Today I decided to list ten items I remember from my days in Catholic elementary school.....I'll bet some of you also have similar memories, so sit back and take a trip down memory lane. Remember, this was back in the fifties, so that helps with perspective on this list.
The oilcloth square we all had to cover our desks for art work or for eating lunch.....I can smell it!
Whimsies......these are small round lacy pieces we used to wear on our heads when going to church......usually in black or white. If you didn't have one, you wore a scarf, or even a Kleenex pinned with a bobby pin!!
Receiving milk in small glass bottles brought in daily from the local dairy.
Playing girls chase the boys, or vice versa, at recess.
Walking to the nearby neighborhood store to buy penny candy at recess time. You could get a lot for five cents! Or at another store, two pretzels rods for a nickel.
Going to Girl Scout Meetings at a nearby fellowship hall on Friday after school.
Being a hall monitor.......keep in mind there was one hall, one entrance, one way out. Still, it was a position of status for 8th grade girls.
My friend Helen bringing cinnamon toast for lunch.
Cleaning the erasers by slamming them together out behind the school building.
Singing up in the choir loft and looking down at all the people messing around in church.
boy, I could list more, but I'll stop here and just think about those days. I know one things for sure, the kids today would never put up with some of the stuff we did...nor would their parents! But that was a different time and place, wasn't it?
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