Class of 61 Chapter 5

"What would you think if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up and walk out on me ?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key...."   Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band

Class of 61 returns to the scene ...Episode IV

"....Take off your old coat and roll up your sleeves
  Life is a hard road to travel I believe..."

I am not sure what caused my fascination with the old "cloak rooms". To me they look pretty much the same as I remembered them. I confess to having planned to bring a screw driver along to snag a hook. Now I must write a nice note to the principal and ask for one before they demolish the building.....

Class of 61 returns to the scene Part III

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying the stairway to heaven.

Stairway outside Miss Steed's room looking onto site of new school

  

East stairway in the "old building" looking out to Pine St.

Class of 61 returns to the scene Part II

"When I was a little boy in Grammar school

Always went by the very best rule

But Evertime the bell would ring...."                         Chuck Berry

Earlier this week, while doing something entirely unrelated, I remembered a 5th grade play for Thanksgiving...."Too Many Turkeys"??? Do schools still do plays and have assemblies for holidays?
(Hey, I don't have kids so I have no idea what goes on in schools these days....)

Did anybody notice that long board on the left wall. ? A mini climbing wall?  or the petrified remains of cafeteria food....or a climbing wall made of the petrified remains?

Another question.....Where did we sit when we watched all those great intramural basketball games????