Grover Klein:
CLASS OF 1969
Morgan Park High SchoolClass of 1969
Chicago, IL
Western Illinois UniversityClass of 1973
Macomb, IL
Clissold Elementary SchoolClass of 1965
Chicago, IL
Grover's Story
Here I go... "open book":
Born/raised South Side, 2301 W. 111th St. Swank Roller Rink was my side yard.
Clissold Grammar School was where I made my first group of friends: Gus Kumis, Doug Johnston, Gordon Seelos, Don Eppley, Graig Grover, Kenny Jorgenson, Charlie Reed, and so many others.
An ill-advised family move to Portland, Oregon took me away for a few years, but we re-located back to the same great neighborhood that I still,and will forever,consider home.
Every time I visit the South Side, I drive by 10855 S Hoyne AV and reminisce: Crescent Park (Olson, Kirk, McCoy, Snapp, Klenk, VonDrasek, Joy [basement get-togethers after school!], "spin-the-bottle" on the ice rink, carving names on park benches, athletic endeavors on make-shift fields, and so many more wonderful memories!
High School? Times of uncertainty. Trying hard to be accepted. I'd like to think that my best friend and I helped each other through... "Thanks, Ron!" Many life-long connections made, lost, and hopefull...Expand for more
y regained at this summer's (2010) reunion.
Fast forward through many years of '70's and '80's indescretions, and I find myself near Louisville, Ky, happily married to a woman I met at Indiana Univ. who hails from Cape Cod, MA.
My family consists of four step-children (youngest, Katie, lost to a motorcycle accident in 2001 at age 15), and one of our own, Rachel, who's my pride and joy. She's 21... pre-med studies at Bellarmine Univ. in Louisville, KY... academically and athletically gifted, but with a penchant for the "bad boys". Don't know where that comes from... must be from her mom's genes! Four grandsons and one granddaughter.
My wife and I are educators. She teaches students with learning disabilities, and I am recently retired from 20 years of teaching 7th grade English. (I highly recommend retirement over middle school teaching!!!)
If ya wanna know anything else, you'll have to ask!
Contact me,... I'm an "open book"!
Grover Klein MPHS '69 / WIU '73
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