See more images
It's a bit blurry, but I just dug up this photo. It was taken inside my old high school; Pullman High.
This picture was taken during the 30Th reunion as the class of 73 was touring the building.
Class of 73 was the first graduating class from this innovative building. There was a lot of open minded thinking, even back then.
Pullman is a college town. That school even had an award for "most individualistic student." They gave it to me in spring of my freshman year.
The art teacher, Vic Moore, was quite a character. One spring his students piled gooey stuff around a sink to create something that looked like an elixir spring in the art department.
A burbling elixir spring.
He would then bottle water in glass jars and label it with things like "pen and ink," "watercolor" or "felt pen." He took these jars around the school pretending to be selling them; like a "snake oil salesman."
Students enjoyed the stunts, or thought he was a bit weired.
It was that same teacher who staged a "pep rally" for some paintings that were being entered into a competition.
If PE classes get pep rallies, why not art?
I once suggested that modern school needed a throne.
A throne, like where a king would sit. Something to make that new school look like the Gothic building we had just moved out of.
This wasn't a serious suggestion, but some students built one. The students scrounged up farm implements and combine parts from wheat ranches around town.
Rusty old farm implements.
They welded a "junk throne" together. It went on display at the school. That art teacher sat there and pretended he was commanding students from the throne.
This was the same teacher who built a castle out of old car doors, washing machine lids, bed springs and, of course, farm implements. It was located on a country road out of town.
Soon the throne went on display to a circuit of art galleries around the region.
Quite an "art happening."
I also remember that art teacher asking students to ponder this question.
"In the hamburger of high school, what would art be? Would art be the relish, the bun, the patty?"
Those were nice memories.
A small "college town" that felt safe and creative back in the year 1972-73.
That was back when the Watergate scandal was starting to make news. Political science classes followed Watergate hearings and people used to laugh at Richard Nixon.
Maybe we were too harsh on our poor president.
I think Pullman went for McGovern in 1972. Surprised some folks being that we were in the Palouse region of eastern Washington.
It is a college town.
In history class, the teacher once called Pullman,
"The Athens of the Palouse."
Athens of the Palouse. Slogan must have never stuck.
I was planning to go into broadcasting, back then. Even took a TV production class in the school's shining new TV studio.
They were proud of that facility.
Radio was really my big interest.
Never imagined I would get a web page. Web pages hadn't been invented back in 1973.
A classmate brought me back to Pullman for the weekend of the 30Th reunion.
See more images I took from that trip to the reunion.
No comments:
Post a Comment