Cheerleader's Filling

Our oldest son Steve went to Shawnee Mission North High School, Susan went one year there and then she and Sally went to Shawnee Mission West. Cindy helped open up Shawnee Mission Northwest. The had a principal with definite ideas about school. He had three semesters instead of two and he had 12 cheerleaders instead of the usual eight. He said that eight thought they were the BEST but 12 would be part of a crowd. Cindy was one of the 12. Before events the cheerleaders would have meals at each other's houses. One cheerleader had a wonderful dessert and when we asked for the recipe she said that she could not share it as it was a family secret. After Cindy graduated from KU Journalism School she went to work as a reporter on the Parson's Sun. One of her projects was editing the annual recipe section. What would turn up but the Cheerleader's filling.
This is it. It is great on Boston Creme Pie or Cake Roll.
Cheerleader's Filling
2 tablespoons flour and 1/2 cup milk--mix in saucepan on stove, stirring constantly until thick--cool
In mixer
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup shortening
1/4 cup oleo
1 teaspoon vanilla
Beat at high speed for four minutes(exactly). Add cooled milk and flour mixture. Beat 4 minutes. Unroll cake roll, remove wax paper, spread filling and roll. If Boston Creme Pie put between the two layers. You never have leftovers so don't plan on it.

Keeping Freddy after school

When I was teaching school I had 14 pupils. Thirteen of them walked to school or rode their horse but one--Freddy--had a mother that drove him to school. He was a cousin to one of the families in the school and was a little spoiled. He did not always behave. One day he was just awful and I needed to punish him. I could keep the other kids after school and they never needed it but Freddy was another problem as his mother was always on time. On the day he was especially bad I told him I was keeping him after school. While the kids were out at recess I changed the time on the schoolroom clock. I let the kids out all but Freddy and he sat at his seat very surprised. At the correct time his mother turned up and I let him leave. I never had trouble again with Freddy.

Ray in the movies

For one of Ray's news stories he went to San Francisco on the anniversary of cross country flying. He flew out in the "Tin Goose," an original TWA plane. Of course on the way out he had some exciting experiences like going down in a wheat field in Concordia, Kansas and having the gas spill out down the aisle while they were flying but he did make it to San Francisco. After they landed he was flown to Los Angeles to be in a movie with Jane Fonda. The movie was "Sunday in New York." He rode up an escalator in the movie so we took the group with us to see "Daddy in a film." When we got to the theater it turned out it was x rated and children not allowed. The theater made an exception and we trooped in with our five. It was x rated because they mentioned sex before marriage in the movie. When Ray came on he was a shadow on an escalator. We applauded. He did get to meet the stars of the show but his movie career was short.

correction on doll parade

I sent the parade in the wrong direction. It started in the parking lot of the Mission Bank on Boardmoor and went east to Nall where it ended. The Mission Bank has moved three times.

The telephone

In our house the phone was very important but our children did not like to answer it. That was because we had a woman who called everyday to talk to Ray and if you answered the phone she talked to you. She had worked in the Wyandotte courthouse and discovered they had voters registered living in the Kaw River. She kept the records and buried them in her yard and wanted Ray to expose the machine in Wyandotte County so called everyday to check. The Council dondemened the area she lived in so she had to dig up the records and move them to her new residence which she did one night. I think they finally removed the names but I'm not sure. I think Ray just threatened them with that he would write a story. I think when ashe died I remmeber attending her funeral but I'm not sure. Our children outgrew not answering the phone but it took awhile. Most calls Ray got that were tips came at three in the morning so we had a phone beside our bed installed.

Another parade

When Sally and Susan were Bluebirds, the Campfire organization had a parade in May in Mission, Kansas. We were assigned topics. One year we were assigned Hawaii so the girls dressed their dolls in grass skirts and we went to Mission. We started on Nall and marched west. It seemed long but it probably was only about six blocks. Cindy found out that if you marched, at the end you got a Popsicle. She was not old enough to be a Bluebird but she was going to march in that parade. I have a picture of her clinging to my hand with the group and with her short little legs she made the trip and got her Popsicle--which she had earned. Later she was a Bluebird and got one but I bet the one she got that time was twice as good.

