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02/19/09 08:54 AM	#533
Louis Berman Bob keep me inform also i will do the best i do and that is to crash

02/19/09 09:08 AM	#534
Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer) Louie Only you would crash!

02/19/09 11:37 AM

#535

Louis Berman

What does it mean to live in Cleveland…

If your Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in Cleveland

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there

If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time

If you have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching

If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them,

you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction

If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car

If you find 10 degrees "a little chilly", you live in Cleveland

02/19/09 12:04 PM

#536

Sandy Beksa (White)

Good one Louie . Sooooooo true !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

02/19/09 12:05 PM

#537

Sandy Beksa (White)

Hi Mike Wager , I think Bonnie Zwick graduated from Beachwood Too .

02/19/09 12:22 PM	#538
Louis Berman bonnie can i go as your date

02/19/09 01:58 PM	#539
Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer) Louie I will take you up on your offer as my date....it will be our first Bonnie

02/19/09 02:17 PM

#540

Shelley Hornik (Lloyd)

>>If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction>>

My mom used to say that Cleveland had three seasons: Winter, July and August.

02/19/09 04:44 PM

#541

Sandie Kanter (Fine)

I scanned in my Taylor Road photos from 2nd grade, when I moved to Cleveland, through 6th grade. Plus my Roosevelt homeroom, Camp Wise and Hts. Temple. If I made any mistakes in names, please forgive me since I wrote the names on the back of the photos many many years ago.

A Taylor reunion sounds nice now that I've gone through all my pics. Many of us were in the same classes year after year.

If I could go back and change one thing it would be to redo my hair for each class photo with the know-how I have today, lol. And the outfits, lol.

02/19/09 07:19 PM	#542
Sue Kozack (Katz) Did anyone go to Noble Elementary? I can look tomorrow through our old archives of pictures to see if there are any from our elementary years. I am not sure if there are some from the 50's, but I have seen some from the 60's.

02/19/09 07:36 PM	#543
Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer) Thank you for all the pictures, since I do not have access to any of my pictures. I also realized how many "class picture" days that I missed....bummer. When I go through them, I can't help from wondering what ever happened to the people that moved away after 6th grade?

02/19/09 10:55 PM

#544

Anne Gutow (Chapman)

Thank you so much to everyone for all the photos! And thank you to Val for plugging them in!
It is amazing how I can mindlessly lose hours (that I don't have) wandering through this time machine that we call our CHHS Class of 1969 site.

I'm also up for a Taylor reunion!!

I still think we should have a tribute of some kind to Allison Krause.

02/20/09 12:07 AM

#545

Val Iberall (O'Connor)

Hey, someone wrote to me today saying they are from Roxboro, elementary and jr high. How come noone has sent in any pictures of that school? There must be some of you out there who went there...

02/20/09 05:56 AM

#546

Joyce Shrallow (Presser)

Anne, I had many wonderful times with Allison and a tribute of some kind would be great. I'll never forget how I heard.I was at OSU and in the middle of the rioting there...almost got killed myself by a brick thrown through a glass window on High St...missed my head by a fraction of an inch...OSU was closing down and my mother called me crying to tell me to come home and that Allison had been killed. She lived on Revere Rd if anybody remembers that area. Here it is...2009...and it looks like nothing was learned after Vietnam. Crazy.

02/20/09 08:42 AM

#547

Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer)

Joyce and Anne

I agree that we should have a tribute to Allison Krause. I was very good friends with her up until she moved to Pittsburg after 6th grade.

I was at Kent State in Science class during the riot and had no idea that Allison was attending Kent....until the ride home and heard that she had been killed. I think of her very often and as the years go by.......less and less is mentioned about the students that were killed there.

My youngest son Aaron attends Kent State now and says that on the anniversary of the riot, nothing is mentioned...it is like it never happened

Bonnie

02/20/09 10:40 AM

#548

Sandie Kanter (Fine)

Bonnie,
Your son is mistaken. I have two children that went to Kent and every year there is a memorial on May 4th. One of the survivors, who recently passed away, would come and speak. When my son first went there he asked me to come to the memorial and I didn't go. I've regretted it ever since. I'm pretty sure they have a small museum or something like that with May 4th memorabilia. The site of the shootings has been made into a parking lot and there is some type of memorial where each student was shot. May 4th has not been forgotten by the school, but most likely it's never been explained to the many children that go there. I do think they learn about it at their orientation, but I could be wrong.

