Keugene48
73 posts
Oct 14, 2009
7:05 PM
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I grew up on the west side of Dayton and went to elementary school in the 50's. I lived about across a field from the school so I walked. We went to school from 8:30 to noon, walked home for lunch, and back again until I think 3 or 3:30. We had all the usual subjects as well as music, art and gym.
I remember getting polio shots in the gym, we weren't in the trial group, we got them after they were approved. I can't imagine what our parents and grandparents went through worrying about polio epidemics every summer.
We started every morning with the pledge to the flag and the Lord's prayer in our public school, in third grade we took turns reading passages from the Bible.
We had mid morning and mid afternoon breaks, there were milk machines, for a nickle you could get milk that tasted like the wax coating on the cardboard container it came in. I still remember the ca-chunk sound it made dropping into the bottom of the vending machine.
The blackboards were green, the chalk yellow,
and the favored ones could clean the boards and pound the erasers against the brick building.
In the fall we brought in change for the red cross and got a tiny tin red cross that would go on our collar and a red feather.
In the spring we got a redbud tree to take home and plant, it looked like a stick and every year my dad would run over it with the lawn mower.
On the last day of school we could bring in our little brothers or sisters with us, we were only there for a half hour and then we got our report cards and looked to see if we passed. I always did.
The building is gone now but it lives on in my memory and in the wonderful well-rounded education I got there.
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Curt Dalton
215 posts
Oct 18, 2009
7:34 PM
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I went to several elementary schools, my mom having remarried a military man. They all seemed the same to me, just different colored walls. At one of them if you were good you got to run the erasers over a vacuum machine that sucked the chalk out. Pretty neat to a young boy. I was taught to punch a hole in the side of the milk carton, stick the straw in, blow air into the straw, then stand back and the air pressure would squirt milk out of the straw - usually on the shirt of the kid that did it.
Another was to drink milk then later sort of have a drool come out of your mouth, then suck it back in. Some of the kids got good and had a foot of spittle hanging out before they would suck it back. Pretty gross come to think of it.
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JeffN
252 posts
Oct 18, 2009
11:52 PM
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I was in the first group of kids to attend Saville Elementary way back in 1967. I was in first grade ... I think we spent the first month or so at a church until the building was completed. Now the school has been renovated and it doesn't look the same at all. It was a great place to go to school.
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AllenN71
3 posts
Apr 19, 2010
2:37 PM
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My first elementary school in the Dayton area was in Kettering somewhere near Hills and Dales. I was in 2nd grade and I remember my teacher, Mrs. OraLee Jackson, very well. When we were veing taught to write longhand, we were given wire rests that held the pencil (a big FAT pencil) at the proper angle. I admit I had a problem being weaned from that aid. One thing I remember about Mrs. Jackson is the day she taught us how to make the number "three" by saying: "Around a tree, and around a tree, and that is how we make a "three"". I pestered her to death with questions about why I would go halfway around one tree and halfway round the next, and besides wouldn't that also be how to make an "s"?? Or by going completely around each an "8"? etcetera. During one parent-teacher conference Mrs. Jackson described me as "exaspiratingly intelligent". She was a great teacher.
When we moved to Huber, there was a dearth of classroom space for the burgeoning population of schoolkids. My third-grade schoolhouse was exactly that: a house on Sandbury Street. I am given to understand that the authorities in Wayne Township decided to deal with the overburden of new students by contracting with teachers, giving them a house so long as they would teach classes in it until more formal space was built.
Once in a proper school, we were issued "tokens" instead of lunch money. This eliminated the problem of kids spending their lunch money on other things (or having it stolen by bullies. What bully in his right mind would want seconds on "john marzetti" or cauliflower?)
The new schools were named "Kitty Hawk" (after the site where the Wright Brothers proved the airplane) and "Menlo Park" (later shortened to "Menlo") where Edison perfedted his inventions.
