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Carl and Bernice Fell – Carl Fell became the school superintendent in the school year of 1943/44. I did not personally meet him until the 1946/47 school year when I was in the sixth grade. Our teacher was Ruby Alspaugh. Ruby was not very good at maintaining class discipline and some of us students just loved to make her life miserable. I think that by the end of that school year most of the boys had been paddled and a few of the girls. She would sometimes lose her temper and throw chalk or a book at us boys. Kenny Kull tells me that on one occasion Ruby threw her book at me and I picked it up and threw it back at her. I think it was Kenny, not I who did that. On another occasion after Ruby had pretty much lost control she called Mr. Fell in to lecture the class. As he was leaving the room after his lecture I turned to Dick Jeffers behind me, who probably was resuming his habit of sliding a ruler back and forth in a groove in his desk until he made smoke, to tell him that Mr. Fell was talking to him. Apparently Mr. Fell saw me turning around because he immediately called me out into the hall. He was very angry and grabbed me by the shoulders and shook me all the time he was talking to me. He finally sent me back into the classroom. I actually didn’t take this all that seriously. His temper had kind of scared me but I now knew that I was one up on the other boys in the class for I had not only pissed off Ruby, I had pissed off the Superintendent.
Now we will flash forward six years. Carl and Bernie’s daughter Carolyn was one of the top students who ever attended Carroll School. (Actually she is assisting me in the preparation of this memoir and this last sentence is a prime example of her many helpful recommendations.) She invited me along with Charlie Bradford, Nancy Beaty, Jerry Greene and Delores Farmer to a dinner party at her house. The occasion was the introduction of a new dish that was growing popular on the East Coast. Carolyn prepared and served the first pizza that I (and I think the others) ever ate. I think that introduction was what caused pizza to become the entire third layer of the recommended food pyramid for Midwestern America.
Some years later my mom and dad visited Bernie Fell during the last year of her life.
Highland Avenue east side
Horace and Gertrude Solt – Hordy Solt is an enigma to me. He was the proprietor of a dual personality establishment. It consisted of two rooms joined by a shared kitchen and service area. One room was milk shakes and the other room was beer. One room was candy bars and the other room was chewing tobacco and spittoons. One room was for after ballgame gatherings of teenagers and the other room was for adults to drink, shoot pool and play cards. One room was for both genders and one room was for men only. Somehow he made it work.
George and daughter Gertrude Noecker – George Noecker managed the grain elevator on Cemetery Road and was another member of the school board. George’s son Francis had been in the same class as my mother and an early boyfriend. Francis married Elizabeth Saylor another friend of my mother’s who lived just north of us on Market Street in the house the McCaffertys later owned. One time when I was quite young we visited Francis and Elizabeth Noecker in Columbus. I remember throwing a basketball at one of my brothers and busting the screen in their side door. I felt very ashamed and I am sure my parents did as well. Later two of my brothers went to work at the same bank as Francis.
Harry and Jessie Gierhart – They had a son named Duane whom we all called “Cheese”. Colorful nicknames can be found in any group but Carroll seemed partial to food. Elsewhere in these memoirs you have already or will meet Cabbage, Fudgy, Pie, Brownie, and Butter.
Center St as we head for Canal Street
Eddie “Toad” and Grace Campbell – There were many Campbell boys, Melvin, Donald, Robert, Paul, Jerry, Verlin and Richard. I think all four of the older Campbell boys fought in the Second World War. The one closest to my age was Verlin, who also was called “Toad”. Toad was in my class for a year. The teachers and other students all knew that Toad was just waiting until he was sixteen and could quit school. I don’t think Toad ever did any of the school work. I can still see him sitting in the back of the classroom constructing miniature semi-tractors out of match boxes.
Now we head for East Canal Street.
Now we will flash forward six years. Carl and Bernie’s daughter Carolyn was one of the top students who ever attended Carroll School. (Actually she is assisting me in the preparation of this memoir and this last sentence is a prime example of her many helpful recommendations.) She invited me along with Charlie Bradford, Nancy Beaty, Jerry Greene and Delores Farmer to a dinner party at her house. The occasion was the introduction of a new dish that was growing popular on the East Coast. Carolyn prepared and served the first pizza that I (and I think the others) ever ate. I think that introduction was what caused pizza to become the entire third layer of the recommended food pyramid for Midwestern America.
Some years later my mom and dad visited Bernie Fell during the last year of her life.
Highland Avenue east side
Horace and Gertrude Solt – Hordy Solt is an enigma to me. He was the proprietor of a dual personality establishment. It consisted of two rooms joined by a shared kitchen and service area. One room was milk shakes and the other room was beer. One room was candy bars and the other room was chewing tobacco and spittoons. One room was for after ballgame gatherings of teenagers and the other room was for adults to drink, shoot pool and play cards. One room was for both genders and one room was for men only. Somehow he made it work.
George and daughter Gertrude Noecker – George Noecker managed the grain elevator on Cemetery Road and was another member of the school board. George’s son Francis had been in the same class as my mother and an early boyfriend. Francis married Elizabeth Saylor another friend of my mother’s who lived just north of us on Market Street in the house the McCaffertys later owned. One time when I was quite young we visited Francis and Elizabeth Noecker in Columbus. I remember throwing a basketball at one of my brothers and busting the screen in their side door. I felt very ashamed and I am sure my parents did as well. Later two of my brothers went to work at the same bank as Francis.
Harry and Jessie Gierhart – They had a son named Duane whom we all called “Cheese”. Colorful nicknames can be found in any group but Carroll seemed partial to food. Elsewhere in these memoirs you have already or will meet Cabbage, Fudgy, Pie, Brownie, and Butter.
Center St as we head for Canal Street
Eddie “Toad” and Grace Campbell – There were many Campbell boys, Melvin, Donald, Robert, Paul, Jerry, Verlin and Richard. I think all four of the older Campbell boys fought in the Second World War. The one closest to my age was Verlin, who also was called “Toad”. Toad was in my class for a year. The teachers and other students all knew that Toad was just waiting until he was sixteen and could quit school. I don’t think Toad ever did any of the school work. I can still see him sitting in the back of the classroom constructing miniature semi-tractors out of match boxes.
Now we head for East Canal Street.