I seem to be the oldest alumni who has registered on this site so far. I attended Alcott for all of grade school and graduated in 1948, later attending Evanston High.  I am in touch with only one other member of my class, but would love to meet others. I have four class pictures (1A, 2B-2A,4A,6A-7B) which I would be glad to share. The letters indicate that one could enter either in the fall or the winter and classes might be combined. Classes were large, particularly in the upper grades.  There are 42 students in the 6A-7B photo.

It is too long ago for me to remember teachers by name though I have a visual memory of some, and I can identify a few of my fellow students.  Classrooms had fixed desks in rows with an ink-well (no ball point pens). Windows could only be opened from the top with a long pole. We needed to exit rooms and go down stairs in formation, I believe four in a row. Some of the boys in the upper grade photo are wearing crossing guard belts, a great honor not allowed to girls.

The physical plant was smaller then. The addition on Wrightwood was our playground, and the playground to the north was not part of the school.

I and several other students lived in the Embassy Hotel on Diversey and Pinegrove, which still exists.  It was not unusual for families to live in an apartment hotel during the WWII years when housing was short. My parents had a dress store at 619 Diversey, now half of a Starbucks. I moved back to the neighborhood from Hyde Park-Kenwood, 20 years ago. Only the post-office, now closed, is the same on the streets where I walked home.

Myrna Cohn Knepler