I'm trying to remember the origin of that joke, since I doubt she saw *The
Spy Movie.* Otherwise, who could get the two of you mixed up?
--J
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Hiram Gonash <okfreddy_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Awesome! Any chance of us hearing something from Mrs. Shaver? I have
> such great memories of her English class - "Are you Dean or Keith today?"
>
> --- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com<OliveStarlightOrchestra%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Joy McCann"
>
> <joy.mccann_at_...> wrote:
> >
> > Sez Carol:
> > "I really can't thank you enough for sending me all this information and
> > these links to OSO lives, Joy. Gives me goosebumps to see what
> everyone has
> > achieved. I confess I still think of you all as 10th graders writing
> poems
> > about the Odyssey. Or Sandy Levin as an eighth grader in a summer dance
> > class. I feel so fortunate to have been a small part of all you have
> become.
> > Truly, I am looking forward to being past-president of NCTE. The role is
> > mostly whank, but I get invited to do interesting work like the NEA
> forum.
> > And, yes, I will always push that rock up a hill - call me Ms.
> Sisyphus -
> > when it comes to reading."
> >
> > * * *
> >
> > I put together a sort of status list for her, based on the one I
> posted for
> > Bill; she was pretty stoked about it. She's no longer connected to
> Samo, but
> > remains good friends with Chris Shaver, to whom she forwarded my
> > note/update.
> >
> > I had suggested that she stop encouraging literacy among today's
> youth's and
> > either promote something wholesome (e.g., heroin), or renumerative
> > (engineering/computer analysis/cleaning toilets). But you know that
> > generation; one cannot get through to them at all.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm glad that she's proud of us. Somehow it makes a
> difference . . .
> >
> > --J
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
>
>
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