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Date Posted: 09:03:07 12/26/02 Thu
Author: Bernard Allan
Author Host/IP: 205.188.208.165
Subject: Tarpons Still Winners

Just surfin' thru the post and bios and it struck me that the people I knew and have lost contact with have done a great job with their lives. Most are college grads (me not included)and have gone on to great careers. I wonder if anyone else realizes that we probably owe a lot of this to the education we received from the great faculty at CHS?
I know we all probably hated some of the teachers we had, I noticed someone mentioned Mr. Griffin, my geometry teacher. He was a gruff old military dude, but when you attended his class, you learned geometry whether you liked it or not. He threw erasers, jumped up on his desk and did a gorilla imitation, hit the bottom of Debbie Dowds desk when she went to sleep with his pointer (a "polynesian fighting stick",I think he called it), but he made sure, even if he had to tutor some of us after school, that we learned. There were many like him and we owe them a debt of gratitude.
After being in the business world, exposed to some younger people who are college grads, I will put my education up against theirs and hold my own in the majority of cases.
I couldn't wait to leave CHS and boring Charlotte County in '73 but now it has become the place we wished it was when I was there. Kudos to the faculty and staff we couldn't wait to be away from, I hope that they are half as good now, for the current CHS students, as they were then.
God bless them and you, Bernard Allan

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