Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Flat Stanley Visit's Doctorslime

Flat Stanley Visits DoctorSlime!

You may ask yourself, who or what is Flat Stanley, well if you have a small child living in your home ask them. Most Young children know and love Flat Stanely, he has his own books, and animated TV show I'm told. Simply put Flat Stanely is a 2 dimensional character, who visits far away and interesting places. Recently Flat Stanley Came to visit with Dr.Slime.

Why? I don't really know you'd have to ask the Creator of this particular version of Flat Stanely. In Early October a non-descript plain manila envelope arrived at DoctorSlime's Headquarters. That's Delta College located at 1961 Delta Rd. University Center Michigan 48710. Delta College is a Community College with over 10,000 students from Bay City, Saginaw, and Midland. I like to think of Delta College as the best place ever located in the middle of a Corn Field. Thats how Delta Began, but that is another story. Back to Flat Stanley... I opened the Letter and out pops this Cute little Guy, with a red Shirt, orange tie, red hair, and brown pants. Inside with Stanley is a letter.

Dear Michael ( that's doctorslimes real name)

Our First and second grade class recently read the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown.
(see he does have his own book, told you!) In the story, the main character, Flat Stanley, was Flattered by a falling Bulletin board ( oh D
ear!). Although he wasn't hurt, he became flattened. When he wanted to go to California to visit some friends his family folded him up, put him in an envelope and mailed him to California. (Man I wish I could do that, Palm springs sounds nice!) What a way to travel.

To help our class learn about our world in a new way, I'm Mailing Flat Stanley to you. I hope you will be a gracious host and show Flat Stanley around your town or city during his time with you. Please write about the places Flat Stanley visited and things you did together. Send the letter, with Flat Stanley Back with any pictures post cards, etc you may have collected back to my class in a few weeks. My Class, teacher and I can't wait to hear about Flat Stanley's "adventures" with you!

Thank you for help
ing me with this Project. I wish I could fold myself up and visit you too!

Love,


Dylan Hardrman Laurel Elementary School
116 Laurel School rd.
Vanceburg, Ky. 41179-6186

Well with such a nice letter from Dylan, and Flat Stanley staring at me what was I to do?



So, I took Flat Stanley with me where ever I went! He got a tour of the Delta College Chemistry Department. http://www3.delta.edu/slime/tour.html This is the place where Flat Stanley Arrived and where I work. Its a very nice place the pictures in the tour show the building just as it was being completed. As I was moving in...Flat Stanley since he was to work with me in the chemistry Dept. He had to have special safety equipment added. So I made a pair or rubber gloves, for him which he keeps tucked in his belt when he's not using them, a pair of safety goggles to keep his eyes safe when we work together with chemicals, and a graduated cylinder which he uses to measure out chemicals for me. He's really good at measuring out tiny amounts like less than 5 ml to 50 uL, those small sizes are hard for me. SO.. for the first couple of weeks I taught him all about chemistry, because that's what I do at Delta College and Saginaw Valley State University. At Delta College I'm the Laboratory Manager and we mixed up chemicals to get ready for all the student Lab's at Delta. At Saginaw Valley State Unviversity, where I teach night school to college students Flat Stanley sat in on my class and learned Chemistry 101.

Whenever I went somewhere Flat Stanley Came with me, he got to meet some very weird and interesting people.

Included in this blog is just a few of the pictures and sights Stanley saw, for more please visit Flat Stanley's Photo album.
It is located on the World Wide Web at.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/62292905@N00/
or log into flickr.com and search for doctorslime.

You might have to sign in to see all of the pictures of Flat Stanley at the Children's Zoo (Saginaw), Planetarium (Bay City), or Delta College (University Center, Mi.)

Well we have work to do, Flat Stanley and I
We will post more later!

DoctorSlime Flat Stanley & Michael Garlick

At the Bottom of this page is a Slide show, showing just a few places Flat Stanley and I traveled too. Scroll Down to see the Show.

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