  12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 359 Registered: 07-2008 |
i remember that. imagine feeding a rubber hot dog or a cupcake with a nickle in it to a kid now!!!! seems i got a nickle in my cupcake once. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5515 Registered: 04-2005 |
I'm pretty sure the regular hot dogs tasted a lot like the rubber ones, so we may never know if we got one or not. The nuns probably saved a lot of dollars that way. | ||
Tsomyak Member Username: Tsomyak Post Number: 74 Registered: 04-2008 |
Wasn't that the day you could also opt for orange drink instead of milk? I seem to remember that was a big deal too. I used to love that stuff, I would suck that carton dry in a flash. | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 618 Registered: 03-2008 |
I do remember the box lunch - and also remember that I got Gary Byciek (sp) and Betty had Frank Orrico. I remember that I felt sorry for Gary who was as big as an adult in the 6th grade and it was hard for him to fit into a regular desk. He was a wonderful artist. I remember the nickel in the cupcakes too - and never got one....and yes, the regular hot dogs could have passed for rubber ones! :-) | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2643 Registered: 04-2008 |
CFG: It may have been Robert Orrico, I think Frank was a year or two younger | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5516 Registered: 04-2005 |
CFG, I remember Gary well. He was a really nice guy. As we got into 8th grade, he became more avant-garde and therefor cooler. He used to wear an over coat and hat. | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2644 Registered: 04-2008 |
Gary was a gentle giant | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 619 Registered: 03-2008 |
You're right Z - it WAS Bob - Frank was in my brother's class. Bob was a nice guy. I remember Gary walking with the overcoat and hat down 7 mile - and yes, he was a gentle giant - such a gentleman and so soft spoken. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5518 Registered: 04-2005 |
Do we know what ever happened to him after grade school? | ||
12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 360 Registered: 07-2008 |
One of the Oricco's was in Cub Scouts with me - his mother was my den mother when I first got in. they lived in a house on Moross the other side of Beaconsfield, I think - one of those duplexes with one family above, and the other one below. Now I can't remember who was the youngest, Frank or Robert - little help - which one was in the class of '71? | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1778 Registered: 04-2008 |
Yes. I think he went to high school. Frank did too. Good kid. Ran into him at the reunion in '97 at Gilbert's. | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2645 Registered: 04-2008 |
Bob was in our class and Frank was younger so it must have been Frank. We used to play football on the island on Moross across from their house with the Perna's and McCormicks. They had one of the most organized pickup games, they would even have one of the older kids be a ref. The field was telephone pole to telephone pole. (Message edited by zitro on January 13, 2009) | ||
12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 361 Registered: 07-2008 |
those islands were great for football. thanks for letting me know it was Frank in my class. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5519 Registered: 04-2005 |
I meant Gary B. Do we know what ever happened to him? | ||
Tsomyak Member Username: Tsomyak Post Number: 75 Registered: 04-2008 |
I played in a few of those football games with the Orricos. Bob was the older one, Frank was in my class. I always thought a lot of them, just genuinely nice people. I kept in touch with them through college, it seemed I would often run into one of them in the Engineering Library at MSU. Later, I would often run into one or the other at DTW whenever I would fly into or out of Detroit. It was one of those strange coincidences, we would see each other and just start to laugh. That hasn't happened in years. Anyone hear from either of them? (Message edited by tsomyak on January 13, 2009) | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 620 Registered: 03-2008 |
I've not seen or heard from either one of them - and JC - don't know a thing about what happened to Gary - where he went to High School - or later. | ||
Zitro Member Username: Zitro Post Number: 2646 Registered: 04-2008 |
I think Jeff Rappold was another guy that used to play ball on the islands | ||
Campfire_girl Member Username: Campfire_girl Post Number: 621 Registered: 03-2008 |
Wasn't there a Thomas Rappold who was a couple of years young? Tsomyak - that'd be a question from your class, right? | ||
Tsomyak Member Username: Tsomyak Post Number: 76 Registered: 04-2008 |
Yep, Tom was in my class. Were the Rappolds the family that lived on Kelly just south of Seven Mile? I'm thinking there or one block over on Payton. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1779 Registered: 04-2008 |
Howie Ryback would know. He was a block over on Riad. | ||
Jcole Member Username: Jcole Post Number: 5527 Registered: 04-2005 |
Tunnelgang lived over that way I think. Kelly south of 7 near the old bank | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1780 Registered: 04-2008 |
TS, BTW, did you know Bill Promesso became a priest. Saw him doing the TV Mass a while ago, and in person recently, also. | ||
7andkelly Member Username: 7andkelly Post Number: 1781 Registered: 04-2008 |
I loved that old bank. They used to give out good stuff like metal coin banks that came with their own key. I'd remember walking over there to make deposits with money I got from Grandma, birthdays, Christmas, etc. No trouble taking the money out, either, even though I was just a kid. And I would stop in all the time, just to get a couple of penny gum balls. | ||
Tsomyak Member Username: Tsomyak Post Number: 77 Registered: 04-2008 |
Yes I did know about Bill. We chatted for quite a while at one of the ND reunions, either the 15th or 20th. (Gosh, was it really that long ago? The 20th was the last one I heard of.) | ||
12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 362 Registered: 07-2008 |
anyone else hear this news about Schwartz and the Lions job? http://www.nashvillecitypaper. com/news.php?viewStory=65397 | ||
Tsomyak Member Username: Tsomyak Post Number: 78 Registered: 04-2008 |
I can hear the Lions PR team from here. "May the Schwartz be with us!" *TS ducks for cover....* | ||
Mkap Member Username: Mkap Post Number: 49 Registered: 11-2008 |
7K - I know Bill Promesso. He lived directley behind a good friend of mine. He is a very nice guy. I have not seen him on the tube, but have been to a couple of the masses he has done over the years. Do you know where he presides now? | ||
Kellyroad Member Username: Kellyroad Post Number: 1341 Registered: 04-2007 |
Mkap: Fr. Bill is our pastor at St. Cyprian in Riverview. He often refers back to the east side, his family, or high school (ND) when giving his sermons....a very dynamic orator | ||
Mkap Member Username: Mkap Post Number: 50 Registered: 11-2008 |
KR - Yes, Father puts it into quite a nice package for you. Easy to digest his interpretation. Hope he is doing well. | ||
12468_laing Member Username: 12468_laing Post Number: 363 Registered: 07-2008 |
Where's all the slackers? Temp is up to 23 here in Nashville, low tonight of 6. They already closed the Nashville public schools for tomorrow due to the cold. Ah, to walk uphill both ways in 8 ft of snow to SJS!!!! |
