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1. Name the NHL team that played from 1976-82 before moving to New Jersey and becoming the Devils. (Hint: It shares a name with an MLB club.)
2. What Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver caught nine passes for 131 yards and a touchdown to be named MVP of Super Bowl XLIII? 3. Name the Basketball Hall of Famer and member of the 1981 Boston Celtics NBA championship team who was nicknamed “Tiny.” 4. What actor used a golf club to smash another driver’s windshield in a February 1994 road rage incident? 5. At the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, American Sage Kotsenburg won the first gold medal in what sport making its Olympic debut? 6. In what year did NBA greats Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain both have single games with 50-plus rebounds? 7. What youth-oriented gravity-racing event takes place every July in Akron, Ohio? 1. The Colorado Rockies.
2. Santonio Holmes. 3. Nate Archibald. 4. Jack Nicholson. 5. Men’s snowboard slopestyle. 6. 1960 (Russell had 51 on Feb. 5; Chamberlain had 55 on Nov. 24). 7. The All-American Soap Box Derby World Championship. © 2024 King Features Synd., Inc.
Maury, one of Grandpa’s classmates at Loras Academy had lunch at Alverno recently. (This was the name of the high school I attended during my junior and senior years) While we were reminiscing we both recalled a very “funny” incident that happened in the spring of our junior year.
First, Maury, I must explain that Loras Academy was a ROTC school at that time. (ROTC is Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and your mom or dad will explain.) What happened was caused by a combination of a teaching method used by our commanding officer and our “daring high school mentality” at the time! (Maury, when you get to high school, Grandpa, cautions you to “not imitate” some of the things we did then, but thinks you might enjoy hearing about them!) This is what happened: All of us were well schooled in obeying commands like “Forward March,” “Parade Rest,” “Halt,” etc. but our commanding officer thought it would be good experience learning to give commands also. To teach us this he would call on anyone in the ranks to step in front of the company and practice giving commands. We were free to give any standard command. Because this was done very frequently some of us, suddenly, were “hit with a bright idea!” Every morning a bunch of us met in the academy book store before classes began. One morning, Maury, someone suggested that whoever was chosen to give commands give the command “Dismissed!” We all thought this very funny and a great idea but at the same time were “chicken” to do it. That’s when a classmate, (“Mush” McDermott) volunteered to do it (if called out by the C.O.) if we promised to obey it!! After “some deep thought and great soul searching” we all agreed! It was about a week later, one warm day in May, when “Mush” McDermott was called from the ranks to give commands. We were all thinking will he or won’t he? After giving a few routine commands Grandpa still remembers “Mush” in a loud voice giving the command “companyyy dismissed!!” The scene was confusion mingled with mass hysteria! We scattered in all directions running away in individual small groups. After a short time the reality of the moment hit us and we slowly returned to the area where we had been “DISMISSED”! Looking back, Maury, Grandpa admired the way our C.O. reacted. He simply (but with unmistakable authority) said: “O.K., this one time you surprised me and with my authorization from now on, only I am authorized to command “Dismissed!” None of us ever gave this command again!!! Much love, Grandpa. |