By Geoff Boller Korn- Follow the Leader. “Dead Bodies Everywhere” “It talks about dead bodies everywhere and I like that.” (Sam) Sublime- Live at Firecracker Lounge. “Pool Shooter” “I feel it was a very heart filled song and it predicts his death.” (Jeremy Latcham) Mr. T. Experience- “When I Lost You” “The song is funny, … [Read more…]
By Leah Shoberg A grey/brown rat actually, with a white stripe down his cute tummy. Cletus is about one pound, and including his tail is about 16 inches long. He’s not my rat, but my brother’s, Mini alumni, Josh Shoberg. He’s here today to discuss his relationship with Cletus, and tell us a little bit … [Read more…]
By Jessica Turner Scott Johnson loves to wind surf, listen to music, go hunting, camping, hiking, play hockey with his friends, and ski in the mountains. By the sound of him you’d think that he was a Mini-School student. Scott Johnson is a forty-two year old father with two daughters all under the age of … [Read more…]
By Lacey Landt I have been in Mini-School four years and this is the first year it’s been downstairs. There’s no Mini-School stairs to sit on or our own bathrooms across the hall. We do however have the cafeteria right next to us. Our home is in what used to be called freshmen hall, where … [Read more…]
By Jessica Turner My heart aches,It throbs with a passionbeing swept into a tornadowhile the eye is so powerfulfor that is where I sit- I shed a tear for the wilting flowermy hands become callusedto feed the needy mouthsmy lips are no longer moistfor I am the one to always listen
By Leah Shoberg Love is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of two or more people to produce together conditions under which each can be, and spontaneously express their real self. To produce together an intellectual soil and an emotional climate in which each can flourish, far superior to what either could achieve … [Read more…]
By Matt Thompson Trip participants: Mark Thole, Sam Maeder, Laura Huberty, Annie Kohman, Marti Norris, Kevin McNutt, Jeff McGinn, Charlie Urbia, Mike Ayotte, Matt Thompson, and Jamie O’DayAlumni assistant: Patty HeienStaff: Doug Berg and Ramona Anderson We got underway at 6:30 a.m Tuesday, September 8th 1998. What a program! School had only been in session … [Read more…]
By Bob Conklin EDITORS NOTE: In the spring, 1986 issue of Com-mini-cations, several supporters of Mini-School were asked to write guest articles. Bob Conklin wrote the following article, which we decided to reprint in this issue as a tribute to him, showing as it does his supportive, people-centered philosophy of life and education. In a … [Read more…]
By Anonymous (Submitted by Doug Berg) As the old man walked the beach at dawn, he noticed a young man ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them into the sea. Finally, catching up to the youth, he asked him why he was doing this. The answer was that the stranded starfish would die … [Read more…]
By Kurt Hahn (Submitted by Doug Berg) I regard it as the foremost task of education to insure the survival of these qualities: