Our Memories

Do you remember when....are you kidding how could I forget! The class of 73's fondest, funniest, most embarrassing...those special memories and moments that made our years at Woodlawn what they were.

Read them here and make sure we have yours! Send them to the webmaster@woodlawn73.info. Be sure to include your name along with the memories.

Note: As this page has developed, with many of us being together for the entire 12 years, alumni have begun to include Jr. High and Elementary school memories as well.
 

• Tom Centanni

  • Archaeology class with Mr. Drass -- Did we ever actually find anything historical in those "digs"? At least it was fun getting away from school for awhile.

  • Mr. Goudy's 12th grade English class -- We just read the "classics" and talked about them...there were no tests! All you had to do was participate in the discussions, and maybe write a paper or two.

  • Studio Art with Mr. Zaldivar [What a great teacher!] -- We had only 5 or 6 students. I was privileged to work with such creative people as Mary Ann Nardo, Kelley Ripley, Linda Smith, and the late Don Grace (if I've forgotten anyone, I'm sorry).
     

• Tony DeSanctis

  • The best and BEST LOOKING cheerleaders in Baltimore County

  • Friday night at Father's Gay 90's

  • Woodlawn-Catonsville rivalries

  • Beating Catonsville in lacrosse in the last game of our senior year.

  • Young Life meetings and hanging out at the White Coffee Pot Jr after Young Life.

  • Getting "mono" in 11^th grade - I don't think I've ever felt sicker.

  • Christmas dances

  • Good, live bands and lots of energy

  • Senior cut day at the Washington zoo

  • The senior "fashion" show

  • A great senior prom

  • Senior week in OC

  • Field parties

  • My good friends, Bill Hunt, Earol Bert, Freddy Fridinger & Billy Sparklin.

  • Great memories, good times and a lot of fun.
     

• Ruth Dolle

  • Walking to the bus stop (and swapping clothes along the way!) with: Nancy Matthiesen, Linda Ray, Sally Bowen, and Janyce Williams, still some of my dearest friends.

  • Jane Owens and I dressing like twins to see if anybody could tell the difference between us

  • Writing and passing notes to my friends. Yes, Mary Veeola Moore, yours WERE the longest!

  • Don Seiss's head towering above the lockers

  • Cafeteria favorites: pizza, peanut butter fudge, and playing Egyptian Ratscrew with Jimmy McGurrin.

  • 9th grade, my favorite class ever! Does anybody remember "9E would like to thank Mommy and Daddy McColgan for Ray"?

  • Karen Johnson taking a poll on whether or not she should get her hair cut.

  • All of the parties, especially the ones at Cindy Williams', Terri Walton's, Joanne O'Donaghue's and Gene Goodman's.

  • Summers at the Westview Pool.

  • Going to my first wedding. It was the summer between 11th and 12th grade. Dotty Fritzges married Steve Cook. Thirty-one years later, they are still happily married!

  • Mr. Dillon's Psychology class. He was the coolest, even though he did try to make me blush.
     

• Camille Goldberg

  • Powder Puff football: running 80 yards with the football while one of my best friends, Sharon Kimmel, was trying to tackle me.

  • Going to Fathers' on the weekends and eating the most delicious Hot Fudge Sundays around...boy don't we wish we could eat like that again.

  • "Driver Ed" not "Drivers Ed" with Mr. Letto...he was such a hardass.

  • Running for sophomore class treasurer against my friend Diane Frank and winning.

  • Tony Desanctis dressed as a girl for the "ugliest girl contest"...you could always make me laugh.
    Dancing in "Kiss Me Kate" where I got to know a lot of great people.

  • Friday morning breakfasts on game day during football season with some of my favorite people.

  • My Home EC teacher Mrs. Mitchell who brought out the creative side of me.

  • Mrs. Barbara Rujinski...our wonderful faculty advisor for cheerleading.

  • Being furious with my parents when they decided to move to Randallstown during our junior year...at least I got to stay where I belonged...see, even then I would travel to be with my friends.

  • The guys and their long hair.

