Show I 1 E E C AHUN E G I 1 E imagination can be cruel terry D barberton I 1 ohio says say he thinks that one of the greatest fears a person can have is the fear that someone is laughing at you thinking back over his childhood he remember having any fear until he started to school he had an impediment in his speech and could not read as well as the other children in the first grade he gave a recitation A frog on a log that croak because he had a fro frob in his throat threat instead of I 1 civi giving ng a cloy and distinct like the other children I 1 his ws lw s iv rt t a amich of jumbled i fr v arn that day da on he carried the nickname nick name of rawdy a shameful word to him as it meantie meant me anthe he speak well from that day on he had doht of arver trying to read or s speak peak in the classroom so sn he conce concentrated nitrated all his efforts on arithmetic by the time he was in n the third grade he was doing sixth grade arithmetic but was far behind in reading ability he carried the awful nickname of bawdy for eight years through grade school in junior high school the nickname left him but in his own mind was the fear that someone was laughing at him to offset this fear he built up resentment of people and resolved that he would show them he would amount to something he got excellent rades in science and mathematics math matics and because of these grades he was considered a good he worked his way jirouch college and was graduated in the top fourth of his class but he never participated in social affairs at college because be was still carrying his fear after this he took an active part in sunday school and fraternal organization work within a short time he was elected to the top offices of his organizations doing this type of work helped his pronunciation of words word and gave him confidence he says that as he looks back over the years he believes it was mostly his imagination that people were laughing at him 1 |