Mid-morning. You had your nap and have your
exercises to do. – Amorella
0950 hours. It is that time of the morning.
After noon. You worked on dusting and sweeping
the house and put in forty minutes of exercises. Leftovers for lunch and
tonight you are going to the new much closer Potbelly’s on Mason-Montgomery
Road just south of Fields Ertel as Potbelly’s is one of the favorites of the
boys. Time for a relaxing bath then sitting down to do some writing. – Amorella
1248 hours. I have to sweep the other two bedrooms yet and
I should be done with my chores. 1341 hours. The work is done including the
stairs. I didn’t get the bathroom floors done or the kitchen floor either but
they weren’t on the agenda. I will work on them next week. Alas, I did them
before Craig and Alta arrived so it’s been about six weeks – didn’t have those
jobs on the radar. I have swept the floors though in the meantime – maybe one
more sweep upstairs while Carol is on the phone with one of her sisters. 1358
hours. That is completed and we have about an hour before their arrival, not
bad.
Take a break, orndorff. You actually were
showing some concern here. Amazing. – Amorella
1400 hours. I don’t show much concern for such things normally
but I’m feeling pretty good today. It is exciting to have daughter and the boys
home for a change. Too bad Paul won’t be coming but in some ways I envy him
because he is working on his communication and computer projects with other
Ohio Health hospitals as well as in the OR. I would think it would be
interesting. The Cleveland Clinic, Ohio Health and Cincinnati’s Tri Health are
setting up a super unit for health advocacy, patient health charts and
prescription data so a patient from Cincinnati Tri Health (hospitals) could
have an operation at the Cleveland Clinic or at any Ohio Health Hospital –
Riverside Methodist and the Columbus trauma hospital, Grant. All their health
work would be in the system already. Plus they will be able to purchase major
items for their hospitals in greater bulk for a lesser price. Dayton and Akron
are also in the program. It would be exciting to be a part of the process that
had already begun at the Clinic so Paul had some of the knowledge of all this
and the new procedures, etc.
In
my day I was on the forefront of non-graded school instruction and modified and
advanced curriculums for use in high school instruction. Teaching Futures
Studies/Science Fiction as an honor class was a part of that. I also taught
‘origins’ and ‘hero’ mythology in a separate class was well as Nonfiction,
Non-Violence literature, and Expository Writing and Logic in separate college
prep/honors quarter classes as well as a Business English class and of course my
beloved British literature which I taught at semester classes. Those were heady
days for me; a very exciting period in my personal and professional life in the
seventies and early eighties. I was also head of the chess club. It was all
very cool and I loved it. I am hoping Paul is getting the same sort of good
vibes from what he is doing both in and out of the OR.
Here is a note on orndorff’s schools in
those days and today. – Amorella
1529 hours. I am proud to have served as a teacher of
English during my professional career.
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Graded is
an American school that serves an international community of learners by
inspiring individual excellence in a collaborative setting, fostering
intercultural competence, and empowering students to become engaged, ethical
citizens in a dynamic world.
From the Graded website.
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Associação Escola
Graduada de São Paulo, most commonly referred to
as Graded School, is an American school in São Paulo, Brazil. The school opened
on October 17, 1920 in a small schoolhouse on Avenida São João and in 1961 the
current campus was built on Avenida Giovanni Gronchi, in a terrain . . . now
facing Morumbi.
The school has an elementary school, middle school and high school, all offering
American-style teaching. The high school also offers an International
Baccalaureate (IB) diploma and a Brazilian diploma, in addition to
the mandatory SACS-accredited
American diploma. There are two Advanced Placement courses
available: AP Calculus AB and BC. The majority of classes are taught in
English, but the school does offer classes in Portuguese, French, and Spanish.
Graded's High School offers two to three levels of Math sets per year. The
school has 90 classrooms, 8 computer labs, 1 auditorium, 1 infirmary, 2 covered
play areas, 2 gyms, an underground Olympic-sized swimming pool, a running track
and soccer pitch, 4 tennis courts, beach volleyball court, and 4 science labs.
The libraries contain over 50,000 volumes.
The school recently
constructed an Arts Center (2006). It is a large structure with two floors, but
standing as high as a 5-6 floor building. The first floor houses music and
theater activities, with an orchestra room, a band room, six practice rooms
(two of which contain pianos, and one an electric drum set), a dance studio, a
media center for editing film and music, and a black box theater. The
second floor is dedicated to the visual arts, and contains several rooms for
ceramics, painting and drawing. The second floor also has a photography room,
complete with its own developing facilities.
Traditionally more
than 95% of the school's graduating class enrolls in a 4-year degree education
within one year of graduation.
Accreditation
Accredited by the Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools and the Brazilian Ministry of Education. It is also a
member of Association
of American Schools in South America.
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Indian Hill High School
is a public high school
near Cincinnati,
Ohio. It is the only high school in the Indian Hill
Exempted Village School District. In 2007, Indian Hill High School
was ranked 48th in the nation in U.S. News and
World Report Top 100 High Schools, placing it ahead of Walnut Hills
High School and Wyoming High
School as the top public high school in the Tri-State area, though
Wyoming High School overtook Indian Hill once again in the most recent state
rankings.[3] In addition, it
placed 116th on Newsweek
Magazine's 2009 Top 1500 High School Rankings[4]
and was named a 2007 U.S. Blue Ribbon School.
