The "Discovering Lost Stuff: Part I - College Stuff" Story

It was an ordinary day.  Looking for my drafting equipment I used while a student at Millersville State Teachers College in Millersville, Pennsylvania.  The college was founded in 1855 with the ideals that teacher preparation and classical learning are essential elements of public education and enlightened citizenship.  Now, you know I just found that online, right!  But, I entered the college with the hopes of becoming a teacher.  And, I was a teacher for 33 years.  I majored in Industrial Arts and took classes in woodworking, metalworking, graphic arts, photography, leather, drafting, electricity and electronics, ceramics, plastics, textiles, architectural drawing and two levels of design courses.  In order to take the courses I needed to purchase a variety of instruments and materials.  After college I found quite a few of the items I no longer needed and either sold them or put them away.  Now that's where I am with this story.  Where did I put them?  I'm sure you have items from your youth that you might have placed somewhere in your house or apartment and have forgotten about them over time.  I have also, but today I happened upon some of them and had the best time looking at them and even trying to use a few of them once again.  I naturally had to take photos of everything and that is what I will share with you.  Hope you enjoy my brief descriptions of the items as much as I enjoyed looking at them once again.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.

This desk which my wife and I bought after we moved into our current home was the holder of many, many items which I had forgotten about over the past 20 or so years.  It was fantastic discovering the items all over again.

I purchased this miniature Webster's Dictionary to be used in all my classes.  A classmate told me he used the one he had purchased all the time, so I bought one too.  It came in very handy, since at the time there were no computers, cell phones or electronic devices to use to do the same thing for which I used this little item.   

The dictionary was used quite often as can be seen by this photo.  Carried it in my left-hand pants pocket.  Same pocket that I now use to carry my cell phone.

This was one of my calligraphy sets that I purchased when I took Graphic Arts I and II.  Had a variety of tips that I used when needed for calligraphy.  

Here you can see the many pen tips that were in the set.  

This was another calligraphy set that my parents thought I may like.  A mahogany desktop set that included the ink bottle and calligraphy pen.  It was very nice and I did use it quite often.

For my design classes I at times needed watercolor paints.  This set gave me just about every color I needed.  Was actually a children's set, but served me well.

What other color could I need?

This was my drafting set which I kept in a long, narrow wooden box I made in Wood I my first semester at Millersville.  Click on the photo to see the variety of items I had.  Top left features a pencil sharpening board and a device to draw large circles.  The wooden box holds a variety of items while the case on the bottom right holds a draftsman's compass. Many of these mechanical tools I haven't had the need to use since I took the courses at Millersville.