Dale Gieringer

One good thing I'll say for Mr. Lunsford is that he graded us on whether we showered and washed our clothes and towels, rather than on our athletic performance.   That's the only reason I was able to get a "B" in gym.  Whitey was a much tougher grader;  despite my best efforts, I was only a mediocre swimmer, and never rose above a "C."   Nonetheless, he really did succeed in teaching me to swim, and I thank him for that.

 Another teacher once told me that Mr. Lunsford was a "savage," but I never had a chance to verify that in person.

  - Dale Gieringer

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Shari, I didn't even know that there was a typing class! I took a typing class over the summer, and thank goodness for that. I have used computer typing throughout my nursing career.  Ann Shepard Reuve has weighed in on the name of one of our gym teachers. I wonder if there was only one.

Steven Levinson

Shari, I'm looking at Lynn's 1963 Remembrancer.  On page 34, there is a photo of a teacher next to a typwriter, and, among others, the name Patricia Sullivan.  That rings a bell with me.  Typing was one of the most important classes I ever took.

Henry Cohen

Still go by Hank and Doug you sat behind me in the chemistry class. I do have a story about a make up test in that class, but will only share it if prodded and bribed. I do think he wore a designated tie for a designated day of the week and have reason to believe his discourse was the same for every class.

Henry Cohen

Ms. Renfro ruined latin for me, I was going to go all the way through to senior year but she brought that to a screeching halt. Of course I should have overlooked her fondness for Dale G who was brilliant in that class and her mal treatment of me who was not. I console myself by knowing that she actually lived in the time of Cicero and her knowledge of those writings was because she took dictation in real time. 

Dexter Roger Dixon

Miss Sullivan taught both typing and notehand.  I took both.  And both served me well in college and grad school.

As for swimming class, Whitey ended up giving me a C as it took him the entire semester to get me to take my feet off the bottom of the pool and to move out of reach of the sides of the pool at the same time.  I guess he felt he had a minor success with me.  I didn't swim at all until college.

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

I'm with Gail. I didn't know there was a typing class either. I went to Betz School of Business, on Fountain Square, for typing the summer after graduation. All the girls there were preparing to start their work careers. I was learning to type college papers. Those days of having to make and correct (if you're accuracy wasn't as good as your speed) carbon copies really sucked. Hahaha!  Correctable bond typing paper was helpful until one of the Monkees' mother invented White Out!

Laura Reid (Pease)

Ann, I went to Betz also!!  Learned to type and take shorthand (pretty useful, huh??) and business math.  I am glad I went; the typing skills were very useful, but I still have trouble balancing my checkbook!!

Charles Judd

No one has mentioned Mrs. Levy.  Had her for 11 th grade english and loved her.  Alos good was Mr. Duval (I think) in AP Chemistry.  No nonsence but a good teacher.  But of course th highlight, other than the academics, was cheerleading in the tenth grade with Shari Baum!

Barbara (Bobbi) Yunker (Brafman)

In response to the question about the girls' PE teachers, was one them Woodruff? All I remember is how I hated that smelly pool. I was "observing" as many times a month as I could get away with. I also remember getting a tooth chipped playing basketball in PE.
 

Janet Wood (Mitchell)

Chick, I also remember Mrs. Ethel Levy as a wonderful teacher and human being.  She really influenced my life! Remember how we all had to write our "autobiography" at some point?  In mine, I stated that I did not foresee a future of being a traditional wife and mother.  Mrs. L. sought me out in the dressing room after a Walnuts performance, and gave me a paperback copy of The Feminine Mystique, the original feminist book that got many of us going in a different direction from our mothers. How much has changed since then.  I am so sorry that I never kept in touch with her, to show her that I made a success of my life and career, thanks partly to her influence. 

Larry Klein

r.e. - typing.  My first homeroom at WH in 7th grade was Mrs. Pauczek.  We were in the room with about 40 typewriters and tables on the 3rd floor next to the gym wall.  I never took her class, and don't know how long she was around after that year, but she did teach typing for awhile.  I taught myself to type so I could do my articles for the C'box sports page,  USMC boot camp tested me out at 60 words/minute, so they were going to make me an office pogue, but I fooled'em and qualified for OCS instead.

r.e. - Mrs. Levy.  Jerry Blake and I sat together in her class Senior year, but half the year we had a student teacher from UC (Miss Couch).  She was a looker.  When we were asked to write an essay on a still object (rubber ball), my essay consisted of - "It's round".  She couldn't understand how I could write C'box articles every week so well, but flunk a simple essay.  I said "It's easy, sports is interesting".  Somehow, I still passed.

