Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic School
Class Reunions Archives (2001-2003)
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Date: 12/31/2003
Time: 10:36:21 AM
It's not a shock to me to see how some of you are behaving on this site. The usual gossiping that always was and always will be a Holy Ghost thing.So sad. Who cares who is e-mailing who and what goes on between them. You people need to get a life or at least worry about your own lives and not everuone else's. DCH, Kathy and George don't let them get you down. And people wonder why not many of our generation come to Holy Ghost anymore.....not worth the aggravation. To everyone else I hope you have a Happy New Year!
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Date: 12/31/2003
Time: 10:10:36 AM
Donna yer the strange one. You dont identify yourself. That is very rude. You wont tell us about George. That is rude to. I bet he dont really e mail you. Get a life.
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Date: 12/30/2003
Time: 9:26:13 PM
geo. With a capitol "G" or should i say big G you rock... still stirrin up all those uki ladies
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Date: 12/30/2003
Time: 9:08:10 PM
Who cares, she is writing George right? I'd like to know about him.
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Date: 12/30/2003
Time: 8:38:03 PM
Donna cartacheck is with a k Kartachek ish How do you know Donna is really a Donna?
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Date: 12/30/2003
Time: 10:16:15 AM
Donna If he e mails you again, ask him to come back.
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Date: 12/29/2003
Time: 8:58:21 PM
Who cares who is interested in who? What is happening with George Karlsen? Is he alive or what? What is he doing now?
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Date: 12/28/2003
Time: 10:50:17 PM
Maybe because she isn't interested in him?
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Date: 12/28/2003
Time: 9:02:04 PM
So wowww, why isnt the playboy interested in you, Donna?
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Date: 12/28/2003
Time: 7:54:00 PM
Whats a healthy gut?? Tell us about him. That is if you know him as a good friend?? Are you Donna Cartachak?? You would have been cradle robbing in school.
Name: DCH
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Residing: Pa
Date: 12/28/2003
Time: 7:50:30 PM
Wowww, You really know this guy, don't you? You have a healthy gut.
Donna
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Date: 12/28/2003
Time: 7:35:24 PM
Soooo Donna. Well you really don't say much, but you do stand by your man. This George is rude. I mean, he E mails you, and then you have to guess what he is doing?? Are you going to see him?? What was he sick from?? Give us the details. I heard in church that his family had mentioned to someone that he recently died. Now you hear from him. And Kathy P says he is either forgetful or ihumorous and resting. You two going to fight it out over him?? After all he has said bad about us Ukranians, I don't like him at all.
Name: DCH
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Residing: Pa
Date: 12/28/2003
Time: 7:32:51 PM
Noooo He's not intereted in me. We are just good friends.
Donna
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Date: 12/28/2003
Time: 5:49:34 PM
Really?? Is he interested in you now?? You finally E mailed him??
Name: DCH
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Residing: Pa
Date: 12/28/2003
Time: 4:58:21 PM
George is okay, Just got an email from him. He is busy during the holidays with his friends, I guess.
Peace, Donna
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Date: 12/28/2003
Time: 4:40:54 PM
Stand by your man. If he is alive, he may need protection from girls.
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Date: 12/26/2003
Time: 12:12:59 PM
Kathy P It sounds as if you like Mr. George. Are you single?? Are you going to the Caribbean with him?? I mean, you are sticking up for him here. It's nice to see a girl defend a man. I hope he is alright.
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Date: 12/25/2003
Time: 10:37:06 PM
How can someone forget the web page??? Old Chester Pa Dot Com. Then go to school reunions. That is not hard to remember.
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Date: 12/25/2003
Time: 5:54:02 PM
Kathy P. And how do you know?? Knowledgable, humorous, and now resting or taking a break?? who>? sums it up.
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Date: 12/25/2003
Time: 5:44:28 PM
But if he did die, does anybody know?? Where did you hear about it?? Yes, he was annoying, but fun. Come on now, let us know.
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Date: 12/25/2003
Time: 4:40:04 PM
who>?
Name: Kathy P
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Date: 12/25/2003
Time: 4:21:57 PM
I didn't hear about George. That is a terrible rumor to start, he really was a very knowledgable man and brought some humor to the site. Please don't write bad things about him. I read he wasn't feeling well but I don't think anything has happened, perhaps he is just taking a break or resting. If you read some of his posts you will find he was a very intelligent man and quite witty. I don't remember him to well from Holy Ghost although I know he did attend there. This site should reflect good things about Chester and our Alma mater so lets try and end the year peacefully and bring on the new one the same. He may have forgotten about this site, I lost the bookmark when my computer crashed and haven't read about this site for a long time. Happy Holydays to all and God Bless us everyone. Enjoy the season.
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Date: 12/25/2003
Time: 9:11:44 AM
Somebody give us detailas about George?? This is terrible and sad!!
Merry Christmas to all.
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Date: 12/24/2003
Time: 10:11:11 AM
Really?? Veechnaya Pamyat George
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Date: 12/19/2003
Time: 11:44:36 PM
Didn't George just die?
Name: MARY HANER
Email: RHGANGEL@MSN.COM
Residing: PORTAGE MI
Date: 12/19/2003
Time: 10:39:23 PM
HI FOLKS, I AM TRYING TO LOCATE A MAN NAMED MICHAEL KENDUS WHO LIVED IN CHESTER PA, GRADUATED AND WENT INTO THE NAVY. VERY TALL. HAD A GIRLFRIEND NAMED FRANCES. CAN'T REMEMBER SCHOOL OR STREET HE LIVED ON. BIG HELP HUH? HE WOULD HAVE GRADUATED IN 57-58. MAYBE MOVED OR ANOTHER STATE. ANY HELP OR CONVERSATION APPRECIATED. THNAKS. WE WERE TO GET MARRIED AND ALL THINGS FELL THROUGH. I AM NOW AN OLD LADY AND JUST LOOKING FOR OLD FRIENDS AND LOVEONES. NO STRINGS. WILL CAUSE NO PROBLEMS. JUST WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW HE IS ETC. THANK YOU. MARY
Name: Ed
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Date: 12/19/2003
Time: 7:27:30 PM
so sorry to hear of your loss I remember her being very active in the church and school. great lady
Name: Nicholas
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Date: 12/18/2003
Time: 1:35:14 PM
Veechtnaya Pamyat Mrs Felix, you certainly will be missed, what a great pierogy maker, rice pudding and cake maker.
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Date: 12/17/2003
Time: 8:08:44 PM
I liked Mrs. Felix - so sorry.
Name: Bob Felix HG '56 SJ '60
Email: BobsAttic@aol.com
Residing: NJ
Date: 12/17/2003
Time: 3:35:34 PM
Just wanted to leave a message here for those knew my Mom, Madeline Felx. She passed away unexpectedly on Sunday. The death notice is in the Delaware County Times.
She will be missed!
Bob
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Date: 12/13/2003
Time: 7:13:30 PM
It was an example. I'm not Ukranian, either. I got out in the 80's.
Name: Ray Kowalchuk
Email: rkowalchuk2@comcast.net
Residing: Plymouth Meeting
Date: 12/13/2003
Time: 6:46:57 PM
Kathy:
Sorry for the long time lapse. I just have been busy and haven't been back here to check for months! Yes, my Mom was Catherine, and she was very active in HG church activities..... Perogies, bingo, banquets, etc. She died the day after Christmas in 1995 in the Belvedere nursing home after slowly deteriorating from dimentia over a period of about a year.
I wish everyone here would at least leave their full names, so we all would know who has left messages here.
Ray
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Date: 12/13/2003
Time: 10:41:59 AM
Lookslike your one who isn't a friend afterall if you noticed you didn't put your name or email on as well.
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Date: 12/12/2003
Time: 10:14:02 PM
How come we don't put names, or E mail addresses, down here? I guess none of us are friends, after all.
Name: Ann
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Date: 12/12/2003
Time: 6:07:09 PM
I will always remember St Nicholas coming to the classrooms at Holy Ghost and we were so quiet! It was a great tradition, I'm glad to hear the parish youth are still doing it. Enjoy!
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Date: 12/9/2003
Time: 9:37:58 AM
Due to weather and the safety of the parish St Nicholas' visit is postponed until the 21st see church bulletin for specific details.
Name: Walt
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Date: 12/3/2003
Time: 7:34:04 PM
David Churchman: Do you remember basketball on Friday nights at Sun Center with Father?
Name: David Churchman
Email: dchurch904@aol.com
Residing: Salisbury, Maryland
Date: 12/2/2003
Time: 6:25:49 PM
Holy Ghost Class of 1965. Currently a high school administrator in Salisbury, Maryland. Married with two children, one 24yo and one 13yo. It's great to find a website dedicated to Holy Ghost.
Name: Stephanie Salo Zahner
Email: Grammy523@comcast.net
Residing: Aston,Pa
Date: 12/1/2003
Time: 9:48:15 PM
Hi Marty, hope you had a great Thanksgiving and wishing you and yours a Happy Holidays. It was great to see your name on this page,I check from time to time to see if anyone from the classes 64/65 sign on. How are the kids? Are you a Grandmother yet, I am 5 times over Hannah,Avery,Morgan,Samantha and last but not least Hayden or as I call him Haydude.Time just goes by to quickly. If you get a chance drop me a line. Stephanie
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Date: 12/1/2003
Time: 8:27:22 PM
For George. I understand. When you love deeply, you grieve deeply. Peace to you and in your heart. Babchis and Babas are the Best!
Name: Maria
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Date: 12/1/2003
Time: 5:36:59 PM
I just heard St Nicholas will be at Holy Ghost on Sunday after the 9:00 a.m. liturgy. I bet he will have lots of goodies for all the good little girls and boys. They are also putting together a nice luncheon, I hope it is well attended. I remember when Mr Bandursky use to dress up at Holy Ghost. Its such a nice tradition. Also the pierogies will be on sale again, what a great fundraiser.
Peace and Love
Name: Helen
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Residing: Wayne Pa
Date: 11/27/2003
Time: 9:03:08 PM
Glenn, What ever did happen to Anthony Engle? Did you have a sister named Sharon?
Name: Martha Komonosky McMonnies
Email: billomac@comcast.net
Residing: Cherry Hill, NJ
Date: 11/27/2003
Time: 6:47:29 PM
Happy Thanksgiving to all from Holy Ghost. Anyone out there from class of 1964? Would like to get in touch.
Name: Bob Felix HG '56 SJ '60
Email: BobsAttic@aol.com
Residing: NJ
Date: 11/26/2003
Time: 4:56:16 PM
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Name: Glenn Hoopes
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Residing: Lima, P.A.
Date: 11/25/2003
Time: 2:29:00 PM
To all of the graduates of 77, just popped in to say hi. Not much on this site from the old crowd, but i did happen to catch a couple of old friends. Sheila , just wanted to apologize about asking to copy your homework assignment most every morning in 7th grade. Couldn`t help but remember that as soon as i read your name. Its funny how the teacher would always call me after you would finish your public speaking assignment, and i would recite practically line for line what you had just read. How imbarrasing that was. I can feel my ears turning red just thinking of it. Which reminds me of lisa kourich, who would sit in the frount of the class and say *look at his ears*, that really helped alot. All in fun Im sure. And Dave K out there in california always felt you would be a big ceo for some company, beings you were the smartest of the bunch. Dont tell that to anthony engle. ps was i really that bad? hope to see all someday glenn.
