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Remembering... Various Things |
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Picture this...Sicily 1928 - Whoops, lost in a tv show for a moment! I meant TCHS 1965-1966, Sophomore English Class, Teacher - Mrs. Sellers. For some reason, it was the tradition to make Mrs.Sellers' as angry as possible. The goal was to see her in tears because she was so frustrated that she had lost control of the classroom. I now realize (as do many of her former students) that it was a cruel thing to do to such a nice lady. Our sophomore year, Mrs.Sellers taught English in room 21, 5th and 6th periods. I was in 6th period class for a day or two but because of overcrowding, I moved to the 5th period class and had study hall 2 doors away in room 23 with Miss Grove as "teacher", so I was close enough to hear the 6th period uproar which was only equaled by 5th period! In class, we made all sorts of noises, especially jungle noises - Mrs.Sellers once commented "...it sounds like a jungle in here". We popped bubble gum, occasionally supplied by me, laughed like maniacs when she chuckled at something humorous in one of the stories in our literature book, and threw huge paperwads & stale bubblegum towards the front of the room. By the end of the 1st semester, the front wall of the room was covered with paperwads & gum. Mr.Kelly took over the class and said he'd stay there until it was all cleaned up. After a few days of viscious classwork dealing with grammar & sentence structure, a couple of volunteers cleaned it all up but still he stayed on as our teacher. What we didn't know at the time is that Mrs Sellers had some work to do in the library for a couple of weeks but... anyway there was order in the classes for 2 weeks. I remember one day...sitting towards the back of the room by the window, surrounded by 6 others as we all contributed towards the class uproar when Mrs.Sellers suddenly jumped up, came back to us,pointed at various individuals and said "You, you, you, you, you and YOU, OUT!" as she kicked them all out of class - leaving me all by myself in the back of the room by the window! Apparently she didn't think I was doing anything. Then... there was the day that Dick Dailey had "acquired" a can of Vienna Sausage, in mid-class he walked up to her desk and said, "Mrs.Sellers, the class took up a collection and we bought you this." and gave her the "gift". As usual, she kicked him out of class as we all laughed hilariously because this prank was a total surprise to all of us! The most memorable event during my years at TCHS occured in the 6th period class... Bill Fiest started planning the ultimate class prank and told me about it a few days before he put it into action. He said "I'm going to jump out the window" - my unbelieving response was "No you won't, you'd kill yoursef" but... one day while in study hall, 2 doors away, I was sitting by the back window and heard an increase of the uproar coming from room 21. I had no idea that Bill had finally performed his stunt but if I'd known the day he was going to do it, I could've watched him. I heard about it after class and the next day when he told me about it. Apparently, he got up in the window, waved at Mrs.Sellers and said "Bye, Mrs Sellers" and jumped out - down onto the gym hall roof. She ran to the back window, saying "Bill, Bill" but when she looked out the window, he was nowhere in sight! He'd ran along the gym hall roof to the back of the school, jumped off, went in the back door to the janitor's room, up the basement steps and was on his way back upstairs when she met him on the steps and grabbed his arm and led him to the office. Since the school is now a museum, there should be a bronze plaque by the window of room 21 in rememberance of the stupidest, wildest and most memorable event of our years in TCHS. |
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