Posted by Michael N. Marcus on April 8, 2008, 5:56 pm
Tom Dolan was a sadistic and egomaniacal junior high science teacher who made us polish our shoes before entering his classroom and forbade us to laugh in his presence.
Before a much-needed Christmas vacation around 1960, he commanded us to write reports on the phonophonopheneloscope, due for the first class in January.
About 140 miserable children missed sledding, skating and family trips, and spent their vacations pestering librarians with consistently negative results.
Back at school after New Years, Dolan announced, “I’m sorry kids; I made a mistake. It’s not the phonophoNophenelescope, it’s the phonophoTophenelescope.”
We wanted to lynch the bastard!
One student, it must be noted, surmised Dolan’s error and reported on the proper device.
Phyllis Granoff later skipped a grade, earned a PhD degree at Harvard, and became a professor at Yale.
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