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Arrowview Junior High School, 1952-55 |
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They told us we had our first two years of Junior High to get up to speed, and that our ninth-grade report cards would then be Part of our Permanent Record. Good thing for me: seventh grade was pretty much a b-minus academic experience.
Then came the dawn: we realized, somehow, that I might not be seeing as well as I ought. A good eye exam, a pair of owlish horn-rimmed spectacles, and the next time I saw a B on a report card was in my junior year at MIT. Such a revelation: trees have leaves, and leaves have edges. Really! Blackboard inscriptions are supposed to be legible from more than a meter away. |
| My best recollection, by the way, is that I’d passed the rather lax eye-screenings in school by simply listening to the kids ahead of me in line and memorizing the letters they were reading off the charts. Misinterpreted the task, ’twould seem, as just another one where I was expected to do my best. Nowadays, I’d call it cheating, but that doesn’t seem to have occurred to me then. Take my word for it: it would’ve horrified me. |
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