Paul Selge - Phys Ed Teacher - ISU - Obituary

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Did anyone else have Mr. Selge as a teacher besides me?

I took his (WSI) Water Safety Instructor class.....and passed! We probably started with 25 students, and probably finished with 15.

He did not just let anyone get a WSI Certificate. I'll never forget the day we had to swim, if memory serves me correctly, a 400 yard swim with street clothes on.

I was about 100 yards into this, I ended up facing away from him at the other end of the pool. Mr. Selge yells "Hagerman!!! Quit holding on to the side of the pool!!!!"

Of course, I wasn't the only person he yelled at that day, cause most of us were holding on to the side of the pool at one time or the other, throwing up from the strain of completing that swim.

God's Blessing for this man, and his family...another true All-American hero, and bulldog-of-a-man!!! The obituary is worth the read....I did not he was also a Navy Commander during WWII, and that's where he met his wife.....a Navy Nurse. What a life.

http://obituaries.tribstar.com/story/Paul-Selge-1921-2016-766827501
 
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