September, 2000      Diablo Blue      Page 13

Across
1 Item never carried to school no matter how bad the cafeteria is (8)
3 Wood pulp based information storage medium (5)
5 Non-permanent writing material for use with group projects (5)
6 Portable storage device (8)
8 Time measurement device (5)
12 Device for optical enhancement of studying small objects (10)
13 Correction device (6)
16 Erasable writing device (6)
17 Device for optical enhancement of studying far off objects (9)

18 Measurement device (5)

Down
2 Collection of written material (4)
3 Device to keep pens from marking up your shirt and you from getting a date (2 words) (6,9)
4 Portable power (9)
7 Manually operated calculating device (6)
9 List of classes and appointments (8)
10 Semicircular measuring device (10)
11 Manual calculation device (9)
14 What used to be given by students to their teacher, now donated to the schools by Silicon Valley company (5)
15 Permanent writing device (3)

As the younger members of the club (as well as the kids and grandkids of the rest of us) head back to school, let us remember what parents had to buy and kids had to carry on that first day of school (though back when we went to school (walking 20 miles uphill both ways in the snow...) all we had was a slate and a piece of chalk...)