  • Warren Dixon...what a great guy and lots of fun to be around...and you thought no one would remember you.

  • My wonderful varsity cheerleading friends...Kelley, Berta, Janice, Diane...it was great being with you.

  • My dear friend Patty Callahan and all the out of school adventures we went on...it's good to have you back in my life.

  • It's been 30 years since I have lived in Baltimore but my heart will always be there because of the wonderful memories I have.

  • Ellen - what I remember most when I think of you is all the fun we had in junior high school. Fate brought us together again and your voice was one of comfort during a most difficult time for me.
     

• Doug Goldsmith

  • High School

    • Booker in a diaper...

    • Reuschling teaching while we all sit on the couch in class and sip coffee....

    • Chuck Adreatta and I were "doubles" partners in tennis in gym class...kicking tail...until at game point a shot is hit to me...an easy return...and as I swing...I miss and the ball, it smacks me in the forehead...we lose. Sorry Chuck.

    • I'm in "As you Like It" and during the second night of the show...David DeBoy, (older brother of our classmate the great Paul DeBoy) is waiting for me on stage while I am downstairs playing cards....David keeps on talking for ten minutes or so....Sorry David.

    • Some really cute girl drops her books in the hall...books go flying.....I pick them up and give them to her. Three years later we date for a while. (missed opportunity in ' 73)

    • Finally made a dunk.

    • Senior week...Lenny Booker, Rick Griffith, Jerry Ader, Randy Flannagen (Catonsville) , and me....Jerry what ever happened to the girls from Regina High?

  • Jr. High

    • My God....we aren't in the same classes together anymore....what's an Edmonson Heights? Showers after gym?

    • Rodger's locker room punch.

    • Ronny Nichols mediating the altercation.. (who would mess with Ronny?????)

    • Pitching quarters after lunch.

    • Ms. Gross....enough said!

  • Elementary

    • Ukulele lessons for the class.

    • Mark MacDougall, James (Mike) Rambo, and Doug Goldsmith laughing our way through "Winchester Cathedral" at the PTA music presentation....Thanks Leslie.

    • Diane Smith's party in sixth grade.

    • "Safeties"...Thanks Joel.. "All clear"

    • "Fishlips"
       

• Rick Griffith

  • High School

    • Working at Hutzler's with my good friends Doug Goldsmith & Mike Kroneberger.

    • Many of the Young Life Weekends in Ocean City where panty raids and mooning came into play.

    • Young Life camp in Pioneer Village, Buena Vista Colorado., the summer of our junior year. The trip with Kroneberger, Hellman, Dunlap, and others. Great times and memories.

    • Being "gross" with Sharon Auld.

    • Sports, Sports, Sports. My last basketball game. Hey Mike K. do you remember it?

    • My senior year project in Architectural drafting. My dad built my model house and only got a "C" grade. He was pissed.

    • Playing stickball in 10th grade homeroom. We used a taped paperball & the sticks from the bottom of the blinds. Gribbin, Goldsmith, Geiger, Godman & Griffith. As Camille Goldberg said "You guys are so immature". Hey Camille, we still are.

    • Mr. Beach as my coach in Soccer, Basketall & Baseball. He said everything twice, right Mr. Beach, Mr. Beach. I now realize now why he did this. We were teenagers.

    • Running halls during basketball practice becuase we had to split gym time with the girls teams. Did we ever really run them?

    • My first car... a used orange Vega.

  • Junior High

    • Detention in Mr. Hobbs Class for making comments. Imagine that.

    • Getting kicked out of Mr. Crowl's art class with Phil Calambro. I commented that Phil was lucky to get kicked out. My mouth got me again.

    • The girls from Westview.

    • Winning the Intramural Basketball league all 3 years.

    • Our 8th & 9th grade French class with only 5 guys and 20 + girls in 8th grade. The guys were Joel Dupree, Phil Calambro, Bill Girardi, Jeff Rollins & myself. The St. Lawerence kids came over in 9th grade, Kroneberger, Ruthie, Jane, Mary Moore and others.
       

