Jerome Addison:  

Life i was originally from the fenkell/wyoming area. i lived at 8530 chalfonte between cherrylawn and ohio (the house i lived in and i are both long gone from there). cooley....that almost seems like a movie i saw once long long ago. i have managed to keep in touch with most of my best friends from those days and love running into people i kinda knew or just remember from walking up and down the hall. cooley was really some great times. i wrote for the school newspaper all 3 years i went to cooley, after leaving post junior high (and clinton elementary before that), and we had a lot of fun doing it - i will never forget miss linda rankin (english teacher and in charge of the school paper)because she was a great teacher who cared about all of us AND didnt put up with any of our crap. we had a whole pad of hall passes that my friend patrick (merrill) use to forge miss rankins signature so that we could wander the halls at will....but we never got into any real trouble though. speaking of patrick he and my other friend michael mckleevey and i drew some murals in dining room C (new building in the front, first floor) of the cartoon jackson 5, jimi hendrix, diana ross, an african warrior, don cornelious (soul train), freda payne, and a bunch of other entertainment stars. those pictures stayed on those walls for about 10 years but were painted over about 1990 - luckily i have some pictures of them. because i got into photography in junior high school i use to casually take pictures all the time and have TONS of pictures of friends and people i didnt really even know that well from those days....those are some of my greatest prized possesions. although i always seem to run into people i knew from those days it seems that most other people i know rarely seem to run into old schoolmates. i find that most people look...Expand for more