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Miss Breyfogel

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Shep's sixth grade English teacher in the short story "Miss Bryfogel And The Case Of The Warbling Cuckold"

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Date:	2/23/2006
Topic:	Miss Breyfogel, Jack Miner, Spark Gap Transmitter
Desc:	----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 12:17 PM Subject: Miss Bryfogel > Jim, > > I think I have written to you before, my father (Jack Miner, W9DDA) and Shep > went to high school together and were ham radio buddies. We met Shep again at > the Commemoration luncheon for Shep at the Wicker Park Social center in the > early 80's and I talked to him on the local ham repeater, here in Northwest > Indiana (da region). My dad told me a story about him and Shep burying a > spark gap transmitter behind the Hammond Police Department because every time > they would go on 160 meters the radio man for the department would call and > cuss them out for interfering with the police radio system. The police > operated up there back then. They showed him and buried the transmitter with > battery and caused mayhem for a couple of days. Shep confirmed that story at > Wicker Park and both had a good chuckle about it. > > Also, Shep wrote about Miss Bryfogle and she really was a civics teacher at > Hammond High School (Miss Ruth Breyfogle). She was my grandmother's younger > sister (Jack's aunt). > > Joel Miner
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Source Name:	Joel Miner
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