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Going To High School
My Freshman Year
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I hope I haven’t confused
you too much, but I have lost some of the memories of the early part of High
School. I am going to pick some of the things I remember and hope I get them in
about the right sequence.
Miss
Clark’s Algebra Class
I guess the reason I
remember Miss Clark’s algebra class is because algebra did not make a bit of
sense to me. What I remember is some of the craziness that was done in her
class. I am going to try and tell this without mentioning specific people. One
thing I remember we did was pass notes around for all sorts of things. One I
remember was the note that said “everyone laugh at 2:30” Well 2:30 came and
everyone laughed. Miss Clark would look up from whatever she was doing and act
as if she thought she had done something funny and would laugh with the rest of
us.
There were also some (2
or 3 students) that would chew up paper in their mouths and when it was just
the right consistency they would throw it in the direction of the blackboard
that she was writing on…with her back to us.
The paper wad would
splatter all over the blackboard and you know I don’t think she ever got mad.
But it made all the rest of us slump down in our seats when she turned around
and she would ask one of us to come up and clean off the blackboard.
Writing for the School Newspaper
We had a section in the
town’s weekly newspaper that was devoted to the school material it was call the
“Sentential”. It had articles written by student writers about all sorts of
school related things.
I remember there were two
of us that use to write (what we considered) humorous short stories. I remember
one such ongoing article was the adventures of “Tough and Steady”.
Tough and Steady were
names that we created from a newly created Television animated cartoon series
the “Adventures of Rough and Ready”. This was the very first Hanna/Barbera
animated cartoon ever.
We also wrote a mystery
man article and would produce silly advertising commercials for fictitious
products like “Crinkles Cereal”, “Ipunia toothpaste” and lots more. These were
all in fun and we like to write them.
We would get excused from
study hall to go to the home economics room to work on the articles and would
usually get to try some of the baked products from the home economics classes.
All I will tell you is that the other classmate was also named David!
We also wrote many skits
that we preformed at various functions but the best was the Homecoming skit
night. The skit that we contributed a lot of input to won the “Red Jug Award”
for the best skit our freshman year. It was the first time in the history of the
Red Jug that it had been won by the Freshman Class. (Incidentally we also won
it the next three years also.)
Those are a few of the main things that I can
remember from my freshman year of High School.
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