Posted by Michael N. Marcus on April 5, 2008, 7:30 am
One regular Crazy Frehse classroom activity used a grammar workbook developed at Manter Hall School in Cambridge.
“Manter Hall Day” was like a perverted TV game show, and could have been invented by Monty Hall. Or Monty Python.
One third of the class was seated in chairs spread across the front of the room, with titles like Number Boy, Card Girl, Question Girl, and Third Assistant Alternate Score Keeper; and they administered the quiz to the rest of the class.
Frehse was emcee, seated in the middle of the stage.
She’d shout “Number Boy!,” “Card Girl!,” and so on; and if any Vanna White prototype missed a cue, she lost the job and joined the less-lucky classmates who had to answer the questions.
Here's a song some of wrote around 1962, based on the lyrics to the "Mickey Mouse Club March."
What's the cause of all the hell
That Frehse causes us?
M-A-N-T-E-R-H-A-Double-L
Hey! there, Hi! there, Ho! there
We’re as troubled as can be
M-A-N-T-E-R-H-A-Double-L
Manter Hall!
Manter Hall!
Forever let us hold our name cards
High! High! High! High!
Come along, wave to the tree
And join the jamboree!
M-A-N-T-E-R-H-A-Double-L
Manter Hall Day.
It’s no fun
To get poked with pins.
Foof! Foof! Foof! Foof!
We'll waste our time.
Questions are dumb.
We wave. She purrs.
Saay, look uh nat.
What's the cause of all the hell
That Frehse causes us?
M-A-N-T-E-R-H-A-Double-L
Hey! there, Hi! there, Ho! there
We’re as troubled as can be
M-A-N-T-E-R-H-A-Double-L
Manter Hall!
Manter Hall!
Forever let us hold our name cards
High! High! High! High!
Come along, wave to the tree
And join the jamboree!
M-A-N-T-E-R-H-A-Double-L
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