[Magdalen] trivia

[Lynn Ronkainen]

...reminds me that classrooms, at least here, lack those famous roll-up/down 
maps of our youth.... A bad decision, IMO.

Lynn

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single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
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From: "M J _Mike_ Logsdon" <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 4:41 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] trivia

> I remember like it was yesterday my ENTIRE 4th grade year involving so 
> many 4th grade things, but one of those I remember the most fondly is the 
> memorizing of state capitols.  Grant you, (and many of you will like 
> this), my 4th grade teacher was a Presbyterian minister (coincident with 
> teaching? don't know) who ran his classroom like a one-room schoolhouse of 
> olde, desks in rows, everything done as a group (maybe not totally 
> one-room schoolhouse-style, I guess), but there was a time and a place for 
> everything, and everyone played a part.  One of those things was the state 
> capitols, and when that happened, he'd pull down the U.S. map on the front 
> chalkboard, he'd sit at his desk and call out a state, and we'd all vie to 
> get picked to go up and identify the state and its capitol.  We all had a 
> personal favorite.  Mine was Montpelier, VT.  Don't know why.
>
> And the year before that, the fixation with me and my classmates in 3rd 
> grade was Milton Bradley's "Game of the States".  I still mean to get a 
> vintage copy of that, just to play it with Everett.