1962/1963 here we come

 Here it is our sophomore year and once again I am a class officer.  Again I do not know why.  Maybe it is because I talk less than anyone else in the class.  AND once again I do not remember anything that the officers did!  Well it was kind of fun to be with the 3 girls even if it was just for the picture!

 A few things happened with the band.  We traded our huge sousaphones in for fancy white fiber glass onces that maybe had half the weight!  Last year after a long parade march those things got pretty darn heavy.  Also one can see that we were chosen as the governor's band.  I can't remember what that meant other than a trip to the state fair.  At this point in time I have resigned myself to being a mediocre player in the band but one who can march with the best!  I think as a result of being the governor's band we got brand new fancy uniforms which meant that any parade we were in we were the hit of the day.  White spates on the shoes, white gloves and the works.  On a hot day they were almost death.

 For a second year I was in the chorus and had a great time.  I think we were pretty darn good as Mr. Piehl was a very good director.  For some reason Mr. Piehl was not a fan of my voice but I did love to sing but as I think about I may have been at my best while sitting on the tractor.

 Once in the Letterman's Club you were in for the duration of school.  One of the big things we did this year was voted on replacing the letterman's jacket with a sport coat which had our school emblem on.  That is what we wore to away basketball games.  For sure we looked the part of a good team and yes, for the most part we were.  Another thing we did was in the spring we put on a pancake dinner to raise money.  If I remember I was one of the cooks!

 I may have written an incorrect thing yesterday.  We were once again in the Wild Rice Conference with towns to our east.  We went 4-2 with the highlight being a win of 48-7 against Milnor and the low light a 19-41 loss to Lidgerwood.  This was my sophomore year and the first year of being in the starting lineup.  My favorite was defense.  On offense I was not so good I don't think!  By todays standards I would be kind of small but back then at 175 pounds I was pretty big.  Not the biggest by far but bigger than a lot of the guys.

This was also my first year of playing varsity ball.  I came in at #6 or #7 depending on who we were playing.  The yearbook does not give our scores but I know we were well above 500 in wins.

For some reason they had individual pictures in the yearbook that year.  Look ar our fancy converse canvas high top shoes.  I think I was able to buy them through the school for $10.  At this stage of my career I was best at blocking out for a rebound and worst with my dribbling skills.  For some reason I also had a good sense of position and how to play defense.

One would be normal if you were to ask me WHY would you put a picture of a girl in your story.  Well it could be a long story but I will condense it!  After the homecoming dance of my freshman year JoEllen asked me to take her home!  That is no lie.  Well that night was my first experience of kissing a girl.  We pretty much were special friends for that year.  What happened.  Well I lived 25 miles from Forman and I pretty much was a country bumpkin so what happen in the fall of our sophomore year?  JoEllen lived in Forman and for sure there were many opportunities to engage in social activities during the summer.  By the time fall came and school started I was pretty much a forgotten experience!  The story could have read "country boy loses to city boy!" Now I can laugh and recall how naive I was.  Of course it was for the best but at the time I was, "what the heck is happening?"  Well we did get together again the last part of our high school days but that is another story.

Here we are at the start of Holy Week and I have no idea what is going to happen this week.  I know that pretty much all churches are doing things on line but no church in person.  For me there is another BIG issue that I need to work on starting today.  Terry called me about 4:00 yesterday PM and said a person had just come into her room and informed her that she had tested positive for coronavirus!  We both were speechless.  Terry has been out of the house twice in the last 5 weeks.  Once we went to Costco and the grocery store and she stayed in the car.  The second time was a week ago today when we purchased the car.  We drove up to the dealership and she STAYED in the car while they brought the papers out to the car for her to sign.  So that only leaves the possibility of me bringing it home.  I have been going out maybe 2 or 3 times a week to go to the grocery store.  I am sure each time I have used hand sanitizer and then washed my hands when I got home.  I feel fine so not sure what goes.  They did say even though she tested positive she is a-symptom which is to say she has NO coronavirus signs.  I don't know what goes.  I don't know if it is possible that with her health issues going on something triggered a positive result when actually there is nothing.  With my tendency to think the best I feel that may have happened.  My gosh the guy came in and when Terry asked about a timeline for going home he mentioned TWO weeks but then he kind of backed out of that and said he could not say.
Now it seems that I need to find out IF I should get tested.  I will do that today.  I do know that you just can not walk into or drive up to a place and get tested.  It will give me something to do.

I think I will continue to write about high school days tomorrow.  It has been fun.  I actually found out something yesterday that put my mind at ease a bit.  I was looking at our senior yearbook, the year I was captain of the football team and we won ONE game.  I noticed that we did win our first game and then I remembered that John C who was our quarterback broke his arm after that game.  That was a huge factor for the rest of the season.  It made me feel a bit better that we did win before he was hurt!  I should add that looking back at the high school days does NOT bring me to wanting them back!!!  It has been fun just to look and remember back then as for the most part high school was a great time.  It also refreshes my mind that I was VERY immature and did not make good use of my days back then.  There is perhaps good in being a niave country boy but also some negative to it.  BUT no regrets as the past is past and now we are in the present and look towards the future.
No enough for today.  I am on my FP coffee and it is almost to the bottom of the cup.  I think I will skip breakfast as this staying at home and wandering from room to room often finds me in the kitchen with the fridge open if you get the idea!