Memories? Yikes - I'll try to keep it brief...
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First day of Kindergarten, going up the outside stairs, realizing that my life of leisure was over.
- The whole school sitting on the hill, south of the building, in (?) 1957, to watch the Queen and Prince Phillip's motorcade go by, on their way to what was then Sunnybrook Veterans' Hospital.
- Playing "corners" on the large checkerboard of concrete slabs in the yard, at recess.
- Allies games at recess - grade 1 - broken up by the Principal (Jones or Champion) because we had a mini casino going.
- The Dick and Jane reading books, and the excitement I felt when I realized that I had actually started reading.
Basket days - late September, with the smell of the wood in the fall air.
- Miss Cressman, and a class of 44 students. Funny, we didn't worry about student - teacher ratios back then. Just handled it.
- An indoor recess one rainy day, returning to class (grade 6), and the look of shock on one girl's face. When she told me that US President Kennedy had been shot, it didn't sink in for a moment. Then the whole school gradually went quiet. I remember her - she is the one with her hand up in the picture second from the bottom on the home page of this website. Can anyone guess her name, or that of the girl behind her to the right? Hint - that picture was taken 2 - 4 years earlier.
- Mr. Phillips, and the introduction of soccer to Blythwood.
- Friday night Community Centre dances: "Pretty Woman, "House of the Rising Sun", every early Beatles tune we could get our hands on.
- Field Days and LPAA baseball.
- Two big skating rinks, every year, and the sound of slap shots against the pine boards.
- The Grade 8 graduation banquet - in the Kindergarten room - back where it all started!
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