Spelling Bee circa 1949

Watching the spelling bee makes me recall when I entered a bee.

I was eliminated on "cemetery".

Dad was a funeral director and was NOT TOO HAPPY !!

Cadavering

Had to buy a new computer and so we were dark for a while.

As freshman in dental school we had to take anatomy two mornings a week. 6 teams 8 cadavers. 50 all male white students. The cadaver given to our team was the smallest of the lot. Major vessels would look like a hair. It challenged us and improved our study of detail.

We respected the cadavers, made no nick names, etc.

My Mother lived close to the anatomy class and on Monday noons, I would go over to her house for lunch.

I was always starved but on one visit Mother served leftover turkey sandwiches.

I could not take a bite, after a morning of cadavering !! 

KA BOOM KA BOOM !!

Tonight there is a fireworks show in the Target lot nearby. 

KA BOOM       KA BOOM   WE  JUST  MISSED   A  SCREAMING  SAUCER

My 1st day at the prison, returning from lunch, we heard 

KA BOOM   KA BOOM   KA BOOM.

A TRIO OF CONVICTS was being shot trying to jump the guard  towers.

     KA  BOOM    KA BOOM !!!! 

Only Derby Attended

While a dentist at the Chillicothe, Ohio, Federal Reformatory, we had the opportunity to see a Kentucky Derby, about a 3 hour drive away. One of the inmates was just being transferred to Ky, would be employed at the Lexington Holiday Inn and could find a room for Jet and me.

So we drove down to see the Ky Derby but there wasn't a room to be had. Our inmate friend insisted we stay with him at his half way house. And we did.

Jet wanted to know why this fellow was in prison.

I told her that he was known as the "Lexington Strangler" while in the joint.

She didn't sleep a wink that night.