via two Winnipeg teachers. Betty Shaw (grade 5: 1959-60). Brian Kells (grade 11: 1965-66).
Betty–we email back and forth.
Brian–we phone back and forth.
Brian called this morning and we talked for an hour about his studio apt. at an old Oddfellows home in Winnipeg, him going to see Glenn Gould at his first concert in Winnipeg, him circling Rodin’s birthdate on his calendar, him singing “I feel witty, o-so witty” from an old musical, his interest in Alice Munro (coincidentally, I was listening to an ’80s interview with her as I feel asleep last night and reading her “Turkey Season” and “The Moons of Jupiter” yesterday).
Never a dull moment here, being cooped up because of Covid.
Brian 1966, my gr. 11 English teacher
My gr. 5 class with Betty, 1959-60, Bannatyne School in St. James, Wpg.