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Fixer-upper for sale I went to Charlotte High School in Punta Gorda, Fla. The main building on our campus was three stories high, over 50 years old and showing its age. The third floor Spanish classroom had a hole in the floor looking down into the second floor Algebra classroom. A week or two before graduation, I decided to “sell” my school. I placed an ad in our local newspaper describing the fixer-upper and put the principal’s home phone number and wrote “ask for Ray.” Well, the calls started, thanks to a few of my friends’ parents. My principal was not happy. He called the paper, but they refused to release the name of the ad writer. The next day the paper put the ad on the front page—sans phone number. My principal was highly annoyed until the ad was on the local news the next evening and even picked up by the Associated Press after that. By the time he figured out it was me, the publicity our school had received greatly eased his anger. And I was allowed to graduate. Kim Guereschi, Washington, Tideland EMC |
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