Princeton High School
Class of 1966
Survey
George Sanford
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Swede
Playground Memory
Playing marbles and the rotary swing.
Milk Break
Remember pilfering milk after school while sneaking in the old gym/cafeteria to play basketball with the city kids, Dahle, Erickson, Rosen.
Lunch
I drove the lunch truck, taking food from the elementary school to the senior and junior high. Tipped over a few meals in transit.
Mel Shay Storytime
the day Mel Shay sat on a tack which mysteriously appeared on his chair one day.
In Trouble
Calling the Spanish teacher Miss Vukavitch Miss Vuka-bitch. Kicked off the basketball team due to this.
All 12 Grades!
No
Carolyn Braun
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Mrs. Oliver
Milk Break
I'm pretty sure I never drank chocolate milk.
Mel Shay Storytime
Didn't Fran Barg also throw erasers?
In Trouble
In 3rd grade I was sent to the principal's office because I told the teacher my name wasn't Carol. The principal brought me back to the room and told the teacher my name wasn't Carol.
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Frank Kosloski; does not use a computer and is quite content without one.
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No
Morris (Moe) Webb
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Move the reunion to their house at the last minute?
Teacher
SWEDE SOLHEIM
Playground Memory
MAKING FRIENDS WITH PETE TAYLOR, WHEN HE WAS NEW KID IN SCHOOL, TO KEEP HIM FROM BEING BULLIED.
Milk Break
REMEMBERING MARTHA S. SETTING UNDER THE TEACHERS TABLE AFTER WE MADE HER SNORT DRINKING HER MILK.
Lunch
AT THE OLD SCHOOL SPLITTING THE WEEKLY ORANGE LUNCH TICKETS IN TWO AND USING THE MONEY FOR THE SECOND WEEKS LUNCHES TO GO TO THE K-BOB AFTER SCHOOL TO BUY A SODA. OR WHEN WE MOVED TO THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL I RAN THE CANTEEN FOR SECOND LUNCH. I GOT OUT OF STUDYHALL TO EAT LUNCH BETWEEN LUNCH SHIFTS AND NO ONE EVER ASKED FOR MY LUNCH TICKET TO PUNCH AND EATING WITH THE PRINCIPALS.
Mel Shay Storytime
ALL GARY ROSEN, MINNOWS IN HIS DESK OR TACKS ON HIS CHAIR. HE GOT EVEN BY PLACING TACKS ON ALL OUR CHAIRS THE NEXT DAY
In Trouble
SHOOTING PAPER WADS WITH A RUBBER BAND IN CLASS WITH GARY ROSEN. I FORGET THE TEACHERS NAME. HE WAS THE JV BASKETBALL COACH. HE MADE GARY AND I PICK-UP 1/2 INCH BY 1/2 INCH PIECES OF PAPER OFF THE FLOOR 1 AT A TIME THE WHOLE NEXT DAY'S CLASS PERIOD. I USED THAT ONCE WHEN I WAS TEACHING ALSO.
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
?
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
NO
The School Bus
RUNNING 7 BLOCKS FROM OUR BUS STOP TO THE FIRST BUS STOP TO GET A BACK SEAT.
100% Attendance
GEORGE S. ALREADY GOT RON W.
Where were you when JFK was shot?
WE HAD GONE TO CHURCH SCHOOL ON THAT FRIDAY, SO I WAS AT THE METHODIST CHURCH SCHOOL.
John Taylor
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Send them the bill for the whole event!
Teacher
Hank Findel
Playground Memory
Mryon Angstrom tore my fingernail off with his baseball cletes when I slid into 2nd base at recess
Milk Break
I think I was milk monitor in one of the early years and then we would rest our heads
Lunch
I always thought the Firday tuna salad and peanut butter sandwiches wre great. Still do.
Mel Shay Storytime
Mr. Earnst would click his chaulk on his wedding ring. He once thru at me and hit Sue Odegard
In Trouble
Clem Letich broke a tee square on my back and then wanted me to pay for it. No way, Jose
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Not me but I'm close. Would that be so bad?
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No, but memory is not my strong suit
The School Bus
The bus driver would holler at us when we would leave our seats. "Don't make me stop this bus".
100% Attendance
I'm friends with both Jack and Merlan Holland so I'll work on them
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Jean Jackson
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Home Ec Teacher, Dorothy Anderson. She visited my home to help me in making a navy blue suit.
