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Inter-City Elementary Trivia Quiz
What historic event did we gather in front of the flag pole for in 1st grade?
We gathered around the flagpole--the whole school--to take down the flag with 48 stars and put up the one with 50 stars since Alaska and Hawaii had just become states.
Sputnik did orbit the earth about that time too.  I remember standing at the end of the driveway as my dad pointed it out streaming across the evening sky.
What did you have to do and find to get free ice cream in the Inter-City cafeteria?
Clean your plate & have a sticker on your plate that said W.H. Ward.  That contest made my mother livid because the overweight kids all cleaned their plates and got ice cream.  She said it was the skinny kids who needed to clean their plates and get ice cream. lol
Name two of the cafeteria ladies.
McCrary & Samuelson.  As in two of our classmates Dianne Samuelson (Mc Crary) and Roger McCrary

What teacher at Inter-City had a child that went to Inter-City?  Mrs. Greenlee--Me the daydreamer

Whose family added a bomb shelter to their house?  Pam Ryman's family.  It was like that episode of
Happy Days  Everyone wanted to be friends with Pam so in the nuclear attack we coud get invited to stay at Pam's shelter.  We didn't realize we all would have been toast by the time we got there, or actually before.

What historic event happened in 3rd grade?  John Glenn orbited the earth.  Mrs Williams brought a portable TV to th library ad we all got to go an dsit on the floor and watch them pick him up out of the water. I personally was more fascinated by the portable TV.

What was the school custodian’s name? His name was Eddie Pines.  He was a very tall black man, a gentle giant.  He was kind to everyone.  Mr. Ward once told my mother that he was the best psychologist in the school.  If Mr. Ward had an unruley kid he just couldn't calm down he took the child across the hall to "Pines".  Pines would talk to him and have him happy in now time. My mother ran into him occassioanlly at Bogatos years later, and he would still ask about the Inter-City kiuds by name.  Mom said, " Too bad he didn;'t become a teacher--he would have been a good one."  He died about 14 years ago.
What teacher played football for TCU? Mr. Wilcox.  He would say "Ackeehol" when he was teaching us about liquor and drugs and we would all giggle--made him furious--myself being the worst offender. He also hit me in the face one day for not paying attention (daydreaming again) and broke my glasses.  All he had to do was apologize to  MY MOTHER--not me!!

Who was the tallest teacher at Inter-City? The tallest teacher was Mrs. Giacona.  She was 6 feet tall and wore very short dresses.  She would sit on a stool outsie her door at the end of the day and hug everyone good bye. I wasn't in her class and  I remember being so jealous.  Her husband was Italian which was also a source of curiosity for us all.

What historic event happened in the 6th grade? Preident Kennedy was assasinated.  That was the first time I remember hearing that word.  Bobby Dodge had gone home for lunch and saw it on TV and burst into our classroom and told everyone.  Our class was in LOCKDOWN tld rest of the day so no one else would find out.  My father had said, "The country will come to an end if LBJ ever becomes president," so I was terrified that the end was happening that day!
Which teacher could write perfectly in cursive—backwards?
Mrs. Halbert.  Who incidentally came in second to Van Cliburn in the international piano competition that launched Cliburn's career.  When we got noisey or were not paying attention she would write in perfect cursive backwards--our assignemnts on the chalkboard---obviously I was the only one that was really impressed by that talent.

Who was the art teacher in 2nd grade?  I was in Mrs. Lassiter's class and he would come into our class and teach art.  I especially got on his nerves because I hummed all the time.  He would say, "NO HUMMING!  This is ART!"

And YES Steve Hickman I DO remember all these things myself and do not have a secret source of information as you had suggested--right PAM??

Jan Greenlee Hayes--the day dreamer.

The Inter-City Quiz

Inter-City Elementary Trivia Quiz
This test has officially been "Dumbed down for our Engineer Alumus" :-0

What historic event did we gather in front of the flag pole for in 1st grade?
a. sputnik oribiting the earth   b. Alan Shepherd going into space   c. changing the flag from 48 to 50 stars

What did you have to do and find to get free ice cream in the Inter-City cafeteria?
a. clean your plate & have a sticker on your plate b. eat veg & pickup trash   c. Take the teachers tray & put up your trash.

