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Subject: BS-What was your high (or equivalent) school From: katlaughing Date: 15 Jul 99 - 04:26 PM Well, 'Spaw & Gitarzan are exchanging graduation dates and high school names, so I thought, wow another totally BS thread! Actually I thought it might be fun to find out if anyone went to the same ones. For all not living in the US: I apologise for not knowing the proper terms for what schools you graduate from, before going off to the equivalent of our colleges. Usually one finishes with H.S., here, around the age of 18/19. Now, that said, I will post my high school, Grand Junction Senior High, Grand Junction, Colorado BUT, while my class graduated in 1971, I dropped out, had my son in '70 and got the highest score ever seen at Mesa College, on a General Equivalency Degree (GED) the following year. For others who might have also dropped out....it doesn't matter, just post whatever school you went to when you were trying to be a young hoodlum like me or Rick! (Love ya anyway, Rick:-) HAVE FUN! Anybody from Colorado? katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: DougR Date: 15 Jul 99 - 04:34 PM Katlaughing: I'll bet no Mudcatters graduated from Clifton High School, Clifton, Texas in 1947! I did. DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Richard Bridge Date: 15 Jul 99 - 04:37 PM Wahroonga prep, New South Wales, Australia/ Alcuin House school, Stanmore, Middx, England/ Orley Farm school, Harrow-on-the-Hill, England/ Aldenham School, Herts, England/ Nottingham University (Engineering)/ Nottingham University (Law). |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Joe Offer Date: 15 Jul 99 - 04:39 PM Gee, Doug, you may be older than Sandy Paton - which is about the same as saying you're older than dirt, I think (Sandy's gonna have something to say about that). I graduated in 1966 from De Sales Preparatory Seminary (High School) in Milwaukee, and then spent four more years in the seminary before I discovered the opposite sex and figured out I wasn't destined to be a Catholic priest. Say, Kat, I'm kinda sweet on you. Wanna wear my high school hair shirt? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Wotcha Date: 15 Jul 99 - 04:48 PM Richard: I went to Orley Farm (67-73)!! When were you there? I then went to Blundells in Devon, thence to ... OKLAHOMA STATE and there started my decline... Alhamdalla! Cheers, Brian |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: katlaughing Date: 15 Jul 99 - 04:51 PM Depends, Joe. Does it have a letter or pin of any kind?**BG** Oh, and is it well-groomed?? Shedding? |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Allan C. Date: 15 Jul 99 - 05:14 PM George Mason Jr/Sr HS, Falls Church, VA; Escola Americana do Rio de Janeiro; Piedmont H.S., Piedmont, CA; Annandale High, Annandale, VA (where I graduated in '65) My class was the first in the area to have its baccalaureate ceremony at the National Cathedral and its graduation ceremony at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. - I went to a lot of high schools and these don't even include the ones where I did summer school. |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Fadac Date: 15 Jul 99 - 05:51 PM I got a good 8th grade education in only 12 years, graduating from Port Angeles Senior High School, in 1968. Then FADAC computer school in the USARMY in 1969. (basic + school = 9.5 months) Got piss poor grades in HS. Was in top 20% of FADAC school. But we had a bit of attrition. My class started at about 60. Half way the remains of our class was joined with another...we graduated 12. (I was the only one without at least two years of collage. Not bad eh?) I think we had a higher drop out rate than the helecopter pilots. My last rating in the Army said that there were less than ten of us left in the whole US Army in 1974. The rest is self training. |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Indy Lass Date: 15 Jul 99 - 06:23 PM I went to East Lansing High School in E. Lansing, MI. Graduated in 1974. Then Michigan State Univ (Geography/Cartography). Then got married. Then grad school at University of Waterloo, Ont., Canada (Environmental Science). |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Duane D. Date: 15 Jul 99 - 08:12 PM Ridge HS, Basking Ridge, NJ 1969 (the *good* year). Gee, Joe, is that akin to wearing a sign on your back that says, "KICK ME" ????? |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Joe Offer Date: 15 Jul 99 - 08:29 PM "Kick me" for what, Duane? I'm hoping Sandy will be proud of the "older than dirt" crack, and I'm proud of the 8 years of seminary education and I had a great time there. And I lied about the hairshirt - I've never even seen one. Also lied when I said I graduated in 1970, so I corrected that. