School days – A teacher who loved aero-modeling

This is the story of a class teacher who loved aero-modeling and used its charms effectively to entice his students into doing what they hated to do most, namely, studying!!
In those days (in the 1950s), my school had 5-day-week and my class teacher Rev Br Kelly wanted to take additional lessons for us on Saturdays. That was not what we, his students, wanted – so, he hit upon a novel plan. He invited to come over on a Saturdays to watch him modeling aero-planes.
Well – it was a bait that had all of us hooked and we arrived in anticipation of watching him at work creating those wonderful flying machines.
The planes were made of balsa wood and powered by a single propeller driven engine with petrol as fuel – he would whirr up the propeller and release the model and we boys would run after it as it wound its flight path in our school compound. And – after a couple of such displays he would shepherd us into the classroom for a bit of study. Needless to say, we would never miss his Saturday treats. (to be continued)
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