school #3

At noon on Tuesday our very own Mark Fenske is holding a lecture on why he loves planning. I am very curious. For a year and a half I've waited to hear his true thoughts on planning. Now that it's here, I feel it's a set-up.

His Creative Thinking class in the Fall of 2005 became in my mind, the Class of Humility. Every morning we showed up and every morning Fenske made us feel inadequate. In the end, we pulled a legitimate fast one on him. The news was out that he was going back to W+K in Portland. We royally pissed him off with the last project, so he made us redo the assignment for our final class. We all got together and decided that instead of a redo, we wanted to play. We each picked a town that touted THE WORLD'S BIGGEST ________________. (ex. I had LaCrosse, WI with the World's Largest Six Pack) In the middle of each person showing the map and the World's Largest, Fenske stood up and started ranting about how we were crazy and how much trouble we were in. We told him to sit down and be quiet (yes, we did). He sat down defiantly and watched until the final presenter, Cliff, showed a map with all of the cities connected and the final destination as Portland. The city of Portland with The WORLD'S BIGGEST ASSHOLE MARK FENSKE. We presented him with a bottle of Asshole beer. His reaction...silence and then laughter. A defining moment for all of us.

**I should have prefaced and mentioned that I do enjoy Fenske. His love of poetry is something I admire. I learned from his class, and I took away the "getting it" part that we all seem to neglect. I even learned the beauty behind humility.