Terry Brandli:  

I think it would surprise everyone at the next reunion if I had some of my projects done, new house, a couple of books published, two or three patents, sell a design for a low cost bass boat, sell a snowmobile of my own design and build the quickest Studebaker in the country. Which teacher would I like most to see again? Dang that's a hard one since I didn't have a teacher I didn't like. I think it would be Miss Hardy[sp] my fourth grade teacher. She told you the truth about anything and everything. When the class was having a snowball fight, I hit her in the glasses. She looked at me, smiled and made another snow ball. She told me one time while I was weaving a basket that she thought I had a problem with getting things finished. She was right. Her fiance was killed in action a couple of days after WWI was over. Communication was slow back then. She passed away in the spring on a weekend. I still remember when I went to school that Monday a boy came up to me laughing and said that Miss hardy had died. It was a blood clot, but I don't remember if it was in her heart, lung, or brain. I never got to tell her how much I thought of her. I guess the wildest thing I did was in seventh grade and trying to bump into Pat L. to see if her breasts where real. The most embarassing thing was in Miss Kille's[sp] ninth grade english class. I tried to do a one cheek sneek on those hard plastic seats. Everyone except the teacher was laughing and she looked at me and said some people will laugh at anything. The funniest thing I remember was seventh grade science class. Cindy H. shouted to a boy going into the other science class,"you weren't born, two train cars slamed together and you fell out of a bum's ass." The teacher asked Cindy after she sat down, if she realized that that would be a physical impossibility? My first crush was Charlene D. in first grade. I met her later in life through a dating agency. I went to her house and we talked for hou...Expand for more