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: MAG (inactive) Date: 15 Jul 99 - 09:43 PM Hope there aren't any Mormons on the list, because they actually DO the hair shirt thing as part of their coming of age rite of passage. Thomas a Becket got sainted because of his. Oh, oh yes, High School. Penns Grove High, NJ, 1962 -66. |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Pelrad Date: 15 Jul 99 - 11:31 PM Ha, you are all older than dirt from my point of view. :-) North Kingstown High School (RI) 1988, and University of Rhode Island 1994 |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Susan A-R Date: 15 Jul 99 - 11:37 PM Randolph Union High School, Randolph VT. 1976. I believe that was the class portrayed in the film Dazed and Confused. We were, but it was fun. Then on to the College of Wooster in Wooster Ohio, then, after a pause, a Masters at Boston College. (Highly irrelevently educated chef.) Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Duane D. Date: 15 Jul 99 - 11:43 PM Pelrad, You young whippersnapper, you!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Paul Jay Date: 15 Jul 99 - 11:50 PM After many trials with stupid, bigoted, racist &#@%'s, I graduated from Central High School,Little Rock, Arkansas in 1962, and NO I didn't know Bill. Kansas City Art Institute 1967 US Navy 1969 Ohio University 1970 Cheers Paul |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: gargoyle Date: 16 Jul 99 - 12:39 AM If your son was concieved in the backseat of a Chevy Malibu....I think I may know his father.... |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: WyoWoman Date: 16 Jul 99 - 01:30 AM Lindsay High School, Lindsay,Okla., Class of 1966 (ok, not as old as dirt, but certainly up there with a couple of clods...) University of Okla. dropout in the late '60s. Southwestern State College (Okla.) dropout, early '70s College of Santa Fe, film dept., B.A. 1994 (magna cum laude -- ta DA!!!) One semester of graduate school in the classics program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, N.M. (until I ran out of $$$ and had to drop out. I'd love to go back and finish that program....) WW |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: McMusic Date: 16 Jul 99 - 01:37 AM Would've graduated from Greenwich (Conn.) HS, Class of '69, but I did the "smart" thing--quit and joined the Marines! From there to Southeast Asia in '71. GOD! Now, wasn't that good thinking on my part? GED 1970. Then on to bigger and better things. |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Banjoman_CO Date: 16 Jul 99 - 02:17 AM I graduated from Weatherford High School(Weatherford, Okla)in 1956. Then went on to Southwestern State in Weatherford. I graduated in 1959(summer school and nights got me through in 3 years). I went to Okla. City and started teaching band and choir. I did that for 25 years and then went to Seminary for 3 years. Say, Wyowoman and I from the same college, how about that!! You still remember our college song, Wyowoman???? Fred |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Llanfair Date: 16 Jul 99 - 03:20 AM Ok, now comes the British equivalent Northenden Primary School, '53-59, Poundswick Grammar School, '59-'66 Liverpool college of Occupational Therapy '67-70. Failed the course, worked with people with learning disabilities, qualified in 85, now a part-time Social Worker and getting a life!