WHAT'S HAPPENING
by GiGi, your Gossip Girl
It has come to the attention of Gigi that a certain Mrs. K
has entered night school at the Harper Lake University under the tutelage of
Professor M. In a comment to a confidential source Mrs. K stated she had
resisted enrollment in the college preferring to stick to the home schooling
she had previously signed up for. It was only after Professor M presented his
credentials to her in the Harper Library between the shelves containing Fish
and Game on one side and Self Help on the other that she chose the direction of
her further education. She stated that her home schoolteacher had the equivalent
of a junior high certificate while Professor M surely had a PhD. It remains to
be seen when graduation will occur and what it will lead to.
I asked Dorothy what she thought about this. Her comment: "Thinly veiled."
The sister of the person we think is Mrs. K. told Dorothy that she called it to her sister's attention and Mrs. K. refused to believe the article was written about her. She said she had not entered the Harper Library in over five years and the person she had eyes for was certainly not professor, he was a plumber. The initials were the same but that was the only similarity she could see in the whole thing.
I called Horace Greenleaf, editor of the Harper Bee and asked him what he thought. He said he was all for higher education and a PhD would be a better teacher than a junior high graduate. He is a little puzzled about the existence of Harper Lake University. He thought he was up on all our educational establishments but that one must have slipped by him.
Tales of Harper, short stories and poems
about the fictional town of Harper, Mississippi is available on Amazon Kindle
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