It's Apollo - Notes on Carl Sagan's Book - High School Graduation Picture

Well, Apollo and his partner won the Dancing With the Stars finale. It's been a fun show to watch over the last ten weeks. Nancy and I thought that the winner would be either Apollo or Joey. Wonder who they will get for the Fall season?

Today was my day to visit the dentist. A routine checkup and cleaning. I had a little time on my hands prior to the appointment, so it gave me a chance to read more of my new favorite book. Actually, it's proving to be one of my all time favorites. The book is Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World". The book jacket provides the best summary of the book and the best explanation of why so many educators are passionate about the subject matter. The jacket reads: "How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don't understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience, New Age thinking and fundamentalist zealotry and the testable hypotheses of science?" This book really provides a lot of "food for thought" material and it should prove useful for our Friday Night at the Movies discussions.

The scan for today is of my high school graduation (1963). I wanted to see how well the scanner would pick up the details. The picture is a little longer than the scanning portion of the scanner, so a small part is missing from the scan. Overall, I thought it did a great job on a picture that is now forty four years old. Is that possible - forty four years have passed since I graduated from high school??? Hard to believe!