• Ellen Gurfolino -

  • Meeting Bonni Bidlack again. Knew her from Woodlawn Jr. and still are best friends to this day. I even played matchmaker and got her re-married two+ years ago to my husband's best friend.

  • Being in the drama club and having a ball, did one act plays, one even with Doug.

  • Being Schroeder on stage with my yellow wig and my tiny piano, how embarrassing.

  • Being a cheerleader as a junior, waiting for my name to be called and squeezing Camille's hand so hard her hand was probably broken.

  • Hanging out with Mike and Sally Bowen Griffin, Mike was like a brother to me and always will be.

  • Going to the Senior Prom with my date and Mike and Sally. Good time had by all!

  • My three favorite teacher's Mrs. Gelber, Mr. Coppolla, and my business teacher as well as our cheerleading advisor, Mrs. Ruginski.

  • My dear mom was willing to give up her house for a cheerleading sleepover, but I got an appendicitis and I think it was held somewhere else. Nancy Brown and Barb Armacost coming to visit me in the hospital.

  • Doing ridge roads in Mike Griffins car, a bright yellow mustang fastback, thank God we are still alive.

  • Having an utter blast in Mr. Coppola's class, I'll never forget Jack Cole dancing in those silver sparkle shoes, and reading his book report on Alcopolco Gold. He missed his true` calling, not only was he creative, he was just naturally funny.

  • Cutting class with Mike, getting caught and punished. We had a ball together. We are still alive!!!!!
     

• Rick Henry

  • Meeting my future wife - Linda Claus just before first period, February 4, 1972

  • Playing trumpet with the band Smokestack Lightning, with Mike Frentz, Richard Starsoneck and Vince Presti, also in the Class of '73.

  • Gym Class 11th grade / knee dislocation:

    While in Gym Class wrestling, Jan. 1972, my knee was dislocated. At the top of my lungs, I screamed out [a four-letter-word] ! The room went into a stunned silence, including the girl's gym class right next door. Seconds later, all I remember just prior to passing out, was Keith Vincent breaking the silence by half-whispering: "I NEVER thought I'd ever hear Richard Henry say that word."

  • Flying our World History teacher - Mr. Clay to Indiana to be with his dying aunt, October, 1972. (I don't know if he knew that it was only my second flight after getting my license!)

  • On the last day of class, June 1, 1973, flying George Sweet, Bill Witty and Ann Levering over WSHS as a "Graduation Celebration" flight.

  • Numerous times, from the school grounds, looking up at the jet contrails on the westbound Jet Route to Westminster just north of Baltimore, wishing and hoping to do that someday. Now, every time I fly that Jet Route, I affectionately look down to the west side of Baltimore and stare and smile...
     

• Barry Hidey

  • High School

    • I remember the time when the Boys Chorus convinced Mr. Blackwell to let us sing "Color My World" at one of the assemblies.

    • Playing "Pitch" every lunch period for weeks on end with Bob Royer and a few others.

    • Bending my school ring playing slap on one of those black desks in a
      chemistry class. Gee, I wonder why I got a "D" in chemistry.

    • Our first varsity football game in our sophomore year, we were suppose to crush that new upstart Randallstown - we lost 41-0!

    • Music Man and Kiss Me Kate being some of the greatest times. It seemed like there were endless rehearsals, almost every night of the week! Since Mr. Terry would not let us wear glasses on stage, I had to take them off before I sent on stage, it make it a little difficult at time to seem where I was going!

    • Debbie Davis always letting me use her Geometry homework at lunch each day! It didn't help!

    • Taking Food for Boy's my senior year! It was chance to eat!! Except the time we put 3 whole garlic's in the spaghetti sauce, we didn't know it meant three "cloves" of one.

    • Young Life Gorgo.. our great leader! Even if he taught at Randallstown.

    • Sea Scape Motel, OC Weekend, Fall of '70. 500 High School kids taking over the place, water balloon battles, shaving cream battles, some crazy battle on the beach where we were emptying the ocean. 500 kids being quiet for 20 minutes to think about who God was to them. A life changing night for many of us!

