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Joseph Gentilini

Sheila, at least I was not the only one 'scarred' by TWA!  Joe

Deborah Alexander (Rogers)

Sheila,

You are correct.  Miss Clifford was Jane's older sister.  As I recall, their mother died when the family was fairly young, and Miss Clifford helped raise the younger children. 

Joseph D. McCarthy

Dave those were great songs by great artists.  However, did any of you ever listen to Rusty Warren or Dave Clark & The Hot Nuts.  Wild songs. 

Aloong with that, I just read in the Columbus Monthly the story behind the closing of the Grandview Inn.  Which of course reminded me of one of my favorite musicians - Pete Fountain (New Orleans Jazz) who played at the Grandview Inn with his band numerous times while we were in high school.  I still have the album he gave my father at one of the times he and the band stopped at our house in Grandview before going to play.  One of the members of his band owned a business in New Orleans that was in the Party Rental business like my family.

One last note, although they were not the original artists, I do like the Righteous Brothers version of "I Believe".

Mark Schweickart

Dave,

Great job in coming up with al of those song titles, although I would guess you were lost in YouTube Land for much longer than twenty minutes. We all know how that rabbit hole goes. I had completely forgotten about Running Bear and have very fond memories of listening to that on the jukebox in a little candy store hangout we had in Worthington called The Confectionary. But my favorite song from that time period would be the greatest history lesson song of all times--The Battle of New Orleans with the unforgettable lyric:

We fired our cannon till the barrel melted down
Then we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round
We filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off the gator lost his mind

Not the kind of thing we would have learned in Coach Walker's history class, but then again what, if anything, did we learn in his class?

Monica Haban (Brown)

The OLPers won't likely appreciate this photo, but here is your 1962 graduation photo.  Mary Ann Nolan's dress is prophetic as she truly became a Southern Belle!

David Mitchell

Mark,

Oh man, I loved all those old Jonny Horton "historical" ballads. I used to sing the words to Battle of New Orleans too. "Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise...." 

Joe, my older sisters used to get taken to some stuff at the Grandview Inn. And I had my rehearsal dinner there. Another "sacred shrine" going away. I think that strip of property down on that section of "33" is getting too hot NOT to be redeveloped into highter density uses. 

And Joe, The Righteous Brothers never made a bad record.

I am aware of many songs and artists I missed last night. Do any more of you have a memory of a song linked with an occasion - a guy, a girl, that certain date, that first kiss, or one of those heart breaks? Or even something funny?

Do I hear some Ricky Nelson (Ohh,,, I'm a Travelin' Man ) out there? 

Otis Redding?  (OMG! "Dock o' the Bay")    Connie Francis? ("Where the Boys Are" - ooooh, chills! )

Let's hear what you've got?

Janie Albright (Blank)

Thanks, Monica, I'm going to add to the photo gallery too. We have several 8th grade photos there. I can't believe how many I can still recognize! 

David Mitchell

Monica,

How much would it take for you to burry that photo. Name your price. Seriously! I can deliver it in small bills in unmarked envelopes. I think the State Department may be knocking on your door in a few minutes. My advice is - RUN GIRL, SAVE YOURSELF !

Janie Albright (Blank)

Ok, I'm pretty positive someone has posted the IC 8th grade photo fairly recently but I can't find it. It needs to be a .jpg or converted to one for me to add to class photo gallery. Right now I only have St Michaels, St Agathas and OLP. Come on the rest of you it would be great to have all our parish 8th grade photos posted. Equal opportunity embarrassment for all! Actually they are so cute, I love them! 

Alan Standish

Joe- it was Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts.  I saw them perform in Cincy around 1966 or 1967 wearing nothing but transparent rain ponchoes and red jock straps!

Joseph Donahue

A little after high school but I went to the Sugar Shack near the OSU campus. Mitch Rider and the Detroit Wheels played there regularly. Anybody remember Baby Huey?  He played there often as did Spider Turner who played In the Midnight Hour for about 10 minutes.  Drank pitchers of PBR, Carling Black Label and Strohs for about $1 a pitcher 

Michael McLeod

I seem to remember a local band named The Dantes. Am I right? I remember us being really excited about the local bands, and going to Valley Dale to hear them play.

Also seems to me Paul Revere and the Raiders played there once.

Also I remember a band consisting of Watterson guys - they played in the gym one time, and to my memory it was during class time, with seems pretty weird.  But I cannot remember the name of the band.

Anybody from IC remember a day when a nun got so frustrated that she left the classroom, slammed the door, and the glass in the door shattered?

