I misspelled the title on the other thread I created so please use this one and let the other one fall off the board. Thanks
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I misspelled the title on the other thread I created so please use this one and let the other one fall off the board. Thanks
Did anyone know that the old Guardian Angels school is the St. Jude Home for Boys? I was searching for Mayfield St. and found an entry for it.
so, how is it they still have a school there and we lost ours?
It's part of something called Wolverine Human Services. I just thought it was interesting that it's called St. Jude's. Here's a link to their company info.
http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_8jccmm
This is a test of the National Broadcasting System. If this had been an actual emergency.....:eek:
Welcome to the dark side.
We had the distinct priviledge of attending Mass this weekend at St. Jude. It still feels like home. And I wasn't even thinking about my car like I always do when I park it somewhere because I was told by a reliable source the lot was secure. The church is beautiful, and Fr. Robert is the right pastor for this parish in these times. I keep missing the bread and soup, Polish food and spaghetti they sometimes serve after Masses, Stations, and other services. Gotta get me a schedule.
JC: It looks like I found the thread. Thanks
There's plenty of thread. It's the button that's missing.
7, I think that if you are going to post pictures, you need to change your settings to do so. Go into CP, go to Settings and Options, Edit Options, Scroll down to Display Options, and select ShowImages under Thread Display Options
KR, hail, hail the gangs [[almost) all here.
C'mon CFG, join in.
....What the heck do we care, we're all going to be here.
hail, hail, the gangs all here.....
Gang?? Yoo Hoo, Gang...
Posted on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 9:59 pm: http://atdetroit.net/forum/icons/tree_s.gifhttp://atdetroit.net/forum/icons/delmsg.gif http://atdetroit.net/forum/icons/movemsg.gif
I graduated from SJS in 1958. Well remember 60+ kids in every classroom. Big rooms but Sr. Mary Magdalene could still throw a blackboard eraser corner to corner to clip a talking kid in the back of the head. Spent 7th grade in the "portables" in the parking lot which was also the playground. Swings, slides & monkey bars on asphalt. No sissy kids back then. You fell, broke your arm - no big deal - no lawsuit. The class of '58 had great 25 & 30 year reunions but I've heard nothing about a 50th this year. Maybe I'm the only one still alive?????????????
And so it begins again....
I once had a boss who always used to say the only thing that stays the same is change - think he had this forum in mind. Hope everyone is able to log into this.
I thought I'd give the St. Jude Post another chance, this time with a few photos added periodically. St. Jude parish and school were at one time the largest in the Arch Diocese of Detroit with about 13,000 parishioners and more than 1600 students enrolled in grades 1-8 [[circa late 50s-60s). Some of the first and second grade classrooms had 61 students x 4 classes per grade [[over 240 students per grade)... I know, I was one of them. 31 nuns, 4 priests and 2 visiting priests tended to the school and parish. The photo below is of Sr. Leonita [[1963), the principal 1960-67. A few months ago the Michigan Catholic ran an article about her. At the time she was 104 yrs old living in Adrian..a writer of children's books and a big Red Wing fan.
Please share a few of your St. Jude memories. If you know of anyone who is not a member of the Discuss Detroit Forum and were a member of St. Jude ask them to join. Hopefully, this post will continue on. St. Jude was and still is a rich part of the northeast Detroit community,
http://atdetroit.net/forum/messages/5/131863.jpg
Let's not forget our founder.
http://atdetroit.net/forum/messages/5/132068.jpg
My memories of Fr. Ording are from a perspective of a grade schooler and altar boy. He had a very authoritative aura about him, liked golf, and had a close knit circle of friends. If he wasn't a priest he probably could have been a CEO of a fortune 500 company. He didn't "scare the dickens out of me" but yet wasn't the most approachable priest either... he was a leader. Again, this is from a perspective of a young kid. I did respect him as our pastor. St. Jude school would always get the feast day of St. Joseph off because that was J.J. Ording's namesake.
Hey, we're trying to hit 10,000 posts on the old forum before noon tomorrow.
Get back there.
