tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post5745282040972815964..comments2023-05-25T03:43:07.527-06:00Comments on Ponderosa Pinings: Pinehurst: Fifth Grade (3)Pinehurst in my Dreamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14839389283883857130noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-6713329745428203982007-06-07T16:37:00.000-06:002007-06-07T16:37:00.000-06:00JA: Should have said to give my best regards to bo...JA: Should have said to give my best regards to both of your parents. I appreciate the sacrifices they made to educate those of us in the valley. If it hadn't been for quality teachers - who knows what might have happened to some of us.<BR/><BR/>My mom strongly discouraged me from going to college, but I didn't want to just get married and have children. I wanted to stretch my brain. . .(and find someone to share my life with that I could "talk" to on a deep level.)<BR/><BR/>Dad didn't say anything, but there was no money set aside. I'll probably blog on that, if I can ever get through these growing up years.Pinehurst in my Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14839389283883857130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-70714607877886020452007-06-07T16:34:00.000-06:002007-06-07T16:34:00.000-06:00JA: I remember your mom. She was always a nice loo...JA: I remember your mom. She was always a nice looking woman. I didn't have her in school, but she may have been teaching at KJHS when I substitute taught there in the fall of '75 and '79 (?).<BR/><BR/>Great to know your dad was a pioneer in Idaho math. Sorry, I didn't follow through and become a math teacher. . .I don't think my brain was ready for pre-Calc, and I thought your Dad was way more intelligent than we were. <BR/><BR/>I really struggled with Differentiation in college. I could Integrate, but not Differentiate. Don't know Why - just didn't make sense to me. I never figured out what to do with the problems - unlike Algebra where I knew what to do to reduce the formulas. With Differentiation, I didn't know where to start or when to end. I never got any problems right! <BR/><BR/>I tried to take Calc 2 at NIC, but dropped it, since I slept through the classes (not in class, but at my apt.). Then I tried taking Calc 2 again at UI in the fall of 1980. Got lost the first week, and dropped it. Tried Calc 1 AGAIN in 1997, but couldn't remember Trig from 1972. . .go figure! <BR/><BR/>I have taught various levels of Algebra and Geometry off and on for years at Private Schools, and I loved it. Just wished I could have learned higher math more easily. (My husband slugged it out to become an engineer - but I'm not much of a slugger.)Pinehurst in my Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14839389283883857130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-29198846789782082182007-06-07T12:47:00.000-06:002007-06-07T12:47:00.000-06:00Thanks to each of you for your comments about my d...Thanks to each of you for your comments about my dad. His was the first Calculus class taught in Idaho. He also introduced the first PCs to a school in Idaho. He still teaches calculus to students from around the world via CalCalc, from his home in Hayden.<BR/><BR/>He turned 83 yesterday and is still going strong. My mother is doing well, also. Some of you may have had her in school. She taught fifth grade at Pinehurst when SL was in seventh grade, then moved to the middle school at Kellogg and taught science.<BR/><BR/>Thanks again for the recollections. I'll share them with my dad today when I see him for lunch.<BR/><BR/>John AustinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-34877701302046008372007-06-05T20:53:00.000-06:002007-06-05T20:53:00.000-06:00I remember that mudslide! The area was still a sl...I remember that mudslide! The area was still a slide when I worked at Sunshine Mine in '74 as a tour guide! They had a fence around the area on the right side of the road as you travelled up the draw. Wow.Pinehurst in my Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14839389283883857130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-13920597812830455142007-06-05T09:47:00.000-06:002007-06-05T09:47:00.000-06:00I remember the flood of '64. Of having to first bo...I remember the flood of '64. Of having to first boil our water and empty the hot water tank, and then not being able to use the water at all. We lived up Big Creek and I remember a couple lost their home in a mud slide and were both injured. But that's about all I remember. And I wouldn't have remembered that if I hadn't read this blog! It was a LONG time ago! (Makes me feel old!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-65710914674540790832007-06-03T12:56:00.000-06:002007-06-03T12:56:00.000-06:00They probably don't have now. After that debackle...They probably don't have now. After that debackle, they probably discontinued advamced math and science and added another shop class. I would have learned as much about Calculus and Physics if I had just sat in study hall for two hours a day. Mr. Austin didn't even put letter grades on my work, just big red question marks. Though I looked somewhat like Stephen Hawking in those days, it did not help me to Grok the laws of physics.myrtle beached whalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18338457419555984753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-68027890465034269152007-06-01T09:58:00.000-06:002007-06-01T09:58:00.000-06:00Wow. . .I didn't know KHS ever had Physics and Cal...Wow. . .I didn't know KHS ever had Physics and Calculus. I was an Algebra whiz, but dismal at Pre-Calc. I got my highest scores in Physics on the ACT - even though I had never had it. (Thought it was pretty much common sense at the time - but then not everyone thought like me). Sorry, they put you through all that torture. Actually Standardized tests can measure underachievement, if you guess at the answers. Guess we thought if we played by the rules, the "experts" would take care of us. LOL!<BR/><BR/>Hypnotic regression??? Maybe that's where my brain has been lately. . . So funny. I decided to keep this blog primarily about my growing up years. . .because it is about Pinehurst. Didn't realize that I would be draggin' others back with me. . .but then that's what makes it fun. I get to hear other's stories of what was happening about the same time, and it makes my memories much broader. . .