I think her name was Sister Mary Margaret. I think that was the class in which I climbed up onto the top of the wardrobe during class. But don't blame me for the shattered door. That was another time. 

Timothy Lavelle

Mike..."Marauders" and now the "Dantes"...I do remember those names. I wanted to be a drummer and looked up to a guy who was in one of them...older than us by maybve two years?...Tony Andrietti. He wasa really good drummer. I'm sure they played at WHS during a talent show or maybe a dance? And dancing...do you remember how that seemed like an art that only very special people knew...like it was sooooo cool that I for sure would never be able to do that. I remember "Babes of the Dance-floor" Shanihan and Naderhoff when the song played:

"Here we go loop de loop, shake it up baby,

"Bend over, let me see you shake a tail feather,

Bend over let me see you shake a tail feather,

Now shake..."

Al/Joe...The Hot Nuts...played frat houses from what I heard later...used to sing "Have you ever had the ..." and instead of words they would clap their hands. Yeah, you get it. The story sounded hilarious.

Dave...can't help remembering:

"Innnnn the Valley of the Jolly Green Giant,

He's so big and mean........can't remember....."then he hits you with a can of beans".

Linda Weiner (Bennett)

Speaking of Marsha Spanner: I have shocking story about Fr (then) Grimes, my fave as far as teachers go, who taught a freshman religion class.  It was shocking to me because I had never been around priests who talked to kids this way. 

I cannot recall who was in that class except for Marsha. I wonder who else may remember and I'm hoping my memory is not clear about this. 

Fr frequently had "ask-questions-day" instead of regular class. We could ask anything related to our faith or boys too I guess! (I believe we already had our 
making -out, "turning boys on" lecture!)

One day Marsha raised her hand, stood up and told Father that some boy was spreading rumors about her and him or her and other boys. She was upset but didn't know how to make him stop or exactly what to do about it.

Grimes sat there on the front of the desk with his religion book on his lap (his usual teaching position) silent for several seconds, then said to Marsha, in a very serious tone, "Gary should punch him in the nose."

Honestly, I thought Fr Grimes was so down to earth and I loved his classes. 

Linda Weiner (Bennett)

I hate to say I just hated going to WHS. Had to get up earlier and ride city bus (until senior year when our school got a regular school bus with another Parish,I think IC). I dislike many of the teachers, unlike grade school where I adored the sisters. Academics were terribly difficult for me and I was loaded down with homework every night! I flunked Fr Durbin's world history class freshman year and had to go to summer school—one more reason to hate it.

Mostly, I think because I allowed myself to be influenced by my big sis ( class of 59) who never had anything positive to say about Watterson. She wasn't interested in prom or anything other function there and I tried to be just like her. I probably never would have attended a reunion had it not been for my good friend, Shelley Pendergast! Oh, well, those days are gone and so is Shelley!

I AM enjoying this group her however, and wondering if I would have been in that 8th grade OLP photo had my dad not sold the house on Delawanda before we had a chance to move in.  😲  I'm not complaining about Holy Name though. I could walk to school, unlike St James and I really did love those nuns. I still have BFFs from HNS. 😍  

BTW, Sr George Ann taught 4th grade and art to all grades at Holy Name—I never realized she taught at WHS.

I have terrible story about one art class, I'll save till later.  

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

While I do not have an IC graduating picture to download, I do happen to have some photos from our IC athletic banquet booklet and of our May Crowning in the first grade to share.  IF.....I can get them to post on this forum.  I will give it the old Eagle try!  And you thought I wasn't watching!!!  ba, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!     

David Mitchell

Tim, I think you are being too modest about Mike M's question. You mentioned earlier (about 900 posts ago) about your band with Mike Haggerty and Ron Kovaks. What was the name of your band?  And didn't you play in our gym for one of the talent shows? I have this vague memory of it - but as I recall, you guys were so good I think we were all just a bit shocked. 

And while we are on the music subject, who sang "Hey, Hey Paula"?  I just remember having one of those secret crushes on Paula Massinelli about when that song was popular. I thought she was the most beautiful girl I had ever seen!  But she was older and I was a younger nobody so that never got me anythig but a lot of day dreaming and wishful thinking.   

And Mike, funny you would mention the Valley Dale - a legendary place that my older sisters went to all the time with their St. Mary's / St. Charles crowd, but I don't recall ever going there myself. 

