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NOTES FROM JGL
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 : It’s pouring outside, and I have plenty of time on my hands to start this endeavor. Most of these notes will come from actual notes, journals, friendship logs, year book messages, letters and so on. Entry 1: June, 1952
This edited entry comes from several students in the 6 th grade class at School #4. It was the annual “friendship log time” of the year. We were soon to be 7 th graders at FLHS. No names are given in order to protect the writers.
Some people write up. Some people write down. but, I’m different, and I write upside down. (You have to turn the page upside down.)
- Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Poor little Humpty Dumpty didn’t look in the yellow pages of the telephone book.
- I hope you have a very happy summer. And that I can be in your class next year if I can work my self up.
- There are big ships. There are little ships. But there is no ship like friendship.
Likes:
Swimming, Richard A., horses, you, Henry Z. Larry K. (Who was he?), everybody, J…with love, girls, food, baseball, boys, mystery stories, eating, watching TV (Wow! How many people had TV’s in ‘52?), dogs, summer, pancakes.
The following list of likes is from March ’53 and is from someone who was with us for a short time. It’s the only March ’53 entry in this particular friendship log. Notice how important boys have become in the social lives of some 7 th graders.
Boys:
Eddy, Scott, Bobby P. Bobby F. Jess, Rocco, dancing, skating, walking all over town.
Dislikes: (Names have been deleted) They Know!
Nobody, school, Girl Scouts, work, missing allowance, my brothers, boys, fish, liver, certain people.
Favorite Movie Star:
Cary Grant, Hedy Lamarr, Betty Grable, Gary Cooper, Betty Hutton, Van Johnson, Gene Kelly, Red Ryder, Roy Rogers.
Evidently Marlon Brando, James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Marilyn Monroe, had not yet invaded some of our dreams.
Favorite Boy’s Name:
Richard, Larry K., Frank L. Edward k., Bobby, Howard, Robert
Favorite Girl’s Name:
Carolyn R., Janet, Pat J., Patricia, Betsy, Patty
Please share some of your notes or other souvenirs from the fifties with us at this site.
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