CONGRATS DAVE-Friend and Classmate, Dave Meaney (MHS '60), accepted the honor of being named "An Alumni of Distinction", leading the graduation ceremony of the MHS Class of 2019 held at Aldrich Arena. Congratulations to Dave on this well deserved honor.
Do you remember?
Carl Smith (MHS '60) reminded me of a special event from 1960......If you remember this day, share your thoughts on the "Blog" at the top of the page or if your class had similar experiences...do share with others!
Tom,
I don’t know why I was thinking about it recently, but how many of us remember the Senior Class Skip Day of 1960?
For 1960 the school administration decided that the Senior Prom would be on Friday night rather than the traditional Saturday night. Maybe they thought that more students would be ready for classes on Monday. What they didn’t consider was that the Girls had to shop and get their hair done and the boys had to get their cars cleaned out and washed. Our class was quite close knit and decided that we just wouldn’t show up on Friday. I think that one student who worked in the office had to show up, and I passed through the shop before school to pick up something. The skip day was a complete success. One or more of the top administrators were off on an accreditation visitation that day. Mr. Hansen may have been the raking administrator present. Needless to say, the school did not react well to the incident. Class officers were called in. There were threats of calling off the prom and of the class not graduating, but fortunately cooler heads prevailed. I believe that Dick O’Dea and others went through the St. Paul and Minneapolis department stores making announcements to recall the recalcitrant students to school. Of course Tom Wilson and Nils Johannessen were somewhere in Northern Minnesota looking at a Model A and did not get back before the end of the school day. The prom did go on. We partied on Saturday and Sunday. And we did graduate. There was a rumor that Mr. Wilson, as chairman of the School Board, said that he was not going to wait until the last day to sign the diplomas.
I guess it didn’t help the mood on Friday morning, with Mr. Kazrowski not at MHS, that there was a telephone call to the school from Amherst College in Massachusetts trying to reach a student to announce a National Merit Scholarship and admission to Amherst College. Needless to say, the student was not in attendance that morning. On the next Monday I was called in to Mr. Kazrowski’s office where he asked me whether I was representing how the intellectual students in the school felt. I think that he had blown up the small button I was wearing on Friday afternoon into a full sandwich board. My button read, “They only have a 14 day injunction.” It referred to the 14 remaining days of school in comparison to the 80-day injunction that President Eisenhower had invoked under the Taft-Hartley law to end the Steel Strike.
How did the song go? “Memories are made of that.’
Carl Smith ‘60
Carl Smith (MHS '60) reminded me of a special event from 1960......If you remember this day, share your thoughts on the "Blog" at the top of the page or if your class had similar experiences...do share with others!
Tom,
I don’t know why I was thinking about it recently, but how many of us remember the Senior Class Skip Day of 1960?
For 1960 the school administration decided that the Senior Prom would be on Friday night rather than the traditional Saturday night. Maybe they thought that more students would be ready for classes on Monday. What they didn’t consider was that the Girls had to shop and get their hair done and the boys had to get their cars cleaned out and washed. Our class was quite close knit and decided that we just wouldn’t show up on Friday. I think that one student who worked in the office had to show up, and I passed through the shop before school to pick up something. The skip day was a complete success. One or more of the top administrators were off on an accreditation visitation that day. Mr. Hansen may have been the raking administrator present. Needless to say, the school did not react well to the incident. Class officers were called in. There were threats of calling off the prom and of the class not graduating, but fortunately cooler heads prevailed. I believe that Dick O’Dea and others went through the St. Paul and Minneapolis department stores making announcements to recall the recalcitrant students to school. Of course Tom Wilson and Nils Johannessen were somewhere in Northern Minnesota looking at a Model A and did not get back before the end of the school day. The prom did go on. We partied on Saturday and Sunday. And we did graduate. There was a rumor that Mr. Wilson, as chairman of the School Board, said that he was not going to wait until the last day to sign the diplomas.
I guess it didn’t help the mood on Friday morning, with Mr. Kazrowski not at MHS, that there was a telephone call to the school from Amherst College in Massachusetts trying to reach a student to announce a National Merit Scholarship and admission to Amherst College. Needless to say, the student was not in attendance that morning. On the next Monday I was called in to Mr. Kazrowski’s office where he asked me whether I was representing how the intellectual students in the school felt. I think that he had blown up the small button I was wearing on Friday afternoon into a full sandwich board. My button read, “They only have a 14 day injunction.” It referred to the 14 remaining days of school in comparison to the 80-day injunction that President Eisenhower had invoked under the Taft-Hartley law to end the Steel Strike.
How did the song go? “Memories are made of that.’
Carl Smith ‘60
The MHS Class of 1960 began their educational experience in 1947-48 attending kindergarten in the old High School building . The classes were held in the basement of the north end of the building in what was later to become the band/chorus room. We had a half day schedule with some of us attending in the morning and some in the afternoon. Miss Moline was our teacher and nap time was a popular part of our learning experience (we all had our own rugs to rest on). We left that building in the 4th grade to go to the new Wildwood elementary school and returned to the high school building for our Freshman through Senior years, graduating as the first class in the decade of the '60's. Some of our classmates left, going to other places and others joined us during those years. All of them were an important part of the MHS Class of 1960. It was a special time.