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irisblue

(34,324 posts)
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 04:22 PM Oct 2

Do you remember your teachers names? Fast with out a pause who do you call out & on?

Mr Takahara
Mr Guck
Mr Jurkavick
Mr & Mrs Bjornstead
Mr Shead- he was a damn hero to me
Ms Lefebvres
Sister John of the Cross of Gold
Ms Mc Gaouh.
Mr Hadad

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Do you remember your teachers names? Fast with out a pause who do you call out & on? (Original Post) irisblue Oct 2 OP
Also Sister Alberine was very very abusive irisblue Oct 2 #1
A few off the top of my head - I'm sure they're all dead by now. Ocelot II Oct 2 #2
Mr. Sluder, 9th grade Civics. He's still alive. All the rest have passed on. Glorfindel Oct 2 #4
Kinder Mrs Copeland rogerballard Oct 2 #3
I remember exactly two. One who held me in the cafeteria in 1st grade to try to force me to eat congealed mystery meat hlthe2b Oct 2 #5
Mrs. See. Viisitation H.S. Chicago 1958-1962 era American History teacher. Peregrine Took Oct 2 #6
I remember all of my elem. teachers. livetohike Oct 2 #7
Funny I remember my fifth grade teacher, but not Emile Oct 2 #8
Oh, Lord. Lots. rsdsharp Oct 2 #9
Damn ...you had some good ones. Teachers leave big footsteps irisblue Oct 3 #12
Ok... electric_blue68 Oct 2 #10
I'll try... Mad_Dem_X Oct 3 #11
A Lot Of Them ProfessorGAC Oct 3 #13
From First through Sixth Grade. Starting in 7th, I had a different teacher for every subject. Aristus Oct 3 #14
Addendeum yo my post #10... electric_blue68 Oct 3 #15
What, no Unitarian Universalists? Wicked Blue Oct 4 #17
Aww, i don't remember [1971, or '72]! But I like The UU's for sure!👍 electric_blue68 Oct 4 #18
I do not remember the poor teachers names either. I counsulted with my sister irisblue Oct 5 #19
Mrs. Webster, Miss Durget, Miss Martin, Miss DiGiaimo Wicked Blue Oct 4 #16
Miss Ironside, third grade. She did her best to live up to the name. malthaussen Oct 5 #20

irisblue

(34,324 posts)
1. Also Sister Alberine was very very abusive
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 04:25 PM
Oct 2

I learned in the 80s she had been in a camp in Easter Europe.
She was very very very mean to 8th graders. I hope she found peace

Ocelot II

(121,101 posts)
2. A few off the top of my head - I'm sure they're all dead by now.
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 04:25 PM
Oct 2

Miss Muehl - 2nd grade
Mr. Waldon - 4th grade
Mrs. Miles - 6th grade
Mr. Beisang - 9th grade biology
Mr. Brost - high school choir

Glorfindel

(9,930 posts)
4. Mr. Sluder, 9th grade Civics. He's still alive. All the rest have passed on.
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 04:32 PM
Oct 2

Miss Wells (later Mrs. Dover) 1st grade (she gave me the only spanking I ever got or needed)
Mrs. Woodring: 5th, 6th, and 7th grades.
Miss Camp (later Mrs. Hill) high school English
Mr. Petit: 8th grade
Miss Logan (later Mrs. Nunally) 3rd and 4th grades.
Mr. Jones: Algebra I and Algebra II - I was such a disappointment to him.

rogerballard

(3,843 posts)
3. Kinder Mrs Copeland
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 04:30 PM
Oct 2

1st Mrs Beck
2nd Miss Helen
3rd Miss Belson
4 Mrs Amerman
5 Mrs Piercy
6 Mr Warfield

I still have my report cards K -6
Started Kinder in 1964

hlthe2b

(106,471 posts)
5. I remember exactly two. One who held me in the cafeteria in 1st grade to try to force me to eat congealed mystery meat
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 04:33 PM
Oct 2

(I did not give in, despite hours sitting there)... LOL Mrs. Schuyler

And one who knew I was interested in med school (and had me dissecting all kinds of species in junior high biology):
Mr. Miller.

