Dear Editor: I’m so old I remember a then-Father Feldhaus – who was my high school English teacher at Cathedral, Brooklyn in the early 1950s. He carefully analyzed every composition and returned each one on-time.

I always admired his attentive and patient discipline (and still remember the proper use of a semi-colon, no small achievement these days).

“Feldy,”as he was informally known among us, was also prefect of discipline and the JV baseball coach. “No comment” on the former, but I remember a trip back from a game at the Parade Grounds in which I (a left-sided batter) had managed to strike out three times. “Billy,” he said, “we have to get you a lefty bat.” He didn’t smile and I hoped against hope he might be serious; so much for my knowledge of the game in 1953.

BILL DUNCAN

Woodbourne, NY