[Tucker39]

Back in the 50s our 9th grade teacher, Ms. Seaks, now in Heaven, taught us manners, etiquette, how to dress for a date, table manners, chew with your mouth closed, etc. Guys, always wear dark socks. That has been an almost subconscious guide to me all these many years

[goseminoles]

Guys, always wear dark socks But they don't look cool with socks..

[knarf]

Ms Seaks re-inforced or better articulated what your parents wanted of you

In the 50's ... if you got punishment in school, you got it again at home

In the 50's, your neighbor, who saw you throw a rock at a window in an abandoned or vacant structure, called your mother and you got it from her ... until your father came home and you got it from him too .... as WELL as more Saturday chores, or no allowance or some other punishment

I remember very little discipline as a child, 'cause the ones I DID get, meant something and the remembrance of that one or two was sufficient to prevent (from my own internal comprehension of things) the three, four, five (etc.) events

[Daffynition]

Back in *those* days....we had manners b/c our parents had manners. Good manners and social graces were taught at home .....and reinforced in school and church.

Many families sent us for ball room dancing lessons with Mrs. Linder. She was a kindly, refined, old money lady who gathered middle class kids in her basement rec room. She guided a whole generation of pre-teen kids through the maze of how to sit in a chair properly, how a boy asks a girl to dance, how to hold open a door, serve punch and dance the waltz, fox trot, rumba. It was a *finishing school* for those who wanted to show good breeding, when out in polite society.

There was no *stroll*,*bop*, or *twist* for her tastes... *American Bandstand* and the birth of rock and roll, changed all of Mrs. Linder's teaching ...for those kids who had a teevee, anyway.