School Story:
Used to go drawing and sketching with Mr. Devleeshower and a bunch of artisticlly inclined students from Mumford. Most vivid memories of HS were of arts and sports, although I never really excelled at either. I guess I also got a general education along the way as well.
I used to be awful in math except when I took classes from Mr. Mcdaid who I liked and so did well for.
I remember that one year, when we had a winning football team, coach Jim kelly used to show us blood and guts war films from the campaign against Japan during world war II. He was a former Marine, and I guess he thought seeing pictures of people killing and getting killed would make us better football players. Although I sort of liked coach Kelly, I ended up being an anti-war activist during the Viet Nam years. Perhaps seeing all that blood and death had some impact on me, although probably not the one the coach intended. Anyway, the powers that be in the school system slapped his wrists over showing those kinds of movies, and he had to stop using them. Later, during our military adventure in Iraq, the army itself thought twice about exposing the American public to graphic images of the carnage of war and images of flag draped coffins returning from the battle front, lest it turn too many citizens againt the killing. This brought back memories of coach Kelly's efforts to glorify battle for his high school gladiators before we entered the arena each week.