Playground Memory
My Country School was on the corner of our farm, and lots of traumatic memories with the transition to "town school" in 7th grade.
Milk Break
Yes, same in Country School, and the milk man delivered and some times did not smell too good!!
Lunch
Dorothy Smith, the cook who dished up our meals. She is now 100 yrs young and in the Elim Nursing Home in Princeton
Mel Shay Storytime
Mr. Barg scared me!! So big sitting on the corner of the oak desk and throwing erasers and doing other things that would not be acceptable today!!
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
I feel that I am still challenged with how the computer works, and totally not into paying bills on line etc.
Kindergarten
No
The Lunch Room Skeleton
Sorry, wasn't attending then
The School Bus
Riding with the "friends" which we remember forever!!
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Mike Heymer
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Send them the bill for the whole event!
Teacher
Mr. Anderson
Playground Memory
I planted a smacker on the lips of Susan Sanford just outside the west door of the elementary school in third grade as we were filing out to the playground at recess. She slapped me, and that was the end of our one second romance. I didn't try that again with ANY girl for almost 10 years! What trauma!
Milk Break
A pleasant break in the day. I think I mostly drank white milk, but I think I had chocolate once in a while, too. I can't remember exactly.
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
I ducked when Mr. Shay threw the eraser at me. It hit the kid behind me (don't remember who).
In Trouble
Duane Gates and I were having a "sword fight" with sharp pencils in Spanish class. At a previous class reunion, I could still see the black lead pencil stain between the two fingers of his left hand where I apparently stabbed him. I went to the principal's office....
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
Yes, and it was a female, they said. I have to find someone else who remembers this!!
The School Bus
Playing marbles, where you grab a few from your trusty marble bag and hold them in your fist, asking someone to guess how many are there. If they guessed it, they won the marbles.
100% Attendance
I'll see if I can get Dennis Cook and Tim Metcalf to come.
Where were you when JFK was shot?
In the hallway leading to the south end of the library on the second floor
Country school
I missed going to country school by one year. The school was on the corner of our farmland.
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
I have 8 wallet-sized pics of 4th graders, 8 of 6th graders, 13 each of 8th graders and 10th graders.
Susan Wood
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Evangeline Cooper
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Ken Anderson
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
No
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
I was at religious education "release-time", stopped by home on the way back to school and there heard the news.
Country school
First grade.
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Phillip Wicktor
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Send them the bill for the whole event!
Teacher
Hank Findell
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No.
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
No
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Kathleen Hohlen
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Move the reunion to their house at the last minute?
Teacher
Lucille Oliver
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Study Hall
Country school
No
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Clarice Gryskiewicz
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Move the reunion to their house at the last minute?
Teacher
Richard Anderson
Playground Memory
NO MEMORY. Lived in Iowa then.
Milk Break
Lunch
Lunch bags were much better than school lunches.
Mel Shay Storytime
Watching reruns of the PHS football games instead of leaning history during class time.
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
I do not have a favorite memory because I hated riding the bus!
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
I was in a classroom but I don't remember which one. I remember everyone being very quiet. It was a very bad memory.
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Nancy Tomlinson
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Mr Jenkins
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
The lunchroom
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Garry Gray
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
I don't know about Mr. Shay, but Fran Barg missed me with one in the 7th grade.
In Trouble
Phil Gerth had a habit of slugging me in the shoulder or giving me a knee in my back when I would be getting stuff out of our locker. I was blessed with sharing a locker with him from 8th-12th grade(old school).
Mr. Johnson did not approve of one of altercations near his classroom.
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
No
The Lunch Room Skeleton
NO
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Home room in the biology room.
Country school
First-sixth grade.
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
No
Gary Mason
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Send them the bill for the whole event!
Teacher
Harvey Walsh, math
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
I remember Fran Barg throwing erasers
In Trouble
Third grade. Jim Gerth and I were throwing rocks around and hit Albert Krona in the forehead. We got chewed out and then had to go to the sick room to apologize to Al.
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
Our bus number was #48. My bus broke down twice. Once, the rear axle broke, releasing the dual wheels right alongside of where I was sitting. This happened twice. In the winter, the bus got stuck in someone's yard, and the older kids were recruited to go outside and push the bus.
100% Attendance
Russ Unger
Where were you when JFK was shot?
In the dentist's office. Dr. Lingle.