American Royal Parade 1995

One weekend in the fall of 1995 we had a guest for the weekend. Our grandson, #12, came to stay while his parents were on a trip to California. Saturday morning we had an urgent call from the Welsh Society that the child who was to represent the Welsh Society in the American Royal Parade could not be in it. Taylor said he would not mind. So we went to the parade. When we got there, the Sister Cities float was a large flat bed truck with straw bales of hay. Three Chinese children were there and and an assortment of others. Taylor was to be on it but he decided he did not want to unless I went along. They had a conference and decided they needed an adult on the float also so I climbed on and sat on a hay bale. Taylor joined me. We were just in front of three Chinese children. We watched the parade form and saw llamas walking around. I'm leery of llamas since one bit me in Chile. The Sister City had a large balloon globe of the world on their float. The parade started and I was surprised at how many people take their dogs to parades. They would tell us when to smile and wave as cameras would be on us. There was a Swiss flag that kept blowing in our faces. Taylor was very good and waved a lot. At the end of the parade they had a bus to take us back to the start. The group with the balloon globe of the world had trouble getting it small enough to get on the bus. Taylor did a good job. I wonder if he remembers his trip in the parade now that he is a sophomore at KU.

A teacher who did not like room mothers

My sister, Helen, taught first grade. The age you could attend was decided by how old you were on January 1. She thought it should be September 1. At that time Ray was covering the legislature and He convinced Sen. Jim Pearson to make a law that it would be September 1. That seemed a good idea by the legislature but both Jim and Ray had daughters who would turn the correct age later so Jim wrote the law so that it would advance one month earlier every year until it reached September 1. That way his daughter and ours whose birthdays were the end of November could go to school. Cindy was so excited she could not understand why they did not go seven days a week. She had a very pretty kindergarten teacher. During Christmas vacation the teacher went to Hawaii and got married so Cindy had a different teacher. The new teacher liked the children but did not like parents and especially roommothers of which I was one. The principal, Mr. Walden, met me at the crosswalk outside of school one day to tell me this news. He said she especially did not like roommothers who attended holiday parties. I liked that as I was one. So for the rest of the year we delivered the goodies for refreshments and did not attend the parties. It was the easiest year I had as a room mother.

PTA meeting adventure

My younger children had to attend many meetings to do with their older relatives. One of the activities they had to go along was PTA board meetings. One day I had such a meeting scheduled as they were going to decide the important activity of whether to have refreshments at holiday school parties. When I was growing up the refreshments were generally the best part. I went to the meeting taking Scott as the only one not in school. He was very young and busy. I tried to run the meeting and he was everywhere. We were in the cafeteria of the school and they were set up for lunch with nice barrels for the children to put their leftover trash in. The barrels were empty but clean. I put Scott in one with some toys. He was very happy and the meeting was soon over when I did not have to chase him.

The wrestling matches

When my husband Ray and I were dating between when I taught school and we were married there was one activity he could take me along. In Topeka every Wednesday night in the Municipal Auditorium they had wrestling matches. He would pick me up and we would attend. He would put me in a seat in the front row (not a good seat at a wrestling match) and go sit at the press table. It was not long before the wrestlers knew I was there so at least once an evening they threw someone into my lap but I learned early to move fast so I never got one in my lap but there were some close calls. I found out during the time I attended that they already knew who was going to win every bout. I also learned that the tape on their faces was so they could sratch it and get blood looking color on their face. It was just sort of like adhesive tape they could scratch with their nails. I do not watch the ones on TV but wonder if it is arranged ahead as to who wins. I bet it isn't. In Topeka we did not have that many rules but don't think any fighter was ever seriously hurt.

Name tags

Yesterday at church I forgot my name tag and I'm kind of forgettable so that is not good. I realize how much I lean on other people wearing them. Ray use to keep one in his pocket and he put it on when we went anywhere. He said it was easier on people and they are friendly if they don't have to remember. Sometimes I'm where I would be glad if people did not remember me when I do something stupid which happens often for me. This one will be short as how much can you write about a name tag or the lack of one.

Flag pole hole

I cannot put my flag up as I have lost the hole you put the pole in. When I first put the hole in I had it even with the south end of the porch and even with the redbud tree but now we cannot find it. Perhaps when the squirrels get all the walnuts picked up we will be successful. I have a great flag at the moment. It was a gift from Congressman Larry Winn when I worked for him one campaign and has flown over the capital. Of course if Puerto Rico becomes a state it will be out of date. I like celebrating the holidays that need a flag like President Washington and Lincoln's birthdays, Armistice Day and flag day. And then there is the 4th of July. My neighbors across the street have a flag flying all the time. They don't have to take it down at night as the streetlight shines on it. I'll just salute theirs for awhile. Maybe when it frosts and the grass dies and the squirrels do their job the metal tube will show up. I don't think I put it up for holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas so we are safe until February or is New Year's a flag day?

