Kira Kira Gale:
CLASS OF 1957
Hyde Park Career Academy High SchoolClass of 1957
Chicago, IL
Kira's Story
Life
I wonder if we will have a 50th class reunion? I will come if I can. I have lived in Omaha, Nebraska most of my life now. One husband, two kids, eight grandkids. Just getting started on a career as a publisher and author. Life is very interesting. My book, Lewis and Clark Road Trips, will be available through Amazon in March, 2006.
None of us knew that Buffalo Bill had his grandstands for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair where Hyde Park High School was later built, or that his tent city was located at Walter Scott Elementary School. Or that Jackson Park, the Wooded Island, the Golden Lady, and the Science...Expand for more
and Industry Museum were built for the World's Fair. The same for the el train ending at Stony Island. What kind of education did we get?
I remember the Mr. Popper's Penguins author who taught English Florence Atwater (even though I never had her as a teacher, but I did love her book), Laurel E. Gillogly who taught Latin, the geometry teacher who threw erasers at idiot students, The English teacher who wore magnets, and the nice lady who taught general science. That's about all for the teachers. We got a good education. Teachers were teachers back then! But we never got any sense of local history.
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