THE SALEMITE
Friday, October 17, 1958
Poems And ‘‘Exceptions^’
Brighten Teachers’ Days
By Carol Doxey
Remember when you vowed you’d
never, never, NEV1‘-R, be a teacher;
and you wondered why in the
world ])oor old Miss Skinner, who
had already had two nervous break
downs, kept coming back for more?
The jdiilosopher would say that
it’s probably because she felt a
deep sense of duty and that she
w'as responding to a “calling.” The
Utilitarian w'ould point out that she
probably didn’t rvaut to go hungry
and needed money for her psy
chiatrist. 1, being a mildly “gung
ho” college student, maintain that
it’s probably because children are
the most interesting people in the
world. Turn your newspaper to
the comic section, take a look at
“J’etiuuts”, and you’ll see why; or,
if you (hui’t hai)pen to have a
paper handy, all you have to do is
talk to some of that illustrious
Rroup known as “Student Teach
ers.”
You can find them banging on
the refectory door at 7:00 a.m. in
order to sustain themselves through
the day, or hobbling back to cam
pus after standing in heels for
hours, after such a day as Mary
Jo Wynne had last week.
Mary Jo is teaching two senior
ifuglish classes, spelling and journ
alism, putting out the school news
paper. The other day she was ex
plaining the rules of making words
plural, dropping e’s, adding a’s^ and
so forth, using as examples pre
paration”, (drop e, add ation),
“sensible” (drop e, add i) and
everything was going along beauti
fully until someone brought up the
word chtiugeable; what to say?
Ifspecially with Mr. Bray observ
ing. Mary Jo took the easy way
out by explaining it as an excep
tion. Did you ever realize that
“exception” is probably the most
valuable word in a teacher’s vo
cabulary ?
Mary f.ois James is teaching the
third grade and told me that the
other day one of her little boys
brought two apples, one for her
and one for “that other womanT
Who was the other w'omaii? His
real teacher! Shirley Hardy seems
to be the original one in the crowd.
She is teaching 9th grade home
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to have a discussion on good taste
in dress. We all remember what
a teacher had to go through to
get a class to talk in the 9th grade,
’that is when they were supposed
to, so Shirley decided she’d shock
them into it. She put on the most
outrageous costume she could find,
plaid shirt, figured skirt, heels and
socks, rhinestone earrings, and
globs of make-up and went off to
school as though it was any old
day. When she removed her rain
coat, you can believe she started
them off!
Ruth Bennett is teaching the first
grade at South Park, and she says
she has 35 children and loves every
one of them. Last Monday, Ruth
just couldn’t seem to hold anything
without it’s falling mysteriously to
the floor (understandable on Mon
day morning). After she had drop
ped the lunch money, flash cards
in the reading circle, and her
teacher’s manual, one of the little
Charlie Brown’s aptly named her
*‘Miss Droppsie” for the rest of
the day.
Audrey Kennedy has really
snowed her sixth graders. Here
tre two notes she received last
week from her admirers:
“Dear Miss Kennedy,
We certainly are happy that
you could come with us this
year. We have enjoyed mak
ing our Manners Book. I sure
hope you past that test.
Your truly”
Pier other acjmirer resorted to
poetry to express his sentiments:
“Dear Miss Kennedy,
I think you are a very good
teacher. I think all the class
agrees with me. Here is a little
rhyme,
Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet.
And so are you!
Sincerely yours.
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“All things come to him who
waits^” And I waited—and finally
I’ve come up with an exciting tale
of events “around the campi.”
I was diligently memorizing for
a religioun test when through my
transom drifted the noise: Pop!
Help —■ Lucinda ■—‘ I’m on fire — do
something — help — the fire extin
guisher.”
My first reflex was to grab my
towel, put on my raincoat, turn
on my light and lower my shades
(or is it—turn off my light and
raise my shades)—and run to the
nearest exit. But, I didn’t — I
calmly put my notes down and
lumbered across the hall to aid my
frantic neighbor, ^^udrey Kennedy
—only to be run over by an even
more frantic Lucinda Oliver who
was “Johnny on the spot” with the
extinguisher in hand — generously
plastering the walls of 304 Bitting
with whatever that stuff is “WHAT
puts out fires.”
Meanwhile — Joy Perkins had
alerted the fire department and two
minutes later I found I had a ring
side seat for a “four ring circus”
as Mr. Myers escorted four fire
men in fire helmets and rubber
boots and “the works”-—into Aud
rey’s room.
The entire dorm had congregated
(a motley crew, to say the least)—
flash cameras in hand—to watch
the action and smell the smpke.
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Systematic search for flames,
sparks, etc. and then proceeded to
do a professional job of cleaning
up all that “stuff what puts fires
out”—with sponges, mops, and rags.
A room full of seniors sat around
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was the cutest,” “how nice it was
of them to come,” and an amusing
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us with a hospitable “Thank you
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Speaking of fires—The recent
news on the anti-Semitic move
ments throughout this country are
very alarming. It seems to me that
“we Southerners” should be busy
enough muzzling up prejudices
against the Negros without divid
ing our wrath and vehemence on
the Jew. Now the Americans can
have freedom of choice—the choice
to pick which minority group we’d
rather purge. Will the Indians be
next ? Maybe the Chinese in San
Francisco or the Puerto Ricans in
New York City And this is
America—home of the BRAVE,
land of the FREE I
A bit of patriotic spirit was shown
by a member of our freshman class
(whose name will remain anony
mous to protect the innocent).
Seems that she felt considerable
qualms around 1 :(X) last Saturday
night remembering that she had
neglected her usual duty to take
down the flag. So—out the door
and down to the flag pole went
this duty - bound flag - watcher.”
Down came the flag and—“oops,
I’m not supposed to go out of the
dorm past 12:00 on Saturday night.”
Bless her heart — “beats there a
heart so true . . .”
Another incident took place late
last Friday night. Rachel Facio,
the new foreign student, arrived
“around the square.” Thus far,
the only thing I can see which
distinguishes her as an Italian for
eign student is her accent. Other
wise, Rachel puts most of us
Salemites to shame by looking so
up-to-date and stylish with her
short blond hair, horn-rimmed
glasses, and pleated skirts. Salem
is indeed glad to have you, Rachel.
Has. anyone noted a decided lack
of activity on campus at approxi
mately 1:00 every afternoon?
Salemites flock to TV sets to see
the world turn, better known to
some as “As The World Squirms.”
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