October 3rd, 1962
Svelte Rusk Elementary teacher Myrna Chun-Hoon wheels in the cattywampus TV cart, so students can learn the details of Walter Schirra’s orbital flight during the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission.
The Way We Were
October 3rd, 1962
Svelte Rusk Elementary teacher Myrna Chun-Hoon wheels in the cattywampus TV cart, so students can learn the details of Walter Schirra’s orbital flight during the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission.
I Don't Get It 
wow!
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I learned many things from the classroom TV cart, Kerbey, and failed to learn many other things.
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Agreed.
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I don’t recall a TV cart at PS 51. If we did have one we did not watch any astronauts.
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😪😪
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HA
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Is anyone named Myrna anymore? One of the great old time names. Also, +1 for “cattywampus.”
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(bowing humbly) thank you for appreciating me bringing it back, which will never be said for Myrna (which always brings to mind Loy for me)
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It’s apparently an Anglicized version of an Irish name. I looked it up and there was a list of maybe 50-60 famous “Myrnas” and Ms. Loy was the only one I recognized.
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And we watched as one nation .
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