[PRCo] Re: Seasonal thoughts

[Schneider Fred]

There are good teachers and bad ones.   I've seen both.    Sadly all  
of mine of both classes are now pushing up daisies.   The only two I  
know that are still living is the driver ed teacher ... not doing  
well in Virginia, and the French teacher (she was just out of college  
when I had her and her husband is very ill now).   Funny, it was Miss  
Nolan then.   Now it's just Joan.   I need to call her.

And Mark ... Perry High was where both my mother and her brother went  
to school.  Now, you want to know how small the world can be?   I was  
sitting in a hotel in Krakow, Poland, having dinner one night about a  
dozen years ago.   A couple who had been on our tour to Auchwitz the  
day before came through the door.   I motioned to them that the other  
seats at my table were vacant.   They joined me.   During the dinner  
table conversation I discovered that they were not only Pittsburghers  
but that he knew my uncle from Perry High.

On Dec 23, 2008, at 10:47 AM, Bob Rathke wrote:

> I started St. Ambrose School on Spring Hill after WWII.  I'm left  
> handed,
> but never remember one incident when a teacher or relative ever  
> tried to
> correct me. And I was not the only left handed kid in class.
>
> I can only assume that Parochial schools on the North Side were more
> progressive than those in other parts of the city.  :-)
>
> Bob 12/23/08
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark McGuire" <macmarka at netzero.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 7:09 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Seasonal thoughts
>
>
>> My dad had already met my mom before he went off to the war. When he
>> returned as I learned much to my father's dismay, that he and my mom
>> concieved before they were married. My mom was a Perry High  
>> graduate who's
>> mother(my grandmother who took me on my first trolley ride) was  
>> "right off
>> the boat" from Italy. My dad went to Central Catholic. After they  
>> married,
>> they moved to Castle Shannon on a street you all are familiar with  
>> called
>> Kilarney Drive. I was just an infant when they bought a brand new  
>> home on
>> Lovingston Dr. near the Dormont border. I was the only one of seven
>> children that never went to a Catholic school. And I was glad of that
>> after hearing the horror stories from mom and dad. Dad was left- 
>> handed and
>> one particularly cruel nun used to whack him on his left hand with  
>> a yard
>> stick to make him write right-handed.
>> My grandmother and I would walk down Biltmore Ave. and then up the  
>> other
>> side to get to the trolley stop at Dormont Jct. My only regret is  
>> that
>> seeing how much I enjoyed riding the trolleys, she never took me on a
>> trolley ride to my uncle's house on Franklin Ave. in Wilkinsburg  
>> before
>> the east end lines were abandoned. North Side lines were pretty  
>> much gone
>> by the time I was 4 years old and taking my first trolley ride.
>> Ah, memories. Nobody can ever take them away from us can they? I  
>> wish I
>> could remember more than I do.
>>
>> Just a small little joke about my 50-50 Irish-Italian blood.  I'm  
>> half
>> Irish and half Italian. That means I get so drunk I want to beat  
>> the hell
>> out of myself.
>>
>> -- "Dennis F.  Cramer" <dfc1 at windstream.net> wrote:
>> My dad returned home in June of 1945, met my mother and they were  
>> married
>> in
>> the Jefferson Avenue Methodist Church in Washington in August.   
>> Talk about
>> getting along with your life.  My brother was born in 1950 when  
>> they lived
>> in Versailles and I did not come along until 1953.   By that time  
>> our home
>> was in Liberty Boro.
>>
>> My father had a V-mail that his father had sent just before the  
>> end of the
>> war where he stated he felt it was a mistake for us to let the  
>> Germans
>> take
>> Berlin and it would probably lead to problems.
>>
>> Many young children (and dogs) do not take kindly to beards.  I have
>> sported
>> one since 1977 and have had varying results with the nieces and  
>> nephews.
>> I
>> never had a child pull my beard when I was Santa at PTM.
>>
>> What killed the trolley?  Cheap cars and cheap gas.  No  
>> collusions, no
>> backroom politicking, just a desire for people to feel independent.
>>
>> Yes John, we have several tunes in our quintet book from the  
>> 40's.  Beside
>> the wedding stuff and the Christmas stuff, we also have a pretty  
>> broad
>> range
>> of popular music from the Civil War to the present.  Right now the  
>> folder
>> has about 175 or so tunes.
>>
>>
>> Dennis F. Cramer
>>      Trombone
>>
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