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Richard Smith
While going through some of my late father's documents on my computer I found the below;
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SOUTH HIGH S.L.C UT.. FIRST YEAR AS A HIGH SCHOOL..NOT VERY ORGANIZED. SEVERAL OF US TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THIS. (I WAS A REAL SMART-ASS) HAD GOOD--STUDY HABITS AND THE SCHOOLS IN UTAH WERE NOT AS HARD AS BACK EAST..ACTUALLY, I WAS BORED WITH SCHOOL. FOR INSTANCE, BACK EAST IN SCHOOL..I HAD TAKEN ALGEBRA, GEOMETRY AND EVEN CALCULUS, SO THE MATH CLASSES IN UTAH WERE A SNAP. THERE WAS NO CHALLENGE TO ME. SO I SLUFFED SCHOOL, CUT CLASSES, AND GAVE DEVOE WOLF (PRINCIPAL) AND WINEFED DYER, (VIDE-PRINCIPAL), A REAL BAD TIME. (MISS DYER WAS A TYPICAL OLD MAID...BUT A GOOD WOMAN) I WAS STILL GETTING GOOD GRADES, BUT THEY EXPELLED ME SO MANY TIMES, MISS DYER SAID SHE SAW MORE OF MY MOTHER THAN SHE DID OF ME. FINALLY, IT WAS MORE THAN MISS DYER COULD TAKE (ESPECIALLY AFTER TIME SHE WOULD LOCK ME IN A ROOM TO THINK IT OVER, AND I WOULD CLIMB OUT THE WINDOW AND GO OVER TO THE 'PIE SHOP') SHE FINALLY EXPELLED ME AND SAID THERE WAS NO WAY SHE WOULD EVER LET ME BACK IN SOUTH HIGH. THIS TIME SHE MEANT IT. AND I HAD TO FINISH THE SCHOOL YEAR AT WEST HIGH. I STRAIGHTENED UP AND DID WELL THERE, SO THEY LET ME FINALLY GRADUATE FROM SOUTH HIGH. (AFTER I WAS OUT OF SCHOOL, I VISITED MISS DYER SEVERAL TIMES, SOMETIMES WITH MAX KENDALL (HE HAD BEEN A PROBLEM, ALSO)..AND WE BECAME GOOD FRIENDS. SHE USED TO TELL ME THAT I WAS TOO 'DARN' SMART FOR MY OWN GOOD AND WAS HEADED FOR TROUBLE.)
YEP! My dad was trouble everywhere he went, LOL!
I knew my dad went to South but I didn't know it was the first year it was opened. I guess that makes our family founders? Lol!
I seemed to have followed in my dad's footsteps because I spent most of my senior year having coffee elsewhere or working at ZCMI in Granger. Life is strange.
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