IT IS APRIL OF 1965; ARE YOU GOING TO ATTEND THE HIGHLIGHTS OF JUAB HIGH?

If you haven't read "The Cremation of Sam Magee", it is time you did, even if Halloween Night is not here yet. As a kid, I remember being cooped in the Jones Family Home, where I was recovering from Sunstroke. This was the second one I had, and recall when Dr. Beckstead came to the home to see if I was still alive!  He had previously warned me to always wear a hat if I am out in the sun pulling weeds, as the second hit is often the fatal one. Yes, that was when Nephi was very honest to goodness RURAL. My mother stayed with me to constantly soak bed sheets in cold water to hang around to draw the heat from the almost dead me. My mother was an avid reader, and she would give me various books to read and learn poems. I recall the very ghostly story up yonder where the snow storms come and night chills fill the air. It was written by Robert Service in 1907. It talks of one of two friends not wanting to die in the cold snow filled night while searching for gold and convinced his pal to cremate his body, as he would sooner go out in fire than freezing to death. If you can pick it up on U-Tube, make sure you have a warm blanket. Speech Class was kind of a cinch for me, as I had already knew that poem all too well. Our teacher was Mrs. Thela Wanker, and I feared her about as much as I respected her. The program should be attached below. I am not sure what word describes the setting, but of the three students involved with that skit, one member didn't survive to graduate with the Class of 65. He and all students felt like victims when a dastardly war occurred nobody heard of before, and Craig Higginson was KIA in Nam. And it is difficult to think of Mike Morgan(son of Frank) doing a Humorous Reading about "The Drunk". Then an inspirational speech by Lorraine Nezteossis "I AM AN AMERICAN INDIAN". Then another of my favorite poems is "THE TOUCH OF THE MASTERS HAND". And nobody could do that Dramatic Reading better than Marjorie Greenhalgh. And Morris Wright could always make a good MC.

Here you go.