My Trails into the Past

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - Time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings : 1)  Do you have memories of your Junior High School (or Middle School) years?  Please share several of them. Actually, I attended neither a middle school or junior high but an intermediate school consisting of seventh and eighth grades. Parkmead Intermediate was located on Newell Avenue in Walnut Creek, California adjacent to Parkmead Elementary, which I also attended. I walked to school. In the low water part of the year, I took a shortcut by crossing the creek and cutting through Mr. Newell’s property. Both grade years had English, math, science, social studies, P.E., foreign language, music/art in 7th grade and home ec. in 8th grade (boys had shop), and one elective, which for both years was girls’ chorus. I took German for foreign language from Mrs. Harvey. My grades were average (couldn’t find the report cards I...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans: It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is our assignment from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing : 1)  What elementary school memories do you have?  Share some of them - pick a year, or discuss the whole experience.  Was this one of the best times in your life?  Or not? 2)  Tell us about your elementary school memories and the highlights of that time of your life - in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or on Facebook.  Be sure to leave a comment with a link to your blog post on this post. Here’s mine: I attended three different schools in my elementary school career. My first school was Pittsburg Primary School, which was located on Railroad Avenue. Below is a photo of the school, but the Kindergarten building was separate. It was three blocks from our house, so I probably walked. Perhaps either my mother or my grandmother walked with me. I only attended t...

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:  It's Saturday Night again - time for some more Genealogy Fun !! Here is your assignment if you choose to play along (cue the Mission Impossible music, please!): 1)  Most of us graduated from elementary school, junior high school, high school, and perhaps college. 2)  What schools did you graduate from (and when, if you dare!) - and do you have a photograph? 3)  Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment on this post, or in a Facebook post. I attended Pittsburg (California) Primary School for Kindergarten. I don’t remember whether there was some kind of graduation or promotion ceremony. Next I attended St. Peter Martyr School in Pittsburg until the middle of third grade. We moved to Walnut Creek and I attended Parkmead Elementary School until sixth grade. I don’t think there was any ceremony. I did graduate from Parkmead Intermediate School , from the 8th grade, June 12, 1968. [1] I th...

Randy Seaver of Genea-Musing has another great assignment. Here is our assignment: 1) Remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and in fifth grade at school? Was that one of the best times in your life? Or not? 2) Tell us about your fifth grade memories and the highlights of that time of your life - in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or on Facebook or Google+. I attended Parkmead Elementary in Walnut Creek, California for fifth grade. Mrs. Griffin was our teacher and she was the hardest teacher I ever had. She hated our handwriting and made us re-learn cursive all over with all of the exercises. She was also one of those teachers who seemed to have eyes in the back of her head. I think we wore her out because she retired after our school year! But the best part of 5th grade was joining Junior Girl Scouts. I was part of Troop 374. [1] We met once a week in the Kindergarten room and our leaders, Mrs. Bailey & Mrs. Hanson, were teachers, I think (though ...