Richard Hawkins:  

Life I940: I was at Horace Mann school beginning with afternoon kindergarten, to morning Kindergarten and to the 6th grade. At first we lived right across the street at 4048, and a year later moved to the next block at 3939. I recall the little old man who sold pretzels for a penny outside the gate. Pettit's drug store up on the corner. Cozy's delicatessen (?) on the other corner across from Kolb's grocery. Recesses were segregated: boys on the east side and girls on the west. Iron fence separating. S'ok. We liked it that way. Teachers were all older Victorian spinsters: Miss Siedler, Miss Feldner (going deaf) , Miss Westfelinger, Miss Raven (She looked like one?), Miss Gilbert (she wore a wig) , Miss Woodson (very nice and patient), Miss Keller (King Kong Keller) Miss Berkeley (did NOT want to cross her!), Miss Coolidge (8th grade, I never got to her). They were something! Remember the Browns and the Cardinals in the 1944 world series, and almost everybody rooting for the Browns. 5th grade: I was in Miss Ravens room on the 2nd floor. Mr Murray, Mr Lehman, Mr Wentz, and Mr VanVleet were the principals. Kindergarten teacher was a Miss Miller, a nice patient older lady. My classmates, playmates, and co-troublemakers included Walter Schmidt, Jim Chatham, Buddy Tannelund, Jack Ashby, Donald Weinerth, Bob Pierce, Gene Hoefle, Ed Dahm, Don Hector, Jim Lannen, Buddy (Charles) Froehle, Alvin Lohbeck, Wynn Church, Dave Wheeler, Harold Eddens, Louis "Bobo" Schaeffer (lived across the street and went to Holy Family), Gene Farmer, Boyd Blackwell, Jim Wallace. Kenny Ault. Girls? the only one I remember well.is JoAnn Brncic (pronounced burn-sic) First grade girl-firiend. Lived up on the other side of Morganford road. Was it on Alfred. And Shirley Frieze who was my 3rd grade girl-friend. Who did I forget? Rosemary Livesey, Gail Schmidt.. Ran into Jim Chatham years ...Expand for more