[Magdalen] Church Cleaning & Reopening

[Chad Wohlers]

Yes - you two were (are) on the East side of Syracuse, Lynn & I were on 
the West side. My father was head of research at Solvay Process - 
neither we nor anyone I knew had any connection with Syracuse Univ.

I went to John T Roberts for elementary school on Glenwood Ave. and I do 
remember that there were kids bused in from the east side (Meadowbrook 
Drive sounds familiar) as their school was overcrowded and ours wasn't. 
I think our lack of students was because essentially everyone in the 
area was RC and sent their kids to Most Holy Rosary. Nowadays Rosary is 
no more and JT Roberts is much expanded.

My mother was very involved in getting what was to become Corcoran High 
School built right behind JT Roberts, but that didn't actually happen 
until after we left.

-- 
Chad Wohlers
chad at satucket.com
Woodbury, VT   USA


On 7/1/2020 12:53 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> I think it might have been Euclid Avenue. That sort of jumped into my head.
> I do sort of remember Don Meinig. I think my dad's closest friend in the
> department was Sid Jumper, who he took off to Tennessee with him.
>
> The Schiesses had a golden retriever named Meg, whose peculiarity was that
> she could sense a thunderstorm hours before it arrived. She was deathly
> afraid of storms and would try to get into a basement...anyone's
> basement...if she happened to be outside. She got into ours one time and
> cowered there for six(!) hours until the storm passed. She was a big
> (overweight) dog and there was no way of getting her out of there and up
> the stairs. She was not budging, thank you very much.
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 12:40 PM Louise Laughton <LLaug at twcny.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I can’t remember what street the Rev BB Schiess and the doctor lived on —
>> Berkeley? Circle? Dorset? Stratford? It could have been one of those.
>> Speaking of the SU geography department, we were friends with the son and
>> daughter-in-law of the well-known geographer of the Far East, Cressey (the
>> son was Dick-for-Richard). Another SU geographer, (emeritus) Don(ald)
>> Meinig just died at 90-something. He was a neighbor, 600 block of
>> Cumberland Ave. I live in the 500 block. The 900 block of Westmoreland Ave
>> is behind me because of the way streets do or don’t run over the Euclid
>> hill. Westmoreland does, Cumberland doesn’t. Anyhow, that block of
>> Westmoreland was once called “faculty hill."