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10/29/08 12:00 PM #170     Tracey Ulrich (Dawson) I loved Mrs. Browning. One day she called me up to her desk and asked me to write my assignments a little bit neater and perhaps the letters a bit smaller. I was a bit upset so the next assignment I wrote in super small letters, just big enough to be seen and then turned it in. Later she called me up to her desk again and I knew it was because of that assignment. I thought I was in for it but she all she said was that I did really well onn the assignment but next time could I please write just a bit larger. She knew how to handle kids. Mrs. Muir on the other hand was the worst human being in the history of D7. Not just teacher, human being!!! What an awful person to have around young kids.

10/29/08 01:08 PM #171     Cara Onkalo (Fitzpatrick) Mrs. Muir, OMG! She was the worst. She was so mean to me my Mom through a fit at the principal and had me transferred out of her class. I can still picture her perfectly. She looked evil. Remember Mrs. Rensberry? Talk about a perfect name for a kindegarten teacher. I remember accidentally hitting Scott Duryea in the face playing beno during recess and I thought he was going to kill me. I was so scared! I made Eric Joki walk me home every day for a week and swear to protect me. We sprinted home hiding behind trees because then he was just as scared!

10/29/08 02:03 PM #172     Tracey Ulrich (Dawson) Mrs. Rensberry had every one of the Ulrich kids except my oldest brother Mark(AHS'74). My mom went to a lot of Mother's Day Teas! Remember the instrument concert we put on in the classroom? I was so thrilled because I got to play the triangle. My mom cut my hair really short and some of the other kids laughed at me and I started to cry so she made me feel better by singing me a song while she played the piano and afterwards she told me I was beautiful. Damn! The things one can remember! Also,we had to draw a picture of our family and I had trouble remembering all the names of my brothers and sisters. She helped there too. And then I had trouble tying my shoelaces so she stayed inside with me at recess until I got it down. Then there was the time I tried to grab on to the merry-go-round while it was going full tilt and it threw me to the ground and I bit a hole in my tounge. She helped me get ice and go to the office. I must have been a young Kindergartener because I remember needing a lot of help. HA Probably because I was in the a.m. class not the p.m.Tough getting up in the morning. She was great. Then came first grade and Mrs. Muir! Ugh. She would threaten us to not be late or she would paddle us with that giant wooden paddle with the holes drilled in it. She kept it in her desk and would show it to us when we lined up for dismisal. I used to cry and panic in the morning at home if I thought I was going to be late. My mom finally caught on and found out why. She asked Mrs. Joki about it and found out Eric was feeling the same way.My mom had a talk with Mr. Winkler, the principal, but I don't remember it getting any better. Then that horrible day when I was singing in the bathroom. For those of you that don't know the bathroom was connected to the classroom so we didn't need to leave the room. Anyway, I was in there doing my business and probably having a pretty good day as I was singing a song, well I guess it could be heard in the classroom, 7 year olds don't know how loud they are being at least I didn't, and she must have thought that I was trying to be disruptive, which I wasn't, and she opened the door while my pants were down and spanked me on the butt and told me to go and sit at my desk with me head down. I was beyond humiliated! I was crying and some of the other kids were snickering at me. I think she may have become the first person that I learned to hate. I mean truely hate. And I'm not the hating type. I'm sure I never told my mom and dad because I thought that I was in trouble. What a vile person. As you can see I'm well over it now! :0

10/29/08 04:12 PM #173     Cara Onkalo (Fitzpatrick) That's horrible!! I can't remember why, but one day Mrs. Muir got really mad at me and hit my hands with that paddle! I went home crying with bright red knuckles and told my mom what happened and she threw a hissy fit at Mr. Winkler. The next thing I knew I was yanked out of her class. The weird thing is I can't remember where they put me! The next thing I remember is Mrs. Bell. You know who else I really liked? Mr. Harrington, the gym teacher. He was so nice! He didn't make you feel bad if you couldn't climb that horrible rope! I do remember that concert- I played the triangle with you! We all wore red capes and I had on a yellow dress. Mrs. Rensberry had that round face and was so sweet and cheery, I convinced myself that she was Mrs. Claus! She tried to tell me over and over that she wasn't, but I wouldn't believe her, so I tried to be good all the time. I thought I had a secret way in to Santa! Then Ernie Nagy told me there was no Santa and I was devastated. He sat next to me in the big circle on the floor, remember that?

