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05/05/22 06:29 PM #40    

Terrance LaVar (Terry) Simmons

Bill;

Congratulations on your acheivement, it is something to be very proud of and enjoy.

 

Terry

 


06/25/23 09:01 PM #41    

Cynthia Allen (Ellis)

Hello to everyone! 

It is my ongoing quest to try to recall some of my elementary school teachers from the past! I have contacted the individual schools and even school boards, but have had no luck. Records have not been kept, and many others have been destroyed.  Hopefully many of you will have attended some of the same elementary schools listed, but have a better memory than I have!

1-Does anyone remember the names of any of the Kindergarten teachers at Uintah Elementary back in 1955?

2-Does anyone know the names of our fourth grade teachers from Emerson Elementary?  (I had Mrs. Bowers and Miss or Mrs. Gerard, but am missing the third woman!  It may have begun with the letter H).

Also, the name of the teacher (female) who taught us the Russian language after school.______

3-Does anyone recall the names of our fifth and sixth grade teachers at Wasatch Elementary? (I recall only Mrs. Goodman, Mrs. Yotz, Miss or Mrs. Baker, and Mr. Johnson, but am missing two other women!)

Thank-you so very much for responding!

--Cynthia


06/26/23 10:18 AM #42    

David A. Teutsch

Mrs. Fairbanks was my Kindergarten teached at Uintah in 1955-6, and then she moved to Lafayette, where I was for first to sixth grade.  David Teutsch


06/26/23 01:52 PM #43    

Stephen Warner (Warner)

Mrs. Fairbanks was my kindergarden teacher at Unitah as well. She was great. I don't recall the other kindergarden teacher's name.


06/26/23 02:48 PM #44    

James Nicholls Nelson

Mrs. Faribanks was the kindergarten teacher at Uintah. As I remember the class was huge so they gave her an assistant, Mrs. Hunt, who was really cool.


06/27/23 09:27 AM #45    

Cynthia Allen (Ellis)

David, Steve, and Jim, thank-you so much for the information about Kindergarten!  It is wonderful to fill in some of the missing gaps! 


06/27/23 09:31 PM #46    

Douglas G. Mortensen

The other 4th grade teacher at Emerson was Mrs. Hammond. Bruce Ashton says she was also the Russian teacher, or at least the "on site" teacher. She was learning along side the rest of you, according to Bruce. 


06/27/23 11:29 PM #47    

Kathy McDonald (Sheen)

I was in Mrs. Fairbanks class, at Uintah in 1955, too.  I remember Steve Warner, Ron Larkin, Tad Bullen, Bill Hansen and Janice Preece.  I knew 3 of the 5 before kindergarten.  I remember laying on our mats (towels?) hoping she would touch my head with the magic wand so I could tap the rest of the class.  I also remember reading Dick and Jane to the class because I had learned to read (or memorized) the year before.  One thing I don't remember is Tad Bullen sleeping behind the piano during nap time because apparently he wasn't a good and quiet napper.  I'm amazed how many of us were in her class!  I remember that there were about 40 kids in the class.  As an elementary school teacher, I'd have lasted less than a year with that many young students in a classroom. Also, congratulations Bill!


06/28/23 01:34 AM #48    

Cynthia Allen (Ellis)

Doug, thank-you so much for your response!  The name Hammond sounds right--plus her name begins with "H". It is true that our Russian language class was held in her classroom.  They had installed a television monitor in her room just for this class!  It was nice to be asked to be part of this experimental class.  That being said, the Cyrillic alphabet, though beautiful to look at, thoroughly threw me off base!

For the last few years I have been teaching English to a woman who actually lives in Russia.  When we were first introduced, she told me she knew a man who took a Russian language class when he was in fourth grade!  (He wasn't from Utah either).  Apparently, these classes were put into place across the nation due to the times. She was surprised when I knew exactly what she was talking about!

A few of the words that were still recalled from the Russian class, were thrown out to my friend.  (Just a few words that were rock-solid-right in my mind).  She laughed and laughed and told me they were incorrect.  Not only were the pronunciations all wrong, but also their definitions.  Sometimes, we have the need to unlearn what we know!

 


06/28/23 02:58 AM #49    

Cynthia Allen (Ellis)

Hi Kathy!  Thank-you so much for your response!

