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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Sgt. Bruce Bomier smoked his first marijuana cigarette in 1969, following a "deadly fight" on the Vietnam-Cambodian border as an Army infantry platoon scout.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Shaken, Bomier recalled that a special forces medic gave him the joint.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">"It was relaxing," recalled Bomier. "Interestingly, South Vietnamese soldiers sort of taught Americans how to approach marijuana in ways that were pleasant and safe. They had serious, family-based rules.''</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Including keeping it from children.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Bomier, a Bronze Star and Air Medal recipient, also witnessed alcohol and drug abuse among the troops with whom he served. The science major who joined the Army after graduation in 1968 came home after he was wounded in Cambodia in 1970. He earned a master's degree in public health and epidemiology from the University of Minnesota.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Bomier, now 75, and Dr. Kyle Kingsley, 46, a former Minnesota National Guard medic and emergency room doctor, are two thoughtful cannabis stalwarts I have chronicled over 45 years. Kingsley in 2014 founded Goodness Growth, Minnesota's largest medical cannabis firm.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">"I have a high level of confidence that replacing alcohol or opioids with cannabis is a winning proposition for the individual and society," Kingsley said. "But just swapping one-for-one is not how it works.''</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">They have been guided by public health, research and reality. They are long concerned with substance abuse, of marijuana, alcohol or any other drug. They advocate cannabis as a plant-based drug that can relieve pain and provide therapeutic value if used properly.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">And appropriate use does not include developing teenage brains.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">"The propensity for otherwise healthy humans to alter their brain chemistry with intoxicating substances seems to know no bounds," said Kingsley, who started researching cannabis a decade ago when he determined that most of his emergency room cases connected to alcohol or opioids. "People should have safe access to cannabis, but we need to go into this with eyes wide open. Many advocates do the movement no favors by acting like this is a magical fix. For many, cannabis is not helpful.''</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">After the Army, Bomier worked as a court-appointed advocate for veterans with drug issues in Hennepin County. He helped establish treatment programs. And Bomier was part of a coalition in the late 1970s, along with judges, vets, pharmacists, some law enforcement officials and others who persuaded the Minnesota Legislature to "decriminalize" cannabis.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Instead of landing in jail for a year or longer for possession of up to 1.5 ounces of marijuana, those arrested generally were ticketed and attended a class about responsible use of stimulants. Some were referred for treatment. Interested parents were engaged.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">"Before that, an unshaven kid in a faded army jacket or at an anti-war rally … or just walking into Dayton's was likely to get searched and arrested, if the police found marijuana," Bomier recalled. "And a kid found with a joint could never become an attorney or join a plumber's union'' because of the related criminal record.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Bomier went on to start an environmental engineering company and serve for more than a decade on the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board. He worked successfully in the 1980s and 1990s with the late Eddie Phillips, of family-owned Phillips Distilling Co., to warn women not to drink while pregnant.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Bomier, who doesn't use cannabis, is still involved in public health.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">He sold his 60-employee enviro-engineering firm, Institute for Environmental Assessment, in 2009 in a 10-year buyout by his hand-picked successor.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Bomier invested some of his proceeds into a nonprofit, Environmental Resource Council, a research and publication outfit that covers subjects from keeping schools safe during COVID-19 to Bomier-authored "Marijuana and the Responsible Parent."</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">"I wrote the first edition of 'Marijuana and Responsible Parent' in the late 1980s," said Bomier of a book lauded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "It's now in its 12th printing. The biggest change over the years is that we initially had to explain what marijuana was to parents. Now, it's more persuading parents to share knowledgeable life guidance to best protect their children.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">The nonprofit also is supported by businesses and foundations.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">"I'm a retired CEO ... but still working in public health," Bomier said. "And marijuana is still part of my professional story."</p>
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2022-07-11T11:05:14-04:00Bruce Bomier- Longtime Advocate for Medical Use of Cannabis"Why Minnesota"<p> </p>
<p>With Minnesota in the news recently, I've had more than one friend say things like "Sorry about what's going on in your home state!" And in a zoom gathering with my siblings and their families, my oldest brother asked <strong><em>"Why Minnesota?!"</em></strong> He has kept a correspondence and friendship with Richard Murray (a Swedish AFS student at Edina in 1958-59) and Richard had asked the same question. </p>
<p>My sister Margit is the only one of us who stayed on in MInnesota...going to Carleton and then settling in Northfield. She said there is so much she has learned that we didn't have an inkling about while were grewing up. This is a copy of the letter she sent to Cary, Richard and all of us in the family. Perhaps members of our class may be interested in reading her views. </p>
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<p><em>Good question, “Why Minnesota?” The New York Times titled one of their probes “The Minnesota Paradox.” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/minneapolis-racism-minnesota.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/minneapolis-racism-minnesota.html</a> There are numerous articles about the persistent disparities between white Minnesotans and those of color – health care, education, incarceration, housing, employment, etc.; <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/06/02/npr-minneapolis-ranks-near-the-bottom-for-racial-equality?utm_campaign=MPR+News+-+AM+Edition_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc_&utm_content" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/06/02/npr-minneapolis-ranks-near-the-bottom-for-racial-equality?utm_campaign=MPR+News+-+AM+Edition_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc_&utm_content</a>= </em></p>
<p><em>I will try to answer the “why here?” from my limited perspective. Like you, I grew up in an ostensibly liberal family. I was always proud of the fact that Bessie worked to integrate the YWCA swimming pools in the Twin Cities, and Clarence served on civic boards that promoted racial integration.</em></p>
<p><em>But we grew up in a suburb that we learned later had racial covenants, starting in the 1920’s. Mapping Prejudice (<a href="https://www.mappingprejudice.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.mappingprejudice.org</a>) is a project based at the UMN. “Our efforts in Minneapolis are made especially urgent by the city's contemporary racial disparities, which are <a href="https://metrocouncil.org/getdoc/03bd679d-21a4-455b-af7a-15309b0c71ae/Diving-Deeper-Understanding-Disparities-Between-B.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer">some of the largest in the nation</a>. Our initial research shows that covenants created demographic patterns that remain in place in Minneapolis today. Residential segregation reinforces other disparities in employment, education and health care. Most notable is the gap in homeownership rates. While 78 percent of white families own homes in the Twin Cities, only 25 percent of African-American families have title to their dwelling.” Maps found on their website show the progression of redlining in Minneapolis.</em></p>
<p><em>Several sources describe Edina’s early history, one that I didn’t learn about until long after I moved away. Sure, we knew about the early farming community, the mill, the Grange, etc. But a 2013 Star Tribune article (<a href="https://www.startribune.com/edina-s-historical-mystery-black-flight/184985461/" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.startribune.com/edina-s-historical-mystery-black-flight/184985461/</a> ) tells of B.J. Yancey, a black farmer and village council member, and his wife who founded the first school PTA in Edina. They and about 16 other black families came to Edina after the Civil War at the beginning of the Great Migration.</em></p>
