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  • Sue 7:54 AM on June 20, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: 3rd Grade, classmates, , Mrs. Cusack, spelling,   

    3rd Grade Teacher 

    In the last Newsletter I mentioned the 3rd Grade Class picture sent in by Cathy Riordan Full and asked who the lay teacher was. I got the following response by email from Pat Urbut

    “The 3rd grade teacher was Mrs. Cusack. She used to favor you girls. She hated the lazy good for nothing boys. She would have the students with 100′s in spelling tests stand up for recognition and mention how many weeks in a row that Mary Eberhart, Dorothy Koch, Cathy Riordan, Maryann S. and others received 100′s and say nothing about myself and any other boys. I can’t forget her. Pat”

    It must be Mary Ellen Eberhardt that you are mentioning Pat, as I am pretty sure I had Sister Malcolm for 3rd grade. I don’t remember having a lay teacher at all.

     

  • Sue 5:55 PM on June 18, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: 1984, 25-Year Reunion, , classmates,   

    Mystery Solved 

    Today one of the great mysteries of the 1984 Reunion picture has been solved. All this time we have had one unidentified woman in the picture and Betty Ashe Ronksley and Lourdes Morris Garrick have set us straight. When Betty sent in her RSVP yesterday she mentioned that the header picture on her personal page for 1984 was the wrong picture. I asked her to look at the “unidentified woman” and lo and behold this is what she had to say,

    “Yep, that’s me sitting behind that cute Rich DeFay and next to MaryEllen Moran. Unfortunately, I’m not able to identify the female you thought was me. :) ”

    After looking more closely, and going through who was left that might have been there, I thought it might be Lourdes. Sho’ nuff. It is Lourdes. Pictures have all been updated to be on the correct pages.

    Another Update came in and is posted – John Knipper has sent in a picture and a little summary of the last 25 years.

     

  • Sue 3:25 PM on June 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , classmates   

    Newsletter Proves Caustic Better Than Polite 

    Now I know for sure – beating up on people in the Newsletter works better than being nice. Tom B. tried to tell me that a couple of months ago. “Get tough” he told me, but I wanted to be the sweet, shy person that everyone remembers (HA!). But today within minutes of the Newsletter being delivered to inboxes, I had two emails, another ticket purchased, and a few hours later, an RSVP and a donation.

    Now that’s more like it!

    Jim O’Connor emailed because I spelled his last name incorrectly (UGH – hate to admit that one), Lourdes emailed with a suggestion for a competition at the Reunion. I know Pat Urbut doesn’t want to waste time with “silly games” as he emailed a week or so ago, but this one sounds like a good one. Betty Ashe Ronksley RSVP’d to let us know that she will be unable to attend, but sent a donation for the website.

    Good work for the day. Still have about half the classmates to open their email yet.

     

  • Sue 12:37 PM on June 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Arizona, Art Appreciation, classmates, composition books, , Nevada, Portland   

    More Nostalgia 

    Today I am working on a project that was initiated by a package that arrived yesterday from Cathy Riordan Full. She has come up with three years worth (Grades 4 thru 6) of Art Appreciation project books – remember those old black and white marbled Whitefield Composition books? I am going to scan them in and create a slideshow for the site. Should be done in a couple of days.

    After perusing the material, it made me reflect a bit on the unbelievable excellence of the education we got back then for our parents hard-earned $1/month payment to St. Ethelreda.

    A couple years back I wrote a column about the Slumming Down of America (Can be read here) following the footsteps of the Dumbing Down of America. It was prompted by being appalled daily at the lack of education evident in the business world here in the Wild West. Don’t know if my classmates in Arizona have felt the same way, but Nevada is truly a barbaric redneck stronghold. (Marianne, where you are doesn’t count. You are surrounded by academia and where Jim Fee is in Portland I never noticed the same depth of ignorance when I lived there because Portland is too much a metropolis.)

    I come close to strangling strangers in grocery stores and restaurants when I hear the common use of double negatives that bombards my ears from every quarter and have bitten my tongue bloody to keep from making some acerbic retort that the poor slobs wouldn’t understand anyway.

    I think I miss the midwest.

     

    • Jimbo 1:45 PM on June 15, 2009 Permalink

      Sue,
      Good thought. I honestly believe that people with reading, writing and language skills like ours were lumped together in the last election under the the pejorative term, intellectual elitists. Ya know there ain’t many elitist liberals in Crawford, Texas. Its the 1 gallon head in the ten gallon hat phenomenon. Basic educational skills are sadly lacking.

    • Sue 7:39 PM on June 16, 2009 Permalink

      Here is a good example of the corporate irresponsibility that feeds the dumbing of America. Today I was watching some TV and a Smith’s Grocery ad came on with their hype about lowering prices yadda yadda and then they had cameos of “regular customers” touting the greatness of Smith’s. The one that made my head snap up (I was multi-tasking) was a young woman with straggly hair who proclaimed proudly that “Me and my family save lots of money by shopping Smith’s”.

      How can you expect people to have an appreciation for education when the corporate giants (Smith’s is part of Kroger) pander to the lowest levels. Appalling!

  • Sue 4:47 PM on June 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , classmates, , Rock 'n' Roll,   

    Have spent a few hours today updating the Photo Nostalgia slideshow using the photos sent in by Cathy Riordan Full. There were some great pics of her, Barbara Ellis, and Dorothea Koch. There is one photo that Cathy took “on the sly” as she says to see how her new camera worked and I would like to identify the nun in the picture if we can. Does anyone out there know the identity of the “ranks moderator” in Cathy’s picture?

     

    • Jim Weimar 1:41 PM on June 10, 2009 Permalink

      Sign me up kid . Just thinking, something I do once in a while although not often. 50 years and 1 week ago was the big day.

    • Sue 9:10 PM on June 10, 2009 Permalink

      Wait a minute – Graduation Day was June 10, 1959. Exactly 50 years ago today. Cr*p if I had remembered that before now I would have bought a bottle of bubbly and celebrated by getting tipsy and dancing around my living room in a poodle skirt and saddle shoes. (Just happen to have a “costume” I won a prize with at a 50′s Theme Party once around 1997 – little did the judges know – this was de rigeur dress for me one time!)
      Check it out HERE

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