Mrs Fuzy

- I am very... very... disappointed... that my OWN FORM... - Mrs Fuzy, the quiet before the storm.

- There is a drop of 3 degrees Fahrenheit for every rise in altitude of 1000 feet

- The renaissance was a period of time in history when there was a new period of enquiry, or interest in learning, of desire to develop new ideas and take part in new activities

- A Mediterranean climate is one which has hot dry summers and mild wet winters. Winter rain is brought by the westerlies.

- A contour is a line joining all places having the same height above sea level.

An isobar is a line joining all places having the same pressure.

An isohyet is a line joining all places having the same annual rainfall.

An isotherm is a line joining all places having the same temperature.

 - High low high low high low high.  High low high low high low high - atmospheric pressure bands from north to south pole and back again.

 - Fallowing involves allowing the land to (can't remember the middle ....)  moisture and energy for the next crop.

 

- There are meanders, billabongs and ox-bow lakes" - characteristics of an old river, i.e. the part of the river that is far from the source.

 - The Apparent Movement Of The Sun.  What is the most important word in that sentence?

- They keep each other warm - an answer she read out to an exam question, "Why are wheat and sheep farmed together in Victoria?"

- An area of inland drainage is an area drained by a river, the waters of which never reach the open ocean (last 4 words said very slowly)

- Leonardo was the son of a country lawyer. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to Verrocio in the country

 
- Mrs Fuzy was probably the only teacher who could intimidate a class into not saying a word while she left the room for five minutes.
 
- One of my favourite pastimes during Bar Mitzvah lessons, which I shared with Morris Waysman and John Benporath, was practising forging Mrs Fuzy's signature from the slips every teacher had to sign to allow boys to miss their class and attend Bar Mitzvah lessons.  I never made use of my forging ability, but Mrs Fuzy did at least once express surprise that a disproportionate number of Bar Mitzvah lessons seemed to coincide with Geography.

- "I'm not afraid of Mrs Fuzy" - Mr Hayes, teaching past the bell and looking downward out the glass of the door to see if Mrs Fuzy had arrived for the next lesson.

 

THE DREADED BLACK MARK....

"You have a black mark!" - Mrs Fuzy in term 1.

"You have a green mark!" - Mrs Fuzy in term 2.

"You have a red mark!" - Mrs Fuzy in term 3.

- Mrs Fuzy instructed us to rule a red margin on the left side of each sheet of paper in our loose leaf folders.  When we used the reverse side (and she told us explicitly when this was appropriate), we had to make two margins - one on the left because that's where margins go, and one on the right so that the holes would be outside the margin.  We had to stick reinforcements on all the holes, and she warned us at the beginning of the year that she would periodically check our folders by holding the ends and shaking them.  If any pages fell out, we would get a Black Mark.

 
- Another cause for receiving a Black Mark (or minus 10 points, which she said was equivalent) was mis-spelling Mrs Fuzy's name on a test.
 

- I was asked to stand up and got a black mark on my first day in Form 1 [or was that 2?] Geography class by Mrs Fuzy because my sister was Julie-Anne Nessen, who Mrs Fuzy hated and had thrown out of her classes!! (Howard Nessen)
 

- This preoccupation with spelling prompted Darryl Levin to pose the question, "What's a four-letter swear word starting with FU?"

 

 

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