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01/22/09 03:55 PM #34     Claire Morin (Dyer) I remember Sister Annie too! I believe she was my 1st grade teacher at St. Louis. I think she was quite strict if I remember right. Didn't she use a ruler on students fingers if they misbehaved or am I dreaming!

01/23/09 11:39 AM #35     Allen J. Voisine The last year St. Louis school was open was for some of you your first grade since the newly build Elementary School and also the same as Sr. Annie's last year as school teacher there and then became our CCD teacher at Market Street School. I always have good memories of her, she respected us all. Carl Caron who is still alive didn't want to be there, but as we got older got to run the film projector and that gave him at least some importance and purpose, at least that's what I think, and maybe for her a way to keep him quiet and occupied.

01/23/09 11:59 AM #36     Diane Blanchette (Wagemann) There are many reasons why I remember Sister Annie, and not fondly - may I add!!! I asked her if their was another universe system -- If so, did they had their own God and Jesus. WOW, she got so mean & had me stand in the 7 grade wing with a sign that said - I had questioned God. After that, I had a mark on my back....

01/23/09 04:08 PM #37     Lisa Deschaine (O'Malley) I remember Sister Annie too. She was a petite lady. I liked her. I don't remember her with a ruler though. Sister Margaret - remember her- had a big red nose all the time. She also was a big fan of the Red Sox. I remember her being very strict and using the ruler from time to time. We use to get her off the subject she was teaching that day by just mentioning the Red Sox. I'm not sure if I learned anything in that class. I can't remember what she taught! WOW, that was a long time ago!! Lisa

01/23/09 06:10 PM #38     Donna M. Daigle (Pierce) Thanks Allen Voisine for sending the class photos and long tedious work of identifying classmates and Donna Ouellette for sending the graduation program and class song. If anyone has the class video, let me know and I'll try to post it on the site too.

01/23/09 08:41 PM #39     Lisa Dumond (Collins) Allen, your recall of events that happened years ago is amazing! After reading about how Sister Annie would get Carl to run the projector to get him involved with the class. . .I remember that once you mentioned it. Lisa

01/23/09 09:03 PM #40     Gloria Bourgoin (Santarpia) I'm with Lisa! Allen's brain is impeccable - any thing & every thing we talk about, he has specific details and plenty of documentation to boot for our class! Kudos to you Allen - I appreciate all you have to offer. And yes...the slide projector and Carl Caron...that jiggled me memory & I remember that too!! Wasn't that 2nd grade?? Had to be..the only year I had Sister Annie.

01/23/09 10:14 PM #41     Allen J. Voisine To Diane, If you were put in the 7th wing or C Wing as it was called for the question you asked it may have been Sr. Margaret, she taught us English in the 7th and Reading in the 8th, she could be indeed a tempermental type at times if something didn't go her way. To Lisa O I remember having Sr. Margaret for Reading in 8th Grade at lunch time and when we couldn't outside we would be in class and she would sip her prune juice in her thermos and lo behold as predictable as Ex-Lax she would leave before lunch period was over she had to relieve herself. To everyone, one of my grandfather's sisters once said I had a photographic memory, I admitted I did and I also added that some of the pictures were fading, LOL LOL LOL. At times I wish I could remove some of them but you and as well as I are a sum total of all our experiences good and bad. As to some of these events are things I remember more or someone or something keeps the memory fresh or help trigger them it out.

01/24/09 12:38 AM #42     Michael P. Pelletier Another Curly Carl memory from Market Street School was that Ludger Michaud (Principal) always had Carl doing morning and afternoon colors (raising and lowering the flag). I guess like Sr. Annie, it was to keep him out of trouble. Also does anybody remember Priscilla Daigle? We used to roll marbles around the class in her room and she would collect them in a can on her desk. One day, we were messing around in the back of the class (yes, I was one of the guilty parties). She just couldn't get us to shut up, so she hurled the entire can of marbles at us idiots in back and the can caroomed off the back wall. God,there were marbles everywhere for days. I do believe that Roger Taggart was one on my partners in crime for that one. Also, there was Louis Moreau and his bad case of gas. That man could just drink water and pass gas at the drop of a hat and always would blame it in on somebody else.

01/24/09 09:06 AM #43     Claire Morin (Dyer) I am amazed after 30 years (a very long time) how this site is bringing us back together. The memories are great and quite amusing. The photos, the names for all the classmates, the graduation program and song are such a great contribution. Although we may be all over the country, the participation is wonderful. There is always something updated that is either funny or quite memorable for all. I really enjoy checking this site out. It often makes me laugh. With the economy the way it is, it's great to laugh and remember the "good ole days".

01/24/09 10:08 AM #44     Allen J. Voisine Mike, we were in class together but I never remember Priscilla ever hurling marbles in class, it must have been on one of those few days I was absent or just forgot about. On a sadder note do you remember when we had her we had lost our fall student teacher, Roger Pelletier, that year as result of a car accident on November 19, 1971, he had tried during recess tried to teach us but more so Curly Carl and I the rudiments of soccer. It was only after Christmas we got our second student teacher Howard Nadeau, he, too died much too young of cancer on April 16, 1980. I do remember Louis passing gas once and he looked toward the window and saying "Did you see the duck" and we all said "What" and then we equated the sound and with what he said and had a good laugh. Also the time in the late fall he cut a big birch branch taken in back of the school and planted it in a bucket of gravel and when we got back from Christmas vacation it had sprouted branches and we all accused him of coming in a gluing them on but there was evidence to prove it. I have always called my teachers from by their first time since the time I met Jeannette Nadeau at the then Paradis IGA while in high school. I said hello, Mrs. Nadeau and she said, Allen, you have been out of my class for an X number of years and you can call me by my first name, I then gave her the exact number and then started to, the only one that I never did was Mrs. Baker who was my Kindegarten teacher for two years. I have more memories or Market Street School than Elementary School and High School combined.