That's about it. Lots of instructors at multiple universities, but I only remember those two (one because of mild "abuse" and one who encouraged me)

Peregrine Took

(7,510 posts)
6. Mrs. See. Viisitation H.S. Chicago 1958-1962 era American History teacher.
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 04:42 PM
Oct 2

I never knew a teacher could be so great. Brought American history to life. I hated school but loved her class.

livetohike

(23,001 posts)
7. I remember all of my elem. teachers.
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 04:53 PM
Oct 2

Mrs. Lopez - K

Mrs Moore - 1st grade

Miss Balest - 2nd grade

Miss Zalice - 3rd grade

Mrs Rohrbacher - 4th grade

Mrs Sterrett - 5th grade

Mrs Balla - 6th grade

Emile

(30,076 posts)
8. Funny I remember my fifth grade teacher, but not
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 04:54 PM
Oct 2

his name. I didn't like him because he would give kids a knuckle sandwich on top your head. He lost his job over it when I was in the sixth grade

1st grade Mrs Allison
2nd grade Miss VanLandingham I was in love
3rd grade Mrs Baldwin
6th grade Mrs Norris
7th grade Jr High numerous teachers Miss Riggle my favorite. I was in love again.

rsdsharp

(10,190 posts)
9. Oh, Lord. Lots.
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 04:59 PM
Oct 2

Last edited Wed Oct 2, 2024, 07:54 PM - Edit history (1)

Mrs. Butler (Bernice) Kindergarten.
Mrs. St. John First grade
Mrs. Eisenmund First grade. She took over mid year when Mrs. St. John left to have her baby. I really hated her.
Mrs. Elliot Second grade
Mrs. Tjaden (Kay) Third grade
Mrs. Sogard (Genevieve B.) Fourth grade
Miss Rogness (Mildred) and Mr. Cole (Damon) Fifth grade
Miss Rogness, Mr. Cole and Mrs. Tietz (Virginia) Sixth Grade
Mr. Fairweather (Jonathan) Eighth grade history.
Mr. Wollenski (Richard) Seventh and Eighth grade math
Mr. Petermeir (Stanley) Seventh and Eighth grade science
Mr. Sebern (John) Seventh grade geography. Mr. Sebern was a 19 year old Marine on Iwo Jima who was present when the first flag came down, and the more famous flag went up. He never said anything about it.
Mr. Anderson (Jim) Seventh through ninth grade gym.
Mr. Gagne (Lloyd) Seventh grade seating and shop.
Mr. Bode (Al) Eighth through Eleventh grade Spanish.
Miss Carroll Eighth grade English
Mr. Hart (Charles) Ninth Grade Physical Science
Mr. Terrill (Terry). Ninth grade literature. We called him Terrible Terry.
Mr. Luther (G. Arthur) Eleventh grade history
Mr. Thorsen (Blaine) Tenth grade algebra II, and Eleventh Grade geometry
Mr. Wohlers (William) Tenth through Twelfth grade gym.
Mr. Menninga (Gordon) Twelfth grade drama

There are others I can see in my mind’s eye, whose name I just can’t recall through the dim recesses of time.

electric_blue68

(18,245 posts)
10. Ok...
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 11:23 PM
Oct 2

Carol Fineberg - Social Studies HS
Mrs Dictenberg - English HS
Ms Lazos - 6th grd
Gail Posner - Biology? or Social Studies HS
Mr Kemetz - Russian JHS
Mrs Bernstein - ?4th grade
Hope Irvine - Art JHS
Julia Winston - Art/Graphic Design HS

Several more ... I can "see" them, but names escape me.

