Michelotti Sawyers Obituary with link to memorial video
Grab a look at the obituary; the site says it will go away after a year.
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| Guessing this is a pretty recent picture |
Once there...RantWoman visited the page for her high school graduating class and guess whose memorial popped up.
Mr. Nesbit taught 12th grade Humanities. Such was RantWoman's high school that by the time kids in band and orchestra sorted out their days, they wound up having a lot of classes in common. Such also were the realities that 720 kids entered in 10th grade and 620 tgraduated but that is a topic for another day.
High school for RantWoman was such a mix of really great teachers and things RantWoman had no concept of how to work through. In other words, RantWoman had not yet bloomed into her full measure of irascibility.
RantWoman was one of the people Mr. Nesbit coached to NCTE recognition between junior and senior year. He definitely gets credit when something RantWoman
write makes sense. His NCTE essay coaching also gets credit for giving RantWoman the courage to say "No, what you are suggesting is NOT where this piece is going" and that helped RantWoman get clear where it needed to go.
To this day, RantWoman does not know what to make of her senior year research paper. RantWoman wrote about the Muppets. RantWoman researched a good bit. RantWoman did not actually write the whole paper until the night before it was due. And Mr. Nesbit was still reading it aloud as an example 4 years later when Little Sister came through his class.
RantWoman was touched by the obit talking about Mr. Nesbit's life growing up in Poplar MT, a very tiny ber and by all the different steps of his career. RantWoman also listened to part of
the memorial and was touched by his expressions of faith.
Mr. Nesbit and his wife coached the majorette corp at the two cross town rival high schools. RantWoman would NEVER let anyone argue that majorette performances involve no athleticism. RantWoman couldn't care less about majorettes except to the degree that she felt
free to do her own thing without worrying about things RantWoman would have
been humorously ill-suited for.
The obituary does not mention what may be only lore about Mr. Nesbit's career as a drill sergeant at the Sand Point Naval Air Station in Seattle, English teacher and drill sergeant are not necessarily terms RantWoman would think go together; however, drill sergeant and majorette coach definitely make sense.
Rest in Peace, or for those who might rather, so long and thanks for all the fish.
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