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I must have read all of them at least three times each; glad DU has a connection to Clair Bee

citycat wrote:Clair Bee's grandson attended Davidson and was a karate and/or judo champion.

He did not graduate.

That's very un-Hiltonian. The College wrote about him in articles in the Davidson Journal.

"I'm hitting the ball well enough to contend, to win this golf tournament," said Woods


Uh. He's 11 strokes down and tied for 50th. Love the confidence, but that isn't a rational statement. Next week's Players will be fun. For the first two days, one of the groups is Woods, Mickelson, and Fowler.

i77cat wrote:"I'm hitting the ball well enough to contend, to win this golf tournament," said Woods


Uh. He's 11 strokes down and tied for 50th. Love the confidence, but that isn't a rational statement. Next week's Players will be fun. For the first two days, one of the groups is Woods, Mickelson, and Fowler.

Yep, complains the greens are too slow. Good thing he doesn't have to play on my home course. For about three weeks after the spring top dressing you needed a croquet mallet.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports ... 89524.html

"You don’t draft in the late 20s or worse, as the Spurs have done constantly over the past 20 years, and still mine the Tony Parker’s and Manu Ginobili’s unless you’re great at improving the guys you drafted."

If they don't have money for writer's, can't they find editor's? Mine were intentional.

That's funny. The censored version makes it dirty.

Do Jacob and his mother spell their last names differently, as the article does?

This is close, but doesn't match the 1996 attempt of a New Mexico resident to buy tickets to the Summer Olympics in Atlanta through the USOC's ticket office. The customer service representative told him he'd need to buy tickets through his country's Olympic Committee.

He tried to explain New Mexico was part of the USA to the representative and her supervisor without success. One of them, probably the supervisor, ended the discussion by saying, "Old Mexico, New Mexico, it doesn't matter. You need to contact your own country's Olympic Committee."

Am I the only one who questions the significance of graduating summa cum laude when you are home schooled? Are you actually competing against anyone else?

Don't know the significance of graduating summa cum laude from many high schools, let alone home school. But I do know the significance of a full academic scholarship.

It sounds like the award came from a home school consortium. Most likely tests were taken by him and a cadre of other participants, and he was so designated by those scores.

Home schooling can mean almost anything these days. A cousin doesn’t have a degree herself. She home schooled her two youngest, and they both did fine in college. Matthew is now a naval officer. Of course she is very smart, as are the kids. Heredity, you know. And we had several aunts who were teachers, so some of that must have rubbed off.

With organized sports, field trips, etc., the experience can be as enriching and about as social as school.

It’s not my style, but it works well for some. There’s a high school age cellist in Charlotte who is home schooled. He has time to practice hours a day. He got his first violin at age four. He wanted to take up the cello, so he got a downsized version six months later. In the Charlotte Youth Symphony he alternates years between the two instruments.

I also have another relative who homeschooled her daughter. My distant observation is that she needed much more socialization. I could easily be wrong, it is none of my business, and I don’t see any of them any more to see how things turned out. I just mention this as an example where things may not have worked so well.

A friend of mine coaches a HS mock trial team. They won the nationals last year and just got back from Reno where they did well again this year. They are all home schooled. As far as I can tell they spend more time on this than any subject. None play school sports or perform in band or chorus. This is their extracurricular activity.

In Union County I had a parishioner who had a write-in campaign running for school board. I stood just outside the restricted area at a Waxhaw polling place encouraging people to vote for him. I’m sure you have encountered obnoxious people like that before you vote. (This was not my precinct, which voted at my church. Somehow nobody objected. I was doing it as an individual, not representing the church, anyway.)

There were also a couple of homeschooled high school boys who were campaigning for some candidate as sort of a hands-on school project. They were very bright and were the sort of conservatives that come off like characters Dan Akroyd sometimes plays. They reminded me of a couple of my friends at DU.

I had some contact with women who organized activities for groups of the homeschooled. They wound up never using our facilities, but the conversations we had when they called to inquire about them were instructive to me about home schooling. They didn’t seem to fit my unfair stereotype at the time.