    • All county club at Chapel Hill Church and 350 youth yelling for their school most of the night!

    • Campaigner weekend our senior year at River Valley Ranch.

    • Summer trip to Frontier Ranch, Colorado in '71. What a week!

  • Junior High

    • I remember the painful memory when I set my hand on fire in Mr. Jordan's science class when I was filling one of those alcohol lamps.

    • In biology class, we were studying how germs grow, so our teacher asked for two volunteers to kiss the poetry dish and we nominated our "couple" Sue Beck and Ian Reid.

    • Ian Reid (our British Soccer star) lead the 8GF classes to the intramural soccer championship. We beat our arch enemy, 8S!

    • I remember calling Mrs. Carey our German teacher a dumkauf, I don't know why she didn't find that funny!

    • The great homeroom we had that started with 8-G(we all took German). We had a great rivalry with 8-S. Our class even had it own picnics and a reunion after we left Johnnycake.

    • Fearing Mr. Dillon and his yardstick that was wrapped in about a thousand yards of masking tape!

  • Elementary

    • I remember that my mom needed to bring our "portable" black and white TV to school so our first grade class could watch John Glenn's first trip into space. The Reason Miss Berlin called my mom that morning is that she had dropped and broken her TV when she was carrying it down the stairs.

    • My third grade teacher Mrs. Block was also a World Book Encyclopedia sales person. Guess what she sold us?

    • Weeknight roller skating in the gym at Featherbed.

    • Some great spring fair on a Saturday, where we could get those great peppermint sticks in a lemon.

    • Listening to David John talk about how he was going to build his own car someday, instead of buying one.

    • Having Mrs. Goldfarb confiscate an album that someone brought in for us to listen to one day. IT WAS THE BEACH BOYS! I guess that was too much for our young ears!

    • Sang with three other guys, "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" at a PTA meeting.

    • Going into the gym and getting some "medicine" on a sugar cube that protected us from some disease.
       

• Karen Johnson

  • 1972 or 1973 - Junior Miss Pageant
    Lisa Popick, Karen Johnson, Kelley Ripley and Margie Dotie (Milford Mill)
    Margie won Miss Congeniality. Kelley designed her own backdrop and choreographed her own dance. Lisa played the piano. I did a monologue from "The King and I." Lisa won the title. I won the talent award and first runner up. Mark Barto (Class of 74) was my escort. We had the sportswear, talent and evening gown competition and then we had to answer a question. My question was whether I believed there was a need for specialists in the medical field. Whatever I said, everyone laughed. My aspiration at that time was to become a dental assistant. Lo and behold, several years later I did just that and got my license in Oral Radiology.
    

    As winners, we received flowers, trophies, and gift certificates to a health club. I got to ride in a parade in a convertible. There was an article published in the newspaper and for my section, they published a poem I wrote. It was so much fun and excitement.
     

• Sue Johnson

  • High School

    • Sports, the first season of volleyball as a sophomore was the only JV team I was on, from there on I made every Varsity Team (8 out of 9).

    • Out-shooting all the guys on JV Basketball team in a foul-shooting contest.

    • Running the stairs during basketball season because we had to share the gym with the guys.

    • Softball with Sharon Metcalfe pitching and me playing third base.

    • Practicing "spiking" the ball against the wall during volleyball practice

    • Powder Puff Football

    • Horace's red convertible with the "cherry" mufflers

    • My green mustang

    • Bobby Kelland and Young Life

    • Parties in somebody's basement in Edmondson Heights, never did find out which two were in the bathroom

    • Learning the "J" stroke at Canoe camp with Mark McDougall and Ms Poshpishall, and being (innocently) "caught" in the guys dorm.

    • Making it to the Junior Olympics in Diving.

    • Horace getting tossed out of class for telling some teacher to "go to hell"

    • Ellie Merrimen and I and Dodge Ball (was that high-school or junior high?)

    • Falling asleep during first period physics class and finding out later I had "mono"

    • Our Physics class having to simulate being a wave in the ocean and making us walk into the wall of the hallway in front of the cafeteria.

