Carol Hunt (Rodel) had two stand-out teachers in elementary school at Orchard Avenue School for, third and fourth grades, with Mrs. Apple and Mrs. Whittier. Both made learning fun. “Of course, the most memorable kid in there was Harry Brown. He wrote a book called ‘Sundays in August,’ I have a signed copy. That book […]
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An excerpt from “Sundays in August” by Harry Clifford Brown Harry’s first novel, “Sundays in August,” draws upon his growing-up experience in the early 1960’s living in the neighborhood near Orchard Avenue school at 1800 Orchard Ave. Carol Hunt (Brodel), who has an autographed copy of the book, says Harry perfectly captured the place, time
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Tammy Shriver (Keller) has a great first job story. In May of 1971, between junior and senior years, she decided she wanted a summer job. She checked out the phone company, then Mountain Bell, and was hired as a Directory Assistance operator. “Remember back in the day when people would call 411? They had us
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Benton Britt on an incident in the 2nd grade at Tope School: The classroom was an overflow class in a small building away from the main building, out of the main school flow. The teacher was Mrs. M. (we won’t use her name here although everyone in that room remembers her), a short, chunky woman,
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Kelley Burford has a memory snapshot from theater. “I did several plays in high school. In one of them, I played a Black person.” He dyed his very curly hair black and wore black face. “I think now they frown on that.” His parents took his grandparents to see one of the performances. Kelley says
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“The year I was a 7th grader, our school burned. We got bussed to Bookcliff Jr. High for the whole year. And we had to go in the afternoon stint because the Bookcliff kids went in the morning. You know I grew up on a ranch, and Dad loved it because in the spring, we
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Ben (Benton) Britt was mindful of threats of punishment in junior high and he has succinct memory snapshots of them to this day. One involved a teacher named Mr. Smith (Ben adds he was a very good teacher) who had a red paddle with holes drilled in it hanging next to the chalk board. On
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Katy Kupecz, Ceyl Prinster, and junior Becky Hammond were baton twirlers for the marching band and performed at the football game halftimes. One in particular stands out in Katy’s memory. “Somehow we got them to turn out the football stadium lights, and,” Katy lowers her voice for dramatic effect, “we twirled with fire.” They and
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• Ceyl Prinster winning a scholarship to Notre Dame to be part of the FIRST female class at that institution; I was completely intimidated by her (and probably still am). • Standing with Greg Freeman in first-year teacher Fran Hollick’s art class, as one fellow student hit another while blindfolded and swinging a bat at
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Carol’s summer memory was swimming with the Dolphins swim team, which her father, Floyd Hunt, coached. She swam on the team for nine summers, including being part of “the most magnificent medley relay and freestyle relay (team), and Jane Bergman was on it.” Carol swam the backstroke, Jane the breaststroke, and, Carol proudly says, “no
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