My shoe is off.
My foot is cold.
I have a bird.
I like to hold.
My shoe is off.
My foot is cold.
And now my story is all told.

Top 5 Junior High School Teachers - 7th Grade Clayton Jr. High 1973, 8th Grade Rancho San Juaquin Intermediate 1974, 9th Grade Clayton Jr. High 1975

5 - Jim Bell - 9th grade Science 7th period, 7th grade Science 4th period
The king of the meter stick. Would slam a meter stick on a desk about 3 times a week in seventh grade to intimidate, was a total stud in ninth grade.

4 - Rod Vogel - 7th grade, Health 4th period
Taught part time, and worked as a baggage handler for Western Airlines. We saw the name Rod Vogel in a Playboy magazine we swiped credited as a photographer, and he became an instant hero, with constant debates about whether or not it was him.

3 - John Dietrich - 8th grade English 2nd period
Long hair, hippie type. Thought I was a Mormon since I was from Utah. The shoulder blade length hair made him an instant hero.

2 - Tom Webber - 8th grade Environmental Science 7th period
Stood About 6 foot 5. Had this great classroom full of all kinds of animals. Made us disect earthworms. Easily, the greatest field trips in history. We flew to San Diego to go to Sea World. Camped out on the top of Catalina Island with over 100 kids and 8 teachers - the teachers busted out wine and figs and got plastered by 10:00 pm and anarchy reigned on that island paradise for one night.

1 - Dean Pappadakis - 9th grade PE 5th period, 7th grade PE 1st period
MR. P. Would also be included on the top 5 men in my life. Gave me confidence and reassurance at one of the most vulernable times in my life. Can't possibly say enough good things about this man. He passed in 1985, and I went to the service and told his widow that he was a GIANT in my life.

Bonus Item: Top question asked a teacher by a student in Junior High, 7 grade edition. Jeff Bellamy to a pregnant Mrs. Waxweiler, much loathed teacher of Utah History, "Hey Waxie, when you gonna hatch your egg?"