Archived Topics
Teachers (Continued) (link to Part 1)
Re: TEACHERS
Posted By: rd <lancva@crosslink.net>
Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2002, at 9:07 a.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (maud)
Hey what about Mr. Herb Arico--also known as Mr.Peepers. He made me come back during graduation week (1957) to make up typing because he said I missed some due to arriving late from phys ed. I had to type for one hour or so. Mr.Johnson come into the class and asked what I was doing there. I told him and that Mr Arico would only find mistakes and make me do it again. Mr. Johnson sat down and did my lesson before Arico came back. When Arico arrived I gave him the typed assignment. Mr Johnson who was standing off to the side was astonished when Arico started verbally pointing out mistakes (in the paper Johnson had typed).
Posted By: a
Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2002, at 9:58 a.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (rd)
WOW! WHAT DOES COME TO MIND! JUST RECENTLY HEARD ABOUT SOMEBODY HAVING MET ARICO! HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHO/WHAT/WHEN/WHY/WHERE/HOW! WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THOSE WOODEN FLOORS AT WINDHAM! HEY! TIM QUINN! NEVER WENT TO A REUNION; WONDER IF FACULTY DOES STILL GET THERE?
Posted By: Ada Kerachsky Albright
Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2002, at 2:51 p.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (rd)
Mr. Johnson! I had him for typing 4th period (never short because of lunch) the first year he taught at WHS. He had been a drill sergeant and ran the class accordingly. Posture had to be perfect, etc. and at the beginning he would call out, "J M J space" to a drill sergeant's cadence. One day I could not control the smile that I was trying to suppress as I was thinking, Left, right, left, right," and was kicked out of class for smiling--the only time at WHS. He really picked on Bob Coutu in my class (because his father was on the school board?), but did have his favorite...
Posted By: j
Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2002, at 9:19 p.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (Ada Kerachsky Albright)
Imagine trying to kick someone out of class today for that!
Posted By: Ada Kerachsky Albright
Date: Thursday, 1 August 2002, at 10:18 a.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (Ada Kerachsky Albright)
I may have gotten that backwards--it might have been that Mrs. King was Mr. Nelson's sister.
Posted By: ROBERT THOMPSON <THOMPSON.ROBERT@TUCSON.VA.GOV>
Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2002, at 11:10 a.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (j)
Ms. Thompson taught Civics in my freshman yr. at Windham. How about Mrs. Mahoney, Mr. Foster(swim coach) Andy Paulos(?) football coach along with Mr. Callahan. Ms. Kind, Ms. Pollard,Ms. Moore
Posted By: a
Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2002, at 1:50 p.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (ROBERT THOMPSON)
Richard Foster and Andrew Paulu - how did Palau Paulo get spelled! Did he live in Dr. Maurer's house on Prospect Street, what is now the Congregational Church parsonage? Richard Foster lived on High Street near the Nasin property! Andy Paulu - had to be 40's or 50's!
Posted By: maud
Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2002, at 1:54 p.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (ROBERT THOMPSON)
Celia Mahoney! there was a lady to look at! think everybody loved that teacher! beautiful hair! oh, everything was beautiful about her!
Posted By: Ada Kerachsky Albright
Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2002, at 3:13 p.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (maud)
Celia Mahoney was a beautiful woman. I was disappointed that I had her for at the most a couple of months my senior year. She retired and remarried. I have a book of two of hers. She had put out some books for the taking just before she retired. She was succeeded by Shirley Baldwin who provided us with a rigorous year of senior English. Those critiques were a challenge!
Posted By: rd <lancva@crosslink.net>
Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2002, at 4:01 p.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (Ada Kerachsky Albright)
Shirley Baldwin theres a name from the past! I remember once when the class was reading poetry and she would ask for interpretations and I gave her mine and she immediately chatised me for being incorrect. I remember another time when a guy in the back of the class ask her--with a serious voice--where the bathrooms were in the old castles. She said something like thats why they had moats.
