Joe Armstrong:
CLASS OF 1963
Englewood High SchoolClass of 1963
Englewood, CO
Joe's Story
EHS Recollection
Iâve been watching the TV coverage from Cairo, Egypt over the past week. On one of the days, it showed the protesters in Tahrir Square using a metal post or rod to break up the pavement into rock size chunks that they could throw.
That image brought back a recollection from Mr. Curranâs social studies class (2nd floor, overlooking the courtyard) â must have been our senior year.
Something was going on in the world (actually a lot happened that year, but I donât remember the specific event) and Mr. Curran departed from the lesson plan and started telling of a story from his college days. He and a friend were doing a study abroad program in Spain. At that time Morocco, about 40 miles across the Mediterranean, was governed by France and protests were being staged by the Moroccan people for their independence. Curran and his friend approached suggested to the...Expand for more
ir professors that visiting Morocco and seeing what was going on first hand would be a great educational experiment, and they went.
He described the scene. Masses of people arm in arm, parading through the winding streets, generally pretty upbeat. Then word circulated that something (donât remember what from the story â possibly independence) was not going to take place. It later turned out to be a false report, but by then the mood of the protestors had flipped to anger and rage.
The mass of protestors made their way to the outskirts of the city where an embassy was located and within a few hours, basically using their bare hands and a few primitive hand tools, the protestors reduced the embassy to a pile of rubble.
Curran and friend decided that the situation might be getting a little too dangerous and returned to Spain.
Morocco gained independence from France in March 1956.
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