Rogers60

There was only one teacher I had two bad incidents happen from, but he was one of the most liked teachers by students, so I'll not mention who the science teacher was. He wasn't one of my teachers, anyway, just a possible coach and club advisor. He had only been a teacher two years before our entry at Rogers.

I liked all my English teachers except one, the one who was not liked by many of us. He was more like a stiff college professor. A teacher who taught most of us our senior year. Maude Scofield, sure was my favorite. She was in good charge of the class, graded fairly, was pleasant and helpful. She is alumnus of what I am  now, a Washington State alum. She had only been at Rogers since 1953.

George Molchan had the hardest job, I think. He had a study hall on the top floor that had some violence that shocked me, not that he was violent, but some students got so when he tried to discipline them for talking and making noise. It was a study hall that was pretty impossible to study in.

I'm sure glad I spent two years with the best language teacher, Betty Pence, the better Spanish teacher. She was excellent to teach us the language, disciplined us very well and properly-deserved. I sometimes would converse with classmates, wrong to do so, and she would make me shape up by simply saying, "Alfredo, no habla, por favor," or something like that. Barry Robinson, Ken Kelling, Bob Martin and I had gone to LA for a Rose Bowl for winning a Hillyard Booster Contest, and we bought a pinata bat. We gave it to her as a gift, because we all liked her. I still use the nickname I used in the class and learned to use there: Alfredo Nuevhombre. I enjoyed reading the Alfred E. Newman (MAD) magazine so I was pretending to be a Mexican similar.

I was a poorly educated math kid because I didn't like math. I made it through freshman algebra from Misters Carroll and Merrick. I was in Harold Thompson's geometry class the sophomore year. It was an interesting classroom in the shop building. He would start every class giving us a non-math lecture of various subjects, then he would send us to the chalkboards to put one of our homework answers. He was the uncle of a student: Craig Thompson.

I ended up 7 years after graduation being a history teacher. I wanted to be one, and started learning to be one the same year of graduation, enrolling at WSU to be a social studies teacher, and I did teach history and government for over 31 years in junior and senior high schools.

Bob Poffenroth was a great teacher in his portable classroom for World History.