    • Playing "Hearts" during free period

    • Lifeguarding at Rollingwood Pool

    • Being on the Swimming and Diving Teams at Westview Pool from age 6-18yrs.

    • Ricky Bitzel and the "cool way" he printed.

    • Summer concerts at the lake in Columbia

    • The Junior Prom with Horace

  • Jr. High

    • Changing rooms for each class and the teachers in the hallways

    • Luther League at Second English and the week-end away.

    • Being "Queen" of the 9th grade prom, Eric Poehlman was "King"

    • Running around the field for phy.ed. in those stupid yellow gym 'dresses'

    • Pretending to actually take a shower after gym class

    • Horace telling Ms. Gross she didn't know the first thing about speaking Spanish

    • Scott Wentworth's pictures of "Prune-Face" during class

    • Mr Dunn's biology class, Horace and the "road-kill" (opossum) we articulated after laying it in bleach in the back of the classroom over the week-end and the smell of it Monday morning.

    • Dissecting those poor little baby pigs, worms and having to "pith" the frogs

    • Home Ec and Tuna Noodle Casserole, what a ghastly smell.

    • Home Ec UGH

  • Elementary

    • Transferring to Johnnycake in the fifth grade

    • Collecting for the Goodwill Drive with Joel

    • Those girls only "movies" in the gym, the windows of the gym doors were covered over so the boys couldn't look in, and then all the boys trying to guess what those movies were all about.

    • The dress code changing so finally girls could wear "slacks" to school.

    • Mr. Williams the phys ed teacher, he was so cute.
       

• Mark Lange

  • High School

    • The trip to NYC, in our senior year, with my Philosophy class. It was my first visit to the Big Apple and like most people I was blown away. The city was bigger than life...magical. One's horizons couldn't help but be broadened by the experience. Thank you Mr. O'Donnell.

    • In my Sophomore year Dick Estes said I ran like a Turtle. By the time he was done with me in my Senior year, he was talking about having me run on the track team. Thank you Mr. Estes.

    • The look on people's faces when Dr. Dan Muffoletto and I dropped in to Young Life one evening. For everything else there's MasterCard.

    • Rick LaFata and I failing a cooking class project when a piece of chalk was discovered inside the cake we baked.

    • Watching our Cheerleaders. Talk about sensory overload!

    • Donnie Abrams, without success, trying to teach me how to get up to the rim. Proving long before the movie was made...white men can't jump.

    • Jim Meadows fooling me with a pump fake in the back field, turning what should have been a sack into a 15 yard gain. When I looked over at Mr.  Estes... he just shook his head and said, "Lange...you dummy".

    • Mr. Dillon taking our Psychology class to Rosewood State Hospital in 12th grade. I can remember standing there with Lou Wyman, Kelley Ripley and Diane Frank - and being devastated by what I saw. I think we all were. We entered a room full of baby's with heads so big you wondered how their little necks could hold them up. One of them grabbed for me from her crib and I picked her up. I thought my heart was going break into a million pieces as this little one clung to me for any love and affection I might be willing to give her. I don't remember how long I held her, but forever wouldn't have been long enough. If the trip to New York broadened my horizons, this one shook me to the very core of my being. I had you in Junior and Senior High. You were the best teacher I ever had. Thank you Mr. Dillon.

  • Jr. High

    • Being back in a normal school after a year at Chadwick.

    • Finally meeting other southpaws like Steve Miller and Lou Kohler.

    • Mr. Cheel - He made Science fun.

    • Girls, parties, dances and going steady.

    • The look on Donna Tickler's face when I shot that rubber band up her dress.

    • French skits in 9th grade with Chris Marriott. We may not have been very good French students but Chris and I put on the best skits.

    • Luther League at Second English and making out in the balcony of the sanctuary.

    • Ms. Richards throwing an eraser at me but hitting Merry Knowles instead. I'll never forget the look on Merry's face covered in yellow chalk.

    • Mr. Black threatening me in class and Ray Ganong, who sat behind me, telling him to just go ahead and try it. Mr. Black backed down.