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Date: 11/25/2003
Time: 12:17:36 PM
Dear George:
You are the funniest guy on this web page. You do tell it like it is. I think it is great in what you are doing in life. Holy Ghost needs a person like you. I don't blame you for moving on, out of Chester. The people that do go to church here are so miserable in their lives. But they act so pious in church. This girl Donna is funny. I see that you don't know who she is. You have been asking since March. She doesn't have the courtesy to even tell you. But, she volunteers herself for a steak dinner. Funny, I don't recall you taking applications to go to Belize, either. Your dedication to God sounds wonderful. It's taken me a week to write this. Remember when I visited you in Brookhaven after your mother died? Those were a great four hours. You were a perfect gentleman. You never once made a pass at me. How come? Remember the sundae at the Dairy Queen? I thought you had given me the world. We sat and talked on the sidewalk. I was totally and happily married, and I still am. Yet that day, I would have given it all, to be with you. Now that you know who I am, please keep my identity between us a secret. I would rather admire you from afar. You're the best. I'll never forget you.
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Residing: Bethel PA
Date: 11/24/2003
Time: 2:10:39 PM
This site is supposed to be for people to reminisce about old times and to stay in touch with old friends, not for taking swipes at someone. Please keep this site someplace where we can laugh about good old Holy Ghost and the good times that we had so long ago.
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Email: www.bobbydeejmd2@aol.com
Residing: Middletown, PA
Date: 11/24/2003
Time: 10:32:58 AM
Typical. If you have something of importance to say, here is my email address. I look forward to hearing from you.
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: and laughing all the way sometimes
Date: 11/22/2003
Time: 10:36:38 PM
Why don't some of you strange and frustrated housewives, with nasty husbands, stop thinking for me?
Donna, your problem is that you said something nice about me - and thanx.
But, I got to change my web page - either nypost.com, or kohoradio.com
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Residing: Pa
Date: 11/22/2003
Time: 9:15:49 PM
Huh??
Name: George Karlsen
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Residing: tomorrow, for some reason
Date: 11/22/2003
Time: 12:27:12 PM
A tribute on the web for Karolina:
A very sad 'vichnaya pamyat' for Karolina Rembisz, of Garfield, NJ. She adopted me as her grandson in 1995. I found out she died, at 99. She was 100% pure Polish, and a true lady.
The day I came to Washington, I had two brandies with her. She loved brandy, I love her, we both cried. It was an honour. I'll never have a drink again.
And now you must sleep Bobchi. Your body won't hurt you anymore. Wait until the day when you hear HIS voice call your name to awake.
"Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time", by Philly's Delfonics is on the jukebox. Man, that song fries my brain. It reminds me of Chester. Not Brookhaven, nor Beach Haven, but Chester.
So, the Penn Fruit is closed? Anyone remember the Club 31 in that plaza? The morning I was born, my dad was shooting pool there. I learned how to shoot stick @ Club 31. Back then kids could sit at the bar.
The Gino's, across the street, 9th & Booth. Something special about their mustard on a burger.
I can't really remember ice creme @ Honeysuckle. Even though it was right behind my grandmother's house (2614 W 7th Street, with the big white awning).
Does the firehouse, across from the Highland Ave SEPTA train stop, still have that odd siren?
Gimme eight bucks worth of quarters for the (cheap) movies all night. How about another two for the songs on the jukebox? I am afraid of sleeping, I gotta' stay awake. I'll smoke the butts in the sand ashtray outside the door. It'll be alright.
You can't put your arms around a memory. And you really don't know what you have, until it is gone.
(our anti-hero gets up, and walks out to the bus stop, alone)
Death hurts for those of us left.
Name: Little Stranger
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Date: 11/22/2003
Time: 8:49:07 AM
Oh Donna. I think you blew it again with him. You don't read what he says, do you? You just don't know.
Name: George
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Residing: I thnk so
Date: 11/21/2003
Time: 6:12:04 PM
LOL Stranges. What is a Strange "S"??? Ukranian typewriter?
I got a cool life.
Look "School's Out" by Alice Cooper is on the jukebox. I'm glad it is.
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Date: 11/21/2003
Time: 5:47:53 PM
Looks like George needs his own website to email loverd and relatives.
get a life will ya?
love ya
Name: George the "K"
Email: Uh huh
Residing: Yeah
Date: 11/21/2003
Time: 1:51:47 PM
Speaking of relatives - thanks, and hello also to my cuz's Linda & George.
Anybody every know Mary & Marilyn? They were sisters, and very beautiful ladies. I remember Marilyn was in the HG Class of '71.
They were the daughters of my Uncle Steve, and Aunt Mary. Uncle Steve was my grandmothers brother.
I still remember you fondly. Hope all is well. Love ya's.
Name: George Karlsen
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Date: 11/21/2003
Time: 11:56:37 AM
Hey - thank you to my Aunt Rose for sending me the Tastykakes!
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: at the Automat, near the Coca Cola machine.
Date: 11/21/2003
Time: 11:54:04 AM
Donna:
Oh yeah, I remember the so called "hot blonde in the sports car" now.
A few days after my mothers funeral, I get this phone call from someone paying her respects. That was "Stella" from Scott Paper. It was also the most pathetically crass relationship I ever had.
Stella was cool in a few ways. She was 12 years older then me, never married, no kids. She wore leather pants, heels, and looked like Annie Lennox from the Eurythmics. That was where the cool ended.
On our second date, she talked marriage and money (that is NOT how to impress me). She did NOTHING I asked her to do, I was the one definitely along for the ride, in her eyes. She even found a house for 'us'. I broke up there after a month. That month there was nothing else to do.
She NEVER crossed the Commodore Barry with me to Atlantic City. Amazing how stories get twisted.
I have to get some coffee, and check out the jukebox.
Name: Donna
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Residing: Pa
Date: 11/21/2003
Time: 10:21:37 AM
Hey George -
Yer never gonna believe this, but one of my clients has a house in BELIZE!! She wants to take me with her to check on her house next month. (I guess I should go to "Get away from it all." She said that the place is really laid back - too laid back! On a good day there is only 500 people there. Why on earth would you want to open a radio station there? She said that there is nothing there but very large American bank accounts. You got one of those, George?? In that case - I'm IN!!!
I know that you would remember me. Our parents worked at Scott Paper together.
Peace, Donna
Name: Stephanie Salo Zahner
Email: Grammy523@comcast.net
Residing: Aston,Pa
Date: 11/20/2003
Time: 10:08:18 PM
Just to clear things up Chris Salo is still a Blonde and Mom to 2 great kids my nephew Justin and niece Jen,our cousin Donna Cello is still a brunette and has a daughter she married the boy next door so to speak and is doing well. Chris has been married more years then she'd like to admit to since Justin is almost 22. To the classes of 64/65 have a Blessed Thanksgiving and a Very Merry Christmas. Stephanie Salo Zahner
Name: Donna
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Residing: Pa
Date: 11/20/2003
Time: 4:29:16 PM
Sorry folks - I graduated from HIGH school in 1973. Misunderstood the question. Don't remember much of HIGH school either. LOL
Name: George
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: on the right side of a good thing
Date: 11/18/2003
Time: 10:25:57 AM
Oh I know Stranger.
But, this page is fun, ja?
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Date: 11/18/2003
Time: 9:23:07 AM
Georgie, I don't remember a Donna in the class of '73. I'd go to Belise with you.
Name: George
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: South Of Cashmere
Date: 11/17/2003
Time: 10:24:40 PM
C'mon Donna E mail me. We're adults, and you'll be safe.
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Residing: Pa
Date: 11/17/2003
Time: 10:12:34 PM
Good choice !! nooooo kidding.
Donna
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: South of Leavenworth
Date: 11/17/2003
Time: 1:20:55 PM
Donna:
This is the place: http://www.icicleinn.com/menus2/jjbarbecue&steak&german.htm
Name: Frances Triboletti Woolbert
Email: woolberf@eht.k12.nj.us
Residing: Mays Landing, NJ
Date: 11/17/2003
Time: 11:04:22 AM
Please tell me about distant relative Tony Triboletti. I was looking up Triboletti on internet and read your message on your webpage intro. Thank you.
Name: George K.
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Residing: Scroll
Date: 11/17/2003
Time: 10:23:12 AM
30 years ago today "National Lampoon Radio Hour' premiered. I remember a few of them. Anyone remember if that was on WMMR 93,3, or was it WYSP 94,1?
This works: http://www.flowgo.com/flowgo2_view.cfm?page_id=71183
Name: George
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: in the Great NW
Date: 11/16/2003
Time: 7:24:06 PM
Hello Donna - steak it is.
Belize is in the Carribean - 80 degrees year round. And good Reggae.
Yeah, but this time, LOL, let me know when yer coming up. OK, I wouldn't have made it this year, as I was in hospital.
It just gets funny on this page. Like people are embarassed by their lives, or something. Then they get insulting. Well, I can handle that.
Until the next time.
Name: Donna
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Residing: Pa
Date: 11/16/2003
Time: 5:26:28 PM
WOW - George - you sure have a way with the written word. I would love to have a steak dinner with you some time, but I live on another coast. Ya'know. Maybe some day. I get to Washington twice a year. But, you might be in Belize (who would want to go there, anyway?) by then. And...why don't you want to just stay where you are and continue to help us americans?
Donna
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Wenatchee, WA (got it this time?)
Date: 11/16/2003
Time: 3:35:14 PM
Boy what a nice page we have here! It’s the goofiest, and sometimes, most disrespectful page on oldchesterpa.com. I love it! No wonder it is my cover page. More fun then an AOL Chat Room. Let’s have some fun now, shall we? And since there is nothing personal on this page, no offenses taken, right?
Man, if some of you talk like you write, nobody understands you.
Ever check out some of the other school pages? Everyone leaves e mail addies, and full and married names. Very cool. But not here, see we’re Ukies! Well, I’m a mutt. A half breed - 1/2 Norwegian and 1/2 Uke. So, that means in life that I at least got things half right. Myron once told me I was a b_____d, cause my parents weren’t married in the ‘church’. They married in Elkton, Maryland. My mom was denied the ‘church sacraments’ forever.
To the girl who keeps snoring on this page; “Here honey, skin pop this Obetrol. It’ll kick in in five minutes. Take another piece of this Juicy Fruit gum, you’re beginning to look better already”.
I’d really enjoy a real time reunion. If they locked us up in the auditorium for a weekend, it could be a cool pisser..
Of course, there would be all different invitations. Mine says to meet in Cleveland. So here I am on Lafayette Street, lost. See, the invitations were put together by the ‘All Ukie Reunion committee’.
No problem, as I board a boat. The SS Ucranium. All Ukie crew. Tonight they are having pizza by the slice. The crew is nice, and they take me to the kitchen. A bunch of old panyi’s are downstairs there in the kitchen, throwing up these little triangles, into the air. See, it’s Ukie pizza by the slice, and they are throwing up “l>’s”. Get it? It is hard to explain things online, without finger puppets.
I get to meet the gang in the engine room. There is a huge puddle and a bunch of men with hand drills, digging into the floor. “What are you doing?” I ask. “Vader commet in boat, vee uset ‘vaterletterowter (Water letter outer)”. I get a bit nervous. But the SS Ucranium makes it to port.
Problem is, arriving, we hit the dock three times. And the port isn’t New York, where we were supposed to land, but Baltimore. Oh well, thank GOD for Amtrak.
So, I get there. A good time is expected by all! We sign in and everyone has a name card. They don’t have one for me, so I get a card - the nine of diamonds.
Hey 50 - 50 tickets for sale! I buy 10. Mine all have the number 54 on them. The winning number is 2064.