Name two of the cafeteria ladies.
a. McCrary  & Jones  b. Samuelson & Smith  c. McCrary & Samuelson


What teacher at Inter-City had a child that went to Inter-City?
a.  Mrs. Giacona   b.  Mrs. Carver   c. Mrs. Greenlee


Whose family added a bomb shelter to their house?
a. the Haygoods  b. the Rymans   c. the Dicksons

What historic event happened in 3rd grade?
a..Conoly became governor   b. John Glenn orbitted the earth  c.Kennedy elected president

What was the school custodian’s name?
a. Johnny Pines   b. Lenny Pines  c. Eddie Pines

What teacher played football for TCU?
a. Mr. Ward  b.Mr. Wilcox  c. Mr. Rawson

Who was the tallest teacher at Inter-City?
a Mr. Wilcox  b. Mrs. Giacona   c. Mrs. Halbert
What historic event happened in the 6th grade?
a. JFK shot   b. the 1st Texan became VP   c. John Conoly was assassinated.

Which teacher could write perfectly in cursive—backwards?
a. Mrs. Petit    b. Mr. Rawson  c. Mrs. Halbert

Who was the art teacher in 2nd grade?
a. Mrs. Halbert   b.  Mr Petmickey    c. Mrs. Hughes

The Reunion

I hadn't planned to go to this reunion at all.  I still felt really crabby about high school not being an especially great time in my life.  I felt like most of the time I was on the outside looking in.  As the reunion notices went out I noticed more and more people from my class getting on Facebook.  Gradually they began asking me to be their  friend.  Odd, I thought, since none of them had ever wanted to be my friend in HIGH SCHOOL.  But I agreed.  They starteed to make comments about my posts.  We began to ask about each other's posts and  I made a huge discovery.  It had nothing to do with them, all I would have had to do was to say hi and talk to them--it was me.  I never allowed the door to be opened to know all these great people--people, it turns out I have a lot in common with.

That door now being open I am--for the first time looking forward to seeing and spending some time with those old classmates.  It started out as a few people from the old neighborhood getting together for lunch, Steve, his wife Kayla, me and Madeline.  Another person said, "What  a great idea, can I come too?"  So we invited her, and another and another--until it was no longer the people from our old neighborhood but rather over 50 people from our graduating class.

I am so excited, many new friends, friendships established on who we are today with no pretenses from the past.  Our starting point--growing up in the same little town.  Thanks to Jere, Madeline, Steve, Elizabeth, Becky, Lindy, Debbie, Pam and all my  "New" Class of '70 friends.

The following is a poem I wrote in a literature class, in graduate school, about my school expereince.  I started to school in 1958.  It had been 12 years since the end of WWII and the country was in a police action with Korea.  Everyone was familiar with the order that the military gave their lives and that order carried into the schools. Conformity was THE RULE.  In 1958 I fell under this way of thinking.  I was not ordered or conformist in any thing I did.  Who knew that someday boys really  would wear red pants?  I was ............................

THE CREATIVE CHILD

The creative child

Knew all about school.

Her mom was  mommy

and a teacher too.

The first day finally came,

She was excited to go.

When dropped off early,

her fears stared to grow.

Will I fit in?

She wanted to know.

Who are these kids?

Any I know?

Mrs.Smith arrived

With keys in hand.

She looked at the child,

It was not as she planned.

She told the child

"Come in, sit down,

Take a desk to the back."

The child looked around.

Mrs. Smith like to follow the rules,

Otherwise she couldn't imagine just what they would do.

She had them color a boy in blue jeans

In the creative child's eyes they could be red too.

JEANS ARE NOT RED!

The child should have known

Mrs.smith gave an F

And said, "Take it home!"

On a big piece of paper

the children each drew

squares and circles, in red white and blue. 

Those were not the colors the creative child used.

She drew flowers

like Daddy had grown

She drew them in odd shapes

of flowers she'd known.

They were pink and purple

And some color unknown

Mr. Petmickey heard

the child humming

a popular tume.

This is ART child--!

No humming in school!

In the 4th grade Mrs. Crain

filled the children with dread,

"Daydream! Imagine!

Write what comes in your head!

Most of the children

Sat stiff and confused,

Their thinking was ordered

They needed some rules.

But the child loved the challenge,

She just couldn't miss,

She wished each day in school

Could be just like this.

Creativity was scary

They needed order back then---

So the creative child

Just never fit in.

                                                                 Jan Greenlee Hayes