-----Original Message-----
From:	Greg Hammond 
Sent:	Thursday, July 02, 1998 9:24 AM
To:	Andrea Leach; Andy Schipper; Babita Duggal; Heather Stuart-Obee;
John Prostran; Katherine Stoll; Lori Dermott; Tajinder Toor; Teresa
DaSilva; Victor  Shimla
Subject:	FW: MATH

You may have seen this one already............. 
  


 HOW TO SUCCEED IN MATH

Little Tommy was doing very badly in math.  His parents had tried
everything; tutors, flash cards, "Hooked on Math," special learning
centers-in short, everything that they could think of. Finally in a
last ditch effort, they took Tommy down and enrolled him in the
local
Catholic school.   

After the first day, little Tommy comes home with a very serious
look on
his face.  He doesn't kiss his mother hello. Instead, he goes
straight
to his room and starts studying.  Books and paper are spread out all
over the room  and Little Tommy is hard at work. His mother is
amazed.
She calls him down to dinner and to her shock, the minute he is done
he
marches back to his room without a word and in no time he is back
hitting the books as hard as before. This goes on for some time, day
after day while the mother tries to understand what made all the
difference.  Finally, Little Tommy brings home his report card.  He
quietly lays it on the table and goes up to his room and hits the
books.
With great trepidation his mom looks at it and to her surprise,
Little
Tommy got  an A in Math!

She can no longer hold her curiosity.  She goes to his room  and
asks,
"Son, what was it? Was it the nuns?"  Little Tommy looks at her  and
shakes his head.  "Well then," She replies "was it the books, the
discipline, the structure, the uniforms, WHAT was it?? Little Tommy
looks at her and 
says "Well, on the first day of school, when I saw that guy nailed
to
the plus sign, I knew they weren't fooling around."