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Mrs Levy holds a special place in my memory. My self-confidence took nose dive at the beginning of our senior year when I dropped out of Mrs..Keegan's AP English. I hadn't read many of the books assigned for summer reading and by fall, after a few weeks, I knew I'd better get out of AP.  Feeling defeated, I went into Mrs. Levy's class.  Boy,did she turn me around. She taught me the subtly of written communication.  She taught me how to explore my feelings and express them in words. She TAUGHT me......and I learned. 

During my 30 years as a social worker, creating an accurate but descriptive narrative for case records was crucial. I was often acknowledged for my writing. Each time that happened, I credited Mrs.Levy.  You could probably talk to people who supervised me or people I supervised and they would tell you that my mantra was, "Mrs. Levy would do it this way".

Judy Holtzer (Knopf)

Hank, your remarks about Miss (Mrs.?) Renfro were hysterical! She was so shrivelled that I was araid she would suddenly collapse into a pile of dust. I remember once seeing her smile, though, and it was like she was a different person. It was the kind of smile that lights up the whole face.. JHK

Chuck Cole

I took typing at WHHS, and the class was mostly girls.   When my oldest son was about to move to Thetford Academy, our town's high school (grades 7-12) I inquired as to whether they offerred keyboarding because he had even more difficulty than I had had with penmanship.  They said that some of the girls wanted to become stenographers and there was a class the offered both typing and shorthand.  It was only offered to the older students.  Within a few years, everyone was required to learn to use a keyboard before completing 8th grade.  The dramatic changes like this call up a memory of our school supply list for 7th grade--quill pens, india ink, reinforcements.   Remember the inkwells in our desks at Walnut Hills?  

Nancy Messer

When I was taking my prepharm classes before applying to pharmacy school (in my 40s), I realized I needed to become on friendly speaking terms with a computer.  I took one introductory course and then a course in WordPerfect.  The rest of the class were women of all ages, but mostly young, who were planning for office work jobs.  At one point I heard them complaining about this business math test they were going to have and how they were having problems with the material.  I asked what the test was covering and they said "lowest common denominator".  It was an effort not to laugh!

Nancy Messer

I never had Mrs. Levy so I don't have any personal recollections.  However, she was a topic of conversation in our family many times.  My oldest brother had her.  She lived just a few blocks from us.  One night my brother and his buddies decided to play a trick on her and they threw a stink bomb on her front porch.  Obviously they had to pay the consequences.  He still talks about it at family gettogethers.

Dale Gieringer

Mrs Renfro was a real classic (or, if you will, fossil).  I remember her pontificating about politics and world events for the first half hour of class, then mustering the troops for a forced march through 35 lines of Cicero.

My favorite teacher was Miss Hope, who taught the few of us who took five or six years of Latin.  I think we all appreciated her good humor, warmth, and devotion.   She was also patient, taking time with the lesson. At the end of senior year, she loaned me a copy of a play by Terence to take home for the summer.  Many years later I ran across a former student of hers who was doing graduate work in classics at Stanford.  We both owed her thanks for stimulating a lifelong interest in Latin.  Remembering Miss Hope's class brings to mind an apt line from Virgil -  Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit. 

Dale Gieringer

Sharon Baum (Covitz)

Judy Holtzer (Knopf)

Patricia Sullivan, of course. I took typing in 10th grade, if memory serves me. I also rank it as one of the most important courses ever. 

Anyone else remember Mrs. Powell, the biology teacher, 9th grade?

Margery Erhardt (Schrader)

I am with Gail on typing. I didn’t know it was offered (or I don’t remember) and took it as a summer class elsewhere. It was great for my thesis - can’t believe how long it took as no mistakes were permitted and that meant NO correction. And then I turned around and did the same for Gene. So much easier these days!

Paul Simons

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

If you have been following the posts on Alonzo Saunders' In Memory page, you know that a grievous error was made in designating Al as deceased. He is, in fact, alive and living in Boston. Thank you Fred Jones for alerting us to this error that can be traced back to 1972. We are hoping that Alonzo will join our Virtual Reunion soon.

John Osher

How could there ever be better news than that. 

James Schloss

Mrs. Levy was as everyone has said a wonderful teacher. She showed the amount of patience needed with me, which was a great deal.

With my academic career at WHHS my fondest memories were as you might understand more skewed towards Gym and Sports Teams. My swiming coach Whitey Davis was Hannibal Lecter in disguise, but he made us all better swimmers. Practices were funny as hell with Jim Hilb, Dana Cohen and others. "Swimming Ten" when Whitey held up his "Nine and One Half fingers" was an experience I will never  forget. Mr. Klatt, our golf coach and matches with my dear friends, Abes, Dicky Cohen, Paul Brower and others were wonderful memories. Will Bass, Mr. Lundsford, Biff Bailey, they were legendary. 

As for some other teachers, like Mrs. Renfro, Pedro Stites, Barron Wilson, they tried with me, it just did not stick.