We could start by smoking in the boys room in the vestibule. Yeah, that was the spot back then - surprise teachers! So, I would get the idea to check and see what the girls room is. “Wow, so that is what it looks like”? In the girls bathroom is a bidet’ (<<--Spelling?). A young lady there explains nicely, and medical language wise, what it is. I get a bit sick. I think back to seeing them in Belgium. All this time, I thought they were bathroom drinking fountains! No wonder the water tasted funny! I must get to the clinic and get shots.
Ok, so I step outside., right on the corner of Third and Booth. Light up a cigarette, and hey, there is a nice girl hanging around. She says something about ‘hooking’. I start to talk about fishing. She offers me some money to leave her alone. I scarf up $500 from her, and walk away. “Hey, this is gonna be cool”. I guess Chester girls don't fish.
Back into the festivities. We hear on the intercom (with the blinking red light) that there is a 'French Fry Bobbing' contest. I used to be a goalie for a dart board team (does it show?), and remember. “No, I better not, that hot oil would mess me up more”.
Hey, we decide to go check out some altar wine. It was in the priest changing area. Somehow, the cops are called. “Hey, we can put on these cassocks”. We explain to the cops that were are all seminarians. Somehow, I get elected arch bishop, and get to spend a few hours in the nick, downtown.
Well, by now, the party is getting over. Gee, “Without You” is playing, but I still have my nine of diamonds card for a souvenir.
We gotta' do this again. I tell ya, it would be fun.
Insolent, incorrigible, and insubordinate? Yes, I am, but I remain.
I guess if we can’t laugh at ourselves, somebody else will laugh at us.
I do love this page.
Donna, good for you - never sit still, and let time pass you by. Stay cool!
I’m not a Jew. That’s only one tribe. I believe CHRIST is Messiah.
"Bless the hands that til the land, Jah Rasta seh" by President Brown is on the reggae tape. I gotta go get lunch now. Sounds like Eyetalian would do the trick.
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 11/16/2003
Time: 1:33:30 PM
HA HA GEORGE LOST AGAIN. SABBATH WHAT ARE YOU SOME KIND OF JEW NOW?
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pa
Date: 11/16/2003
Time: 10:14:53 AM
I already have a boyfriend, thank you.
Name: GK
Email:
Residing:
Date: 11/15/2003
Time: 10:37:19 AM
My doctor doesn't believe that I am healing - sorry Typo
Name: George the "K"
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: PO Box 2542 Wenatchee, WA 98807
Date: 11/15/2003
Time: 10:30:58 AM
So why does George live out in the NW? Probably up to no good.
The chapters in the book continue. Summer 1997, I'm bartending in NYC. I also get to volunteer at a store front ministry in Passaic NJ.
So, I get on the internet and start to look for work along these lines. Ended up here:
http://www.threadsoflight.org/crew.html
It's a non-denominational Chistian ministry. Well, I changed to the Messianic faith. No denomination, statements, and I ain't Protestant, either.
What kind of work is it? Ok, so I make videos, that's part of it. We service not only homeless, but those that are in need - period. Except drugs and alcohol are NOT tolerated. Women, children, anyone. It is very sad to see 10 year old kids know what meth scabs are. Society is falling to bits.
I get to do radio promos, counsel, and whatever is needed. I'm still a bit autonomous.
So, there ya go. It's fun reminiscing on the page. But, I work serious, and have fun at it.
Should the Good LORD allow, my plan is to go to Belize in 2006, to set up a radio station for a ministry forming there, then.
But George, yer sick. Well, my doctor told me yesterday, he don't believe that I am actually healing. I'm not contagious, and it ain't STD.
So, don't turn the pages on the chapter yet, I wanna' hang out for awhile.
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Washington State
Date: 11/15/2003
Time: 12:01:13 AM
And as I face, the final curtain.
Ok, so let me say this tonight. It is a beautiful quiet Sabbath. Still and clear.
There is one place I would rather be. Donna, I wish I was at dinner with ya. Nothing heavy, just some convo.
It is sweet what you said. And man, I was a bit of an idiot to miss a few things in life. I am so sorry.
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pa
Date: 11/14/2003
Time: 9:48:29 PM
1973 No
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 11/14/2003
Time: 8:32:17 PM
SOUNDS LIKE GEORGE GETS AROUND, HURRY DONNAA BEFORE HE GETS AWAY AGAIN. WHAT YEAR ARE YOU FROM DONNA? are YOU STIL MARRIED?
Name: George
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: NW
Date: 11/14/2003
Time: 7:33:25 PM
Nope, I'm happy where I am at, with fond east memories.
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 11/14/2003
Time: 7:26:26 PM
Yeah - you wish that you were residing here.
Name: George
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: There
Date: 11/14/2003
Time: 5:14:27 PM
Donna who?
I'm not dead yet, so hurry!
What sports car?
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pa
Date: 11/14/2003
Time: 4:03:24 PM
No.. I am not Donna Cello. ( I wonder how she is doing right now, though.)
I feel kind of silly. I used to have it bad for George many many moons ago. Last I heard, he ran off with some hot blonde with a sports car in Atlantic City or somewhere. Can't remember - It's been a long time, ya know. Anyway, I was crushed! It's good to see he is doing well.
Donna
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: nicely
Date: 11/14/2003
Time: 9:18:46 AM
Like so, I made a mistake. It's been 30 years.
Enjoy your rush. I must be on a different page. I think I will, yes.
Best to one and all.
Name: Secret
Email:
Residing:
Date: 11/13/2003
Time: 8:10:31 PM
You guys are so funny! Donna is a brunette! Always was and always will be!!!! You are thinking about her cousin Christine. The only match of her initials is the D.
I wish ya'll many perogies with loads of melted butter, heaping piles of fried onions, and mounds of smatana! Oh what a rush that gives me!!!!!!
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: in the North West
Date: 11/13/2003
Time: 7:20:40 PM
Old timers disease - well they were both cool.
Name: Dave
Email:
Residing: West Chester Pa
Date: 11/13/2003
Time: 7:18:12 PM
Donna Cello is not blond, wasn't, and isn't Christine Salo said the same is was and will be.
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: in a cool state of mind
Date: 11/13/2003
Time: 6:30:14 PM
Good 4 U JFC.
69? Woodstock? Hendrix? Great!
I dunno if DCH is the real initials though. Might be on KP duty, or something with the CIA / M5 crowd.
Name: JFC
Email:
Residing: San Diego,CA
Date: 11/13/2003
Time: 6:02:44 PM
Well George, if DHC is indeed Donna Cell I will certainly tell her who I am and she will DEFINITELY remember me! LOL Class of '69 (for real!)
Name: George K.
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: North Sentruhl Washingtun
Date: 11/13/2003
Time: 5:24:20 PM
Hhhmmm, let's see.
What kind of trouble can I stir up today?
Need to get pyrohi tomorrow.
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: happy, happy happy, alla' time
Date: 11/12/2003
Time: 10:44:29 AM
Well Thanksgiving is almost here. I like this holiday, NOT cause of the food, only.
But take a moment, and thank the LORD for the blessings we have enjoyed over the last year.
Now pass the mashed yams, please.
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: happy still. Wonder what's up with that?
Date: 11/10/2003
Time: 11:39:44 AM
Monica:
Right on LOL. I don't remember having to deal with kneeling for lunch in the 70's. But I can imagine it.
Repression brings about anger - enough about that.
Well, what 'it' did for me was make me rebel. What am I rebelling about? Depends, whatta' ya got?
Well, it's Monday. One thing about weekends - they are too short.
Stay cool
Name: Monica Buono-Romano
Email: e.romano@verizon.net
Residing: Delaware
Date: 11/9/2003
Time: 3:00:13 PM
Looks like people are talking about memories. I read Mrs Kartasevich talking about Annie and the chicken pox and I Have NO MEMORY OF either events! When was the Annie play? was it only certain grades? I read someone talking about perogies and I FONDLY remember my grandfather coming in during lunch and buying a box on Friday's. REMEMBER KNEELING DURING LUNCH for punishment? That was cruel of the school to do that! Sometimes makes you wonder how the school was Catholic yet the thought teaching was STRICT discipline! I can honestly say it did absolutely nothing for me!
Name: George Karlsen
Email: Scroll down
Residing: Happily. And you?
Date: 11/9/2003
Time: 12:14:51 PM
Now who is JFC and Helen?
Helen, fess up babe. Oh, I said that.
Yeah it would be cool on this reunion page if we all gave our names and addies online. That's what reunions are all about.
I can imagine a reunion - would be ok in real life. Course, I'd check out some Ukie food.
As it ends, "Without You" by Harry Nillson would be playing. Ladies choice, and I ain't picked for the slow dance. The girl I really wanted to see didn't make it.
It's cool - gonna go check out the Northley / Sun Valey reunion in Aston.
One girl does give me a Winston. Thanks, and I do remember you. 'See ya next year, LORD willing'.
Northley and Sun Valley are both dark now.
But, it's OK, I"ll soon be back in Brookhaven. I'm home.
To one an all, be well, and enjoy. It'll be alright.
Damn, Long John Wade is playing "Precious and Few" by Climax on WIBG 99 now - I can't stop crying.
Donna Cello? She was a cute blonde, and probably still is.
Name: JFC
Email:
Residing: San Diego,CA
Date: 11/8/2003
Time: 10:42:48 PM
DCH, are you Donna Cello?????
Name: Helen
Email:
Residing:
Date: 11/8/2003
Time: 7:20:03 PM
IT SOUNDS LIKE DCH AND GEORGE NEED TO EMAIL ONEANOTHER L O L
Name: George K
Email:
Residing:
Date: 11/8/2003
Time: 6:23:59 PM
It's OK DCH, but who the heck are ya???
Fess up babe, LOL
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pa
Date: 11/8/2003
Time: 2:10:01 PM
Oh my, George. I am so sorry. How about your children? Do you have kids, and are they taking preventive measures? I know that we have macular degeneration in our genes (mother's side) and I am always on my son to take care of his eyes. It appears that you must have something worse. This really sucks! Donna
Name: George K
Email:
Residing:
Date: 11/2/2003
Time: 10:24:06 PM
Nope, I am that sick - hereditary.
Nonsense? Dig it,
Beats Casmere, Leavenworth does.
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pa
Date: 11/2/2003
Time: 8:53:19 PM
Aren't we all.... You talk nonsense! BTW - I loved Leavenworth, WA. - so quaint! D.
Name: George
Email:
Residing: happiness
Date: 11/2/2003
Time: 12:07:42 PM
DCH: Dunno who ya are, so have fun. I will be falling off the face of the earth soon. And I ain't talking pre-trib rapture.
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pa
Date: 11/1/2003
Time: 4:09:55 PM
Hey GK - I thought you fell off the face of the earth. Sorry to hear you were sick. Everything ok now? I used to listen to KISS alot in the old days. I liked Ace. Back in the NY groove..
Hope you are feeling better.
Peace! Donna
Name: Kathy Korab
Email: cathy.knight@exeloncorp.com
Residing: Folcroft, PA
Date: 10/28/2003
Time: 12:51:22 PM
I did not go to Holy Ghost, I went to St. Hedwigs, but I lived on 6th Street. Next door to the Heintz, Janet, Henry, Theresa. And we hung out with Hilda and Rosa..Any ideas where they are????
Name: George K
Email: yup
Residing: OK
Date: 10/28/2003
Time: 10:19:48 AM
Kinda hard to believe it has been 40 years, next month, when JFK was assassinated. Any recollections?
I was in kindergarten, Mrs. Miller's afternoon class at Thomas Coeburn Elementary in Brookhaven. So, my mom picks me up, and is crying. That was the first time I saw her cry. She said, 'they shot th President". I had no idea.
