Dan Goodenow

Mike,

Great to hear from you.  I would have been right there failing with you in the typing class.

Peggy,

I always thought the cheering was great.  My only complaint was when I hear that one that went, "Dan, Dan, He's our man, If ...".  It sort of distracted and embarrassed me when I was on the field and it came up.

On the other hand, maybe it helped me overcome that type of thing and helped make me more comfortable with taking a challenge or putting myself out there.  (Like writing this stuff...)

More to the point, maybe the cheer was for Danny Kropp and not even for me!  :)

Do you remember that purple dinosaur that the cheerlearders had?  What was the story behind it?

I also loved the pep band and so on...

Dan

Peggy Hughes (St. James)

Dan, That was Peppy. I think it may have been pronounced Pepe (Don't know how to do the accent mark). I have no idea where he came from. I think we did the name cheer for EVERY player.  As for cheering, both my sister Barb (cheerleader) and I ended up with lumbar laminectomies (L4L5) so thinking all that back bending jump stuff caught up with us later in life!

Doug P. Allen

BTW, I thought that the cheerleaders were great!  

Weird....my wife pulled out a file that my had some from my mom to my ex and then to us.... Lots of old Progress Reports from Allen Creek School (I really don't remember any of the teachers beyond Mrs. Garvey in 5th grade)....and from Mendon Junior High....and from Pittsford Sutherland.... a "Meritorious Award" for Varsity Baseball (1968 season).... I was manager, didn't play.... and my Star Scount Award from Troop 19 (Tay House) from 1965.... and some college "stuff" as well....  

I cannot take credit for preserving it.... My mom, my ex and Joan have done that!

Lanny Traber (Traber)

I think this was one of the apple machines.  I loved it.  I can't remember how much the apples cost.  I was always trying to scrounge up money to buy one.  

Lanny Traber (Traber)

Peppy the dinosaur.

Thomas A. Roach

Mike, how could you possibly leave out the numerous 3rd periods spent at Uncle John's Pancake House with Jay, Bob Quinlan, you and me. Those were some good times. 

I think Beth said it best, Jay was a true gentleman.

Lanny Traber (Traber)

I have great memories from high school. My favorite teachers were Mr. Lenio, Mrs. Hamm and Mrs. Spicer.  I feel all three of them had a passion for teaching and truly cared about their students.  I always enjoyed Mrs. Hamm's gem of wisdom of the day.  Senior year I had a lot of fun playing blackjack and euchre in the Senior lounge.  I have to admit that I skipped way too many of Mrs. Gratian's math classes to go to the lounge.  I'm not sure how I was able to pass her class.  

Paul North (North)

Apples:  10 cents

The memories of our teachers are great...but what happened to them?  Any suggestions on how to find out about when they retired or where they are now?  Where did they go?  They must be in their 80's, 90's, or have passed on to their eternal rewards.  To paraphrase what Macarthur famously said, "Old teachers never die, they just fade away."

Who taught driver's ed? (Remember the big 8 cyl, six passenger, blue Chevy we drove?) Who was the Indian woman who taught us 9th grade history?  Frau Bach making us German students all throw away our gum one day when we all went in chewing gum on purpose.   Who was the math (or English?) teacher in 8th grade who threw dinner plates during class when she was frustrated with us?  What happened to Mr. Snyder who taught science in Junior High?  (I seem to remember he was missing a finger or two due to an encounter with a snapping turtle.)  Did anyone have Mrs. Drake in 6th grade?

Fun to hear the memories.  Thanks for sharing.

Norine Stagnitto (Rausch)

Hi All:

The Driver's Ed teachers were Mr. Murphy and Mr. Rollins.  What I heard from my brother, who's friend knew Mr Snyder, was that he lost his finger in a power saw accident.

