[Vision2020] Moscow High School, 1965 (Updated Again)

[Carl Westberg]

I entered Moscow High School the same time as Ted, we are fellow classmates 
of the graduating class of 1969 (undefeated our senior season in football 
and basketball, not that I had a thing to do with it), and I remember Madam 
Cheetham and her French classes.  I also sadly remember walking into class 
one morning and being told that she had died the night before, completely 
unexpectedly.  Madam Cheetham, you were a great teacher.  Vraiment.   Carl 
Westberg Jr.


>From: "Ted Moffett" <starbliss at gmail.com>
>To: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
>CC: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Moscow High School, 1965 (Updated Again)
>Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:49:28 -0700
>
>Dan, Donovan and other Historians of Antediluvian Ages-
>
>I entered Moscow High in the Fall of 1965, therefore I would not be
>listed in the year book for the Class of 1965, which comes out in the
>Spring, as we all know.
>
>I do not have a 1966 year book, and I do not recall if I was listed that
>year.  Probably.
>
>However, I recall attending classes in what is now the 1912 building.  One
>French class with Madam Cheetham (as we called her), for example, was held
>just inside the entrance to the east end, and I also recall a class held
>upstairs.  I'm not sure when classes in that building were totally stopped,
>but they were certainly being held in the 1965-66 school year.
>
>I don't recall the 1912 building being especially cold, nor any major
>problems crossing Third St. on ice...After four years of running cross
>country for Moscow High, routinely doing 7-12 mile runs over sidewalks,
>streets, country gravel roads, through cold, snow and ice regardless, how
>much trouble could it be to walk across Third St, and cold class rooms were
>a minor inconvenience, well except on days like December 30, 1968
>(explanation below).  I don't ever recall being afraid of entering the
>building.  The coaches, teachers, counselors, advisers and principle could
>inspire pure terror, however.  Like when a group of independent minded
>students produced an "underground" journal distributed freely throughout 
>the
>school, titled "Cerberus," from Greek mythology, the three headed dog
>guarding the entrance to Hades.  A few of the brightest minds at the school
>penned script that shamed most of the copy in the established rag, the
>Wocsomonian.  It appeared the administration did not appreciate our witty
>and bold endeavor to satirize certain members of the faculty, nor certain
>other explorations of free thought.  Indeed, our journal was aptly named,
>given that the guards to the gate of hell wished to keep that entrance 
>under
>close monitoring.  We were hauled into the principles office for a lecture,
>and the copies of the journal still out for taking in the halls were
>seized.  Our experiment in free speech and thought was assimilated and
>morphed into a school club, producing a journal called "The Word," but the
>thrill was gone.
>
>Check the 1969 Moscow High year book for the Word Club photos on page
>85...There is no mention of the fact that this club was a censored version
>of what had been an independent student literary and political journal,
>"Cerberus."  History is written by the victorious.
>
>I was a student at Moscow High when the record coldest temperature was
>recorded for Moscow, minus 42 F. on December 30, 1968.  The 1912 building
>was probably cold that day, though it was winter break:
>
>http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/daily/83843?climoMonth=12
>
>Ted Moffett
>
>On 7/22/07, Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>Dan C.,
>>
>>If Ted was there, why wasn't he listed in the Class of 1965 then? Was he
>>just missed?
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Donovan
>>
>>*Dan Carscallen <areaman at moscow.com>* wrote:
>>
>>Donovan says:
>>"Keep in mind, students use to have access to parts of the 1912 building
>>for part of Moscow High School. I know the class of 1965 used parts of
>>that building for students."
>>
>>I'm pretty sure Ted knows that, since Ted was there.
>>
>>DC
>>
>>
>>


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