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: katlaughing Date: 16 Jul 99 - 04:13 AM Yea! Good for you, LLANFAIR! Go for it, WW! We only drove FORDS! Pelrad, I was kicking up some dust in those parts about the time you were in HS & college. Used to go to Providence a lot from Mystic, CT. In '88, I produced a concert of my brother performing his classical music at the Music Mansion at Brown. Loved going over to Watch Hill. katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Banjer Date: 16 Jul 99 - 05:31 AM Dixie M. Hollins Senior High School, St. Petersburg, Fl Class of 1967 |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: The_one_and_only_Dai Date: 16 Jul 99 - 06:59 AM Another UK one (source of endless amusement) Ysgol Gynradd Sirol Cwmafan 1973-79 Dyffryn Comprehensive School 1979-86 Loughborough University 1986-91 |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Rita64 Date: 16 Jul 99 - 07:53 AM Mr Offer, I always suspected you were a holy Joe. Hee hee ... my sense of humour is deteriorating. |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: bbc Date: 16 Jul 99 - 08:26 AM Needham High School, Needham, Massachusetts, 1971 Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts (near Cape Cod), Major in English (British Lit.), 1975 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, Masters in Library/Information Science, 1981 Did you notice that many of us one-upped the subject to college level? Is that to add information or because we're show-offs? bbc |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Jul 99 - 09:23 AM Reynoldsburg High School, Reynoldsburg, Ohio--'67 Berea College, Berea, Kentucky -- '71 and a half (Took some time off to serve Uncle Sam at the Federal facility in Petersburg) Gotta' DeeGree in Philosophisin' which I proudly present to the folks at McDonald's where they give me a cup of coffee for only 89 cents!!! Say what Cletus? That's the RETAIL PRICE? Oh, I see...........Okay then, let's cut this sucker up and use it for asswipes.
**** ++++ **** ++++ **** ++++ Somehow Joe, excuse me...MR. OFFER {gettin' old,huh!?!?), I can see you as a priest.....You could have some virtual prayer beads with a Pentium III Rosary. Sure.... And you'd be a hoot in the confessional!!! The guy confesses and in less than 2 minutes gets a printout of 3 Blue Clicky Things for websites to access to repent.
And a few others: Susan---You went to Wooster? About half of us natives of course say it to rhyme with rooster. As a matter of fact, my Old Man would say, EVERYDAMN time the name came up, "Be a Booster and Write to that Rooster in Wooster." I never had a clue as to what he was talking about, but then I don't think he did either. To my chagrin, the name came up a lot since I grew up just south of Canton. Both of my parents had somewhat bizarre senses of humor. Ah yes, the true horrors of genetics...or is it environment? General Banj, you Incredible Dumbass---How can you leave us hanging like that.....Okay, I'll bite.....Who in the hell is Dixie Collins? catspaw |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Vixen Date: 16 Jul 99 - 09:26 AM Cool Thread! I think the college level thing is because we are all sort of keyboard addicts, so the more we have to type the happier we are. Carpal Tunnel Rules. Anyway, Quabbin Regional JSHS 70-76, Dropped out in 74, restarted in 75, dropped out in 75, came back for Sr. year and graduated with my class in 76. (health problems) Clark U 76-77 (Worcester Ma, dropped out) Thames Valley Tech College (81-87, A.S. computers) Mohegan Community College (87-88) UCONN Avery Point, Hartford and Storrs (B.A. 90 and M.A. 93) KatLaughing--I wonder if we ever ran into each other around here when you lived in CT. Dai(*the* one and only!) 'scuse my ignorance, but I think you'd need a college education just to be able to pronounce the names of your schools! ;> I find this interesting because it's long been my belief that degrees *may* (perhaps usually) boost income here in the US, but they don't confer intelligence or wisdom. Nature seems to have been profligate with the intelligence and wisdom, conferring them randomly among the academically inclined and the rest of the population. I've been hanging around the 'cat for nearly a year, and everyone who posts regularly, in my opinion, has gotten large dollops of intelligence and wisdom, regardless of education! I've learned a lot here! (v relinquishes soap box and casually tosses $0.02 into the battered black beret nailed to the wall.) V |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Easy Rider Date: 16 Jul 99 - 09:37 AM I graduated from Stuyvesant High School, in New York City. We have a very active Alumni Association, so, if anyone else out there went to Stuy, please let me know, and I'll get you on our mailing list, so you can find out about reunions, school news, Etc. Just send me email, with your name, year, and full mailing address. I'm listed, as a member of Mudcat. EZR |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Date: 16 Jul 99 - 09:40 AM Concord High School, Concord NH 1977, took a year off to work and travel around France and the UK where I learned a lot more than at Boston University School of Music of the School for the Arts (say that 10 times fast) 1982 . Joe, I took one seminary course at the Episcopal Divinity School and would have loved to continue but life and family have a way of keeping me down on the farm. I have no real interest in more college degrees, but I'm a voracious learner in the University of the Universe! Allison |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Big Mick Date: 16 Jul 99 - 09:46 AM Proud graduate of Kelloggsvile High School, class of '69 (how a propos!!, thought I would say before 'Spaw) then off to a place I would like to forget for a bit, bounced around college classes from San Diego to Michigan, but never graduated college. Tons of education through the labor movement. Big Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Jul 99 - 10:05 AM OK Mick, You got the '69 thing, but KELLOGGSVILLE? Man I gotta' know more........like what was the school nickname? The "Corn Pops"......"Fruit Loops"........"Krispies," Snap, Crackle, and Pop as Mascots......."Frosted Flakes," with Tony as a Mascot?????? Geez, I'm sorry Mick, but I'm LMAO here...the possibilities are limited only by the brand names and God knows they make a lot of cereal. 'Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: AndyG Date: 16 Jul 99 - 10:34 AM mmmiiasw! OK Llanfair,
we already knew we were in M/c at about the same time...
Northenden then Poundswick !
Now I lived just down the road from Poundswick, (opposite Ferranti's factory in fact), where my parents still live.
Biographical note:
AndyG |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: JR Date: 16 Jul 99 - 11:01 AM Eisenhower High Yakima,Wa. before service, college, & reality. |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Margo Date: 16 Jul 99 - 11:28 AM Campolindo High School, Moraga California. Then two years at Diablo Valley College, followed by two years at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. WHAT ON EARTH IS A HAIR SHIRT????? |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: katlaughing Date: 16 Jul 99 - 11:29 AM Vixen: we were in Mystic from 1987-1993 and I drove all over hell and back. Loved the country and history. Did you by any chance go to the Northeast Women's Musical Retreat in 1988 at the boy scout camp just above where Foxwoods is now? My daughters and I were there. Before that we lived in Northampton, MA. Went to CT a LOT to Logee's Greenhouse in danielson, Buell's in Eastford, and Caprilands up near UCONN. Do you ever read the New London DAY? I have an oped piece which is going to be in it this Sunday about the old house we lived in in Mystic & its ghost. It'll be on the Perspectives page. Okay, since evertyone did do some of the higher education stuff, here's the rest of mine: one of the first women, in Colorado, actually first of any gender, to go through the, then, brand new emergency medical technician, one year program at Mesa College, 1976, Grand Jct., Colorado; found out it was pretty worthless as it was not recognised as anything but a glorified nurse's aide position until a few years later when it caught on. Several course at Casper College, Casper, WY including a wonderful Wyoming history course by a genuine raconteur of the First Order, who even wrote stories & narrated them for the BBC, on the old West, Bill Bragg, who is now deceased. He gave me, at the time a young mother of three, without a lot of time, an A on my paper on the Sioux Ghost Dance Religion. Also completed a Metalsmithing course & just finished my first course in enameling and loved it. E'now, kat! Let somebody speak!