Country school
No
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Patricia Gorham
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
No
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Yes I was in Study hall. The announcement came over the P A
Country school
Yes 2nd grade
1st 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th
were at CCS in Pease, Mn
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Michael Pearson
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Mrs. Lucille Oliver
Playground Memory
We had a game played at our country school called "Pom Pom Pull Away." It was often intense and rough.
Milk Break
As a son of a dairy farmer, I was always intrigued by the milk program. We drink all we needed at home. I don't recall a price difference between the white and chocolate at our country school.
Lunch
"Black Olive Toss"
Mel Shay Storytime
Mr. Roos threatening to wrap the trombone around the player after hitting wrong notes (an old Navy story).
In Trouble
Low grade in Trigonometry
All 12 Grades!
No
Kindergarten
No
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No
The School Bus
Our driver, Louie Newton, would take us to the Dairy Queen for a cone on the last day of school. His treat! :-)
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Lunch room
Country school
Yes, grades 1 -7 at the North Star Dist 66 one room school house near Dalbo.
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Several from the 1950's of our country school pictures. Will have to search my files for the high school pictures.
Jack Holland
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
No
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Richard Wallace
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
Albert Krona cleaning an eraser on Mel's chair without him knowing it.
Mel sitting down and finding out Albert had done it. (Not a pretty sight)
In Trouble
When I was in the seventh grade I talked 2 friends to go to the rides at Como Park when we were supposed to stay with the group at the Conservatory. F in conduct that semester!
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
No
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
Someone putting a poo poo cushion on the teachers seat on the ride home from Como Park. See story below. (No, that wasn't me. I was in enough trouble by then).
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
I was at Ben Hartman's Pool Hall having lunch.
Country school
Yes, East 4, Grades 1-8
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
No
Thomas Ossell
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
yelling names at kids through the fan vent when the lunch room was in the basement of the old school, when I didn't think anyone could see me.
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Frank Kosloski, would love to see him. He was a good friend in HS, and an insperation to study harder.
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
yes, 3rd grade 56/57, 4th grade 57/58 and 6th grade 59/60
Russell Unger
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Send them the bill for the whole event!
Teacher
Mr. Findell
Playground Memory
Playing softball in 4th grade, I was playing first base, going for a pop-up and I missed the ball. It hit me square in the nose, and there was blood all over. It made me re-think playing ball for a while. I also got in a fight with an older kid. Same result.
Milk Break
I wish I had another penny so I could get chocolate milk today.
Lunch
When mom didn't have any paper sacks for my lunch, it was newspaper for me, hopefully the funnies. Aside from that I liked sloppy joe day at school.
Mel Shay Storytime
We used to call him Mel Minnow and one time someone put a minnow in his desk. Someone put a tack on his chair one day, too.
In Trouble
I got called into the principal's office after a fight with Skip Merry.
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
It's me!
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No.
The School Bus
The last day of each school year, our bus driver treated us to a Dairy Queen or other treat.
100% Attendance
I'll try to get Dick Becker to come.
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Coming down the stairway from second floor to the first floor.
Country school
No, but I attended first and second grade at St. Bernard's Catholic School in St. Paul.
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
No
Rodger Anderson
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Hank Findell
Playground Memory
Got in an argument with Roger Nelson (big Roger) we got ready to fight but it never happened.
Milk Break
Always drank chocolate milk.
Lunch
The old senior high lunch room, sneaking in and drinking chocolate milk.
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Might be me.
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No
The School Bus
Rode the milk truck to school with Louie Weidewitsch.
100% Attendance
Bob Dahle
Where were you when JFK was shot?
In the tunnel from the locker room to the gymnasium.
Country school
No
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Being scanned.
Karen Baker
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
No
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Yes, I was at Dist. #36 for the first 4 years of school. So I attended from 5th-12th grade at PHS.
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Delores Gossen
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Mrs Sillerud and Mr. Shay,I liked most of my teachers, but some stood out as 'mean as sin' - started off 1st grade with 'Miss Clark' - didn't take long to find out why she was a 'Miss', not a 'Mrs'; then 2nd grade, I had Mrs Southard - she was evil - I was traumatized, so forgot who I had in 3rd grade; then 4th grade, I had Mrs Sandin - another mean one - both Southard and Sandin slapped me around for drawing pictures - I would have quit school in 4th grade, if I could have - I was never a trouble-maker in school, but the sure had it in for me - 5th & 6th grade, I must have blocked out, but I vaguely remember a 'Miss Wagner' - in a pleasant way - I hated grade school.