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"Hey, hey Paula, I'm gonna' marry you some day,,,,,"

Timothy Lavelle

Dave, Sadly I am not being at all hard on myself when I say I was a crap drummer. Mike Hagerty always used to laugh and tell Ron Kovaks that I was one beat off. I feel certain that was just a musical euphemism on his part (Mike was a very funny guy)...I have always been one beat off in almost everything. I totally found out how bad I was one night when we were playing at at someone's birthday party. Frank Strange's brother John asked if he could play while I had a smoke. He was great and I was faced by the clear fact that liking the drums didn;t mean you could play the drums. Excellent life lesson.

I think it was Paul Anka who did Hey Hey Paula. I think that Paula Masinelli was the girl who sold me a totally bogus history book on our first day Freshman year. A real looker.  

Joseph D. McCarthy

Am not sure why, but recent conversations remind me of a the words of William Golding, a British Novelist, Playwright, & Poet.

   "I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,

    They are far superior and always have been.  Whatever you give a woman, she will make it greater.

    If you give her sperm, she will give you a baby.  If you give her a house she will give you a home.

    If you give her groceries, she will give you a meal.  If you give her a smile, she will give you her heart.

    She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.

   So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit"

Alan Standish

Dave- believe it or not, "Hey Paula"  was sung by a duo named Paul and Paula!   Tim and Joe- Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts did play at fraternity houses, but they also played at local bars in Cincy- like the old Wooden Keg or the Flame ( where James Brown was known to show up every now and then unannounced!)  Anybody remember the Pozo-Seco singers that were at some bar down on Olentangy periododically.  I also remember going to the Spider Turner revue at Vet's Memorial with Solomom Burke, Wilson Pickett, Spider Turner and a few others.  I think I went with John Favret, Doug Lane, Johnny Angel, and maybe a few other St. Michael's alumni.  There definitely was "dancing in the aisles"!

David Mitchell

Damn, Just when I thnk it's safe to get off this crazy forum, somebody grabs my attention again. 

Mike, I do remember the Dantes. Weren't they local guys who were good enough to go pretty far with their carreers? Like a record on the top 40 on WCOL?  And even a TV appearance on Jerry Razor's channel 4 Saturday morning Bandstand?

Tim, your mastery of the language (and certain hidden phrases) still astounds me -  a regular wordsmith. But alas, you are too harsh on yourself. And by the way, we've all had it hapen to us. My dad used to say, "there is always a faster gun in the West".   But what was your group's name?

Joe, we should proclaim you our class "laureate"!  I love the stuff you come up with.

Al,  I had completely forgotten Paul and Paula - doncha' love it!   And all I can say is Wow! Soloman Burke and the "Wicked Pickett"?   Smokin' !   (and I do remeber the Pozo Seco singers - they were on the "charts")

Mary Margaret, You must realize that putting those photographs into the public domain like this could place you in great peril. 

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Excuse me, but this just hit me ----- "Make it Easy on Your se e e e elf" - Jerry Butler 1962

(and The Walker Brothers 1965 - Dionne Warwick 1970)

James Hamilton, M. D.

David Mitchell

Jim,

Now das whut ahm talkin' bout - man!

And where, prey tell, are all the ladies on this subject ?

I remember at one of our legendary (well, all of maybe three) dances at Kathy Shanahan's house - I was kind of a willing but shy participant, but didn't know any of those dances.

(Fact of Life: The girls knew them all - part of their DNA, right?)

So I am standing in the corner just watching, when Mary Ann Nolan walks over grabs my arm, and with a vice grip pulls me out on the dance floor and says, "I'm gonna' show you how to do this. Just do what I do."

And she starts stepping forward and back, forward and back. The song was an electric organ instrumental called  "Rinky Dink" by Dave Baby Cortez. I was learnig to do the "Cha Cha".

Ohh, take me back ! 

Robert Berkemer

Mary Margaret, thank you so much for posting the pictures. They brought back a flood of long past memories of an innocent time of our lives. So many wonderful classmates when they were all "little"! ;-) The last picture I believe has Mary Clare at the head of a church procession? She looks like a little Hummel figurine AND clearly shows that she had braided hair which she claimed she never had!! ;-) Wish I could go back in time..........  Also, did you save all of these pictures you keep posting or did your Mom keep them. My Mom kept many things like that only to give them to us kids many years later. 

Janie Albright (Blank)

I added these wonderful IC photos to the IC album. I challenge everyone to send in photos like these so we can have an album for each grade school. The cover photo is the 8th grade graduation photo but right now we only have IC, OLP and St. Michaels. It's Winter! For those not in warm weather get out the old boxes and start hunting for these great memories. The memories will warm your soul.  If you have a problem adding them to this page you can email them to me. 

janeablank@aol.com