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05/19/15 07:35 AM #76    

 

Douglas Chamberlin

Pam, glad to know you're planning to attend. Meg? Dave G.?


05/19/15 08:22 AM #77    

 

Paula Nardella (Weaver)

My husband and I are also interested in visiting the Museum of WWII. I could not find reunion group admission details in the website.


05/20/15 09:39 AM #78    

Margaret Weekes (Allen)

Doug, Pam, Richard,

Derry and I are planning to come, have already saved the week-end. We're hoping to go to the WWII Museum as well and will be on the lookout for the registration materials.

We're looking forward to seeing you all.  In the meantime, if you get to Washington before then, let us know.

 


05/21/15 08:58 AM #79    

 

Douglas Chamberlin

Meg, good to know!


05/22/15 01:35 PM #80    

Caleb Rawstron

Hello all,

Merrilynn and I would like to tour the museum and looking forward to meeting up with all of you again.

Caleb


05/29/15 06:53 AM #81    

 

Theresa Centola (Murphy)

My husband and I would like to visit the World War 2 Museum on September 25th.  Looking forward to our class reunion.


05/30/15 07:25 AM #82    

 

Jeanne Mahoney (Leffers)

Hi--Jim and I are also interested in visiting the WW II museum.  We will look out for the official sign-up.


06/09/15 11:16 AM #83    

 

Dorothy Breda (Berkoben)

#72 David Drake

I certainly appreciate your comment on the cost of senior events as my nephew attended them at NHS this year. I can tell you that the prom cost more than you state. The prom was a class project that came about with a lot of sweat and tears. I envisioned "Carousel" and somehow became the community organizer for the whole transformation of the HS gym. Even my mom was called upon to drive me to get those 12 foot poles for the carousel and the 10 foot rolls of white paper that we used to cover the sides of the entire gym. Crews of students painted all that surface into a park scene with black line drawings. Some of the guys decided to build a mosaic fountain with running water.Others built horses from chicken wire frames and stuffed them with colored tissue. One classmate got props from the department store where his dad worked to fill out the scene.We had a flower cart. And finally when it was all done we had the beautiful people dancing in the park! Miss Vars, who taught chemistry, said I would never get to do some thing like this again. She was correct because it was done with the help and coordination of all my friends at Needham High.Hard work but I think we all had a great time.


06/10/15 01:50 PM #84    

Margaret Weekes (Allen)

Dorothy,

All your creative work really paid off.  It was beautiful, and, as I recall, we all had a wonderful time.  It wouldn't have been any better at a glitzy hotel.  Thank you very belatedly for what you did for us all.

 


06/11/15 09:34 AM #85    

William Tilburg

My dad worked for Jordan Marsh and a bunch of us drove into the downtown Boston Store where we had access to the entire inventory display items. I remember getting a few trees with cherry blossums and we put the top down and drove back to Needham with 6 foot trees. Another memory was trying to get the water fountain to work. I thinkit was Dick Rosenberg who built it and he was there to just before the prom started but he got it to work! A wonderful evening! 


06/11/15 11:23 AM #86    

 

Carolyn Campbell (Kay)

The prom was beautiful, private and unique, all of which made it a very special memory.


06/12/15 08:18 AM #87    

 

Janice Whitehead (Mosher)

I also remember the decorating committee coming to me and asking if they could borrow a couple of my Dad's overalls that he wore when he worked delivering milk for Needham Dairy. The prom was a wonderful time and the gym was totally transformed.


06/13/15 03:01 PM #88    

 

Ellen Gropman (Euse)

What I remember about the prom was the song YELLOW SUBMARINE allllll night long along many Other Beatle songs !! Also playing cards for hours & hours !! Great time 

 


08/11/15 01:41 PM #89    

 

David Drake

Kevin,

Thanks for bringing back all those memories.  I also remember Miss Dugan and the squeky shoes.  My memory isn't what it used to be but I remember many of my teachers including Algebra I with Don Brock.  I also remember the dancing classes and having to wear white gloves.  I was also 5' 2" when I went to Pollard.  I went through the "change" between 7th and 8th grade.  I grew 4" over the summer but didn't gain any weiight (okay, so I've never really gained any weight).  I was thrilled to be above average in height at 5' 6" in the eighth grade.  I had dreams of growing more, like my cousin Bob who was five years older than me and 6' 5", and maybe moving from church league basketball to high school baskeball.  Alas, I'm still only 5' 6" or maybe 5' 5 1/2" but we are older and wiser now than we were at Pollard.

Dave

 


08/11/15 04:30 PM #90    

 

Carol Salvaggio (Beals)

Hi Kevin, I too remember Stephen Palmer. Walking up Pleasant St to intersection of Dedham Ave and out of nowhere came Danny Rider. In the winter, he chased me w/snowballs, making sure one got back down the neck of my winter coat! Definitely could not out run him. Where is he now? I don't remember him graduating w/us.  I remember another kid who I think hung out w/you and Danny. Stephen ??? He sat behind me and would pull my ponytail and stick it in his inkwell which was full of ink.  Our kids wouldn't know what those were! I remember having lots of friends and fun times running around that playground  and sitting in that gazebo thing, climbing on the jungle gym(still have the scar on my knee from hanging upside down) and swinging on those old swings.  Then we started Pollard which was a brand new school.  It is comforting to hear that the boys were as scared as the girls. It was a whole new scary world out there. New liasons were made and some old ones disappeared. It is interesting to hear, some 50 odd years later that the boys had insecurities too! Never gave it much thought. Had six brothers who were really annoying growing up so thought all boys were like that at that age.  It is interesting to hear how we all felt in those years of growing up. Life was sooo simple then.  