<p><em>In her book Chapters in the City History, Edina, local author Deborah Morse-Kahn links the “shrinking black population to the 1920s development of the Country Club area, where blacks and Jews could not buy homes. Second-generation black residents moved to farms northwest of Lake Minnetonka in Maple Plain and Independence township. Some early black settlers as well as their children also moved to Canada, continuing north to join friends or family who had settled there via Underground Railroad connections.”</em></p>
<p><em>In the 1920’s the KKK made an appearance in Minnesota and elsewhere. There were 51 chapters and 30,000 members statewide, participating to various degrees in marches, picnics, KKK weddings, etc. NYU history prof Linda Gordon spoke about this period in Minnesota’s history; <a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/01/03/linda-gordon-on-the-second-coming-of-the-kkk" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/01/03/linda-gordon-on-the-second-coming-of-the-kkk</a></em></p>
<p><em>Developing a rationale for the construction of the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial in Duluth to memorialize the 3 black men lynched there in 1920, Elizabeth Dorsey Hatle, a Mpls history teacher, wrote, "I was given the Duluth Klan membership list with the members in 1925-26" -- names that included a county commissioner, two School Board members and paradoxically, police Sgt. Oscar Olson, regarded as the heroic ‘last officer to give up’ in the futile attempt to hold off the mob in the 1920 triple lynching… The majority of the men who joined the Klan in the 1920s were trying to preserve the values of an older, simpler, less urban nation that had already all but vanished;" <a href="https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/2454381-kkk-minnesota-yes-it-happened-here-book-documents" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/2454381-kkk-minnesota-yes-it-happened-here-book-documents</a></em></p>
<p><em>Do you recall any conversations among the Chaneys or the elder Carsons about the KKK in the 1920’s or lynchings in Duluth? I don’t, and it certainly wasn’t included in our Minnesota history books in the 1950’s and 60’s..</em></p>
<p><em>I’ve learned more from a Wikipedia article (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edina,_Minnesota#Early_development" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edina,_Minnesota#Early_development</a>) than I knew in the first 17 years living in Edina.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>“Early development</strong></em></p>
<p><em> In the early 20th century suburban development brought discriminatory policies that led to nearly all of the African Americans who had been living in Edina to move away. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Loewen" rel="noopener noreferrer">James W. Loewen</a> described the suburb as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town" rel="noopener noreferrer">sundown town</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edina,_Minnesota#cite_note-Loewen2005-19" rel="noopener noreferrer"><sup>[19]</sup></a> Researchers point in particular to Samuel Thorpe's development of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Club_Historic_District_(Edina,_Minnesota)" rel="noopener noreferrer">Country Club Historic District</a>, which used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenant_(law)#Exclusionary_covenants" rel="noopener noreferrer">deed restrictions</a> as means to exclude non-whites, stating explicitly that: </em></p>
<p><em>No lot shall ever be sold, conveyed, leased, or rented to any person other than one of the white or Caucasian race, nor shall any lot ever be used or occupied by any person other than one of the white or Caucasian race, except such as may be serving as domestics for the owner or tenant of said lot, while said owner or tenant is residing thereon. </em></p>
<p><em> Other developments, like that built by N. P. Dodge Corporation just a mile away, followed suit in attempting to protect land values through racial policies.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edina,_Minnesota#cite_note-abouttown-23" rel="noopener noreferrer"><sup>[23]</sup></a> Though the Supreme Court ruled these kinds of discriminatory housing clauses unenforceable in its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kraemer" rel="noopener noreferrer">Shelley v. Kraemer</a> decision of 1948, reports of discrimination persisted through the 1950s and 1960s.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edina,_Minnesota#cite_note-morsekahn-15" rel="noopener noreferrer"><sup>[15]</sup></a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edina,_Minnesota#cite_note-pagefromthepast-18" rel="noopener noreferrer"><sup>[18]</sup></a> According to the Edina Historical Society's story about the first black family in Morningside (then a separate village) in 1960, attempts to keep them out included tactics like trying "to get [their] lot condemned for drainage."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edina,_Minnesota#cite_note-pagefromthepast-18" rel="noopener noreferrer"><sup>[18]</sup></a> In response, then-mayor Ken Joyce wrote a note dismissing the drainage concern and challenging citizens "to live the Golden Rule". Shortly thereafter the village voted in favor of inclusion.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edina,_Minnesota#cite_note-pagefromthepast-18" rel="noopener noreferrer"><sup>[18]</sup></a></em></p>
<p><em> Jewish residents were also affected by exclusionary deed covenants. In the 1960s, some residents boasted that Edina had "Not one Negro and not one Jew.” </em></p>
<p><em>I don’t remember hearing boasts of “Not one Negro and not one Jew.” But I do remember that I-35W began its inexorable march through south Minneapolis in the 1960’s with completion in 1969. My flute teacher lived in that area. When it was decided to clear the width of two city blocks from downtown Mpls to the Minnesota River, my teacher Mary Wilson and her quiet husband Bert relocated to Buffalo MN. My flute lessons continued in a rented church room near Lake of the Isles.</em></p>
<p><em>That highway project gutted the neighborhoods east of Lake Harriet. This account comes from the Phillips Neighborhood Network (<a href="http://www.pnn.org/History/Stories/35W.htm" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.pnn.org/History/Stories/35W.htm</a>).</em></p>
<div style="margin-left:6.65pt;"><em>"Thirty-five W went through a Mexican and Black area to the north of Lake Street," says Beverly Larkin who lived at 2431 Fourth Av. during the time the freeways were built. "The neighborhood was blue collar mixed," she explained. "Some people from the South, lots of Mexicans. My mother came here from the South. She came for work and a better life…"The freeway did a number on my childhood space. It barreled right through the middle of a minority neighborhood. I watched the houses go down one by one. There were caterpillars that started waking us up in the morning. They went up and down, up and down, till they hewed out a ravine. Before that it was flat across to St. Stephens," Larkin adds. "The freeway creates barriers; the barriers become very real. Even though it was only two blocks for miles, it displaces [people and their way of life]," Judith Martin pointed out.</em></div>
<p><em>The same story can be told about the Rondo neighborhood in St. Paul. Rondo was a large black community west of the state capitol building. This description is from Mnopedia (<a href="https://www.mnopedia.org/place/rondo-neighborhood-st-paul" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.mnopedia.org/place/rondo-neighborhood-st-paul</a>):</em></p>
<p><em> “Beginning in the 1910s and 1920s, Rondo experienced a social and cultural boom. Music and theater flourished. African American newspapers such as the <a href="https://www.mnopedia.org/thing/western-appeal" rel="noopener noreferrer">Appeal</a>, the Northwestern Bulletin, and the St. Paul Recorder represented Rondo’s interests and needs. In 1913, <a href="https://www.mnopedia.org/group/origins-naacp-minnesota-1912-1920" rel="noopener noreferrer">St. Paul established its chapter of the NAACP</a>, making it a center for civil rights activity. One member of the chapter, Rondo resident <a href="https://www.mnopedia.org/person/wilkins-roy-1901-1981" rel="noopener noreferrer">Roy Wilkins</a>, later led the national NAACP. </em></p>
<p><em> As Rondo’s Jews advanced economically in the first decades of the twentieth century, they moved to new areas. This left behind affordable housing for African Americans. By the 1930s, half of St. Paul’s black population lived in Rondo. Even during the Jim Crow era, blacks and whites mixed relatively freely; interracial dating and even marriage sometimes took place.”</em></p>
<p><em>I-94 that links Mpls with St. Paul was constructed between 1956 and 1968. I remember clearly that the few times we drove to St. Paul where Uncle Ted and his family lived, the drive took almost an hour. Now it takes 15 minutes to make the same trip. But at a great cost to the Rondo community. Local public television has interviewed numerous well-known black leaders who grew up in Rondo and describe how the freeway cut their community in half, never to fully recover.</em></p>