10/29/08 04:31 PM #174     Cara Onkalo (Fitzpatrick) Tracey, I have so many pictures of you, Becca, Cathy and me from when were little! Remember the doberman at the corner?? I would always walk the long way around to your house because I was terrified of that damn dog!

10/29/08 04:58 PM #175     Tracey Ulrich (Dawson) My sister Tricia had Mrs. Bell too. She was spared the venom-woman. I do remember the red capes! And the circle on the floor with the alphabet. I sat next to Gary Tripp. I was probably the only U they had for awhile and I bet you were the only O they had for awhile. That alphabet circle was on the floor in that room long after the school was closed. Where was the doberman? Corner of Madison and Hanover? I vaguely remember that. I'd love to see those photos of us. Do you remember a girl named Jill Carlovette? Or how about a boy named Jamie Teeters? He was mean but I think it was because he got picked on.

10/29/08 05:14 PM #176     Robert Hooker I didn't have Ms Muir, but would like to find her and beat her ass!

10/29/08 05:18 PM #177     Tracey Ulrich (Dawson) Thanks Robert. You made me smile and I really need that today. When you come to town, we can go egging with April and ass-kicking former teachers.

10/29/08 05:26 PM #178     Cara Onkalo (Fitzpatrick) Throw some eggs for me!! Really though, I wonder whatever happened to the witch? What a way to be remembered. I can't believe you brought up Jill. I was just thinking about her! She moved away suddenly in 4th grade? She was really good on the twirly bars. I tried it once and nearly knocked myself unconscious.

10/29/08 05:40 PM #179     Robert Hooker I have two seconds... Picture it...1994 - Me and Breck driving around Detroit Street near Powers. We see about 6 hippies standing in the street next to a car, so we decide to buy a dozen eggs at 7-11. Breck's driving about 50mph and I unload 12 eggs from about 18 inches away! It was awesome!

10/29/08 05:46 PM #180     Tracey Ulrich (Dawson) Trouble

10/29/08 05:53 PM #181     Cara Onkalo (Fitzpatrick) That's hilarious! Marnie Damman, Michelle Giraud and I all had the exact same red Ford EXP in '88 (and blond hair) and our boyfriends would always get us confused on the road. I can't remember which one it was but one of them had a blowout with their boyfriend and I'm the one that got pounded with eggs while innocently driving on Annapolis!

10/29/08 06:13 PM #182     Robert Hooker I literally laughed out loud. If eggs were involved, there is a very good chance it was us. We did some serious damage from '86 - '95: auto shop students, pedestrians, float meetings, you name it.

10/29/08 06:30 PM #183     Shannon Krych (Hofer) That is one of the best stories ever...

10/29/08 06:32 PM #184     Shannon Krych (Hofer) I will never look at eggs the same way again... ever!

10/29/08 11:03 PM #185     Tara Wismar (Nickell) Ms. Muir was the worst teacher in the entire universe! No matter what I went home and told my mom she would not believe me, never! Remember how she would yank you and your desk and take you to the hallway, pick up your desk and dump it all over the floor as she stood there screaming at the top of her lungs? She also had those bat suckers (like a hard taffy) in her closet. I hated her and I would slap her across the face if I ever saw her. I remember that paddle but never got it. I do rememeber being sent to the office and a principal (can't remember who, it was either at Madison or that one year we had to go to Pardee) but he had a belt in filing cabinet and he took it out and dangled it and I said "if you touch me with that my daddy will come up here and kill you for touching his daughter" He put it away. I remember my dad always saying that he kill anyone who touched his daughters and that is exactly what I told him. My dad did go up there, he didn't kill any one though! Later in school I met the femal Ms. Muir he was called Mr. Newingham, I remember when he pulled me to the side and told me he HATED females and he would fail me no matter what I did and since I was a female there wasn't a person alive who would belive anything I told him. I found out after graduation that he said that to many girls even from 15 years prior. Some teachers liked us kids and some teachers only liked some of the kids and some teachers hated themselves so they hated everybody! I told my husband long ago, before we had kids, that if our kids ever got teachers like some of the ones we had, that he would have to take care of any problems because I probably could not go in there, and not see Ms. Muir in them and not go crazy. I wish one time that my mom would have believed anything we said. She also never understood that the dentise she used to take to NEVER used any type of pain relief for us. NEVER! I had a root canal when I like 7 and he used nothing! He would smack us up side our heads is we moved or winced! We always hid under these stools from the second we got there and we would cry all the way there (he was in Southfield) I had many a fillings, I can to this day remember every single trip we took to that evil mans office. He dead now, but his son is a dentist, I wonder if he is like his dad! What a HORRIBLE person he was! Well that's all for now. Cara, I asked Adrina about that party and she said she does not remember. Then we alughed for a while because I told her I told you that you still do that! Only kidding. She usually ends up at my house, her kids are usually here any how when she is out here. Well thats all for now! I have a huge amount of my kids clothes I need to ebay! I have a terrible habit of shopping!

