On 05/17/2016 09:12 PM, Richard Henry wrote:
On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 9:06:17 PM UTC-7, The Real Bev wrote:
On 05/17/2016 08:39 PM, Richard Henry wrote:
On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 7:45:40 AM UTC-7, lal_truckee wrote:
On 5/17/16 7:11 AM, Richard Henry wrote:
Burke Mountain Academy, the private high school near the base of
Burke Mt ski area, is apparently confident that Burke will
re-open next season. They have announced plans to build an
indoor training facility on their campus.
http://burkemtnacademy.org/burke-mou...ning-facility/
Used to be a school would have a gym, and maybe a weight room; now
it's got to be an "indoor training facility" undoubtedly maintained
by a custodial engineer.
When I was in high school, we had Gym twice a week. When I went to
college, it was Phys Ed. My kids in high school took Exercise
Science.
Gym 1 hour every day, which meant a lot of changing clothes, standing
around, doing some sport for 15 minutes, showering (REQUIRED for the
girls, not for the boys), changing clothes and going to class. We also
had to wash AND IRON our gym clothes every week. The boys wore the same
filthy clothes for the entire year if they were fastidious, the entire
four years for the rest.
My official college transcript from SDSU shows a 1-hour A for
Beginning Volleyball, a course I never took. I assume it was
incorrectly assigned to my record - that was in the days when
computers were just starting to mess up our lives. I hope some kid
didn't have trouble graduating because he was missing that credit.
3 hours/week required in JC. I took ballroom dancing to avoid having to
change clothes.
We were also required to try out for Rose Queen or get an F for the
[required] course, even Mary C who weighed 350 pounds. Cruel.
Pasadena CC?
Yup. Much like high school (the Chem and French classes I took repeated
the same stuff) except you could smoke outside.
Did the boys have to try out for Rose Parade horse dropping sweeper?
Nope. I don't think they had those then. The guys had to take PE too,
though. This was free then, BTW. I think we had to buy a student body
card and accident insurance, both of which were a mere pittance. Books,
of course, cost a lot and the bookstore was really cheesy about buying
and selling used books.
Last time I went to the parade the sheriffs rode by on horseback at
maybe 6am, one of whose horses dropped a steaming pile right in front of
us. Later on, just as it had sort of glazed over and the stink
lessened, along came a marching band who plowed through the pile giving
us a fresh new experience. Never saw any pooper scoopers. Maybe the
*******s were on strike.
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Cheers, Bev
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