On Inauguration Day for Dwight Eisenhower, Mrs. Oexle had her forth grade students stand at attention and face the flag on top of Joan of Arc public high school, a block away, while the presidential oath was administered. Joan of Arc students were housed in very tall art deco building with a flag pole stuck […]
On Inauguration Day for Dwight Eiserhower, Mrs. Oexle had her forth grade students stand at attention and face the flag on top of Joan of Arc public high school, a block away, while the presidential oath was administered. Joan of Arc students were housed in very tall art deco building with a flag pole […]
In 1949 I was old enough to begin school. On weekdays I rode from my neighborhood called Yorkville on the Eastside of The City to a Westside boy’s school in a big red bus driven by Miss Cawley (possibly Caughley?). The brick-red vehicle was an antique even back then when I rode in it. Miss […]
Memories are curious things. Closing exercises were held Friday, May 26, 1950 for this first grade class. Although the school was located on W. 91st St. many of my new schoolmates lived close by me on the East Side and I got to know them first as passengers picked up by the red schoolbus. […]
