 rolling are you rolling yeah today is Thursday 16th and we were interviewing what is your name Marie miss Maria where do you live in Arlington I lived on hillside Avenue so it's up here off of pocket how did you get this school good old walking when you got this school did you meet no any kids a lot of the kids yeah my neighbors we all went everybody in the neighborhood came here if you whatever age you were the 7th 8th and 9th and in those classes how many kids were there probably about 30 for those classes how long about were there 45 minutes I think but that's going way back after teaching here with the also times all confused and in those classes did you use typewriters no they weren't typewriters here I did I did use a typewriter at home were the students here I will foreign languages French and Latin were the only two and if you took Latin you took it for 8th and 9th grade and French it was 8th and 9th grade also but if you didn't take Latin here you couldn't take it at the high school who is the principal when you're here a Henry Audison were there assistant principles mr. Glenwright and I know when I was teaching also there was some Edmund Mahoney and I believe his son is teaching here now he became principal later how long did you teach for I taught Narrington 36 years and how long at what age did you join Audison as a staff member I joined the Audison at 20 24 and when you're a student it was 7th and 9th grade so I was 12 when I started 54 to 57 did you ever interact with the principal or his or her only once and I was shaking in my boots I was a ninth grader and I got called to the office and it was like in mr. Audison had a voice that was way down here and you could hear him coming and it was like and all it was was I had too many sewing classes would I be willing to give up a sewing class so someone else could have it but I didn't know that and I'll tell you I was not too happy were their assemblies yes there were a memorial day there was always from Memorial Day I'm not sure the others but we also as I gave them the picture we also did on play productions musicals or the assemblies like I really can't tell you my memory doesn't go back that well did you use desks and chairs like we do today were they nice there was the old fashion wooden desk and chairs they were stationary they did not move was it hard to earn high grades if you look at my report card yes was the recess what would you do during that recess the only time you have would be equivalent to recess would be visit was visit like the girls were one it was divided the gym with it I guess from what I overheard you guys calling it's called the wood gym that was the gym and it was divided in half and the girls were on one half and the boys were on the other we didn't do much outdoors what were your favorite memory or memories mmm favorite probably the musicals more than musicals like very very simple compared to today we did the background built the sets and so what was the lunches like that's an interesting question I was told to make sure I told this my sisters I'm one of 11 all of us went here and my sis I was telling my sisters yesterday it was coming and they said make sure you talk about the turkey dinner being one of 11 we didn't buy our lunches too often but the one lunch who mother wanted us to make sure we had was the turkey dinner and it was they cooked the turkeys in the ovens and in fact that wall there I think is the back of where the ovens were in there because the kitchen other the lunch room was your tech room back over as you come in the building the library a little tiny classroom and that's it and it's not that many books and in fact that was like that all the way up through I want to say actually almost the 80s almost to the 80s was there a specific genre that the was there in psychopedias other than that there were some but I I've used the local library read before I use that one whether there's school rules oh there were school rules girls had to wear skirts the boys had to wear pants no dungarees had to wear a tie and a shirt let's see what else was there oh we the girls we had a little thing that we used to do we and what I don't know whether it was Christmas time we put bells on our sneakers that was an oh no we had we get caught right away if the one one year maybe it was when I was in the ninth grade petticoats where the thing under skirts and of course that would make you skirt stand out and it was like no more because walking up the stairs was not oh that's something they don't wouldn't know about they were up and downstairs you could not go up the downstairs staircase so this staircase right here was a downstairs case because that led to the lunchroom the one over here would have been an up one so when you're leaving lunch you could go up it but don't you dare cross things and I have to say I was the meanie about that as a teacher my room was right there at the bottom when I first started here and it was noisy so if you were doing they were going the wrong way it made a difference were there students who didn't know any English yes they must have been I'm not sure that I remember them in when I was in junior high but definitely when I was teach when I began teaching when you're a student how big was the building compared to now this whole section from here over was non-existent we did have the wood gym and you went that way so this whole section is brand new well no painful said we lost my ninth grade year we lost a friend and but other than that most of my they were good memories I still have and one of your questions I guess was about do you still know anyone from it I have a very good friend who has been a friend since I was in seventh grade eighth grade for teachers it was just as bad as for students I will never forget I had this was teaching there now I had what did they call them cool arts on that and you could not tell it wasn't a skirt mr. oddison came up to me I was in the gym came up to me and said Marie I know this doesn't apply to you but the school committee I said no pants no add any form in schools now I'm standing there tip technically I had on pants so I'm standing there not moving so that he wouldn't see the legs and oh that's okay thank you and needless to say my wardrobe changed from that but they there was a dress code as far as that and what I told you earlier above the boys that was up through probably the late 70s and before they started letting boys wear dungarees