[Magdalen] Tightrope?

[Grace Cangialosi]

We'll, I love the name "Superior Normal"! Talk about an oxymoron...

> On Nov 16, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> My Cousin Connie sent me a small, faded newspaper clipping yesterday.
> dated from 1922, and was titled "Superior Normal Girls Meet."  She  found
> it cleaning out a closet.
> 
> Superior Normal School = University of Wisconsin-Superior, and my
> mother was a freshman then with a major in mathematics and a minor
> in teaching gym classes.
> 
> This meeting was sponsored by the local campus YWCA, and was billed
> as a "mixer" for the female students.
> 
> There was a formal program to start the event, and the initial act  was
> described as "a thrilling piece for three ukuleles."
> 
> Next, and more interesting to me, was that the crowd was  "held spellbound
> by Constance Northam (my mother) walking a tightrope."
> 
> Walking a tightrope ? [!]  
> 
> Never did I or anyone in the family during her 98 years hear of  such
> an event (talent?).  I'll just file it under "family legends."
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> David Strang --- who has felt sometimes that he was walking a  tightrope,
> but never actually did so.