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James Hamilton, M. D.

Mike,

Latin may be a dead language but it's progeny live on! Just look through a copy of Dorland's Medical Dictionary and you will find thousands of words derived from Latin (and Greek). A classic example is one every med student uses to remember the five characteristics of inflammation: rubor, dolor, calor, tumor and functio laesa.

I do not recall the name of the sister who taught Freshman Latin.

Jim 

David Mitchell

Gee whizz Jim,

I think that Laesa family grew up down the street from me. Rubor used to come over and shoot hoops with us in my driveway.  And all this time I thought his name was Robert.

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Are you guys thinking of Sister Cecily?  The cutie hiding out in a nun's habit that I did NOT get to have for Latin. 

Mary Clare Hummer (Bauer)

No. Jim's thinking of Sr. Francesca, Homeroom 111. I believe she was between 75-80 years old when we had her. As I recall, she lived to be 100. You may not know this bit of trivia but thanks to (or in spite of) her tutelage (from the Latin, tueri!), our very own John Jackson placed first in the state of Ohio in the State Scholarship Test in Latin I. 
Manus tuam lava!  Remanē domi!  ❤️ 

Clare

David Mitchell

Really Clare?

You give all that credit to John and completely failed to mention the fact that I taught him everyting he knows.

p.s. - very clever, girl ! 

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I know you are all bored to tears by now, and you've probably all heard these (about 6 or 8 versions now). But I couldn't resist palying this for the few who haven't.

Michael McLeod

I'm impressed John.

Belated congrats.

I didn't know that about winning but I did know you were smart.

Thinking back now I'm pretty sure I used to look over your shoulder and copy your answers when we took tests. 

I didn't feel guilty then. 

Now that I've grown into a man I still don't.

John Jackson

Dave, why’d you have to spill the beans about our Latin “arrangement”?  I’ve had it with you – say one more thing to undermine me and you’re out of the stamp club.

James Hamilton, M. D.

Clare,

I was in Sr. Francesca's Homeroom 111 - I think you were also - and, indeed, she was one of two freshman Latin teachers, but not the one who conducted my Latin class. Maybe one of our other classmates will remember the other one.  Any takers?

Jim 

David Mitchell

Sorry John, 

But I just couldn't let Clare get away with that.  

Does this mean I get some of my club dues refunded ?  I think my back dues come to about $4.98 

( Before I am officailly expelled - Was that really Fremont on the Rockies? ) 

I do think we do have to give her credtit for her memory of the language - smart girls always made me nervous.  

David Barbour

Jim,

It was poor Sr. Cecily.

David Barbour

Sr.Cecily was low nun on the totem pole.  I was in a class with Royer and Jesse Watson.

And passed the  class at Linden McKinley.

Jeanine Eilers (Decker)

I was in Homeroom 111, too, but don't think Sr. Francesca taught me Latin.  I don't think Sr. Cecily did either.  Can anyone think of another nun who might have had the honor?

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

I still have a few of my grade cards from school, so I found my freshman year grade card and discovered that Sister Estelle Marie was my Latin teacher and that I had Sister Stephanie for Latin my sophomore year.  My quite shaky memory is that I was in Sister Stephanie's class when we received word of President Kennedy's assasination.  

John Maxwell

Janie Albright (Blank)

MM, I think that's who I had as well. I have been trying to think of her name. I actually really liked Latin. I had Sr Miguel sophomore year. I actually was thinking of a Sr. Eymard or something like that. I'm thinking we had a switch of teachers mid freshman year. But that might have been English. Anyone have a memory of this? 
 

James Hamilton, M. D.

MM,

Thanks, it was, I believe, Sr. Estelle Marie who was my Freshman Latin teacher.

Janie,

Instead of a Sr. Eymard are you perhaps thinking of Fr. Ehwald, one of many prists who taught religion? I just Binged his name and discovered an interesting fact - he died on Good Friday, 2019. How appropriate for a priest!

Jim 

John Jackson

For the life of me, I can’t remember who taught me freshman Latin, but I know it was not Sister Francesca.  Maybe it was Sister Estelle Marie… 

But one of my indelible memories from Homeroom 111 is Sister Francesca, God bless her, watering her artificial flowers (on the windowsill facing Cooke Rd.) every morning during Msgr. Spiers' prayers/announcements.

Janie Albright (Blank)

Jim, I don't think so. I do remember his name. Who were the freshman English teachers?

James Hamilton, M. D.

Janie,

Hmmm.. Freshman English. Was Sr. Emile one of them? I also think there was perhaps a female lay teacher, or am I getting confused 🤔?