Relatives

My parents came from two large families. My father was the oldest boy and my mother was the next to the youngest--a twin. When I was growing up I had lots of relatives but now have outlived most of them. My daughter Sally has gone to Colorado on her vacation and it reminds me of my rich uncle. He lived in Pueblo, Colorado in a hotel I think he owned. By the time I met him his wife had died so I do not remember her name but she was one of the Sharpe girls I think. His name was Morris Johnson and when he visited or we visited him he gave fifty cent coins to each of us so we called him "our rich uncle".

While I was growing up Kansas people liked to go to Colorado for vacations as you could get cool. Even my husband went to Colorado. My Uncle Bill and Aunt Ada rented a cabin. It was in Green Mountain Falls near Colorado Springs. One year we went there without my father. The cabin was small and there were a lot of us so I expect we slept on the floor. I remember driving up Pike's Peak and visiting the "Garden of the Gods". I think that was a place with funny shaped rocks but I kind of have forgotten so will ask Sally when she gets home.

Part of my mother's family went to California and raised dates. That was my Aunt Maude. I remember she cussed me out when she visited which I probably needed but did not appreciate. Later we visited the date farm. She always sent us dates for Christmas. The relatives that went to California were very tall and I had one cousin that was six foot which is tall for a girl. Since I never got taller than five foot four inches and have now shrunk on height not on weight I still look up at people.

In later years when our children would visit the Star with their father the editor would give them each a dollar. They loved it and had kind thoughts of him.

Whizzo and Sally, Stacy and Hayden

In the mornings we had a local show on TV called Whizzo. He was local and dressed as a clown. He had local children on his show also dressed as clowns. Sally loved that show. One Sunday we were going to church and we were west of Lamar--one block-- when who should drive around the corner but Whizzo. That made Sally's day. I doubt if she got much from Sunday School that day. We applied for her and she got accepted so she put on her clown suit and went off to the show. She did well. Later he moved his show to Topeka and Sally applied again for Stacy and Hayden. They made it and went up to the show. I'm sorry our movies are all on Beta so we cannot admire them and I'm sure Hayden's class would enjoy seeing their teacher on film in a clown suit. They did as well as Sally had done. We were proud of the Huggins group and show business.

Another Halloween

When I was teaching 14 kids at Pleasant Valley School I told them about Halloween and how you wore costumes and had cider and doughnuts. They thought it sounded fun as out where they lived they did not really find it practical to do Tricks or Treats from door to door and they did not do mean tricks. I thought I would have doughnuts and cider for them so I ordered them from the doughnut factory not too far from my house in College Hill. I had my cider in a jug. The night before I woke up to hear fire engines and the doughnut factory was on fire. No doughnuts. My mother got up at two and made doughnuts for me so my kids would not be disappointed. We had our Halloween Party and I got out my fancy paper cups and my cider and the first cup I poured it in did not have a bottom so the cider went right thru to the floor on Elizabeth's foot. The napkins were okay and I had extra cups. Since the kids had not had fancy doughnuts before they were happy. A successful Halloween.

My first date with Ray

When I was in high school and a Junior I met my future husband Ray in Journalism class where he was a senior and the editor of the school paper--The World. He did not have a high opinion of my writing ability which he had no problem expressing so he assigned me to the news from the girl's gym. During my high school career I also saw him in a school play, which he did very well. I did not tell him so as he rarely spoke to me. Later when we were in college we had the same history professor, Dr. Bright. Dr. Bright also was in charge of the youth program at Central Church. In my freshman year he and his wife planned a Halloween party and they divided us into couples and I got Ray. He was an hour late and was not pleased to see who he had drawn for a date. The professor was with him driving as I did not teach Ray how to drive until later. I had had a birthday and received some lovely fur mittens which I wore as October is cold. They made him sneeze. My girlfiends were all at this party also and we all belonged to the same sorority, which had dances you had to ask boys to. We were all cowards as we were not popular and had not been asked out often, if ever. So we had three boys we would ask to sorority parties of which Ray was one. But we were too much of a coward to call them so we all pretended to be someone else and asked the boys. I know only three months later I was asked out by Ray to attend Topeka's blackout as I have pictures to show it so guess he finally weakened. He was president of Independent men at that time. He later pledge Phi Delta Theta. Dr. Bright always accused me of doing Ray's history assignments but I only did his maps for him as he was color blind and did not do them correctly.

