This one's for D. Flick

[Ed Pettibone]

[David Flick]

[Ed Pettibone]

[Haruo]

Surprised to hear David had rotated off the board, or surprised to hear Bacone was doing fine, or both?

[Ed Pettibone]

[Mrs Haruo]

Time to clean my glasses again-- I thought it was a misspelling of bacon. I want a BLT if we have a tomato left.

[David Flick]

[David Flick]

[David Flick]

[Joseph Patrick]

From Joseph Patrick...

David said "Bacone College (pronounced "bāy-cōne") was founded by Almon C Bacone, who hailed from the state of New York. Bacone College is the oldest continuously operated institution of higher education in Oklahoma."

What about Northeastern State at Tahlequah? On my college ring it lists 1846 as the founding date.

[David Flick]

[Haruo]

Cherokee National Female Seminary. Hmm. Were the Tsalagi giving their women MDivs in the antebellum West? (Antebellum only, of course, from the perspective of the South.)

[Ed Pettibone]

[Haruo]

Three little maids who all unwary
Come from a ladies' seminary,
Freed from its genius tutelary,
Three little maids.........from school!

—W. S. Gilbert, from The Mikado; or, The Town of Titipu

[David Flick]

[Mrs Haruo]

Don't forget the Three Stooges flouncing around chanting "Rooty toot toot. Rooty toot toot! We're the girls from the Institute!"

A cousin quips: Yes, Mother enrolled at the Normal School. It didn't work.

[Haruo]

If I had any girls I'd send them to shellacking school, so they'd learn a useful trade.

[Ed Pettibone]