Bonnie Koziol:  

Childhood memories.... yes, I have a lot of them, many of them are tied to school, of course. I attended several grade schools in Akron, Ohio: Schumacher Elementary (kindergarten through 2nd grade), Lincoln Elementary (3rd and 4th grades) and then St. Mary's Grade School where I attended 5th through 8th grades. I then attended St. Mary High School, beginning in 1969. St. Mary High School underwent a merger with St. Vincent High School in the fall of 1972, and I was a member of the first graduating class of St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in 1973. Due to this merger, many of my junior year classmates did not return, instead attending one of Akron's public high schools for their senior year only. There were 95 students in St. Mary High School's junior class; only 25 or so returned to complete their senior year at the rearranged school. I'd love to catch up with some of those classmates who went to other area high schools. Three weeks after my high school graduation, I married a man from Hibbing, Minnesota who was in Akron completing his engineering degree at the University of Akron. His first engineering job was with General Tire. He lost that job during the recession of 1975 but luckily was rehired at their plant in Marion, Indiana. We pulled up stakes in Akron and spent a boring year in Indiana that seems about 5 years long. You can take a man out of Minnesota but you can't take Minnesota out of the man. These Minnesotans alw...Expand for more