Mr. Lathrop Returns to School ( )

Mr. Martin, Mr. Brooks, starring Eve Arden. First few weeks of the new semester have proven lucky for our Miss Brooks to teach his English at Madison High. First of all, she's been assigned a room next to Mr. Boynton's biology lab, which has made her deliriously happy for an obvious reason.

Mr. Boynton is still the most beautiful specimen in his lab. Oh, it's wonderful. Now I see him before every class, after every class, And when he runs out during class to the water cooler, I managed to get there just in time to bump heads.

Life at Madison would really be a dream this semester if it weren't for an unusual student who was assigned to my class last Monday. The newspapers carried the headline on Tuesday morning. Retired local business tycoon returns to complete high school education at Madison.

Get special permission from state board. That morning, I found myself teaching 42 normal adolescents and one 62-year-old juvenile delinquent. Following Friday morning, I was telling my land lady, Mrs. Davis, about my strange new student, when she said, Connie, you say this new boy is 62 years old.

That's right, Mrs. Davis. Goodness. He's taking quite a while to finish high school, isn't he? What does he expect to be when he grows up? A little old man. And he doesn't have too far to go.

You see, Mrs. Davis, Mr. Latherup was an important business executive locally. But he always bemoaned the fact that he'd never completed high school in his youth. Oh, I see. The war interrupted his education. Yes, he probably would have completed it if the North hadn't gone to war with the South.