Joyce,
I was also at OSU when it happened. My mom called and told me to come home and I told her not to worry we were safe. If that happened again today, I'd be in my car and picking up my kid before I even made the phone call. That was a very dangerous situation with the tear gas, rally's, mobs, national guard etc.

02/20/09 11:08 AM	#549
Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer) Sandra You are probably right about Kent State. Aaron is a commuter and is semi involved on campus. Unfortunately when there is a riot, phone lines are cut and you can not "pick up" your child. Bonnie

02/20/09 12:43 PM

#550

Shelley Safier (Kozak)

Oooh...really bad memories. I was at KSU on 5/4/70 and in Gym Class. We were dismissed and had to walk over the hill to get back to the dorm. As I was heading there, soldiers with rifles pointed at us came right over the hill. Never was so scared in my life- that sadly ended college for me! I went back to the dorm, threw stuff in a suitcase, and when they said people with transportation could leave - my roomate and I stuck out our thumbs and hitched rides home. What a horrible day.
Whenever I read accounts of that day, the people giving them weren't where I was. It never sounds the way I remember it.Not at all.
Bonnie, they do have memorials every year on May 4. They just don't get the publicity that they used to. There's a new generation there now, and they're decades removed from that time...sadly.

Shelley

02/20/09 12:51 PM

#551

Steven A. Fox

I believe that Roxboro, elementary and jr high was the only schools that did not take in others (maybe some from Country) but were paired...I do not remember a lot of kids from them at Heights....(I wonder if because that area was mostly Catholic they went to Catholic High Schools??)

02/20/09 01:46 PM	#552
Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer) Shelley I agree with you about Kent State and not only you were there, Jimmy Polster and Jimmy Levine were there at the same time. I was in Earth Science class and lived in Beal-McDowell and my roommmate from Akron drove me home. Bonnie

02/20/09 01:52 PM	#553
Shelley Safier (Kozak) Hey Bonnie- I was close by - at Korb Hall. We got a ride to the highway and then hitched from there. My roomie lived on the west side, so we could not ride together. I was scared, but more so of staying there! When I got home, my mother was mad that she could not reach me and that I had hitched home...I was happy to be alive! SK

02/20/09 02:27 PM	#554
Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer) Shelley I agree.......all we wanted to do was to get out. The phone lines were down and no roads into Kent, only roads going out were open. Bonnie

02/20/09 03:08 PM

#555

Sue Kozack (Katz)

I too was at Kent on May 4th, crossing the Commons to go to an English class. All I remember was my parents telling me to attend classes, I went home for the weekend and came back Sunday night thinking there would just be another demonstration, nothing terrible. Then having to leave class and go back to my dorm, Allyn to find a ride home.

As a note about memorials today, my daughter now is in grad school at Kent for library science and works in the archives. They have every piece of information, picture and audio and video tapes collected there. She worked last year on interviewing people to add to the archives. If you are on campus, it is still an important day as there are activities going on. I was able to visit the library to see the entire collection and it is phenomenal what was saved. Unfortunately, she doesn't understand why some many people don't want to discuss it who went there.

02/20/09 03:32 PM

#556

Sandie Kanter (Fine)

Bonnie,
I only meant I'd get my kid from OSU, not Kent. It was bad at OSU but I can't even begin to imagine the fear everyone experienced at KSU. That was quite the first year of college for our class. I remember Kent closing for the rest of the semester and OSU was closed for a week or two. The frightening reality of the whole thing never hit home for me until I was older and had children. I did make the decision to never let my children stay in any school that required the National Guard to be around, or even a lot of policemen for that matter.

02/20/09 03:55 PM	#557
Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer) Sandy I was having a moment.........and confused when reading your message. I got it now Bonnie

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