Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I had different goals when classes were over. I'd had enough frustration for the day and did sound effects and ran the board at the school's FM station, WNYE. It styled itself as the "High School of the Air." I took part in a whole slew of radio shows dramatizing various moments in American History. Regards, Dick On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >> Jeez, I was so glad to see the end of them. My high school drafting class >> required we use them to ink on vellum. Getting a clean line with no >> breaks or >> smudges was virtually impossible. The number of drawings I ruined as I >> attempted to get the last few lines is place is uncountable. That Senior >> drfating class was a whole year of frustration. Arghhh! >> >> I would have sold my soul to the devil to get my hands on a Rapidograph. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dick > > > To keep up with the mechanical and architectural drawing programs at New > Trier high school meant you needed to stay after school and hour and a half > every day you were there. It meant when you got home from high school every > day it was dark just in time for dinner. It was a built in extracurricular > activity like going out for wrestling. And you couldn't do both. > It was the 60's I learned with drawing pens I got pretty good at it. Even > my > lettering was pretty good. It took lots of extra hours. But like anything > its not "talent" which was the issue its just putting in the hours. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information