When we kids were all in school full-time mother went back to work to earn extra money to buy patio furniture. She thought she would be there a couple of years and ended staying 25 years. She bought herself a automatic washer and dryer. She was so excited when the truck came to deliver them.
I can say that we had a good childhood. Bill and I went to 12 years of Catholic school and there were some hard lessons to learn. It was the 50’s and poodle skirts and saddle shoes were in. We were taught by the nuns and believe me they were strict. If you misbehaved they thought nothing of hitting your knuckles with a ruler.
The fashion then was short skirts. We girls used to make our skirts shorter by rolling over the waistband while we at school but pull them down on the walk home. One year I had a nun who made us girls kneel down on the floor in front of the class and if our skirts didn’t touch the floor we had to pull them down. She also didn’t want us girls wearing eye make-up. She thought I had mascara on. She pulled on my eyelashes and found I was telling the truth but she pulled out several eyelashes in the process.
I was on my way to a high school English class when over the loud speaker came the news that President Kennedy had been shot. The whole country was in shock.
In 1964, while a senior in high school, my brother Bill was elected Homecoming King. The girl he asked to be queen was from a well-to-do family. Not so exciting yes, but they had color TV. How amazing. He watched “The Flintstones” and told us that the dinosaur was purple!! She soon broke up with him.
I didn’t have it so easy in high school. I was always known as Bill Vicker’s sister, he was a star football player and an all-state wrestler.
So what did I do my first few years in high school? I got into trouble, though nothing too outrageous.
We had these green cards that we had to carry at all times when in school. Passing notes in class was 5 demerits, smoking in the boys room was 10 demerits, refusing to participate in gym, leaving the grounds during lunch hour were all subject to demerits. If you reached 30 demerits you were suspended from school for 5 days. I hovered around 28. Maybe it was the company I was keeping.
By junior year I straightened out, can’t say I didn’t get any demerits though it was just for the occasional note passing.
There was a group of us that seemed to hang together. We all went to prom as couples, but in a large group.
I can say that we had a good childhood. Bill and I went to 12 years of Catholic school and there were some hard lessons to learn. It was the 50’s and poodle skirts and saddle shoes were in. We were taught by the nuns and believe me they were strict. If you misbehaved they thought nothing of hitting your knuckles with a ruler.
The fashion then was short skirts. We girls used to make our skirts shorter by rolling over the waistband while we at school but pull them down on the walk home. One year I had a nun who made us girls kneel down on the floor in front of the class and if our skirts didn’t touch the floor we had to pull them down. She also didn’t want us girls wearing eye make-up. She thought I had mascara on. She pulled on my eyelashes and found I was telling the truth but she pulled out several eyelashes in the process.
I was on my way to a high school English class when over the loud speaker came the news that President Kennedy had been shot. The whole country was in shock.
In 1964, while a senior in high school, my brother Bill was elected Homecoming King. The girl he asked to be queen was from a well-to-do family. Not so exciting yes, but they had color TV. How amazing. He watched “The Flintstones” and told us that the dinosaur was purple!! She soon broke up with him.
I didn’t have it so easy in high school. I was always known as Bill Vicker’s sister, he was a star football player and an all-state wrestler.
So what did I do my first few years in high school? I got into trouble, though nothing too outrageous.
We had these green cards that we had to carry at all times when in school. Passing notes in class was 5 demerits, smoking in the boys room was 10 demerits, refusing to participate in gym, leaving the grounds during lunch hour were all subject to demerits. If you reached 30 demerits you were suspended from school for 5 days. I hovered around 28. Maybe it was the company I was keeping.
By junior year I straightened out, can’t say I didn’t get any demerits though it was just for the occasional note passing.
There was a group of us that seemed to hang together. We all went to prom as couples, but in a large group.
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