Let the Show Go On!
The start of school brings a flood of memories when you have lived as long as I have. And I think of some of the famous young people today who never experienced simple things in school like going to the auditorium. Victor Wembanyama, for instance, the new darling of San Antonio and the basketball world, was a year ahead of his age and lived in a dorm to finish when he was 15. His major was earth and life science, and I'm sure he never felt the excitement build to know an assembly was coming. His French school did not have one. My elementary school(now a parking lot) didn't have a library, a nurse's station, and or any special entrance, but wow did we have a big/old auditorium. There was a fall operetta for grades 1-3 and a spring operetta for grades 4-6, and the productions were attention-getters every time. When you went into the auditorium with its creaky wood floors and big stage, it was a unique time, and we all thought there...