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Hankster65
4 posts
May 04, 2010
12:05 PM
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Ah, the milk machines! The ones at Belmont Elementary were 5 cents and I too remember the clunk sound of the carton. The machines had a big lever that you could turn to either vanilla or chocolate. I don't think the vanilla setting got much use. I was getting nostalgic for the taste of milk from a carton, then I read Curt's note and now, not so much! Very funny, though.
Belmont Elementary (on Smithville Rd and now no longer a school) had an open house of sorts some years back. A guy I met there said as a kid he was baffled by how the projectionist got into the projection booth in the auditorium. We launched an expedition and after much head scratching we found a very small doorway in the girls restroom (it was unoccupied!) that opened to a ladder attached to the wall. We were able to climb STRAIGHT UP that ladder and into the booth. Mystery solved.
I still have an unsolved mystery from the place, though. Belmont had an old building and maybe 50 feet from it a newer building. A teacher once remarked that there was an underground tunnel that lead from the old school building to the new building. For whatever reason I'm still intrigued to this day and wonder if that tunnel does indeed exist.
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JL1961
1 post
May 22, 2010
2:52 PM
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Does anyone remember if the name of the elementary school near Sacred Heart Church -was Central? I understand it is now a retirement center -I went there until the 8th grade and then transferred to Stivers, in 1957 I believe. I remember we always started the day with prayer, Bible reading and a pledge to the flag. How much the children are missing today!!
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roge
24 posts
May 22, 2010
5:41 PM
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I remember my grade school days at a catholic school,having to go to mass every morning except Sunday, I am sure glad I got away from being a catholic,the belief is so empty
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Becky73
166 posts
Jun 28, 2010
9:53 PM
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All my elementary school days were spent at Shoup Mill K - 8. We didn't have a cafeteria, so we all brought our lunch and milk and ice cream money. It was a classroom job to collect the money and take the orders to the principal who passed out the order in an old milk crate to bring back to the classroom. A special treat was " Hot Dog Days " when we would bring I think a quarter and get a hot dog, potato chips and a drink. Big deal back then. The smell of those hot dogs filled the hallways. I too remember the daily pledge to the flag and oh, buying stamps for US savings bonds. At one point we had a bus but later on we walked at least a mile to school on a sidewalk that skirted the parking lot to Forest Park plaza. Not a walk most people would allow their kids to make now. My classmates and I were part of some sort of educational experiment which combined two classes of children. You tested to get into the "smart class" which was the combination of two grades. I was in the younger group and benefited from being around the older kids. Shoup Mill was a wonderful school with a beautiful building on lovely grounds with huge trees. It was Buckeye Trails Girl Scout Council for a time and I was given a tour. It was like a step back in time to go into the gym. It is now a charter school.
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DaytonDennis
6 posts
Sep 12, 2010
11:37 AM
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I went to Residence Park Elemantary from 1st to 6th Grade. 3 months in Kettering schools starting 7th, then to Orville Wright to finish 7th and 8th grades. Many moons ago and much simpler times, it seems. And yeah, the nickel milk cartons! Funny thing, I remember very very few snow days. Is that just me or were we more macho kids back then?
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AllenN71
77 posts
Sep 13, 2010
1:50 AM
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Remember the stuff I mentioned in my last post, that substance called "John Marzetti"? Turns out that it was invented in Columbus. It's basically Beef-A-Roni, but the Huber schools managed to louse it up pretty badly. It's kind of like Italian chop suey.
Ironically, when I was stationed in the Canal Zone, the stuff was all the rage; but there it was spiced up with chiles, olives, celery and such. I first had the Canal Zone version in the home of a Canal Zone police officer, who called it "Johnny Mazetti"
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Keugene48
107 posts
Sep 13, 2010
7:10 PM
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I saw in the Dayton Daily News today that the new Residence Park school has opened. It may have lots of new technology and all the bells and whistles but I don't know if the children will get as good an education there as I did! Especially in music and art, which they probably don't teach anymore.