<p><em>Not surprisingly, the race riots of the mid 60’s caught up with Minneapolis in July 1967. North Minneapolis, which had been a strong Jewish business community (apparently known as the ‘gilded ghetto’), had evolved to become home to many of the displaced blacks from Rondo and south Mpls. I was working a summer job and living at home that summer. Like now when I find myself in the quiet safety of Northfield, 40 miles south of Lake Street, I was 10 miles west of Plymouth Avenue in North Mpls and only read about the riots in the paper. But the riots bear a striking resemblance to Mpls today.</em></p>
<p><em>From MPR (<a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/07/19/minneapolis-plymouth-avenue-riots-anniversary" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/07/19/minneapolis-plymouth-avenue-riots-anniversary</a>) “Young African-Americans, fed up with a system they saw as racist, started to destroy shops on the north side. Many of those businesses were owned by Jews who had once lived in the near north side but moved elsewhere after the loosening of anti-Semitic housing practices.” The sad reality is that the businesses along Plymouth Avenue in North Mpls have yet to fully recover from the destruction in 1967.</em></p>
<p><em>So “why Minnesota?” From my perspective I think that the loss of generational wealth in the form of stable housing over time and family resources, the re-segregation of schools (after busing failed, and magnet schools floundered), job discrimination, poor health care, and the notorious schools-to-prison route (black kids get suspended at much higher rates, which often leads to incarceration later) all contribute to the deep disparities that plague our state.</em></p>
<p><em>A podcast of the “system that protects the police” (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/podcasts/the-daily/george-floyd-protests.html?searchResultPosition=1&showTranscript=1" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/podcasts/the-daily/george-floyd-protests.html?searchResultPosition=1&showTranscript=1</a>) on the NYTimes The Daily on June 2 spells out how the Mpls police department is a textbook case of police dysfunction and how difficult change will be.</em></p>
<p><em>More than perhaps you wanted to know. ~ Margit</em></p>
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2020-06-09T19:07:04-04:00"Why Minnesota"RE: number in our class, '64<p>Diane, </p>
<p>I thought I heard there were 570. But I added the number of classmates who joined our website plus the number who haven’t (506) and then added the deceased (72) and got 578 total. </p>
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2019-06-27T18:13:23-04:00number in our class, '64number in our class, '64<p>If you know the number of people who made up our class, '64, please email me or leave a message in my profile as to how many. Thanks. Diane</p>
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2019-06-27T17:07:24-04:00number in our class, '64RE: Return to Vietnam<p>Bruce beautifully done! I recently had two Vietnam remembrances (While I am retired Army Major with 23 years of enlisted and officer service, primarily in the AR, and went in '66, I did not serve in Vietnam--thank you for your service there).</p>
<p>Just that last February I spoke to the UofM Alumni Assn and made a Webinar video for them on career guidance I gleaned from very successful folks over the years, I remembered driving to class from Edina, getting out by 11, avoiding the sometimes burning barricades set on fire by protesters, heading to my full time job at the Guthrie only to don an Army uniform on Wednesday nights and one weekend a month all during those tumultuous times. </p>
<p>This spring I sought a new US Army Retired hat at a local vendor fair in my little AZ mountain town. Guess where it was made? Vietnam. What irony. </p>
<p>In recent travels through China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore, I experienced some of the same warmth (yes even in China) for Americans. I hope as a nation we can once again earn that respect through our actions through sane international relations.</p>
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2019-05-23T22:44:05-04:00-1'RE: Return to Vietnam<p>Bruce--Thanks for sharing your experiences about Vietnam with the rest of our classmates. I was stationed in III corps from January '67 thru February '68 and remember that the country was very beautiful and the Vietnamese people were industrious and resourceful. Lynne and I are planning a trip to Washington D.C. on Veterans Day in November for a recognition of the 35th anniversary of "THE WALL". Then next spring we plan to return to Vietnam (50th wedding anniversary trip). Thank you for telling us what to expect. Tentatively, we are also planning a visit to Minnesota next fall. Perhaps we could get together then. You and all classmates are always welcome to viisit us in Eugene,Oregon.</p>
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2017-08-18T14:28:40-04:00-1'Return to Vietnam<p>Welcome home. I also served from 1967 to 1969. I further met the Navy commander of the task force that contained the ships one normally sees during documentary programs about the war...you know where all the helicopters are being dumped overboard!!! This rear admiral and his staff came to South Korea while I was stationed there in 1974 so I had the pleasure of speaking with him at dinner one evening and discussed the retrograde operations of his task force which was highly informative.</p>
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2017-02-01T23:58:23-04:00-1'RE: Return to Vietnam<p>Bruce:</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Thank you so much for entrusting me with your thought-provoking article. I hope it elicits some equally thoughtful responses from our classmates.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">All of us who came of age at this fraught time in our nation’s history — whatever our individual experiences or political leanings may have been — were touched by that terrible war. I was reminded of that when I attended a program recently at the Roseville (Minn.) Public Library — one of the most moving experiences I’ve had on the painful subject of Vietnam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The program began with readings from “The Things They Carried” by award-winning author Tim O’Brien, a Minnesota native and Vietnam veteran. In his unforgettable book he recounts how his characters struggle to find peace in their post-war lives. “A true war story is never about war,” he writes. “It’s about sunlight…. It’s about love and memory. It’s about sorrow.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Also on the program that evening was a panel of four Vietnam War veterans who represented a variety of perspectives — different branches of the service, varied wartime roles (flyer, “grunt,” company leader) and different attitudes, then and now, about their service. With each excerpt read from the book, the moderator asked a related question of the panel: Were you drafted or did you enlist, and why? What kind of talisman did you carry with you in the field? Did you ever think of deserting? How were you treated upon your return?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">One of the men, who had been back to Vietnam numerous times since the war, often participated in such panel discussions about his experiences. Another of the Vets had never before spoken publicly about his experiences in the war; he was clearly struggling to open up for the first time. Still another panelist couldn’t stop crying as he listened to the others speak.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">The audience, also representing a variety of perspectives and political persuasions, was spellbound, entirely supportive and grateful for the men’s courage in sharing something so profound and personal. Several audience members — one a nurse in Vietnam, one a war protester — shared their own stories.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">No matter where we were in our lives at that time, probably every one of us knew someone who served in the military and others who chose different paths. Now, with a distance of nearly 50 years between us and the indelible images of that terrible war, it is perhaps easier for each of us to see things more clearly and to listen to one other’s stories with compassion.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Mary Ann</span></p>
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2016-08-03T15:27:56-04:00-1'Return to Vietnam<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><img alt="" src="/000/4/4/8/25844/userfiles/image/Bruce_Claudia_-_Hanoi_temple(1).jpg" /><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-size:14px;">Bruce and Claudia Bomier at an ancient temple near Hanoi</span></em></span></p>
