<p>Mootmom, our sons can room together. It was the doing “completely incomprehensible things” that told me they’d be great together. But mine won’t dance, and yours may have to listen to him talk about football occasionally.</p>
<p>I can teach waterskiing. (We will have a lake won’t we?)</p>
<p>I will be happy to teach Literature if there is a need.</p>
<p>And another Aye for Curmudgeon.</p>
<p>Curmudgeon, Cangel, Voronwe (a/k/a “Esteemed Board of Trustees”):
I will be sending each of you an application - resume attached - seeking permission to start up the Confidentialia Radio Station: 2 channels - one for kids; one for CC parents; don’t have the call letters down yet. I have dutifully noted all parental music preferences from the parents cafe threads, have dusted off my old LP’s, and have taken the liberty of contacting CSN&Y, Joni Mitchell, Arlo Guthrie, Van Morrison and Jethro Tull to see if they can perform during orientation weekend. (UMDAD - I hope you’re willing to take 1 of the dj shifts cuz I love your taste in music!)</p>
<p>Aye for Curmudgeon.
I can teach intro level Biology courses.</p>
<p>Heh-heh, Curmudgeon is going to regret going on his college trip. He goes away a dad…comes back a College President. :)</p>
<p>I can teach journalism classes. I know we have a few other excellent writers on here who can manage the English classes. TheDad, for example.</p>
<p>So many student posters seem to think that a college should have a pre-law program! For the most part, colleges don’t, and I think that’s probably wise, but if there’s a perceived need for one among us parents, I and a few others (Greybeard, Jonri, Concerneddad, Drusba, perhaps) could put one together and teach it (if we can agree on a program, that is). </p>
<p>Or perhaps we could start up a CC law school; I could envision something different than the usual, perhaps with different-than-usual admission standards and requirements. Ariesathena could be our student liaison.</p>
<p>Another aye for Curmudgeon for president.</p>
<p>I teach writing and Eng lit write now, so I’d be glad to continue.</p>
<p>H would be available for pre-med science courses, if you don’t mind him trying to talk everyone out of it. He’s also an expert on astronomy, gardening, and beer-making. (could fill the rathskeller.)</p>
<p>We’d love to run a pre-orientation kayaking trip.</p>
<p>As per the posts beginning with 49 (mine was 49), for a short while there )like a half dozen posts!) we were only going to teach things we DON’T do professionally in real life! So all you professional teachers can still teach Lit. and writing, but I say you then must sponsor a STUDENT CLUB for something you don’t get paid for in your day job!</p>
<p>I’ll do Celestial Navigation! Stars, sextants, bearings, etc. all without GPS. Now THERE’S a skill ! 
You never know when you will be caught out of sight of land with electronics, right?</p>
<p>Okay, Voronwe, fair enough. I am an amateur enviromentalist, so I’d love to give a wack at teaching that.</p>
<p>Well my 2 interests for after professional life, are travel planning and kitchen layout - so I guess I will run the study abroad program - anybody for Tierra del Fuego? I’m also a VERY amateur musician, so I guess I’m up for the music department.</p>
<p>Schoolmarm - get that radio station up and going!</p>
<p>If our honorable President doesn’t hurry up and get back from his college visit trip, we may have already had a faculty revolt and ousted him, a la Lawrence Summers!</p>
<p>Voronwe, you and Garland’s DH and my DH (son of an astronomy professor) will should get together and organize night classes on the sailboat we keep saying we are going to buy - anyone for Celestial Navigation in the Virgin Islands?</p>
<p>I guess I’ll sign up. Since my mom is a member of the board of trustees, does it count as a true safety? You are going to have to have a class on the historical basis of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That would be fun</p>
<p>Garland,</p>
<p>I’m going to need some samples for evaluation purposes before the Rathskeller will be able to stock your husband’s beer. (God, I love this job already.)</p>
<p>I also volunteer to start up the early music ensemble - Collegium Confidentialia.</p>
<p>Bassdad:</p>
<p>For early music, you’ll need to rope in reedplay (formerly hautbois); otherwise, with only tubas and trombones, I fear the repertoire might be limited to tuba mirum and dies irae and such likes. :(</p>
<p>Another aye for Curmudgeon.</p>
<p>Nope, no tubas or trombones for this ensemble. We need some sackbutts, serpents and shawms.</p>
<p>I see, you really mean “early.” I’d volunteer my brother in France as visiting instructor, but the only instruments he played (in his salad days, in his amateur student ensemble) were the lute, the viola da gamba and occasionally, the harpsichord. H and I can supply appreciative audience.</p>
<p>
I am SO there!</p>
<p>Sign me up for oboe and English horn classes! Along with chamber music (woodwind quintet, anyone?). Add in a reed making class, but that means we’ll need a very strong counseling department for all the sad oboists who are struggling with bad reeds and lack of confidence!</p>
<p>Someone needs to play the tambour - and I love madrigal singing. Wasn’t Mini’s daughter researching a very early opera? Perhaps that can be our first performance.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, DD made up a cheer - Squish 'em Buggs, Squish 'em!
A little backwards, but hey!</p>
<p>All this time I thought Bassdad’s screen name came from bass ale. I now realize it’s from bass as in violin, right? I think I’m not ready for this college, as I need to take summer school in Remedial Screen Name 101.</p>
<p>As for Greek life - someone suggested a fraternity name. I want to suggest a sorority - Beta Upsilon Gamma.</p>
<p>Hayden - :D</p>