David 0. Hughes

I have had to dig deep for remembrances.  Before high school, Miss Davis in 4th grade and Mr. Sarbo in 5th.  He taught me a life lesson that I recall to this day. Brian Bell in history had an impact.  I reconnected later as a sub teacher at Sutherland...interesting experience in a new context. I would love to apologize to Miss Lauffer.  We gave her hell in German class. I did not take Art Class, but I think that Mr. O'Brien had a huge impact.  There were some talented people in school, and he brought that out.  Howard Tappen was spectacular with music and choir.  He figured out (I think) that getting some jocks to join choir would make it "ok". They did, and the choir, Select Chorus, and Madriagal was pretty good.  I could sing then, and still can....and enjoy it.

Harold McAuliffe and John Dennison both had amazing voices.  I heard them a few years after school perform an opera at Highland.  Pretty impressive.

I look at Home economics and cannot help but wonder.  It was a puzzle then, but I have become a very good cook and enjoy the heck out of it.  I would not have been caught dead near that then.

Peggy, Pepe might not have an accent, but if it did it would be on the first e.

Paul, good question about former teachers.  They would all be quite old.  Several have made reunions, but I expect that is probably not going to happen any more.

That picture is THE apple machine.  There was only one. I loved the apples.  Imagine, eating good food. Thanks Lanny.  Actually, it was the future teachers picture in the yearbook.

Dan Goodenow

Just some quick comments before I start work:

Lanny,

Thanks for the pictures, I just went on-line and did a quick search on "Fruit-O-Matic" vending machines and  a company in Glendale, CA came up showing an advertizing poster that was an exact match.  I definately had the color wrong.  The caption said it was from the 50's.  Judging by the two kids in the photo, I would have to agree with that.  I love their outfits!  Pretty funny.  Do I have it correct in that we were only allowed to wear blue jeans on Fridays?  I used to tell that to my boys and they'd get a hoot out of that too.

Doug,

Troop 19?  Was that the same one that Bob, Jim and Greg were in?  Kropp and I were in the Bushnell Basin troop in 8th grade.  I also reached Star.  Kropp beat me out and reached Life...

Peggy,

Yea, that was it, Pepe!  About your back, My one son Paul has had a bad back in the same place, for about a year now and it is really a handicap.  I can imagine how that cheering bending and so on could be bad.  In college, I took one gymnastics class and after learning just a basic hand spring as a part of the required moves, I said to myself, "Okay Dan, that's enough of this".  The instructor was Gene Wettstone, a former olympic coach and after giving me a 9.0 on my final hand spring test, he turned to me and said, "Dan, I appreciacte your effort in class, but you really won't go far with this." I asked why and he said, Because you don't have any kinesthetic sense."  I asked, what's that? and he said, "It's when your brain knows what your body parts are doing as they are moving!"  All I can say is that he got that one correect!  Maybe he saved my back.  To this day I enjoy watching sports like gymastics, figure skating and so on...  The operative word is "watching".

Tom,

I didn't know Jay well, but I agree, he did seem like a gentle soul back then.

Paul,

Did get to chat with coach Borrosh at the last reunion.  Don't know if you remember that our track was built around the baseball field instead of the typical football field.  In all my years, I've never seen another one that shape.

Norine,

I had Coach Ordiway as my driver ed instructor.  Had Wendy Dischinger and Jeff Lewis in the car.  I still remember Jeff's first drive on I think it was called the expressway.  Great fun...

Dave,

How cool that you still like to sing.  I was in a school chorus in 7th grade in a diiferent town and got pushed off the risers during a school concert. That was the end of that type of singing.  I still like to sing and do some open-mike, singer-songwriter singing and guitar stuff around MA.  Bob Legge had and still has a great voice.  He did most of the singing in our old HS band.

It amazes me how many students of our class ended up teaching.  Dan Kropp not only was a teacher, but became a Principal!  I'd love to have been sent down to his office for dicipline!  "But Mr Kropp, I was told that back in your day, you....  :)  He retired and works in the energy conservation field now.  Soon to retire from that.  Bob Legge, Dan and Jim Womeldorf and I still email frequently.  All are doing well...

The other thing that amazes me is how many clubs, sports and activities we had available to us.  Our local high school of about the same size has about half of those offered back in our PCS days.  Is it just my local school?

