NEW CASTLE —
Last week, it was my privilege to speak to members of the College Club.
Although they are a very nice group of ladies, I sometimes feel a little inadequate speaking to them.
You see, I never went to college and they did.
When I graduated from high school, I had no desire to further my education.
All the other graduates were saying what they were going to be.
I didn't have a clue what I wanted to be.
I thought some kind of executive with a couple of secretaries would be nice, but an executive of what?
Fifty years later, I still can't decide on what I wanted to be.
Being a writer and working for a newspaper was never considered.
Those people all went to college.
I look back at the classes I took at Ne-Ca-Hi, and wondered why I ever took them.
One class was Plane Geometry taught by my favorite teacher, Dale Cameron.
To this day, I have never used one thing that I learned in his class.
The question of side angle side = side angle side, has never come up in anything I've ever done.
The other class I thought was stupid for taking was typing, taught by Helena Stevenson.
For 40 years after I got out of school, I never saw another typewriter.
Then this thing called a computer came out. One year I was nice and bought one for my daughter for Christmas.
She taught me how to use it.
It's amazing, how after all of those years of non-typing, it all came back to me.
I'm not a whiz at it, but I'm better than the guy that uses one finger.
Now in my retirement, I find myself working for the New Castle News, writing garden articles, blogs, and chasing fire trucks.
Because there was never a class offered in school on how to chase fire trucks, I had to learn the system on my own.
That's a class I would have taken.
I certainly could use that information a lot more than that plane geometry stuff.
Well, maybe I do use a little of the information I learned from Mr. Cameron.
It sometimes helps with the answer in the crossword puzzle.
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