    • Making booze in Mr. Charnock's class.

    • No matter what we did to keep from getting caught doing stuff...Mr. Dillon always seemed to catch Rick Lippert and me in the act. I'm convinced the man was omnipresent.

  • Elementary

    • Being overwhelmed by the size of Johnnycake after transferring from a small private school half way through second grade.

    • Playing king of the mountain on the jungle gym during recess.

    • Kissing Suzie Beck in third grade.

    • Miss Price taping my mouth closed because I wouldn't keep quiet.

    • Greek Dodge! Man, could Tony DeSanctis bring it or what?

    • Being devastated by the lesson on Darwinism in fourth grade.

    • Being tied to my chair in fourth grade because I wouldn't stay in my seat.

    • Singing "Twas the Night Before Christmas" in the Chorus.

    • The fight with Bill Leslie in fifth grade. He hit me three times before I could blink. Bill won.

    • BJ and I giving reports before the entire school in the auditorium. She got to do hers on Dolphins, I did mine on Bats. That sucked.

    • Transferring to Chadwick for sixth grade. That really sucked.
       

• Mike Lewis

  • Perhaps the statute of limitations has expired on 30 year old vandalism - For away games, the jerseys worn by Warriors were red and white. Thus, on the eve of the football game played at Catonsville High, I believe it was Horace Bearzi and a few other guys from Edmonson Heights, that procured a case of red and white spray paint that a few of us used to decorate Catonsville's goal posts, playing field and track with Woodlawn colors. It was already dark when the spraying started which made it difficult to see which direction the paint would spray out of the can. After some trial and error, (and ruined clothing) we found out which end of the can was up and away. I assisted Marc Barto (1974) up onto the cross bar so that he could paint the uprights. A large "W" in white and red was painted, facing the Catonsville bench, from one 40 yard line to the other. The next day I was somewhat pleased with the paint job considering that we were practically painting blind. And some of the people from Catonsville commented on the paint job as well. Maybe some else who remembers this episode can help me fill in some blanks

     

• Joe Matthews

  • It's a wonder after all these years I can remember anything, but some things just stick with you. First and foremost "Summer Football Practice". And Rick, I sure remember your last basketball game even if Mike doesn't. For all the Edmondson Heights crowd, and you Westview intruders, "The Cannon" and all that encompasses. Having such a great and diverse group of friends; athletes, cheerleaders, actors/actresses, musicians, and did I mention cheerleaders. All of you made for a wonderful high school experience that helped mold the person I am today for better or for worse. Thank you all for those great years. I agree Mary, those were the days my friends!!
     

• Sue Rudnik

  • Playing word games like "Boggle" in Mrs. Gelber's English class.

  • Learning about Jewish traditions (Fiddler on the Roof) in Leslie Miller's English class.

  • Drivers Ed with Mr. Letto. If you didn't put your name and date exactly where instructed on your quiz, you'd lose five points.

  • Young Life. Frontier Ranch in Buena Vista ,Colorado the summer of 1972.

  • Doing props, costumes, and stage crew for Kiss Me Kate, and the party afterwards at the Reincke's house in Woodlawn. (It has taken me 29 years but I finally had an opportunity to be involved in theater production - Guys and Dolls, and The Music Man for youth theater)

  • Being a library aide for Mrs. Smith. I also spent three years doing this task at my son's elementary school. Gee, what goes around, comes around.

  • Going to school dances. (Oh why won't HE ask me to dance)

  • Having my very own date for the Senior Prom.

  • My foreign exchange week to live with a family and attend school in Dorchester County, Md.
     

• George Sweet

  • Double dating to dinner with Rick Henry in his airplane which broke in Virginia and having to call at 1:30 A.M. and explain to my date's Dad why I had taken his daughter to "dinner" in an airplane across state lines.
     

• BJ Townsend

  • High School

    • Picnics and volleyball at Cascade Lake

    • Cutting class and smoking a cigar (Horace's, I think) in a car on Woodlawn's parking lot.

