Joele Connolly:  

CLASS OF 1958
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North hollywood, CA
Buckeye, AZ
San jose, CA
Pacoima, CA
Sun valley, CA

Joele's Story

Life I'm not dead yet. . . There may be snow on the rooftop, but there are still flames in the fireplace. So instead of filling those of you who might be a little interested in the details of my life, I will simply supply headlines and you can imagine the rest: * Four-year-old celebrates end of WWll on the fender of a 1933 Chevrolet coupe with parents and sister near Hollywood and Vine (1945) * Mother of four-year-old drags her screaming and kicking to enroll at Oxnard Elementary school(1945) *Sun Valley Junior High School officials find missing student hiding in her locker (1952) *SVJHS music teacher saves student from sliding into the sound-holes of her bass. (1952) * NHHS student becomes immobilized during audition for "Oklahoma," but suceeds in the role of the dead Judd backstage. (1957) * NHHS student finally graduates 675th in a class of 700 (not in alphabetical order) (1957) * Los Angeles branch librarian discovers young employee secretly reading Peyton Place in the dark bowels of the library basement. (1957) * Arizona State University competitive swimmer becomes first in ASU swim team history to lose her suit during 400-relay (1958) * US citizen enrolls in French classes at the University of Madrid (1959) But wait, there's more. . . * Nineteen year-old tourist sights Morocco from Gibraltar while fighting off wild Gibraltar Rock Apes eager to share her sangria (translated from headline appearing in Diario de Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain) (1959) * Passenger dirties her lips on ground of New York's La Guardia Airport after a whirlwind trip to Europe. (1959) * ASU graduate finds work as teacher of Spanish and English with the Los Angles City Schools (1961) * LA City Schools teacher accepts contract at Overfelt High School in San Jose (1968) ...Expand for more
* Race riots break out at Overfelt High School as police respond to attack on campus. (1969) *Terrified teacher flees San Jose's Overfelt High School after explosion in transformer area of campus (1969) *Shell-shocked teacher seeks solitude in the humidity of the Amazon (1969) *Refreshed from a short teaching stint in the rain forest near the borders of Peru, Columbia and Brazil, teacher returns to the chaos of the high school classroom in the US. * Teacher spends the next 28 years occasionally removing darts in her Gucci flack jacket while mumbling hail Marys and Buddha bless me's into her generous bosom (1969 - 1997) * "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, I am free at last!," Chandler Arizona teacher exclaims at retirement party held in her honor (1997) But there are more recent headlines: *Oldest tart on Chandler Gilbert Community College campus auditions for part of Ruth in Pirates of Penzance and actually is actually cast (2002) *Retired Chandler teacher disturbs the peace and stillness while coursing through the Outback on a naughty quad (Alice Springs, NT, Australia) (2005) *Retired teacher swims undisturbed with the great whites (Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Aus., 2005) *"Whump, whump, whump," observes tourist upon being dethroned from her camel during a camel ramble near Kata- Tjuta National Park. "I can't quite decide which is the easier ride, a bush camel or a Budweiser Clydesdale." (Near Ayers Rock, NT, Australia, 2005) * Bound intimately close to her paraglider pilot, tourist leaps into the ether above Queenstown and floats to a delicate landing on an elementary school soccer field . . . no injuries to students or tourist reported (Queensland, New Zealand, 2005) * May, 2005: Medicare Debutante Party (How'd I get this far?)
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