Alexandra High School - Old Acquaintance Yearbook (Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada)

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Alexandra High School, June 28, 1947. Dusty River Junction, Arkansas. Dere Maw, Wall, I have finished my first year at school and now that I am ready to graduate I have learned enough to send you this letter. I have done very good because the teachers said that I should not be in high school. I don't really think I am good enough to go to college yet, tho. The first thing I did when I got to the big city fMedicine Hat, that isJ I went and looked up uncle Zeke. Heis in the hotel business. He cleans out the spittoons. Uncle Zeke said that since there were so many teachers at the school I would not be able to take them all an apple, so he gave me some apple seeds and I gave each of them one so they could plant a tree. The subject that I liked best was Social Studies. I find that there has been a war going on with some feller called Addie Hitler. QBy the way, how is our feud with Batfields coming along ?J I wouldn't listen to them when they tried to teach me history, tho. How could they tell me all about Napoleon Boneyparts and Bill Shakedown when they didn't even know the guys. I am also taking Geometry so I will be able to move in the best circles. I take Sikology, which is supposed to tell you what everybody knows ina language that nobody understands. I would like to live in Paris, though. It seems that everybody there is so educated that they can all speak French. But there are' a lot of rules around here. You are not allowed to spit on the floor. They must leak or something. Five days of school make one weak. I don't really mind school, tho. It's just the principal of the thing. If I had my way all of the teachers would be paid so well they would be able to retire right away. We have a system of progressive edification. In it we spend a small part l7!10J of our time playing games and other sports than that there. There is football. This is a type of legal mayhem. As long as football is played on muddy fields it will never be a clean sport, even though they do have scrub teams. There is also tennis. This is mostly a racket. You have to be satisfied with net profits. There are also baseball, table tennis, bowling and an odd game of craps. Every now and then they put on a dance at the school. To look at all the people there you would think that the wall was going to fall down. They are all leaning on it. I am not 87

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