AFTER GRADUATING VOLTA (1947) AND VON STEUBEN (1951), I MOVED ON. TODAY, OF COURSE, I'M RETIRED. STILL, I AM CURRENTLY CO-CHAIRMAN OF THE VON STEUBEN CLASS OF JUNE 1951 REUNION COMMITTEE. NEXT OCTOBER WE WILL BE HOLDING OUR 60TH YEAR REUNION. THERE ARE CURRENTLY 24 MEMBERS ON THE COMMITTEE. 11 ARE FROM VOLTA!!! THE REST ARE FROM PETERSON, HIBBARD AND PALMER. WE ALL LOVED THE SCHOOL. AND THE TEACHERS. AND, YES, EVEN MR LINO. MY FAVORITE TEACHER WAS MISS KATHERINE JURS. A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. JOHNSON, WALKER AND HINKLEY WERE ALL GOOD. ON ANY SUNDAY MORNING THERE WERE AT LEAST 3 SOFTBALL GAMES GOING ON IN THE PLAYGROUND.. I SOLD KOOL-AID TO THE PLAYERS. THE 8TH GRADERS HAD A SOFTBALL TEAM CALLED 'THE AVENGERS'. 7TH GRADER'THE ? MARKS'. THE 6TH 'THE MUSKETS'. I WAS A 5TH GRADER IN 'THE EAGLES'.

BACK IN THOSE DAYS, WE WOULD LEAVE OUR HOMES ON SATURDAY AROUND 9A.M. AND RETURN HOME AROUND 6. WE WOULD FOLLOW THE RIVER NORTHWEST AND RETURN. NOBODY LOCKED THEIR DOORS.

AT VON, I WAS A MEMBER OF THE ANACONDAS S.A.C. 18 MEMBERS: 14 GRADUATED FROM VOLTA.

WHEN I WENT TO LAW SCHOOL, I MOVED INTO MY PARENTS HOME ON AVERS. MY OLDEST SON ATTENDED THE 1ST 2 GRADES AT VOLTA. MISS JURS WAS THERE AS ASST PRINCIPAL. SHE REMEMBERED ME WHEN I WALKED IN WITH MY SON AND I TOLD HER "MISS JURS, I PUT MY BOY UNDER YOUR CARE." WE BOTH HAD TEARS IN OUR EYES. I NEVER FOUND OUT WHAT EVER BECAME OF HER. AS I SAID, A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN INSIDE AND OUT.

VOLTA FOREVER!!!!!