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From: Ibdavis7841
To: NE69news
Sent: 6/20/2009 10:24:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: Subject: WSFS day at elementary school - 3
i'm still waiting for the 1st Danish.
Did you turn on your Danish moden to download your cherry Danish? :-)
From: Ibdavis7841
To: NE69news
Sent: 6/20/2009 10:23:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: Subject: WSFS day at elementary school - 3
Pete, I can't believe this discussion either. Something important in my family happened when the banking started; and I was trying to fix the time-frame. I think it was Sid Bernstein who said he still had passbook. I still have the little bank they gave us (including the key to lock it!!) Talk about holding on to things. Now what's bugging me is, did I ever cash that money in?
I can't thank you enough on behalf of all of us, if I could be so bold, the time you take to do this. Hats-off to you, Pete.
Dell
Dell,
Once again thanks to you for starting this interesting discussion!
Pete
From: nehs1969@gmail.com
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Sent: 6/19/2009 11:09:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: 4 - Elementary School Memories
Hi everybody. Hi Pete. I'm amazed at the discussion about banking! I remember my Western Savings Bank account, and continuing to use it when I was in college. But I have no memory of anything else about it other than my savings book, wasn't it green?...OK, this is weird, all of a sudden I'm having some memory of a small brown envelope and change and it being collected. Wow, those memories ARE back there somewhere. Can anyone who really does remember fill in the details?
I went to Moore, and I am happy to find some Moore folks out there. I remember the switch to full year semesters very clearly during the summer between 4th and 5th grades--the school offered a make-up class in the summer for the kids who had the "A" class in winter semester--and I remember those sticky hot summer days in school with Miss Labess. It was really useless and I was sorry I went. Anyone else remember the summer we had the switch?
Absolutely, the best teacher in elementary school was Mr. Myerov, who was my 5th grade teacher, with Miss Ronaghan and her pink piano in 6th grade a very close second.
Eileen Masover
I went to Moore, and I am happy to find some Moore folks out there. I remember the switch to full year semesters very clearly during the summer between 4th and 5th grades--the school offered a make-up class in the summer for the kids who had the "A" class in winter semester--and I remember those sticky hot summer days in school with Miss Labess. It was really useless and I was sorry I went. Anyone else remember the summer we had the switch?
Absolutely, the best teacher in elementary school was Mr. Myerov, who was my 5th grade teacher, with Miss Ronaghan and her pink piano in 6th grade a very close second.
Eileen Masover
Thanks Eileen. It must have been so "not fun" going to summer school!
Pete
From: karenrosenberger@comcast.net
To: NE69news@aol.com
Sent: 6/19/2009 7:16:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: 3 - Elementary School Memories
Ok Solis Cohen Alumns - who remembers May Day and May Desmond plays every year at Solis Cohen and of course the Book mobile?
Karen (Oxtal) Rosenberger
Thanks Karen. We certainly remember the Mae Desmond Players. I also remember May Day and dancing around the flag pole at Solis Cohen.
Pete
From: sbravman@verizon.net
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Sent: 6/19/2009 2:42:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: 4 - Elementary School Memories
Sandi (Dodek) Bravman
Hi Sandi,
Thanks for your comments. I remember the Bookmobile too. Did they have the Mae Desmond Players at Moore school too?
Pete
From: Roulette16@comcast.net
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Sent: 6/19/2009 9:12:34 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: 4 - Elementary School Memories
I remember being the banker in 5th grade. I also remember being the 7th grade class that did not go to Wilson Jr. High and had to be sent to the Allen School for cooking and sewing classes. Does anyone remember my Brother bob? He was Bob's Water Ice with the white truck. He was famous in the Northeast.
Brenda Weiser Cohen
Hi Brenda,
I remember Bob's water ice vividly. Who doesn't? My favorite was a soft pretzel with mustard along with a chocolate or cherry water ice!
Pete
From: Ibdavis7841
To: NE69news
Sent: 6/19/2009 7:20:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: Subject: WSFS day at elementary school - 3
Hey Pete. I'll give this blog log-in a go today. Hope I can get to it. Computer stuff not a strength for me.
Can't believe how much conversation this WSFS thing has generated. Just em Sid Bernstein whom I think lives a few blocks away from me in Elkins Park.
Dell
Hi Dell,
Thanks to you for starting up an interesting discussion thread. I owe you a cosmopolitan at our reunion. I will also send you a cherry Danish but you have to turn on your Danish modem in order to download it. :-)
Pete
From: eerkess@hotmail.com
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Sent: 6/18/2009 11:42:53 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: RE: 2 - Elementary School Memories
I remember being part of the Chronicle, too. And the flute and bell club run by Mrs. Stott, my 6th & 7th grade teacher. (I bet you remember her, Pete.) She gave me the "honor" of standing next to her and turning the pages in her music book while she played piano during the assemblies.
