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Show EDWARD G. LUEDERS February 1, 2000 good, and left me not wanting in any area, my high school experience was not - teaching was generally very poor, this was part of the Depression times. A lot of the teachers were doing it just to make a buck, and probably had two or three other jobs going at the same time. So the teaching was poor, and the equipment was poor- everything was poor! And I suffered to some extent, because I didn't have that schooling in school. I was doing it on my own, mostly outside, thanks to the Hild Library. WIN: I see. So, in high school, even though the instruction wasn't great, did you participate in extra-curricular activities? Were you involved in athletics there, or was that just something you did on your own? EDW: No, I was on the tennis team my junior year and I edited and worked on the school paper, and the literary magazine of the time. It's name was "NES D'NUMA"Amundsen spelled backward. I also played basketball. In a scrimmage, trying out for the team, I broke my ankle and was out of circulation, in a cast on crutches. Later, in a pickup game at Wright Junior College, which I attended for just a month or so, I injured again. The bone had been shattered and I had to have a bone graft operation. So I was in a cast again, up to my knee. Both times I was on crutches for long periods. I got very adept and even acrobatic on them. I even walked the two miles to and from high school that winter on crutches, though not when it was snowy and icy. Then I'd be driven and picked up. So I was largely out of it during my last year in high school. No dances or normal socializing, other than classes and working on the school paper, the "Amundsen Log." 8 |
