Retiring Guy's Digest: 2021-09-12

Saturday, September 18, 2021

Dear Northeast Wisconsin School of Innovation, It takes more than a catchy slogan to insure the safety of students and staff. Best, Retiring Guy

From the school's COVID-19 information page

screenshot from homepage

Green Bay Press Gazette, 9/17/2021

The closure of Northeast Wisconsin School of Innovation, 701 Cherry St., impacts students in seventh through 11th grades. Twelfth-grade students are not affected because they attend classes at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.
The district reports that no Northeast staff members have tested positive.
Total student enrollment: 173

Friday, September 17, 2021

Elaine Moore Larsen (1936-2021) Warren High School class of 1954

1954 Dragon yearbook

Source: Peterson Blick Funeral Home

1967 Warren City Directory

Leroy, Margaret, and Elaine live in Clarendon (listed in county section)

1983 Warren City Directory

Larsen David H & Elaine; employee Whirley Industries h51 Mason Road
Larsen Elaine employee Bon Ton Dress Shop h51 Mason Road
Leroy and Margaret still live in Clarendon

The popularity of Elaine as a baby name is graphed here. Let's take a look at daughter-in-law Paige.

Source: Social Security Administration

Paige stumbled a bit after her 1952 debut but then quickly rose to #308 by the mid-1960s. She lost steam but regained her momentum in the mid-1970s, climbing into the top 100, where she spent 21years (1990-2010). Peak year: #47 in 2003.

Other members of the class of 1954 (33):

2021

Margaret Hennessey Sorensen. (5/21)

Margaret Scalise. (4/29)

Marian Cable Rulander (4/24)

Nancy Zock Clark. (2/16)

2020
Patricia Harrington McAvoy. (8/5)

Elizabeth Ann Pasquino Deck. (2/22)
Beatrice Brown Bines. (1/26)

2019
Margaret Eaton Watts. (10/30)
Mary Alice Morse Akif. (10/1)
Sally Nelson Metzger. (8/1)
Phoebe Marie Jewell Ahlgren. (4/29)
David Neal Redmond. (3/4)

2018
Roberta Cable Anderson. (11/3)
Patrick Michael Sheehan. (9/19)
Charles Salerno. (3/19)
Joan White Wood. (2/12)
Janet Lauffenberger Day. (2/11)

2017
Georgeanne Pappas Kornreich. (11/27)
Anita Miller Smith. (10/25)
Michelene Figliuzzi Colgrove. (6/1)
James Hornstrom. (3/9)
Richard Latimer. (1/31)
G uard Pierce. (1/24)

2016
T homas Gray. (10/16)
Franklin Ristau. (4/21)

Richard Helmbrecht. (3/27)
Luella Wert Wile. (3/15)
Edward Erickson. (3/4)

2015
Keith Otterbein. (7/20)
Marlene Ceriola English. (6/28)

2014

Robert Johnson. (8/10)

Lois Egger Anderson McDanel. (6/23)

Phillip Stewart. (2/20)

GET ME REWRITE: Meet the homophobes of the Wisconsin Assembly GOP caucus

All photos 'cept @repjanel found at Wisconsin State Legislature

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9/16/2021

"I believe that there are very subtle things that occur in public and charter schools that tend to normalize behaviors that are in conflict with some students’ families’ belief systems," bill author Rep. Donna Rozar, R-Marshfield, said.\

Assembly Bill 562

Wikipedia

3rd party votes: 24.6% in 1992, 13.5% in 1996, 3.8% in 2016

(Alabama segregationist George Wallace

received 21.7% of the vote in 1968)

Trump received 1,907 more votes than he did in 2016, a 13% increase, in a county where the 2020 population of 43,676 has been treading water since 2000.

Biden received 27 more votes than Clinton did in 2016, an increase of 0.6%.

Trump's share of the vote increased 3.9 percentage points. Biden decreased Clinton's share of the vote 1.4 percentage points.