10/30/08 07:19 AM #186     Robert Hooker I love these stories - keep 'em coming. Later, I'll share a few stories about me, Chris Campbell, and Mr Olkowski. Every one of them is a classic! Speaking of dentists, mine would pump me w/ Nitris Oxide and play 'Dark Side of the Moon' and Neil Diamond songs. I was 7 years old and be on the best 'trips' ever. I don't know how I didn't end up a drug addict; although, we had some wicked 'whippit' (Nitris balloons) parties at State. I found out 15 years later when I met Clara that my dentist was a serious coke dealer/addict. Through her, I met a dental hygentist that worked for this guy in the '70's, and she spilled the beans. I swear, this guy looked like the sterotypical porno-watchin', coke-sniffin', disco-dancin', pervert! So, it was no big surprise. I do have nice teeth, though.

10/30/08 07:19 AM #187     Robert Hooker By the way, what's Muir's first name?

10/30/08 08:21 AM #188     Tracey Ulrich (Dawson) I don't remember her first name but for some reason I want to say it's Barbara. Can't wait to here the Hooker/Campbell/Olkowski stories.

10/30/08 08:35 AM #189     Robert Hooker You were in our class, right? You may remember a few of them. I used to switch seats w/ Lilliana Veron during reading time, or something. This was the highlight of my day!

10/30/08 01:53 PM #190     Tracey Ulrich (Dawson) Who else was in that class? Over by me I remember Gary Tripp, Me, Tonya Vail, Curt Webb, Cathy Webb?, Scott Sheik, Debbie Smith, Autumn Rule, Leslie Lang,Eric Joki, Michelle Shear, you, Richard Haskill, I actually didn't remember Chris Campbell and Lilianna Veron until you mentioned them but now I do. It was you and Chris that used to get into trouble. Who was it that tried to chase me with a snake on that nature walk field trip? Thought I would freak out but instead I wanted to see it.

10/30/08 02:02 PM #191     Tracey Ulrich (Dawson) I got in trouble in Olkowski's class once. He gave us a test and left the answers on his lecturn up front. Then he left the room for a couple of minutes and I thought I would be cool by going up to the lecturn and reading off some of the answers. I would have gotten away with it but when he returned someone told on me. Don't remember who. Anyway, he took me out in the hall and had this big talk with me about how he thought he new me better than that and how he thought he could trust me and how he expected more from me etc etc. I started crying, seems to be a regular pattern with me at school (see kindergarten/first grade entries)and I guess he realized I felt stupid for doing it and that was that. At least he had the decency to scold me out in the hall and not in front of everyone. That was my worst fifth grade memory. The rest are all pretty good. I'm a hands-on kind of learner so I loved all those field trips.

10/30/08 04:16 PM #192     Tara Wismar (Nickell) Wasn't Ms. Muir's first name Patricia? Oh, Miss Diller retired last year.

10/30/08 04:19 PM #193     Cara Onkalo (Fitzpatrick) I don't know, Patricia sounds too friendly!! :) Tara, were you in Mrs. Kish's 5th grade class with me? She was so nice.

10/30/08 04:20 PM #194     Tracey Ulrich (Dawson) Could have been Patricia or maybe Cruella. My 12 year old, Brad just asked me if I would buy him some eggs for Devil's Night tonight! I was tempted to tell him about Robert and Breck but decided not to encourage him. Shows how innocent he still is when he asks his mom to buy him eggs! What a goof.

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