Am I to understand that there was only one Kindergarten teacher in the school that year?  If so, then I was definitely in your class!  It's so fun to hear the names of the people who were in the class!  Was there a class photo taken that year? 

There is absolutely no physical evidence of the existence of my Kindergarten days.  No photos, no artwork, etc.  Sadly, the memory of any classmates from this year is also non-existent, likely due to the fact that I was ill and therefore absent, well over half of the school year.  We also moved each year and so the faces in the class never became cemented in my mind by seeing them again in the next grades up.

Ah, the mats!  Mine was a gorgeous light blue one.  They were stowed in the cubbies on the wall beneath a bank of windows.  I don't recall her magic wand at all.  That seems like something I would remember. . .

One time we were all resting on our mats and the teacher had to leave the room.  She stood in the doorway and told us to stay on the mats until she returned.  She promised she would only be a short while.  The second she left the room, everyone in the room stood up and ran around.  Not used to disobeying an adult, let alone a teacher, I may have been the only one still down when she returned.  She reprimanded the entire class except for me.  It was a horrible thing being singled out and I'm sure everyone was upset with me! 

Our small tables were grouped together for art projects.  Loved the globs of glue being distributed from an enormous jar onto small pieces of paper with a large tongue depressor!  My father was a commericial artist and made screen printed Easter Eggs for us to decorate our milk cartons.  He probably did this for the other holidays too.

Our teacher was so talented!  She could sing and play the piano!  I loved when we would all sit on the floor together to learn new songs and to listen to her read to us.  She made sure to pan the book carefully, so we could all see the beautiful illustrations in the books.  This made me want to become a teacher!

I'm so sorry I do not remember you reading Dick and Jane to us!  I was probably absent, or I would have been most impressed and made you my best friend.

Kindergarten had its unpleasant moments.  On the very first day of school, my mother instructed me to stand out on the southwest corner of the block after school let out.  There she would pick me up.  She didn't come right away and everyone had been long gone.  I figured I'd have to find my own way home, even though I didn't really know where it was!  Totally ill prepared to be outside in the world, I mustered up my courage and headed out.  It was obviously a shorter route to the opposite corner, to walk diagonally across the busy street, than it was to cross two separate adjacent streets.  (No one had taught me the rules).  As I ventured forward, the crossing guard (who must have stayed well beyond his appointed time), picked me up by grabbing me quickly from behind and yanked me back to safety!  All this while yelling loudly at me!  He saved my life that day.  He then taught me how to cross the streets properly.  Mother finally found me a very long time afterwards!My experience is just like Harry Potters!  He went diagonally too!

Thanks again Kathy--your words have helped me add some of the missing fragments to my story!

 

 

 

 


06/28/23 05:07 AM #50    

William B. Hansen

I remember that Steve Rich and Rick Evans were in the kindergarten class as well. I recall that when someone got new shoes, the teacher would have the student skip around the class and we would chant something (but what exactly leaves me).. I was too shy so when I got new shoes, I didn't let anyone know. 


06/28/23 11:23 AM #51    

Mary Lou Lentz (Cates)

Hi Bill,

The song went as this:

Bill has new shoes, shiney brown new shoes, Bill has new shoes on today. See them walk, hear them talk, Bill can run along and play.

Also there was the “Three Billy Goats” song where we could walk on a table. Let me know if you want the lyrics on that one.

 


06/28/23 01:06 PM #52    

Cynthia Allen (Ellis)

Thank you for your grand story Bill! It is real and it is choice! We must have done the shoe chant often, since everyone was growing so fast!

AND . . . what a fabulous group of future Eastsiders Mrs. Fairbanks had in her rollbook! That is probably why she was able to survive the large quantity of students given her.

By the way, you weren’t alone in your shyness. It is likely one of the primary reasons we all attended K and were given these exercises to get used to being around others!

And Mary Lou, thank-you! You have added the meat to the bone with the added lyrics! Now that you have mentioned it, I can now vaguely recall the acting out of the story of The Three Bill Goats Gruff. I’d love to have the lyrics to it!  How do you do this? How is it you are blessed with such a good memory?

These stories are enriching my world! I’m now conceptualizing much of what was missing at the time, or later forgotten, by visualizing faces and activities in my mind!  Thanks to all for painting a lovely picture!


