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  • Sue 6:17 AM on May 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: grammar school, memories, priests,   

    Father Byron Maher 

    As you all know by now, since I sent out a blast email yesterday, Father Maher passed away Sunday May 23rd at the age of 85. Thanks to Jim Weimar for the initial information. After Jim let me know, I Googled the Chicago Tribune to find the obituary so I could send it out. Pat Urbut had the same idea and sent the obit to our “core group committee” which I then forwarded to the whole class.

    While I was on the obituary page, I took the liberty to sign the Guest Book for myself and on behalf of our class. Any of you who feel you would like to sign as well should use the link in the email and then go ahead and sign the guestbook. I have received two comments this morning which I will post here for everyone to read. As/if I get more, they will also go up here.

    FROM MIKE GLYNN:  I remember many things about Father Maher but mostly those memories center around my non-paying(at least non-paying in the form of filthy lucre) job of alterboy. He was one of the world’s fastest to complete a mass and woe to the kid who had to ring the bell on the rectory door to wake him up for the 6:00 am Sunday mass.

    FROM CAROL SCHMIDT SCHOLTENS:   I remember him coming to class on Monday morning to quiz us on the Gospel and Epistle readings from the day before.  Fathers Guerin and Leyhane shared the rectory with him.  I know he’ll be missed.  Thanks for sending the condolences on our behalf. 

     

  • Sue 11:12 AM on October 24, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Alumni, grammar school,   

    Nice Comments from Visitors 

    We’ve had a couple of visitors stop by our site via the link on the St. Ethelreda school site. They have sent some nice comments. I thought it might be worth it to create a new page for all of these comments so they are accessible permanently all in one place. The new page is called Other Alumni Comments and can be found in the list of pages to the right.

     

  • Sue 7:24 AM on July 16, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , grammar school   

    It’s Thursday 

    I knew this was what would happen. Everybody’s a procrastinator – including me. So what does that mean? Most of the people that I have been begging to send in their updates – have done it in the last two days.

    The website is looking the way I envisioned it lately though. Tuesday and Wednesday I got Mike Glynn, Mary Corley Smith, Patti Duffy Poirier, Joan Challingsworth Goliak, Madelon Healy Pearlman, Tom Lyons, John Dunne, Melody McCormick DeLaMar , and Betty Ashe Ronksley updated.

    Sorry though, Pat (Urbut), Patti didn’t send in any pictures yet. Pat mentioned in an email:
    ” I went on my first sort of date with Patti and Celeste Wantroba (from the class ahead of us) and Larry Bonnevier. She probably does not even remember. We went to Ryan’s Drug Store at 87th and Ashland to Scotty’s fountain in the back and had cokes.”

    Today I’ll be working on Jim O’Connor, Bill Quinn, Mary Sheehan Shearin, and Lola Durrant Smitt – and any others that trickle in …..

     

  • Sue 3:14 PM on July 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Quick Update 

    We are continuing to dicker with Toby’s on getting us the best deal for the money. We are hoping to get at least an hour or hour and a half of open bar and then go to cash bar after dinner. Check the blog for updates.

    Mike Shaughnessy has submitted his update for the website. There is a great picture of Mike and some of his family, and a few paragraphs of info on what Mike is doing now. Unfortunately, Mike will not be attending, but he does say he will raise a glass or two that night in a toast.

    He also mentions this in his update:
    “Question for the class: does anyone else remember a day in late spring of ’59 when a group of St. E alums celebrating their 50th stopped outside of our classroom? I “think” I recall that scene and hearing Marilou Gannon and some of the other girls commenting on how strange it would be to come back after 50 years.”

    Anyone else remember that???

     

  • Sue 4:47 PM on June 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , grammar school, 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

  • Sue 2:08 PM on June 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , grammar school, music memories   

    Music Memories 

    Working on this 50-Year Reunion has opened my memory banks in a lot of ways. In the past few weeks I have been concentrating on gathering a playlist of music from 1959 and surrounding years (really about 1958-1963). The years for which I (and most of the rest of you) was interested in dancing with the opposite sex and not just jitterbugging with the girls.

    I have spent hours on Amazon.com listening to clips of many of the songs high on the charts during those years and determining a scale for acquiring them with a very limited budget based on popularity (in my own mind) and dance-worthiness for a bunch of senior citizens. (I want to see Tom and Mary jiving away again at this Reunion).

    It’s good to remember the clean harmonies of the groups back then, and the simpler instrumentation before electronic sampling took over.  And besides that, the music is still danceable for those with arthritic tendencies and out-of-shape muscles.  All good for our purposes here.  But …

    I need to know what you might want in the way of favorite songs from the era. What do you want to remember? What music was your first “song” and with whom? It’s time to dish now … give up the good stuff …

    Till next time … For those of you out there not used to communicating on blogs, just click the little link in the upper right that says “reply”.

     

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