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05/28/26 01:09 PM #289    

 

Tom O'Keefe (1964)

I enjoyed my senior year and had a French girlfriend for awhile, but for the prom at the George V, Neil Fisher and I invited two American girls from Germany.  Somehow Mr Hull (English ) found out about it and called the two of us up to his desk for a tounge lashing.  Oh well....  Today that would not be a problem.  Eevery one just shows up.  As nice as the George V was (I got to know their conceige very  well in the 90's ) I'd rather have gone to the Jules Verne !  sad


05/29/26 02:01 PM #290    

James Edward Sclafani (1967)

Well,  I do  have the original,menu from prom night.     
 

I also remember the 'variety' shows we did to gets the funds for the prom at the Eiffel Tower.

I mean, do we have bragging rights as the ONLY American Junior/Senior class  to have held prom night at the Eiffel Tower?
Who does that?🙌

 

 

 

 


05/30/26 08:21 AM #291    

 

Tom Trout (1966)

I'd be very interested in that menu!
My recollection is of something creamy, about the size of a chicken breast - dumped warmly into my lap by the waiter! My industrial French rental tuxedo did it's job, and I was only humiliated, not injured......and the evening had only just begun.

06/01/26 01:40 AM #292    

James Edward Sclafani (1967)

Sure.  As a matter of fact, I had posted the menu on the 50th year anniversary. ( Can't believe another 10 years past). It's on my message site..you can scroll down and it'll be there.

Any hassle getting to it I can post again on this message site.


06/01/26 04:58 AM #293    

 

Tom Trout (1966)

Thanks James! Among other things, it's proof to my wife and family that I hadn't imagined the whole thing!
Now to translate those dishes to see if I've correctly recalled being accessorized by that waiter. "Warm and creamy....?"
Also, I did not remember that it was actually the class of '67 that was responsible for this amazing experience!

06/04/26 01:28 PM #294    

 

Michael Oberbeck (1967)

I think This has been posted before. Anyhow, Prom on the Eiffel Tower 1966. Back row left to right:

Paul Levine with glasses, Mike Oberbeck, Candy Curtis, Linda Darnel, Will Rogers (thats all I know). Front row ,first two are Mark Quinlan and Mandy Woods I believe.


06/05/26 06:40 AM #295    

 

Tom Trout (1966)

Thanks Michael!
This was a pretty big event in our young lives- and I don't understand why there aren't dozens of such photos posted here?
I'm not looking for pics of myself - but one could have assembled a nice fairytale evening of remembrances - starting with the parents and couples arriving on the gravel under the Tower, exiting our rides, posing for photos and then moving towards that giant leg with the elevator....!
And later...street shots at the clubs and finally, the onion soup!!
But, no?!

06/05/26 11:48 AM #296    

Carl Yorke (Yorke) (1970)

I just came across this photo in my father's stuff and thought maybe someone you know might be in this picture. The caption on the back is, "Harvey Yorke with EUCOM staff". It was probably taken in 1962. My dad is in the front row on the left, with the glasses.


07/03/26 06:07 PM #297    

 

Robert Dingeman (1964)

July 2026

A HAPPY, SAFE,  THANKFUL, & PROUD 250th INDEPENDENCE DAY  to all PIRATES and their families.

We are ageing out ... However, most of us '64ers can be actually be a little proud now of being 80 years old.

Alas, none of us possibly imagined world civilization and us in 2026 ...


07/04/26 10:20 AM #298    

 

Franklin Wechsler (1964)

Thank you and many happy returns.


