Life Stories Rewarded with Gift Card

Not everyone was brave enough to tell a U High Life Story, but those 

who spoke chose either an Amazon or a Target gift card.

             One U High Life Story Theme:  Grammar !

University High was a University of Minnesota lab school. In the late 1940s the latest thinking was that grammar did not have to be taught separately: it could be learned best through foreign languages.  I went to U High from eighth grade through twelfth grade and never had any formal English grammar training.  I had two years of Latin, three of French, one of German, two of Spanish and a quarter of Russian.  I could not teach grammar if my life depended on it!

Roger Carlson  told how he had trouble in the Army’s FBI training because of his lack of high school grammar training.  He worked for the military FBI looking for cold war problem-makers.  He spent five weeks in the Green Bay Packers’ training camp  before he entered the  Army.        

When Roger told his story, many alumni in the room nodded their heads and talked about how the lack of grammar education caused them problems after high school.

        A  Male Life Story Theme:  U.S. Armed Forces

Dave Mason was in the Army Reserve many years but was never formally “called up.”  He sounds astonished when he explains that he eventually rose to the rank of a supply captain.  Dave spent most of his work life in printing and publishing after taking over Mason Publishing. 

Dave Mason - by DT

Bob Summers did not offer a life story at this reunion.  For the 2000 reunion he said that living in Europe on the Navy and NATO was an experience he wanted his classmates to know about. 

Tony Garmers wrote in the same document that he was with the USAF at Texas A & M learning meteorology and then spent more years with the Air Force forecasting at Savannah , Georgia. 

Tony Garmers - by EF

John Twohig talked about his 20 years at the Stillwater Prison 

as an associate warden of administration.  His workmates 

predicted he would stay only three years,but he toughed it 

out much longer.  He served with the Air Force as an air 

traffic controller in Korea during the Korean War. 

Dave Mason & John Twohig by DT

Ted Anderson was stationed with the Army in North Carolina 

where he tested equipment for the government.  He knows

that Tom Harmon was an officer in the Air Force.

Jane Fellows Buffington & Ted Anderson - by DT