Academics
Indian Hill High School offers a very vigorous
college-prep curriculum, mainly in the honors and AP courses. The school offers
a total of 21 AP courses. Students are required to take the AP exam if they
take the AP course. In the spring of 2007, 266 students took 682 Advanced
Placement exams. 83 percent of these students received a 3 or better on the
exams. In the class of 2007, Indian Hill also boasted 73 AP Scholars and 20
National Merit Semi-Finalists/Commended Students, representing 36 percent and
10 percent of the class, respectively.[6]
The school also offers a very prestigious, nationally recognized Latin program;
the Latin Club functions as a local chapter of both the Ohio Junior
Classical League (OJCL) and
National
Junior Classical League (NJCL),[8]
and Indian Hill's Latin chair recently served as president of the American
Classical League (ACL).
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William Mason High School,
also known as Mason High School (MHS), is a four-year public high school located in the
Mason City School District
in Mason, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. Its
enrollment makes it the largest high school in Ohio, serving more than 3,300
students in grades 9 through 12 in a 620,000 square-foot, three-story facility
on a 73-acre campus.
History
The school's first
graduating class was in 1886, with 7 students at commencement at Mason's Opera
House. In the following years, graduating classes consisted of 10, 3 (all
girls), 3 (all girls), and, in 1890, 14, according to "Around Mason, Ohio:
A Story", 1982, by Rose Marie Springman. At the school's 50th commencement
in 1935, the school graduated 27. In 1959, the long-time high school on North
East Street became a K-8 school with the building of a new high school on
Mason-Montgomery Road (the site of the current Mason Middle School). Indoor
athletics continued to be held at the old building until a new gym was added to
the high school in 1967.
Academics
As of 2011, MHS offers
186 courses and is nationally recognized for "offering one of the most
extensive learning experiences available," according to the district's
website. Mason schools are accredited by the North Central Association and are
a member of the Greater Miami Conference for athletics. The current facility
was built in 2002 and recently added a $30 million addition to its school,
which was completed in 2010. The school has well-known art, music, and sports
programs. The school also has a student-run bank, Comet Savings & Loan, and
a student-run school store, the Comet Zone, both of which are open year-round.
Mason City Schools is
consistently rated one of the top school districts in the state, with a perfect
rating of 26 out of 26 indicators on the 2011-2012 Ohio Report Card, according
to the district's website, MasonOhioSchools.com. The district earned
"Excellent with Distinction" from the Ohio Department of Education
and had the sixth-highest Performance Index Score in the state. Also in
2011-2012, the high school had 16 National Merit Semifinalists, and six
National Merit Scholars.
The school earned national recognition in 2013
when it was named the "Kindest School in America" for its students'
documented completion of thousands of acts of kindness as part of the "26
Acts of Kindness" campaign, inspired in the aftermath of the Newtown,
Connecticut school shootings.
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Evening.
You had supper at Potbelly’s then drove towards home to Graeter’s also on
Mason-Montgomery Road for dessert, arriving just before the crowds. Once home
you dropped off Kim and the boys , stopped at Key bank and are now at Kroger’s
on Tylersville for a few more essentials. Kim brought a surprise breakfast for
tomorrow. Morning for the boys, lunch somewhere pleasant then Skyline for
supper – that’s is the present plan. The boys have been a bit rambunctious from
your perspective but Carol and Kim see this as normal boy noise and tomfoolery.
– Amorella
1935 hours. When I was three to five years old I don’t remember so much
noise, even playing with a friend or two in the house. Mostly we played toy
games and used our imaginations. Running around and shouting in the house was
verboten everywhere it seems. I don’t remember any friends’ houses being any
different. One played quietly so as not to disturb the adults who usually
behaved the same way. Mostly when adults got together they played cards –
bridge and rummy or canasta. We kids played ‘Fish’ and ‘Old Maid’. That’s how
it was around Westerville in the late forties and early fifties. The kids drank
orange pop, 7-Up or lemonade and the parents mostly drank beer or scotch.
Everybody ate the chips, pretzels, or assorted nuts. I don’t remember any
adults shouting or yelling other than Dad. He didn’t have much patience with
kids though when we were old enough for scouts he was an assistant scoutmaster.
He was an outdoor sport’s man born a hundred years too late, that’s what family
used to say. I think they were right. I sometimes felt sorry for him not being
born in the right time period. Even at the end he wanted to die out in the
Rocky Mountains along the continental divide riding on a horse hunting for
mountain goats and the like. He ended up dying in his sleep on the couch in his
eighties. Not what he wanted. He chewed tobacco and chewed cigars to their nubs,
powdered his own rifle shells built his own guns and sold them. He was a good
man according to everyone who knew him. I never saw him as much of anything but
man-tough, independent, strong-minded man who would rather swear when he could
get away with it. I don’t know why he did that because otherwise he was a learned
mind with a quite good vocabulary. Sometimes I liked him and admired him for
the things he could do, but we were never friends. As he grew older and
mellowed we tolerated each other. The only we had in common is that we both
liked to read a lot. Mom liked to read also. I’m going on and on. It is time to
shut up and I am not even talking. I don’t feel nearly as old as I must be to
my grandchildren.
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