went on at Byron. But Coach Stark had a similar long bamboo pole for the high school pool. If you didn't dive over it, he would crack you on the top of your head when you surfaced. He could get a terrific whiplash to the tip of that pole. When he taught us for our lifesaving certificates he showed us a secret way to break any hold in case some panicked drowning swimmer grabbed us from behind. It was painful but not as unexpected as the written exam he administered at the end of the course. I still remember one of the questions --What is a boom? -- and the extraordinarily inventive responses it produced. Lunch hours were reserved for a version of water polo in the shallow end. The water was usually pink by the time the bell rang. I still have a Shaker towel from the pool. I thought it was so classy that the school made them available. 

Beth Lazerick

I also can recite "When that aprilla in the sura sota...." and probably could dig up Thanatopsis, too.  Mr Burnett insisted on calling Vicky Cortell, Victoria for the whole year.  And I remember a nip or two from his bottom drawer.

On another subject, I would love to get together, however briefly, with my fellow AP Math classmates.  Come to something

Lawrence M Fields

maybe it was Coach Stark at the high school, not Byron. Coach Stark seems familiar to me. But to this day I am afraid to dive head first into a pool.