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From Larry Peterson

There are lots of anecdotal memories: Freshman year at St. Nick's was unique. We sat in one place and the sisters moved from room to room. Anyone with carpal tunnel syndrome can place part of the blame on Sr. Henrietta and her teaching
techniques.. Lunch time on the Boardwalk was something that couldn't be enjoyed today.
I always wanted HSHS to beat ACHS at something during my four year term... and I remember Joe Clark sinking a shot at the buzzer enabling HSHS JV basketball to beat ACHS for the first time in history..that shot would be a 3 point shot today.
 Sr. Leo reminding me often that she taught my Dad, Aunt and Cousins...I wasn't ever quite sure whether that was a status to which I had to live up or down.
 Others which can wait until the next reunion
 

 

DAVE CONRAD CONFESSES !!!
(and implicates others!)


My memory is not as good as it used to be. Maybe some one can give me an answer to this question that has been in the back of my mind for years. In Sr. Ancilla's Biology class in 10th grade, we (Cornell & Fenwick, I think) put a dissected frog into one of our female classmates sandwich for her consumption during lunch. If you remember, we used to keep our lunches in those little cubicles on the rear wall of the Biology Classroom. If anyone can tell me the name of the poor unfortunate person, I would like to offer an
apology to her. Hoping that someone will come through with an answer. 

From Pat McHale . . . .

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER riding in Larry Peterson's truck after football games to Lily Lake..or was it Birch Grove? That truck was jammed with whoever wanted to go.... What'd we all do there anyhow?

CAN LOIS
or any of the other cheerleaders
please tell us now

WHY WERE YOU KICKED OFF THE CHEERING SQUAD?

 

I think it was the Hammonton game...no, perhaps we'd played Camden!!!!! ....and I along with all the other cheerleaders was sitting on the bus on the way home; we were ALL ecstatic cause we'd won. It was a great trip back, but the bus got unbearably hot (AND smelly -the football players were on board ) and I took off my HSHS blue and gold cheerleading sweater. Underneath the sweater I had on a blouse (yeah, it was a bit see-throughable, but not bad, and besides I was covering my ungifted boobs with a bra). By the time we got back to school I'd put my sweater back on, but dear Mr. Inemer stopped me as I got off the bus..."Miss Wimberg, what were you doing at the back of the bus?" I replied, surprised by his question, "Nothing"! "What about your sweater?" "What ABOUT my sweater?" "Don't talk back to me. You took off your sweater on the bus, didn't you?"  "Yes, I took it off because it was hot on the bus" (Notice I said 'IT was hot' not 'I was hot'...by then others were hanging around waiting for future gossip...and I could just imagine the "Hot for WHO!" repercussions). On the following school day I was called into Sr. Mary Jane's office, asked in the same manner the questions I was asked by Mr. Inemer and when she heard my answers, she looked at me as if I were a "hussy" and said, "Well, Miss Wimberg, you certainly don't deserve to be the captain of the cheerleaders...you don't even deserve to remain on the squad" and then, as if that wasn't enough, dear Mary Jane added, Imagine, YOU, the Spiritual Leader on the Student Council...how could you do such a thing?" With one fell swoop, I was dismissed from the Student Council AND the cheerleading squad!!! Does anyone remember what happened next???

Mary tells us . . . . .

I remember two girls who had so much fun working on the candy counter in Senior year at least...Joan Baldwin....that is where she first told me she like Patrick Smith...and me Mary Harrington. I remember being upset when someone wanted just red jellybeans...they were my favorite...but I sold them to them anyway and the next day when I was heading to work on the candy counter I saw Sr. Andre ( later Sr. Helen Miller) her head bent low doing some very serious work and when I approached her she handed my a whole bag of red jelly beans. I remember working with Toe ( Terri Perry) on the Strawberry Festival....yelling HELP....because there were so many strawberries to prepare....what a dear good Friend Terri was then and still is. I remember Frank DeFeo's final words in our Senior Play...and seeing all the Nuns run towards the stage....I remember Bill TenBrink RIP laughing so hard when Sr. Leo said "Thank God for the man she missed"....they had to carry him out of class chair and all. I remember those cool gym outfits... How about when they let all the animals go before the penny auction....Great Class night....Great Classmates...I could go and on...better leave room for others

What were the names of the ladies who worked in the kitchen?

And Clem Thoennes remembers . . .. .

Walking from church to the school on First Friday after mass.  Remember the filled donuts and hot chocolate in the cafeteria when we got to school?

Hey Clem...I don't remember the cafeteria with those doughnuts, but I remember stopping in the Lighthouse luncheonette after First Friday Mass...and we were always allowed to be a little late for class...but maybe that was in grammar school...anybody else remember?

. . . Pat McHale

And Terri O'Donnell Asks . . . 

Do you remember when we were in 5th or 6th grade and we were roller-skating on Sewell Avenue. We formed a line and were pulling each other . The line was so long. Members in the line were Joan Olsen, I believe you were there, Gail Vance, Clair McKillop, Maggie Robertson, Jack Anton, I believe Billy Cannon was in the line. We zigzagged up and down Sewell Avenue on a cold and windy day. It was near dinner time, the sun was going down. We were bundled up in winter coats and gloves. We had our usual runny noses and red cheeks. It was a great time. Do you remember it?

Sister Cletus-- I took shorthand and typing from her and the thought of those classes still scares me. She said to me one day --after I had tried to transcribe someone else's shorthand notes-- "-Well, Miss Pinion, I certainly hope you don't intend to become a secretary!". I told her I wanted to be a teacher---but she gave me good advice. I always had someone else type my papers in college and only now, after retiring, have I had time to actually sit and type at the computer. I had to drop her typing class because I was getting a D with 67 words a minute and 2 mistakes-----no erasers allowed!!!! Egg Harbor was too far away for me to stay after school to type a PERFECT paper

-- Judy Pinion

Senior Prom Cinderella Story

Lois got her gorgeous big brother Georgie to take me to the prom.....it was truly a Cinderella story.
I had no date and had gone all day to help decorate the auditorium---walked home crying ......when I got home my mother said Mrs. W called and said Georgie 'wanted' to take me to the prom. I had about 3 hrs to get ready...borrowed a gown and had to buy some tulle.....couldn't wear strapless in those days. I know Lois and Carole got Georgie to do it. Lois was my best friend and I knew Georgie as her older brother. What a sweetheart! He came to my house in their Studebaker and had a fur jacket for me and told me the gloves were in the pocket.
No one knew I was coming and I had the best date at the prom ....a Villanova guy. One of my favorite nuns Sr Gabriel tried to get some guys to take me, but hey I had my pride and I didn't want to go with the ones she called. But GEORGE W was definitely Prince Charming. I wasn't even nervous with him because he was Lois' brother....I had never had a date before and wasn't sure how to act. At this time I was still taller than most of the guys in my class.
But I'm a knockout now closing in on my 68th birthday in a week or so. Now if I can just lose all these extra lbs so I can 'wow' 'em at the 50th reunion.

--- Pat McHale Rogers 

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