Beaubien Class of '65

Wow, what a night!

2006-09-16T09:38:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone - - Thank you to all of you who came to the big party last night. I know, you wished there were more of your class . . but use this as a stepping stone to contact more of your "people" . . . it was so much fun reconnecting again, and if you need to "borrow" my Sherlock Holmes hat, just let me know. . . I'll help in anyway I can. The website helped everyone see who was coming, but also probably caused some of your classmates to think - well I'm not going to come, because so and so isn't going. . . even at 50 we're still thinking like 13 year olds going to the party on the block. . Who's going to be there? What will I wear?

Okay Hope Garcia Dobbs, I'm thinking about this today, and since I re "met" you, I talk like I did when I was 13 on the phone , get my nails done, took make up lessons with you and learned how to use a slot machine. Here's to many more "laugh til I cry" moments. . . I can't stop smiling when I write this - - you are a good friend! AND wow what a memory of the neighborhood - - you could write a book!

So, thanks to everyone - hope you all enjoyed yourself as much as I did last night. . . Keep in touch with each other and with me

Josie

Jane Byrne

2006-08-24T12:53:00.000-05:00

Does ANYBODY remember that the former Chicago mayor Jane Byrne was a substitute teacher at Beaubien for awhile during Class of 1965 5th grade? I remember her talking about half-truths and Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine; talking about her daughter Kathy (probably 3 years old at that time) meeting JFK. This was probably around 1961-1962. Oh, yes, I remember her...she left quite an impression.

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Memories from Hope Garcia

2006-07-20T13:13:00.000-05:00

Do you remember these things??

Kindergarten - getting to take a nap and playing with a wooden sink, stove and frig and going from the little kindergarten to the big kindergarten to watch cartoons
Bill Forkell’s parents candy store across the street from the school - serving hotdogs and kayo for Lunch
Josie’ dad coming to school on party days with ice cream - - party on!
Hitting your crazy bone on the metal part of your desk and thinking your arm was going to fall off
Wasps in the room caused mass panics - no screens on windows - no air conditioning - from May on we all were screaming - - drove the teachers crazy
Long pole for pulling open and close the top windows
Janitor’s closet where you emptied your paint water and stalled in the hallway so you didn’t have to go right back to class
Boys got to clean erasers on Fridays (lucky them - filling their lungs with chalk dust)
Some poor kid sitting on the heat register at the top of the stairs in the hallway to dry his pants (why???)
Rocco or someone cleaning up throw up with sawdust
Being a Hall monitor, messenger or door holder - got you out of at least a little class time. Being sent back down the stairs if you skipped a step.
Voting for Mayor and seeing all the campaign posters in the hallways.
Throwing toilet paper wads up on the ceiling in the bathrooms
Wood chips in the toilet paper (ouch!) art paper and writing paper - - how many forests were destroyed for that?
Carving in desks and then having to sand them down - - getting into trouble for it big time too - - hey my initials were everywhere thanks to my trusty compass.
Remember Mr. Homer??? Getting into trouble for calling him by a “different” name and cooling my heels at home for a while. .
Girls wearing blue shorts and white blouses on gym day - later years - wearing nylons under our shorts - -
Being separated from the boys in the playground from Kindergarten on - - what did they think we would do if they put us together??? Couldn’t cross over that imaginary line (probably would have gotten an electric shock or something)
Hey, come to think of it, girls got the nothing side of the school yard - boys got the screeching swings, bars, basketball court. . . not fair . . .
Sitting on the window seals on the side of the school in groups - especially by the Home Mech class outside of the girl’s side entrance.
Sitting in front of the school with Josie on the steps and eating candy - she had access to an unlimited supply.
Being on the third floor in eighth grade with the High School and having high school boys pass notes under the door to the girls
Greasers Dupers and Collegiate - which were you?
Girls wore tight black straight skirts, white blouses that were not tucked in and black flats - ratted hair a must. Remember, DON’T WEAR RED ON FRIDAYS
Boys wore Cuban heeled shoes with pointed toes, (or engineer boots) light colored shirts with the sleeves rolled up and Tight tight pants with slit pockets and stove pipe legs (did they call them continental??) let us girls use our imaginations!!
Day Dreaming and wishing you weren’t there!!!

Class of '65 Blogging

2006-06-30T17:07:00.000-05:00

How to Enter Comments: (You can't Post, and Josie WILL edit if need be)
1) Click on the word "comments" below. (It turns RED)
2) Then just write anything to your classmates in the box on the next window
3) Add your name in that box too, if you want
4) Click Anonymous - that radio button - if you don't have a blogger account
5) Click the BLUE button - don't let the the login part worry you - you are Anonymous!

That's it! It is really easy, and fun. And your classmates will REALLY enjoy hearing from you.

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Check out my "hobby"
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Thanks!

Class of '65 Blog

2006-06-22T07:30:00.000-05:00

Josie and Ken hope you all will share your ideas, plans and stories about the reunion Sept 15th (and other stuff). What better way than with this new "blog" technology! (Beats those Yahoo Groups, we think.)