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Jonelle Shadowens
32 posts
Sep 14, 2010
8:49 AM
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Thanks Donw for reminding us about the cloakrooms! On winter days with snow--and yes, y'all, we did walk to school on those days--those cloakrooms stank of wet wool coats and those rubber boots we wore over our shoes.
I went to Washington Elementary in Dayton for kindergarten and 1st grade. Had rheumatic fever during kindergarten and missed a lot of school and hated that part of it because I loved being with the other kids.
'Went to Cleveland--also in Dayton--for second, third and the first semester of fourth. During an impromptu talent show during our 3rd grade Halloween party, the teacher asked if anyone would like to sing and I volunteered. Wearing a very prissy Little Boo Peep costume my grandmother made, I started singing my current favorite from radio; "Cry," (was that Johnny Ray who sang that?) a soulful ballad about lost love. I sang some of it ala Sophie Tucker--with purposeful gravelly voice for emphasis--and the teacher made me stop and sit down. I wasn't embarrassed by that; I thought the problem was hers! When I picture that scene now, I laugh all over again!
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DaytonDennis
19 posts
Sep 14, 2010
8:53 AM
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K, when did you attend Residence Park? I did from 55 to 61. My brothers, earlier than that. Remember Mrs. Devilbiss? Mr. Luther? Mr. Huber? Mrs. Hastings? I still have old class picutres from those years...
And yeah, bells and whistles won't replace good education.. IMHO
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Keugene48
110 posts
Sep 14, 2010
5:09 PM
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I went to Residence Park from 1954 to 1961. Mrs. Hastings was one of my teachers, maybe fourth grade, I will have to look. Mrs Devilbiss was our principal, she knew my dad and mom by name. My favorite teacher was Mrs Beacrist in third grade. My class pictures are in my cedar chest, have to go find them.
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DaytonDennis
21 posts
Sep 14, 2010
5:16 PM
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I had Mrs. Hastings in 4th grade too!... ummm, that would have had to been... 1959? Gosh, who were my classmates??? Stephen Angel Terry Ulrich, Debbie.. something, Tony Dominquez(sp) Sue Grow (neighbor) My pictures are hidden away too.. Have to find them! I can't remember my third grade teacher (but I had a crush on her) Mrs. Montgomery was 2nd grade and a STRICT teacher!
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Keugene48
111 posts
Sep 14, 2010
5:45 PM
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I had Mrs Hastings 1957-58. I have my report cards with the pictures, good thing because I forgot most of my teachers names. My brother was two years behind me so I guess you were between us. In 8th grade I was sent to Roth as part of an trial program in forming a early high school program. I went there for two years and then to Patterson Co-op High School.
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DaytonDennis
22 posts
Sep 14, 2010
9:02 PM
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My sister Darlene was 1 year ahead of me and you might rememer her. I know she went to Patterson co-op for nursingn program(?) I believe. We lived in East Dayton by that time. Yeah, I think you were a year ahead of me... My brother Don was in the first graduating class of Roth and my brother Douglas graduated the next year.
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Keugene48
112 posts
Sep 14, 2010
9:34 PM
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Yes I was in the Nursing Arts program at Patterson and I knew your sister Darlene. Two husbands ago my name was Karen Adams.
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Hankster65
54 posts
Sep 16, 2010
5:24 PM
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Donw, you're bringing back memories here. I remember Ms. Bentz well. A nice lady and a good music teacher. I remember when we had a new student (Helga Graff), fresh to this country from Germany, who spoke no English at all. I was stunned and wildly impressed as an 11 year old when Ms. Bentz effortlessly conversed with her in German.
Concerning cloak rooms and Mr. Hoppy. (I'm not sure of the spelling either.) For some reason many of my teachers seemed to believe that I could best achieve my educational objectives by standing in the cloak room during class or out in the hallway. My preference was the hallway since I at least had Mr. Hoppy to converse with. I knew him well, probaly better than a lot of the teachers I had! (Such as the Saunder sisters or Ms. Blocker.)
