Wb Eugene:  

Life i recall being at rockford road public school, grade 1 and 2 in 1964 - 1967, miss urwitz and miss tornos class. the grade 6 kids played rock concertsfor us at that school, featuring beatles music, my buddy was adam simon he loved to compete and run races in the field. gary cutler was the name of one of the older boys who played a fender strat guitar and the other was gary coleman. if i recall. He became a rock promoter, and promotes the rolling stones. i remember beth, older grade 6 girl from then as well - actualy i recall many of the kids i loved the brand new climbing apparatus - the ropes in the gym. i recall the word off - ice or office and thinking that was funny - great play on words and we joked about it back then. adam and i were charlie chaplain characters in one of the many school events. we acted to the music of swan lake, and the dance of the sugar plum fairys - there were lots of school activitys. it was truly a magicical fun time, stewart - was my other best buddy in the class and also wayne. lori was in the class as well, i had to walk a long way to school and had to pass the wild one legged white dog on the way to school. there was also a huge great dane dog who lived across the school who was quite gentle and likable. i used to go to killer hill by myself to tobbogan in winter and hated the cold then as i do now. they had snow mobiles in the winter at the golf course near the school. then i attended kingslake road public school from grade 3 to grade 6. i was friends with lots of kids. grade 3 started off ok, we had a supply teacher until the regular teacher came back. the regular teacher was a nasty piece of work, mr. hammond was the school principle, quite the old school man, but there was an incredibly youthful vice principle named rick geggie or geggy who was a hippy of sorts and worse cool clothes open shirts, no ties and a beard, to a little kid he was a giant bear and very cool. i recall he played with me and others as equals. we played tether ball in the schoolyard. liked him very much, he encouraged me to love and appreciate all art, i couldnt escape the grade 3 bitches class fast enough and hid in the library as aoften as i could. she, the grade 3 teacher made me get the strap from ol mr. hammond in a storage room with another kid named danny mc girk?, as i recall. in grade 4 there was an experimental open area at the school and my cousin rhonda noodleman was a teacher there, she has since passed away a long time ago, and far to young. she taught me music mostly. i recall some of the teachers who influenced me in the open area, it was quite experimental, they divided the areas up. loved the open space instead of closed classes. it was the 70s times were changing under the trudeau administration. my sister heather was at the school as well and she was popular with the grrrrrrls and some boys. grade 5 was with ...Expand for more