So, we get home and there was no 'Sally Starr & Popeye Theatre' on Channel 6 WFIL. I thought that is why she was crying - all news, no Sally.
I heard Sally on the Vineland NJ radio station in 1998. Love to 'our gal Sal"!
Name: George
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: White Light / White Heat
Date: 10/24/2003
Time: 2:40:19 PM
Man, lotta' sleeping going on here. Glad to see it.
Chester must still be nice in the fall. Almost time for recess though. Achtung! Line up and fall out. Who got the cigarettes?
Name: George
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 10/24/2003
Time: 9:43:49 AM
On this date in 1974 the KISS album 'Hotter Than Hell" was released. Remember vinyl? She was a dancer, I Capricorn, she Cancer. That was Seaside Heights, NJ 75 from "C'mon & Love Me" by KISS.
Me? I'm waiting for the solar flare today.
Sad how all the folks from our youth are passing on. Vichnaya Pamyat.
Name: Kathy
Email:
Residing:
Date: 10/22/2003
Time: 9:28:02 PM
I knew a Janet Heintz and a family that had a business on 6th street. Any relation? Its nice to see a new email and your memories.
RAY: Was your mom Catherine? I worked with her at Bingo or the kitchen at H.G. she was a hard working lady.
Name: Delores Heintz
Email: mommyd13@earthlink.net
Residing: Wilmington, DE
Date: 10/22/2003
Time: 8:33:55 AM
I'm seeing a lot of younger HG alumni. We have to get the word out. I was in the first class to graduate kindergarten at HGS. There were five of us, all girls. Eighth grade graduation was in 1955 for me. Some of my children attended HGS as well. Billy Churchman's mom and my mom were good friends; as was Jerry Szelak's mom. It's good to be able to recall similarities and remember old friends. BTW Sr. Christine was there when I went to school, too. I daresay that anyone who went to HGS must have felt her wrath.
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Wasington
Date: 10/20/2003
Time: 5:25:10 PM
Hi all - gimme af ew days. I got sick this summer, and just got back - hope yer ALL well. GK
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 10/20/2003
Time: 2:36:00 PM
Raymond, visit the home page with the menu. there are many things you will see that should bring happy mameories to your heart. Your dad did have a beautiful voice. Both your parents were very good people.
Name: Ray Kowalchuk
Email: rkowalchuk2@comcast.net
Residing: Plymouth Meeting, PA
Date: 10/19/2003
Time: 11:52:47 PM
WOW...
First time reading this site! My son Michael (who ives in Indiana) found it and e-mailed it to me. For those of you young folks, I went to Holy Ghost School from the 1st to 5th grade between (Ready for this??) 1941 and 1945! I lived on 3rd street between Booth and Trainer sts, and later (at age 15) moved to 6th and Highland. Joe Battle (former Mayor of Chester and later Judge in Media) was my best pal in my teen-age years. I was an alter boy, an usher, sang in the choir (we used to have great choirs back then) and was active in the Ukrainian "Hall" (UCACS) at 2nd and Thurlow sts. I particularly enjoyed reading the e-mail from Maria (Zbyr) Constantine, as her Father (Fr. Nicholas Zbyr) was my favorite all time priest. He married us in 1958 (and we're STILL married!). I remember Maria and Orest as little tots, running around the house as we ushers counted the collections after church every Sunday. My wife and myself (with Fr. Revak) ran teen-age dances every Sunday night in the Ukrainian Hall at 2nd and Thurlow. My Dad was very active in the church - He was a Cantor at Holy Ghost for a few years, and a Cantor at St. Nicholas in Wilmington for over 30 years. I think he sang at almost every Ukrainian Wedding and Funeral in the tri-county area for 40 years. He died at age 89 in October of 2000.
Just wanted to inject a few words about my years in Chester and at Holy Ghost. Feel free to e-mail me if you remember me or my Dad or any of the stuff that went on 30 or 40 (or 50) years ago.
Ray Kowalchuk
Name: Anna Huss - Casciato
Email: annakatherine65@aol.com
Residing: Pa
Date: 10/16/2003
Time: 12:19:15 PM
I was in Ms. Garvine's 7th grade class 1977-78 with Wendy Bowers, Mike Lojan, Beth, Kim, Dave Birney, Horace, John Sharpless, I can still remember even more names. Mostly I remember getting into trouble with Donna Battersby all the time and getting yelled at by Sister Cornelius!! Mike Lojan...how did you end up in Colorado? How is your finger...remember the 7-11 incident? Write back!
Name: Dennis K
Email: skimonitty@aol.com
Residing: Trainer Pa.
Date: 9/13/2003
Time: 9:12:07 PM
Hey Bill,Just checking the site out since MAY OF 02 I"ll have to ckeck it out every eeek or so to keep in touch.
Name: Bill Churchman
Email: bc676@aol.com
Residing: Middletown, De.
Date: 8/30/2003
Time: 12:33:34 PM
Hey Mike,Sorry for the delayed reply,I haven't been on this site for a while.I'm not sure what happened to Tony.The last I saw him was at a wedding in about 1985.I started public school in 4th grade so I lost touch with everyone from those days.It would be interesting to know what alot of that old crowd is up to these days.I saw Terry Miller last year.He works at a wood business around here....take care
Name: Johnny Corporal
Email: jazzybiz@hotmail.com
Residing: San Diego, Cali
Date: 8/29/2003
Time: 4:11:55 AM
George K.... Nope no Hoagies in Cali, I just left Chester last month, and I ate at least a cheese steak or Hoagie each day I was home....
Name: Terry Owsiany McHugh
Email: tomch1958@aol.com
Residing: Palm Bay, Florida
Date: 8/12/2003
Time: 10:36:11 PM
Michelle G Sinex!!
My goodness, how very strange that after all these years I find you here! I have often thought about you and wondered where life has taken you. The great northwest huh? and I'm down in here in the southeast. So, we have ended up on extreme opposite locations on this continent! I was just browsing around and decided to check out Holy Ghost for some familiar names and came across your postings and laughed with glee!! It's Michelle!! I smirked when I read your description of the 10 year reunion. I don't think I went to any after the 5 year. Boring. I would love to hear from you, so hopefully you check back in on this site. I have a copy of the 1974 Paduan that still is waiting for you to sign it with your oaths of undying friendship, plus tell me what a great person I am........hehehehe.
Hope to hear from you soon!
Thanks to the Holy Ghost folks for letting me intrude. Lots of other familiar names here. Best pierogi came from the wonderful women at Holy Ghost!
Name: Mike Shea
Email: mepshea@aol.com
Residing: Chantilly, VA
Date: 7/29/2003
Time: 11:14:42 PM
Bill, I read your posting about Tony Trippoletti dying ? How did he die ? When ?.... I went to St. Hedwigs but use to hang around with Tony and his sister Peachs before there dad sold the drug store they had on 3rd and Highland Ave. I remember climbing a ladder in the the back of the store to their house upstairs. We all use to play baseball in the alley between 3rd and 2nd / Highland Ave and Thurlow street with Terry and Eddie Miller (Ressurection), Phil Workman and others...
Name: Della
Email: karingforkramatorsk@yahoo.com
Residing: Marcus Hook, Pa
Date: 7/28/2003
Time: 12:14:59 PM
Hi I did not go to Holy Ghost but I adopted my son from Ukraine 2 years ago this week. I spend alot of my time doing things to help two of the orphanages in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. If you are interested you can checkout my website. http://karingforkramatorsk.tripod.com
Name: mgs
Email:
Residing: The bone-dry rainforest
Date: 7/22/2003
Time: 6:53:42 PM
Whew, what a summer. We haven't had a drop of rain for months. Terrifying. A giant tinder-box of fir and spruce. But it smells wonderful in the morning dew.
After my academic gig was over we split and stacked five cords (15-20 tons wet; will dry down to about ten) of wood. Got another on the ground, waiting. Getting ready for winter. Making tinder and kindling are next. Feels good to swing an axe again but DANG it's hot.
In Wisconsin we'd make firewood for the next year in midwinter--0 to 30 below--because there weren't many other farm chores you could do in that weather! After about ten minutes, you'd strip down to a workshirt and work pants, and not feel the cold at all. THAT's the weather to fell, skid, buck, and split wood in!
Peter Kaczmar--now there's somebody I wouldn't mind hearing news about. He was a sweet guy, in my experience of him, and my favorite (of many) crushes at the time. I hope life has been good to him.
I'm sorry to hear about George's mother.
Like I said, my tastes shifted to world music in the 80s. I liked political punk, still do. But I was corrupted by the sounds and rhythms of world music.
I danced with an African drum and dance group in Madison for ten years; haven't found anything like it on the West Coast. Though we have some nice community drum-and-dance groups here. Always somebody making music for free.
I've been hanging with the Celtic seisun (session) at a local pub on Wed. nights, but I play Celtic harp, which is NOT a session instrument. In San Francisco I heard folks who'd amp up their harps and add bits of metal, etc., and play them as percussion as well as string instruments. Amazing.
We stopped at a tiny Russian cafe in Seattle recently. Wanted to take some of their frozen homemade pierogis home, but the day was too hot. And I'd've been disappointed in the taste and texture anyway; I got spoiled by Bill's mom's (and others').
Though onions fried golden brown in butter and pepper have a way of leveling memory. Hoo ha. Hey, gimme a bowl of that, and I'll make potato balls and just throw 'em at passersby. POTATO BALL FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! <thwappp>
Name: JERRY SZELAK
Email: ZMAN0103@WMCONNECT.COM
Residing: CLERMONT, FL
Date: 7/13/2003
Time: 11:47:01 PM
HI Y'ALL--GOOD TO REHASH SOME OLD MEMORIES, MY HANDS STILL HURT FROM SR. CHRISTINA'S RULER
Name: Ryan Gibbs
Email: Gibby1313137@aol.com
Residing: Newark, De
Date: 7/12/2003
Time: 2:37:19 AM
Name: Bill Churchman
Email: bc676@aol.com
Residing: De.
Date: 6/13/2003
Time: 10:02:04 PM
Yo George......My dad just died this past April 23 of age related problems but he didn't do any suffering luckily..He lived a good life and had a very graceful departure ....I guess you can't ask for much more......I saw Mrs. Steciw at my dad's funeral and she still looked the same.She was a very kind person.....one of the few teaching at that school.I remember taking more than a few woopins there.Sister Raphael was nice.....She was 2nd grade I think.I saw some of the older Ukainian men at my dad's funeral and they are still a trip.It was like flashing back as soon as I smelled them with the seagrams on their breath.The same old guys that always had that aroma on them.I used to think it was cologne when I was a kid.They're a good bunch of folks.God bless em'
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Washington State
Date: 6/9/2003
Time: 12:19:07 PM
Man Bill, Tony Triboletti died? He was cool, and yeah, Lenny Bera.
I heard from Pete Kaczmar in 1990 when my mom died.
1983 for Gloria? I thought it earlier, but it is bad, nonetheless.
I remembeer those days really as fun. We had good childhoods there, despite some of the crazy stuff LOL.
Is yer dad still alive? Glad to hear about yer mum, as, I would go drastic for an HG pyrohi.
And Mrs. Steciw - yer thought of fondly!
Cheers to all, I'll be in touch
Name: Bill Churchman
Email: BC676@aol.com
Residing: De.