06/28/23 05:45 PM #53    

Mary Lou Lentz (Cates)

Hi Cindy,

Here are the lyrics: (Three children were picked to be the goats)

On a bluff, on a bluff there lived Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Great Big Billy Goat, Middle Sized Billy Goat, Little Billy Goat Gruff.

Everyday, everyday, they’d run and jump and play.

Great Big Billy Goat, Middle Size Billy Goat, Little Billy Goat Gruff.

(One other child was the Troll) His song was:

I’m a Troll, trolly role

I’m a Troll, trolly role

I’m a Troll, trolly role

And I’ll eat you for supper!


06/28/23 06:50 PM #54    

Cynthia Allen (Ellis)

Hi Mary Lou! 

Thanks for the words!  We must have had a great deal of fun in that classroom!

It reminds me of the adage by Albert Einstein-  “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.   If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”

Please feel free to add any more memories anytime!

 


07/03/23 09:24 PM #55    

Shauna L. Neves (Storrs)

I remember Miss/Mrs Rose for first grade or kindergarted at Uiniah.

 


07/04/23 02:28 PM #56    

Cynthia Allen (Ellis)

Hey Shauna!

Thanks for your response!  So, it is quite possible that Mrs. Fairbanks and a Miss or Mrs. Rose both taught Kindergarten at Uintah. Do you per chance have any old class photos?  (Perhaps none were taken though)

Does anyone else remember what grade Miss/Mrs. Rose taught?


07/05/23 12:38 PM #57    

 

Rebecca Sue Rowland (Hines)

Shauna Neves Storrs, Our kindergarten teacher's name, at Wasatch,  was Miss Grosbeck. I learned that a few years after our kindergarten class. I thought her name was Miss Rosebeck. And I do remember many of the kids called her Miss Rose, which she probably tolerated as a shortened name for her little kindergarten students.


07/06/23 09:54 AM #58    

 

Linda Fay Breckenridge (Blackwell)

Gerhard Koenig passed away unexpectedly this past Sunday, July 2.  Service details will be announced when the plans are finalized. 

Gerhard and I were in a long distance relationship (SLC -San Diego) for 15 years since reconnecting at our 40th reunion.  I will miss him so much.

Linda Blackwell (Breckenridge)                                          


09/17/23 11:56 AM #59    

Nancy Spencer (Woodbury)

Thanks to everyone who put together our 55th reunion picnic! And especially everyone who came! Those who were not there were missed! It was wonderful to see you all, to strengthen those old connections, to feel the hugs, the spirit of belonging and friendship that we all need. There were so many I didn't get to talk to, but to all, THANK YOU for being there, for the support, making all feel welcome and loved. There was such a feeling of happiness in the smiles, hugs, conversations and reconnecting. We had a class full of wonderful, good people who have blessed our lives and helped make us who we are. I'm so glad we keep in touch! God bless you all. And we'll see you in 5 years!

Nancy Spencer Woodbury


09/17/23 08:47 PM #60    

Cynthia Allen (Ellis)

Well said!!!


09/18/23 10:39 AM #61    

Maggie Strasser

I ditto Nancy's beautiful thank you message to everyone !!

Looking forward to our 60th   :)   Maggie 


09/18/23 09:56 PM #62    

Douglas G. Mortensen

1. LOST AND FOUND DEPT.: I have 2 items that were left at the Park: a Travis Matthews dark gray, lightly-line long sleeve pullover, size large; and a lighter gray Vuori hooded windbreaker. Whoever owns these two nice articles of clothing can call me at 801 349-8597. I will deliver them to you or you may come to my house to pick them up.

2. Thank you, Nancy, for expressing so perfectly the way I felt after our get together on Friday night. What a nice evening together. It seems to me that the bonds of our friendship are getting stronger as we age.

Doug

 


09/19/23 03:01 PM #63    

 

Michael Pratt (Pratt)

Thank you, Nancy. That was perfect! I second the motion! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!


09/20/23 10:34 AM #64    

 

Eric E. Johnson

I have attached a my Hightail Secure Server account link to download the Bryant Jr, High School 1965 Chrinicle.  Copy link below and paste into your preferred browser.  File can also bue downloaded.

https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/QWO7GBGmm7


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