Mad_Dem_X

(9,791 posts)
11. I'll try...
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 02:41 PM
Oct 3

1st Grade - Mrs. Kline
2nd Grade - Mrs. Chamberlain
3rd Grade: Mrs. Bacon
4th Grade: Mrs. Allegro
5th Grade - Mrs. Upright
6th Grade - Mrs. Tabb

ProfessorGAC

(70,122 posts)
13. A Lot Of Them
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 04:23 PM
Oct 3

Not sure I remember all the nuns from grade school, but I remember all my HS teachers & all the profs in undergrad, at least in my major.
Pretty sure I remember all the lay teachers from grade school.

Aristus

(68,432 posts)
14. From First through Sixth Grade. Starting in 7th, I had a different teacher for every subject.
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 04:35 PM
Oct 3

Miss Abolt.
Mrs. Wirtz.
Mrs. Jones.
Mrs. Tyson.
Miss Smith.
Mr. Bierbaum.

Bonus: My kindergarten teacher, Miss Goss. (I could never forget her; she was so pretty...)

electric_blue68

(18,245 posts)
15. Addendeum yo my post #10...
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 05:30 PM
Oct 3

I listed only the teachers I liked (though there are a few more I can't remember their names).

Except for one- Mrs Bernstein. I probably remember her bc of the dislike, and maybe imprinted bc despite my dislike I was shocked when after being called out of the room she returned practically gray-white faced. She'd just been informed that JFK had been shot!

Much more pleasantly in my 7th grade I had an African-American, or African-Caribbean Woman Science teacher. This was ?1967; so it might have been unusual for the time; though that didn't occur to me.

The one "bad" thing was the time she opened a plastic bin of what I called "swamp water" (had little plants in it). Well, it stank!!! Half of us moved to the back of the classroom trying to get away!!! 😄😬

This was so she could put a drop of it on a slide for the microscope. I can remember seeing a paramescium.

The coolest experiment was was using a device that split water into Hydrogen and Oxygen. So at the top were 2 nozzles; each one having a balloon attached to it.
Water = H2O. So twice the hydrogen, to the oxygen. Thus the hydrogen balloon blew up twice as big as the oxygen one.

In Art College I took Comparitive Religion which was really interesting. This was ?1972. Our teacher was a Quaker; who also was The Draft Counselor, during the Vietnam War.
We visited a Jewish Temple, some ?Christian Church, a Buddhist Temple, up to his hometown for a Quaker's meeting, Dorthy Day's _________ ?Catholic Workers house, The Japan House (near the UN) for a Tea Ceremony: Zen Buddhist, and Shintoism. One of the lovelist parts was it taking place in a traditional paper, and wood slatted walled room.

I don't think we went to a Hindu Temple, and definitely not a Mosque.
It was a great course!

irisblue

(34,324 posts)
19. I do not remember the poor teachers names either. I counsulted with my sister
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 11:40 AM
Oct 5

There are teachers she does not remember from Parkwood years either

Wicked Blue

(6,689 posts)
16. Mrs. Webster, Miss Durget, Miss Martin, Miss DiGiaimo
Fri Oct 4, 2024, 09:58 PM
Oct 4

Mrs. Connolly; the 3rd grade teacher who must have been related to Popeye's Sea Hag; Miss Thompson the PE teacher who wore white ankle socks with low-heeled pumps; Mr. Swierczynski, Miss Bell, Mr. Ziccardi, Mr. Yates, Mrs. Erdman, Mr. Joecks, Mr. Krause, Mr. Bowne, Mr. Ludwig, Mrs. Koronka, Mr. Waleski, Mr. Edelhoff. Some really amazing teachers among these folks.

malthaussen

(17,709 posts)
20. Miss Ironside, third grade. She did her best to live up to the name.
Sat Oct 5, 2024, 11:41 AM
Oct 5

Mrs Kent, 1st grade. Nice, motherly type.

After that it's a blank, until we get to high school, where I can remember a couple of names.

-- Mal

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