FROM THOSE WHO REMEMBER

Making mobiles

Go comment! I collected my dissertation data at MPLS. Teachers, administrators, parents, and children were so helpful and supportive. Having MPLS nearby helped me to complete my doctorate on-time so I could get a full-time job (so that I could stay at US not going back to Korea.) Thank you...

In Memory of Larry Taylor, class of 1965

1 Comment In the Autumn of a Friendship

We came up on Merner Street,
I on the east and he on the west.
Our growing was almost parallel
Like the maples of Merner
That told the spring yards where to stop.

Resembling those broad-shade gian...

Salad Days

Go comment! Just like a salad, my time at the lab school is a jumble of things... a leafy green memory here, some faded, and a thousand islands of impressions, visual and tactile moments, embarrassingly immature situations, elements of wistful romance, et al.

I could write a...

Camera, Action, Lights - Science and Me

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One day, while reading the job announcements in the Des Moines Register, my husband said to me, “There is a science job at the Lab School. You should apply.” I was just finishing graduate work on my doctorate and I had planned to stay home with my young daughte...

Double Memories

Go comment! I have memories of being at the Lab school with my dad, Cliff Flannery, who was custodian there from roughly 1959-1971. Sometimes I would go with him when he went down into the bowels of the school under the swimming pool to add the chemicals to the water. There were all thes...

THANK YOU

Go comment! Love the skeleton of this page. Thanks for doing this. I think and hope this will serve as a great place for alumni to remember our school fondly. I also love the commemorative plaza and monument idea. I feel like this page is offering a healthy, constructive outlet for everyon...