March Memories

MARCH

1. Tell about being in a school play or program.

We had a Christmas Program each year in Country School.

2. Tell about a school principal you remember.

Mr. Burn's in high school. He would come to Spanish class and play tic-tac-toe with me while he picked up the attendance slip,

3. Did you ever pretend to be sick as an excuse to stay home from school?

Not that I remember

4. Do you have a good story about yourself cussing?

Working sheep with Dad. I said, "Bitch get in your pen!" Dad told me I could not say that, only adults could.

5. Tell about how you spent your Saturdays during the school year.

We always got to watch some cartoons before we started cleaning the house. Then we would play or I would go out and help dad with chores.

6. Tell about how you spent your Sundays.

Church and CCD. When we finished CCD in 8th grade then we got to go grocery shopping with mom and dad while the little girls were in CCD. We would then go eat at Tia Zia and if we were good we got to go get our "One Thing" from Grandma Tielke. We also would go visit Great Grandma Sloane and then Grandpa Tielke while they were in the nursing home.

7. What was the naughtiest or meanest thing you remember doing in school?

Can't remember anything

8. What were the consequences?

None

9.What was your favorite radio program?

We listened to 102.9 FM KBRX. Party line was always entertaining while we made sandwiches.

10. What was your favorite movie as a youth? Why?

Dirty Dancing. (We watched it all the time) Also one of Mom's favorites.

 11. Did kids ever tease you? About What?

 I don't remember being tease

12. Tell of a difficult school essay or team paper assignment.

I remember doing a paper on the Trail of Tears in Grade school. Not difficult but took a lot of time and I was a horrible speller.

13. Tell about your first smoke.

I was in college and had a smoke with Jill Evers

14. Do you remember your first pizza?

 We would get book-its from school and go to O'Neill to pizza hut and get our own pizza.

15. If you went to college, tell which college you chose and why.

I went to University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK)- because Nicky was there and they had a pre-vet program

16. Tell your major and how you chose it.

Bachelors of Science in Biology with a Minor in Chemistry. I was pre-vet and that was the degree you got with it and then I picked up the minor when I found out it was just one more class.

17. Did people wear green on St. Patrick's Day?

Yes or you got pinched

18. Do you have any other memories of St. Patrick's Day as a youth?

I did a lot of babysitting for Merri and Darold during St. Patrick's day weekend in junior high and high school.

19. If you ever hitch-hiked, explain.

I never have

20. What do you remember as your favorite time of year? Why?

 Christmas. It was always spent with family and we got lots of presents and things that we knew mom and dad did not have money for.

21. Describe some household chores you had as a child.

We had a chore chart that we got paid to do each day. If we were bad then we got check marks and had to pay mom a quarter back for each check mark we had. Our chores included: Dishes, setting the table, cleaning the bathrooms, vacuuming and dusting the living-room.

22. Describe some outside chores.

Feed sheep, help dad, fix fence, spray weeds, check cows, mow, drive tractor. (With 5 girls in the family one of us had to help dad and I loved helping outside more than inside.)

23. Which chore did you dislike the most?

All the inside chores!

24. What bones have you broken and how?

I got a small crack in my orbital bone when we were playing softball in the front yard and Nicky ducked at one of Dad's line drives and it hit me in the eye.

25. Did you ever need stitches?

I had a hernia when I was 5 so I had surgery and stitches for that. I also had a cyst removed from my right wrist when I was 14.

26. Do you have any other good stories about being injured?

When I was 13 I was with Cindy and Kent and fell at Worlds of Fun and chipped my front tooth. Then at 16 a cow kicked a gate and it hit me in the mouth and chipped both my front teeth.

Then at 32 I broke my front tooth off in Omaha while I was trying to open a juice box.

27. Tell of a childhood illness.

We all got chicken pox and spent the week with Grandma and Grandpa Kohle. I just remember sitting in the bath with a stocking full of oatmeal to relieve the itching.

28. Tell about an experience at the doctor's.

We saw Dr. Ramsey and loved going in. He was a neighbor of Grandma Sloane's so we saw him outside of the clinic as well so we loved seeing him.

29. Name your best school chums.

Grade school was Janel Simons

High school was Ann Gotschall and Michele Smith

30. What were some crazy names or nicknames in your school?

Can't really remember any crazy nicknames. Most of the boys went by their last names.

31. Tell about a practical joke or prank you played on a person.

Don't remember any practical jokes that I played.