Jim 

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

Janie and JIm,  Mrs Campbell was my freshman year English teacher and she did leave mid-year as she was expecting her first child.  Ms. Mary Burke was hired to teach the 2nd semester.  Her family lived across the street from my family on Oakland Pk..  She eventually left Watterson when she got married, moved away and had four daughters.  She subsequently divorced and moved back into her parents home and was rehired by Watterson where she taught English and was in charge of the yearbook until she retired five years or so ago.  She lives in that same house to this day.  I also have this vague memory that at some point during that freshman year English class, there was a change in which our class was divided and merged with another class due to some disciplinary issues?.....one of Mr. Shevlin's class perhaps?  As I said, this memory is very vague.  I also have this other very vague memory that during this particular English class we were allowed to move our desks together while doing diagramming of sentences. It is curious to me that some memories from long ago are as clear as if they happened yesterday, and others seem as though they came straight from dreamland!       

David Mitchell

First,

Jack,  I think you meant Mike M., refferrng to Pompeii. 

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Second,

Mr. Shevlin's name stirs an uncomfortable memory in me. I think he was the the somewhat oddball guy in whose class we behaved terribly!  He was certainly not a very strong authority figure and we pounced on that like little wolves. Why were we so insensitive? A bit of that Damon Frison guilt churns in my stomach.

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Third;

Watching the local restaurant busisinesses getting clobbered is all around us here, as it probably is for all of you. One of our many popular local high end dining rooms is making a hell of an effort. We went from 2 to 15 restaurants in this tiny little downtown - built over the last 8 years. Over time he accumulated a long list customer's emails. He is now sending notices out to all of us each week, reminding us that they will be selling tomales ($4.00 ea.) at the door every Saturday starting at 11:30 - with all the proceeds going to his employees. And he added a vegetable and fruit stand in the parking lot. It's been a hit!  

Yesterday the lines were already forming in the parking lot at 11:30. Charlie runs a very high end little spot and normally cooks every dish himself. But this also keeps the staff busy. I love Charlie's concern for his employees and his inventiveness.  

(* Mary Ann, you and Jeff should put May River Grill on you list when this is over. Kind'a small, kind'a plain, kind'a loud - - and kind'a terriffic!)

I am mindful of restaurant people struggling all over. We have at least two chefs in our children's ranks - Tim's  son (Seattle), and John Schaeufele's son (Charleston) - maybe others. I know it isn't much, but why don't we all go buy a pickup meal this week from a local establishement.       

(Cooking has been one of my joys in life. Had our three kids in the kitchen with us since they were tiny. They all love to cook now and I have two grandkids who love to help in the kitchen. I eat better when I visit my kids than I do for myself.)

Mary Clare Hummer (Bauer)

John, how could you forget our special study sessions with Sr. Francesca?  After the district Latin I test, she used to stalk us before school and during lunch break and make you and me study extra Latin stuff to prepare for the State test. We did some serious translating!!  If that jars your memory, here's my proof that we had Sr. Francesca:  

I really think Jim and Jeanine were in there, too, but unless they saved their report cards, I will have to concede the possibility that they may have had someone else.  
Wash your hands.  Stay home.  Be well. ❤️

Clare

John Jackson

Clare, I do dimly remember the cram sessions for the state Latin test and I remember English with Sister Michele, Algebra with Sister Norbertine, and World History with Mr. Mannion but I just don’t remember having Sr. Francesca for actual Latin class.  

Is it possible that our Latin classes were single-sex because of the racy subject matter?  I’m thinking of the ultra-suggestive teaser at the start of Caesar’s Commentary on the Gallic Wars  “Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres”.  Statements like that are akin to pouring gasoline on smoldering teenage hormones. 

Having said that, I have to admit you’ve probably backed me into a corner on the Sister Francesca issue.   Maybe it’s time I break quarantine and head out to the drug store to pick up some Prevagen.

Kathleen Wintering (Nagy)

I think Sister Cecily later worked at Lazaruz? Kathy W.

Michael McLeod

Now I'm sorry I brought this up since it just gave the smart kids a chance to show off their straight A's.

Seriously I really struggled in school and I likely would have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder these days. 

Don't know if anybody else does this but one of my ongoing fantasies is to go back and do it all over again as a totally ideal kid and grownup.

I am in the middle now of writing a story about how people are getting through this crazy thing. Found a lovely  story about a woman whose neighbors serenaded her -- staying six feet apart -- with a candelight procession to her front yard to sing hymns after her husband died. 

Another - this made national news - about a nurse who is living apart from his wife and children because he doesn't want to risk infecting them if he gets it.

Janie Albright (Blank)

Yes, Sr. Michelle for Freshman English! I loved her. I also loved Mr. Mannion's class. I remember we all subscribed to Newsweek a habit I continued til It went under. We had a special session daily on current events during the Cuban Missile Crisis.