Very cool that Mr. Hoppy let some of you guys on the roof. I don't think that would happen today. (Yee gads, liability!) I'd love to go on the roof, or in the basement, or any of the mysterious nooks and crannies. Wouldn't it be cool if you could go on the roof and find stuff still there from back in the day?
BTW, I am very familiar with the kindergarten room you describe. I used to be asked to go there as an assistant to the teacher. That was before I became known as a bored out of my mind, trouble making, spit wad throwing, note passing, trouble maker. (All activities I still enjoy.)
Some names that may ring a bell to you: Mr. Lutz (my favorite teacher of all time), Mr. Klee (gym teacher who lived past 100), Ms. Ranier (a sweetheart!), Mr. Dils (a kind and patient principal), Mr. Wehner (who as recently as two years ago I would often see walking around the Belmont area), Mr. Manual (the shop teach), Mr. Forbriger (music teacher who kindly allowed me to sit in class for two years never once singing a note, this coming after the very first time I sang for him).
I have some old photos of the place and some interior shots from a few years ago. If you're interested I'm at Hankster65@Gmail.com.
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Hankster65
55 posts
Sep 16, 2010
5:27 PM
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Karen Adams, did you by any chance have a brother at Patterson named Curtis Adams? By the way, two wives ago I was Tim Adams just like I am now!
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Keugene48
113 posts
Sep 16, 2010
8:40 PM
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My brother went to Patterson but his name is Robert, not Curtis. I always liked being an Adams in school, especially when we went in alphabetical order. I was almost always first (except the years Larry Abbott was in my class) and got whatever we had to do over with and everyone else got compared with me.
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Hankster65
58 posts
Sep 17, 2010
5:41 PM
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Hey, Karen, thanks for the response. (I guess i'll keep wondering whatever became of Curtis...a super guy, and a brilliant kid who got a pretty raw deal from Patterson...but that's a long story.)
Being an Adams did have its benefits at times, but I never liked the fact that it placed me in the very first row where I could scarcely hide from the teacher.
Yeah, I can see where an Abbot guy would totally kluge up the works. In high school we had a foreign exchange student named Randi Aaegsen. You can't compete with that one!
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indy
11 posts
Nov 20, 2010
2:59 PM
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does anyone rember fairport ele school think it was off of gettysburg dr
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Settler36
10 posts
Nov 24, 2010
11:14 AM
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Indy, My daughter went to Fairport from 1960 - 1966. A great school. The principal was Wilena Wesley. Too bad the grade schools aren't like they used to be back then.
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Mikey
114 posts
Nov 28, 2010
9:24 AM
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keugene48:
In the first post of this stream, you mentioned (an unnamed) school. Sounds like Westwood School. The grounds of Westwood encompassed most of four blocks...
Hoover to Oakridge and Leland to Upland. Your memory is pretty good!
I was there '47 to '54. My most amusing memory is how darned old our teachers looked to us! I found a few of my class pictures from around 1950. Actually, the teachers were mostly quite young, probably no more than 30 (at the time.)
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Mikey, Gatlinburg, TN
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Keugene48
125 posts
Nov 28, 2010
7:26 PM
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Actually Mikey, you were real close. I went to Residence Park, on Elmhurst and Kammer. We lived on Cleverly, a one block street between Hoover and Kammer.
I remember in second or third grade my teacher brought in her son, who was a boy scout and probably 11 or 12. I had the biggest crush on this "older man" in his uniform. Probably what started my fascination with men in uniform (both my husbands were in the army when we got married!)