Date: 6/8/2003
Time: 9:40:17 PM
Yo George.....We were in the same class together.I left there in 4th grade and went to public school and thats probably the last time I saw you. We hung around with each other.Yeah....unfortunately my sister did get killed in a car accident in 1983.This site is kinda neat for a Holy Ghost thing. I just checked it out yesterday,but put in my wrong e-mail address.I don't really remember many people from those days, except you and Tony Trippoletti and he died a few years ago.I ran into Lenny Berra a couple years ago and he still recognized me.....that was really wild!My mom is still on the Pyrogie making team at the church.I live about 40 miles down the road from there.Do you know anyone else from our age group from HG?
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Washington State
Date: 6/8/2003
Time: 12:50:07 PM
Bill Churchman:
There is a lot of horsing around on this page, but I remember ya.
Yer dad was always nice at church. And I remember your sister, Gloria, a very nice looking blonde, who, the way I remember, had an eternal tan. If memory serves me right, didn't she unfortunately pass on in a car wreck, a long time ago?
Yeah, we had, what, Mrs. Steciw (VERY COOL), Sister Rafael for first communion iin 1966, and then Sister Philomena in the third grade for them years, right?
Those were the fun days?
Name: Bill Churchman
Email: NC676@aol.com
Residing: Middletown,De.
Date: 6/7/2003
Time: 9:30:35 PM
Does anyone remember me from my old class.I went from kindergarten -3rd grade(1964-67)
Name: George
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 6/3/2003
Time: 6:26:15 PM
LOL so does medical science - I am a partied out waste.
But, reminiscing HG is fun, sometimes..... yes indeed
Name:
Email:
Residing: In Life!
Date: 6/3/2003
Time: 3:47:26 PM
G. You must be a happening dude. I want your body.
Name: George
Email:
Residing:
Date: 6/1/2003
Time: 6:50:11 PM
Amazing what the Karlsen took wiith him after Holy Ghost School - loud rock n roll, Cramps, Damned, Dead Boys, Pistols, Mutabaruka, MOTORHEAD!
He thought 'Non Alignment Pact' by "Pere Ubu" is great music.
He even got a bottle thrown at him at Johnny Thunders & Heartbreakers show. It was either London or NYC, he forgets....
That boy ain't no good, and an ex-altar boy, to boot!
Now he is sittinng here listening to The WHO "Sell Out' with the first track, 'Armenia City In The Sky' blaring.
Foolish waste....
Name: George
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Yup, that I am, with subwoofers no less.
Date: 6/1/2003
Time: 6:37:03 PM
DCH:
Who the heck are ya? Siblings? Maybe, how can I know?
Hung out with the Dead Boys on East 9th in NYC a bit in 77. It was called the "Deadquarters". Geta Gash (Cheetah's lady) was the best, leather lady.
Steel Pulse still gig in the UK especially, but Grizzly the drummer still manages to smoke alla' cutchie pipe!
All This & More Little Girl - Down In Flames
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pottstown Pa
Date: 6/1/2003
Time: 3:20:50 PM
Alas... We are STILL mourning Joey Ramone in this household. (I have his decal on my car - can you believe that?) What a shame. And now D.
Steel Pulse still around, George? I remember them! Johnny Thunders - WOW - That's a blast from the past. Ever listen to the "Dead Boys?" They had some fever going on. HOT HOT stuff!
We must have listened to the same music. Probably siblings in a past life.
Donna
Name:
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Mourning for Joe Strummer also
Date: 5/27/2003
Time: 12:44:03 PM
MGS:
Very excellent. Ya are also there.
Bad Rule OK. Still liking Steel Pulse here.
You know your 96 Tears. Dunno about a Rich Hell colaboration, except perhaps offshoots live at CB's? Perhaps. Dug Hell with Thunders in Heartbreakers.
Sorry 'twas not the red dress, and NOT Norwegian. Kobenhaven rox out, especially the Nyhavn Speakeasy's. American boys are not safe, and I was greateful a few times!
So chick, stay cool and good like in social things. When ya check back, ya check back.
You also got to check the video by Ministry "In Case You Don't Feel Like Showing Up Live".
Name: MGS
Email:
Residing: Rural Pugetopolis
Date: 5/26/2003
Time: 10:43:52 PM
Hey, G--
No, it wasn't me in the red dress--I was in fact wearing a tapestry blazer, GV wide-wale cords, and riding boots. I'd just gotten back from giving a paper at an academic conference. Her FM shoes--um, well, that's better explained in an e-mail.
The IGC address goes back a ways--EcoNet was my first (personal) ISP, in the late 80s.
Actually, my ancestors are Finnish, sailed from Denmark for the New World in 1652 then intermarried with so many Swedes there along the Delaware, I look like one. Finns spent most of their time trying to keep from getting invaded by Sweden and Russia. Compared to that--as the saying goes--designing really cool glassware is a cinch.
Hm. What else? Not much. This week is devoted to way too many social things, plus a final exam in an intense course I'm taking. So I won't be checking back in for awhile.
Suicide--80s? CBGB? I think so--did some collaborative work with Richard Hell? A mind-bending cover of "96 Tears"? Or am I misattributing?
Lately I've been listening to a lot of 80s and 90s Bad Religion, though my pard's favorite is The Offspring and the DKs. I didn't realize Bad Religion was still together and touring till last year. Mostly I listen to global and AfroPop.
I was living in San Francisco during the coup (12/2000), and Jello was all over the place, just plain screaming. Some days (as Emo Phillips says) it's just not worth chewing through the straps.
Other days it is.
paz m
PS--We mourned Joe Strummer in this household.
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 5/22/2003
Time: 10:28:32 AM
DCH
If yer for real E mail me. I still only know ya as Donna, but that's kewel LOL!
Best rock n roll is still in NYC. There might be a few things in Leavenworth http://www.kohoradio.com gots linx.
nasdrovia skohl!
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pottstown
Date: 5/22/2003
Time: 8:24:01 AM
Hey George! I'm going to be up in your "neck-of-the-woods" the first 2 weeks of June. I'm going to see my friend up there in Cashmere. Any chance that we might hook-up and talk about the ol' school days? OH - By the way... Did you find any good Rock n'Roll clubs to go to?
Peace, Donna
Name: Christine (Kolodi) Aiello
Email: christine.alexander@sartomer.com
Residing: Glen Mills, PA
Date: 5/20/2003
Time: 1:08:29 PM
I attended Holy Ghost for Kindergarden only. The year I attended was 1975 - 1976
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Email:
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Date: 5/20/2003
Time: 12:16:43 PM
<mgs@igc.apc.org>:^)?
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Date: 5/14/2003
Time: 11:42:16 AM
John Dobnack, ex Holy Ghost -->> http://www.delcotimes.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7983720&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=18171&rfi=6
Name: George
Email:
Residing:
Date: 5/13/2003
Time: 1:01:52 PM
Check this out Michele: http://www.limbos.org/suicide/
I'm outta' here for today.
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Somewhere off the trolley
Date: 5/13/2003
Time: 11:53:26 AM
Hey Michele:
What are FM shoes? So you were the one in the short red dress. Dillinger got it from the lady in red.
Curious...
Very true, like fine whiskey and cheese, life gets better with age. It's just the b ody that gets old and crickety.
Remember the future.
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Chocolate Town in Belgium
Date: 5/13/2003
Time: 10:40:51 AM
Michele Gale:
Man, I don't remember that comment, but if that is the way it was kewel.
I dunno, youth wasn't so bad. I look forward to 50, but I am still too old to know better and young enough not to care.
Ya know the band Suicide from NYC Michele? Marti Rev and Alan Vega? Thhey got a line, "ya got your dreams and memories baby, they can't put that one over on ya". Very true.
I just never grew up - don't wanna either.
So Michele, who are the couple chix? Candaian? Or Norwegian like yourself? I got to visit Norway many times to see me dads family. Its quaint, but Denmark rox, and that is why I ended up in Berlin (non military) .
So... that's a bit about this kid with the heart full of napalm.
Fun, it is... until next time
Name: Michele Gale-Sinex
Email:
Residing: Far NW
Date: 5/13/2003
Time: 3:35:30 AM
The Niagara Falls Spinning Restaurant Episode (1972) involved the waiter coming over after the meal and saying something to which George responded--wide eyed and with huge enthusiasm--"Oh yeah! I would!" Then looking around with great excitement and anticipation.
The rest of us at the table couldn't understand what was so exciting about the waiter asking whether we wanted separate checks. Someone asked GK this, and his crestfallen reply was:
"Separate checks? Oh. I thought he asked me if I wanted a coupla chicks."
I wouldn't call it snotty, George--just the kind of thing a 13-year-old boy might say while on a footloose and fancy free Holy Ghost bus tour to Ontario's tourist capital with Mother Myron chaperoning. :^D
I don't as a rule go to reunions--at this point I've got too many schools under my belt to consider it. Besides, the last one I attended (10th high school reunion, talked into it by a good friend) was utterly depressing. The girls had all become their mothers (except for three of us), and the guys spent the night hanging their bellies over the cash bar and leering at the one of us wearing the short tight red dress and red FM shoes. Nobody wanted to dance. The food was awful. Etc. It was like falling into a vat of very old and wet white bread.
But I always enjoy hearing from folks, not in the spirit of nostalgia (which I think stinks), but rather people piecing together their personal histories, honestly and candidly.
I wouldn't be a teenager or twentysomething person again for all the dark chocolate in Belgium. In fact I'm looking forward to 50--life keeps getting better. I'f I'd known it'd be like this, I'd've run away at age 7. :^D
Name: Kathy (with a "K")
Email:
Residing: Pennsylvania
Date: 5/10/2003
Time: 10:51:38 AM
Just read the Holy Ghost Bulletin and for all you former Holy Ghosters a bit of sad news:
Mr Brochet Mr Panco Mr Churchman and
Mrs Duchak who taught for 18 years all past way. Mrs Duchak died on May 4, 2003 quietly in her sleep. For more info please call her family (302) 368-5077.
Vechnaya Pamyat!
Name: Kathy
Email:
Residing: Pennsylvania
Date: 5/10/2003
Time: 10:48:07 AM
Greetings ole Holy Ghosters just read the Holy Ghost Bulletin a few more parishers and former ones have past away.
Mr. Panco
Mr. Churchman
Mr. Brochet
Mrs Duchak who passed away quietly in her sleep on May 4, 2003. She taught at Holy Ghost for 18 years for more information please call at (302) 368-5077.
Vechnaya Pamyat.
Name: George "K"
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 5/9/2003
Time: 6:13:00 PM
It's spelled Michele without the "K". You can tell, I learned to spell in HG.
Hope yer well, yer story below is funny.
What did I say to the French waiter though? Knowing me, it was snotty.
Name: George the "K"
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Far west and north also in this usa
Date: 5/9/2003
Time: 1:37:19 PM
Michelke Sinex!
Hey E mail me and stay in touch eh?
Name: Michele Gale-Sinex
Email:
Residing: Far west, way north
Date: 5/9/2003
Time: 8:13:31 AM
I could hardly read about George Karlsen thinking I was one of the Cool Girls. Whom he had a crush on. And not reply. :^D
I have no idea how I found my way here! But I am glad to see that other Holy Ghosters (or as Linda Whalen called us, "Sanctified Spooks") from the Class of '72 survived. I have just one thing to say:
!!!!!!POTATO BALL FIGHT!!!!!!!
I can detail "life since then" another time. Some thoughts:
Mrs. Duchak, making us write science "literature searches" that were in fact torture sessions via rote copying of pounds of crap wholesale out of our textbook. To this day, when I hear the words "Sir Isaac Newton," my left hand goes into a full cramp.
Sr. Myron—an odd combination of bitchin’ babe and truly troubled sadist. Little Sr. Sophie, cringing at Sr. Myron’s outbursts…and then passing the aggression along to the tiny kids.