Playground Memory
I have few if any memories of the playground stuff - probably blocked that out, too.
Milk Break
Vaguely remember that.
Lunch
In high school when we could leave the school, I always walked down to the Kapsner Drug store, and spent my lunch money on Hit Parade Magazines, or any kind that caught my attention - by then, everyone had their little cliques and you don't cross their lines.
Mel Shay Storytime
I'm not sure if it was our Junior or Senior year, had him 2 years in a row - I remember him throwing it hard, when Terry Daniels put dead minnows in a little 'baggie', in his file cabinet - he was MAD! - but kept his composure, and said "whoever put these in here, remove them 'Now'"....then he walked back to his desk, and stood there 'waiting' - the silence was deafening. But it was Mr. Barg who I saw throw the eraser more times than I can count.
In Trouble
I even hate thinking about this, but here goes....I recall in bookkeeping class, (forgot the teachers' name) seems it was after lunch, everybody was wild - I don't recall 'why', but a couple of the boys were picking on me, (I won't name them here) and I was very, upset - at one point, I was approached from just to my left side, I jabbed my elbow backward, right into the stomach of one of them - it was a 'hollow victory' for me, it didn't feel good at all, to hit him like that..I felt awful about it, and still do....so if he is reading this, I want to apologize to him for doing that - I came close to saying that at the 45th, but I chickened out. Seeing him at that reunion, he was being so nice - if I could go back and change it, I would. I did end up in the office, but voluntarily - I was going to quit school...I didn't, there was nowhere to go...That incident has been nagging me all these years...I regret it.
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Well, electronically, that would be me - I am 'challenged' in that area, to put it mildly - I won't own a cell phone one in the house rings enough - but I don't want the 'Dunce' award for that.
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
?,
The School Bus
Our bus ride was long, we lived 12 miles out from Princeton, by the time we got off the bus, the only ones left on there were Richard Anderson, Vernon Kucera and Sharon Wicktor - Sharon and I became good friends on those rides during the year before she graduated in '64 - we are still in touch at Christmas, saw her a few times in Princeton...to and from school were the only times I rode the bus...but those one-to-one talks with Sharon were nice.
100% Attendance
I'm not one to talk about not going, I have only been to the 20th, and the 45th! I am one that needs to be dragged, kicking and screaming. I still am intimidated by crowds.
Where were you when JFK was shot?
In Miss Vukelich' Spanish class.,
Country school
Just for a brief time in 1956, when my dad was in a car wreck, 31 broken bones and all his teeth knocked out - we stayed with relatives, the Andersons, and went to the Glendorado school with their kids....it was a bad time for us, being little kids, not knowing if ewe had a Dad or not - there was a fatality in the other car, too, a PHS student in her Senior year. All the roads were gravel, it was a hot and dusty ride - they never saw each other coming, the other car tried to pass the gas truck, it was a head-on collision....no one's fault. I don't remember what grade, maybe 3rd...
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
I know I have a few, just need to find them - I hope a year is sufficient time!
Robert Dahle
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Mrs.Henschel
Playground Memory
Girls with cooties
Milk Break
After basketball practice, Dave Duncan and I would "borrow" some chocolate milk from the refrigerator in the old gym, (a goodly amount). We walked the alley to my house and I would give Dave a ride home. My mom could never understand why I wasn't hungry that night. Guilt played a part one day and we left 10 cents. Cleared our minds. Statute of limitations allowed me to tell this story.
Lunch
The only time I ate hot lunch (I used to run home for soup) was when they served sloppy joes, and you could get an extra one for 5 cents.
Mel Shay Storytime
I was in the back row of his class, the window open, so I took a "bit" of snow off the sill and threw it at Joanne. Mel asked me if I did that, I say yes - he then said don't do it again, where I replied "I will never do it again." Dave and I also kept track of his "blackouts". All in all I thought he was a good teacher with a sense of humor.
In Trouble
Dave Duncan and I were by the old high school, outside the doors to the gym on the 4th avenue side. We were too lazy to walk around so we used popsicle sticks to work the lock and open the door. We succeeded! BUT, behind the door was my dad - not good. Dave had to leave and I was told in no uncertain terms to never do that again. Not a pleasant night at our house.
