Tag Archives: Bob Abbott

Memorial Day

  My dad, just out of high school, on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for flight training. This led to his service as navigator of a B-29 flying from Tinian and Iwo Jima to bomb Japan. Here’s what I write … Continue reading

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Intellectual Arithmetic

My dad was a school teacher (vocational agriculture at first, then science and math for 7th grade). He became a Junior High principal and collected a few pedagogical chestnuts like this 1849 volume: Lest the inexperienced teacher lack the necessary … Continue reading

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