7&kk would have gotten a kick out of these reruns on this new forum. Too bad he died. May God rest his soul. I never got around to telling him how I knew of him from the old days. I don't remember the cool bike he had, but his HO set in his Dad's garage was awesome. Heck, I even spoke with him a few years back.
Remember how interested he was in the "relics" at St. Jude? And how he joked about standing up there in that empty statue alcove on the outside of the school on 7 Mile by Rex. I just know if I look up there when I drive by I'm going to see him standing right up there ... waiving at me. And I will just waive right back. I missed last years clean-up day, but he was there, enjoyng every minute of it, I'm sure.
7K: A nice way to connect the two forums. The 7 Kid on Eastwood was still very much connected to St. Jude even years after he left. His presence is still very much felt.
Posted on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 - 12:18 pm: http://atdetroit.net/forum/icons/tree_s.gifhttp://atdetroit.net/forum/icons/delmsg.gif http://atdetroit.net/forum/icons/movemsg.gif
Hi. I'm Jokerman's brother, Rick, SJS class of 66. Got my nickname "Duck" because, in eighth grade, I shot baskets "like a duck." The name stuck through high school at Notre Dame and Denby. Even today, some old friends still greet me as such. Although I made the football and basketball teams in eighth grade, I sucked at sports. Mostly, I was a bench-warmer. But, under the lights, in the Blue Jug Bowl game of 1965, Coach Steve Gerbe put me in for one play and I intercepted a pass. In basketball, I scored a total of two points the entire season. But it was a "swish."
In first grade, I had Sr. Madonna Marian, she was so nice. Second grade, Mrs. Zola. In third grade, I had Sr. Stella Coeli. I was an honor student with many pins to prove it.
Again, in fourth grade, I had Mrs. Zola. She couldn't believe how I changed from a "nice little Grade A student" to a "discipline problem."I got several green slips in conduct. "Richard is slipping," she wrote home to my mom. Once, she tried to grab my hair to correct me. But it was too short. So she pulled my ear. Yow!
Fourth grade was also the year I got kicked-out of cub scouts. [[Den 8, pack 420.)
We were crafting an Easter egg popsicle-stick cart in-tow by a cardboard bunny. I told the den mothers it looked like a "beer wagon." Then, I called them by their first names. That's when they called my dad to come and pick me up.
On the first day of fifth grade, I was greeted with " I've heard about you, mister. I'm going to keep my eye on you," by Sr. Marie Francis. She was a dominatrix of a nun. She was big, tall and tough. Although she had a slight lisp because of her overbite, her deep, raspy voice was like a cross between Dick Da Bruiser and Louis Nye. She wasn't going to take any "guff" from any of us. "You're all a bunch of babies. You're bold as brass. More crust than all the pie factories in the United States."
She would rap her nun ring on the window at other students playing outside of our portable classroom. It was almost as if she were flipping them the bird. It all might have been an attempt to teach us obedience to authority and conformity. And it probably worked for a while. But it might have helped to instill the very roots of the anarchistic theory that many of us espoused to in the late sixties.
In sixth grade, we were all so cool. I was fortunate, I thought, to get Mr. Fleming, the only male teacher at SJS. He addressed everyone by their last names. I thought it was pretty cool. Until, at least once a week, he'd point his number two pencil at me and say, "Pesta, I'll see you after school." During these detentions, we had to write a million sentences about how we wouldn't screw around in class anymore. Once, we had to write the definition of "time" from Webster's dictionary [[because we "wasted his.") It's about two pages long.
I got kicked-out of Mr. Eck's boys choir that year, too.
In seventh grade, I had Sr. Mary John. She was nice and politically intuitive. Very much into civics and government. We held mock elections for the 1964 presidential election. I was the committee chairman for LBJ. Michael K. was chairman for Goldwater. Just as in the real world, our team won by a landslide.
My friend Chuck T. and I got busted for smoking cigarettes in the restroom by the crying room in the church. Got reported by an eighth-grade duty girl. Sr. Leonita made us go see Fr. Ording. We thought we really in for it. But he was cool. He just made us pick up litter outside the church. We were done in five minutes.
