[Magdalen] Tightrope?

[Grace Cangialosi]

Sorry, that first word was supposed to be "well."  My auto-correct always wants to stick an apostrophe in it.

> On Nov 16, 2015, at 7:22 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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."
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> David Strang --- who has felt sometimes that he was walking a  tightrope,
>> but never actually did so.