Bill Simmons:  

School I transferred into the morning Kindergarten class of Miss Marcoux for the spring semester in 1959. I understand I was a bit of a handful. I was a little o9ver anxious to fit in and got a little rough, or so I recall being told. I believe Miss Marcoux transferred to Riley after the 1960-61 school year. In first grade I had Mrs. Morris & Miss Cummings. 2nd grade was Mrs. Walker's and third grade was Miss Reeves. She retired after the 1963-64 school year. I remember the multiplication table races that year. I think Patty Klimczak always won. In 4th grade we had Miss Nidetz and 5th was Mrs. Lindenbaum. She did a nice job of teaching us how to diagram sentences. We had a book reading contest that year. The results can be seen on the bulletin board in the class picture. Tom Reed and I got into pretty intense with that competition. In 6th grade things began to change. Construction began on the two story west wing in preparation for expanding the school to include 7th and 8th grades. We had Miss Goldberg and went to Springfield for our class field trip. Miss Goldberg married that summer and as Mrs. Koch I had her for home room in 7th & 8th as well as for literature. Among several teachers Mr. Fisher and Mr. Hall standout as pretty good examples of good teachers and good people. In retrospect Mr. Boav impresses me as a fine phys ed teacher. He made us work and gave us a broad introduction into various sports and other athletic disciplines. In 8th grade we traveled to Galena for our field trip. It was sometime during this period that Larry Orr and Don Glasco gave me the moniker of Sir Rederick. I guess it was the red hair. High school was a big change. After going to school with about the same 25 kids f...Expand for more