Hi!  It's Alan Reed.  Thanks a lot for checking out our website.  And THANKS a lot for listening to Quick Country 95-5.  Yup, I'm a local boy.  I was raised in the Rochester area since 'back in the day'. I remember going to Northrup school in 2nd grade.  I had Miss Leslie Stordahl...she was my first crush.  Then she got married and broke my heart.  I can't remember my 3rd grade teacher, but I remember she was grumpy.

During my 4th grade year, we moved to Elgin.  I had Mrs. Vera Schwantz.  She was one of the nicest teachers ever.  She still remembers me and everytime she sees me, she goes out of her way to hit me with her cane....really hard.  I think she still has some issues with me. 

Then, the Elgin school burned down (I knew my friend Jimmy shouldn't have been smoking in the boys room!). Anyway, we ended up going to school at different places around town.  I went to 5th grade at what is now the Elgin Body Shop.  I had Mrs. Ponto for a teacher. And I don't know why, but one of my most vivid memories of 5th grade is when Brenda Wehrs came to school and started crying.  Mrs. Ponto asked her what was wrong and she said that her brother David was killed in Vietnam.  The whole class was silent, but there wasn't anything I could do.  I just remember being so helpless.

6th grade was different.  I had Mrs. Irma Hermanson.  We went to school at the Elgin Lutheran Church.  One of my memories of that year was going to the spelling bee.  I was the best in the 6th grade!!  When I got to the region finals. I screwed up on the word 'cemetery'. I spelled it c-e-m-e-t-A-r-y.  Don't ask me why I can still remember that to this day.  Everytime I go by a cemetEry, It all comes back to me.  It's weird how you remember the odd stuff.

Oh well, I'll write more...

SIncerely,

Alan

 p.s. Check out this new picture...look how HARD my job is!