Subject: RE: Alger School Play
From: Monette Park (monettehp@q.com)
Date: Wed May 27 2009 - 19:45:35 CDT
I vividly remember the Mexico play because Miss Wycoff said I had to have the part of the Mexican Grandmother making tortillas. Then she went on to say it was because I was so dark that I'd be perfect as a real Mexican. I've never forgotten that, always wanted to be blonde like the rest of you. It was NOT intended as a compliment. Made me stay away from Mexico for years, she really kind of ruined it for me. I DID get over it and have been there on delightful trips several times. Monette
> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:43:21 -0500
> From: jthomas@math.niu.edu
> To: ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu
> Subject: Re: Alger School Play
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> Linda asks:
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> > Anyone remember the class play about Mexico, and who were the mother, father and children?
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> Is that the one with, I think, Bob Gillette and maybe Jane Vanbloys (sp)
> as mom-and-pop? Linda, were you one of the kids? Or maybe that was a
> Thanksgiving play. I remember I dressed up in what we thought was
> authentic native garb (thanks to The Cisco Kid) and some of us
> memorized short speeches on areas of Mexican. Mine started:
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> I am a Tarascan indian.
> I live on the shores of lake Patzcuaro.
> You will marvel at the beauty of this enchanted lake....
> especially after a few tokes of Michoacan...
>
> OK, so we learned naive history and culture from romanticized texts back
> then and I made that fourth line up.
>
> Jim
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