Another Lesson the Teacher Never Taught You (and other topics)

Excerpts from the April GHS '70 Newsletter

Addendum from Mark Fogt

Garrett State Bank President and CEO

to Garrett’s Centenary Era 

 

 

The February newsletter noted Garrett’s Centenary Era, wherein three major civic buildings,were built within a 10-year span beginning one century ago: City Hall, the public Library, and the old High School.

 

Upon posting that GHS ’70 Newsletter excerpt to Garrett Alumni News (which I do now and then), Mark Fogt, GHS ’72 and current Garrett State Bank President and CEO, responded to add:

 

Just read your most recent blog regarding buildings that are all around 100 years old, and you can add to that list the Sacred Heart Hospital that is now about 110 years old; and the main addition (The northern part of the building on the Grotto side) would be about 100 years old.  The Old Lime Stone Garrett State Bank building will be 100 years old in 2015.

There was an amazing amount of growth and investment in the community at the turn of the century era, going from wild and rough to more civilized and refined.  It had to be exciting.

 

Thanks to Mark and the Garrett State Bank, which is very generous in its support of very many civic projects, including the annual Garrett Heritage Days 5k and the very surprising and high-caliber Garrett Museum of Art pictured here (in the old bank building).

 

Beyond its financial support, the Bank’s employees serve on many advisory boards and such, much to Garrett’s benefit, so thanks to them as well.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Planning for the Garrett Summer Sixties Music Fest continues. You can download three different 8.5 x 11 posters for display in coffee shops, bars, hair salons, gyms, work places, etc. For more information and/or to download a poster(s), go to www.GarrettSummerSixtiesMusicFest.blogspot.com.

Don’t be bashful about posting these, we are hoping to attract people from as far as Toledo, so put one up  (or a couple), and email others, wherever you live!

 

My favorite changes with the mood – sometimes the one based on the Train/Radio/Guitar  graphic above, and other times the poster based on what I call the Cosmic Kaleidoscope:

 

The Sixties were about individualism,

freedom from conformity,

freedom to be one’s self,

to do your own thing...

A flowering, exploding universe of people,

emotion, color, sound, expression, and more...

A kaleidoscope

wherein conventional comparison

and judgment are not relevant

So come and be that incredibly

uniqueperson that you are,

one gem among many in the

Cosmic Kaleidoscope

that will glow so bright that day

 

 

The full-size posters are very readable, while containing somewhat more information than you see here, so please help us out by downloading and placing posters, telling friends, sharing event posts on Facebook, etc. Ultimately is a “People’s Party,” and will succeed or fail depending on public interest and support.

 

The January newsletter featured a “Lessons the Teacher Never Taught You” article focused on the Aeolian, and promised another Greek vocabulary Lesson once things warmed up. Finally we have arrived, just days before May, which used to be the last month of school, but now is the occasion for...
 

Another Lesson the Teacher Never Taught You

Vocabulary: Sesquipedalian, Callipygian

I didn’t learn these words in school, nor did you; but some time later I learned “Sesquipedalian,” which was for years my very favorite word. It means “a big word,” so it is what it sounds like. When a word is what it sounds like, teachers call it onomatopoeia, and I did learn that in school.

 

 

I’ve always loved words: onomatopoeia, sesquipedalian, and many others …

 

 

Ah, but Callipygian!

 

I remember being taught that a single picture is worth a thousand words, and that is still true. But one thing our teachers (1958-1970) never imagined is that today, the converse is true: a single word or phrase can generate a thousand pictures. It’s called a Google Image search: you go to Google.com, click on “Images” in the upper bar, type a word or phrase – “Callipygian,” for instance – and hit Enter. 

 

Callipygian derives from Greek, and has been my new favorite word since learning it about five years ago. It is a word very much worth knowing … certainly one word worth a thousand pictures!

 

If you haven’t yet executed the Google image search outlined above, you STILL haven’t totally “Got it!”

And Speaking of the Sixties and Time Moving On... 

Who doesn’t know that this year is the 50^th anniversary of the 1965 Ford Mustang?



This '65 Mustang was used in the Goldfinger movie...

 

 

 

 

 

But how much finer

 

 

 

 

 

 

this 2015 version!

 

So please thank Bill Yoder when you get a chance for helping to sponsor the Garrett Summer Sixties Music Fest.

After all, what is more Sixties than the Mustang, and what is more Garrett than Yoder Ford?

Note: Bill did not ask for this plug, it will be a surprise to him, just something I wanted to do.

 

 

Finally, other sponsors are certainly welcome, including personal/individual sponsors who simply like the idea and want to contribute any amount, small or large – “It's all Groovy!"

Make check payable to

 

City of Garrett (Summer Sixties Event)

 

Mail to

City of Garrett

Attn: Sue

P.O. Box 332

Garrett, IN 46738-0332

 

And please include your name(s)!

 

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