Then there was Mr. Geltz (sp?) who had us square dancing once a week in his class. I'm quite sure that there wasn't much square dancing going on anywhere else in Northeast Philly.
My favorite day of the year was when the May Desmond Players came and performed a play.
-Ellen Erkess
Then there was Mr. Geltz (sp?) who had us square dancing once a week in his class. I'm quite sure that there wasn't much square dancing going on anywhere else in Northeast Philly.
My favorite day of the year was when the May Desmond Players came and performed a play.
-Ellen Erkess
Hi Ellen,
I remember Mrs. Stott well. She was invited to my Bar Mitzvah along with our entire 6th grade class but she didn't come. The rest of the class came despite her.
I vividly remember the Mae Desmond players. For several years they performed at the school. I'm not sure but I think the price of admission was 50 cents, which was a lot of money back then.
Pete
From: lpelem1@juno.com
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Sent: 6/19/2009 7:36:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: 3 - Elementary School Memories
Hi--
YES! Miss Galter was my favorite teacher too. She was young and pretty. She had dark hair. But once when we had a "city test" she told us not to "raise our hands for anything." I had to go to the bathroom and I didn't know what to do, so I wet my pants!!!! Miss Galter told my mother she had learned a lesson.
My meanest teacher was one of the Miss Sheehy's. I remember that one of them would take bad kids out in the hall and bang their heads against the wall---or at least that is what I either saw or was told.
Does anyone else remember the yearly play in the auditorium---it was always Beauty and the Beast. I also remember being in The Mikado--wearing a homemade kimono and being in the chorus ( where I was told not to sing, only mouth the words! )
Linda Paul-Elem
Hi Linda,
I remember you being in the chorus for the Mikado but I never knew that you were told not to sing. It's amazing the little things that you learn so many years later. Isn't technology great!
I remember running around buying fabric for a kimono to wear in the Mikado. I was lucky because my uncle was a tailor and he made the kimono for me.
I don't remember Miss Galter but that was a terrible thing to do to you. And Miss Sheehy banging kids against the wall! My how times have changed. Perhaps a little too far in the opposite extreme, today every teacher has to be wary of lawsuits etc.
Thanks for sharing.
Pete
From: Soozie1952
To: NE69news
Sent: 6/18/2009 11:40:11 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: 5 - Elementary School Memories
Hi Pete!
I'm finding all this reminiscing interesting since I am currently teaching at Solis-Cohen, (along with several other NE classmates.) I also went to Spruance for 2nd grade and then moved (again). I don't think any of your teachers are still at Solis-Cohen, though! Solis-Cohen is growing again.......the new Primary School is opening in September and will be for kindergarten and 1st grades. We haven't been for a tour through it as yet but I hear it's beautiful inside. For those of you who went to Solis-Cohen, yes the halls are still really narrow, and I swear it must be half a mile from one end of the building to the other! Rumor has it that the architect who designed the building committed suicide after that, and the kids going there now have told me the school is haunted, though I haven't seen any ghosts roaming around! The building is a strange design with all the wings off the main hallway, and I still haven't figured out what room numbers are in what wing! I was also amazed to see that there was a real fireplace in the Kindergarten room! I wonder if that was ever used as I didn't think that would be permitted in a school this side of the 1800's.
Back in the early 80's I also taught at Spruance for a year, and was surprised to learn that many of the teachers that were there when I taught there were also there when I was a student! Remember Mrs. Ida Kramer, Mrs. Adele Flinker, Mr. Catalano, Mr. Cusack, Mr. Satz, and Mrs. Bernice Jacobs, and a few others whose names escape me at the moment.
I also remember school banking with PSFS, I just can't remember at what school(s) or what day(s). Unfortunately I didn't return to the "hood" until starting at NE in 10th grade. I really do wish I had gone to elementary and junior high with everyone.
See you at the 40th!
Susan (Hoffman) Klassman
Hi Susan,
Thanks for your interesting commentary. I've seen a lot of construction at Solis Cohen when i drive by. Perhaps the ghosts have something to do with it. :-)
It must have been a real trip to go back and teach with the same teachers that taught you as a child. Thanks for sharing.
Pete
From: ILitman
To: NE69news
Sent: 6/18/2009 11:02:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: 3 - Elementary School Memories
I do believe I have a kindergarten picture from Spruance. I will now feel obligated to scan and identify classmates. I don't think I've aged, but we'll see.
Ira Litman
From: arleneelfman@comcast.net
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Sent: 6/18/2009 10:25:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Re: 1 - Elementary School Memories
I was in Mr. Feldman's bottle orchestra, too. I tell so many people about that bottle orchestra. But, I couldn't stand him as a teacher.
I was in the Bell and Flute club,too. I played the bells. My musical talents faded after i left solis. Hi Dell!
Arlene
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