Bert and Henrietta Stories by Jack Plymale PHS

Sam, Uncle Bert( we never called him this to his face) and Miss Dupuy were two of the most loveable and unforgetable people I ever met and I'm sure Jim Fout and Doc Yeagle joined me in these emotions. We weren't always in their good graces, but they were always two of the first in ours. Mr. Leach always had our participation in any and all projects he undertook and we were in all his productions for two years. We, of course, all had Miss Dupuy for two years in advanced math courses. Fout had her for freshman Algebra so he had her three years. Miss Dupuy called Doc, Stephen (his given name). Jim and I added his middle name and called him Stephen Jesse.( He hated that but tolerated me and Fout.) One day Ray Eisnaugle called him that in Miss Depuy's class. Doc's reaction was, "Two guys can get away with calling me that, you do it one more time and I'll hurt you..... Miss Dupuy was aghast!! Miss Dupuy had a preference for boys unless a girl was extremly bright. We had always told miss DuPuy(Joking of course) that Doc had her fooled. He really wasn't the nice guy she saw in her class but was ,in truth, a savage and we used this threat to Ray to prove it. It didn't work. She knew him too well by this time..... I miss my old buddy Doc. Jack P