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Carol - you even remembered Miss Thornberry's name! I'm impressed!

11/03/12 12:19 PM

#602

Carol Albers (Pederson)

Yup, Nancy! It takes help from all of you to jar those old memories and get those neurons firing again. It's really fun! Thanks

11/03/12 05:47 PM

#603

Carol Albers (Pederson)

Hi Sal,

Wow, I was surprised how many names I remember. One reason was because Roger's dad is on the list-Ken Pederson. And two, because Ken would still get together with many of them after he retired. (He also went to many of their funerals, sorry to say.)

One name surprised me was Allegra Welton. She was the wife of Mr. Welton at Custer. Later, she taught in Wauwatosa, at Underwood, while I was at Madison.

Small world.

I see it's Thornbery-one r.

11/03/12 05:54 PM

#604

Jeanne Zinser (Gottschalk)

A story about Miss Thornbery and me: After a student in the district was blinded in one eye by being hit with a rock thrown by a student, Miss T. came on the PA and announced that any student caught throwing anything would be immediately suspended. Later that same day, the girls and boys PE classes were marched into the auditorium - girls downstairs, and boys in the balcony - to watch a movie. The boys must have visited that candy store near Edison at lunch, and began pelting the girls with those little square candies wrapped in waxed paper (Now 'n Laters?) Now I had always had perfect citizenship grades, a never-get-in-trouble little mouse. But sometihing in me rebelled, and I said "Okay girls, we're not sitting still for this!!" I picked up a candy and hurled it towards the balcony - but it missed the balcony (I never did learn not to throw like a girl) and it flew toward the rear entrance of the auditorium just as - guess who - Miss Thornbery entered it, and missed her head by about a foot, if that much. I slouched down in my chair - but now I know, having taught for 35 years, that it was the very thing that gave me away. I was strong-armed down the hallway by Miss T., past Mr. Mac's art class - where I should have been - and into Miss T's office. My mortified mom was phoned: doubly mortifiied because Miss T. had been her English teacher. And that is my wonderful little memory of Miss Thornbery. And my suspension!

11/03/12 06:17 PM

#605

Hey, Classmates (all of you who remember me)...

I've been having a ball reading all of your memories from grade school/middle school/pre-Custer years. But, in a way, I'm a might jealous. I came to Custer having moved to the city after 14 years of growing up in Brookfield. When my parents announced to me that, as I was ready to start high school, I was leaving all my childhood friends behind and give up my plans of attending high school with them, I was devastated! I had no opportunity to say "good-bye," get addresses and phone numbers, solicit promises to keep in touch, etc., etc., etc. Many of you came to CHS as a group of friends (or at least good acquaintances). For me, it was like starting life all over again. This is probably why I remained sort of a "loner" at Custer, concentrating on my grades and my musical interests. But, even though I remained annoyed at my parents for a LONG time, I am thrilled to have been part of the Custer class of '62! So, keep those memories coming, and I'll be content to live vicariously through them.

Warmest wishes,

Jeanne

P.S. Terri--you little stinker!!!

11/03/12 09:51 PM

#606

Carol,

And after your wading episode, Miss Kapp went ballistic, scrambling around to find a blanket or something to wrap you in and rubbing your legs with whatever she could find, including newspaper, thinking you were going to die of hypothermia or something, right then and there. Glad you survived, her wrath that is, the water wasn't that cold.

11/03/12 10:32 PM

#607

Terri - You're in California now. No extradition back to Milwaukee for high school sins. Never admit anything! The response is, "Not to my recollection."

Jeanne ... let me see ... reticent to join ... focused on grades ... but one of lead characters in the class play ... Something isn't adding up here! I always thought you were one of "us"!

Jim - I'm beginning to worry about you ... and Sally! Nobody remembers that much stuff! I remember the U505 and sitting in some room seeing a film of it's capture and move to Chicago. But I think I teleported there or was kidnapped and transported to Chicago by aliens! I don't remember being there with any of you!!!

11/03/12 11:17 PM

#608

Just saw a thing on TV yesterday "Mysteries at the Museum" about the U505. They've built a building around it now. And it looked like they're still showing the same movie.

Garry,

If you were beamed to Chicago for the trip, does that mean you don't remember that almost all the guys stocked up on those little contact firecrackers (cracker bombs?) when we stopped at the state line, and they were flinging and banging them all over on the way back. The buses and the rest stop had black burst marks all over them.

And don't worry Garry, I also have trouble remembering my kids names and birthdays.

11/03/12 11:31 PM

#609

Garry,

In my upteen years in EMS I've transported many folks in and out of those homes. I know the procedures, disguises, back doors, etc. Shouldn't be any problem.

11/03/12 11:42 PM

#610

"Snappers", that's what they're called Jim. And I believe Pop Pop is the most common brand. But, being the fine upstanding lad that I was I would never have been party to such untoward behavior. I am shocked and appalled that you participated in such frivolity! We'll make note of it in your file at the home.