Ray and college

I found out about this after I married Ray. When he was a senior in High School he wanted to go to college but his parents were not very wealthy and it looked impossible. While I always knew I would go where my parents went--Washburn. When Ray was a senior at Topeka High a representative from Washburn came to talk to the seniors about attending. Washburn was a Congregational college started by the church. They have many in the US. I'm not sure but think they started Yale or Harvard or both. The year before I went Washburn, it was about to close and my mother walked the streets with petitions to get Topeka to buy the school so it would not disappear. However it was not municipal yet when Ray was ready. They offered scholarships to students if they were willing to work on the grounds crew. Ray signed up and was put to work redoing the men's gym. I went to summer camp that year at Washburn and walked through the gym many times to the swimming pool but did not pay any attention that he was waxing the floor. He worked there until it was done and then was sent to wash windows. When he was on a ladder washing a second story window he fell and broke both wrists. He rode the bus home and his mother took him to have them set. It is not easy to do things with two broken wrists. He got a job with the US Post Office riding with someone on a rural route. I don't see how he was help but maybe company. After his wrists mended he went back to the grounds crew. He was able to attend Washburn and I guess in my class although I do not remember him. I remember him first as joining my church's youth group that was run by a history professor, Dr. Bright, from the college. The next story I will tell you is how we started dating.

Tests

I have never been good with direct questions. In school all tests are direct questions. When I was in college I had one teacher who believed that you did not have to have all knowledge in your brain if you knew enough to go look for the answers. In his class I did very well on tests because the textbook lay there for me to use if I needed it. I never needed. It only the knowledge that I could if I wanted to. I'm sorry he only taught one class. My husband said he learned early not to ask me a direct question as I always went blank. I guess that was why when I went to court in an automobile accident I could not remember my name but knew my address.

Shawnee Mission Hospital

Today on the way to church we passed Shawnee Mission Hospital. This is my version of how it came to be. It is huge. When we moved to Kansas City if you were very ill or having a baby you went to Kansas City, Kansas to Providence Hospital. Our family doctor, Dr. Lawrence Leigh, very much wanted a hospital in Johnson County. First Ray got a bill in legislature so we could vote for on. It did not pass. Then he tried a different angle. He talked to Miller Nichols of the J C Nichol's Company and there was a luncheon. I remember that Dr. Leigh had just had all his teeth removed. The other doctor, Dr. Smith, was there and Miller Nichols. Miller Nichols told them he would give them the land but he did not want it in Overland Park. The Doctors talked to the city councils of Merriam and Overland Park and they traded some land so the hospital was in Merriam. I think the Merriam land was near Shawnee Mission North High School. That is why there is more than one high school in Overland Park. Then Nichols gave them the land. We sold bricks to build it. Somewhere I have a brick, I think in what is now the maternity ward. They got the Seventh Day Adventists to agree to run it. They did not approve of meat so if you wanted your patient to have meat you had to write a prescription. The operating room was underground. During the first years, the emergency room was constantly moving. Now it is huge and the operating room is on, I think, the 7th floor or whatever the top floor is. There was a grade school on the grounds and a cemetery. They are still there but the grade school is for therapy now or a gym. I think the Seven Day Adventists still run it

Pool table in our basement

When I was growing up in Topeka we acquired a pool table in our basement. It was a very good one and when I was tall enough I learned to play. I was too short when we first got it. I do not know why we had one or where it came from. It was not a new one but in good condition. Later when I was in college and a USO hostess at the Topeka YMCA, you had to attend so many weekly festivities in order to attend the monthly dances at the Municipal Auditorium. I could play pool and could defeat the cavalry soldiers from FT. Riley. It was easier than dancing with them in their heavy boots. Helen was a hostess with me also but I don't know if she sused her pool ability or not.

