Remember that thread on cursive writing

[packman]

Recently uncovered chalk boards, with original class lessons dating from 1917, show the beautiful cursive writing students were expected to learn:

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BUT- this post really isn't about that - it's about this obviously Pledge to the Flag:

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Were those lines about God, heart and life ever in the Pledge?

http://www.today.com/parents/100-year-old-chalkboard-drawings-found-oklahoma-school-t25166?cid=par-huffpost-gravity

[HassleCat]

1. Different versions

I seem to recall different versions of the pledge. I do remember the "Underdog" part being added in the mid 1950s.

[treestar]

2. And it was half abandoned for my generation

We learned it, but not like that. That handwriting reminds me of the grandmother's. The older the generation, the better the hand writing. It used to be a reputation for Catholic School students to have good handwriting.

[3catwoman3]

5. My husband and his closest in age...

...younger sister both went to Catholic school and were well-drilled in the Palmer method for cursive.
Their handwriting looks so much alike that the first time I saw an envelope addressed by his sister to him I wondered why he was writing to himself.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. My Wife's Handwriting. . .

. . .looks like the white on green example we used to have above the chalkboards in grade school. Letter perfect, literally!

My cursive has way too much affect. I would have been yelled at in 3rd grade for all the disconnected letters and flourishes i developed over the years. Not my wife though.

[GeorgeGist]

10. My first award was for Penmanship ...

in 3rd grade at St. Mary's elementary.

I became a Dr. and learned how to scrawl illegibly.

[TexasProgresive]

3. This thread from 2 days ago

June 14, 1889 Colonel Balch introduces an American Flag Salute at his NY kindergarten: “We give our heads and our hearts to God and or country; one country, one language, one Flag”

As it was recited they would point and head, heart and flag, finishing up with the Roman salute, arm outstretched palm down. I think this was used after the Bellemy pledge was written. Because the NAZIs appropriated it the salute was changed to right hand over heart.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6795262

Links on the history of the pledge
http://www.gemworld.com/US-PledgeSaluteSocialism.htm
http://historyofthepledge.com/history.html

[packman]

7. DAMMIT-you shocked a memory out of me

I remember now the head, heart and flag shit - sort of a take off on the Roman Cat's sign of the cross. But not the palm down part, but the hand over the heart. Jesus, what a flash back A tip of the hat to you

[TexasProgresive]

8. I guess you are older than PACMAN, hunh?

Cause I don't remember doing that, just hand over heart, and when I was in the military, a military salute. Same for the "Star Spangled Banner".

[LeftinOH]

4. The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892, but not recognized

by Congress in 1942. At the time these chalkboard writings were created, the pledge was only informally adopted by schools on a local level. It's quite possible that the teacher (or student) who wrote it down took some artistic license with "my head, my heart and my life to my God.."

There was no "officially recognized" version of the pledge at the time this was written (1917).

[Snobblevitch]

9. The first chalkboard looks like what I remember

learning in the 70s.