11/04/12 08:52 AM

#611

Thanks, Sal, for the list of Edison teachers to remind me that Miss Schlondrop was the home ec teacher who taught all of us girls how to make a proper white sauce. (I think. Anyway, if I "misremembered", Carol - her mind like a steel trap - will get me back on track)

11/04/12 09:51 AM

#612

Sally, I loved seeing the list of Edison teachers. Recalling my unfortunate "candy throwing incident" reminded me that I didn't see "Mr. Mac" - or Eugene Mecikalski' our 8th grade art teacher on the list. The list is from 9th grade, and he must have left that year.

Garry: there is a real benefit in recalling (okay, maybe not admitting) the experiences that teach you life's lessons, and I think junior high is typically full of them. My lesson was: "It doesn't matter who started it - just don't be the one to get caught."

The other day I was going through old photos and found some of that field trip. I will try to post them. I am so glad everybody has put those memories in place! I had not labeled any of the photos, and thought they were from 6th grade.

11/04/12 12:08 PM

#613

Ha!

Garry - you are "untoward" on steroids.

11/04/12 12:42 PM

#614

Nancy, I do remember learning to make white sauce in Miss Schlondrop's cooking class, and darned if I can't still make it! Do you also remember making Welsh (cheese) Rarebit - which I think we all called "Welsh Rabbit"? It was really good - and now would be oh, so bad!

Garry, speaking of not admitting things, perhaps you have some idea which boys started the "candy throw"???

11/04/12 02:48 PM

#615

Terri: yes, I do remember "Welsh Rabbit"....the authentic recipe of which contained beer! I also remember making something by adding some kind of shredded beef to the sauce - I think the army called it "S.O.S." Do I recall correctly that in preparation for this momentous class we had to take sewing class, in which we made - you guessed it - APRONS. I defy you to produce a single one out of our collective progeny who wears one - unless it is emblazoned with wisecracks and is being worn by a guy at a barbecue grill while having his photo taken.

11/04/12 03:49 PM

#616

Nancy, I DO remember that chipped beef thing. I still have my apron: the first thing I ever sewed, with matching potholders. But I do still wear my Williams-Sonoma apron for cooking - it's those little frilly hostess aprons that have gone the way of hats and gloves. My most memorable recollection from sewing class, however, was the day the teacher stepped out for a second and two girls got into a hair-pulling, rolling on the floor cat fight. And you guys think YOU had all the fun!

11/04/12 04:51 PM

#617

Karsten Boerger

Terri: I can't believe you still have your apron!! I also wear aprons a la Williams Sonoma - where else would one wipe one's hands while cooking? I wonder if anyone remembers we also made a table cloth (card table size) with four napkins (which we embroidered). You spoke of hats and gloves; I still have ( and use) the Wisconsin Electric Company Christmas cookie recipe books (soft cover, about 20-30 pages). In these books are photos of home makers in their kitchens. They are all elegantly coiffed, wearing dresses, pearls, those little cutsey aprons of which you spoke, and HIGH HEELS. Pure June Cleaver. Ha! i prefer jeans and Birkenstocks. Our girls have taken it a step further - they let me make the Christmas cookies. Smart women.

11/04/12 04:54 PM

#618

Karsten Boerger

oooooops! Look what happens when you pick up your husband's laptop and crank out a response.

I assure you all that Karsten does NOT WEAR A WILLIAMS SONOMA APRON and bake Christmas cookies!!

(He is, however, very good at snitching them before they get off of the cooling rack and into the storage tins)

11/04/12 07:05 PM

#619

Nancy/Karsten - I also still have my embroidered Christmas tablecloth and napkins. I actually used them when my son was little at the very small children's table when they came during the holidays. I guess we were the generation of women who had to "do it all" - all our moms did, and also work outside the home. The next generation looks at us and wonders, "Why would I ever work that hard?"

11/04/12 10:32 PM

#620

Garry,

In re: "Snappers"

As my hero Sgt Schultz would say - "I know na-ting, I saw na-ting!

11/04/12 10:58 PM

#621

Nancy - Why are you so mean to me ... you ... you ... truculent calumniator? (I could have used the "b" word but I am too much of a gentleman!) My therapists are definitely going to hear about this! If you receive a summons from Fifi LaRue Attorneys at Law, Mystic Readings and Massage, don't be surprised!

11/05/12 07:39 AM

#622

Dennis Unterholzner

"truculent calumniator"? Garry, please tell us that those words are not part of your regular vocabulary. I know Californians often speak strange ( I should know, since my brother and family have lived our there since 1968), but calumniator? Must be too many years exposed to the hot summer sun, at least that's my brother's excuse.

Anyway, since people are talking about various teachers they had, does anyone remember a teacher named Norman. I had him as a Junior when I took history. I believe he also taught PE.

11/05/12 07:54 AM

#623

Dennis - I knew the moment I hit "submit" on the note which dared to impugn Garry's attempt to pass himself off as a young lad above reproach that I would rue the day. True to form, he came out with guns blazing (or, rather, armed with his trusty thesaurus) and I am ruing.

11/05/12 12:48 PM

#624