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<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Classmates,</span></span></p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">At one of our informal get-togethers</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">, I mentioned to Ginny </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Herzog </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">that I had just returned from a visit to Vietnam, where I served during the war, and </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">was</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> pleasantly surprised </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">by</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> what I found. </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Upon my return</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> to the States</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">I </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">shared those discoveries in </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">a memo to the men of my old Army unit, </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">recounting</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> what I had seen and felt during my visit. </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Because m</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">embers of our unit </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">had </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">remained close through the years, supporting each other over rough patches as we </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">had done </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">during the war</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">, I knew that b</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">oth the</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">ir</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">wartime<br />
experiences </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">and </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">their </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">homecoming </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">had been </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">challenging. Many other vets experienced the same treatment. Our classmate Bruce Baldwin was literally spit upon when he returned home in uniform.</span></span></p>
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<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Whether or not </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">you</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> served overseas, </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">t</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">he Vietnam experience</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">likely was significant </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">for </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">most of </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">you in y</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">our post-graduation lives.</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Ginny asked if I would write something </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">for our class website about</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">my</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> experience. It was hard to say no to her request so</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> with truly professional editorial support from Mary Ann Nor</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">d</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">, I submit the following impressions, which I hope will be of interest and perhaps of value</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> to you.</span></span></p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"> </p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">These are the three main changes I observed during my return visit to Vietnam:</span></span></p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"> </p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">First, the Vietnam of 2016 is simply not anywhere close to the place most of us remember from the war years. Only a few, mostly elderly Vietnamese remember the "American War," as they call it, and many of them actually fought alongside Americans. The feelings, sorrows and emotions of war have been replaced by something quite different and, at least to me, inspiring </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">— </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">the hopes of the common Vietnamese people for a better future, based in part on a positive</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">, healthy bond with the United States.</span></span></p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"> </p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">As South Vietnam fell to the Communists in the 1970s</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">, America evacuated as many allied South Vietnamese citizens as possible. We d</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">umped</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of helicopters and war materiel into the ocean to make room in planes and ships for thousands </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">of Vietnamese </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">to </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">emigrate to the United States. That humane decision turns out to have been a great investment.</span></span></p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"> </p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">For the most part, these Vietnamese emigres have been hugely successful, starting businesses, </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">provid</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">ing</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> financial support to famil</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">ies left behind</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">and </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">returning to share positive insights about the United States. Many Americans, too, including American veterans, are working to support Vietnamese charities and private </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">aid</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">organizations. Principal among the people </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">most </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">admire</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">d by the Vietnamese</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> is Sen. John McCain</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">. </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">During my travels </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">I visited a </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">site</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> that pays tribute to </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">McCain for his many return trips to the country and for his </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">"grace, bravery, and forgiveness." </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Both he and</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> Secretary of State John Kerry ha</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">ve</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> spent considerable time there</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> offer</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">ing</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">personal </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">and national support for the evolving </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Vietnamese society.</span></span></p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"> </p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Second, the Vietnamese have come to respect and admire much about America. M</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">ost </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">of them</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> don't pay attention to the still</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">-</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">present anti-American propaganda. After I </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">spent</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">time </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">with them</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">,</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> perhaps sharing some rice wine, they c</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">hose their words carefully to </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">express disappointment in the Communist bureaucracy. I g</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">ot the impression that they envy nations with free and transparent elections of leaders.</span></span></p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"> </p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">As for jobs and educational opportunities, there are </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">factories </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">going up everywhere </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">to manufacture goods for </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">–</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">based </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">companies </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">(check out clothing sources at Target)</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">. T</span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">he ultimate job for many is to work at one of several Apple assembly plants.