[Maine Mariner]

9th grade speech class with Mr. Larsen. Our first reaction-we thought he was joking.
Later we learned the faculty not teaching were watching the news on TV in the auditorium. We 9th grades wanted to watch it too. The school principal said no-he thought it would be too much for us.

25 years later-I was teaching at the same college as Mr. Larsen (he moved up). I stop in his office and we chatted for a few minutes about the day.

[antiRepublicrat]

We 9th grades wanted to watch it too. The school principal said no-he thought it would be too much for us.

How things change. For us we could go to the library where they had a big TV set up showing the coverage of the Challenger explosion.