well i have been trying to remember some more of the school days events. some of the members of my class were Judy Burger. Louise Seifert Martha Blank Annette Schalmo Gary Heather Bob Mcfarland Ray Yurick Gary Stephan and the others i can mention when i find our graduation picture.
Every May was the Crowning of the May Queen and the stature of the Blessed Mother. Asenior girl from the parish was named May Queen and it was a formal event. I think i have a pic of that also I will have to go thru the box of pictures and see what i can find.
We were taught how to sqaure dance by the nuns also. Promenade and Dotsie Do IMAGINE THAT
I remember we had to play softball at recess and lunchtime in the school yard. How i hated that as i couldnt hit the ball for the life of me. No one wanted me on their team because i was so bad at sports. Except for one time i was up at the plate and i connected to the ball and it went flying. Everyone was hollering run run run the bases for a home run. Well i started running and it was then that everyone noticed that the Pitcher who was Sister Mary St Joan had been knocked to the ground by my fly ball and the wind completely knocked out of her. Om my god i guess you go to hell for almost killing a nun.
That was the end of my softball games. I never played again.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
grade school days
it has been a while since i posted so here we go. i will talk about my grade shool years at St Philip and James. we had three classrooms first and second grade were together, third fourth and fifth grades together and sixth seventh and eighth were together. At that time we had 4 nuns from the Notre Dame Sisters whose motherhouse was in Cleveland. We had Sister Mary Ewaldo, Sister Mary Leoncia and Sister Mary ST Joan.
Sister Joan turned out to be our teacher for all eight grades of school. Each year that we entered the next room for the higher grades so did Sister Joan thus she was our teacher for all eight grades of shool as SPJ. there were 10 students in each of our classes and I believe that somewhere I have my eigth grade graduaion photo of our class taken with Father Maurer who was our pastor for 36 years untill his death. That lengith of time is unheard of today in the church. I will try to locate the photo and publish it at a later date. My family lived right across the street from the school as did some of the other students so we rarely got in trouble as all the nuns had to do was walk across the street to talk to your parents. At that time the fee for attending SPG was $25.00 which was called you book bill, today the tuition is close to $2000 Quite a difference. We attended mass every day before schoolas this was a requirement. The school is much different today of course but i remember our lunch room was in the basement with no windows and was often referred to as the dungeon. The fourth nun mentioned above was the housekeeper a sweet little german woman who spoke very little english. The nuns would often in the spring and summer walked up and down their sidewalk praying their evening prayers or the rosary. In those days nuns wore the traditional habits of their order. our class graduated in 1955 from SPJ and most of us went to Northwest High School only one or two attended Central Catholic High School as it was too expensive for most of the families at that time and there was no transportation to the school located in canton ohio. i guess this is enough for this evening and will try to continue some tomorrow.
Sister Joan turned out to be our teacher for all eight grades of school. Each year that we entered the next room for the higher grades so did Sister Joan thus she was our teacher for all eight grades of shool as SPJ. there were 10 students in each of our classes and I believe that somewhere I have my eigth grade graduaion photo of our class taken with Father Maurer who was our pastor for 36 years untill his death. That lengith of time is unheard of today in the church. I will try to locate the photo and publish it at a later date. My family lived right across the street from the school as did some of the other students so we rarely got in trouble as all the nuns had to do was walk across the street to talk to your parents. At that time the fee for attending SPG was $25.00 which was called you book bill, today the tuition is close to $2000 Quite a difference. We attended mass every day before schoolas this was a requirement. The school is much different today of course but i remember our lunch room was in the basement with no windows and was often referred to as the dungeon. The fourth nun mentioned above was the housekeeper a sweet little german woman who spoke very little english. The nuns would often in the spring and summer walked up and down their sidewalk praying their evening prayers or the rosary. In those days nuns wore the traditional habits of their order. our class graduated in 1955 from SPJ and most of us went to Northwest High School only one or two attended Central Catholic High School as it was too expensive for most of the families at that time and there was no transportation to the school located in canton ohio. i guess this is enough for this evening and will try to continue some tomorrow.
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