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The Quill Newspaper, April 30, 1957
Summer, 1957 Graduating Class Pictures
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October 14, 2016
Dear Audubon Middle School,
I am thankful for attending Audubon Junior High School fifty nine years ago. Of all the schools attended, I have learned more at and remember best, Audubon Junior High School.
I was proud of the artful notebook I kept in Mr. Mueters' Geometry Class. I warmly remember, Mr Mueters' great aim with his chalk board eraser in waking boy classmates falling asleep. It was at Audubon that I learned the habit of using a pencil in mathematics classes but a pen in English classes.
I enjoyed diagramming sentences, those 'Complete Thoughts', in English Class. I was introduced to a different language yet local culture in lovely Mrs. Holloway's Spanish Class.
I still have most of the wooden serving tray made in Wood Shop. I remember using the round end of a ball-peen hammer to make decorative dents in the aluminum ashtray shaped in Metal Shop. I remember 'picas' and 'points' and setting type in Print Shop. I remember properly composing pictures in Photography Class. I still have the drawings of a hexagonal shaped house with a central round kitchen that I designed in Drafting Class.
In Gym Class, I got my introduction to the 'locker room' and learned the rules of most of the popular team sports.
Life Science Class elaborated on my love of animals. I was fascinated with the biological classification with the kingdoms, phyla, and so on. I remember making an insect collection and that 'ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny'.
I remember my Social Studies Classes where I was taught to challenge what I believed to be true; to challenge whatever I simply accepted. That may have made my life uncomfortable but allowed me to continue the unending journey toward Truth.
I am glad that the Spanish architecture, the Patio, still exists at Audubon Middle School. I remember the campus being so attractive. I remember also being attracted to a classmate, Toni Sansing, who lived down the street from me.
Oh, it would be nice to relive a few moments that I spent at Audubon Junior High. To have us all be closer and really feel how precious those times were.
As I look at the pictures of my classmates, I hope they have had good lives because of Audubon Junior High. I wish I could thank my teachers now gone, but I can thank those teachers who continue in their foot steps at Audubon Middle School.
Love,
Dave Watts