When I Was Young and Foolish (a.k.a. The meanest thing I ever said.)
“When I was young and foolish…” was the phrase that started off my favorite history lectures during my freshman year of college. It indicated that, instead of some dry slice of U. S. History that you could read about in a hundred different books, for the next hour we were having “Story Time with Dr. June,” and hearing first-hand about the life and times of our professor, June Rayfield Welch. I still remember the stories about how – because of his first name - he was assigned to a women’s dorm when he arrived at TCU on a football scholarship, or the time when he and his friends almost successfully moved a piano up a flight of stairs, or the hot summer day (before air conditioning) he and his co-workers turned their one office fan into a “pigeon whip” in an effort to get retribution on the bird who mistook their boss for a toilet. I tell you all this because I too was once young and foolish. And once when I was young and foolish, I made a cruel joke that I believe was the meanest th...