Rev Vince wrote: In 1968 and 1969, my buds and I dated the entire
Alvernia classes of 69
and 70.
Sorry I can't say the same! Actually when I run into classmates in the
past years, we find many of us are of the same persuasions and would
have liked to have been in your shoes! We still say that' why they shut
the school down. HAHAHA! I graduated in 75 so I was a bit behind your
"Alvernia Dating Frenzy." Sorry for those JMDLers, and please excuse
Vince and I for indulging in a bit of Chicago nostalgia.
Vince also wrote: Our Lady of the Angels is a major event in the life of
every person who was
a grammar school student in Chicago in 1958, with the Our Lady of Angels
fire of 1
December 1958, when 93 kids and 3 nuns burned to death. Susan, were you
there when the fire happened?
I was not even 2 years old, but I do have a very faint short memory of
the event as it only began to take place. My brother Tony was at the
back window pointing and saying "Smoke Mommy Smoke." That's all I
remember sitting on the kitchen floor and the fear that exuding from my
mother. See I used to have a great memory, but years of abuse ... oh
well. I lost a cousin in the fire, with a couple others who were there
but completely unharmed. I also remember a little girl from down the
street, Helen also perished in the blaze. Vine you are so right about
authority! Many died because the nuns told children to bow their heads
and pray till they were rescued! I remember them rebuilding the school,
you couldn't burn that baby down if it was in the middle of the Great
Chicago Fire! And man oh man, you had better take fire drills seriously
or you might get burned at the stake! I saw more kids get whacked by
nuns in fire drills than, than 10 St. Valentine's Day Massacres put
together. OLA was located on Iowa (Thomas is very close) between Hamlin
and Avers.
Peace
Susan
