Helen Anderson:
CLASS OF 1959
Kensington High SchoolClass of 1959
Philadelphia, PA
Helen's Story
Hello!!, It's hard to take in that we graduated from KHS 62 years ago. And having reached this point in time, have memories of a lifetime. How different everything is today, and how naive we were when we graduated back in 1959. I don't think that school prepared us for the future but it was a different time for everyone especially women. Moving on, I worked at different jobs, married a great guy, bought a home in Bridesburg (Northeast Phila.) (still here) had four children went back to school, did a lot of volunteer work in the community and politics and became editor of our local paper. When my husband died, thank God a daughter gave me my fourth grandchild which helped me through the grief. But the little one grew much to fast, and my new job as her babysitter ended when she went to school, In looking for something to fill the empty days, I became a teachers assistant in a first grade classroom. But knee surgery happened and I retired from ever...Expand for more
ything, and began to do some traveling which has ended due to the pandemic. Now I'm accepting and adjusting on how to be an old.....er woman in quarantined times spending time with reading, talking on the phone, playing on the computer and Netflex.
Would love hearing from anyone from the class of June 1959 to reminisce or just to say Hello. Some years back, Rhoda Reedel and I flew out to Sun City Cali.f to visit Calista Bingham or Clicky as she was known. Anyone remember her? While my memory is fading I remember Barbara Bryant, who had the best laugh and Carol Brown's beautiful handwriting.! And Miss Skeleton who loved Chaucer. ( She is probably haunting the classrooms of KHS today)
We really attended school in a better time, but today we are living in a crazy upside down world , So stay safe everyone! We didn't get this far for some horrible virus to get us!
A former classmate
Helen (Bosak) Anderson
PS. Did you know KHS is now co-ed?
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