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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Stan Brown! Hi!!

Stan writes:

With respect to Memory Lane topics, the mind boggles:

- Safety Patrol: eating lunch in the bookroom and telling 'dirty' jokes not realizing Ms. Blumquist was lurking in the stacks waiting to narc on us, for which we were demoted (does this episode ring a bell, Irene?);

- Troop Seven: countless moments of death defying lunacy with explosive devices all in the context of a paramilitary organization;

- Thanks for the Mammaries: remember the striking resemblance between Mrs. Duff's front end and the front bumper of her 1958 Cadillac?; and

- Times have Changed: back to Safety Patrol, can you imagine a parent today allowing their child to be responsible for crossing other people's children on a busy road?

6 comments:

  1. John Millar asked: Who said this? “Class!! Give (student’s name,) a clap.” (see Miss Eliason blog)

    Stan responds with: Did I miss something? I don't remember anyone having the 'clap' in sixth grade? I'm not sure I even knew what that was. Was that what the 'special assembly' for the fifth grade girls was all about? You can tell us now, we can handle it...

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  2. Stan - I'm still shaking my head and chuckling!

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  3. Well Stanford! A long overdue "how are you bud?" It's great to hear from you once again. Looks like you haven't lost your sense of humor.
    Speaking of that 'clap' thing. Clearly it was something going around in Ms. Eliason's class, but for those of us in Mr. Walters, Mr. Slicker's classes, we were safe.

    - Bob

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  4. Oh no, another situation where I got people in trouble!!! I had totally put that bad experience out of my mind! Demoted in the safety patrol? I always wondered why I only worked it twice. But there was something about those flags, those strappy belt things and the ever important whistle that was so appealing, wasn't there? Sorry, Stan, I'm sure I was instigating the dirty jokes...sounds so much like me back then. That's probably why Betsy Rodie's mom forbade her to invite me to her birthday party...she said it was because I was a bad influence on Betsy...I was a "ring leader". Yikes! ;D

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  5. Stan adds: Hey All You All:
    I am told by my Virginia in-laws that this is the proper plural form of 'you all.' I am a big fan of Irene's big tent philosophy and with that in mind I forwarded the link to the Willard blog to John last night. If you would like to reach out more formally, his contact info is:

    John + Jeanne Woodward-Poor
    29 Barker Road
    Plainfield, NH 03781
    603-448-4453 (home)
    jwpoor@gmail.com

    I know he would love to hear from you guys. At my daughter's wedding, he said that he had known me longer than anyone except my mother to which Jeanne somewhat acerbically replied, 'What about his brother and sister?" Without missing a beat he replied, 'That's true, but I was the first person who liked him.' Lovely... it doesn't seem possible, but we have been close friends for over 52 years. Dave Smith is coming up on 50 years and thanks to his efforts we have stayed in touch. In fact, Dave is my youngest daughter's Godfather.

    Gotta' get back to work, but I did have one question; why did we call Peter Carlisle, 'Monkey?'

    Cheers, Stan

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  6. Susan (Shaffner) BayliesJune 20, 2010

    I lived next door to John Poor, and we used to have great Capture the Flag games on our big woodsy properties. He had an awesome treehouse.

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