by Dr. Pelham Mead When an idea comes to mind I usually write down the idea or title and later on I begin to research the topic. If it is the Templar Knights I concentrated on the facts surrounding the Templar Knights from a specific view such as a Templar Squire, who sees everything from…
Remembering Labor Day and my novel, “Autumn Winds Over Okinawa 1945.”
by Dr. Pelham Mead III. My father Chief Petty Officer Ken Mead was stationed on the USS Antietam aircraft carrier from August 1944 until August 31, 1945 where he departed for the Island of Okinawa with three other sailors. In my novel, ” Autumn Winds Over Okinawa 1945.” Published 2012 by Xlibris. While on Okinawa…
The Dean of Students
by Dr. Pelham Mead My newest movie script tells the real story about my position as a Dean of Students at Kakiat Junior High school in Spring Valley, New York during the 1980’a. I was taking the sixth level administrative level certification program at SUNY New Paltz in 1984 and I needed a year as…
After the Civil War.
by Dr. Pelham Mead In my research on the southerners the fled America to live in Mexico and Brazil after the Civil War, I discovered that to this day Americans still live in Brazil and still identify with the Confederate Southerners and their traditions and culture. Frank McMullen was one of many Texan leaders that…
Chapter Four- Sex in the School
by Dr. Pelham Mead, from the novel, The Junior High. Chapter 4- Sex in the school There three types of students in Junior High School, the oversexed, the undersexed and those that did not know the difference. Generally the 9 th grade students had the most hormones pumping, and were of course the most physically…
Chapter 3- The Junior High
by Dr. Pelham Mead. Chapter 3- School Politics We had three Principals in 30 years. The first principal lasted five years and the second principal lasted seven years, and the last principal 17 years until a heart attack forced him to retire. The first principal was “old school,” meaning he was from the old style…
Update on my blog.
by Dr. Pelham Mead. I will be posting all of the chapters of my novel, The Junior High, the secret affairs of Kakiat JHS, Spring Valley, New York, 1960-1998. Chapter 2- Big Breasted Ronnie Bronson Public school in New York traditionally starts one or two days after Labor Day in September. The day before that…
The First Chapter of my novel, “The Junior High,” the secret affairs of Kakiat JHS 1960-1998,
by Dr. Pelham Mead. Chapter 1- In the beginning The name Kakiat JHS came from the name of a local Native American Tribe that used to live in the High Mountain area in New York. When the High Mountain school district began to explode in student population in the 1960’s it was decided that an…