 

 

 


08/11/15 07:07 PM #91    

William Tilburg

Kevin,

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts about Pollard. Speaking of puberty, I was small in middle school and even in High School! I wanted to paly football but after my experiences on the Freshman team at Pollard and getting crunched due to my lack of weight, I gave up that dream. Talk about being a late bloomer, I didn't get my growth spurt (5'5" to 6'1") until college! If anyone ever saw Miss Dugan smile, let's hear about it. I had detention a couple of times thanks to her. I have had the opportunity to visit Pollard when my children were there and to speak to students about volunteering, and it was emotional to walk the halls and see so much that has not changed. Many fond memories! 

 


08/12/15 03:54 PM #92    

 

Michael Riley

kevin it is amazing how we can remember back then but not yesterdays dinner. you were right on about scared young boys. my group of 16 boys and girls entered pollard in eighth grade coming from st. bartholomews and the NUNS we were as lost as every one else was the previous year but somehow we all got to the hill and graduated 50 years ago.i pause to remember 4 who have gone on ahead Dan Shea Ann Murphy Rick Coughlin and Darlene Brosnan.


08/13/15 10:30 PM #93    

Stephen Hazam

So when is this puberty thing supposed to kick in??   I've been in Honolulu for almost 4 years now and recently ran into our classmate Marion Ohanian, who has been here almost the same number of decades.  She's a lovely lady and I can't wait to hear her stories of her early years in a Hawaii that sadly no longer exists.  Hoping to see some of you at the reunion!                                                                                                              

 

 

 

 

 


08/15/15 07:40 PM #94    

 

Paula Nardella (Weaver)

Pollard was a frightful place for me too, after attending the High Rock School with the same group of kids for so many years. For a long time, I had a recurring nightmare about missing a class because the combination lockers wouldn't open.

 


08/22/15 01:07 PM #95    

 

Kevin Tracey

                                                                  What If The Land Remembers
 
     People pass quickly.  They can move in and out of your life in a heartbeat.  The same goes for places, for things.  What if the land remembers?   Remembers the buildings that stood on it.  Remembers our footsteps. Remembers all that happened on it. For all of eternity.  I would like that.
     The batter's box at the little league field at the Stephen Palmer would remember all those little boys "dug" in, hoping for a hit.  Hoping to at least get on base and not strike out.

     The gym at the old high school where you could still use the flying rings on Saturday mornings.
     The Friday night sock hops at the Pollard.
     Bike racks
     The cinder tracks at the Pollard and the High School.  Tracks we had to run on as kids.  Tracks we were tested on, ran laps on, fell on.
     My back yard on Cleveland road.  The yard where I caught fireflies, earthworms, played all those childhood games.
     The High School hill where I ran up and down, flew down on my sled, sat on one beautiful night and broke my heart.
     High Rock, Devil's Den that seemed so high, such an adventure to climb as kids.
     Rosemary Lake where we went to swim in the summer, going through the gate, changing in the locker rooms, swimming to the dock, diving hoping not to go down to the mud at the bottom.
     Pickles Pond where we learned to skate, play hockey, some days skating all day long till darkness drove us home.
     The Reservoir where we caught frogs and turtles.
     The Harris Woods where we drank at the spring, wrote our initials under the trestle, listened to our voices echo there,put pennies on the railroad tracks, shot our bows and arrows pretending we were Robin Hood and his merry men.
     The Needham Paramount where we stood under the Marquee on Friday nights
     The bubbler at the town common.
     Red Wing Bay.
     Bergson's, The Crest, The Bowl-a-way, Frank's, Grant's, The Five and Ten, Carter's, Perlin's, West's
     The squeak of Miss Dugan's shoes
     Gone now.
     Gone forever.
     But not if the land remembers.
     I would like it if it did.

 


08/23/15 02:53 PM #96    

 

Douglas Chamberlin

Well said, Kevin. A number of those memories ring true for me. Who, but us would even know the name Pickles Pond? 

Doug Chamberlin


08/23/15 02:59 PM #97    

 

Jeanne Mahoney (Leffers)

Beautiful--I think of that often when I see the changes in the town and also think back to those days before us--before even the Pilgrims and what those hills, caves and land remember.  Thanks for the thoughts!

 


08/23/15 05:03 PM #98    

 

Michael Riley

let  us not forget the vast expanse of the sand pit  now the difazio complex or the devils den and why did they kill pickles pond justto build a couple of houses, also gone the army camps and the nike missles,


08/25/15 08:32 AM #99    

 

Theresa Centola (Murphy)

Wonderful childhood images. So long ago but so well-remembered. Thank you, Kevin.

09/08/15 03:51 PM #100    

 

James Maloney

Hello NHS 65 classmates,

We made it "almost" 50 years since NHS..who would have thought that would happen?

My wife Ann Marie & I are hosting a lunch/brunch at our house on Lake Archer in Wrentham, Ma on Saturday, September 26 before the Reunion Party. 

We would like any & all classmates & friends to join us!

We are starting @ 1:00 PM.

The address is 60 Rowell Road, Wrentham, MA 02093. (really NOT that far from Needham.)

My cell # is 508-510-1615...email jamesmaloney1@verizon.net.

If it is still warm we can swim, waterski, tube, or whatever!!!

Please let me know if you plan to attend.

Looking foward to seeing you all!

 

Jim & Ann Marie Maloney

 

 

 


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