The race between the class of 54 and 58

At seven this evening as I was attending to critical family business I’d postponed all day I got a call asking me if I’d contacted all the parties to our suit to line them up for their signatures. I had to confess I hadn’t having only gotten the one from the fellow whose name was misspelled. I endured a mild scolding about how this was our top priority and that I shouldn’t fall down on the job with so few days to get the surety bond. I feebly said that I certainly understood but that it was one of eight critical priorities I had to attend to today (some of which I daren’t blog about lest the District’s lawyers jump all over me). That defense didn’t buy me much sympathy over the phone.

As I headed out to drive to a UPS store to send a fax yet again to a bank that had gotten the same information already seven or ten times over the past month my wife asked me rather smartly if I was the only person in Let Duluth Vote who could do anything. No, I assured her, there are a couple other folks in the group whose spouses ask them the same question.

So, here it is 9:30 and I haven’t picked up my marker to do some serious redacting. But I promised to put the info about the stiff competition between the Central Classes of 1954 and 1958 on one of our websites. Is not all that surprising considering I never put the last thermometer on the website showing that we’d raised our full $100,000. (Actually more like $106,000.

So, about the big competition. Central’s classes of 54 and 58 were tied at $925 until yesterday when someone from the class of 54 chipped in $100 to Let Duluth Vote to take the lead from those young whippersnappers of 1958 at $1,025.

This is where I’m supposed to be posting the results as they come in: www.saveduluthcentral.com. I might be a bit more diligent about it if a few more classes from Central wanted to pitch in to make sure Duluth’s oldest high school lives on.

About the author

Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

https://duluthreader.com/contributors/h/84/284-harry-welty