07/05/26 05:53 AM #299    

 

Michael Coe (Coe) (1962)

Just arrived in port at Hamburg(er) Germany on a ship.  Priscilla and I will meet with Liz Gobeille soon to renew old memories.  Older and slower, but friendship prevails.  Mickey Coe '62


07/11/26 02:14 PM #300    

 

Yon Lindsey (1954)

Yon H Lindsey (1954) passed away in January 2026. In going through his affairs I, his son, came across this website. He had fun memories of his time there most notably a scooter trip through Southern Europe on $3 per day. He was a wonderful father with 7 children. Gratefully, Mom is still with us. He had an insatiable curiosity and could talk with anybody about pretty much anything. By the time he graduated high school he had lived in 27 places from South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana, Georgia, Germany, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, and France. I recall him saying that he had never been to a school for more than one year except for PAHS. He is deeply missed and knowing him he would hope that life has turned out as well for you as it has for him.


07/12/26 04:15 AM #301    

 

Bill Baker (1968)

Your father sounds like a wonderful man with a fabulous family. I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing with us.


07/13/26 10:56 AM #302    

 

Albert Brown (1968)

Does anyone recall the spelling of our French Teacher's name?  My spelling is "Aireaux" but is just sounded out.  There was a slang name for her which I won't repeat.  1962 9th grade PAHS.


07/13/26 11:17 AM #303    

 

Nicki Fairlamb (de Naray) (1967)

Albert - I did not arrive in Paris until 1966, but could you be thinking of Madame Peneau? She was my 2nd year French teacher. She had served in the Resistance during WWII. Of course, it could be there was another teacher there in 1962. 


07/13/26 03:02 PM #304    

Bill Laudani (1963)

I was at PAHS from Sept. 1957 until June 1960. My French teacher was. Mlle. Herault, AKA Airhole!  I think that this is who who are thinking of. I kind of liked her, she was a bit humerous, very nice and a decent teacher!

Bill Laudani, Class of 1963


07/13/26 03:49 PM #305    

Sandy Betts (Thomas) (1961)

Albert, this comes straight from the 1962 Bavarian Terrapin yearbook. My French teacher was  Ms. Hugette Albert. There was a second French teacher listed as Collette Simons.


07/14/26 05:23 AM #306    

Henry Brown (Brown) (1966)

Albert - It was Herault.


07/14/26 07:40 AM #307    

Lynnford (Lynn) Wilson (1962)

I thought Fr teacher in 58-59 was Straub( we hid his spectacles regularly) 


07/14/26 08:02 AM #308    

 

Mike Bertin (1968)

I don't remember her name but she spoke French with a very soft southern drawl. I think she was from one of the Carolinas. A very nice person and a good teacher.


07/14/26 08:35 AM #309    

 

Mike Greene (1961)

The two French teachers in the 1961 Yearbook are Dorothy DiOrio and Yvonne Taranger.  Micky Coe was in love with Yvonne.  I think Nicole Boudier also taught French.  I know Misses DiOrio's brother came to replace her when she went on sabatical.


07/14/26 09:03 AM #310    

 

Dean Whitlock (1967)

Mike, that was Mlle. Ellenberg. She was indeed from South Carolina, but spoke French so proficiently that she spoke English with a French accent on top of her southern drawl. She also taught the higher French classes and insisted on nothing but French while in class. An excellent teacher, as were most of the PAHS faculty.

 


07/14/26 10:39 AM #311    

 

Albert Brown (1968)

Thanks Hank, Herault it is. 
.  Herault gave me such a great accent that at Alexander Graham Bell Junior High School a year and a half later, the French teacher requested I read all the in class assignments.  Later, at Penn State, the French Lab teacher offered me a job as an undergrad assistant in French Lab.  That was the summer of 77 nearly 15 years later.

Happy Bastille Day all you PAHS alumni!


07/14/26 10:52 AM #312    

 

Albert Brown (1968)

Bill Laudani, that's the slang name I didn't want to publish.  Because of the gift she gave me, I mean her no disrespect.  And thanks to the poster who said she was single not married.
Does anyone have a yearbook from 1960?  Does it have the 4th grade class and teachers in it?  I remember my 4th grade teacher as literally saving my soul.  I hated school up til that point (I still thought it was a jail for kids.)

 

 


07/15/26 08:42 AM #313    

 

Mike Bertin (1968)

Thanks, Dean!


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