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Interview with Kermeen Punky Fristrom

PLHS Teacher/FB Coach 1956-1980

**Special thanks to Gaye Baldauf Macy for meticulously transcribing each video.

Click for Video links (Timestamps noted) and written Transcript links..

 

 

   How 'Punky' Fristrom came to PLHS, Coaching, Social climate changes:  

   https://youtu.be/fn4zu54HE9w?si=gWQ4pNqBD2wYFf_N

   Punky 5 Transcript

     00:00 From German class at Harvard to English teacher at PLHS

                Recruiting from across the country when BabyBoomers were growing up (SD

                added 30,000 students in 1956

       6:00  Interested in coaching….Bennie Edens intro

     10:51   Common Core Curriculum

     12:10   PL/OB social climate and Politics

     15:00   Integration (1 or 2 students of color in the beginning of his career. Bussing                     brought in more); Outstanding athletes; Hispanics; (White student asked 

                 “Why can’t Hispanics become part of the High School the way Blacks did?”

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   Students and his style of teaching:  

   https://youtu.be/vVbObDZhpf8?si=B2xO-9SDxKmwJy54

   Punky 1 Transcript

      1:50 Students: Cramers, Verhoye, McKenzie, Conner, Showley,  Finley/Wyatt

     14:30 Teaching styles (Drama in the classroom)

     15:50 Sand in the classroom story (with mites)

     18:00 Making a story into a musical, Desk arrangement in a circle.

               Seminar’s beginnings

     23:00 Common Core Curriculum

 

​​​   Greatest complement to PLHS and teachers: 

   https://youtu.be/gVFmRlGU1j0?si=AboqoyGX2rkjulWq

   Punky 3 Transcript

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   PLHS Attributes, Principals and Teachers: 

   https://youtu.be/I6H6asK8LK0?si=FElIp0f1cCfgrO8j

   Punky 4 Transcript

       1:28 PLHS Attributes, Principals of note

               Admin and collaborators

               (Sprungman and the value of romanticism vs neoclassicism)

               Janitor who was founder of Bottom Scratcher who the surfers looked up to

     20:00 Summer school 1974 with Mike Lorch

     21:20  Hill and Wilson…..and the rumors; John LaMott

 

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