When I did my student teaching in Miami Beach, on parent-teacher night I met the father of one of my pupils. He was Marvin "The Torch" Brodsky, supposedly a member of the Jewish mob.
My grammar school PE coach, Chester Dumbowski, a rather simian sort of fellow in appearance and manners, was always "Chettydumbo."
In high school there was:
Flame
Ranger Mike
Spazzy Nagy
LeNeeve's Butt
...all of which have stories behind them, but you'll be spared.
Also had a Spanish teacher who was the spitting image of the actress who played Sheena of the Jungle in the early tv series. Naturally she was called Sheena and she always drew an unusually large crowd of concerned fathers on parent-teacher night. My father never missed one when she was around.
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