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03/31/10 10:50 PM

#69

Carole L. Giannantonio (Turley)

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Thanks for listening.

04/01/10 10:22 AM	#70
Lynne Peters (Paderewski) I remember Mr. McCullough very well; and the ringing of the bells. Do you remember Mr. Quinn?

04/01/10 05:06 PM

#71

Susan G. Nesbit

I remember Mr. Quinn. He was my homeroom teacher at Wiley. He was one of the first persons to recognize that I might enjoy working with children with developmental disabilities; he asked me to volunteer at a camp for children with cerebral palsy. He was quite perceptive, even though my passion quickly turned to a career that encompassed children with autism. BTW, April is Autism Awareness Month.

04/03/10 05:44 PM

#72

Carole Ferell (Kaufman)

I think that one of the best memories I have of jr. high at Monticello is not something that happened on the school campus at all--rather at TEENTOWN-- every friday night we would all clamber into some parent's car, all squished and sitting on someone's lap , eager to be dropped off for an exciting night of who-knows-what..! guys played pool, girls lined the walls waiting for someone special to (hopefully) ask them to dance...and the music was always live...the band didn't have to be especially good...
but the highlight of the night was always just before closing, when you would hear through the grapevine that there was a fight going on outside in the parking lot. usually someone you didn't know, but who cares...
one friday night it was really 'special'. my girlfriend, randy specter, was in a real hair-pulling, scratching and screaming fight with someone---i can't recall for sure-- either maria trentinelli, or jill rivituso---i think it was jill, but don't hold this against me if i'm wrong(no slander intended!)
we were all scared, and excited at the same time.....years later, i can still see a bunch of us all circling them ,but keeping our distance, while they 'duked' it out.
nothing else about jr. high really compares to this memory....
Anyone else out there who remembers this???
carole ferell

04/03/10 11:30 PM	#73
Barbra Boylan (Jarzabek) Carole, Don't remember the fight, but you are so right that Teentown was THE memory from Monticello. I still remember the Plain Dealer coming out to do an article, Jane Scott (?) was the reporter. Many memories...

04/04/10 07:47 AM

#74

Fred Matthes

My family moved out of state after my 3rd grade year, so I never got the chance to meet most of you.

(Hi Marci!)

If you went to the Taylor Rd school, and had either Mrs. Arnstine for 2nd grade or Mrs. Scrannage for 3rd grade, please check my profile and see if you remember me at all.

thanks!

04/06/10 08:47 PM

#75

Barbara Greenwald (Greenwald)

Carole, you really brought me back. I remember the band "The Rebel Kind." They sang mostly Rolling Stones covers and I had a huge crush on the drummer--Angelo LaMarco. I used to take my glasses off in case he glanced my way, even tho it meant that I couldn't see HIM.

I also remember teasing my hair for those Friday nights and
for Saturday morning/evening bar mitzvahs. There were tons of them! Finally, I remember my father (may he rest in peace) combing out my teased hair and making me wash off my makeup before I left the house. (Like I didn't put it back on in the bathroom....)

Love,
Barb (Greenwald)--who is still at work, I might add....

04/13/10 10:56 PM

#76

Jack Perry (Perry)

Pam, I remember Mr McCullough very well. I recall he talked and walked rather slowly, too. A sad but funny memory was that of one of the space launces was happening during our class, and he was going to the office to have them pipe the radio into the room. It was pre-orbiting days, I believe, so it may have even been one of the Mercury launches. It all happened so quickly, that by the time he got to the office and got back, the whole thing was over! There was many a chuckle over that one for a while.

Meanness wasn't reserved for you girls. I recall some kid in one my classes who deliberately banged his ruler around in one of the metal trash cans just to see how it would effect Mr McCullough. THAT was not a pretty sight!

I remember feeding the birds, too. We used to "play" to that just to disrupt the class some and waste time.

Oddly enough, he was one of my favorites, and Social Studies one of my best classes. It was no surprise that American History was my best academic course in college, too.