    • Hyde Park and Royal 5 + 1

    • Being the only junior on the JV volleyball team...and still sitting on the bench!

  • Jr. High

    • Picnics and the swinging bridge at Patapsco

    • "Alice's Restaurant" and Simon and Garfunkel at parties in Scott's basement

    • Bye, Bye, Birdie

    • Pool parties every summer at my sister's house (Val, Horace, Paula, Mark, Scott, Ron, Toni)

    • Sleepover parties at Nancy Giannini's "mansion" house

    • Miss Harnish asking the class to pass their books to the back of the classroom to be put on the shelves...and throwing them out the window instead!

    • Locusts on the tennis court.

  • Elementary

    • Mrs. Burgee's hugs and red lipstick (1st grade) (that wouldn't happen today!)

    • Swimming at Miss Little's apartment (after 4th grade) (that wouldn't happen today either!)

    • Madrigal Choir and Winchester Cathedral on the ukulele (6th grade)

    • Practicing our "walk" on the way to modeling class at Hutzler's

    • Throwing darts at each other over the pool table in Paula's grandmother's house (EECCKK!!)

    • Go-go girl routine in talent show and lemon-and-peppermint sticks at June Jamboree (6th grade)

    • Breaking Vicki Rhoten's finger playing Greek Dodge.
       

• Mary Travers

  • High School

    • Hanging out at the "corner" or the "cannon" at Forest Park.

    • Coming home from vacation and my friend, Bonnie Yanks, introducing me to the cannon crowd. At this time, the cannon crowd consisted largely of neighborhood teens: Timmy McCarthy, Pat McGee, Tommy DiMartino, Jeffrey Cheers, Robin Dewberry, Tom Conroy, Bill Lowery are the ones that I remember offhand. We used to drink Boone's Farm Apple Wine and Ripple -- churns my stomach just thinking about it. Sometimes we would cruise the Dogwood Road area with Timmy McCarthy's older brother Leo. At one point, the surrounding neighbors labeled us "vandals," but I can't remember us ever being vandals. We never had the police called on us, if that means anything.

    • Going to Ocean City with Bonnie Yanks and her mom and dad and being awakened one night with her dad pointing a gun at us while we slept on a sleeper sofa in the front room and telling us to get out (at least that's what I thought). A drunk had wandered in off the street and was sleeping on the floor beside us.

    • Graduating twice because our class was so large and had to be split and the choir sang at both ceremonies. Being able to express and incorporate religious beliefs and themes into our graduation ceremony (check out the program on the Web site) -- sure couldn't do that now.

    • Going out to the Dogwood Road area for archeology class with Mr. Drass.

    • Ms. Albaugh for 10th grade chemistry (a good time was had by all).

    • Mr. Clay for history -- did we do anything in that class? What a waste.

    • Mr. Blackwell for girls chorus, boys chorus, and choir.

    • Trial By Jury, Chichester Psalms, Carmina Burana, making two records.

  • Jr. High

    • Mrs. Martin's 9th grade phys ed class: BJ -- remember: Tillman, Townsend, Travers, Twigg, Walter, Webster?

    • Mrs. Young (I think that was the name of one of the home ec teachers. We had her for sewing.) Anyway, rumors used to fly around the school about how the "older" girls had played tricks on Mrs. Young, for instance, locking her out of her classroom. It was rumored that Mrs. Young was pretty absentminded. Mrs. Young's classroom had a door that connected to a classroom next to hers. She had gone into that classroom, and BJ locked the door. Well, Mrs. Young wasn't too happy about that.

    • Mrs. Howard, Home Ec -- "What would you use ..."

    • How about Mr. Dunn's biology class and Horace Bearzi's and Sue Johnson's reconstruction of the skeleton of a -- was it an opossum?

    • Mr. McIntyre -- "8S, slow down, you move too fast."

    • 8G to 8S (our friendly rivalry) -- "Don't bite off more than you can chew."

    • Teen Center at Johnnycake Elementary and the "Soundations."

    • Bye-Bye Birdie, Madrigal Chorus with Ms. Russell, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and a small part for the Madrigal Chorus being written into it.