The trip to Niagara Falls, the Corning plant, and the Little League Hall of Fame (snore). Dinner at that Space Needly spinning restaurant, where the waiter came over and said something to George in heavily French-accented English…and George’s reply. (Bwahahaha--I am the Queen of Memory!)
Hurricane Agnes and the flooding of the school, and a bunch of us rushing to try to help mop up before damage happened. Scary; it destroyed Eyre Park and flooded parts of Sun Village (my 'hood).
That show where Sr. Myron choreographed galumphing movements to Broadway songs. I still have the godawful blue milkmaid-looking nightgown-horror-thing I had to wear. Klumping around to "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" with Cheryl Cullen, Susan Moseley, and I think Cheryl McDonald. Her twin sister Renee was cast as a cowgirl.
My theory: if you put teenage girls in powder blue ruffled nightgowns and make them gallop around in public to off-key songs from "Oklahoma!", at least 1 in 4 will eventually turn up in black leather, astride a sportbike, doing 130 mph in the Napa valley on a 115-degree July day. Just a hunch, based on a sample of one.
The sign over the kitchen with the prices, including for "Cancer sticks." Yummy fabulous wonderful pierogis...freshly made with our own fingerprints in them. Rolling potato balls. One for the bowl, one for me, one for the bowl, one for me.
Me, winning the Science Fair with my fabulous papier mache brain model!! :^D
David George, getting into 57 varieties of trouble, and Sr. Myron, chopping the boys' hair before the class photos. I also still have the hideous pale blue brocade "graduation dress" we had to wear. Gack.
Those hideous gym suits that made everybody look like giant blue yams.
Standing up each time somebody came into the classroom and saying "Christ is risen" in Ukrainian. Learning to pray and sing in transliterated Uky.
Stephen Sharkey, Alex whose last name I forget, beautiful-Southern-voiced Troy Pace. Peter Kaczmar (he was so sweet), Dino Cellini, and Roman Hrabowyj. I remember Jenny Lybush, Susan Beaver, Julie Coryell/Parker, and Debbie Selner. Cathy Brush, Linda Whalen, Vera Branchek.
Wasn’t Cindy Harpster in our class? I was in first grade with her in Sun Village. George mentioned Terry Moore, whom I also went to grade school with at Jefferis…but really, was she at HG? Gosh. I’ve got my years and schools all mixed up.
I remember some of the younger people too because I sold candy in the lunchroom/auditorium.
For punk in the Pacific Northwest, check out http://www.seattlepunk.net/ The alternative newsweekly /The Stranger/ (www.thestranger.com) is a good resource for concerts, including on the dry side.
George, my sister-in-law is an animal control officer in Wenatchee; she lives in Entiat.
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 4/30/2003
Time: 11:57:09 AM
How long must I look at your beautiful picture?
And long to touch you?
To taste your lips, and watch oureyes closetogether in a kiss?
To want to touch the back of your thigh?
To feel your warm breath on my neck?
To awaken to you, asleep?
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: PA
Date: 4/24/2003
Time: 6:35:25 PM
Now Now .. Let's be nice about Myron. She always referred to me as "The Bad Seed." But, so did a lot of folks. LOL. Donna
Name: Joe Pretti
Email: JMP2332@AOL.COM
Residing: PA
Date: 4/24/2003
Time: 12:42:08 AM
I must be the last person to know about this web page. I went to Holy Ghost from K to 8th grade. Class of 1984 is anyone out there? If you are make sure you email me and say hi. I only had 16 people in my graduating class. I only see one or two people occassionally. It was a great school and I'd like to hear how everyone is doing.
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: a place unlike another
Date: 4/19/2003
Time: 1:24:38 PM
Which Cathy are you now? With a "C"?
LOL though, maybe Myron could, perhaps been the one possessed? Ya think? Ya think?
Glad the 'Kids Are Alright' (the WHO), and don't resemeble that remark Myron made.
I resemble myself. And you?
Name: Cathy
Email:
Residing:
Date: 4/18/2003
Time: 6:20:52 PM
HEy George , Sister Myron told me I was possessed by the devil. Neither of my chidren resemble Damon or Rosemary'Baby.
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Email:
Residing:
Date: 4/13/2003
Time: 7:22:13 PM
I knew a Tommy Kendus married to Felicia?
Name:
Email: cathepmalone@aol.com
Residing: Seattle, Wa
Date: 4/13/2003
Time: 2:50:14 PM
Looking for Daria Kendus (New York?) Pls. contact. Thanks
Name: DONNA
Email:
Residing: PA
Date: 4/3/2003
Time: 4:50:20 PM
I DID NOT KNOW THAT.... SORRY! ':(
Name: G the "K"
Email: Genung zu sprechen
Residing:
Date: 4/2/2003
Time: 6:15:19 PM
Why not? Purgatory, Utah exisits.
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: PA
Date: 4/2/2003
Time: 5:31:11 PM
Ouch, George.... I hope there aren't any of our friends from Utah listening out there...
Peace, D.
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 4/2/2003
Time: 2:04:48 PM
Bob F:
Yeah, little before my time, but cool stuff.
I was so bad, Myron told me I would never make purgatory LOFL!!! She was wrong, I got to visit Purgatory, Utah a few years back.
Name: Bob F HG'56 SJ'60
Email:
Residing: NJ
Date: 4/1/2003
Time: 5:19:48 PM
Ah yes George that we do. Like the honor of serving Easter Sunday Mass or being invited by Sister Andrea (Principal) to lunch in the convent. Having Sister Christina tell you you weren't going to heaven because of some inane thing you did. Ah yes the memories. Going to class in the garage turned classroom that literally had a potbellied stove for heat, LOL. Never had a class in the new school, but was there for the dedication. Worked more bingo games there than I care to talk about. Ah yes the memories. I could probably sribble here for hours.
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Email:
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Date: 3/31/2003
Time: 6:27:35 PM
http://send.greetings.yahoo.com/greet/preview#personalize
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Unsin
Date: 3/31/2003
Time: 1:01:46 PM
Yeah but us 'dinosaurs' still have some great memories of HG.
As the "A's" sing, "life was so simple, when we were kids". Amen to that.
Name: Bob F HG'56 SJ'60
Email:
Residing: NJ
Date: 3/31/2003
Time: 9:29:48 AM
<<<<<<<Dinosaur
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: The NW
Date: 3/30/2003
Time: 11:57:30 AM
Very cool DCH.
But, who are ya?
E mail with photos acepted, then the interview of G the "K"
Cheers LOL.
(I ain't no dinosaur - rather a classic, like rock n roll)
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pottstown Pa
Date: 3/29/2003
Time: 8:48:02 PM
Hey there Georgie Boy... I am from the 70's and I am definately not a dinosaur! I feel better now than I ever have! My son was just accepted in college in Miami. Now I am totally SINGLE and free! Whooppee! Seriously, I am going to miss him. I wanted him to go to college up here somewhere, but he insisted on going to Florida. He wants to play pro football someday and he feels that he has a better shot down there for some reason! He is my best friend and I am not taking it very well that he is going to be leaving me! Do you have any kids, George? An old dinosaur like you must have hatched a few in your day... eh?
Donna
Name: George K
Email:
Residing: The NW Somewhere
Date: 3/26/2003
Time: 2:37:06 PM
Johnny:
I was late in the 80's alot. But, I am one of those old guys - 70's dinosaurs.
Mising those hoagies too. They don't have 'em in Calif. do they?
Name: Johnny Corporal
Email: jazzybiz@hotmail.com
Residing: San Diego, CA
Date: 3/26/2003
Time: 5:07:08 AM
Is there anybody on this site from the late 80's classes????
Class of 1988, Mike Silk, Christian Garrett, Bobby Paden, John Roberts, Tara Mumbley, Mike McKenna, Crystal Drew ,J.Corporal (me) I'm forgetting some people... anyway I'm in Cali now, I come back to Chester once a year... miss those perogies and cheese steaks from TWOJ's and Ferillos... GO Class of 88!!!
St James Class of "92"
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Wenatchee, Washington
Date: 3/13/2003
Time: 2:37:52 PM
Yeah Donna, I am still 'out there / here'.
Punk rock in Washington? Well, there are a few spots. But it is more acoustic bluegrass, and some badd azzz jazz. Lemme check out some stuff.
Punk in the east? Check out these then:
http://www.maxskansascity.com/
You like to get out, but not in 10 years eh? GOFORIT!
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pottstown Pa
Date: 3/13/2003
Time: 1:17:18 PM
Hey George K! (Are u still out there?) If so, I am going to visit Cashmere in May. Where are the "hot" spots around the area? My friend doesn't really like to party that much. I, on the other hand like to get out a bit! Hey - It's my first vacation in like 10 years! Where do folks go to have fun up in your neck of the woods? I LOVE punk rock and alternative music - if that helps.
Thanks, Donna
Name: LUBA
Email: LESYK4@AOL.COM
Residing: WALLINGFORD
Date: 3/5/2003
Time: 12:04:28 AM
CLASS OF '62 --- WHERE ARE YOU?? I EXCHANGE X-MAS CARDS W/ NATALIE AND SAW VERA AT CHURCH LAST EASTER SATURDAY FOR BLESSING OF "PASKA". WHAT ABOUT THE BOYS --- DAVID, GREGORY B., GREGORY H., GLENN, JOSEPH, NICHOLAS, PETER, ROMAN, RUSSELL, STEVEN AND WILLIAM? OURS WAS THE NEXT SMALLEST GROUP (GIRLS HAD IT MADE)! IN CASE ANYONE IS INTERESTED, SPOKE TO SR. ANDREA (FIRST PRINCIPAL) AND SR. CORNELIA (PRINCIPAL AT GRADUATION) AT THE MOTHERHOUSE IN FOX CHASE SEVERAL YEARS AGO. RSVP...ONE OR ALL?!
Name: Donna Jones-Washington
Email: zoelife2day@aol.com
Residing: Chester, Pennsylvania
Date: 2/27/2003
Time: 8:45:06 PM
I'm sending "shout-outs" to the class of '87! I'm still here and kickin' and I thank God for all my blessings!
Name: George K
Email:
Residing:
Date: 2/26/2003
Time: 10:11:47 AM
Yup DCH I was a healthy minded kid.
Cashmere is like 10 miles north of here.
Is it nice up here in the NW? Yup, but bring Philly foods.
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pottstown Pa
Date: 2/25/2003
Time: 7:58:25 PM
Gee George, you must've had a crush on a bunch of us gals! (Hey - I look through the old year books from time to time to REMEMBER WHEN!) Sooooo. You are living in North Central Washington State? That is like the other side of the world from Pennsylvania. I have a friend (who I miss dearly) that moved someplace up there! She lives in a place called Cashmere. I have never been there, but I am planning to visit her soon! Is it nice up there?
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Washington State
Date: 2/24/2003
Time: 6:29:33 PM
Add Cathy Brush and Michelle Sinex to that 8th grade crush list. They were very very cute.
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: North Central Washington State
Date: 2/17/2003
Time: 1:56:43 PM
Might as well get more into the "whatever happend to" mode one more time.
It's 43 degrees and sunny here in the North West. Hey! I wish we had some of your snow today!
Linda Disciascio was in the 8th grade HG class of 1971-72. She was so cool. I had this crush on her, that reduced me to mostly talking like a nervous Ralph Kramden "Hamina hamina hamina..." Sheesh! I was pathetic.
I remember before the '72class trip to Niagara Falls, the girls had to wear street clothes, to clean off thier uniforms.
