Sandra McGuire:  

We moved from Cahokia in the first quarter of my Southmore year, so I actually graduated from Pattonville High in Missouri instead of Cahokia. I've always been really shy, I was awkward at makings friends sometimes so it was hard for me to leave my long time friends from grade school, Wirth Junior High/Cahokia. I feel the friends any child made through the years of elementary school; attending year after year with the same students (good old Penniman) and on through Jr./ High School holds a special place in a person's heart. To this day, I still remember most of my grade school teacher's names........ One that stands out in my mind is Mr. Dunlap. He was one of the coolest teachers I ever had. He was a big baseball fan and if you had good grades and did well on a particular test, he would give those students extra recesses, (usually it was most of the class, and it seems like we were ALWAYS on the blacktop.) Mr. Dunlap would play baseball with some of the boys and those of us who did not partake in the baseball game, could do what they wanted. We would play tether ball or bett...Expand for more