Relief Pitchers

In Cleveland's high schools, about one in ten of the teachers were laid low by flu. In at least five, classes hardly missed a recitation last week. The teachers' places had been taken by a posse of students. At Lincoln High the 17-year-old football captain taught English and gym. Pretty Stella Bymakos stepped to the head of English 10B, and a scholar muttered: "Why couldn't it have been this week instead of last that I had to stay after school?"

Stella and her fellow substitutes at Lincoln are members of the Future Teachers of America, who try to get their hands in by teaching at least one class every two weeks. They rarely get such a chance as Cleveland's flu gave them. Said Lincoln's principal: "Best relief pitchers ever sent to the mound."

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