Thursday, June 30, 2016

Boy's Cooking

You know I am an early riser, always have been and out an hour early......a guy couldn't beat that with a stick. Why bother with a half credit when you can earn a full one??

Most important of all, why do you suppose there was such a demand way back in 1972??  Have you seen a photo of our cooking teacher???


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  1. Coop, I find it rather irritating that you even could earn credits by attending a food / cooking class... in my days such course would have been on the extra curriculum list, and voluntarily...

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    1. Sonja, we had some essential credits and then elective credits....Art, Band, Metal, Wood, Boys Cooking were all elective. Scienec, Mtah, Englihs, Speling, were all mandatory.

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  2. SonyaM: I suppose the same could be said about girls taking automotive classes.

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    1. Ed, maybe the girls had Metal and Wood Shop full so there wasn't room for the boys. Ms. Steinem had us all taking a new look at things.

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  3. Coop, I never had the opportunity to get a credit for cooking. Still, I was tossing crépes by 10yo and was lucky enough to sit in, with the local farm girls, on the 4H cooking taught by my mother (home classes)

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    1. Mom spent her days at home, cooking and baking so in our household there wasn't much of a need or an opportunity for my brother and I to cook. I learned a lot in that class...lots of breakfast dishes and baking, pies especially.

      I spent a lot of time on my own and did lots of cooking. Our kids got started early, 4H only helped.

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  4. Such a tease!

    So where's the photo (a thousand words will also do in a pinch)?

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    1. David, I wish I had one though this may very well be a case of memory improving with age.

      Mini-skirts were big (small?) at the time and the Senior girls weren't the only ones wearing them. We liked that class!

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    2. That's not 1,000 words! You have 978 words still to go ;)

      Clearly you had a serious crush going on to lure you into a cooking class at 07h00. Hair ( color, length, style, curls, waves, straight) eyes (colour, be poetic they were like...), height (short, average tall), build (petite, statuesque, average, amazon, Wonder Woman, Parton-esque), moved like (swimmer, dancer, gymnast, curler, skier, skater, pole vaulter, wrestler, cowgirl), voice (deep, husky, high, sweet, smoky)...

      C'mon Doug, dish! It was high school, it's way past safe to share this with us :)

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    3. Oooooh... Found your 1972 yearbook on Classmates.com. Pictures are too out of focus to read the captions BUT... brunette, long hair well past her shoulders, just a hint of curl?

      Am I close?

      A simple 'yes' and I will spare you the remaining 977 words.

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  5. Oh, I wish automotive or wood shop classes would have been an option...

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    1. Sonja, I did Metal, Wood and Plastics in my 7th, 8th and 9th grade Industrial Arts courses. Motor Mechanics was a end-of-day, 7th hour class. Once in high school, I took no shop classes. Band 10-12 and Cooking my Senior year.

      Somewhere after that I swerved towards metal working.

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  6. blazing trails way back then too! i'm impressed that you kept the letter.

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  7. Hi Sheryl, so good to hear from you. Kev mentioned that he'd seen you. I didn't keep the letter; mom did....a big difference. She may even have some of yours.

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