Subject: RE: PHS '62 as of July 25 attendees & activities update
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:34:58 -0700
From: David Todd [dtodd@san.rr.com]
To: "Sharpe, Thomas R." [SharpeT@missouri.edu>]

At 09:17 AM 7/29/2002 -0500, Sharpe, Thomas R. wrote:
No excuses, Dave.
Tom

Tom et al,

OK, OK. All the banter back and forth is just too engaging. "The check's in the mail" (Terry & Patty please note ... it'll get there about Tues). Party of two. David & Karen Todd (Karen's Class of '63, Cromwell, CT, HS).

Memories. One of my first, when I tried to remember back that far [ :-) ], was of Craig Thiersch playing the organ in the Assembly Hall before class in early morning. That was real dedication on his part. Craig plowing through Morte de Arthur (which I *still* haven't read, Craig). And getting me interested in German and Russian. And Miss Ziegler's German classes. Fun, I thought. Then I remembered the German Singers, and how much I enjoyed that club and how terrible I was at singing (I'm REALLY sorry, fellow Singers. I'll show my face in two weeks anyway. But I *promise* not to sing!). So, OK, some of the memories are a little awkward and painful. I guess that's what 14-18 year olds go through! Kinda like Tom's water-fountain experience. :-)

Tom, I thought we had Mr Ricca (?sp) for driver's ed. I thought we took that together -- down at Manual during the summer, actually. It served me well, in any case.

Mr. Flugel for chemistry. VanDeventer for Geometry. Mr. Bockowitz for freshman algebra -- "if you don't learn algebra, you can always dig ditches for a living". Loved algebra, but the alternative didn't seem all that bad sometimes. :-) I actually managed to find and keep one of the high-school English texts a few years ago... sitting on my bookshelf here, I think. Miss Rice's class. I treasured the class and the literature.

And Mr. Mills. As someone else noted, a gentle man. Very thoughtful and intelligent, I thought, and almost a little out of place as HS principal.

Well, some of it's coming back to me now. Thanks, guys. See you in a couple of weeks.

Anyone live between San Diego and Aspen? We're driving so as to see some more of the Southwest.