(I went to the Icescapades instead--did I miss anything?)
I will never understand the fascination Sister Joan had with this book.
| Our Lady Queen of Peace Grade School | |
| Milwaukee, Wisconsin | |
| Class of 1968 | |
| A Few Stray Remembrances | |
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| Another Picture of Southgate | |
| The Southgate Christmas decorations including the giant wreath around the Southgate sign and the very stylized Christmas trees attached to the light poles. | |
| Santa's arrival via helicopter to Southgate's "Funland?" They had some sort of petting zoo there during Christmas as well. | |
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| The plastic manger scene/statue handed out every Christmas at Queen of Peace. Somehow I remember getting a candy bar courtesy of the parish accountants. | |
| Gimbels, Badger Paint, Kroger/Krambo, Singers, Kresgee's, Leon's, Pinkies, Mazo's. Leon's and Mazo's are still there. | |
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| The big Bliffert Lumber Yard Fire (Oct 3, 1965) | |
| Palomar's Roller Skating Rink | |
| Building an electric motor for Mr. Swanke's class? Mine actually ran! I wonder if Mr. Swanke had a degree from a real school? He was my first teacher that was male. | |
| James Lewandowski singing, "Hole in My Bucket." I think that he played piano, too. | |
| Frank Krukowski's brown trench coat and his dad's Fiat 850. Was anyone more tortured by the rest of us? I doubt it. Remember his sister--Princess? | |
| The Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), the dances and the soccer team. I never did any of that. | |
| Clement Zablocki, our own Congressional Representative! | |
| The Sex Education class that we attended. I'm guessing that it was the summer of 1967. The boys went to one class, and the girls went to another. My dear Uncle Casey went as my surrogate parent since my father was deceased. | |
| Mass at the Byzantine church. I wish I could remember where that was. | |
| The annual trip to Muskego Beach. Keep Henry Fons away from anything that moved. | |
| Painting Halloween scenes on the store windows at Southgate. Where are you Dianne Spott? | |
| The PA announcements and listening to music class broadcast by the state educational radio channel. Didn't they read out the lunch menu over that thing? And it always sounded so yummy. | |
| The infirmary on the second floor. | |
| Seated patiently in the auditorium waiting to be the next row sent to get in the lunch line. Isn't it our turn yet!?! | |
| The Orange City Buses. | |
| Mrs. Mooney, the head cook at OLQP, was suppose to have had three husbands. Comments were made to their cause of death, but I always liked her hamburgers. She lived the last years of her life in Southlawn and was really a very nice person when she was away from work. | |
| The program from our graduation. | |
| Recently found this letter from Sister M. Jean Louise, my fifth grade teacher. Does anyone else remember this? | |
| The 8th grade graduation trip to Petrifying Springs Park in Kenosha followed by dinner at The Wagon Wheel Restaurant in Caledonia. Petrifying Springs is now dominated by a golf course, and The Wagon Wheel is now called Sebastian's. Does anyone remember who ventured out in only a slip when we went to change into our dinner clothes? I do and always will:~) And who was chugging beers even back then? | |
| Going to see, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"
(I went to the Icescapades instead--did I miss anything?) |
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| "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I will never understand the fascination Sister Joan had with this book. |
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