</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Russian and French languages are no longer taught in Vietnamese schools</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">. Today</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> every student must learn English, </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">called, "American English." Whe</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">n I rode a bike around a small town near Hue, dozens of children ran up to me, trying to practice their English.</span></span></p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"> </p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Vietnamese people also love </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">American</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> food, including McDonald's, Starbucks and the ubiquitous KFC, which they call "old man chicken." They watch our movies and are especially taken with all things Disney. When I saw elementary school children walking or riding bikes to school, a high percentage </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">sported</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">decals </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">from the Disney movie</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> “</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Frozen</span><span class="s5" style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;">” </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">on their backpacks. In bars, when "The Simpsons" comes on TV, I'm told the patrons cheer Bart and hiss at Mr. Burns.</span></span></p>
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<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><img alt="" src="/000/4/4/8/25844/userfiles/image/Mountains_we_served_in_(1).jpg" /><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>The mountains we served in</i></span></span></p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"> </p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Third, the Vietnamese people see us as part of their future security. They understand the tough war we conducted under difficult circumstances and respect </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">the quality of our weapons and military, including, of course, the B-52s. Th</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">reats from </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">China and especially North Korea</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> are a cause for great concern.</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Vietnamese authorities </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">are currently negotiating with the Obama Administration to allow our Seventh Fleet to reoccupy Cam </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Ranh</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;"> Bay. Shortly after I left, Pres</span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">ident Obama visited Vietnam and signed an agreement to provide weapons to their military.</span></span></p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"> </p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">It is strange to comprehend, but it seems the Vietnamese want us as allies and, more significantly, as friends.</span></span></p>
<p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"> </p>
<p class="s6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; line-height: 1.2; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 18px;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">As I mellow into my 70s, I'm better able to see the war from a much less tragic perspective. I wanted to share what I discovered not only </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">with those with whom I served, but also, as Ginny suggested, with </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">our </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">Class of </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: Arial;">1964.</span></span></p>
<p class="s6" style="font-style: italic;"><img alt="" src="/000/4/4/8/25844/userfiles/image/Vietnam_War(1).jpg" /><br />
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><em> Bruce used a trained dog to help scout a hostile area near the Saigon River.</em></span></span></p>
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<em style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6em;"><img alt="" src="/000/4/4/8/25844/userfiles/image/VN_War2(2).jpg" /></em></h2>
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2016-08-03T10:38:28-04:00-1'RE: Our Teachers - inspiration, funny stories, memorable moments<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Scanlan - Latin</b></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);" />
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Posted Thursday, August 21, 2014 04:24 PM from </span><a style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">76.17.147.67</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"> </span></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><img src="http://www.edina64.com/000/4/4/8/25844/userfiles/image/Scanlan_-_Latin(w).jpg" /></span></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"> </span></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337793" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Jean L. MacIntosh Mankamyer</u></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">There's been some discussion among we former Latin students of Mr. Scanlan and the impact he made on our lives as we reminisce about our school years, so I thought I would take the liberty of letting people know there is a Latin Prize Scholarship award that has been established in his name. A gift of $500 is given annually to a deserving Edina Latin student. If anyone would like to contribute to this fund, you can do so by following this link:<font color="#388222"><a href="http://www.edinaedfund.com/scanlan_flyer_2013.pdf" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;">www.<strong>edina</strong>edfund.com/scanlan_flyer_2013.pdf</a></font></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><font color="#388222">Also, you might be interested to know that People Magazine ran an article on him in 1978, after he left Edina for the University of Illinois. You should be able to access that article by googling his name, Richard T. Scalan 1978. Or, cut and paste this link in your browser:</font><a href="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20072284,00.html" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;">www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20072284,00.html</a><font color="#388222"> </font></span></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337563" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Betsy J. Cook Hoekstra</u></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Thanks for posting about Mr Scanlon, the best teacher Ever! He inspired me as a teacher. He made learning fun! I still know my declensions! He inspired a lifelong desire to visit the Roman forum, the Collesium and walk on the Appian Way and I did! Thanks Mr. Scanlon!</span></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337793" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Jean L. MacIntosh Mankamyer</u></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">You're welcome, Betsy. He really did have a positive impact on us, didn't he? Great teachers affect our lives as well as teach us the subject matter. Amo, amas, amat...</span></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337999" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Kea van der Ziel</u></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Thanks for the wonderful remembrances of Mr Scanlan. He and Mr Erickson were some of the best teachers I ever had. I am always grateful that I took all 5 years of Latin. Some of my best memories were from those classes and Latin Club. The annual soccer tournament was one of the highlights for me. Sports in high school for girls was limited in those days. We had GAA and our language clubs. I googled "Richard Scanlan Illinois" and found his obit in a local paper. You can find it at <em>www.news-gazette.com › </em><a href="http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><em>Opinion</em></a><em> › </em><em>Editorials</em>. There are 2 entries, both in June 2009, the month he died at 81 years old. I am so happy that we have a fund in his name.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">There were other great teachers during our high school years, including the chem teacher whose name escapes me now. Because of him I majored in chemistry in college and almost went to grad school in chem. Instead I went to med school. Our English teacher was great as well. There were many others. We were very lucky to have such a talented group of teachers. They certainly enriched my life</span></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337793" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Jean L. MacIntosh Mankamyer</u></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Hi Kea!</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Thanks for your link to Mr.Scanlan's obit. If you took Latin for 5 years you must have attained goddess status...cool!</span></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337476" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Michael H. Anderson</u></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">It was great learning about Mr. Scanlan's post-Edina accomplishments as a classics professor at the University of Illinois. I have fond memories of being a student in Mr. Scanlan's first hour Latin class and in the famously fun Latin Club. Think it was tenth grade and about 1962. He was a wonderful teacher who made learning -- even of a "dead subject" like Latin -- fun and interesting. Amo, amas, amat, . . . . indeed!