New dinner glasses for Christmas

I like to write about things when I was growing up and then if I get it wrong no one but my sister Helen knows it and she is too polite to tell me. One Christmas Helen and I decided to pool our baby sitting money together and buy our parents a gift. My parents belonged to a bridge club and it always included dinner before they started playing. There were twelve members. My mother did not like to waste money on dishes and glasses so Helen and I decided to buy our parents a set of 12 glasses. I guess that is a set. I rode the bus downtown. You could pick a bus up a block from our house as the bus line went from town on Huntoon. To go to town you had to go to 12th Street or over to College Blvd and ride the electric bus. I went to Crosbys and found a set. I paid for them and then got on the bus and lugged them home. They were heavy. Our parents were very surprised and seemed to like our gift. Our mother uaed them for years and Helen thinks there is still one left. Helen and I had great pride at their next Bridge party.

The hole in the attic

In the house I grew up in was an attic. The floor of the attic was wide where you got though the trap door at the east end but there was just rafters that you walked on at the west end. I don't know what my sister was looking for but one day she went up in the attic and walked to the west end on the narrow boards. Are those called rafters? When she was over my brother Allan's room she slipped and her leg came through the ceiling. There was much excitement getting her out without making the hole larger and then my mother plastered the ceiling. I don't know if it has been replastered by a professional but while I was growing up it was a reminder to be careful if you went west in the attic.

Double dating with your teacher

When I was in Junior High I had a homeroom teacher named Zita McKinley. She also taught Latin. She was very pretty and wore a black dress every Friday. They said she was mourning a past lover. I don't think that was true. She looked good in black and just wore it. I did not do well in either Latin or conduct in homeroom so we were not soul mates but endured each other as you do with homeroom. Later when Ray and I were going together or maybe we were married (I'm not sure) but he was covering the legislature for the Topeka Daily Capital. He told me one night that one of the lobbyists wanted to go out dancing with a new woman he had met and he did not know the places in Topeka on a weeknight. Ray told him there was one out, I think, by Lake Shawnee called Walt's Inn. I might have the name wrong but not the location. When he picked us up I was surprised that I was double dating with my ninth grade teacher. That is why I think I was married as she would have recognized my maiden name. Have you ever double dated with your junior high teacher?

Our children's names

I have five wonderful children. Four of them have names starting with the letter "S" and the fifth has an S sound. When we found we were going to have a baby we thought about names. I always liked the name David as I had never met a David I did not like but the Society editor at the "Topeka Daily Capital" told me that everyone was naming their son David. I had been reading the "Foxes of Harrow" and the hero was named Steve so I switched to that. However when I got to the hospital which was not huge I found they had six Steve's born including my roommate. However, it was set so the next one became Mary Susan and was always called Susan, The third one was Sally. I was going to name the fourth Sarah but again the Society editor told me that was a nickname for Sally. There was a song that was popular at the time called "Cindy Lou" so we decided on that as it had the same nice sound like S and then the fifth one was Scott. Both the boys got part of their father's name for middle names so that added Ray and Ellingwood to their names. Susan had my first names but we never used the Grace until Scott and Kathleen were kind enough to name their youngester daughter Grace. There is no way you can work Burkhardt into anything so we quit. I forgot Burkhardt is Kelly's middle name. As she is Kelly Burkhardt Morgan so she and Grace saved our names.

The Thing In the Forest

Our grandchildren in Wichita went to OK School in western Wichita and their school had lots of talent. They had a couple of talanted teachers who could write plays for children. All four Thompson children had the same teacher for kindergarten. In the spring, on Valentine's Day, she put on a play called "The Thing in the Forest" and invited the grandparents. When we arrived we sat with our grandchild until time for the performance. The Thompson children always had two sets of grandparents so Ray and I were rented out. The play was called "The Thing in the Forest" and every child had one line. After the fourth child, Chris, was in it she gave me a copy of the play which I still have. It is on my desk in the den but I can't get to it in my wheelchair so will just try to remember correctly. Each child said their one line perfectly every time so each was a "Star". After the performance we had refreshments and they opened their valentines. Since Ray and I were always given a child who's grandparents were not there we met some delightful children. We helped them open their valentines. I remember one year I started out the door with the sack and the child had to chase me to get his valentines. The first time we went we had to fly to Wichita because Ray was not feeling well enough to drive and the weather was bad. For some reason I had two sets of pillows that belonged to the Thompsons and took them as luggage when Debbie was in it. I think Susan played the
piano for the songs they sang. Our four grandchildren, Debbie, Erin, Drew and Chris
were great and the stars of the show for four of us.