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
No
The Lunch Room Skeleton
Not really, I just remember that we collected the bottle caps as some type of treasure - never did anything with them.
The School Bus
Bumpy rides to away events, not a favorite memory. Good memory was when the bus ride ended and we go off.
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
We were in the locker room after PE, and someone walked in and told us the news. At first we did not believe it.
Country school
No, I was always a "townie"
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
I will send a search party out.
Sue Hessedal
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
I had a bad year in 4th grade and don't remember the teacher but she made fun of me in front of the class for taking too long to do the work. She told the class they should call me "slow poke Henchen".
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Sorry, I was one of those kids drinking chocolate milk.
Lunch
I never had enough time to eat the school lunch so one year I got up early and made my own bag lunch and hid it outside to pick up on my way to school so I had more time to eat since I didn't have to wait in line. Then I kept the lunch money I was supposed to buy lunch with.
Mel Shay Storytime
I remember erasers being thrown, but remember boys being bounced off the lockers in the halls more.
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
I just graduated to a smart phone 4 months ago! Operation of it is still a challenge. I had to have my grandson show me how to get it on and off airplane mode when we flew to Florida this summer but I am learning.
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
I remember a skeleton in some class room but not the lunch room.
The School Bus
I mostly remember freezing on the walk to the bus and waiting for it.
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
I was going to Spanish class.
Country school
I went to school in Minneapolis until Easter vacation of 2nd grade.
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Larry Ziebarth
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Dick Anderson,Dick Anderson
Playground Memory
Milk Break
The milk was always warm!,The milk was always warm!
Lunch
Fish stick Friday lunch was ??,Fish stick Friday lunch was ??
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Leroy Zeroth - no electricity,Leroy Zeroth - no electricity
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Alan Deglmann
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Boehm/Shop Class/Probably more the crazy guys in the class rather then the teacher.
Playground Memory
1st Grade the sinks outside the lavatory were round and when you stepped on a bar the water came out. Amazing to me.
Milk Break
Remember watching the rich kids drink the white and the super rich drink the chocolate. No memory of me drinking any milk.
Lunch
Sloppy Joes
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
The bell/buzzer at the end of the day - all the trouble I got into occurred once that thing went off
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Ziebarth voted for Zeroth because of no electricity. I am pretty sure we had electricity in 1966. So Zeroth cannot possibly be living in 1966 it most go back further.
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
The day I got my first car.
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
I wasn't in the building and I wasn't at Church school, I was with Jim Reichle in the Coast to Coast buying 22 shells. As to why we were not in either school at that moment shall go unanswered.
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Suzanne Onstine
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
yes, did he have a name?
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
walking through the library to class
Country school
Yeah country school!!!
grades 1-6
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Jennie Toberman
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Move the reunion to their house at the last minute?
Teacher
At this moment Richard Anderson
Playground Memory
Charging out the door at recess only to get tripped in the fray. You'd think I'd have learned a lesson but that happened more than once.
Milk Break
I never liked the chocolate milk and especially after seeing a bottle of it curdled one day!
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
I much preferred the Charlie Ernst chalk-throwing demonstrations.
In Trouble
Oh, please. I never got in trouble at school
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
Yes. Wasn't that later on exhibit in Mr. Skavnak's science class?
The School Bus
Getting off at the end of the ride
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
I was in the lunch room although it wasn't lunch hour. Was there a study hall in that area?
Country school
no
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
I'll get on it.
Wilma Rosenberg
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Swede Solheim
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Don't drink milk
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
Mr Shay kept moving to the front.
In Trouble
Talking
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No
The School Bus
Boys taught me to play poker and helped take care of me when I was younger.
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
At the drugstore getting a cherrycoke.
Country school
No
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
John Kostanshek
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Send them the bill for the whole event!
Teacher
Mrs. Oliver
Playground Memory
I got knocked out by a baseball bat swung by Bonnie Schmidt. I was catching, and I caught it right in the nose. I was knocked out, and I was taken to the nurse's office. This was at the South Elementary School. Both eyes became raccoon vision as they swelled shut later.
Milk Break
I liked white milk anyway
Lunch
Sloppy joes. I thought they were the best you could get. School sloppy joes rule!
Mel Shay Storytime
Fran Barg was throwing an eraser at me one -- God knows why! -- and I ducked and it hit Cherry Hoeft right in the face.