01/24/09 04:00 PM #45     Clay King To all: Does anyone remember anything from 8th grade math with Mr. Martin? My wife does not believe anything I tell her about it. Thanks, Clay

01/24/09 05:12 PM #46     Gloria Bourgoin (Santarpia) Hi Clay!! If you read my profile, I listed the events that went on in Mr. Martin's class as one of the things I'll never forget!

01/24/09 05:39 PM #47     Allen J. Voisine Clay, I remember some although we were not in the same homeroom, incidentally my mother rents from him and is his next door neighbor and usually I see him when I go up. He retired as custom officer not quite a year ago.

01/24/09 06:10 PM #48     Clay King I saw two classmates in the past week that I had not seen since right after graduation. This past Sunday I saw Ervin Levesque at Rock's in FK. He told me he would see us all at the Reunion. Today I saw Ann Theriault at Sam's Club down here in Scarborough. Unfortunately she will not be able to go because she can not schedule the time off then.. She told me she just moved back to Maine about a year ago and works at Maine Med.

01/24/09 07:51 PM #49     Lisa Dumond (Collins) Allen yes, I remember that very sad day in Novemeber 1971 when our student teacher died. I remember receiving the news how Mr. Pelletier along with 2 other college students were in an accident and that Mr. Pelletier had died.

01/24/09 09:00 PM #50     Allen J. Voisine Gloria, Clay, it was Joel first and only year he taught school. As Freshman, those of us who had Mr. McGary, who had taught only two years of General Science helped (I think) to get rid of him, too. Some called him McGarret because he wrote many detentions but he never turned one in as far as I know.

01/24/09 10:03 PM #51     Gloria Bourgoin (Santarpia) I remember talk of Ex-lax placed in Mr. Martin's coffee (I am totally innocent of any of these things!-I was only guilty of laughing too much and that's what I got in trouble for) as he always had his cup of coffee at the back of the class and pennies being thrown up against the board as Mr. Martin was writing on it as his back was turned. He simply could not get a handle on the classrooms going in there and I remember talk outside at recess of what every class was doing to him. I also remember Rosaire Martin, our science teacher in 8th grade who was also Mr. Martin's older brother that no one DARED to breathe the wrong way in his class, coming in to rescue his younger brother by giving us a talk. I felt horrible for the younger Mr. Martin...we were so cruel to him!

01/24/09 10:25 PM #52     Lisa Dumond (Collins) Gloria you are so right, we were rotten, stinkin' kids. We took advantage of his inexperience in education and his inability to control the classroom. Its a wonder he lasted the whole year. He is really a very nice person. Looking back it was really rather sad how we all treated him.

01/24/09 10:40 PM #53     Gloria Bourgoin (Santarpia) Lisa, I felt SO bad about all the stuff happening in there that one night after staying late for basketball practice, I went down to his class and put an anonymous note on his desk saying how sorry WE all were. Okay, my secret is out! Never told any one especially way back then when every one seemed to think that torturing him was the thing to do...I would have been the odd man out & in 8th grade, that would have been devastating!:))

01/25/09 08:20 AM #54     Lisa Deschaine (O'Malley) I remember the spitballs on the clock! God there must of been zillions of them. I, too, always felt sorry for Joel Martin or as we called him (Joe Tet). I was extremely shy in those days so I NEVER made any attempts like that. I just sat back and chuckled thru the class. I do remember Rosaire several times coming in to defend him. We were pretty horrible. I think what triggered this behavior were the hearing aids he wore. It didn't seem like they were on most of the time!

01/25/09 10:15 AM #55     Diane Blanchette (Wagemann) Lisa, Linda, & everyone else who is putting the class reunion together. Donna Daigle Pierce & I want to thank you for giving us an option for our dietary needs. Lisa, I will email you a recipe. This recipe is good for people who are vegan (Donna & I) Dairy-Free, Soy-Free, Gluten-Free, Egg-Free, Wheat-Free, Nut Free & Peanut Free (I think it should cover any special diet)! Plus it is so good that the whole class will enjoy it!!!!

01/25/09 10:49 AM #56     Claire Morin (Dyer) Unfortunately I too remember how mean we were to Mr. Martin. I remember all the spitballs at the clock. Fortunately, I wasn't involved in the coffee/ex-lax trick but heard about it. He truly is a nice person. Like Lisa said, we took advantage of his inexperience and his "niceness" to be mean school kids. I'm surprised he didn't have a breakdown.

01/25/09 11:02 AM #57     Clay King Claire, we don't know that. He may have had a breakdown for all we know. One period got so bad one day that a window got broken during class! Some of the guys were throwing coins at the big radiator under the windows to make noise. Obviously one got away. Rosaire Martin, Legs Labbe and Mr. Pelletier the principal were all in that class at the same time to calm things down to the end of the period. Mr. Martin should be nominated for sainthood. As for me, while I did not break a window, I will probably have to do some time in Purgutory while some rotten kids shoot spit balls at me.

01/25/09 11:05 AM #58     Donna Ouellette (Spurgas) I had more then my share of laughs in one morning as i read the memories of "Joe Tet".I cant believe i forgot his nickname.What i never forgot was one day,some girl sitting behind me in his class,was throwing spitballs while he was writing something on the board.It landed not more then 1 inch from his face.He slowly turned around,pointed at me,came over and grabbed me by the collar of my shirt an picked me right up from my seat.Wouldn't even listen to me when i said it wasn't me. Then i also remember this one certain girl he preferred to have sitting up front so he could conveniently watch "her front."As far as the Exlax,mums the word!!!!P.S.I choose to keep these 2 ladies identity a secret,well for now anyway.

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