In eighth grade, I had Sr. James Marie. She was matter-of-fact and to-the-point. Tough. Fair. Rigid. She had a deep manly voice with a slight New Jersey accent. She was a sports fan. She invited all of the football players to stand up during class and receive applause from the rest of the class. Although I sat the bench, I got to stand up. "These are real men," she'd say.
One day, there was some sort of parental event occurring after school. All the eighth graders were in the gym. Coffee was brewing in the big vats in the kitchen. Sister caught me with my hand on the spigot as half the coffee was draining out. She slapped me down in front of the entire class. I didn't cry or anything. And I said nothing.
A few minutes later, she discovered what I already knew. I didn't turn it on, I turned it off.
So she, with the utmost eloquence, commended me, in front of the whole class, for "taking it like a man" and not "ratting-out" the guilty party. My face was still red from the slap-down. That's when I felt like crying.
God bless St. Jude School.
By the way, three years later, I got kicked-out of Notre Dame High School. I graduated from Denby, graduated from Wayne State University and I've been a writer in advertising for more than 30 years. Married for 33 years. Three kids, all college graduates. One grandchild and one more on the way.
Now, I'm a conservative republican in Grosse Pointe Woods. And, at times, I attend Mass at St. Jude Church.
[[Message edited by Duck on April 01, 2008)go today [[April 1, 2008)
The above post from "Duck" IMHO really "captured" what St. Jude School was all about in the 60s. What a coincidence that the post was exactly one year ago today. Happy April Fools.
Just got approved. First post
I'm with you CFG.
First post here.
Welcome aboard. It looks weird, doesn't it?
Can you see my entire profile when I post?
It looks really weird and will take some getting used to. I know, I know, into the future, but the old way was ALOT easier to post and follow!
You're right CFG. Like the old style so much better. Too much extra stuff. Templates need to be simplier.
This is what I see when clicking on your name:
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If you go to the upper right hand corner of this page, under where it says 'How To's', you should see a little box that says 'Welcome <username>. This is where you receive private messages and friend requests. If you friend someone, they can see your profile.
What's the difference between a member and junior member under one's profile?
I don't know. I wondered that myself.
Thanks J -
I will need to work on this - maybe this weekend - to get you guys all "friended" up!
New cite, very cumbersome to use
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Originally Posted by kellyroad
If I had to guess, it would probably be something that changes once you reach past a certain milestone in # of posts.
If you go to the 'Quick Links' drop down at the top of the page, you can see who's online, what's been posted today, if you have any new messages and some other handy stuff.
I just wish that there was a way to lock that menu bar in place.
KR, we need you to go to the old thread and close it out. Z had the idea that you should have that honor, and EB seconded.
Out with the old, in with the new :D
What was the grand total for our thread and can we get back to it through archives?
What is the "Title" field for on the replies?
Final count was 9488, and as far as I know, the other site will live on just as an archive.
I just put in a title, and it seems like it titles the post if you want to call attention to it.
The title shows up when you preview, but not after you submit, so I have no idea. Maybe it's for searching??
Thanks, I was by-passing that field and didn't know if it would affect retrieval down the line. I don't know that a title is necessary for every exchange.
I agree, CFG. One of the things I hate about this forum is the 10 character posing requirement. I tried to simply type 'Agreed' but I can't. Not enough letters.
Good to know - I would have wondered what I was doing wrong.
Last Stations of the Cross - with Soup and Bread this Friday. Soup and Bread at 5:30 in the Parish Center - followed by Stations and Benediction at 7pm at church. All are welcome!
This is going to be a dumb question, but what is an "Avatar". It has that checked off as a default in my profile.
An avatar is a picture that goes along with your name at the side [[or somewhere) of the post. Once you put it up there it will appear on each post. I can't wait to see what JC puts up.
I know the Avatar check box is there, but I don't think we can use them for posting on here. I've never seen a spot to upload one
Z got one on his profile somehow.
I've got one in my profile, too. I thought you meant an avatar when you post.
