A look back

[joshb]

I’m cleaning up my attic, going through boxes. I found these photos and things. My father was a high school math teacher. He also ran various clubs and coached basketball, baseball and golf. Some of the clubs were: Chess, The Young Entrepreneur, The stock club or Young Investors and the Hunting Club. On the High School steps for the yearbook:


In his later years, we became friends with Maxene Andrews.Some of you might recall her music? The stories she told!

Some more memorabilia:

That letter is from William F. Buckley Jr. . I’ll be framing that.

 

[TAJ45]

He sounds like the proverbial "well rounded" individual with multiple talents. I hope you weren't like I was, payed as little attention as possible to wisdom. :/

 

[joshb]

He sounds like the proverbial "well rounded" individual with multiple talents. I hope you weren't like I was, payed as little attention as possible to wisdom. :/

I was a typical young, rebellious son for too many years but I finally got it. Thank God He was around to see that I did!

 

[TAJ45]

Seeing as you are talented and creative, jic you weren't aware, use acid free matting for the letter. Same as frame shops buy, actually all they buy, to preserve the print, papers etc.

 

[garandman]

Thanks for this little trip down memory lane... so many great memories for you. Enjoy them

Today those would be called the "greedy capitalist club" and the" NRA terrorist club." This world is so screwed up.

I realized I was young and dumb about 18 years old. God's grace to wake me up.

 

[dolek]

Great pics and story . My Dad taught me all I needed to know,never saw it at the time . Like you Josh, I caught on before it was too late . Thanks for sharing.

 

[Dusty Stevens]

Those first pictures triggered me. Im going to my safe space now

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

In the seventies, my school bus driver asked for any "extra ducks", when I got on the bus with my shotgun. Friday would stay with my "snow" family and hunt Saturday and Sunday. After the second weekend the principle told me the keep my shotgun in my locker, since " the office didn't want to be responsible". Later I often wondered if that affirmation had more meaning about society or about the direction that public education was headed. I was eleven my first duck season.