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Ron Corneius, ’65 RIP
 

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PAUL SAEVIG, ‘67 on August 20, 2020 at 10:38 PM said:

RON WAS IN MY SPEECH 1 CLASS IN THE ’63-64 SCHOOL YEAR AND THE TEACHER WAS MR, WOODS, RON KEPT UP A RUNNING PATTER OF UNDER-HIS-VOICE COMMENTARY ABOUT THE STUDENTS, THEIR SPEECHES, THE SCHOOL, ,WRESTLING AND EVERYTHING ELSE, HE WAS WITTY AND LOVED TO TEASE, AND ABOUT 90% OF IT WAS NONSENSE AND WE BOTH KNEW IT. HE WOULD PREDICT CATASTROPHIC, ABSURD EVENTS WITH A STRAIGHT FACE AND I STRUGGLED NOT TO LAUGH OUT LOUD,

I CAN STILL SEE RON AT THE RIGHT SIDE OF HE ROOM, FRONT ROW AND HE ALWAYS WORE A LIGHT CARDIGAN SWEATER, HE WOULD SIT QUIETLY WITH HISI ARMS FOLDED ON THE DESK AND ANYONE WOULD THINK HE WAS AN AVID, DILIGENT STUDENT,

HE WOULD BE WHISPERING THINGS LIKE, "THE FOOTBALL IS GOING TO LOSE 99 TO NOTHING TONIGHT! COACH SKAIN WILL BE FIRED IN FRONT OF EVERYONE! THE BUS DRIVER WILL REFUSE TO GIVE THE PLAYERS A RIDE HOME TO FULLERTON! THEY'LL HAVE TO HITCHHIKE IN THEIR DIRTY, SWEATY UNIFORMS!”

AS A GREEN FRESHMAN FROM NICOLAS, I BELIEVED HIM FOR QUITE A WHILE! HA!

A GOOD FRIEND WHO HELPED ME GET USED TO THE SHOCK OF HIGH SCHOOL’HE LOVED TO PUT PEOPLE ON AND PRETEND TO BE CYNICAL AND CRASS, HA HA!

MR, WOODS WAS A GREAT TEACHER .FUNNY AS THE DICKENS AND WARM AND HELPFUL, ,WE ALL LOVED HIM,

OTHERS IN TE CLASS:

SALLY HEGER, ’67’
TRACY GARNETT, ‘67
CRAIG SCOTT ‘67
JACKIE NELSON, ‘67
STAN COMMONS, ‘67
JACKSON BROWNE, ‘66
ROB ALLINGHAM, ‘66
TOM RELTH, ’66 I THINK
DEBBIE KRAMER, ‘65
MELANIE BOONE,’;66’
TRUDY ROCKWELL, ‘66
PAT STEURER, ‘65
DAVD RECHNITZER ;67 WERE YOU THERE TOO?

AND OTHERS I DON’T RECALL AT THE MOMENT,

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