You can add that in your CP, and go to Edit Profile Picture. Then you upload and it will show in your profile.
Now I've learned 2 new things - Avatars - and we now have 1 of 2 pages. How did that happen?
How did I meander off the main thread?
With Palm Sunday this week, it brings back memories of when my wife's grandparents used to weave the palms into different objects, most notably the crucifix. They were both from Italy, and brought with them so many traditions that have been lost over the years. I wish I would have had the forethought to learn some of them, when thay were still with us, as these traditions passed with them. Does anyone here know how to do this, or was it a tradition in your family that also was lost?
I used to be able to make a cross with my palm branch, but would really have to work at it now. Interesting memory! We still take them to place behind the crucifixes in the house.
Do all of our posts now go on multiple pages? - or do we have to use quick reply to keep everything on the same page?
Nevermind, I'm a slow learner - I get it! :-)
Avatar images can be cartoon characters or even customized photos. I don't see where one can select an avatar image in this forum. Any suggestions?
Well, I'm here, and I can't find my brother! JohnR, come out, come out, where ever you are! I promise I won't hurt you! Hehehehe
JCole--Of course I remember you. We only had about a million sleepovers in your basement. We slept in sleeping bags on the cement floor. If I did that now, I'd have to be hospitalized!!
Hey Janet! Your brother hasn't made the migration to the new forum yet. Welcome to the party!Quote:
Originally Posted by BigSistertoJohnR
KR, near the top of the page you'll see a tab that says User CP. Click that, and then down aways on the left side they'll be another tab for profile picture. You can upload from there.Quote:
Originally Posted by kellyroad
Welcome Big Sis. Glad you finally got out of "lurking" mode:cool:
Hey, BigSis, welcome. How could I ever forget those sleepovers? My house and Mary Lou's were often the sites. Lot's of parties and good times back then.
How is life treating you now?
Oh, and if I slept on a cement floor now, they may as well just move me directly to traction.
Hi Everybody! Life is OK. Tired of winter. I'm glad I found this forum. I have many memories to share. Anyone remember Sr. Paul Therese?? Oh, do share your stories!
JCole-Is Mary Lou on here?
Just don't share the one about the word you erased off the blackboard!!:eek:
OMG! You remember that? Oh, this forum is not a safe place to be! But, do you remember who wrote that word on the blackboard?Quote:
Originally Posted by zitro
The first one to post with an avatar gets an extra bowl of soup. [[right CFG:D?)
Ummm..yeah
Good luck posting an Avatar.
vBulletin MessageThe administrator has disabled the use of avatars.
BSJR: Welcome to the St. Jude Thread #2. It looks like you're familiar with many of our posters. Hope to hear a few of your stories.
Oh my dear man, I'm so glad YOU REMEMBER!!Quote:
Originally Posted by zitro
Dear me, from a member of the choir too. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by BigSistertoJohnR
Hi Kellyroad! Yes, I'm starting to get a feel of who's who, only because I've been lurking.
I lived in the house on Kelly Rd. right next to the alley, right next to the car wash. I lived there from 1976 to 1980. Then JohnR took over from there. It put us much closer to church living there.
Well, if a certain "someone", who shall go un-named, didn't write that word, then I wouldn't have had to erase it.
Or, was it me who erased it? :eek::D
Bigsis have you had a chance to check out the St. Jude Facebook page? There are some great photo's and video montage's on there.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Detroi...=1238706715156
Tsom: Did you see this? Too funny.
http://www.keyetv.com/content/sports...OgaliqLog.cspx
No, I hadn't seen that. That is too funny! Looks like the team in Grand Prairie is a little bit looser than our Round Rock Express. I could never envision seeing that happening at an Express game, lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by zitro
I'm missing something here. What word and in whose classroom?Quote:
Originally Posted by BigSistertoJohnR
Oh, and ML lurks occasionally, so she might be reading this now. ML, BigSis is JR in case you're reading in.
Minor League baseball has it's charms the bigs don't. We have a lot of fun at the I-Cubs games and it's reasonable too.