So Linda D, you come in in a sizzler skirt, white flowered, with yer purple strap heels. You were a knockout! You got yelled at by Myron also - KEWEL!
How ya been doing Linda? Would like to just hear a hello from you. Hope yer well also. Not trying to embarass you, but those are fun memories.
By the way, it gets to 108 here in the summer, and that is when I do miss the Delaware Valley. Along with Pyrohi, Hoagies, Tasykake, green soda...
You PA folks do have it made.
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: Washington State
Date: 2/17/2003
Time: 1:01:29 PM
Boy, that is right, Carolyn Lewis, you are a nice looking lady. You came to HG a year after I graduated.
I was checking out that classmaes.com site. I saw a classmate from back then - Linda Nasko.
First Linda, you got some fine looking boys there. Should I say men? BIG DUDES, yeah?
I remember way back when Linda - 7th grade 1970 - 71. Got a whole buncha cool girls new that year. You, Terry Moore, Debbie Selner, Michele Sinex, Cathy Brush, Doreen Goodman, Anitra Treese. (Sorry if spelling is off).
So, seems life has been good to ya Linda. How about the rest of you'se? Would be cool to hear about what has happened in 30 years, and they were fun years then.
Me? I went to NJ and became a beach bum, then travelled.
But, I'm still goofy, and crazy after all these years.
Best wishes to you all.
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Email:
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Date: 2/16/2003
Time: 12:40:37 PM
Carolyn Lewis is sexy
http://www.classmates.com/user/photo/thenandnow.tf?registration=90696181
Name: Sharman Meck Carroll
Email: PAFAMROOTS@AOL.COM
Residing: Chester Co,Pa
Date: 2/16/2003
Time: 9:52:00 AM
Would anyone know if there is a Ukrainian Community in Chester. I was told there is an active Ukrainian community at one of the churches> I'm looking for My Michael Mutro And wife Anastastia " Nellie" family. Their First born was Maria "Mary Mutro Carroll" I was told the Michael Mutro was very active in the church. Contacted the church many times. I'm not getting any answers back, Frustrated,
Name: Moe
Email:
Residing: PA
Date: 2/13/2003
Time: 2:32:38 PM
FYI - The Pierogie ladies are back in swing!!!! If anyone is interested here is their schedule. Anyone who wants to help out making pierogies is more than welcome. They make them in the church hall/basement. They are $5 a dozen and there is no limit to your order.
You may call the rectory for more information if you'd like:
February 19 Peel potatoes & onions, cook onions
February 20 Cook potatoes and make potato balls.
February 21 Make and Cook Pyrohy
Wed March 5 Peel potatoes and cook onions
Thurs March 6 Cook potatoes and make balls
Friday March 7 Make and cook pyrohy.
You may pick up pyrohy orders from 12 noon until 3:00 p.m. on Friday
Rectory (610) 494-7899
Church Hall (610) 494-8734 (Wed - Friday)
Rev. Vasil Bunik is the Pastor and is very nice. If you are interested in homemade Babka Fr. Butnik's wife usually makes them fresh on Saturday's and has them for sale on Sunday after liturgy. You can call the rectory for more information.
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pa
Date: 2/9/2003
Time: 4:21:52 PM
Man! It's cold outside !! Brrrrrrrrrr. Can't wait until Spring.
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: PA
Date: 2/8/2003
Time: 9:22:28 PM
Hi - How was everybody's week? Moe - I absolutely agree with you. We have NO one else to answer to except God. I also work very hard to take care of my business and I always ask myself "What would Jesus do?" whenever I get myself into a situation. We must have faith in our young for one thing and we MUST always keep our faith in ourselves.
Name: Guess
Email:
Residing:
Date: 2/5/2003
Time: 12:33:35 PM
Hi Mike Kuchera! I used to think you were a cutie.
Name: George K
Email:
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Date: 2/5/2003
Time: 12:26:12 PM
Judy:
The school used to be by the church at 3rd and Booth St. May fun times back then, really.
Name: Judy
Email: jumack@state.pa.us
Residing: Delaware
Date: 2/5/2003
Time: 10:39:22 AM
I went to St. Rose's I was wondering where your school was located. I went to Notre Dame but still never heard of it. Thanks
Name: George K
Email:
Residing:
Date: 2/4/2003
Time: 2:20:53 PM
Cool deal Moe. I love's the spaghetti!
I don't see me in the area soon. However, I see the photos on the church page, and it is a beautiful building.
St Nick also? LOL, when Fr. Lypyn did it for us, I always got coal. Of course, he gave us the candy bar later.
Wonder how coal and spaghetti is? Oh nevermind ...
Have a good one
Name: Moe
Email:
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Date: 2/4/2003
Time: 1:10:05 PM
George,
We just had a spaghetti dinner for the kids w/St. Nicholas - we weren't sure how it would go off as we usually have Chicken Dinners - it was a great sucess - the kids had a blast as did the parents & grandparents. We try to have a least coffed and cake availabe after both liturgies every Sunday and at least once a month have a dinner - We just hosted a Yalanka (sorry about the spelling) two weeks ago. Hopefully we will be having something soon. Everyone seems to enjoy coming and it makes a little bit of money for the Church. Next time you are in the area you should try to stop by. Holy Ghost has got to be one of the most beautiful Churches in the Tri-State area.
Name: George K
Email:
Residing: fun times, 1.000's of miles away
Date: 2/4/2003
Time: 12:13:54 PM
Moe:
Great to hear the young are staying with it.
I was sorry that the New Year dinner didn't go off. The planner must have tried, wasn't thier fault that there might have been apathy.
I always loved dinner there at HG. Iremember .circa 70 we had some dynamite spaghetti supper there.
Anywho... slow but sure, may HG prosper.
Name: Moe
Email:
Residing: PA
Date: 2/4/2003
Time: 11:12:54 AM
Hi! I am a current pashioner at Holy Ghost and was reading some entries from last week. It is true that some people have a bad attitude and bad mouth others, but you find that in every organziation, unfortnatuely it is a part of human nature. To be honest though most of the young people in our parish are quite nice and do want to help out. You have to understand something - we are dealing with years of bad management and certain groups use to the status quo. As I tell Fr. Butnik - change is difficult and painfull. If you truly love your Church and your hertiage - you do what you know to be right and you get the job done. I personally don't care what other people think of me. The only people I have to answer to is myself and my God.
Things are changing for the better. Father has been a lightening rod for us. The younger people in the parish are starting to become more involved. If you've been thinking of coming back stop by one Sunday - you may be surprised. Things are not perfect (and they never will be). They are only as good as we make them.
Name: GEORGE K
Email:
Residing: Untrue to roots?
Date: 2/3/2003
Time: 6:25:12 PM
So, who be ya DCH? C'mon now...
Me a moderator? I wasn't even a safety patrol LOL.
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pa
Date: 2/3/2003
Time: 5:24:32 PM
Thanks George! I think a lot of it is STRESS! Gee whiz - not that!! It has been extremely cold here in Pa. I think it might just be one of the coldest. Where are you at? Still living in Pennsylvania? I know a lot of us moved on, but some of us still remain true to the roots - ya know - for family and such! What a great site. Are u the moderator?
Name: George K
Email:
Residing: a house
Date: 2/3/2003
Time: 1:00:54 PM
Hey DCH. Sorry abut the heart. A coffee now and then won't hurt, but take it easy.
Yeah, despite it all, HG was not a bad place. I sit bacck and laugh at some of the things. Most nonsense was of my doing though LOL.
Grew up in the 70's? I never did, I don't think.
Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.
Cold still in PA? Been a nasty winter I hear. Anywho... Have fun and a good day.
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pa
Date: 2/3/2003
Time: 10:58:44 AM
Just another HG'er. Another class member told me about the reunion page. Glad we got one! (I sure wish I could drink coffee again! - The old ticker ain't what it used to be! Grew up in the 70's - that says it all!)
Name: George Karlsen
Email:
Residing: side again, still with coffee, creme sugar, the works!
Date: 2/2/2003
Time: 1:09:39 PM
So who or what is a DCH?
Name: George Karlsen
Email:
Residing:
Date: 2/1/2003
Time: 4:08:20 PM
Hey DCH! But, I kill the coffee with quite a bit of sugar and creme. So then it ain't as bad eh?
Name: DCH
Email:
Residing: Pottstown Pa
Date: 2/1/2003
Time: 2:42:52 PM
George K ! You shouldn't be drinking coffee! It's bad for your health!
Name: George K
Email:
Residing: side, with a cup of coffee now.
Date: 2/1/2003
Time: 8:41:51 AM
To the person from Media @ 7:25 PM on 31 Jan - So very true, and it's sad, ain't it?.
Name: D Curley
Email: dellaandjimmy@yahoo.com
Residing: Marcus Hook, Pa
Date: 1/31/2003
Time: 7:42:55 PM
I did not go to this school but I am wondering if there is still a school? We have an adopted son from Ukraine and I would love to have him enrolled in a shcool that will reflect his heritage. He will be kindergarten ready this Sept. I also will attempt to get to the church. I hear it is beautiful! If anyone wants any more info on adopting from Ukraine or can give me any info on the school please email me. You all (at least most of you) seem to have really enjoyed your time at this school.
Name:
Email:
Residing: Media
Date: 1/31/2003
Time: 7:25:31 PM
No wonder the younger people don't come to Holy Ghost anymore, the great attitude and bad mouthing of anyone that tries to do something to try and bring people back is what drove them away to begin with.
Name: George K
Email:
Residing:
Date: 1/31/2003
Time: 11:33:42 AM
That's cold - I dunno who planned it, but I am sure they meant well.
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 1/30/2003
Time: 5:03:00 PM
The anniversary celebration never materialized but consider the source planning it.
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 1/30/2003
Time: 5:00:34 PM
Given the source who planned the anniversary dinner it never materialized. What a big surpise!!!
Name: George K
Email:
Residing: a nice place, unfortunately not PA or NYC
Date: 1/30/2003
Time: 10:38:43 AM
Hey, so how did the New Year Day get together dinner at the church go?
Name: Ryan Gibbs
Email: gibby912@aol.com
Residing: Newark,De
Date: 1/29/2003
Time: 10:27:32 PM
anyone out there from class of 84
Name: John Sharpless
Email: aerotrc@aol.com
Residing: Palmetto, Florida
Date: 1/21/2003
Time: 9:46:14 PM
Hello,
I was in the class of 1978 in Sister Michaels class. If anyone is planning anything, please email anytime.
John Sharpless
Name: Michael Kuchera
Email: MichaelKuchera@crozer.com
Residing: Boothwy, Pa
Date: 1/15/2003
Time: 2:27:37 AM
What's Up!
Name:
Email:
Residing: Not Penna, and missing it!
Date: 1/6/2003
Time: 12:54:28 PM
HAPPY NEW YEAR HOLY GHOSTER'S!! > >When God Made Pennsylvania > > Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God was >missing for six days. > Eventually, Michael the archangel found him, resting on >the seventh day. > > He inquired of God, "Where have you been?" > > God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly >pointed downwards > through the clouds, "Look Michael, look what I've made." > > Archangel Michael looked puzzled and said, "What is >it?" > > "It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put Life on >it. I'm going to > call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of >balance." > > "Balance?", inquired Michael, still confused. > > God explained, pointing to different parts of earth, >"For example, > northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and >wealth while > southern Europe is going to be poor; the Middle East over >there will be a > hot spot. Over there I've placed a continent of white >people and over there > is a continent of black people," > > God continued, pointing to different countries. "This >one will be > extremely hot and arid while this one will be very cold >and covered in ice." > > The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed >to a large land > mass and said, "What's that one?" > > "Ah," said God. "That's PENNSYLVANIA, the most >glorious place on earth. > There are beautiful lakes, rivers, sunsets and rolling >hills. The people > from PENNSYLVANIA are going to be modest, intelligent and >humorous and they > are going to be found traveling the world. They will be >extremely sociable, > hard working and high achieving, and they will be known >throughout the world as > diplomats and carriers of peace." > > Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then, >What about balance, > God?" "You said there would be balance!" > > God replied wisely, "Wait until you see the idiots >I'm putting around > them in New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia and >Ohio." >
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 12/31/2002
Time: 5:11:15 PM
Well, Happy New Year 2003 HG'ers!!!