In Trouble
I spent some time in the principal's office. One time I put Sue Fett on top of the lockers and Mrs. Oliver caught me and sent me to the man. I accidentally dumped a whole can of varnish on Elton Stanchfield. That did it. Mr. Cary sent me to the office with Elton but when he explained he tripped and fell into me, I was off the hook.
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
Vaguely
The School Bus
I walked to school.I remember riding to Cinerama. I also rode the bus to Spec Lake, as I was Mr. Kne's assistant for swimming lessons.
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
I was in Conrad Belfiori's class
Country school
No
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Edward Williams
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Hank Findell
Playground Memory
I came here in the 10th grade. Prior to that, I attended Lakeville, and several other schools along the way.
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
A substitute teacher tried to get my squirt gun, and I squirted him in the face. Hank Findell reprimanded me.
In Trouble
Mel Shay wanted me to stay after school for doing something wrong. He grabbed my shirt when I wanted to just get on the bus. I then grabbed his shirt and we had a stand-off.
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
My flip phone works when I need it.
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
Maynard, the bus manager, was the substitute bus driver one day. When the bus got stuck in the snow, and the bus driver went for help, we filled the bus with snow.
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
I was in Oregon.
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Duane Gates
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
No
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
James Winter
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Kathleen Hohlen
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Move the reunion to their house at the last minute?
Teacher
Lucille Oliver
All 12 Grades!
No
Kindergarten
Yes
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Study Hall
Country school
No
John Taylor
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Send them the bill for the whole event!
Teacher
Hank Findel
Playground Memory
Mryon Angstrom tore my fingernail off with his baseball cletes when I slid into 2nd base at recess
Milk Break
I think I was milk monitor in one of the early years and then we would rest our heads
Lunch
I always thought the Firday tuna salad and peanut butter sandwiches wre great. Still do.
Mel Shay Storytime
Mr. Earnst would click his chaulk on his wedding ring. He once thru at me and hit Sue Odegard
In Trouble
Clem Letich broke a tee square on my back and then wanted me to pay for it. No way, Jose
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Not me but I'm close. Would that be so bad?
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No, but memory is not my strong suit
The School Bus
The bus driver would holler at us when we would leave our seats. "Don't make me stop this bus".
100% Attendance
I'm friends with both Jack and Merlan Holland so I'll work on them
Steven Robideau
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Laurene Baumgartner
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Kathy Orton
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Sylvia Stello
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Laurene Baumgartner
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Beverly Pollema
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Marsha Davis
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Jeanine Jones
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Frank Kosloski
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Never liked chocolate milk.
Lunch
Lived in town, mainly went home for lunch.
Mel Shay Storytime
Mel Shay usually sent me to the library rather then putting up with me in his class.
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
How about me.
Kindergarten
No
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
I was in the gym shooting basketballs.
Country school
No
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Marjorie Zeroth
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
social studies
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Clarice Gryskiewicz
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Phillip Wicktor
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Dennis Cook
Cheerleaders
As long as they don't break any bones...
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
K thru 2nd
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Lois Hanson
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Cathy Moffitt
Teacher
Cornell Runestad
Susan Ham
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Timothy O'Donnell
Cheerleaders
I'll avert my eyes.
No-shows
Move the reunion to their house at the last minute?
Teacher
Can't remember
Playground Memory
Poking a stick in my cheek at the new school... playing where they told us not to!!
All 12 Grades!
No
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No
The School Bus
Getting my first car
Where were you when JFK was shot?
On my way to religion class at the church. A lady ran out of her house screaming the President had been shot.
Country school
No
Judy Miller
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Mr. Findell was a nice man and great teacher.
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Yes, I was in Mr. Hansen's biology class.
Country school
Yes, I was in a country school in grades 1 through 6.
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Jim Gerth
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Mr. Wilkens - 6th grade - good
Playground Memory
Playing "King of the Hill" on the snow piles (in 3rd grade?) Softball in 6th grade; loved playing ball.
Milk Break
I drank a lot of chocolate milk
Lunch
Sloppy Joes; buying a cheerio from Julie Greenwood in the canteen
Mel Shay Storytime
I actually really liked Mr. Shay's class. If you could get him talking he would blather on about whatever and never get to the class material. I remember Judy Olson sat next to me; that was nice.
In Trouble
Like I learned in Mr. Hanson's Advanced Biology class: T.N.C.
(Too numerous to count).
