Interboro Class of 1957

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Schools

• Prospect Park Elementary School
  • First Grade Class, 1945-46
    
  • Second Grade Class, 1946-47
    
  • Moving Day, 1948
    
  • 5th Boys, Fall 1949
    
  • 5th Girls, Fall, 1949
• More in the future.
  
  Do you have class pictures of other grades and other sections of our class ?
    Teacher's names ? Class roster ?
    Pictures of other years of this class ?
  
  
  This page is a logical (to me) result of recently finding pictures of my First and Second Grade classes. As more pictures are found they will be added. I would also like to put up the class reunion pictures and write-ups -- I have 5- and 10-year pics somewhere, others would be appreciated.

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  History in brief.

      The Prospect Park Elementary School was located on Lincoln Avenue at 8th, next to the Methodist Church and across from the Baptist Cemetery. When a new elementary school was built on Pennsylvania Avenue between 9th and 10th in 1949, the whole school walked to the new building. We had Miss Jones, the principle, for 4th grade and got the big room with the bay window. Can't remember fifth grade, but for sixth grade we had a young and lively teacher.
      The high school was next door, up the hill on Washington Avenue. The gym was small and cold. School colors were gold and blue; tho called Prospectors, the team mascot was a goat.
      In 1955, Prospect Park and GlenNor schools merged to become the Interboro School District. The school colors became Black and Gold (too many shades of green to assure matching uniforms) and the mascot became a Buccaneer. The old PPHS become the Jr. High and the old GlenNor became the Sr. High. Tinicum students also attended. For the 11th and 12th grades we had a lot of new faces who soon became friends. We now had a big gym and lunch room.
      (I've got to look for the yearbooks, how much I have fogottten is embarrassing.)
  Memories of an aging mind (without reference to yearbooks that are "someplace.")
  1st Miss Scott ; Miss Simmons
  2nd Miss
  3rd Miss Dietric
  4th Miss Jones, principle with a paddle; we feared her for three years for no reason.
  5th Miss Hartley
  6th Miss Graziolla, then Mrs??, young and lively.
  PPHS. We met kids from the other section of our grade.
  7th Mr. Negal -- history became Social studies
  8th Mr. Hillygus -- Geometry and naval history
  9th Mrs. Graham - English, our generation's exposure to terrorism.
  10th Solomon Greenberg, tough Science teacher -- everybody had a story about how mean he was. He once gave me a minus one point on a ten-point Biology quiz -- I'd misspelled the corect answer, but he said there was no such word, thus no credit, minus one for spelling. The P.P. folks knew their kids aced chemistry in college, but the GleNor parents drove him to leave.
  Interboro H.S. We met the most fantastic group of kids from the next town.
  11th Mr Register, new, idealistic, tried to teach French, but was better at Chrismas Parties
  12th Mrs. Rickter -- Math, as tough and good as Sol, but not as feared. She flunked my first algebra test for cheating, till I gave her the answers by sight to the next test she was working on. When Russia launched Sputnik, her patriotic plea for science was fantastic.
  Some where in there are Miss Hanes ; Miss Wolfington - Spanish ; Miss Mercer- art
  Coaches: Ray Spafford, Don Story
  Mr Gino had students teach POD while he coached.
  
  

  INTERBORO HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF 1957 50th REUNION WHEN : Saturday, September 22, 2007 WHERE : Ramada Inn / Philadelphia International Airport Reflections Room . . . Private entrance left of main entrance 76 Industrial Highway, Essington, PA 19029 The Hotel is saving a bank of rooms for our class members : $89-$99. COST : $50.00 per Person WHAT : 5:00 -- Hospitality Suite by Reunion Committee. 6:00 -- Cocktail Hour with Hors d'oeuvres 7:00 -- Buffet Dinner 8:00 -- Open Bar 10:00 - Hospitality Suite by Reunion Committee. RETURN YOUR CHECK : made to "Interboro High School Class of 1957" by July 1, 2007. Contact :     Janice Talone 205 W. Rodgers Street Ridley Park, PA 19078 Bulletin : Send Bulletin information to share : family, significant events/happenings, favorite vacation spots, special hobbies/activities, etc. Included with attendance. Or $3.00 for mailing. E-Mail information to : Sally Norton Connery at Payment to Janice Talone. Feel free to contact any of the committee members listed below : Nancy Dillon Darlington (610-558-4348)   E-Mail : nddnddndd # aol + com Judy Ling Keenan (610-583-1618) Pat Machamer Fahey (610-534-8694) Sally Norton Connery (610-586-1588)   sconnery # dciu + org Janice Talone (610-534-7663) Sandy Texter (610-461-1149)   msantsan # aol + com Elizabeth Veldhoven Marren (610-768-4536) Looking for the following classmates. Rest in Peace. Classmate Links. Dale Hemingway Dooley -- I went into a website business with a fiend last summer and we have one website up and running. Give us a look. Robert Taylor -- story can be found at Word of Righteousness. Charles Wilkin -- I am now a Docent at the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester. James Bauer -- is webmaster for several sites.

  
  Links : Found on the Web
  A Wonderful Website of the whole area.
  Site Map to Pictures and History
  Prospect Park
  Prospect Park History - detailed
  Norwood
  Glenolden
  Population
  Education
  PPHS Final Reunion

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  Created on 22Feb06. Updated : February 12, 2007 -- Reunion Notes ; September 4, 2007 -- Bulletin notes.
  
  URL : http://www.manorweb.net/class57/class57.html