[Magdalen] Gap year (or more)

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

One cannot assume that folks who do not attend some college are dumb.  Some
just march to a different drum.  That's the way it is in construction, and
a lot of those guys make excellent money.  No college at all.  Now to make
good money you have to have training, and that's work and time and yes,
some money too, but the point is it does not involve darkening the door of
any college.  There are other fields as well.

It's a vanity thing for too many.  Go to college whether it agrees with you
or not. And that is nuts.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> Re:  Women and careers:
>
> My mother, daughter of Norwegian immigrants, was the first in that  family
> to graduate from college (from what is now UW-Superior).  However  every
> one of the ten children (5 boys, 5 girls) had some sort of  vocational
> training ranging from practical nursing through master machinist.
>
> Mother had one of those old "general" Wisconsin Teacher's Licenses  that
> was open ended.  She was eligible to teach ANY high school  course.
> Her real major was mathematics, which she taught from 1928 - l936
> at which time she married my father.
>
> Upon his death in 1958, she was able to snare a job at the local high
> school teaching biology, about which she knew little.  She spent a  rough
> year keeping herself just ahead of her class, and then did the summer
> school thing which filled in many of the gaps.  From all I can tell,  she
> was
> simply a great teacher, no matter what the subject, and apparently  did
> a great job in biology 1958 - 1966, at which time she retired for the
> second
> time.
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> David Strang.
>