ASC 65 TRIVIA

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Photos contributed by Toni Mirabella Ignatowski

ASCENSION TRIVIA

Enjoy the photos & Trivia below....

It is just for fun!!!

John Hoffman, Colleen Hoffman ASC 60, Ellen O'Brien,
Kenny Weiss ASC 63 & Toni Mirabella

MUSIC
 Fun, Fun, Fun by The Beach Boys

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WE NEED TO START

JOGGING ARE MEMORIES

TO GET READY FOR OUR REUNION!

Photos compliments from John Hoffman & Toni Mirabella & more committee members..... 
Some classmate photos via Facebook.... More photos will be coming soon!

 

Questions by Ellen O'Brien O'Sullivan

  • What was the Janitor's name?
     
  • What name was part of every nuns name?
     
  • What was the bus driver's name?
     
  • Where did we go for school picnics?
     
  • Where did we go for 8th grade trip?
     
  • What was the popular clothing for the day of 8th grade trip?
     
  • Name the stores in the Normandy Shopping Center.
     
  • What year was the KXOK Iceberg in front of Normandy Bank?
     
  • What was the principal's name?
     
  • What token got us through the cafeteria line?  How much did it cost?
     
  • Who was the girls softball coach?
     
  • Who was the boys basketball coach?
     
  • Who were the Brownie Leaders?
     
  • Who were the Boy Scout Leaders?
     
  • Name the Priests
     
  • Name the Nuns
     
  • Name the Lay Teachers
     
  • What was the #1 song in 1965 according to the KXOK survey?
     
  • What were the school colors?
     
  • Who made the basketball team that played in the St. Vincent Tournament?
     
  • Which school won the St. Vincent Tournament in 1965?

 

ST VINCENT HOME 15TH ANNUAL INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT 
MARCH 28 - APRIL 3, 1965 PROGRAM - ST. VINCENT HOME GYM, NORMANDY, MISSOURI

 

Trivia by John Hoffman

Do you remember?

  • School Staff - teachers
     
  • Priests: Fr. Farris, Fr. Obmann, Fr. Byrne, Fr. Goellner, Fr. Zipfel
     
  • Principals: Sr. Mary Linus, Sr. Mary Phillip
     
  • School Bus Drivers/Janitors: George, Emil, Bill
     

Do you remember?

  • School and Religious Activities
     
  • First Communion and Confirmation
     
  • Holy Hours and First Fridays (hot chocolate and "old rotten donuts")
     
  • Choir and Schola? Practice
     
  • Genuflecting in unison at the sound of a cricket
     
  • Stations of the cross
     
  • Sunday overflow Mass in the cafeteria before the new church
     
  • Sunday afternoon movies in the cafeteria
     
  • Cloak cupboards, penny candy, pagan babies, single file lines, patrol boys, and
     
  • Friday Court
     
  • Schoolyard activities: softball, basketball, jumping rope, soccer, dodgeball,
     
  • + "kill the man with the ball"
     

Memorable moments
 

  • Father Farris giving servers money and asking for more wine.
     
  • Mr. Claes throwing an eraser at a student and watching it fly out the window.
     
  • Sister Mary Phillip hitting a student with her yardstick and breaking it.

Neighborhood Stuff

  • Crawling through storm sewers
     
  • Running through creeks
     
  • Peddling up Big Nelson
     
  • Sleigh riding on Pendergast Hill
     
  • Ice Skating at Pasedena Pond
     
  • Terry Moore Bowling, Katz Drug Store, Hodges Roller Rink, O'Donnels Drugs,
     
  • Normandy Shopping Center and the Bowling Alley
     
  • The old monastery soccer fields
     
  • The Lewis and Clark House
     
  • Visiting Mrs. Schultz cabin in the woods?

  • Watching the FBI agents parked at Nelson and Roland

 

Trivia by Kenny Weiss ASC 63

Trivia 1

  • Green lunch trays...and getting them checked by nuns
     
  • Pagan Mission Babies...$5...then voting on a name?
     
  • Singing...."Erie Canal" & "Me Gus tan todas?" (sp?)
     
  • First Friday Mass....Donuts & Hot Chocolate!!!
     
  • Blue Uniforms
     
  • 8:00 a.m. Mass every morning
     
  • Memorizing catechism questions?
     
  • Wearing Kleenex on your head for chapel veils
     
  • Hallowee treats...Priests Rectory...Best!
     
  • Nuns House...2nd Best!

 

Trivia 2

  • Normandy Bowling Alley
     
  • French Fries & Cherry Cokes at Walgreens
     
  • Lava soap & white roll down towels in the "Lavatories"?
     
  • Reading Books..."Dick & Jane"
     
  • Remember the day Kennedy was assassinated?
     
  • Father Ferris-"more, more wine!"
     
  • Tim Burke ASC 64 and the broken pointer?
     
  • Lunch...35 cents & Milk 2 cents
     
  • Principal Sister Mary Phillip & bare rears for spanking?
     
  • "Hoods" were the bad kids!
     
  • Olympic Drive-in

 

Trivia 3

  • Mr. Softie Ice Cream Truck
     
  • School Picnic at Blanchette Park....
     
  • Singing "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall" all the way there
     
  • And then .... water balloons, water guns & being drenched (all day)!!!
     
  • Normandy Shopping Center
     
  • Britt's & Holland House Cafeteria
     
  • Dr. Signorelli checking teeth every year
     
  • Watching & Listening to the 1st space travel mission of John Glenn
     
  • Father Ziffel and his Magic Tricks
     
  • Heman Park Swimming Pool
     
  • KXOK...Johnny Rabbit..."Blab it to the Rab" and "Top 10" List of the Week

 

 

Thanks!

More photos to come!