night there was a terrible storm and the mother told me to take the garbage out (in the storm!). I told her that I was not the maid and quit on the spot. On one of the first warm days in spring , my friends and I decided to skip school and go to Nay Aug Park where we were sunning ourselves and doing our shorthand homework when as luck would have it, a police car came and grabbed us up and drove us back to school. All the kids were out - lunchtime - it was quite embarrassing. First and last time skipping school. Being a Techette in Sr. High
from Stamford, CT, to be God mother to their son, Jeffrey; so, I got on the Am track to NYC, and transferred to another train to arrive in CT. to become the God Mother. I was all by myself. Everyone around me on the train ordered a scotch an soda, so I did too. I took one sip an spit it out. I did not acquire a taste for scotch till many years later. Graduation time arrived. Janet and I got dressed up grand for the class day and we decided to go to the finest restaurant for dinner (like grown ups) - Hotel Casey. As we sat in our glory, we were eyed by two old geezers on the other side of the room and the waitress told us they wanted to buy us a drink.We were both flattered and appalled. We declined as we never had a drink (19). The guy turned out to be Judge Eagan (dirty old man). We should have had him arrested. I had a curfew at theY at 10pm during the week and 11pm on weekends. The Saturday nights I spent at Janet’s were special dances or the like. Just before I graduated, Janet decided I should learn to smoke. I didn’t want to, but she constantly insisted that I had to learn. So, we
school was so much fun. I was very popular, but did not do all the things my peers did. All of the Techettes decided to bleach their bangs...no matter the color of their hair. I though it was hideous, so I would not and did not do it. It never bothered me to be different or not go along with the crowd. I only did what I felt was right for me and it did not bother me what they thought. One of my wanna be’s was Billy
would go to the fancy ladies room in the hotel Jermyn downtown after school and sit in front of the mirror and learned to smoke. I ended up smoking for 30 years all together. I quit once for 7 years and then again for 10 more.YUCK! Both my mom and dad were at my graduation. Mom and Pat Padden and Dad and Sally. This made me very happy. June 1949 we were the 49’rs. I must go back to the prom. I invited gorgeous Rod Reagan, I still have a picture of him with his square jaw. He looked like a movie star and I was smitten. He liked me too and gave me a lot of attention, but older and in college. I wore a lovely white gown with small purple
Heinz. He was president of our senior class. He was very intelligent and attractive, but no chemistry for me. He came to theY every morning and picked me up for school. It was Billy who taught me to drive. He was the “salt of the earth” kind of a person and I loved him as a friend. My best girlfriend in High school was Janet Sulivan, very pretty, tall and classy. We love each other to this day. She lives now in Churchville, PA. She also is an only child and I use to spend some weekends at her home in Green Ridge during senior year. We both loved to dance and attended dances every weekend at different places around town. My dad’s YMCA had the best dances. We went all the time. They had the huge ball in the center of the ceiling that went round and around flashing colors on everyone. I was a dance freak!!! I won a twister contest once later on. I went to a party one summer at Harvey’s Lake (PA) with the crowd. They all drank and most were drunk. I did not drink and got my first drinking experience by driving everyone else home scared to death! I have been the designated driver all of my life since (even when I drank) Thank you Billy H! I broke his hear t when he asked me to the Sr. prom and I told him I already asked Rod Reagan a 2nd yr college student who was the most handsome man I had ever seen... to this day! The VP of our Sr class, Eleanor (forgot last name) was madly in love with Billy. I told him to ask her and he did. At least I made one person happy. Sorry Bill... At 16 yrs old, I was asked by my favorite Uncle Jack & Aunt Margie Marilyn Davies Noyes
flowers on it. I went to a beauty parlor for a fancy updo. Janet and George and Rod and I went together and had a fabulous time.We stayed out so late that I could not go home. So, we sat up all night and dozed together in the car. After that, I saw him a few times, but since he was older he wanted more than kisses and I was not going there. So he went back to his old girlfriend. My mom worked at the Third National Bank and she got me a job at the First National Bank in the credit department. I would check people’s credit for loans and met a young man named Bobby McGurrin. He was in the navy. He had red hair and freckles and cute as can be. At this time my
mom and I and Bobby went to NYC to meet a wealthy fiend of my mom’s (whom she met in Stamford, CT while visiting Uncle Jack) He invited us all to NYC and took us to fancy club. The owner was Barbara Walter’s father LouWalters who sat with us at our table
Marion with Marilyn
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