Ron Edinger...paddled in high school
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Interview with Ron Edinger – I grew up in the second house from the county line on Main Street. My brothers are Jim, Jerry and Dick.
I was just another face in the crowd at Bluffton High School. I played baseball and for one season, football.
I was paddled following a high school assembly, either as a sophomore or junior. Actually, the entire row was paddled.
The assembly featured a speaker who encouraged participation from the students. He asked us to clap our hands and the row I happen to sit in must have over-done it. We were stomping our feet. I was sitting in the wrong row.
I attended Bluffton College one year and transferred to the OSU branch in Lima and finished in a five-year engineering program at OSU in Columbus. I became a math teacher at Miami East High School in 1965.
I really wanted to see the world, however.
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