Dyslexic Noel

I saw Deana Martin, the woman whose father Dean could never remember how to spell her name (Dean, Deana: it is hard to figure out how to get from one name to the other). She told how her father sang "Noel" on his television show and (pretended to, I hope) read a mistake on the cue cards and sang "Leon", instead. She thought it was funny. I told her, as my name is Leon, how students came into school the next day and sang "Leon". Her father was a great influence.

Recently, one of my classmates wrote what he most remembered about me: that my name was "Noel" in reverse. Supposedly that was really cool. Unfortunately, I fear that was the coolest thing some classmates believe I ever did.