</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">But what was great about Edina High was that there were many superb teachers. The school seemed to hire only the best teachers who could sustain the school's reputation for excellence. Who could forget Ray Bechtle and his English classes; or John Matlon and his AP American history course, which taught me how to analyze and how to write essay exams; or John Sheldon, who advised both the student newspaper Buzzette and the yearbook Whigreen (spelling?) staffs; Miss Bartholet and her wonderful extra-curricular World Affairs Club efforts; or Robert McCarthy, who taught a half-year economics course and advised the Student Council; or Hornet coaching great Willard Ikola; or Ray Smythe, who taught ninth grade government; or principal Rollie Ring? I could go on and on.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"> I wonder if any of these inspiring individuals are still living in the Twin Cities area. If so, they should be invited to the reunion as special guests.</span></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337995" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Margie S. Tudor Thompson</u></a></span></p>
<p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">I agree with you regarding our wonderful latin teacher, Mr Scanlon. I remember more about my latin classes than any other class I took. But another favorite was English and speech teacher, Mr. Stotts. He really inspired me and created lots of interest. I was in his speech class at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. I also remember and appreciated Ms Bartholet and Mr. Weisner, world history and economics teachers. So many great teachers!! We were really fortunate! So many wonderful memories.</span></p>
<p class="p3"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337854" style="outline: 0px; color: blue;"><b>Mark D. Nordell</b></a></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In Response to the Latin stuff, Marilyn How many times I have relished to tell the Latin Class story about having to wear the stupid yellow glove on my head for what seemed like forever, because I made a stupid mistake in class. Others are often horrified by such "abuse" when I get to tell the tale. I get to laugh every time. I love it! I can recall watching Brian G. We lived "catty conner" to each other, out practicing his splendid shot after dark while I tried to figure out Latin assignments. The Latin memorized still sticks with me; "Arma Virumque..." something or other....from the Aeneid. Even though Mr. Scanlan was somewhat imperious, his significance on this pretty lost young buck was deep. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="p5"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337793" style="outline: 0px; color: blue; line-height: 1.6em;"><b>Jean L. MacIntosh</b></a></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mark, I think you may have been in my Latin class...I remember the baseball mitt. ;) Unless someone is privileged to have had a teacher like Scanlan, it's impossible for them to understand how he made you want to measure up to his standards. The schtick was all part of the entertainment that kept us engaged while he taught us discipline, the Latin language, Roman history and culture. He was my favorite among many truly great teachers I had. Although, I must admit I didn't exactly love writing "Nimium gummum amo" 100x for chewing gum in class. That happened several times...you'da thought I would have learned that lesson the first time. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6551992" style="outline: 0px; color: blue; line-height: 1.6em;"><b>Marilyn Dawson-McCarthy</b></a><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.6em;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh my gosh, it is incredible to hear you all talk about Scanlan. One of the best teachers in my whole life. I hadn't thought "imperious," but you are right, he had that quality, which was part of his "schtick," as you say. Do you all remember how he would start the class with the 45 record of some soundtrack from "The Stripper?" I love the "Nimium gummum amo" story. I remember we all had Latin names which he assigned us. One fellow was "Hunc," (one of the larger guys), for some reason I didn't understand, he named me "Piu." I remember so well his drilling, "...dum conderet Urbem..." (in order to found a city [Rome]). I just checked out Mr. Scanlan on Google, and found that he died in 2009. I guess Edina HS and the University of Illinois have scholarships and awards in his name. Maybe you all know this already. I am sad.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="p6"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337793" style="outline: 0px; color: blue;"><b>Jean L. MacIntosh</b></a><span class="s1"> </span></span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="postbody" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, Marilyn, I remember The Stripper being played...I also remember him lowering a speaker outside Zsendry's German class and blasting the Spike Jones' satirical song, "Heil Hitler" , which echoed loudly in the courtyard, just to annoy the German class. I also remember taking the chariot a student had made, when we collected "taxes" from the first year students.You never knew what adventure awaited in Scanlan's class. My brother and his friends ( class of '68) , who called themselves The Edina Breakfast Club because they had breakfast at Perkins every Friday, were the ones who established the scholarship in Mr. Scanlan's name at Edina. They get together once a year and before he died, they visited Mr. Scanlan in IL to let him know how much he influenced their lives. It was a sweet moment. You may not have graduated with us, but if you lived in Edina and went to school in Edina, you're part of the club.</span></span></span></p>
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2016-07-29T13:50:18-04:00Our Teachers - inspiration, funny stories, memorable momentsOur Teachers - inspiration, funny stories, memorable moments<p><strong><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Larry Stotts - English and Speech</span></span></strong></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Believe it or not, one of my favorites was Mr. Stotts. Anybody recall him?</span></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6335839" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Ginny Bayers Herzog</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.5px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Yes, Jeff, loved Stotts and his English class! He made Greek Mythology so cool!</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337597" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Richard (Ike) Eichhorn</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.5px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">I had Stotts for speech class. It was one of my most memorable high school classes. It was also where we watched the unfolding Kennedy asassination that terrible afternoon. Who could ever forget?</p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.5px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Mr. (Larry) Stotts would probably appreciate a quick note from his fans. He lives in Edina next door to my parents old house. He was a great neighbor to my parents.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.5px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">4205 W. 42nd St., Edina 55416</p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.5px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Thanks Jim. I knew that Stotts lived on 42nd but was unsure of the exact address. Hope to reconnect with him.</p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.5px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">I was fortunate to have Larry Stotts as my English teacher. I considered him the best teacher I ever had, and was lucky enough one day to be able to tell that to him personally. I was about to turn onto Hwy 100, back when it was a 4 lane road, and I noticed him walking to school on the gravel shoulder. I pulled over to the side of the road, and greeted him. We talked briefly, and just before parting I thanked him for being the best teacher I had at Edina, as-well-as all my college instructors. I believe what made Larry Stotts so good was his passion for the job, his love for his students, and his willingness to give 110% of himself to whatever task he took on. He connected with his students in such a way that they knew he would do whatever it took to make them better.</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337857" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Carol L. Oberg Speliopoulos</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.5px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><span style="font-family: "comic sans ms", cursive;">I, too, had Mr. Stotts and thought he was a once-in-a-lifetime teacher....and my favorite! He was tough, fair, funny...really excellent! I still have the image of him sitting on a front desk..."talking" to us was his style, rather than lecturing from the front. He "pushed" us to be our best, AND...he actually taught the mechanics and structure of the language, which I'm not sure they do as much these days. Computers have generally taken over the written language aspect...but not the spoken language!