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JeansDayton
3 posts
Dec 03, 2010
6:45 AM
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I remember going to Shoup Mill School (when it was an actual school!),for the first 1 1/2 years of going to school and then we move to the East side and I went to Cleveland Elementary in the 70's. I remember all the old,dark hallways and staircases which I thought were cool. Another thing (besides the milk machines) I remember is there were pencil and notebook vending machines. The second/third grade classes were in the newer section in the octogon shaped areas and the classes were divided by giant rolling chalk boards, with the teachers desks in the center. I also remember that we walked around the neighborhoods surrounding the school in costume one year. My two friends and I were dressed as 'old ladies' - lots of fun!
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Leath
5 posts
Dec 07, 2010
5:16 PM
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Hey, Tim, (Hankster65) thanks for all the memory nudging!....I don't know that I ever heard of the tunnel...but that old building was indeed very mysterious...built in the 1800's...I remember in 3rd and 4th grade sitting at those ancient desks and the girls having such a hard time walking through the aisles with their huge dresses with petticoats and me just beginning to notice the "difference"...the rest room in the basement...sort of spooky to go to with the HUGE unrineals...and...trying to remember the teachers' names from the old blgd...one of them kept a sort of good noodle area on the blackboard foe brown nosers....Wow...Mr Lutz was my favorite too...he called China the "sleeping giant" (no one would believe it then)....that was about when China was invading Tibet and no one cared or knew....Mr. Wiener...he pissed me off when he gave Steve Struvie the art award....but nice guy...lived in the brick house behind the school with peaked roof....I recall Ms Benz and I actually had a crush on Helga...remember the Tom boy, Janis I think was her name who would beat up on all the boys until we boys all banded together and sat her on the drinking fountain in the school yard by the fence! You know, she started acting like a girl after that :-)
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nancy121
13 posts
Dec 13, 2010
12:23 PM
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I went to St Mary's Catholic School for 8 yrs and it was such a waist of time with all the religion I happy I am away from the Catholic church. I so wanted to attend the public school can't remember the name seems like it started with a R Ruskian or something like that. All my non catholic friends went there..
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driver62
347 posts
Dec 14, 2010
7:48 AM
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I believe the school you're thinking about was Ruskin.
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nancy121
19 posts
Dec 14, 2010
8:15 AM
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Thanks driver62 that is the the one.
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FAITH
22 posts
Feb 24, 2011
1:38 PM
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Lived near Linden & Spinning, but the nearest school was in a Beavercreek district. We walked to Parkwood Elem each day, met up with friends along the way and life was good. Our principal was Ben O'Diam and he was great! Every kid with a birthday during the school year got a card from him. I loved it when we'd have movie day after school a few times a year. The Student Council would sell soft pretzels for a nickel and we'd watch a movie in the gym. Great school for an early education!
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Cill
3 posts
Feb 25, 2011
6:52 AM
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I went to Emerson 1961-63 then we moved an went to Ruskin is it still there I was there went it burnt we had to go to Central an then we moved out to Mad River.
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Perry401
18 posts
Feb 25, 2011
11:16 AM
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Horace Mann was my K-8 school. The whole time I was there, it changed very little. In fact, when I graduated from 8th grade, every teacher I had was still working there and was teaching the same classes in the same rooms.
Kindergarden and third grade (which was originally a kindergarden room) had the cloak rooms, but the other classes used lockers in the back of the room. There were never enough lockers so most of us had to share with another kid. One of the neat things about the cloak rooms was that they had a seperate entrance to the school which permitted the little ones to come directly into the cloak rooms, take off their wet coats and rubber boots, and then enter the classroom directly, without messing up the halls. They had a similar entrance from the athletic fields into the gym's locker rooms.
Most of the kids walked home for lunch, but those who had parents who worked, would eat lunches they brough from home. The parents could arrange for their kids to eat at school just a day or two if their parents had doctor's appointments or otherwise couldn't make lunch that day.
We had the milk machine too -- although it got temperamental during my later years. The last year or two I was at Horace Mann, the principal would stand next to the machine and have to de-jam it three or four times a day when it failed to deliver the milk. She could have sold the milk from a table and done a faster job but insisted that students needed to learn how to operate a vending machine! We must have learned well.
