The Class of 1955

Jean Feller, Molly Scholes

Bill Martin wrote to me. He would have graduated with the Class of 1955 had his parents not moved away. He attended Harlem School for grades 1-5, and Union School for 6th grade.

Bill remembers that some of his Harlem School classmates were Carol Johnson, Nancy Beam, Audrey Taylor, Tommy Heiser, Robert Butcher, Voight Smith (his dad was a doctor), Bruce Beasly, Terry Arbogast, Richard Maples and Molly Scholls. He remembers Charlene Kerlin and Bill Kortemeier from Union School. His teachers at Union were Miss O'Connor and Mrs. Hill.

Younger kids that he remembers from his neighborhood on N. Harlem Avenue were Hank Purdue (Class of 1959) and Denny Maves. His next door neighbors on S. Carroll Ave. were Karen and Suzie Steffan, and Barbara Soliday. The Superintendent of Schools, a man named Ben Shafer, lived directly across the street from his house, next to a man named Ogden, and on his other side, a neighbor named Wamsley. A couple named Redmer ran the Historical museum a couple blocks away.

Carolyn and Allan Sikes were two children of his cousin, as well as Sylvia and Brian Volkers. Karen, Garnet and Paulette Stephan are also kids of another cousin. Janice Rummelhagen was also a daughter of another cousin.

Bill is retired from the printing trade, is an oil and watercolor artist, and has a website, www.wfmartin.com.

My father's 1955 license plate.

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