</span></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.5px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">I always thought Mr Stotts was one of the best teachers at Edina; didn't realize how many other classmates felt the same. I hope he hears how much he meant to us.</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337642" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Douglas Grabham</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.5px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Had three disjointed thoughts reading some of the comments since signing on...:</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.5px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">1. I fully agree on the passion and impact of Larry Stotts...he is the reason I majored in English. Anyone remember the play he directed our senior year? Big production of "Cyranno" The memory I carry: he pulled people together from different groups to break down walls and build a wider community.</p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.5px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">I'm happy to hear Mr. Stotts is doing well. I thought I remembered he had some medical difficulties around the time we graduated? Hope I'm wrong. It's been good to read everyone's memories about the faculty. A few of my favorites were Mr. McCarthy who made sense of the world of economics, Mr. Green who treated geometry like a puzzle, and Mrs. Kaufman who made us use root words, prefixes and suffixes in defining and spelling words. Still use that! We really were fortunate to have had so many great role models for teachers. It would be interesting to be able to compare their salaries to the corporate world of the time! See you all next month and thanks again to the reunion committee!<br />
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 19.5px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Mr Stotts has done some summer time work out at the Braemar Golf Course over the past several years. Seems like he had not changed a lick from when I had him for speech class - and he does remember the class of 64. He and his wife spend their winters in Texas - not sure when they leave for there. He still has his great sense of humor!</p>
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2016-07-29T13:45:19-04:00Our Teachers - inspiration, funny stories, memorable momentsOur Teachers - inspiration, funny stories, memorable moments<p> </p>
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2016-07-29T13:23:22-04:00Our Teachers - inspiration, funny stories, memorable momentsStotts - English and Speech<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img alt="" src="/000/4/4/8/25844/userfiles/image/Stotts(w).jpg" /></p>
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<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Believe it or not, one of my favorites was Mr. Stotts. Anybody recall him?</span></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6335839" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Ginny Bayers Herzog</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Yes, Jeff, loved Stotts and his English class! He made Greek Mythology so cool!</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337597" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Richard (Ike) Eichhorn</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">I had Stotts for speech class. It was one of my most memorable high school classes. It was also where we watched the unfolding Kennedy assination that terrible afternoon. Who could ever forget?</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337553" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Jim Carriger</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Mr. (Larry) Stotts would probably appreciate a quick note from his fans. He lives in Edina next door to my parents old house. He was a great neighbor to my parents.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">4205 W. 42nd St., Edina 55416</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6335839" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Ginny Bayers Herzog</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Thanks Jim. I knew that Stotts lived on 42nd but was unsure of the exact address. Hope to reconnect with him.</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337480" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Thomas Anderson</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">I was fortunate to have Larry Stotts as my English teacher. I considered him the best teacher I ever had, and was lucky enough one day to be able to tell that to him personally. I was about to turn onto Hwy 100, back when it was a 4 lane road, and I noticed him walking to school on the gravel shoulder. I pulled over to the side of the road, and greeted him. We talked briefly, and just before parting I thanked him for being the best teacher I had at Edina, as-well-as all my college instructors. I believe what made Larry Stotts so good was his passion for the job, his love for his students, and his willingness to give 110% of himself to whatever task he took on. He connected with his students in such a way that they knew he would do whatever it took to make them better.</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337857" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Carol L. Oberg Speliopoulos</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><span style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', cursive;">I, too, had Mr. Stotts and thought he was a once-in-a-lifetime teacher....and my favorite! He was tough, fair, funny...really excellent! I still have the image of him sitting on a front desk..."talking" to us was his style, rather than lecturing from the front. He "pushed" us to be our best, AND...he actually taught the mechanics and structure of the language, which I'm not sure they do as much these days. Computers have generally taken over the written language aspect...but not the spoken language!</span></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337995" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Margie S. Tudor Thompson</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">I always thought Mr Stotts was one of the best teachers at Edina; didn't realize how many other classmates felt the same. I hope he hears how much he meant to us.</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337642" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Douglas Grabham</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Had three disjointed thoughts reading some of the comments since signing on...:</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">1. I fully agree on the passion and impact of Larry Stotts...he is the reason I majored in English. Anyone remember the play he directed our senior year? Big production of "Cyranno" The memory I carry: he pulled people together from different groups to break down walls and build a wider community.</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337977" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Barbara J. Subak Kruse</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">I'm happy to hear Mr. Stotts is doing well. I thought I remembered he had some medical difficulties around the time we graduated? Hope I'm wrong. It's been good to read everyone's memories about the faculty. A few of my favorites were Mr. McCarthy who made sense of the world of economics, Mr. Green who treated geometry like a puzzle, and Mrs. Kaufman who made us use root words, prefixes and suffixes in defining and spelling words. Still use that! We really were fortunate to have had so many great role models for teachers. It would be interesting to be able to compare their salaries to the corporate world of the time! See you all next month and thanks again to the reunion committee!<br />
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<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337685" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Keith E. Hilgendorf</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Mr Stotts has done some summer time work out at the Braemar Golf Course over the past several years. Seems like he had not changed a lick from when I had him for speech class - and he does remember the class of 64. He and his wife spend their winters in Texas - not sure when they leave for there. He still has his great sense of humor!</p>