    • Mr. Jones.

    • Mr. Dunn.

    • Mr. Dillon, 7th grade history teacher and again in high school for psychology. What a great teacher.

    • Ms. Hayes for English in junior high and then again in high school (married name Schmidt).

    • Who's the history teacher, older guy, ex-service, who made the profound statement that guns have been known to kill people?

    • Those were the days, my friend, we'd thought they'd never end ...

  • Elementary: St. Agnes

    • Being bused to St. Edwards in downtown Baltimore for fourth grade. Playing Yahtzee and Go to the Head of the Class with Karen Johnson.

    • In first grade, being taken to the principal by a second grader for lighting a candle in church during recess. I was forbidden to go into the church during recess.

    • My second grade teacher (nun) who died right before our First Holy Communion.

    • Classmates that I remember from St. Agnes that ended up at Woodlawn Sr.: Karen Johnson, Donna Tickler, Sissy (Elisabeth) Karas.

  • Elementary: Edmonson Heights

    • Mr. Hanky (sp) who was supposedly an ex-football player.

    • Mr. and Mrs. Kepple.

    • School safety patrol with Mr. Kepple.

    • Susie Twigg, Sharon Metcalfe, Kim Formwalt.

    • I'm going to embarrass Eric Poehlman here -- my first boy-girl party and the first time I kissed a boy besides a family member (Eric Poehlman). We went into the basement closet, and if I remember correctly, Eric wasn't feeling well afterwards. Very traumatic.

    • Getting my first kitten (named Tiny) from Sharon Metcalfe. Junior Girl Scouts with Mary Ann Bryant's mom.
       

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  • Who was that mystery girl in 12th grade who took her dead grandfathers pain pills, got uncontrollable giggles while laying on her back in the hallway, and was helped to her feet by the kind and unknowing Mr. Fickle?

  • Can you remember the swarming of the 17 year locust in 9th grade? - how about trying to play tennis on the courts at Johnnycake Junior High and swatting the cicadas instead of the tennis balls. Or those "Edmondson Heights" boys collecting them from outside during class change, then letting them loose in the classroom, causing mass confusion and screaming.

  • Val Kuzniar, are you still wearing your skirts 2 inches above your extended arm fingertips, in violation of the dress code?

  • Terri Walton and Bill Leslie spending half of their class time in Mr. Potters' history class out in the hallway!

  • Linda Ray and Nancy Matthiesen purposely missing the bus in high school so they could walk and stop at Dunkin Donuts.

  • Greg Johnson grabbing a couple drags from his cigarette in between classes, and then carefully putting it out and sticking it in his shirt pocket. While sitting in art class he realized his cigarette was not fully out! It wasn't cause for a fire drill, but there was a lot of excitement putting out the smoke fire.

  • When things got boring in Mr. Clay's class, items would "accidently" get thrown out the window and Mr. Clay would always let us leave to go and get the object.

  • Going to lunch at White Coffee Pot Jr.
     

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  • Being stuffed into a trash can (butt first) outside the boy's locker room after a WCAO good guys game. Johnny Dark talking about it on the radio the next day (my kids love this story). Thank you Gordon Smith and Bill Good!

  • Leslie Miller making English class finally make sense. THANK YOU!

  • Walking home from Rolling Road bowling alley to Woodlawn while Bill Good make siren sounds. Watching cars hit their brakes.

  • Inside out day, while the rest of us just turned our clothes wrong side out, Roger Smith wore his underwear on the outside.

  • Gordon Smith's '49 Chrysler (boy could it move).

  • Mrs. Pipes black and yellow outfit, she looked like a bumblebee.

  • Mr. Clay, learned a lot about the prison system

  • Terrorizing Madame Upchurch's student teacher. On cue we would all bounce our legs so the floor would shake.

  • Mr. Mc Daniel's biology dissections, I passed out.

  • Patapsco State Park- picnics every weekend, if you ever went with us you never forgot. The rangers still remember us.

  • Gene-Marie's surprise 16th birthday party. We really pulled it off.

   

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