<BR/><BR/>Thanks for regressing with me. . .you and all the Silver Valley Gang. . .Pinehurst in my Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14839389283883857130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-6894844783677133462007-06-01T09:08:00.000-06:002007-06-01T09:08:00.000-06:00Because of my high standardized test scores, our "...Because of my high standardized test scores, our "brilliant" counselor, Mr. Horvath, decided that as a Junior I should take Calculus and Physics. This was an experimental program of which I was the guinea pig. All the other students in those classes were Seniors. Mr. Austin taught both. What Mr. Horvath failed to realize was that I was one of the youngest people in my class, so I was essentially two years younger than my classmates in those classes. Though I was intellectually on a par with them, I was not socially or emotionally equipped, or on the same maturity level as the other students. The experiment was a dismal failure and to this day I don't get physics. Mr. Austin was a great teacher, but I was not prepared to learn those advanced subjects. I had forgotten all about that until I saw the name Austin. This blog stuff is like hypnotic regression for me. Plus, I was and always will be, a classic underachiever. Standardized tests do not allow for that.myrtle beached whalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18338457419555984753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-67489777051849797742007-05-31T18:21:00.000-06:002007-05-31T18:21:00.000-06:00Wow - your dad has an amazing memory! I remember ...Wow - your dad has an amazing memory! I remember he knew his stuff, and half the time I couldn't wrap my brain around the material. Besides that and Calculus in College, I changed my mind about being a Math Teacher. . .but back to the floods. . .<BR/><BR/>I remember where you lived. I may have dropped someone off at your house one time. I can't imagine all that water in the basement! It must have been horrible! Mud everywhere!<BR/><BR/>Glad you were able to evacuate in '74. I was living off-campus in an upstairs apt, by the swimming pool a few blocks from NIC. (One of my roommates was C. Shonewald). Some of the guys who had been sand bagging in the valley came over to rest and we fed them. I can't remember who-all came over, but they were exhausted! They gave us a report of the valley and it sounded much worse than '64.<BR/><BR/>I remember Rita - didn't really know her - but remembered she was really pretty. She went to Pinehurst Jr. High also, didn't she?<BR/><BR/>I didn't realize anyone filled sand bags for the Mine Disaster. What did they use them for?<BR/><BR/>Glad you and your Dad didn't get swept away when the freeway washed out. So scary!<BR/><BR/>Guess God had plans for the two of you!<BR/><BR/>Great job figuring out who I am. Did you know me? I knew you, because your brother was popular with some of the girls in my class, and of course, that gave you some notariety as the younger brother.<BR/><BR/>Get my email from Pert if ya wanna contact me. I would put it here, but I'm getting plenty of spam since I started using Blogspot. . . advertising it here may make it worse!Pinehurst in my Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14839389283883857130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-63118459523650637562007-05-31T11:53:00.000-06:002007-05-31T11:53:00.000-06:00Our house at Fifth and Montana was one block from ...Our house at Fifth and Montana was one block from the dike, so when it went in '64 we got three feet of water in our basement. We had just moved into the brand new house during the summer of '64, so we hadn't yet finished the basement (thankfully) although the boys' bedrooms were down there. We got most of our things out, but the muddy mess to cleanup will remain with me forever.<BR/><BR/>In '74, my senior year at KHS, we had to evacuate because the dike at the bridge to Weir Gulch was about to break. That would have sent a wall of water about eight feet high down Fifth Street, so we packed up and went to the Sunshine Inn. My friend, Rita Spinazza lived nearby, so it was OK with me. Meanwhile, helicopters were used to evacuate people from up Pine Creek. We filled sand bags at Barney's parking lot to help shore up the dike. That, as I recall it now, was eerily similar to filling sand bags during the Sunshine Mine disaster just 20 months earlier.<BR/><BR/>Fortunately, the dike held (although the Weir Gulch bridge did not) and we moved back the next day. The flood washed out the two eastbound lanes of I-90, just after my dad and I crossed them, so we had to use the westbound lanes both ways for months until repairs were made.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for jogging my memories, SL. Yes, my dad helped me figure out who you are, from his '72 pre-calc class. So, there. :)<BR/><BR/>John AustinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-57812373661953122802007-05-31T10:42:00.000-06:002007-05-31T10:42:00.000-06:00Ladies:The '64 flood was really bad in Pinehurst a...Ladies:<BR/><BR/>The '64 flood was really bad in Pinehurst and Pinecreek, but I think the '74 flood was much larger in the entire region. I will likely blog about it later, but they were putting boards up between the cement dividers along the public beach and sand bagging to keep the Coeur d'Alene lake from overrunning the NIC campus area.Pinehurst in my Dreamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14839389283883857130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-21043586944893276892007-05-30T22:48:00.000-06:002007-05-30T22:48:00.000-06:00I remember the floods also. I think after I moved ...I remember the floods also. I think after I moved away the water went over I-90 at the Cataldo Slew. I remember seeing it on the news. I still look at the river as I cross the Cataldo bridge in the spring to see how high the water is.Christy Woolumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02748862572108653566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-66046237766268825502007-05-30T18:55:00.000-06:002007-05-30T18:55:00.000-06:00I remember the flood of 1974 the best. I think we...I remember the flood of 1974 the best. I think we may have lost the wooden Division Street bridge that year. I remember the river in Kellogg being really high. That is interesting about the flood of 64. That must have been scary with all that water around.Carol Woolum Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06957608661837611056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758327280459500976.post-62417181483937998372007-05-30T15:17:00.000-06:002007-05-30T15:17:00.000-06:00I got meme'd (is that a word?) by my friend over a...I got meme'd (is that a word?) by my friend over at A Schmitty Life and you've been selected for it's next victim!<BR/><BR/>INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so:<BR/>1) The Life & Times of a First Time Stay At Home Mom<BR/>2) Mom of 2 and Wife of 1<BR/>3) BlondeMomBlog<BR/>4) It's A Schmitty Life<BR/>5) Life is short, buy the shoesMrsFierceShoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00976357801082131094noreply@blogger.com