MYSTERY NOTE: They always say that teachers, perhaps more than
any other profession, can make a difference in a person’s life.

Judy Brown, a retired first grade and kindergarten teacher in
the Bradford Area School District, can attest to that.

It was a year ago now when she received a note from a former
student who said, “you have been a large ladder in my ever growing
future.”

She was touched by the card – but could not make our the
signature! It came without a return address and only an “Erie”
postmark.

She has scoured yearbooks hoping to uncover a clue to the
writer’s identity but, alas, could not make a positive ID. Mrs.
Brown, who was Mrs. Nuzzo at the time of this child’s attendance in
her class, retired in 2005 after 35 years in the classroom at
various schools in the district.

If you can shed some light on the grateful student’s identity
please give us a call.

THAT FILE: Carl Lindahl dropped by with a sampling of files,
large and small, after our columns about terminology from the
oilfield.

One term we had mentioned was, “bastard file.”

Along with the files, Carl showed us a magazine, “File
Filosophy, and How to Get the Most Out of Files.” It was
copyrighted 1954 by the Nicholson File Co. and included detailed
information on all manners of files and rasps.

Our “bastard file” gets a mention in a section under “Cut” …
“Regarding coarseness, it is obvious that Coarse and Bastard Cuts
are used on the heavier classes or work; the Second and Smooth Cuts
for finishing or more exacting work.”

Carl has accumulated files over the years, but did also spend
some time in the oilfield, he tells us.

No doubt, a coarse file would come in handy on some of the heavy
work required on drilling equipment.

EAST BRADFORD: Another former resident tells us about a business
establishment not far from that East Main and Bolivar Drive
intersection: “Does anyone remember Carroll’s – 15 cent hamburgers
in Foster Brook in the late ’50s? I think it was across the street
from Rink Brothers possibly where the Tastee Freeze was
located.”

ONE MORE: Hal Harmon of Bradford tells us the Glass Bar, a
subject of previous RTSs, had a prior life as a two-story school
which his mother attended. It was located on Dorothy Lane.