and no tie and whatever and the girls started to wear pants the hottest thing was getting to school walking to school and skirts in the winter in the snow that was at least the boys had pants on so could the boys ever wear shorts oh no nobody could wear shorts that was well in the gym the uniform you know basketball oh yes I forgot that dress code the show cheese we had the girls had little blue dressy type what do you call it gyms and gym outfit and it was a skirted it had bloomers underneath and that I don't know what the boys so much we hated ours actually I had a way one all that type of thing all the way through college I I preferred softball and basketball what what other was there was there was a JV I guess it was called JV basketball that I coached the cheerleaders for that the boys actually went to other junior highs and played against that I think there was football for the boys that actually as far as for the girls there wasn't much in the town other than there was a CYO teams for girls the girls had to go elsewhere the boys got the teams so we're always in the weekend we didn't go out that much I don't remember oh no they were always in the cafeteria and the girls had one end of the cafeteria and the boys sat at the other end of the cafeteria never the tween shall meet English health science math is my report card I can tell you which ones I had the usual I mean there wasn't any much different other than seventh grade home it was different I actually want to think that there were no computers or tech courses girls took cooking sewing in the seventh grade cooking in the eighth grade and either sewing or cooking in the ninth grade the boys took print shop eighth grade woodworking seventh grade and I'm not sure what the choices they probably those were the two choices in the ninth grade there was the glee club and actually that's all I remember because I was active in it that I remember not while I was a student and I don't remember as his teacher there was okay thank you oh musical I'm singing and in other words I couldn't make if you couldn't make the prom special what do they come what like we had did have a group of 12 girls that's saying of whatever if you couldn't make that glee club was for everybody so we put on a music Christmas chorus alright that's probably what you'd call it is chorus we called it glee club I won my sister's kind of said it was Christmas I thought it was Thanksgiving but it was a full cooked meals stuffing and all and they did it and it smelled wonderful in here they did that up through I would say that the beginning of the seven days and they did they cooked the food completely here and my mother actually my mother worked in the cafeteria this place had a lot of us and my poor brothers and sisters went through school here while I was teaching here oh yeah they did one brother in particular to this day says I could kill you because if he'd get in trouble there was one teacher who would send him to me and the thing was they had been told do not contact me that I am not their parent my parents are the ones that you should speak to if he does something wrong or whatever that's who you talk to and this one teacher didn't believe in that question yeah we're in classes were the boys separated from the girls no mostly we would put alphabetically when I was when I was a student no I don't remember even through high school that there were any and in fact I am high school I'm 100% sure because I'd see them in my yearbook which I still have so you put me on the spot that way no wait a minute wait a minute I might have had oh you would question about detention and so forth there was on the list yeah they did have detention and so what did I put there was just kept after school and so forth I do remember oh I know something and also at some point can just tell that story oh okay after the first the challenger what do you call it crash the explosion thank you after the challenger the NASA set up a thing a contest around the country to name the replacement orbit up and was set out to the schools for the kids to come up with a project in a name and it had to be a multi task thing in other words it couldn't just be oh this is the name it will write a little story you had to have something to go with it and there were two levels elementary and secondary and the class here at the audison which was what my class along with them miss me and Sierra came Mrs. Crasko we worked with the kids on it and they came up with and I don't remember this is awful I don't remember the name of the they gave it because in devil one but we won for the state out of all of the high schools and junior highs in the state we won for the state and from the letters I got from other schools around the country we actually probably did very well as far as the rest of the country and there's a book somewhere in the library we haven't been able to find it yet with the NASA published that has the whole thing that the kids wrote in a description of the project and it was a quilt and that's another thing somewhere in the building is a quilt or somebody has it but this is the plaque I was sent because it was my students that did it and it's a little bit scratched up because it's been moved around a few times but oh yeah I was teaching here I had been teaching here quite a while of when he died other than us all going that school closed down we all went to the wake down the thing the funeral actually the funeral was at St. James well St. Athanasius now but it was more and then all of the teachers we all went out and it was somewhat out by the old mill because we stopped at the old restaurant coming back out by that way so it was quite well it was a shock because he had been fine we came in on I almost want to say a Monday morning and he had died overnight and that's another the hard thing that happens when you're teaching is you lose friends but you also lose students I had one year of two of my students died one the year after I had her and these were seven well she was an eighth grader and the seventh grader died she had an allergic reaction to peanuts she couldn't her friend she was downstairs in the basement with her friends and they couldn't get upstairs to get the EpiPen fenced enough and I got a call that she had died on a Friday night and I'll tell you that was it's a rough thing to go through and it was rough for the kids and I still know some of the kids from the first students okay anymore