I graduated from Catholic Memorial in 1965, out of a class of 250 I was probably 249. Not really, but I just didn't feel the need to go off to college right away, so I got a job at the hospital.
I worked in the kitchen for a year and then had decided that I would go to the tech school in Milwaukee to become a medical assistant.
My mother being the caring mother she was said I could go to the big city for school only if I stayed in a Catholic dormitory. Well let me tell you the fun was on!!!
The Sister's of Sorrowful Mother had a dorm in the back of Marquette University that housed some 200 girls. Well that year there were 212, so myself and 11 other girls were housed in an older home right next door to the dorm.
Our place was called the annex, my room was number 8 so that when the phone rang you needed to count the number of rings, so 8 rings would be my room but I had four other roommates so then we needed to find out who it was for.
Now, being the good Catholic girls that we were, we didn't waste time finding someone who would buy us beer. Many Friday nights were spent playing spoons and drinking beer. We're talking over 50 years ago, Milwaukee was a big city compared to the small town I was from.
When ever a person lost at cards the rest of the players would decide what the loser had to do. One time we made the girls that lost stand at a city bus stop, get on the bus, kiss the bus driver and get off.
There was a St. Vinnie’s drop box for clothes one block over from the annex. We would often take clothes out of the box, put them on and walk to George Webb for a hamburger. When I lost, my punishment was to crawl on hands and knees to the YMCA two blocks away!! Show no mercy.
I got a job working for 8 doctors after tech school. It was a fun job, and the days of staying in the Annex came to an end.
One of my roommates, Barbara Kudow and I got an apartment together. It was a lower apartment, the kind where in the living room we could see people’s feet as they walked by on the sidewalk. We had good times there.
I worked in the kitchen for a year and then had decided that I would go to the tech school in Milwaukee to become a medical assistant.
My mother being the caring mother she was said I could go to the big city for school only if I stayed in a Catholic dormitory. Well let me tell you the fun was on!!!
The Sister's of Sorrowful Mother had a dorm in the back of Marquette University that housed some 200 girls. Well that year there were 212, so myself and 11 other girls were housed in an older home right next door to the dorm.
Our place was called the annex, my room was number 8 so that when the phone rang you needed to count the number of rings, so 8 rings would be my room but I had four other roommates so then we needed to find out who it was for.
Now, being the good Catholic girls that we were, we didn't waste time finding someone who would buy us beer. Many Friday nights were spent playing spoons and drinking beer. We're talking over 50 years ago, Milwaukee was a big city compared to the small town I was from.
When ever a person lost at cards the rest of the players would decide what the loser had to do. One time we made the girls that lost stand at a city bus stop, get on the bus, kiss the bus driver and get off.
There was a St. Vinnie’s drop box for clothes one block over from the annex. We would often take clothes out of the box, put them on and walk to George Webb for a hamburger. When I lost, my punishment was to crawl on hands and knees to the YMCA two blocks away!! Show no mercy.
I got a job working for 8 doctors after tech school. It was a fun job, and the days of staying in the Annex came to an end.
One of my roommates, Barbara Kudow and I got an apartment together. It was a lower apartment, the kind where in the living room we could see people’s feet as they walked by on the sidewalk. We had good times there.
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