Robert Kroeger:  

Went to a bunch of schools: Bridgeview School (1955), Nottingham School (1956-59), Justice School (1959-61), back to Bridgeview School (1961), Orland Center School, Orland Park IL (1961), Orland Elementary School (1962-63) and Carl Sandburg HS - Palos IL (1963-67). I took several college courses at Moraine Valley Community College (1976-78 & 1988-89). I never had an opportunity to form any lasting friendships by moving from school to school. This may have been the reason I was pretty much an introvert at Sandburg. I was somewhat shy and uncomfortable at CS. I felt out of place and didn't seem to fit in any of the Sandburg cliques. I have fond memories of Turtlehead Lake sub races, drive-in theaters, Bachelor's Grove, Swallow Cliff, Starved Rock, St Michael's dances, school sock hops, high school basketball, baseball, football, proms, synchronized line position to square dance with certain girls, ditching school with Jim Maroney and John Pour to see the movie, "The Wild Angels", graduation week and cool cars. I remember Irv Richard's "57" Chevy that failed to lay rubber. I played a lot of sandlot baseball on Raface' Sod Farm's peoperty with Rick Wilson, Rich Adee, Ron Aukerman, his brother Gary, Steve Thompson and others. I really wanted to play on the Sandburg baseball team but did not get along with Coach Eade. I delivered newspapers morning and afternoons my 8th and freshman year. I worked at the Farmer's Daughter Restaurant and Mr. Ed's IGA Foods, working with Dan Peterson and Larry Clark at both places. Dan and I were fired from Farmer's Daughter when a bartender caught us playing a dime slot machine in the basement. We both got our jobs back within a day or two. I didn't go to college after high school, instead enlisted in the US Navy, August 1967. Boot Camp at Great Lakes. I was sent to Philadelphia, to attend a Damage Control "A" school. After graduating, I was assigned to serve on the USS Saratoga (CVA 60). The carrier was dry...Expand for more