I remember Mr. Wall well! He had an excellent shot with an eraser if you needed it! I spent most of my Senior year in Mr. Vill`s auto shop rebuilding cars but he wouldn`t let me skip Civics/Economics even to change his oil! LOL Fun class if he liked you and he liked all!
Herb Wheeler 1968
11/17/2012 |
|
|
ALL I EVER HEARD FROM MY OLDER BROTHER AND SISTER,IS YOUR GOING TO LOVE MR.WALL!!!!!!!WELL,IN 1973 I FINALLY WAS A SENIOR AND HAD MR. WALL!WHAT WAS SAD THOUGH IS RIGHT AFTER THE SCHOOL YEAR STARTED,ON A MONDAY MORNING WE HAD A SUBSTITUTE. FINALLY WHEN WE ASKED WHEN MR. WALL WOULD BE BACK,HE TOLD US MR.WALL HAD DIED OVER THE WEEKEND OF A SUDDEN HEART ATTACK. I WAS REALLY SAD,BECAUSE HE WAS BECOMING MY FAVORITE TEACHER!!I GUESS WE NEVER KNOW.
LINDA GRIMM CLINE
10/6/2012 |
|
I want to thank you for being one of my best teachers - I learned a lot and went on to take more similar classes in college. RIP
Clare (Hanson) Stewart
8/19/2008 |
|
|
I remember very clearly. Mr Wall told our class áthe good die young so I will live foreverá He died that weekend.He really was one of the good teachers.He made you think without you ever knowing he was doing it.I learned the hard way,don't ever fall asleep in his class. Mike Smith, class of 1973
Mike Smith
3/9/2008 |
|
How could I forget Mr. Wall? It was 1965, the Cold War persisted and Viet Nam raged. Mr. Wall ranted and raved about how Communism was no threat to the U.S. That comment would make me so mad. I would get into áargumentsá with him. I was so upset about his ábrainwashingá the silent students in my class that I wrote to J. Edgar Hoover about it. Mr. Hoover sent me a personal letter and a box of books about how Communism was indeed a threat. I took the letter to Mr. Wall, he set it on his infamous podium, read it, and as he commented, he spit and smeared the áJá of Mr. Hoover's signature. I was beside myself. Well, I got an áAá in his class and I realized that he said those things to get us to think, to learn for ourselves and to inspire us. I don't know about the others, but he sure inspired me to be a free thinker, not to believe everything I hear, search for the truth. I live my life that way to this day. He was an inspiration ... my most unforgettable teacher. (But I am still trying t
Kris Zebratski (Spingath)
2/7/2005 |
|
|
I like so many others, could write a treatise on the many ways Mr. Wall taught his class. The ranting, the raving, the slamming down of a broken piece of chalk as he would proclaim, áDamn communist chalk!á Of the many teachers I have had, Mr. Wall stands out the most. His enthusiasm for The Law, The Constitution, and the workings of government inspired me and set me on a course which ended in law school. I never got the chance to thank him for planting the seed in my mind that I could do it. I hope he knew just how much he inspired me and others. I don't practice law now, instead, I teach Government and U.S. History and I just hope I am doing for my students, what he did for me.
John Shipley
6/13/2002 |
|
funny...I think about something he often repeated...over and over...ácongress makes? what?......no laws!!!!á or something like that:::smile::: he was a teacher with passion, something maybe rare today as it was in 1973....but he had it...who can forget his spitting excitment all over us???? a good man not soon forgotten, even by me a c+ student Jerry Smith 2002
jerry smith
2/15/2002 |
|
|
I remember him passing as if it were yesterday. I'll never forget when I got called into the office for ditching after his death and his twin brother came to the school to meet some of us. I was called into the office and about fainted. He taught me so much about the law and how to live life to it's fullest. He is very much missed and I thank God everyday for having had him in part of my life.
Carolyn "Cookie" Haddad
8/3/2001 |
|
Mr. Wall predicted that LBJ would not run for recelction, that Bobby Kennedy would follow his brothers path and taught me more about life thn any other teacher, I am sure there is no other like him anywhere.
Shirley (Wells) LeBlanc
6/30/2001 |
|
|
Mr. Wall loved what he did and he was passionate about the subject of the constitution of this country. One got his class in thier senior year áERGOá (as he would always say) you would hear through the wall of classes you had near his class the shouts and loud laughter for the 3 years prior to getting his class. At last you would know what the noise was about. The noise reflected the enthusiasm he had as an instructor. He would yell out á what kind of laws will governmennt make class regarding state & religeon?á and we would all yell out áNO LAWSá at the top of our lungs. I learned the most important part that this nation has provided to us all and that is our rights under the constitution as taught by a loving decent citizen of a man. Every class that followed his passing suffrerd the loss of his skill and gift to this country he really admired. I watched people that did not give a hoot, or ever talk, get invovled and part
Jeffrey Kopf 1972
11/19/2000 |
|
In Memoriam