Relating to kindergarten, we were in the basement of the Congregational church and on the last day they walked us down the street to see the Old School.
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
I recently got facebook so I could communicate with a young guy I met from Estonia; I'm hoping to connect with him on Skype when he gets back home. Other then that: dinosaur compared to most.
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No. I remember in Mr. Skavnak's room.
The School Bus
Disabling the alarm on the emergency door, going out the back, getting snow to throw around at kids. Hit my cousin Phil; he jumped out at a stop and we shut the door on him. He had to run a bit to catch up. Didn't get caught for that one, but had to sit up front from time to time for alleged crimes.
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
We were at the Methodist church for Release Time
Country school
No: could have but my parents chose to send me to town school.
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
I don't think any of that stuff made it to Alaska.
Danny Strunge
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Pete Thronson
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
Teacher
Good: Henry Findell, a good man.
Playground Memory
1st grade, big steel slide. My 6th grade cousin told me lay to down to go faster. Landed on my back in a big mud puddle at the bottom.
Milk Break
What penny?
Lunch
Running up town and getting back before class started.
Mel Shay Storytime
He wasn't as good as Fran Barg. Every day in Shay's class was a misguided adventure. Bulub, what was wrong with that man?
In Trouble
Lots of them. I left the Sr high parking lot sliding and throwing rocks. Came back for grad practice and Nick was extremely mad.
The Lunch Room Skeleton
I thought lunch was in the old gym and the skeleton was in the hall. I figured if I ate ALL of the school lunch that glass cabinet was next stop.
The School Bus
We were on a field trip to the big city. Jim Edmonds (yes the truck driver) got motion sickness and threw up on Duane Gates' shoe.
Kathy Orton
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Mr Shay
Playground Memory
Waxing the slides
Lunch
School lunch
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Kindergarten
No
The Lunch Room Skeleton
yes
The School Bus
Our bus driver gave us candy and peanuts at Christmas time and we got to throw the peanut shells on the floor.
100% Attendance
Bonnie (Schmit) Novakowski
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Social studies
Country school
no
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
yes
Linda Kiel
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
Wearing jeans to school in the winter when it was 30 below
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Yes study hall
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Richard (Dick) Jones
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Geraldine Lutz
Cheerleaders
No-shows
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Carol Daudt
Cheerleaders
Absolutely!
No-shows
Move the reunion to their house at the last minute?
Teacher
Playground Memory
Milk Break
Yes, it was those choc. milk drinkers that always vomitted...yuk!!
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Martha Matteson-Schafer
Cheerleaders
As long as they don
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
the good-Miss Decker, the bad and the ugly-Mrs.Southard
Playground Memory
The time that someone pushed me too high on the big swings in 2nd grade. I went flying through the air and smacked into Lefty Rosen's head with my face. I have no idea how I got inside my classroom.
Milk Break
The time at lunch in 4th grade when Moe Webb, Mike Heymer,and Tim Metcalf made me laugh with my mouth full of milk. I couldn't hold it so I spit it across the table and all over their food. Mrs. Haralson came over and made me clean up the table. She then made me finish lunch sitting under the teacher's table facing toward their legs. She also took away my recess.
Lunch
Lunch was not too memorable except for the milk incident.
Mel Shay Storytime
I guess I kept my head down in Mel's class.
In Trouble
My down fall came in 7th grade when Mr Barg dumped the waste basket over my head after I had sharpened my pencil and then emptied the pencil sharpener into the waste basket. He thought that I had purposefully done that because he was going to dump it on someone's head whom he caught passing a note.
All 12 Grades!
Yes
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!
Ron Whitcomb
Cheerleaders
As long as they don
No-shows
Do everything we can to encourage them to come.
Teacher
Fran Barg-worst
Playground Memory
Until 5th grade I was a Californian--so don't have memories od Princeton elementary
Milk Break
In California we worried about Strotium 90 in our milk supply. Cause by Nevada nuclear testing
Lunch
Mel Shay Storytime
In Trouble
Something I said or did in Spanish Class resulted in being slammed into lockers by Mike Skavnak, slapped by Principal Nick and then punished again by my father when I got home---I guess it wasn't funny
All 12 Grades!
No
Still Living in 1966
Kindergarten
Yes
The Lunch Room Skeleton
No--But in California we did have Sashquatch
The School Bus
100% Attendance
Where were you when JFK was shot?
Country school
Sharing those baby-faced pictures!

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