Summary: I found my ninth grade report card from 1964 -1965. How I remember me as a student and what the report card reveals are two totally different perspectives. My homeroom teacher reports that I was somehow too talkative and and out of control during the first half of my ninth grade year. I am also trying to figure out how I could have gotten an 'N' (N = Needs improvement) in homeroom conduct. I remember me being fun and funny. Could my teachers have mistaken my wonderful gifts of joy and bigger than life self-expression as a problem? I also describe a couple of situations where I thought the adults did not respect or honor students as they should have. I share how much fun my sister and I used to have taking turns being characters from the musical, West Side Story. We would dance for hours to that sound track in our living room. I never thought in a million years that I would meet any of the people on that album. However, as an adult, I had the pleasure of performing with the late Larry Kert (Tony in the original Broadway version of West Side Story) in the musical Two Gentlemen of Verona.