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Originally Posted by jcole
Might be a better side conversation
BSJR: Your house [[next to the alley) was visible from our home on Eastwood [[left there in 1979). What's the latest?
I'm laughing out loud on this one. JCole, you didn't miss anything. Zitro is just being silly. I'll tell you, time plays tricks on the mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by zitro
OK, Zitro, SIDEBAR!
Been living in Northern Michigan for 19 years. It took me about 10 years to get used to "up north". But, now I wouldn't trade it for anything.
I'm still a Motor City girl, born and raised, but it sure is beautiful up here. The kids are grown and out of the house. One is married, she is 28. The other is 25, and she is living with a friend and working. No empty nest syndrome here! Both girls live up here, they don't remember Detroit.
JohnR checking in. I see BigSis found some old friends; thats cool.
I was trying to upload my new avatar but had trouble. I'll have more
time tomorrow to work on it. Talk to y'll later.
Rumblefish
f/k/a Johnr
I live north of Detroit in a small town. I have two girls also. One is 32, the other 31. Both married with kids. The oldest has 2 boys and lives in Clawson, and the younger has 1 girl and lives in Colorado. When they were small, I used to take them downtown to the Ethnic festivals on the riverfront, and to Greektown, the Fisher, the Fox and everywhere else I could drag them to. Apparently, I instilled a love of Detroit in the older one; she went to University of Detroit Mercy and loved it. Lived on campus and then in a Frat on 6 Mile.
The avatar made it to you profile. It won't show up when you post on a thread.
By the way, I'll see your Freewheelin' Franklin and raise you one Fat Freddy's Cat!
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...g?t=1238711872
BSJR or can I drop the full name and just call you BS since we went to school together?:) Welcome!
The last time I saw you, you were sitting on your porch on Vernier [[I think) and just getting ready to move to TC. How is Mike?
Ask him if he remembers who chipped his front tooth :eek: playing bean bag football. Sorry Mike!!
I also remember when Mike's father took us to the fifteenth precinct on Gration to see the lockup. The place was old [[even then) and smelled like a wine cellar. That was the first and last time I spent in jail.
Speaking of minor league promotions, my son just pointed this one, by none other than the W. Michigan Whitecaps. A heart attack in a bun!
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090...calorie+burger
Welcome, BS and fka JR. Since you lived next to the car wash, I'm sure you remember the very tasty large sugar cookies they used to give out free to cute kids at the bakery next to the beer store ... speaking of which, I could really go for a Mr. Freeze, and a ten cent pack of 1968 Topps baseball cards right about now. I used to drop into Colonial just to use the gum machine.
BTW, how far are you away from Flap Jack Shack? Went there last time up.
TS, time to get your Tiger and Red Wing gear out of moth balls ... oh, I forgot, you don't have winter down there. Are you coming up for the final four?
No, I'll have to be content to watch on the tube. There's a bar downtown where some MSU alumni hang out, I might watch the game there if I can get there early enough to get a table.
Looking forward to baseball starting. I made the mistake of listening to the Wings game tonight on the radio. How can they consistantly cough up goals right after scoring themselves? Couldn't hang this one on Ozzie. Hard to tell what going on from a radio play by play, but I hope they get this turned around before the playoffs!
I'm about 20 minutes from The Flap Jack Shack. I just ate there 2 weeks ago!Quote:
Originally Posted by 7andkelly
Oh, Mike remembers very well who chipped his front tooth!! I made him get it fixed 3 months before we got married. I wasn't having a toothless wonder in my wedding photos!!
I miss a good old fashioned Mr. Freeze. Those were the days when life was simple and happy.
Today we have snow, rain and high winds. Summer only comes to Traverse City for 3 months. I'm not lying either. June, July and August.
Now, who was with me in 6th grade, above the gym in Sr. Paul Therese's homeroom?
Gosh girl, you had your kids young! Good for you! My kids are the best thing that ever happened to me, next to beating up my little brother! Hehehehe
Hey, Bro, how did you change your username?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumblefish
I checked out Facebook. The pictures are wonderful!Quote:
Originally Posted by zitro