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FRM BfD'S EVE VIEWJ/QAI FOND MEMORIES Do k i ds sti Il do all those welrd thlngs ? You know. .. you did those things yourself when you were in school 2noking playling craps in the lou Things .ike turning on the gas in the c h em i s t ry lab and leaving it on when you left the class. Or how about smok- ing and playing craps in the washroom. M ay b e yo u d idn't dothose things in school but I sure did. Those stlcky desks Thosewere the days when you could go to the hotel with a dollar and have a darned good time - and still have a few c e n t s left over. Mind you it only took about four draughts for a good drunk. One thing that has changed is the desks. When I was in school the desks wereold and made of wood, and they had more than ten coats of varnish on them. In t h e S p r i n g when the weather was damp, the varnish would get so soft y o u r s h ir t-sleeve would stick to the desk if you leaned hard. I think m y class must have gained a bad reputat ion because our desks always had ink-wells, but there was never any- thing in them except balls of used gum. An d how about gym class..has it changed? Do the guys still stare at the ggirls in their shockingly scant cos- t um e s? As I remember my gang didnit set too many scholastic records but we were sure a bunch of virile guys. . . un- til the school dance. The school dance Aschool dance looked like interven- tion from the United Nations with the 49 thParallel running right down the cen- tre o f the gym with all the guys on one sideand all the girls on the other side, and both si des looking at each other wonder i ng who would make the first move. Forbidden snort I don't know what the girls did, but where to hang The Peter Perry paintings, lean in s o m e w h a t cumbersome fashion o n a b e n ch in council chambers at the town hall - and will perhaps remain that way too, until they're moved to the wall1s of a new municipal building, despite a s u ggestion by Council lor Vernon Mac- Carl to have them transferred to a more spacious and dignified place in the Cen- tennial Building. The paintings, which were donated to the Town by R. L. Cowan of Massapequa, depict the historical Peter Perry and his wife. Councillor Vern MacCarl in his bid for transferral, felt the Centennial B u ilding would make a more appropri- ate showplace for the paintings than the present council chamber, as the Centen- ni ai Bui lding reflects the kind of age depicted by the paintings. B u t a c o n fusing bid from the local Historical Society requesting that care when the pressure became too much for a guy to cross that gym, he would duck into the washroom with his buddies for a forbidden snort from a mickey. Pub-l ic speaking.. . that was a big d eal1 , but only for the intellectuals in the schooi. It seems to me the same peop le got up year after year, and i can' t remember what any of the winners spoke.about. Ican remember sitting for what seemed I ike hours dur ing school a s se m b I y. My greatest fear was that when m y leg fell asleep the rest of the body would follow suit. It happened a f ew times in history class. Eventual ly t h e t e a c her put me at the back of the classsomy snoring wouldn't bother the other students. Leaving the om a flve-star production Back in those days the only way you coul d miss a day of school was if you got drafted or married. Even going to the w a s h r oom was a five star production w i th one finger and two fingers and so on. One time I put up four fingers and the teacher looked so start led, I thought she was going. to callI an ambulance. Caught by the pidcipal Probably thebighighlight of my ear- ly school career was when the principal came into the washroom just as I rolled the dice. The darn things rolled right across the principal's shoe. For a long time after that I spent so much time in the office that I looked like part of the furn- iture. Remember the old ring bit? 1t used to be the custom to give one of y our rings to your girl and she would wear it everywhere. The only problem waswhen the girls washed up at school' they would often lose the ring down the drain. The janitor would amble down the h a ll muttering bad words and trying to decide if he should chew out the qirl who the perry's and restoration of the portraits be en- trusted to them, with a secondary sug- g e s tion that the paintings be placed in the Centennial Building, also confused town fathers, and a cross table debate ensued with some council members de- c I a r i ng that if the paintings were en- trusted to their care by the donors, that t h e.y w e r e p 1aying for keeps, so the portraits would just have to stay in the p r e sent municipal building, until such time as the new one is built. As Council was deciding to write a i e t t er to the Historical Society saying no-thanks-but-thank-you-anyway, Coun- c i i lors Rober t White and Vern MacCarl. wanted to know who mentioned the Hist- orical Society in the first place. M y o r i ginal motion was to have the paintingsplaced in the Centennial Buil- ding until a suitableplace could be found for them Councillor MacCarl reminded opposing Councillors. lost the ring or the guy vho gave it to her. Many times both parties c ught It. Something i don't miss is, the warm milk they used to sell in the cafeteria. The Iineup used to move ,so fa'st 1 never h a d t im e to decide what I wsnted so I just used to grab and hopeIlwould come up w i th an edible combinatioh. It was like gambling.. . you woh a'fevv and you lost a lot. Every year around report, dard time I made al1 my plans tQ run away to some exotic place rather than ,falc the music at home. And those remarks or tbe baç;k of the card. "Little Johnny seems rat- her agressive in class." What the tea- cher really meant was that Johnny was amisbehaved creep. And the reply from m o t her. . "We have taken steps to help Johnny grow out of the agressiVe stage." 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