Terri Morris (Balchen)

Mr. Lasky said he has been sitting in the dark for over forty years waiting by the phone for that one call......LOL

Glad I was the one to do it. Now he can turn the light back on!

Jim Samuels

FYI: Stan Lasky was a hugh help in locating our classmates and Sue, Norm & I took him out to lunch a couple of months ago to say Thanks.

Hey is a GREAT guy

Steven A. Fox

Here is a idea.... if you know where a teacher is (with their permission) post it....

Some (but not all) would like to hear that they made a difference in our lives....

Steven A. Fox

I wonder if Joel is back from Vegas with his shirt still on?

Sue Bruder (Wold)

Happy Birthday to Roz Rath Stone and Sue Kozack Katz on Thursday....  Many more

Shelley Hornik (Lloyd)

Vern Smith...my homeroom teacher at Roosevelt and the 7th grade science teacher was perhaps the best teacher I ever had in Cleveland Heights. At Heights...honestly, with the exception of MacElfresh, I don't have particularly fond memories!!

Sheryl Winer (Lessens)

 Hey, Shelley, you got me into this discussion now...Yes, Mr. Smith was one of my all time favorite teachers.  I also remember Mr. Einhorn, American History at Heights. When I came back after college for an Adult Ed. class (Tennis!!) he was in charge of the Adult Ed. program. What a waste of a great teacher!  I had several other good teachers over the years, really wouldn't complain, except Miss Dick and Miss Hunter, along with dear Lillian Koval come to mind....

Shelley Hornik (Lloyd)

Hi Sherry...it was Miss Hunting...I only remember that because when I had her (one of the two years...she was such a lousy teacher)...Harvey Garn looked at my schedule and said "I didn't know they had HUNTING as a class here."  No ...that would be the teacher's name.

Ah..Madame Koval...anyone else remember getting HYSTERICAL with laughter when she played the piano (which she had to UNLOCK) while she sang?? I almost got thrown out of her class because I could NOT stop laughing. She sang...The Falling Leaves...and Chevalier Sur Le Table Ronde...remember those...with glistendos on the piano. Honestly...that is a FRESH memory.

And Miss Dick...well let's just say when you have had a teacher with that name...you NEVER forget her.

Terri Morris (Balchen)

I hope Miss McCann is rotting wherever she is.

She made Roxboro Jr High miserable for me.  I hate her.

Still do after all these years.

Steven A. Fox

 We all had bad teachers and guidance counselors.  My high school guidance counselor never give guidance. For the most part if you were average they did not care....(we needed mentors not teachers and counselors who really did not like kids)  

Terri Morris (Balchen)

There's a whole lot I could say about her....but I won't.

Just that the school board should never have allowed her to teach.

Louis Berman

now kids you all could of come to me i was a school counselor i had everything you needed in my locker  

Beth Nehamkin

Then there was Schafule and Dazey Mae Horn...living nightmares between Roosevelt and Hts. 

Having been a guidance counselor, let me tell you..no one gives you time to be available for 'guidance or counseling'  I had Norma Smith at Hts and drove her crazy for two years. She was so mad at me once, she slammed her office door and her books fell off of a shelf....Still crazy after all these years!! 

Louie, your office, AKA your locker, might have contained everything everyone needed but what happened to the contents....?????????????????

Terri Morris (Balchen)

They went up in smoke?

Shelley Hornik (Lloyd)

I had Dr. Bell as a guidance counselor...I always WONDERED what her doctorate was in...PE??  She was totally worthless. I wanted to major in a medical related field...but Miss Hunting did me in. I BEGGED Dr. Bell to switch me to a different Algebra 2 teacher and got that famous line "you are going to meet many people in your life who you don't like for one reason or another". SO...I dropped the course.

And Mr. Heintz who hated our homeroom so much. Oh well.

Funny...I remember lots from Roosevelt and not much of it is bad...but Heights is like a big blur. I can't even remember the names of most of my teachers there.

When did we get the swanky tool bar over this message forum?

Clare Kelemen

Shelley, you were in my homeroom for all 6 years with Smith and Heintz. I agree with you in many ways. Especially about the memories. I loved Roosevelt....comfy but Hts was sooooo big I felt lost. In fact hardly any of the Roosevelt kids were in any of my classes. At that age its hard to be without your close peeps. Susan, Betty and I shared a locker for 3 yrs just so we could communicate with each other with notes or we'd see each other in between classes. Of course our homeroom was centrally located so it was my locker we used! I did get to see it at that Hts tour during reunion weekend!

Louie, one memory I have is how your brother was such an outstanding artist! He had a lot of his artwork displayed in the halls. I was very impressed with that as I was an art student at the time. What happened to you? Oh yea, I remember you were a counselor!

Terri Morris (Balchen)

I had the same conversation with Dr Bell. I threw myself on the ground kicking and screaming about Mrs Fabian, the Home Ec teacher from Hell. Begging 'you have to get me out of there!'

Same response and I was stuck.

Sue Kozack (Katz)

Steve

What's with all the colors? Are you playing with the new added features or do you think we need to be jolted with color?

To those who are reminising about Dr. Bell -- I agree, she was worthless. I wanted to leave after only needingEnglish, French and Gym to complete requirements in our senior year and she said No, that I had to take more classes so I ended up with different one semester classes that didn't mean a thing. I would have rather stayed half a day and then leave.

Louis Berman

beth

Louis Berman

Terri Morris (Balchen)

No, Louie, I made sure no photographic evidence before I pitched my little hissy.

Offhand I would say 75%  of the teachers at Heights were going through the motions. That must be why most of them are so unmemorable.

Shelley Hornik (Lloyd)

I will say...despite my lack of remembrance of the teachers...and despite my own lack of...well...motivation to do well academically...I think I got an EXCELLENT education in the Cleveland Heights school system. It really was notable in college when other students were saying how hard college work was and what a huge adjustment it was doing college work. I never felt overwhelmed in college (and I was NOT a top student at Heights). So...even if the teachers weren't all that dynamite...I learned something...and look at all of us...we are pretty successful!!

Beth Nehamkin

Does anyone remember Mr. Tubaugh/English???   I almost gouged out my eyes listening to him read the 'Oddessy' to us in class.

Shelly, I agree with your comments and I really didn't care a lot about high school. I also did well in college and often thought I did get a good education at Hts.!!!!

Terri Morris (Balchen)

I didn't go to college but decided to go back to school last year.

And I got my writing position all on my own without any help from my high school education.

I just don't get the warm and fuzzies thinking about Heights High. I couldn't wait to get out.

Steven A. Fox

I do remember that in Junior High we had independent graders for our English papers which was a very good thing until they lost funds for it.  I still have trouble writing and I feel that was the one thing that hold me back over the years....

Miss Parker (at Roosevelt) was the best English teacher I had.  She was friends of Carl Sandburg's daughter who she had come to class to read her father's work.