Posted By: j
Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2002, at 9:16 p.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (rd)
Shirley Baldwin!!! Windham High's very own Bette Davis...even looked a bit like Bette! Certainly copied that distinctive, clipped way of talking; I remember her scolding a guy in class, " Petah! You CAHN'T possibly be SERIOUS with that AHNSWER!"
Posted By: M <mtnsylva@msn.com>
Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2002, at 12:29 a.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (j)
I like the Baldwin/Davis analogy. There were persistent rumors about her inviting male students to her home, for remedial work ;-). I also recall Mrs. Kind, who had that tight hairbun and those tight lips, but drove a very cool MGTC. And I remember Miss Pollard who would come into class weeping, then take a minute or two to regain her composure, gazing above the class and dabbing her eyes with a hanky. The story was that she had a long unfulfilled relationship with J. Zalmon Hunt -? Do you I have that right? Anyhow, they were all good teachers (except for Hunt), I developed a lifelong appreciation for literature from my high school English classes. Oh, and Miss Weathern, to round out the discussion. Quite a character, right out some old 30s movie about irrepressible kids and kindhearted curmudgeonly spinster teachers.
Thanks for the memories.
Posted By: rd <lancva@crosslink.net>
Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2002, at 10:01 a.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (j)
Hey J--love your impression of Shirley--right on target! Your reference to Peter--that was also the name of the guy in my English class who asked Shirley about the bathrooms in castles (tongue in cheek)This was WHS graduating class of 57--were you in that group??
Posted By: j
Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2002, at 11:50 a.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (rd)
Sorry, but no. In '57 I was still romping my way through grammar school at St. Joe's. And no, I have no terrible nun stories. The whole experience was very "Bells of St. Mary's"....disciplined, yes, but all my peers, public or parochial,were. Those were the times.
Posted By: rd <lancva@crosslink.net>
Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2002, at 12:30 p.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (j)
Thanks for the response. Many of my friends went to either St Jos or St Marys. I remember the fire at St Marys and the pictures of the firemen covered in ice.
Posted By: William Brainard <wbrainard@juno.com>
Date: Tuesday, 30 July 2002, at 10:12 p.m.
In Response To: TEACHERS (a)
Does anyone remember Mrs. Ruth Welles who taught music in the Windham school system back in the late 1920s and '30s? She was also organist and choir director at the Congregational Church. I believe she also had a music studio on Church Street for a time where she taught piano and voice.
Posted By: maud
Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2002, at 7:18 a.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (William Brainard)
NO! NOT QUITE! BUT I AM INTERESTED IN RECALLING WILLIMANTIC PIANO TEACHERS FROM THE PAST! WHAT IS THE MUSIC "SCENE" THERE NOW? TIMOTHY QUINN WAS HEAD OF WHS MUSIC DEPARTMENT! DOES WINDHAM HAVE GOOD MUSIC PROGRAM NOW?
Posted By: ROBERT THOMPSON <THOMPSON.ROBERT@TUCSON.VA.GOV>
Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2002, at 11:05 a.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (maud)
Good old Corky Weathern as she was know by us kids who had her in the lae 40's. I think Ms. Baldwin came to WHS when I was either a sophomore.corrrfection I know it was in my soophomore year because she junior class adviser. That was intereting about Ms. Pollard, never heard anything about her crush on Mr. Hunt. Do know that when I was at WHS Mrs. Mahoney and Mr. Case,who was the principal at the time was suppose to have something going.
Posted By: j
Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2002, at 11:45 a.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (ROBERT THOMPSON)
The thing we must keep in mind here is that when we are students....no matter what year!.....we ALWAYS think we know the secrets of our teachers!! 99% of the time we're wrong; but, oh that 1%!
Posted By: Ernie <egesner@aol.com>
Date: Wednesday, 31 July 2002, at 5:45 p.m.
In Response To: Re: TEACHERS (j)
As a freshman in 51 skipped school and went to a Hartford HS with a senior to check out the gals. Got caught as their principal had transferred from Windham High the prior year. Got a few hours for that trick.