Schoolbook show

With school starting again I notice everyone getting ready. Do you buy your own books anymore? When I grew up in Topeka you had to buy your own textbooks so if you were lucky you used your brothers and sisters old books or bought new ones. Each year the Jayhawk Theater would offer a show that the admittance was an old textbook. We would attend. The last year they had it we went. The theater had not picked well with the movie. It was the story of a doctor who only had one hand but on moonlit nights he would fasten his old hand on and go out and strangle someone. Needless to say it scared all of us kids. They discontinued the movies and I remember that movie on moonlit nights still but have managed to remember other moonlit nights that were pleasant.

Cream Pies

In 1976 they had a new thing going in the legislature. I don't know if anywhere besides Kansas it was done. Someone hired someone to throw a cream pie at someone. Ray was one of those hit by a cream pie. It was not a fun thing for you to receive. It may have been something just for the legislature as he was standing outside the door of the House of Representatives when he was hit in the face by a cream pie. I don't remember the flavor. It got his glasses dirty and his suit along with his face. He was not happy and never found out who was guilty. The young man throwing the pie was not caught and the picture taken was only of Ray. It stopped happening in a very short time.

Circuses

When I was growing up I went to the Circus if my father had a poster in his business window as they gave us passes for the end seats. I took a pint of water with me in a jar. Then I met and married a man that loved circuses. I mean really loved them. He thought the world existed just for a circus. I have gone to circuses in tents while it was raining very hard and the lions were growling, I have gone to them in a round building built especially for them--Russia. I have attended the international one in Monte Carlo where beside the circus I got to see Cary Grant--he was a judge. I have been in Baraboo where Ringling started and in Florida where they ended up. I have gone to the International circus in Milwaulkee and their big parade. I think of our daughter Susan's comment. "I am sixteen and have been to 16 circuses and I'm not going anymore." Of course she did. I feel the same way. I see they are coming to town and I would like to miss it again. Ray liked to ride the elephants from the train to the place they stay at Kemper. He got to be a clown in one of the circuses. I think Stacy and Hayden got to ride in the kid thing around the arena. I used to like it when our seats were with the families and we got to see the kids enjoy their parents acts. My favorite of all the acts was the pigs sliding down the slippery slide. I was not with Ray the time the horse jumped into the tank and it broke and the water went all over the floor among the electrical circuits. I liked the one with a bear that in the middle of the act that picked up the chair he was to sit on and ran across the arena. I know the Lafferty children used to use the acts from the Police Circus in their talent show at Westwood View. But now I feel like Susan. "I am 86 and I have to been to at least 86 circuses and I don't want to go to anymore."

Parking lot picnic 1959

One lovely summer day in 1959 we had my nephew Chris visiting. Ray was going to take a flight demonstrating on a Boeing 707 to Chicago. We decided to go with him to the Kansas City airport. He would not be gone long and we would take a picnic lunch and eat it at Waterworks Park while he was gone. He was to be gone two hours. We all waved merrily as he took off and then went back to the car. Ray had taken the keys with him. We ate our lunch in the parking lot and spent the next two hours watching planes take off and land. That was fun. The next day I took the boys to Van's Grocery to our bus station to go to Topeka but the bus driver would not take them unescorted so I drove them to Topeka. Then upon his return, Ray's vacation started but for that I recommend you read Susan's book of our first camping trip--"When the Spam Hit the Sand". A three week trip we took with a gas credit card, $25 in cash and only got arrested once.

Committees & Campfire Girls

When Susan reached first grade it became time to be either a Girl Scout or a Campfire Girl. Our school had Campfire. I had been a Girl Scout once but could adjust. I became the leader so went to leader meetings. I got along well with the paid staff but not the other leaders. I kept getting thrown off of committees. The first one we were to identify trees. It was November. I told them I did not think it was a good time to identify trees as the leaders would just have pine trees. We needed the leaves on the trees to know what kind they were. They removed me. Then they put me on the committee to plan the ending Big Campfire--held in the gymn of North High School. I told them they would need chairs for the leaders as the meeting was long and some of us did not sit well on the floor. I was removed again but they had a chair for each leader at the program. I was removed from one other committee but don't remember what that was.