Miss Fisk for first grade, Mrs.. Olson for second, Miss Plumlee for third, Mrs. Burt for 4th AND 5th(What a blessing there) and Mrs. Hussong for 6th: so many of us shared that block of years and memories. We were really fortuneate

My wife and JIm's have been lifelong friends . I got to know him better because of that than we ever did in high school. Evey year Jim and I celebrated our birthdays together with our families at Castelli's Moonlight because his birthday was Jan 11 and mine was Jan 20. Ironically , the last time I saw him was when we did that very thing two days beore he passed,as we reached the 60 years of age  milestone together. His wife honored me by asking me to serve as one of his pallbearers, which I gladly did. A fine man; the world is diminished by his loss.

Your dad was the best Little League coach I ever had.

I'm glad to see you are still with us. Maybe we will cross paths at the reunion.Thanks for being such a sweetheart to me at McKinley and West.

My thoughts go back to McKinley-Delmar, Mrs. Burt and square dancing, and my dancing partner whom I never told I had a crush on.

Would you believe I spent 34 years teaching in Mt. Olive, IL and retired there? Small world.