Charles Stickle:
CLASS OF 1960
Thomas Jefferson High SchoolClass of 1960
Jefferson hills, PA
Lincoln High SchoolClass of 1997
Tallahassee, FL
St. Petersburg High SchoolClass of 1976
St. petersburg, FL
West Virginia Wesleyan CollegeClass of 1964
Buckhannon, WV
Charles's Story
Life
After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, I enrolled as a student at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buchannon, West Virginia. I was a member of Theta Chi Fraternity and elected President of the Senior Class. Upon graduation in 1964, I headed south and was hired as a Social Studies teacher at St. Petersburg High School. I taught American History and psychology there for 12 years. In 1967, I married Pattie Hable, the sister of one of my students. In 1976, my wife and I moved to Tallahassee where I taught another 21 years at Lincoln High School by day, and in the evening I taught inmates at the Federal Correctional Institute.. In 1997, I retired from the the public school system and in 1998 became an advisor and instructor for the College of Education at Florida State University. I am currently supervising social studies interns who are planning on entering the teaching profession as either a middle School or high school Social Studies teacher.
My wife, Pattie gave birth to a daughter-(Jill) in 1977. Pattie and I got divorced in 1983.
I would like to take this opportuity say hello to all my former classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School and West Virginia Wesleyan College. I also wish continued success to my former students from St.Pete High School and Lincoln High School.
I would like to thank all the former members of the St.Pete High Interact Club for all the fond memories I have of you and your dedicated service to our school and community. I will never forget you and your dedication to Interact. I hope that you have pleasant memories of Rotary International and the support they gave us. I would like to acknowledge some of the Interact Presidents who gave of their time and energy to provide leadership for our Interact club members. Thank you: Paul Bailey, Tom Canning, Breck Amick, John Samaha, Richard Gillespie, Jim Lingelbach, Hank Benefield, Carl Smith, and Willie Edwards to name a few. I am very proud of the fact that one of my former students at St. Pete High School and former Interact Club member was later elected Governor of Florida.
I would also like to wish all the Civitan Club members at Lincoln High School continued success. Your support of the Alicia Mathews Spirit Award and the money you raised by sp...Expand for more
onsoring the "Oldies But Goodies Dances' will always be appreciated by the Mathews family.
As the Christmas season nears I shall never forget the wonderful support my students at Lincoln High School gave to the canned food drive-Project Joy, sponsored by DCT. The intense competion between my students and those of my good friend, Richard Roberts made for future citizens who knew the value of helping those less fortunate them them selves. The Christmas season brings back memories of the beautiful and creative Christmas decorations which transformed room 610 at Lincoln High into the Spirit of Christmas Joy.
I continue to teach my students the Doughnut Saying and the Slippery Glass Hill that I required my students to memorize while teaching at Lincoln High School. I would like to share them with you once again in case you may have put them on the back shelves of your cerebral cortex.
The Donut Saying
As you ramble on through life, brother
Whatever be your goal.
Keep your mind upon the donut,
and not upon the hole.
Be Optimistic!
and......
The Slippery Glass Hill
Life, itself is very much like climbing a slippery glass hill.
We climb and we slip.
We climb again and we slip.
We all slip.
Everyone has sorrow, tragedy, frustration and disapointment.
But the measure of a person, the measure of you,
is not whether you slip, but what you do when you slip.
Do you pick yourself up and climb a little higher on the hill,
or do you lie there and whine, and slip backwards into nervous breakdown.
The choice is yours.
I look forward to hearing from my former students.
I shall never forget the so-called KILLER CLASS at Lincoln High School. The class had an enrollment of 49 students. It is the largest class in the history of Lincoln High School.
I often go through my school yearbooks and think back to all the wonderful memories I have of all my students. You were wonderful ,and a pleasure to teach.
May I leave you with a couple verses I often used in my lectures.
1. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
2. Love is a feeling you feel when you feel you are feeling a feeling you feel you
have never felt before.
3. First the man takes a drink
Then the drink takes a drink
Then the drink takes the man
Chuck
aka: Stickman
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