Five cents was our cost for the the heavily waxed cup sized container. Chocolate milk could only be bought on Fridays -- I don't know why. The packages had arrows which looked like a smile which indicated which end you were to open. About half the time, the carton wouldn't open right on the end you were supposed to open, and you had to open it the "illegal" way, which created a shreadded paper texture to the drinking process. We were not given straws and I don't think anyone ever thought to bring one.
We orignally beat the blackboard erasers outside, but were not permitted to beat them on the building, only against each other. This created clouds of dust. Who knows what may have been in those dust clouds. Kids new to erase beating often stood down-wind and wound up breathing half the chalk dust they generated. Eventually, they bought the vacuum cleaner eraser cleaner machine. It had a rotating brush the width of the eraser which helped in the cleaning process.
From 4th grade and up, we had creative arts teachers and the gym teacher visit the schools on a rotating basis. We had a music teacher who was also named Miss Bentz, probably the same one mentioned earlier. Her first name was something like Viola, and she called the record player the Victrola. This lead to the kids calling her "Vila Victrola Bentzola Bentz".
The school system also had a special music teacher who came around and helped with some of the music classes. His name was Mr. Christmas, and yes, his wife's name really was Mary.
Ms. Bentz taught music appreciation and singing. Freddy Frehoff(?) taught musical instruments. On day he fell off the stage. Miss Stien taught art. We also had an industrial arts teacher who taught for one semester, and a home ecconomics teacher who taught the other semester. All students, boys and girls, took both industrial arts and home economics. We all used power tools and made wooden lamps and bookends, and learned to cook and use the sewing machines.
When we were in the first grade, our class was given a tour of the basement of the school, and got to see the tunnels, coal fired boilers, and many other things most people did not know about. We all got to choose a piece of coal, and put it in a sealed jar with some chemicals. The coal "grew" strange and colorful crystal formations which they called a chemical garden. We also "played" with mercury and did other things that today would never be permitted.
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KennyE11
33 posts
Feb 25, 2011
11:03 PM
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In the mid-60's, the Trotwood-Madison school district was unprepared to handle all the kids from the tail end of the Baby Boom generation, thus I spent Kindergarden, 1st and 2nd grade attending school at Trotwood area churches, until they completed Shilohview Elementary (near the Salem Mall), where I attended grades 3 through 6. For Junior High, I had to attend the "evening shift" for 7th grade in the old High Scool building, then "day shift" for 8th grade.
My how times have changed, with ongoing school consolidations, closings, etc.
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thomas6
28 posts
Feb 28, 2011
6:33 PM
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i started my first few years at emerson,then on to loos,out of town for jr,years and then patterson,how that happened i have no idea,considering the grades they required,but i loved my bank.
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BubbaLuv
24 posts
Mar 04, 2011
1:52 PM
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I went to 2 elementary schools, K-3rd grade I went to Patterson at wyoming and alberta streets. 4th-8th went to emerson on Hickory st. had things happen at both that i'll never forget.
Patterson I had a teacher named Mrs. Hail that said one time when I took in treats for my Birthday that "Librians" were great people being she was a libraian also. lol years later while enjoying cut day in high school I visited patterson and the kids were outside enjoy recess. there was a teacher standing there watchin over them and I asked her if Mrs. Hail was still there and she pointed her out so I walked over to her and said " Mrs. Hail!? she said yes and i prceeded to ask her if she still belived Libraians were great people"? she looked at me and said Walter???? when I said yes she started to cry cause I remembered her. of course they were happy tears.
Emerson the experience was a lil differnt sigh the princple there always used me as an example when trying to inspire the other students sigh cause I was never late and never missed school cause my mother sent me saying if you go sick and they send ya home atleast you were there lol a bad thing that happened there was I couldnt see in the future cause there was a girl named April that I didnt like much and i ran into her right after HS graduation and she was sooooooooooooo nice and pretty but had had a boyfriend all through high school and was gonna marry him sigh lol
but mostly memories at both schools are good ones.
