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Skriven 2008-03-24 13:43:45 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 4191 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: School days
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Hi Hap,

 hn> Happy Easter Ruth!

Thanls; it was a nice quiet one.

->  hn> to donate money for a "brick" with my name on it
->  hn> for the courtyard and I declined saying I didn't want
->  hn> anyone to blame me for that monstrosity!

-> Afraid they might hunt you down and take revenge? (G) Our school was
-> built in the 30s as part of the WPA program, as were quite a few in the
-> as well.  Most of the time the remodel job is done at the back part of
-> the school or internally so as not to destroy the "curb appeal" it
-> seems.

 hn> Actually yes!! The new school has no curb
 hn> appeal at all....more like repulsion!

I understand.  One of the nice things about my school being so small
(when I went) was that if the home ec students were cooking something
good smelling, the aroma would travel thru out the building. If you
timed things right (and knew who was in the class), you could get a free
sample.

-> but just not for home use yet. It was a good way to ease the girls into
-> cooking by fun things.  BTW, "plate-o" was their name for the omelettes
-> since they were made on a plate.

 hn> Kids can come up with some pretty good
 hn> names!

They sure can! One of our girls referred to the letter my folks write
every week as "The Weiss Weekly".  They started using that in the return
address; when Deborah was in Basic, she wasn't allowed newspapers,
newsletters or anything like that.  She had to convince the DIs that it
was just a weekly letter from her grandparents.

->  hn> movie or to the teen club (well I went to the teen club) to play
->  hn> pool, or to the skating rink to roller skate, or to the bowling
->  hn> alley. Other than that, we'd hang out at the snack bar.

-> And you all managed to have fun in spite of no tv or microwave. (G) By
-> the time we hit Germany, most of the recreational facilities had shut
-> down other than the youth (school age children) services and a bowling
-> alley in Frankfurt.  I don't think Berlin had a bowling alley.  Instead
-> of snack bars, the kids would go to Burger King.

 hn> Gosh! We had a bowling alley, skating rink, golf course,
 hn> teen center, two snack bars (but only one got teen
 hn> attention the other was too small), and a movie house.

We did have a theater too but it only had one showing a day.  Saw
"Dances With Wolves" in Berlin--that wide open prairie shot near the
beginning was really great!

-> -> our CB radio was in summer of 1986, driving back down to TX from NY
-> -> and when we came back in 92, they were a thing of the past.

->  hn> Oh the times they are a changin!

-> As are we. (G)

 hn> hard not too (grin)!

Very much so. We've had several different assignments since, with
experiences in each one that have been memorable.  Picked up this echo
in AZ, kept it for 7 years there, the time in HI and now in GA.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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