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| Author | Topic: Remembering Vern Comley |
| Robin Campbell |
posted 6/16/05 3:18 PM
Please post your thoughts, remembrances and tributes about Vern Comley here. He was one of the best teachers, and an even better person, that Hutchinson High School ever had. And he is dearly missed. |
| Steve Horner |
posted 9/17/05 6:06 PM
I never had Comley for a class, but through his reputation among our classmates, he affected my life vicariously. In addition, my little brother, Terry (HHS '73) had a class with him. In fact, I was just thinking about Comley the other day. My brother said that he used say in class: "I said ... I meant..." He also used to administer pop quizzes with the prefatory comment: "We have a questionnaire that's been sent over from the principal's office." He was one who left an indelible mark on the lives of all of us. http://www.clt.astate.edu/shorner/ Sorry that it's not too personal |
| Becky Walden Hageman |
posted 10/22/06 5:50 AM
Vern Comley was such fun for homeroom. As we became restless before lunch, he'd ask one of the usual cut-ups to read the from lunch menu to the class - calling the cafeteria the "greasy spoon." If you were caught chewing gum in class, you had to bring enough for everyone the next day - and it doubled every day you forgot. And no, you couldn't bring Chicklets. He was still funny after high school - I sang in church choir with him, and his quiet wit kept us all laughing. He headed up a church golf team that he dubbed the "Sultans of Swing." We all miss you, Mr. Comley. |
| Doug Peschka |
posted 7/1/10 1:32 AM
I had Vern Comley for Contemporary history in our Senior Year. There was a sign in his classroom that said something like "If the quizzes don't get you, the jokes will!" They got us, all right. He had a special gift for good humor interwoven within his teaching, and he left a lasting imprint upon me. |
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