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Sharon081
3 posts
Jan 02, 2013
11:21 AM
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Anybody remember the old Dorothy Lane elementary school? I only attended Kindergarten and part of first grade before going to Rosewood in Kettering, but I remember it being this intimidating, huge, brick structure. Does anybody know if that building still exists?
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Billd1952
21 posts
Jan 13, 2013
8:45 AM
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Sharon, I rememner a school on Dorthy Lane near Far Hills, that was next to the old Kettering Police and Fire Station. I started K and part of first grade at Southdale Elementry, on the western end of Dorothy Lane, near South Dixie. We moved into Dayton in 58',where I went to Lincoln Elementry first grade thru part of the sixth grade, until we moved due to 35 being built, and I finish grade school at Franklin Elementry.
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cowboy8
9 posts
Jan 31, 2013
7:17 AM
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Indy, yes, I attended fairport elementary..Actually, just yesterday i posted something on this website asking same thing pretty much.......pls check out what i posted yesterday.. maybe we know each other.
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CeKay
7 posts
Apr 13, 2013
9:09 PM
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I went to Lincoln School in east Dayton from kindergarten thru 8th grade. Most of the teachers were older, single ladies, who had started teaching in the 1920s-30s. I never liked the school much, but each fall we had the Fall Festival, a fundraiser, in back of the school. There were rides, games, food, and prizes, and it was a lot of fun. The building itself was solidly built; had a huge gymnasium that could be partitioned into 2 gyms, and a big auditorium with a balcony. The school was torn down last summer after being a charter school for a while.
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Billd1952
54 posts
Apr 14, 2013
11:58 AM
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CeKay, Lincoln's fall festivals were great! Lincoln was a far better school than Franklin was, in my opinion. Mr. Goodrich was the principal when I started Lincoln, Mr. Myers was principal when we moved. Franklin was like a gloomy, depressing,
dark, and evil school. Very few teachers smiled at all.
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Billd1952
55 posts
Apr 14, 2013
11:58 AM
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CeKay, Lincoln's fall festivals were great! Lincoln was a far better school than Franklin was, in my opinion. Mr. Goodrich was the principal when I started Lincoln, Mr. Myers was principal when we moved. Franklin was like a gloomy, depressing,
dark, and evil school. Very few teachers smiled at all.
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cilla46
163 posts
Apr 15, 2013
7:19 AM
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I also went to Lincoln School from 1952 when I was in kindergarten through the 1960-61 school year when I graduated from 8th grade.
Some of the teachers are as fresh in my mind today as they were then.Ralph Booker who taught boys gym and shop,Emma Brush taught girls gym and science,Mr. Juillerat,Mrs.Arnovitz,Mr.Matthews,Mr.Miller,Mrs.Lane,Miss Roush,and many more.
I loved that old building,especially the library where I developed my love of books.I can still remember the smell and the hush of that space.It was like a haven to me.
Does anyone remember the dance lessons we were forced to take in gym class? Mr.Justin Stackler made sure we all knew how to Fox Trot!
And the yearly talent shows in the auditorium were so much fun!Ah,to be young and growing up in the 50's was an experience that will never leave me!
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blue J
80 posts
Apr 16, 2013
9:29 AM
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donw- the story you told above about Conrad Estevez...Martin Sheen evidently had more than one brother who became an educator, because Frank Estevez was my government teacher at Fairmont High School in 1990.
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joey m
55 posts
Apr 17, 2013
10:44 AM
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I'M FAIRLY SURE THERE WERE ONLY THREE ESTEVEZ BROTHERS AND THE WERE RAMON CONRAD AND JOHN. RAY WORKED FOR MY UNCLE AT HIS CHRISTMAS TREE LOT ON WASHINGTON ST. I WENT TO CHAMINADE WITH BOTH JOHN AND RAY . CONRAD VWAS OLDER AND WAS A FRIEND OF THE FAMILIES. THEY WERE ALL CHARACTERS AND GREAT GUYS. I USEDTO HEAR FROM JOHN BACK WHEN HE WAS AT A LOCAL T.V. STATION.
