1955 was the first year of high school i remember having to walk to the old grade school to get the bus for transportation to high school. occasionally i would walk which was about 4 miles and a long trek up the driveway to the school i will have to find my yearbooks to see how many students actuially were in our classes i dont think that many maybe a 60 to 90 would really have to check the yearbooks to be susre.
i remember some of the teachers that taught us. There was mary fletcher the latin teacher and shee also delivered eggs from her farm to my mothers house. She also held a Roman banquet for every latin class she taught including the roasted pig and every one would dress in toga's etc for the event. There was Sara Lawrence our typing and shorthand teacher, yes i took those classes. Never played sportsor anything and hated gym class. we made a few new friends at high school since we graduated from catholic grade school and were interegrated with the public school kids who also started high school that year well thats enough for now will have to look for the yearbooks and publish some photos from that time till then stay well
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
high school
well my next step was going to be about my high school days. i will start with this past weekend in the newspaper was the obituary of dennis mobley one of our classmates from the class of 1959 at Northwest High School. A very short obituary it was listing no survivors just calling hours. I remember Dennis from prom and how he drove me and my prom date home as i did not have a car or drive then. Fifty one years has passed since then and i never attended any of the reunions as I always felt that after 20 years and more what do you have in common anymore. Dennis i never saw after graduation, he died on his farm whereever that was located. I guess you can live your whole life and when you die someone who knew you may read about your death but life will go on like it never happened. I did not attend the calling hours for Dennis for that very reason that i have never seen or had contact with him in 50 years so should you show up at his funeral. Hardly i guess though it is rather scary that someone your age that you knew is now no longer here.
Is that perhaps a fear of your on death, maybe so. Although i believe there were other deaths from our class at and early age like Miguel Guzman and Jim Finefrock whose mother-in-law is now at Chapel Hill Community nursing home where i work part time so i guess the world becomes a small place after all. I only
realized in the past few weeks that Jim's wife was connected to our class of 1959. Well i will write more of our high school days another night. probably find a few pictures to post of graduation and prom i am sure I have them in the same box that i just found the most recent photos that i posted. hope all of you who are reading this are enjoying
Is that perhaps a fear of your on death, maybe so. Although i believe there were other deaths from our class at and early age like Miguel Guzman and Jim Finefrock whose mother-in-law is now at Chapel Hill Community nursing home where i work part time so i guess the world becomes a small place after all. I only
realized in the past few weeks that Jim's wife was connected to our class of 1959. Well i will write more of our high school days another night. probably find a few pictures to post of graduation and prom i am sure I have them in the same box that i just found the most recent photos that i posted. hope all of you who are reading this are enjoying
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Graduation St. Phillips and James
Friday, July 23, 2010
Schooldays
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
well two weeks have passed since i wrote anything charlie was in the hospital with pnuemonia and other complications and is now home recovering. he had to give up summer classes as it will take a little while for him to get back to normal a minor setback but he will be back in school in september. i had some time off from work to spend with him he has slept a lot but thats ok. i went down to amish country to pick up the school bag we had made for him and stopped at Winesburg Meats and bought a few things I used to take my mother their all the time when she was alive. Nothingmuch has changed at the meat market still the same family running the business and the same employees. Quite a record since my mother has been gone for 20 years this august. tomorrow i return to work for two d ays then off on saturday and work the 4th of july. will get back to the earlier times on the next posting i am surprised that 40 people have viewed this already.
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