Paul Boling:  

Life Updated June 2022 Living in Lansing, KS, I retired in 2007 from 32 years of teaching German, algebra, science and driver ed. I continue to substitute teach at the local high school. I married Claudia Rogers of Topeka in 1975 and God has been good to us in all that we have done and been involved with from a 4-year stay in Germany with its rich history and character to having blessed us with two wonderful sons, the youngest granting us three granddaughters....and only 30 minutes away! I have learned that all those injuries sustained in my growing up years revisit in older age! One was a dislocated shoulder as a result of a fall from scrambling up the west hill alongside Lake Bassola on a motorcycle in 1970. 2008 has been a very painful year...rotator cuff and shoulder restoration in May, lumbar discectomy in Sept, fused neck in Dec.! The back surgery was most likely from an injury sustained while on a construction job in 1976 (or was it when I fell off a tractor when I was about 12 and consequently ran over?) and then the years of jogging and weight lifting. I remember Iola with fondness as a place where I emerged from my shell working at Self Service Grocery and going on to ACCC to become the vice president of the student council, which I spearheaded to change to a senate which still exists. I recall the days I sat in my dorm room working on calculus problems for umpteen hours while I viewed others out the window playing basketball and having a great time. One instance, to break the monotony I guess, was getting into a huge water fight in the dorm to include using wastebaskets and the old large bronze soda water fire extinguishers located at each end of the hallways, and which landed me and a few other cohorts in the office of Mr. Brown to explain just what we had do...Expand for more