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: MMario Date: 16 Jul 99 - 11:39 AM Henry T. Wing High School, Sandwich, Mass. (1972) Then Cornell University, where I learned far more in the dorms then anywhere else.... and a hair shirt was just that. a shirt made with a coarse, hairy material, which was worn (and may still be today by some people) as a penance and/or test (usually of faith and endurance) itchy. irratating. sorta like riding an elephant in shorts. it's possible, but it isn't comfortable. MMario |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Uilleand Date: 16 Jul 99 - 01:04 PM St. Anna Gymnasium, Munich, 1988. ---Thanks to my father discovering the opposite sex and leaving a Jesuit seminary, Mr. Offer. |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Joe Offer Date: 16 Jul 99 - 01:53 PM Gee, Catspw, you're just a year younger than me and they give you coffee at McDonald's for 89 cents? They give it to me for the 25-cent senior price, and I don't even ask for a senior discount. I'm still not used to being called an adult, but I guess the 16-yr-old clerks at Mickey-D's must think I'm really old. Sometimes, I think I'd rather pay the young folks' price... -Joe Offer, aging gracefully- |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Llanfair Date: 16 Jul 99 - 02:17 PM Bloody hell, Andy, this is amazing!!! of all the towns in all the world, two mudcatters lived in Wythenshawe!!! Well I was born and brought up in Northenden, my Dad was the administrator of Wythenshawe Hospital, before it was amalgamated with Baguley Sanatorium, and I had both my kids there. you seem to be about 10 years younger than me, so it's unlikely that we have any mutual aquaintances. Husband No. 2 went to Chorlton, because he lived there. I moved on to Altrincham when I married the first time, and have worked my way through Cheshire and Shropshire before settling in Wales. With husband No.3, the younger model!!! He's about your age!!! See you, Bron. |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: AndyG Date: 16 Jul 99 - 04:11 PM It gets worse, would you believe my first job after leaving school was as a med lab technician at... Wythenshawe Hospital.
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Mike Strobel Date: 16 Jul 99 - 04:23 PM Graduated in 1970 from: Kenmore East Senior High School ,located in Kenmore, ( Buffalo ) , New York, U.S.A. |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Richard Bridge Date: 16 Jul 99 - 06:13 PM Wotcha Brian. I left Orley Farm it must have been 61 or 62. You'll see my name on the scholarship board. |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Llanfair Date: 16 Jul 99 - 06:18 PM Andy, you probably knew of my Dad, James Pugh. I worked at the hospital too, but I was at Withington in '69. in the OT dept. Sorry for the personal stuff, Katlaughing, but it is such a coincidence. Hwyl "spooky" Bron!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Joe Offer Date: 16 Jul 99 - 06:25 PM I'd say the personal stuff is why Kat started this thread. It's good to conncet like that. We former Detroiters do a bit of that a while back. Peter T might get a wuzzums attack, but that's OK. He deserves it. (grin) -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Susan of DT Date: 16 Jul 99 - 07:01 PM James Madison High, Brooklyn, NY, '64 BS Cornell U, '68 MS Syracuse U, '76 DEd Penn State U, '85 those of you with incomplete college degrees might be interested in the distance learning college for adults where I work, Thomas Edison State College. Send a member e-mail if you want to know more or to digitrad2@sprintmail.com |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: DougR Date: 16 Jul 99 - 07:08 PM Joe Offer: Yep, I'm on my last leg. I was there when dirt was invented. It's fun to be among so many young'uns! DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Banjer Date: 16 Jul 99 - 07:08 PM Dixie M. Hollins, for those who asked, was one of the first Superintendents of Pinellas County Schools. Dixie M. Hollins High School was named after him, all who refer to it just call it Dixie. |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: Mark Cohen Date: 16 Jul 99 - 07:12 PM Central High School of Philadelphia, (second oldest public HS in the US, after Boston Latin), 1970, then Princeton, 1973, then Penn State U. College of Medicine in Hershey, Pa, dot, dot, dot, Big Island of Hawaii. |
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Subject: RE: BS-What was your high school/UK equivalent/ From: katlaughing Date: 16 Jul 99 - 07:12 PM Bron: Joe is exactly right! I don't mind the personal stuff at ALL! I delight in reading every bit of it, even words made of almost all consonants:-) (Actually I love languages SO much, I am dying to know how to rponounce some of those words!) And, I did think it might get more personal as some find they've shared some backgrounds. Thanks, everyone, it's PHUN! katlaughing |
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