I could look out my bedroom window into the school yard. I lived right next door in the projects at 1117 S. Throop. That school yard where I learned to ride a two wheeler, the same yard I played in during the day, I played there on the weekends and evenings. I could play basketball there.

It made me so very said that they have torn down Riis. I feel like a part of me has been lost to the sands of time. I attended Riis from 1968 to 1976, and the seeds of the person I am today were planted there at Jacob A. Riis.

Christopher M. Vaughn, Class of 1976

My kintergarden teacher for half of the year was Ms. Alcalde. She was my favorite teacher. I loved being in her class. I remembered when used get a huge piece of paper and write the letters of alphabets on them, color them and hang them on the wall. I had some good times in that class.