... and who can forget Gary Brown hanging upside down from the basketball net while singing at a St. John's Church dance.

I remember that! Hanging by his knees and playing guitar...Jimi Hendrix, eat your heart out (wherever you may be). That would have been about 1965.....

In the 40's at the CCI dances Miss Irwin (the French Teacher) would patrol the dance floor, and any male student not dancing would be escorted by her to a female student and be told to dance! Since she was only a little taller than 5 feet she would use a pencil to poke you in the ribs to get you moving.

In the 40's the Temple Gardens Dance Hall had a rule for dancers. You were not allowed to have both your feet off the floor at the same time. This prevented some of the more popular dances at the time where the girls might spend a part of the time in the air.

It was also a time when the Air Force was training pilots at the Moose Jaw Air Base. So there was quite a conflict created between them and the Zoot Suiters on the weekends at some of the dance halls. Often the police had to be called in. (If you don't know what a Zoot Suiter is ask one of us 'old timers'.

Miss Irwin always wore knitted dresses to class; we had to say the Lord's Prayer in our home room every morning in French; she brought comic books to class for us to read - of course they were in French!