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2014-08-21T21:12:49-04:00Larry Stotts - EnglishRichard Scanlan - Latin<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">There's been some discussion among we former Latin students of Mr. Scanlan and the impact he made on our lives as we reminisce about our school years, so I thought I would take the liberty of letting people know there is a Latin Prize Scholarship award that has been established in his name. A gift of $500 is given annually to a deserving Edina Latin student. If anyone would like to contribute to this fund, you can do so by following this link:<font color="#388222"><a href="http://www.edinaedfund.com/scanlan_flyer_2013.pdf" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;">www.<strong>edina</strong>edfund.com/scanlan_flyer_2013.pdf</a></font></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"><font color="#388222">Also, you might be interested to know that People Magazine ran an article on him in 1978, after he left Edina for the University of Illinois. You should be able to access that article by googling his name, Richard T. Scalan 1978. Or, cut and paste this link in your browser:</font><a href="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20072284,00.html" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;">www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20072284,00.html</a><font color="#388222"> </font></p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337563" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Betsy J. Cook Hoekstra</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Thanks for posting about Mr Scanlon, the best teacher Ever! He inspired me as a teacher. He made learning fun! I still know my declensions! He inspired a lifelong desire to visit the Roman forum, the Collesium and walk on the Appian Way and I did! Thanks Mr. Scanlon!</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337793" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Jean L. MacIntosh Mankamyer</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">You're welcome, Betsy. He really did have a positive impact on us, didn't he? Great teachers affect our lives as well as teach us the subject matter. Amo, amas, amat...</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337999" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Kea van der Ziel</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Thanks for the wonderful remembrances of Mr Scanlan. He and Mr Erickson were some of the best teachers I ever had. I am always grateful that I took all 5 years of Latin. Some of my best memories were from those classes and Latin Club. The annual soccer tournament was one of the highlights for me. Sports in high school for girls was limited in those days. We had GAA and our language clubs. I googled "Richard Scanlan Illinois" and found his obit in a local paper. You can find it at <em>www.news-gazette.com › </em><a href="http://www.news-gazette.com/opinion" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><em>Opinion</em></a><em> › </em><em>Editorials</em>. There are 2 entries, both in June 2009, the month he died at 81 years old. I am so happy that we have a fund in his name.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">There were other great teachers during our high school years, including the chem teacher whose name escapes me now. Because of him I majored in chemistry in college and almost went to grad school in chem. Instead I went to med school. Our English teacher was great as well. There were many others. We were very lucky to have such a talented group of teachers. They certainly enriched my life</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337793" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Jean L. MacIntosh Mankamyer</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Hi Kea!</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">Thanks for your link to Mr.Scanlan's obit. If you took Latin for 5 years you must have attained goddess status...cool!</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337476" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Michael H. Anderson</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">It was great learning about Mr. Scanlan's post-Edina accomplishments as a classics professor at the University of Illinois. I have fond memories of being a student in Mr. Scanlan's first hour Latin class and in the famously fun Latin Club. Think it was tenth grade and about 1962. He was a wonderful teacher who made learning -- even of a "dead subject" like Latin -- fun and interesting. Amo, amas, amat, . . . . indeed!</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">But what was great about Edina High was that there were many superb teachers. The school seemed to hire only the best teachers who could sustain the school's reputation for excellence. Who could forget Ray Bechtle and his English classes; or John Matlon and his AP American history course, which taught me how to analyze and how to write essay exams; or John Sheldon, who advised both the student newspaper Buzzette and the yearbook Whigreen (spelling?) staffs; Miss Bartholet and her wonderful extra-curricular World Affairs Club efforts; or Robert McCarthy, who taught a half-year economics course and advised the Student Council; or Hornet coaching great Willard Ikola; or Ray Smythe, who taught ninth grade government; or principal Rollie Ring? I could go on and on.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"> I wonder if any of these inspiring individuals are still living in the Twin Cities area. If so, they should be invited to the reunion as special guests.</p>
<p class="proftitles" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337995" style="outline: 0px; color: rgb(74, 133, 223); text-decoration: none;"><u>Margie S. Tudor Thompson</u></a></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">I agree with you regarding our wonderful latin teacher, Mr Scanlon. I remember more about my latin classes than any other class I took. But another favorite was English and speech teacher, Mr. Stotts. He really inspired me and created lots of interest. I was in his speech class at the time of President Kennedy's assassination. I also remember and appreciated Ms Bartholet and Mr. Weisner, world history and economics teachers. So many great teachers!! We were really fortunate! So many wonderful memories.</p>
<p class="p3"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337854"><b>Mark D. Nordell</b></a></p>
<p class="p4"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In Response to the Latin stuff, Marilyn How many times I have relished to tell the Latin Class story about having to wear the stupid yellow glove on my head for what seemed like forever, because I made a stupid mistake in class. Others are often horrified by such "abuse" when I get to tell the tale. I get to laugh every time. I love it! I can recall watching Brian G. We lived "catty conner" to each other, out practicing his splendid shot after dark while I tried to figure out Latin assignments. The Latin memorized still sticks with me; "Arma Virumque..." something or other....from the Aeneid. Even though Mr. Scanlan was somewhat imperious, his significance on this pretty lost young buck was deep. </span></span></p>
<p class="p5"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337793" style="line-height: 1.6em;"><b>Jean L. MacIntosh</b></a></p>
<p class="p4"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark, I think you may have been in my Latin class...I remember the baseball mitt. ;) Unless someone is privileged to have had a teacher like Scanlan, it's impossible for them to understand how he made you want to measure up to his standards. The schtick was all part of the entertainment that kept us engaged while he taught us discipline, the Latin language, Roman history and culture. He was my favorite among many truly great teachers I had. Although, I must admit I didn't exactly love writing "Nimium gummum amo" 100x for chewing gum in class. That happened several times...you'da thought I would have learned that lesson the first time. </span></span></p>
<p class="p2"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6551992" style="line-height: 1.6em;"><b>Marilyn Dawson-McCarthy</b></a><span class="s1" style="line-height: 1.6em;"> </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Oh my gosh, it is incredible to hear you all talk about Scanlan. One of the best teachers in my whole life. I hadn't thought "imperious," but you are right, he had that quality, which was part of his "schtick," as you say. Do you all remember how he would start the class with the 45 record of some soundtrack from "The Stripper?" I love the "Nimium gummum amo" story. I remember we all had Latin names which he assigned us. One fellow was "Hunc," (one of the larger guys), for some reason I didn't understand, he named me "Piu." I remember so well his drilling, "...dum conderet Urbem..." (in order to found a city [Rome]). I just checked out Mr. Scanlan on Google, and found that he died in 2009. I guess Edina HS and the University of Illinois have scholarships and awards in his name. Maybe you all know this already. I am sad.</span></span></p>
<p class="p6"><a href="http://www.edina64.com/class_profile.cfm?member_id=6337793"><b>Jean L. MacIntosh</b></a><span class="s1"> </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Yes, Marilyn, I remember The Stripper being played...I also remember him lowering a speaker outside Zsendry's German class and blasting the Spike Jones' satirical song, "Heil Hitler" , which echoed loudly in the courtyard, just to annoy the German class. I also remember taking the chariot a student had made, when we collected "taxes" from the first year students.You never knew what adventure awaited in Scanlan's class. My brother and his friends ( class of '68) , who called themselves The Edina Breakfast Club because they had breakfast at Perkins every Friday, were the ones who established the scholarship in Mr. Scanlan's name at Edina. They get together once a year and before he died, they visited Mr. Scanlan in IL to let him know how much he influenced their lives. It was a sweet moment. You may not have graduated with us, but if you lived in Edina and went to school in Edina, you're part of the club.</span></span></p>
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2014-08-21T17:24:12-04:00Richard Scanlan - Latin