Ernest Seaholm High School - Piper Yearbook (Birmingham, MI)

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' Excuses, Excuses: Some Comic Relief Q: What makes a teacher laugh the loudest? A: The outlandish excuses students give for tardiness and incomplete home- work. When a teacher is feeling slightly down or blue, all that ' s needed to bring a smile to his face is a student with some outrageous excuse as to why the day ' s homework is not in the student ' s possession. From the beginning of time stu- dents have offered as ex- cuses for tardiness and missing homework a wide range of explanations, some of which are more than humorous. But, stu- dents beware. Don ' t think all teachers are naive. They ' ve heard most of these stories from paper-eating dogs to burning houses and just when you think you ' ve pulled it off, the teacher gets the last laugh. When in desperate need of a good excuse there is always the old standby of the dog ate my paper . But nowadays it seems as though students are becoming more inventive in their story-telling. Math teacher Joe Ponczocha said with a chuckle, The best excuse for missing homework came from by C. Lamarche senior Buffy Martin. Evidently, her car, contain- ing her pre-calculus books, was stolen and naturally she couldn ' t turn in her work. I got a big kick out of that one. Junior Wendy Broughton also gave an amusing excuse to her Algebra II teacher, Sam Morgan. After a basketball game at Farmington, 1 rushed to the bus, explained Broughton, and suddenly we were half way home and I realized my Algebra was still in the Farmington gym. Car trouble seems to be a major cause of legitimate excuses. Senior Kristin Fitzpatrick was late to Kathy Young ' s Spanish class because I locked the keys in my car at Burger King and was stranded there. Next time you walk up to a teacher with a prepared excuse as to why your homework is missing, remember that teachers have heard them all. Better yet, why not break the bad habits of being late for class or not having homework completed on time so that you will never be put in that awkward position of weaving a fool-proof tale that may begin, A funny thing happened to me ... Moking up q good ex- cuse rhot c teacher will believe is on art in itself. It takes o very creative or weird mind. - Tom Freydl NOT PICTURED: Ann Angelocci Barbara Angott Marilyn Arner Sue Babb Cheryl Baldrce Jeanette Behm Chrystyna Benford Marie Bond Lee Bostwick Ernest Cooper Arthur Delvero Sally Dikeman Betty Elkins Gail Greene Thomas Hammel Virgil Harris Michael Harvey Rosemary Herman Veda Kennedy Elaine Knapp Steve Larsen Debbie Loupee Sybil Lucken Jo Mason Karl Meade Betty McColl Lois Owen Helen Pappas Linda Petranek Celia Ransom Ron Reid James Schachem Georgiana Scott Charles Skinner James Stephen Penelope Sloner Mildred Swart William Tall Sherman Tarrant James Taylor Tom Weesies Ken Wright Kathy Young James Wallendorf — Principal Ceraldine Walter — Social Studies Gerard Wardach — Social Studies Carol Warner — Secretary Helene Weiss — Special Ed. Carol Wilson — Foreign Language (}Si ' m miK mm Uii ' J — ■ STAFF 139

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ACADEMICS DIVISON 141