04/13/10 11:03 PM

#77

Jack Perry (Perry)

Marci, I am on facebook, but still a little "old school" and don't like the public nature of it all. Prefer to send and share via private e-mail, so anybody who wants my e-mail address is free to ask for it. I've become a bit of a writer in my "older days"...a skill developed at work...so I love to communicate in that manner. Appreciate the "friending" offer and may take you up on it.

04/14/10 07:14 AM

#78

Charles A. Fehl

Monticello memories of Charlie Fehl:
My Favorite memory also has to do with the apres' school activity of hanging out at Severance Center. From a historical perspective, Severance was first indoor Mall in America and a blue print for thousands like it and chain store retailing across America. My favorite spots were the record departments at Higbees, Disc Records (best), Woolworths and even at Grey Drugs. Eateries included La Petite Cafe', Woolworth's Lunch Counter, Hot Shoppes, plus the food counter at Severance Lanes in the Basement (where the Greasers hung out to play pool and smoke). Every Saturday - and some days after school, my sister Laura (CHHS'71) and I would ride our bikes up there and meet up with our respective friends. It was like a miniature city when you think about it and the kids ruled the place on Saturday! Also remember the movie theater (first date), Dick Fisher Sports (first skis), JB Robinson(ID Bracelets and first watch), Society Bank (first bank account), Dodds (first camera), Severance Styling Shop (first self directed hair cut) and too numerous to mention social dramas that kept everyone intrigued with the place. In one sense, Severance and places like it, have been replaced by Cyberspace as shopping and socializing do not have to be done in person anymore - but what fun we had!
TEENTOWN note: The guys all walked there in groups. One of our trips included a little episode with Cleveland Heights Police Officer Craxton who saw us between houses on Monticello trying to light cigarettes in the wind. He first accused us of peeping Toms, but then showed us the proper way to cup your hands to light up in the wind!
My favorite Band was "Papa's Bag" w/Bob Carrol.

04/14/10 03:42 PM

#79

Nancy Nolan (Salisbury)

WILEY MEMORIES...I only spent one year at Wiley, but what a fun and pivotal year it was. It was my third school for 8 & 9 grades. No, I was not a discipline problem (!), but happened to move from Kansas in January ’66 to Northfield, OH, in the middle of 8th grade, and then a final move to University Hts. in August. I was thrilled to get out of parochial schools – woohoo – no uniforms at Wiley! I met Barbara Meltzer and Laurie Mathes who lived nearby so the three of us walked to school most days. And PE/Gym…I’d never had gym before…imagine how much fun it was to play organized sports, e.g., basketball*, run track, be a gym cadet, etc., all for the first time at school. Wiley even let me join the chorus?/choir? which to this day is a topic of much merriment in my family. (Heights was rightfully much more discerning). And all the Bar Mitvah parties! It was great fun at Wiley…and everyone was very welcoming to a new kid. (*remember that girls bball guards (moi) could not go pass half court then…)

04/14/10 06:04 PM

#80

Helen Schuster (Chronister)

I remember 9th grade home-ec at Wiley. I was in the same sewing class as my best friend Marta. We sat in the back and I talked and talked. I rarely paid attention to the teacher, so it took me 3 weeks to learn to thread the sewing machine needle. The teacher finally separated us. I had bought what I thought was a beautiful flowered pattern for my blouse, but apparently I bought the wrong fabric and the teacher was not pleased, so I didn't participate in the fashion show for Mothers' Day.

(What are you up to, Marta?)

04/15/10 01:51 PM

#81

Lori Kaufman

One of my most vivid Wiley memories happened during our eighth grade class trip to Washington D.C. We did all the required sightseeing, which I’m sure was impressive but for which I have no specific memories. What I do recall was that a bunch of girls (couldn’t tell you who) in our pajamas got caught running around the hotel late at night and visiting some of the boys (again, I couldn’t tell you who). We got reprimanded that night, but the next morning was much worse when they called our parents. Then there was a VERY long bus ride back to Cleveland which ended with our parents marching us one by one to apologize to Mr. Warner. No wonder I was such a "good girl" after that!

