I am blown away, that bars are closing in Miles City. I love Miles City.
Learned today that a dear friend in Dallas, TX. (one of the biggest convention gatherers for the state) was laid off as were several hundred other middle management people at Marriott today internationally...
A 401K I acquired from my first marriage is now a 201K...sorry, sorry situation. (FYI, I was a broker for Merrill Lynch before moving into the public school education field).
Glad I work for a public school district in Texas as the math coordinator. Hope/guess I will always have a job. If not, I will be happy to step into a math or science classroom for which I am certified anywhere. I love teaching and working with kids -- expecially those that are struggling. I am active in Texas' math teacher organizations, serving in statewide offices.
I only took one math course in high school at CCHS - geometry from Irene Hoffman. I had taken Algebra I, II, and Trig before I moved to Montana mid-year as a sophomore in 1964. Ms. Hoffman told me often "you should be a geometry teacher," which happened 1999-2000. I wish I had talked to her about that before she died.
Mr. Albrecht, our principal, tried to convince my Dad to send me to MCCC to take college-level math courses my junior and senior years (since CCHS did not have pre-calculus nor calculus and nothing else to offer me mathematically.) My dad -- bless his heart -- suggested typing and other business courses for his dear eldest daughter. I try to forgive him today by thinking he knew the approaching importance of the keyboard. But when I got to Calculus at Montana State, I nearly lost it all. It took 30 credits of graduate level math at Rice University 1997-1999 to prove my mettle.
I graduated 1966 from CCHS and am very proud of it.
Hope to finish my doctoral studies this year in Curriculum and Instruction, Secondary Mathematics. (My God, believe it, I keep telling myself).
Love this forum -- more up to date than the Miles City Star...hate to admit at times I was a reporter in the 1960s for the Star. Don't think any of my articles still are available!