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luv my dayton
276 posts
Apr 18, 2013
6:44 AM
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The kids in my family spent their entire school years in Kettering schools. Dorothy Lane was the elementary we went to and right around corner from our house.Can still remember the principal and teachers I had. Students who didn't have the funds would volunteer to work in lunch room and get a chip for a free meal that day. I used to put ice cream on a plate or punch holes in the milk lid. After lunch was cleaning up the cafeteria.Also got to work in bookstore on occassion.The only memory of the school is a photo found in a directory of Kettering schools. It was torn down as many of the schools when no longer used were sold off or used by kettering for other activies. Eight grade we spent at Van Buren Jr. High and freshman year was at DL Barnes. By that time the new high school was open and everything was back to normal.I have fond memories of those days and although I was an average student did involve myself in joining school clubs and attending the sports events.Someone mentioned schools in the Hills and Dales area and Southdale still up and running and the one that used to be on the road going through the park is also there except being used for handicapped people I believe. Rolling Fields is now a church as is Meadowlawn school on Stroop Rd. Rosewood school is now used for the arts. Population dropped drastically and the need for schools dwindled.
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rdebross
63 posts
Apr 19, 2013
11:03 AM
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I went to kindergarten at Lincoln Elementary School in 1952-53 before I went to St. Mary grade school. Many of my friends went to Lincoln through grade eight. The building was quite remarkable for an elementary school because it had a nice auditorium and gymnasium. I remember watching Disney's "Dumbo" in the auditorium. The kindergarten classroom had acess to an inner courtyard that allowed us to go outside in some pretty bad weather without getting too cold. Others have commented on the fall festival and I agree it was first rate. The school must have had a very active PTA group. The library was first rate because it was a neighborhood branch of the Dayton - Montgomery County Public Library before a free standing branch was built on Wyoming Street (maybe in the late 60's). The school grounds always interested me because it looked like the site required some extensive excavation to be buildable. The Nassau Street hill is one of the steepest in the Dayton area. The school was perched on the top of the hill. On the west side of the grounds leading to Dover Street, huge amounts of earth were removed to provide a flat surface for ball fields. A massive stone wall was constructed to bolster the hilltop above the ball fields.
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oldrndirt
39 posts
Apr 19, 2013
4:18 PM
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rdebross - it was indeed the late 60's when the branch library was built on Wyoming. The same site had been the parking location for a weekly(?) bookmobile. I know from 3rd about 6th grade I was a regular patron of that bookmobile, walking through the alleys to get there - that would put the bookmobile there through probably at least '67.
I used to *love* to ride my bike down Nassau street (and the hill on Hodapp Ave with the flat space where Deanwoon (orig Demphle) crossed :-)
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blue J
83 posts
Apr 21, 2013
12:16 PM
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Hey luv my dayton- Both of my parents, their sisters and brothers and my sister and I all went through Kettering schools, too. My parents were not all the way through, as my mother's family lived in Residence Park (Malvern Avenue, I want to say), until 1960- I don't know what elementary they attended over there, but I know my aunt went to Roth High School for her freshman year in '59-'60. They then moved into a house on Ingersoll Drive (on the west side of Ackerman Blvd., not east of it- and that was back in the days long before Ackerman was paved all the way through Lincoln Park). At any rate, my mother went to Barnes for the '60 and '61 school years, and then to Fairmont starting in the fall of '62. My uncle graduated from Fairmont in 1959, my father and my aunt in '63, and my mother (from the newly-named Fairmont West) in '65.
My sister and I went to Southdale, Van Buren, and then Fairmont. Even though we lived in five different places over those years, we stayed in Kettering Schools all the way through.
Last Edited by blue J on Apr 21, 2013 12:17 PM
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