Charlotte Warr (Andersen)

Charlotte Warr (Andersen)

From one of the best soundtracks ever - O Brother, Where Art Thou:

Jim Kilgore

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Charlotte Warr (Andersen)

They were (and I don't find them boring).

Jim Kilgore

I have read a couple of the memories about our days at South and thought I would add one of my own. You all might recall that our basketball team was not very good. In fact, we were the worst in the state, dead last! In our last two years, our varsity team went 1–22. We beat Olympus, don't ask me how. Really  the only decent player we had on the team was Buck, all the rest of us were average at best. After losing about 15 games, coach Souvall threw in the towel. 
Saturday morning after each Friday night game the team would meet with coach Souvall for "chalk talk" and to review the game film. This particular Saturday, however, coach Souvall had another idea. He decided to give out awards to each of the players. Most of these awards were in the form of job opportunities. He told Shawn Johnson that he got him a job at ZCMI being a mannequin. He gave Don Tuft a pair of boxing gloves, saying that all he wanted to do is fight. He gave Rod Galer a set of barber combs to keep his "pretty boy hair" intact.  The best one though, he told Ron Terry that he got him a job at Dunford's bakery making turnovers. He had something for each of us, but those are all I can remember, the mind is going.

We may not have had the best basketball team in the state, but the class of 70 was the best graduating class South High ever had. Stay happy and healthy, and I wish you all the best. On South High.

Paul Michelsen

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!

Charlotte Warr (Andersen)

HAVE A GREAT CELEBRATION!

Charlotte Warr (Andersen)

By the way, George Souvall and his wife, Mary, are still hanging in there. He phones my husband every couple of months. Great story, Jim!

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Paul Michelsen

Yep, older than dirt

Charlotte Warr (Andersen)

Charlotte Warr (Andersen)

Paul Michelsen

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Paul Michelsen

Charlotte Warr (Andersen)

My December 1st tradition:

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Paul Michelsen

Charlotte Warr (Andersen)

Charlotte Warr (Andersen)

One of my favorite teachers was Ms. Southam. I learned a lot from her.

She got to have a student teacher at one point; I do not remember his name. But he was cute, and cool in a nerdy sort of way, and quite full of himself. One day he decided to play "The Fool on the Hill" for the class, and after we had listened he wanted us to tell him what the song was about. Several people came up with answers and every time he said, No, that's not it, or shook his head, or gave a negative response. I was too shy to try but I thought many of the answers sounded quite good. At one point I remember thinking, How does he know? I wanted to ask, Have you had a personal conversation with the Beatles? But, of course, I was too shy and well-mannered to challenge him. The bell rang before he ever got around to his own enlightened answer.

Jeff Chivers

Fool on the Hill, an interesting song!!

I pulled the following off of the "Songfacts" site regarding the origins and deveiopment of the song:

Songfacts®:

• Paul McCartney wrote this song. It's about a man who is considered a fool by others, but whose foolish demeanor is actually an indication of wisdom.
  
  An event which prompted this song happened when Paul was walking his dog, Martha, on Primrose Hill one morning. As he watched the sun rise, he noticed that Martha was missing. Paul turned around to look for his dog, and there a man stood, who appeared on the hill without making a sound. The gentleman was dressed respectably, in a belted raincoat. Paul knew this man had not been there seconds earlier as he had looked in that direction for Martha. Paul and the stranger exchanged a greeting, and this man then spoke of what a beautiful view it was from the top of this hill that overlooked London. Within a few seconds, Paul looked around again, and the man was gone. He had vanished as he had appeared. A friend of McCartney's, Alistair Taylor, was present with Paul during this strange incident, and wrote of this event in his book, Yesterday.
  
  Both Paul and Alistair could not imagine what happened to this man. He had seemed to vanish in thin air. The nearest trees for cover were too far to reach by walking or running in a few seconds, and the crest of the hill was too far as well to reach in that short time. What made the experience even more mysterious, was that just before this man first appeared, Paul and Alistair were speaking to each other of the beauty they observed of the view towards London and the existence of God. Once back home, they spent the morning discussing what had happened, trying to make some sense of it. They both agreed that this was something others were infer occurred as a result of an "acid trip," but they both swore they had not taken or used any drugs. 

• Paul played this for John Lennon while they were writing "With A Little Help From My Friends." John made him write down the words so he wouldn't forget.

• This is a very curious song musically as well as lyrically, as it shifts between major and minor keys. Dan Wilson, a songwriter whose credits include Adele's "Someone Like You" and Chris Stapleton's "When The Stars Come Out," explained in a Songfacts interview: "I think that song is musically just incredible. And mysterious. The way it goes from minor to major to minor just kills me every time.
  
  Why it isn't a funny kind of silly song in my heart is just a mystery to me, also. The lyrics are like a nursery rhyme. It's so simple and there's nothing to it, yet I find it deeply sad and affecting and almost tragic, like it's some kind of tragedy of human nature being explained or channeled in a super-simple song that toggles from minor to major and back again."

• This began as a solo composition with Paul McCartney at the piano. Flutes were added last.

• This was not a hit for The Beatles, but a 1968 cover version by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 went to #6 in the US. In America, this was the highest-charting Beatles cover until 1975, when Elton John took "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" to #1.

Maybe more than you wanted to know on the subject, but hopefully solves a 53-year mystery for you Char!!

Charlotte Warr (Andersen)

Charlotte Warr (Andersen)

BE good to your pets!!

Mike Vranes (Vranes)

There were three teachers at South High that had an every lasting impact on my life.  As a skinny little Sophomore weighing in at a whopping 125 lbs., I can still hear Coach Schwab calling out to me as we were going through our summer football drills – “Hey twinkle toes stay quick on your feet – you are so skinny no one can block you.”  Well, that saying stuck with me and the belief that being quick on one’s feet in order to take advantage of opportunities and avoiding disaster has been very useful throughout my life.  My math teacher, E.D. Jarrett was very patient with a senior that was not particularly interested in taking trigonometry and college algebra.  I took them because my brother had taken them a few years earlier.  One day I was asking a lot of questions during my trigonometry class, where E.D. Jarrett took the time to explain the power of numbers in every aspect of our lives. That spark of interest in numbers finally evolved in a fascination with math and the power of numbers in accounting and information systems.  And last but not least, my senior seminary teacher, Brother Peterson, played a key role in my personal quest in becoming acquainted with Jesus Christ.  I will forever be grateful to these teachers specifically, as well as many others, who were willing to patiently work with teenagers like myself.