[gundog]

The only person I’ve known to be in MENSA ( I laughed in his face when he told me; blamed it on having recently seen the MENSA episode of The Simpsons) was a Class of ‘84 MHS grad. ( don’t hold me to that...could be off a year either way).

What year did you graduate?

[Hieronymus]

If 1250 would qualify one, I bet that between a third and two thirds of those who took forensics for more than one year would have qualified.

So far as I know, I’ve never met anyone in MENSA, but anyone who has come to know me at all well can see that I wouldn’t see it as a resume-enhancer. Undoubtedly I have cross paths with such creatures but they have been bright enough not to bring the subject up.

It’s to the credit of Coos County that you have known so few.

I graduated in ‘88. I only knew a handful of members of the class of ‘85 well, but I’m sure half of them would qualify. I can’t picture any of them bothering to join.

I can’t picture that year’s tithe to Harvard (and my mentor in debate) joining in a million years. He managed to become a preacher in Idaho after graduating from Harvard. He was om some ways very irreligious his senior year, but had the endearing habit of taking Gideon Bibles from hotel rooms after cutting out “thou shall not steal” and leaving that verse behind.