Viking_Yearbook_90

Margaret Wharton "Well, I talk a lot. I won the fourth grade "blabbermouth" com– petition. I was only 48 words a minute less than JFK. 252 words a minute...or was it 352. .! can't remem– ber. He was like 400 and I was like 352 or something...and that was ad lib. It was pretty funny... you get talking about some pretty odd things. I seem to remember cows and glue somehow coming into the picture," said "blabbermouth" Margaret Warton, who among other things was the coordinator of the Music Committee last year. Warton is a woman who never stops going. Her notebook filled with schedules and appointments is her bible. She has such a demand on her time that she even schedules in her swimming time every day. "Right now, I'm just doing the flute ensemble and teaching stu– dents, and that's basically it, because I'm getting my chemistry degree this year. I don' started playing in the sixth grade, which is late for flute players. My first school didn't even have a band, so I kinda learned on my own, but then my parents de– cided that I was doing well enough to have a private teacher. I got a private teacher up here, John May, who just passed a way a couple months ago. I studied with him for eight years. For about three of those years, he gave me my lessons free, because we couldn't afford lessons. I'd just bring a loaf of homemade bread and some home laid eggs and 20