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Dee Tapp Kirkham
Joined: 07/10/10 Posts: 48 View Profile |
RE: How many different elementary schools did you attend in Roswell? Posted Saturday, August 7, 2010 05:34 AM WOW! Yes, Jan's slumber parties were the best - loved it out there with the desert and we had so much fun! I remember all the scary stories we told each other at night! What imaginations we had..... Then in junior high & high school - the great slumber parties at Terry Thompson's - we always got up early enough to watch the sunrise! Maybe we should have a slumber party Saturday night after the reunion party!! LOL
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Joe Flinn
 Joined: 08/25/09 Posts: 76 View Profile |
RE: How many different elementary schools did you attend in Roswell? Posted Saturday, August 7, 2010 06:31 AM Mary, I spent a year living in a convent...no joke. I can spend a day or two telling of that experience. The nuns thoughrt the devil had moved in...no joke there either. Joe |
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Jan Wooldridge Genduso
Fallbrook, CA Joined: 08/25/09 Posts: 17 View Profile |
RE: How many different elementary schools did you attend in Roswell? Posted Sunday, August 8, 2010 03:29 PM Wow, Linda, I can't believe you remember those slumber parties! I have no idea how old we were when we had those, but I do remember some of the boys from school "crashing" the parties in the middle of the night.. Jerry Stevens for one. How did they get out there??? |
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Jan Wooldridge Genduso
Fallbrook, CA Joined: 08/25/09 Posts: 17 View Profile |
RE: How many different elementary schools did you attend in Roswell? Posted Sunday, August 8, 2010 04:10 PM I am the last person to be questioning anyone's memory, but I agree with you Tommy.. the music teacher I remember was not Mrs. Smith. I have a memory of her having a name similar to Mrs. Swan's name.. but it still escapes me. She had a very big personality. What I remember most about her is that when we sang the Christmas carols in the hallway, she made us all pronounce Christmas with the last syllable as "MASS" because she said that's the way it sounded best when sung in a group. (As in, "I'm dreaming of a white Christmass") Maybe there was more than one music teacher. I remember being taught to dance the polka and performing with other kids at one of the carnivals. Each room had a different activity and one of those was watching kids dance the polka; how very weird! Once, when I was in 6th grade, I was called out of class because my little sister had gotten her thumb stuck in the hole of a glue lid and she was inconsolable. Of course, it had swollen so big there was no way it was coming back out of that hole. Mother had to come and take her to Dr. Williams, who cut it off with wire cutters. I was enjoying it all because it got me out of class early.
My 4th grade classroom teacher was a Mrs Smith. She had some musical leanings but I don't think it was her that was the official music teacher. There may have been another Mrs Smith..or, I could be totally mistaken about all of it except for there being a Mrs. Smith as a 4th grade classroom teacher who's husband wrote for the Roswell Daily Record. Ahh, Parkview..it was grand. |
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Mary Luck Starling
 Joined: 07/09/10 Posts: 41 View Profile |
RE: How many different elementary schools did you attend in Roswell? Posted Sunday, August 8, 2010 05:33 PM Works for me - I have a room at The Hampton Inn with 2 beds - and it is only me staying there - the only slumber parties I remember were at Sally Gardner's - they were great fun - and as I recall, we had 2 beds and I don't remember how many girls......but it worked!!!! This reunion is going to be so much fun!!!! I am nervous as hell about recognizing everyone - but I have convinced myself, I WILL GET OVER IT - Take care, Mary Mary Luck Starling |
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Mary Luck Starling
Joined: 07/09/10 Posts: 41 View Profile |
RE: How many different elementary schools did you attend in Roswell? Posted Sunday, August 8, 2010 05:37 PM You spent a year in a CONVENT??????????? I can only imagine what the Nuns went through - I want to hear more of this story at the reunion!!!!
Take care, Mary Mary Luck Starling |
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Mary Luck Starling
Joined: 07/09/10 Posts: 41 View Profile |
RE: How many different elementary schools did you attend in Roswell? Posted Sunday, August 8, 2010 05:46 PM I can't help ya'll because I never went to Parkview Elementary. The music teacher at South Jr. High was Celeste Holmes (I believe that was her last name). She was Keith Rowe's mother . He was a year or two older than us - I think - but he went to First Baptist Church with me. Mary P.S. Man, we are getting going, right?
Take care to all of you!!
Mary Luck Starling |
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Joe Flinn
Joined: 08/25/09 Posts: 76 View Profile |
RE: How many different elementary schools did you attend in Roswell? Posted Sunday, August 22, 2010 11:51 AM
Tommy, I don't know why I don't remember you at Parkview. We must have always been in different classes. I didn't really know you in high school either, but of course I knew who you were, as did everyone! Although I did not live in the "Tree Street" neighborhood, I went to Parkview all 6 grades as did my older brother Roger and two younger sisters, Judy and Mary. We lived west of town and had no neighbors, but I hung out a lot in the Parkview neighborhood with best friends Denese Ingham, Linda Pope, Barbara Lavely and others whose names escape me at the moment. (Linda and her brother Joe ended up marrying two of my cousins.) Some of those friends were military kids who came and went. In Miss Elmetta Devlin's first grade class with me were Terry Luginbill and Bryan Bost. I don't recall all my teacher's names, but do remember Miss Knowles (2nd grade maybe) and Mrs. Roberts (6th). My mother stopped at Hayes grocery every morning before school so we could go in and get our Hostess cupcake, etc for lunch boxes. Cheryl Hayes was also a friend and I thought it was so cool to hang out at her house with her, right next door to the store. Funny how much you start remembering once you get started. But don't ask me what I had for lunch today. Certainly you would remember the name of the Parkview music teacher who arranged the big Christmas programs where we would all sit in the hallways and sing carols. I can't sing, and I don't remember her name. My best friend at North Jr High was Julie Rose. In high school best friends were Carolyn Curtis (also my college roomie) and Cheryl Parker. Both of those seem to be "lost classmates" now, sadly.
Jan Cheryl Parker is alive and well. She is married to a very good friend of mine, DV Cook. They were married in March of 1966 in a private resident. The reason I remember is I was the grooms best man. They have a home in Ruidosa where they spend most of their time, as DV just can not seem to completly retire. They spend the rest of their time in a small town west of Snyder, TX. Kristy and I plan on going to Ruidosa following the reunion and spending a day with them. Joe Joe |
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Dee Tapp Kirkham
Joined: 07/10/10 Posts: 48 View Profile |
RE: How many different elementary schools did you attend in Roswell? Posted Sunday, August 22, 2010 12:29 PM Jan, Julie Rose will be at the reunion - another reason you need to come - Do I have to come kidnap you and put you on the plane with me!!! You are close enough for me to do that, you know!!!! Julie, Sally Gardner, Louise Malone, Libbi Walters all went to Italy for our 60th birthday! Had a total blast! We also went on a cruise for our 50th with some other classmates - A total blast too! Tommy Morton - if you are reading this, which I am sure you are, we (well, I really mean "I" ) need a way to read the message that I'm responding too! I forget what all was said in the message and can't remembetr what all I want to respond to - can you fix this!!!!!????)) Love ya', Dee) Anyway, back to this - Let's see.... And Jan, your house was the best for slumber parties - Way out in the country, I can almost still see the rooms in your house - I think that is where I learned all the ghost stories that I tell my grandkids now!!! Please Please.....come!!!!!!!! Love ya' Dee |
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