04/17/10 04:18 AM

#82

Roger A. Friedman

Lori brought back my repressed memory of washington trip and girls in pj's, most excitement i had to high school. I remember Mr. Hall who hit me for being late to class and Mr. Cappellitti basketball coach cutting me from the team all 3 years, the last man cut. Fortunately high school was much better.

04/20/10 11:27 AM

#83

Sylvia Malcmacher (Kramer)

Roger Friedman - weren't you the star of the tennis team?

04/20/10 11:28 AM

#84

Sylvia Malcmacher (Kramer)

For those that are reading the message forum -

INVITATIONS ARE IN THE MAIL!

04/27/10 06:08 PM

#85

Marci Sherell Zabell

Got my invitation and it looks fantastic! I don't like wishing for time to pass quickly - it's already doing that just fine. But I am SO looking foraward to July getting here already. Good work, reunion committee!

04/29/10 04:58 PM

#86

Karen Raybon (Linaberry)

I agree - I have certainly enjoyed reading about what everyone has been doing - your work has definitely been appreciated! I will be happy to tell you in person in July!!

04/30/10 06:45 PM

#87

Mary Louise Neubert (Tripp)

Grace Comella passed away on Feb. 2 of this year. Grace would have been in our 1970 graduating class, but the silly girl that she was, decided to drop out of school in the Spring of 1970. I knew Grace since kindergarten. I lived on Sycamore Rd. and Grace lived on Ivydale, so we saw a lot of each other during our school years. And then as years passed, we lost touch with each other. RIP Grace.

From Grace's sister Michelle Comella Hess:
I am Grace Comella's sister and I am very touched that some of her classmates remembered her. (She passed away Feb. 2nd of this yr.)Grace didn't graduate with her class...she left Hts. in her soph. or junior year (and did go on to get her GED a few yrs later).

05/04/10 10:47 PM

#88

Phil Henry

Watched a recent PBS recap of the weekend Martin Luther King was shot. Jean, Mark Hornstra , and I were in the Unitarian Church at East 82nd Street and Euclid next to Hough that weekend. The neighbors came into the church to talk about what happened and share in the sorrow and grief. Momentous times.

05/05/10 01:16 AM

#89

Phil Henry

Anyone remember the GCMP... Greater Cleveland Math Program, with stick figures and clothes pins to teach us Bolean algebra / set theory in second grade... Or the "Go You Chicken Fat, Go" song they had for elementary school gym class.

Where were you when you heard President Kennedy had been shot? I remember standing at the drinking fountain in Boulevard school taking it all in just before we were sent home. Was it a weekend or were we off school for the rest of the week?

05/11/10 12:40 AM

#90

Deborah A. Neidle (Tumbri)

I've just contacted Heath Cashin and we may come from atl. ga area does ANYONE REMEMBER ME??????????? SOUNDS LIKE FUN

05/11/10 08:52 PM

#91

Cynthia E. (Cindy) Friedman (Jaret)

It is SO much fun to read about each other's memories...there are so many things I haven't thought about in years. Kudos to the reunion committee...you have been just fantastic! Thank you for all of your work.

05/12/10 10:14 PM

#92

Sherry E. Franklin (Jones)

I want to thank everyone who worked on this website and the class reunion. You did a fantastic job. I have been in touch with people I haven't heard from in YEARS!!!! I can't wait to come "home" for this reunion. I have only been home for one before and that was YEARS ago. Does anyone know what ever happened to Mr. Ware from CCHS?? He really made a big differenc in my life when I went to school there. I remember having a cigarette in his office after school one day while we were just talking...LOL Can't wait to see some of my old friends again. Just wish more were coming home for it!!

05/18/10 10:13 AM

#93

Marci Sherell Zabell

Roxboro Jr. High - Miss Wilson for homeroom. She wasn't the easiest teacher - very strict, actually. But when I was having trouble organizing myself to get all that huge amount of junior high school homework done, she helped me understand that I had to do the toughest stuff first, instead of saving it for last and never getting it (science, math!) done. That was probably the best advice any teacher ever gave me - I gave it to my own kids. Thanks, Miss Wilson, wherever you are!

P.S. Debbie Niedle - I remember you - you were really nice to me when I came to Roxboro in 8th grade - thanks!

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