700th SERIES...."SCHOOL DAYS"
"School days, school days
Dear old golden rule days
Reading and writing and 'rithmetic
Taught to the tune of the hickory stick
You were my queen in calico
I was your bashful barefoot beau
And you wrote in my slate
'I love you Joe,'
When we were a couple if kids."
.........credit Hal Leonard Corp.
and Lyric Find
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This morning, while working on the
"wrapping up" of this proud
accomplishment (to us) that B.E.
and I have achieved with 700 POSTS
on MIL'S PLACE---and thinking on
a nice story about Clovis classmates
and friends who have supported and
written for MIL'S...I needed to trim
some plastic off a sack and reached
for a small pair of scissors in my junk
cup.
After the cutting job I laid them down---
but my eye was taken by them. They
were snub-scissors, like first, second,
third grade...at old La Casita, '39-'41.
Suddenly, as is often the case, early
mornings when my mind is somewhat
fresh (and empty), old school times
from a long-ago mid-century
flooded my mind...inspired by the
scissors...I let my thoughts roam...
LA CASITA SCHOOL...low rock fence....
---incredibly hard play-ground...
---a little bit of Bermuda grass
---little tough Jerry Crook running
with beat-up football, at recess...
---licorice, Black Cows, Walnetto's
"plumgranites" at noon...
---winding the Maypole...
----Art, Albin, Jimmy Blair, Sue,
Miss Ballou, Miss Holloway
---Story-time, Miss H., fourth grade...
---scary Doc Gattis...Principal
---sack lunches on the bleachers...
---"REDDY'S MAMMOTH SHOW,"
sixth grade, musical and
MIL'S big snow biz breakthrough...
---Miss Dodie, music teacher...
---Mr. Ward, janitor's quaint stories...
----awful lines down the hall, waiting
for the school nurse exam...
----free movie, fourth grade at STATE:
and Frank Sinatra crooned...
----penmanship and spelling bees,
fifth grade, Mrs. Davis
-----free milk, third grade
---I kissed Lucy Jane, she cried....
----Alexander's Market, W. Seventh...
----Halloween Carnivals, spook room...
---Walking to school...haunted houses...
---"The Little White Church On
the Corner," 4th and Thornton...
---Getting to be a "Patrol Boy" at
Seventh and Thornton light...
---That marvelous Blurbly Water
Fountain, out front...frozen in winter...
----Geraldine, Ramona, Christine, Frank,
all little bitty people, then...
----Future CHS '51 kids were all over,
Eugene Field, Claud, Ranchvale...
----Radiator heat, cozy rooms, polished
floors, school smells...
----Dark-wood office, SE corner, big
clock, Doc Gattis---serious man,
and scary, Albin said so, Art said so...
----Pearl Harbor, third grade...
---Graduation...CHS '51
Another century...
La Casita gone...many kids gone.
Twentieth Century also...
"La Casita was our true Alma Mater,"
said one girl...and so maybe
was Eugene Field.
Oh the memories bro't on
by a pair of snub-nose
scissors....
school days...dear old school days
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BY MIL
700 SERIES
31 MARCH 2018
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