Reflecting back on the years when we were children of a single digit age, it's always surprising to remember (yeah, that too) the fact that in the evenings we used to huddle family-style in the living room around the home entertainment device of the time, the radio.

We did this because during those years we lived in pre-historic times.

Pre-historic in the sense that while there were screens on our windows, large outdoor screens for watching a movie from the backseat of our folks station wagon, screens in shoe stores to see x-ray visions of where our feet bones were while nestled in the new shoes we wanted to buy, and roll-up screens in our homes and in our schools to watch films that emanated from noisy and somewhat unreliable projectors, there were no screens on our televisions, our home computers, school computers or on our cell phones.

This critical screen shortage is technically attributed to a mathematical equation; the result of which proves that we came to be before the history of public television, home computers, school computers and cell phones began.   Laptops were designed for sitting on, but that is another history lesson.

By the fall of 1955, when we entered into a new era in our life cycle known as our High School Years, we had by that time evolved into the era of television.   However, it would be long, long after we passed through our High School Years that we would evolve into and become involved with home computers, school computers, cell phones, differently designed Laptops, and of course the Internet.

It would be interesting to compare student life at Burroughs in 1958 then, and in 2008 now, regarding its academic, athletic and social similarities and differences. Perhaps we could get an online dialogue going herein which could discuss the then and now details of these student life areas of interest.