Dan

Wendy Dischinger (VanVoorhis)

I've been reading along and enjoying my memories!!! I do remember our driver ed class with Mr. Ordiway!  I was picking my daughter up from school in Victor, probably 1991 and I saw Mr. Ordiway, which I knew couldn't be!! When she got in the car I pointed him out and said he looked exactly like my driver ed teacher! She said it's  " Mr. Ordiway, football coach and driver ed teacher." It was his son! Blew me away!  Select chorus and Harold McCulliffe is my fondest memory! He really was there for me. Mrs. Spicer was my first teacher to greet me when I joined the freshman class in October from Henrietta. Didn't retain a lot of Latin but loved her. Continued visiting her after she retired. Never had Sally Covington but spent time with her (long story) listening to her journey and the prejudices she endured with grace and tenacity!!!  

REMINDER: 1969 class does a dinner around Xmas that I look forward to every year!!!  Hope more will join in!!  We were a very special class!! 

Gary W. Brown

Great to read all this from '68-'69 PCS classmates, I remember Mr. Ordiway as he was my homeroom teacher. I was not a 'jock' but her was always very nice to me. Gerry Sheppard was my Driver Ed teacher also a great guy and as was Doug Sheppard for mechanical drawing, I have great memories of a few; Mr. Nicely, Mr. Gumina, Mr. Bell, Mrs. Terho, Mr. Nipher and got on very well with Mr. Holsworth even though I was summoned to "room 103" for some horrible indiscretions I had committed. Mr. Shelly thought I needed a couple of years at a reform school (like Manlius) as I was such a hell raiser. I graduated and went on to get a college degree.In early years and spent 40+ years in the hospitality industry all over the USA, Canada and Mexico. I had a 86 homes on a  paper route delivering the Rochester Times Union much of it in "Sunset Meadows" a developement accross Jefferson Road from PCS. The paper was $.40 a week and when 'collecting' if folks gave you $45. you had just hung the moon! Many of the Wilmot family lived in Sunset Meadows and every one of them gave me $.50 (bucks deluxe!). The paper route took me from after school until darkness. I later went on to work at The Arrows Restaurant in Henrietta (and dated a Henrietta girl) and later The Depot as a bus boy and car parker. These were great years! I stay up with about 10 classmates from '67-'69 and consider Pittsford my home town. I am semi retired but do marketing consulting work for resorts and hotels in the US and Mexico. I am coming off an assignment this week in Boston and will return to my home in Williamsburg and my wife of 31 years. We will put 'a beast' on the barbie and maybe open a bold, sturdy Stag's Leap.

Love All Around! Gary W. Brown, PCS '68.

David 0. Hughes

Hey Dan;

I am guessing that Pittsford may not have as many clubs any more.  I don't have kids, but I think now you pretty much pay for extra curricular things like sports, clubs, etc.  We were lucky.  Of course now it seems that just a 4.0 average and great test scores won't get you into anywhere, so doing other things is mandatory.   I am happy not to be applying to colleges today.

David 0. Hughes

By the way, can someone tell me how to get a picture in the little box.  There is an admission of IT ignorance!

Robert E. (Bob) Koster

Mrs McClure threw the dinner plates.  Dave Snyder lost his pinky finger in a joiner accident.  I know that from my oldest brother who had his fingers partly chewed up the same way, but didn't lose any.  I call many of these teachers by their first names because I taught at Sutherland for 6 years.  Before I had Ann Gratian's class, she scared the hell out of me.  Once in her class, I thought of her as one of the best I had, and I had many of the same ones all of you thought were great.  Not much disagreement there.  I think it's pretty cool that we all appreciated them, and even more it seems as the years go on.

Lanny Traber (Traber)

Hi Dave, the way I uploaded a picture was to click on the "image" icon button next to the "Source" button on the top tool bar above.  You will then see a "Choose File" button.  If you click that it will give you a menu to choose where the picture is located.  Click the one where the picture can be found and then select the picture you want to upload. Once you select the picture then click on the "Upload" button.  Another way to upload a picture is to select a picture from your photo library or website and copy it.  Then in this Message Forum box paste the picture.  Let me know if you have any questions. 

Peggy Hughes (St. James)

Mr Rollins!  All the girls thought he was so handsome.   And he must have been all of 23?  Not much older than us now!

Lanny Traber (Traber)

Bob - Mrs. McClure was hilarious.  I couldn't believe it the first time she threw a plate.  I remember going to her house for dinner one night.  She invited the class I was in over for dinner.  I think she threw a plate that night too.

Dan - do you remember the night that your band The Lastraw and Bob Chamberlain's band The Warmen got together at Bob Legge's house to have a mini battle of the bands?  I was texting with Bob Chamberlain today and he told me that he still has a tape recording of both of your bands from that night.  I was kind of a roadie that night for Bob's band.

Wendy Dischinger (VanVoorhis)

Re: Florida Reunion- What a great idea!! I'm sort of snowbirding but home by March 1st so won't be able to attend this year. 

Brian Terho

I had Mr. Karr for Drivers Ed and Mr. Grammar for English. Whoever did the hiring over there had a good sense of humor.

Bradley K. Sherman

If I could do it all over again I would spend less time driving to and from basketball games, drunk, on bald tires, in the snow.

Dennis Jones

Dennis Jones

YOUR ASSISTANCE IS REQUESTED! My search is now done. Thank you Chairmarm, Nancy Ferris and Hotelier, Gary Brown for the support and encouragement. Scott Hill, I want to compare notes with you at the BIG event ... October 12-13! I used, Zaba, Findpeople and Peoplefinder to get addresses for missing Classmates with the same name and age (67-68). I then wrote, emailed or called them on the phone (some were found on Facebook). So ... if you can locate any of these people please do so. Some of of people got the letter or phone call and didn't sign up? If the letter or email didn't return to me I assumed they got the message but I don't know for sure. You may want to look at  the Classmates profile to the left and review for names of people that have not yet signed up. A green check or another mark indicates that they are signed up. If they don't sign up then we can't contact them. OK ... here is my list of "still missing/no clue." PS some are deceased and we will update that list at the reunion. Sorry, a bit out of order. PS CALL PITTSFORD SCHOOLS AND REQUEST A COPY OF THEIR RECORDS ...RE: OFFICIAL 1969 CLASS GRADUATES. I HAD TO FILE A FOIA BUT THEY DIDN'T CHARGE ME FOR A COPY. IT'S TOO CONFUSING HAVE THE TWO CLASSES ON ONE LIST. YOU'D BE SUPRISED HOW MANY KIDS YOU GREW UP WITH ENDED UP IN ANOTHER GRADUATING CLASS AND HOW MANY OLDER KIDS ENDED UP IN YOUR CLASS ... NOW GET TO WORK!

Barbara Ann Bennett                   Michael S. Bennett                        Lynne C. Bradley

Sue Clumm                                  Sue Colby                                      Kathleen Virginia Holtz

Nancy A. Johnson                        Patricia Sue Johnson                    Wendie Ellen Kehn

Cheryl G. Fahrenkrug                  Sharon M. Ferrin                            Barbara Griffin

Sally Mae Hansen                       Linda A. Healey (Bradeton, FL?)   Vincent Lawson

Robert A. Lewis                           Bill Miller                                        Alice R. Liebson

Jan C. Edwards                           Kathleen Jean McKenna               Christopher Mentch (sister Laura on FB)

John Robinson                            Patricia Lea Rooney                      David N. Mitchell

Michael Joseph Murphy              Ronald Bruce Nelson                    Gregory William Onash

Thomas J. Piechura                    Thomas J. Price                             John A. Records

Douglas Bradley Reed                James Gregory Young                   Mike Zent

Ronald Robert Gurenson             Tim G. Rothwell                             HAPPY HUNTING!                                                                        

Kathy Lockwood (Benson)

Dennis,

is this still your not found list?  I think we will put it on the home page to draw attention to it.  You have done an amazing job.  wanna do class of 69 too??????

Kathy