Each time he would come back with less than satisfactory evaluation scores and each time we would go back to the practice room and work on his delivery. Throughout that speech season Roger would repeatedly get up before a room full of speech judges, coaches, and students from other schools and valiantly struggle to speak his prepared remarks. He felt this would help him with his speech impediment. Roger, in his senior year, decided to take extra-curricular speech. Those memories are far too numerous to mention here, but perhaps one or two deserve a comment.Īmong the many courageous people I have met over the years, none shines any brighter than Roger (1966). Recently I sat down with the annuals from those years and what great memories they brought back. However, as each school year came to a close, I did mark with an 'X' in the annuals those students I had in class. Unfortunately, I do not remember every student from those years. During that period of time nearly 1,000 Cloquet students, from Susan Aalto (1966) through Rebecca Wise (1974), suffered through my typing and social studies classes.
From Fall 1965 through the Spring 1974, I was a teacher at Cloquet Senior High School.
