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21 April 2010
Scott Glaus reflects on WHS

Classmates:

I meant to write my thoughts on an earlier e-mail message from Terry on the passing of Lou Cardell but one thing led to another and time passed. With the passing of another great teacher of ours, Carlton Berger, let me share some thoughts on Wilson High School from someone I met at a party several years ago. Now that I don’t work any more, Donna and I don’t get invited to the trendy “DC beltway cocktail parties” that we used to (thank God). On one occasion, the cocktail talk proved to be memorable. Late into the evening on an otherwise boring Christmas party hosted by someone who wanted to show off how big houses could get in the Washington DC area, I circled closer to the cheese and caviar table with drink in hand when I bumped shoulders with a guy equally as bored. We exchanged pleasantries and found out that we both grew up in Easton, he graduating in ’66 from Easton High, hence, we never met. My new acquaintance that evening was Tom Curley, who at the time was president of the USA Today newspaper – today he is CEO of the Associated Press.

Perhaps all journalists are closet sociologists and Tom Curley was no exception as he waxed on about life in Easton and particularly about Wilson Borough, its high school and its teachers. What I remember most vividly was his characterization of Wilson High School being as close to a private school as you could get without being one, i.e. similar student backgrounds, both economic and ethnic (not much diversity among us) and a teaching faculty that today could only be found in the most prestigious private schools! Wow, I never thought about our school in those terms and here is a guy who studies these things and he said to me, “you should consider yourself lucky to have had the opportunity to be a part of that environment”.

When I read the obituary of Lou Cardell, among others, I realized that we were taught by the “greatest generation” as Tom Brokaw would say, many of whom were WWII heroes, well educated, disciplined and serious about educating students. Contrast that with a cross section of today’s teachers and the fact that our country lags at least a dozen other countries in student achievement. In 1965 we ranked #1 in the world in education largely due to the Cardells, Burgers and all of the rest of the faculty that made up Wilson Borough High School.

Anyway I thought I would share this with you.

Scott

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My class reunion's coming,
and though I'm still alive,
My weight and chins have doubled
since the year of '65.

I look into the mirror and -
Good Grief! How can this be?
Gray hair, false teeth, thick glasses -
It's my mother's face I see!

But I head out to the party.
No sense moping, I decide.
I'll just have to grin and bear it.
(But I'm dying, deep inside.)

Then I walk into the banquet hall
And stop. There's some mistake.
Not a single classmate do I find.
Did I confuse the date?

Still the faces seem familiar,
As each one I keenly stare at...
Then I realize I'm looking at - Good Grief!
My classmates' parents!

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~~Correctly guess the identities of the six "babes" in this picture and get your name here:~~

10 May 2010
OK, the photo has been up since April 26 and only one person has ventured a guess, Scott Glaus, and he was wrong, although he got 5 of 6 correct. Don Aber, Emil Ramirez and I all turn 63 this week, and since we don't know how many good years we have left, I better give you the answer before I forget it.

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