Name: Sheila Melnick
Email: scm349@yahoo.com
Residing: Gaston,N.C.
Date: 12/22/2002
Time: 7:34:22 AM
Lisa Kurych glad to see you found this site. I haven't see any other class of 77 people here. I check ever so often. Good to hear your around.
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 12/20/2002
Time: 1:32:16 PM
YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM PENNSYLVANIA WHEN
12. Yer a Holy Ghoster!!!
Those were fun years, despite it all - happy holidayz!
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 12/18/2002
Time: 11:30:23 PM
YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM PENNSYLVANIA WHEN........ (we're cool)
1."Hey youz guyz" is your standard greeting, and it's politically correct for all sexes. 2. The first day of Buck season and the first day of Doe season are school holidays 3 One of the highlights of your life was a field trip to Penn's cave and Horseshoe curve. 4. You know exactly what to do when your mother tells you to "red up "your room. 5. You know the time and location of every "wing night" in a 20 mile radius. 6. You don't think people from Philly or Pittsburgh talk funny. 7. You don't understand what all the hype is about for Yeungling or Rolling Rock beer, you've been drinking it for years even though Iron City is cheaper. 8. You consider an exotic vacation, a trip to the Jersey shore. 9.You are over 35 yrs. old, have never been outside of Pennsylvania anddon't see any need to leave. 10. You own only three spices "salt, pepper and Heinz "ketchup". 11. You consider Pittsburgh to be "out west," and you know the fastest way to Philly is the Turnpike.
Name: Someone out there
Email:
Residing:
Date: 12/16/2002
Time: 8:13:42 PM
Friends until we are 80?
Name: George Karlsen
Email: No, that's cool, I'm twice shy.
Residing: an area below orion, and above the equator.
Date: 12/16/2002
Time: 3:51:43 PM
Vichnaya pamyat to Myron. Good or bad, she ain't gonna be fogotten.
So, to one and ALL of you Holy Ghoster's, I wish ya the very best in the upcoming holidays.
Here are a few fun links:
http://www.send4fun.com/pages/flash/stressedsanta.cfm
http://www.send4fun.com/friendshipbearp.htm
http://www.send4fun.com/pages/flash/boobies.cfm
Shalom too one and all!
Name: George Karlsen
Email: No, that's cool, I'm twice shy.
Residing: an area below orion, and above the equator.
Date: 12/16/2002
Time: 3:50:04 PM
Vichnaya pamyat to Myron. Good or bad, she ain't gonna be fogotten.
So, to one and ALL of you Holy Ghoster's, I wish ya the very best in the upcoming holidays.
Here are a few fun links:
http://www.send4fun.com/pages/flash/stressedsanta.cfm
http://www.send4fun.com/friendshipbearp.htm
http://www.send4fun.com/pages/flash/boobies.cfm
Shalom too one and all!
Name: Carol
Email:
Residing: Aston, PA
Date: 12/15/2002
Time: 3:06:12 PM
Sister Myron was born on January 1, 1919 and she died early November 2002. She joined the nunnery when she was 16. Her obituary is in the latest edition of "The Way."
Name: Kevin ,Steven , and Lisa Kurych
Email: skurych@juno.com
Residing: Middletown DE
Date: 12/14/2002
Time: 11:20:40 PM
Hello to all Holy Ghost alumni. Has anyone heard from anyone from the class of 81 or 78 or 77?
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 12/14/2002
Time: 7:10:46 PM
Cathy:
Was Myron up on abuse charges, like Cardinal Bernard Law?
Name: Cathy
Email:
Residing: PA
Date: 12/13/2002
Time: 4:23:28 PM
Sister Myron died around 11/11 at the sisterhouse in Fox Chase. According to the obit she still punished children for a long time after 1976
Name: Kathy
Email:
Residing:
Date: 12/10/2002
Time: 9:13:02 AM
Sorry to hear the church is struggling, its a very beautiful church and the members worked really hard to build and keep it. We all wish them well. Where was Sister Myrons obit? Where was she living?
Name: Cathy
Email:
Residing: PA
Date: 12/9/2002
Time: 8:28:59 PM
I would have graduated in 1973 from HG. Some news for everyone. SISTER MYRON died a few weeks ago. Being as overweight as she was with diabetes & on kidney dialysis. How old was she???? There is a new priest at Holy Ghost church and he is married with a daughter. I understand the last married priest was Fr. Zbyr who was before my time. At present the church is financially struggling due to mismanagment of funds. Maybe a reunion in the ewmodeled church hall formerly the basement could work.
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 12/9/2002
Time: 8:26:32 PM
Johhny Corporal, did you really graduate in 1988 from Holy Ghost? When did they close? I too loved piergies and cheesestakes from Two J's!
Name: Johnny Corporal
Email: jazzybiz@hotmail.com
Residing: San Diego
Date: 12/9/2002
Time: 9:09:34 AM
Hello to all, and Class of 1988, Mike Silk, Christian Garrett, Bobby Paden, John Roberts, Tara Mumbley, Mike McKenna, Crystal Drew ,J.Corporal (me) I'm forgetting some people... anyway I'm in Cali now, I come back to Chester once a year... miss those perogies and cheese steaks from 2J's... GO Class of 88!!!
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 12/2/2002
Time: 2:23:02 PM
There will be a dinner at the Holy Ghost Church on January 1, 2003, celebrating 50 years of the church (December, 1952-2002). It would be nice to see familiar faces with good memories of growing up in the church and school. Contact the rectory for tickets. Maybe this could turn into the reunion we all talk about in the messages, but noone has time to organize. Let's all attend.
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 12/2/2002
Time: 1:36:23 PM
St Nicholas will be available to all the little children. Come and share a spaghetti dinner and give the kids a real treat! Its bound to be a great time!
Name: George W. Scherbak
Email: geo1114@aol.com
Residing: West chester, Pa.
Date: 11/19/2002
Time: 8:25:41 AM
Looking for classmates of 1965 who stayed in the area. Has there been any reunions of late? Who has addresses of all of our classmates?
Name: Erika Zahner-Pandur
Email: luvmy3devils@aol.com
Residing: PA
Date: 10/18/2002
Time: 2:17:47 PM
Well I never did finish Holy Ghost I left in 6th grade. But, still attended Sunday mass w/ my Grandfather after I left. I would have to say my favorite memory about Holy Ghost would have to be perogies on Fridays and asking Mrs Mary if she had a Quarter and seeing my Grandmother there (Martha Salo) even though I saw her after school since she watched me there was something about seeing her at school and going to chruch w/my Grandfather (Matthew Salo) that would have to be one of my fondest memories of him Sunday Mass. Even though I did not finish like alot of you (I left in 84) I sill loved my time there and will never forget that school.I am sorry to say I do not attend Mass there anymore the only time I get back is for my Grandparents masses on the Birthdays. But there will always be something special about that school.I am now the proud mother of 3 children Hannah 4 Morgan 2 and my son Hayden 8 months. And a wonderful Husband Stephen.
Name: Maria Zbyr Constantine
Email: mariaconstantine@msn.com
Residing: Monterey, California
Date: 10/8/2002
Time: 10:41:41 PM
Hello Everyone. I, too, came upon this site by chance and it has warmed my heart. What memories! As you old timers, like Bobby Felix, know, my father, Rev. Nicholas Zbyr built Holy Ghost Church and new school. He loved the parish and we all helped him (my mother, sister Thaissa, grandma Minchia, brother Orest). My father passed away in 1963 in Philadelphia; mother died in 1993 of cancer; sister Thaissa died in 1999 of stroke. Orest is living in Philadelphia and I am in Monterey, California. I've been back a few times last year and the year before. Everything seems to small, but being inside the church takes my breath away. I spent so much time in church helping my dad. I was even an altar girl during the summer months when he and I were often the only ones in church and I would stand near him and do the responses while he said the mass. I've missed him so much all these years. His assistant priests were Father Revak and Father Myron Kosmowsky, Father Zrada, and others I don't remember. I'm happy for the updates from those of you who know what happened to some of the folks. Bobby Felix, I used to have a crush on you when I was a little kid. You had the cutest dog - Buttons - and your parents were sweet. We used to shop all the time at Matys' grocery store. They made the best hoagies in the world! Listen, folks, I could go on and on and probably write a whole history of the place. I do have some photographs stored somewhere of school photos on the church steps, of the groundbreaking for the new church, and, I think, of the schools, old and new, but I've moved so much that I don't know where they are, but I'll try to find them.
About myself, I left Chester in 1959 and finished the 8th grade in Philadelphia. Did my high school and college studies in Philly as well, getting a masters in French literature. I then joined the U.S. Air Force and just retired in January 2002. The Air Force was very good to me. I met my husband while in the service, we travelled all over the world, have two great children (both in college), and I just began working for the Federal Government as a civilian.
I'll quit now, because I don't know how many of you except for Bobby Felix really remember the "old" days, but if you want to contact me, please feel free.
This has been a lovely time to reminisce a bit. I wish all of you happy thoughts and fond memories. Take care, Maria.
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 10/5/2002
Time: 10:57:23 AM
George
I'd love to see you at the reunion tonight
Name: Wendy Bowers
Email: gwenbow@worldnet.att.net
Residing: San Francisco,California
Date: 10/3/2002
Time: 3:33:20 AM
I went to Holy Ghost in 1976-1977 (6th grade) with Mrs.Duchak, & 1977-1978 (7th grade) with Mrs.Garvine. My parents moved to San Diego, California after my 7th grade year, & I moved up to San Francisco to go to college. I am a junior high school teacher at a Catholic school 10 minutes north of Stanford University. I teach Literature & English to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. I would love to hear from anyone from my classes as I have great memories of my short time at Holy Ghost. In fact, I have diaries from my time there & will post some or the more exciting entries when I have time. I just found out about this site tonight and I am writing to you all instead of doing my progress reports! It sounds as if people are confessing things here, so I will too. If anyone remembers the fork incident from the cafeteria, I was to blame. Yes, I have carried the guilt for all of these years. I have always loved my old friend Beth Hall for not snitching, as she was with me when I bent it while we were cleaning the cafeteria. The seventh grade was rounded up & we were interrogated by the principal (I think it was Sister Myron?) and I thought I would die of fright. I was so scared I couldn't speak even if I had wanted to speak. Beth, bless your heart for not telling! I remember Kim Yeager doing multiple backflips in the cafeteria. The birthday party at Beth's house where we all fanned out into the woods and kissed behind trees. David Birney, my hero all these years, who when Mrs.Duchak said to someone "Stop parading around" stood up and with a short burst of song pretended to lead a marching band. I can't remember whether I saw the priest who liked Peter Frampton throw someone & his desk out the window or if we talked about it enough to make it seem real. There was another priest, older, who kept beehives on the side of the church. I remember Mrs.Duchak telling us to go home & put hot burning soup on our tongues so that we would know what it was like to burn in hell, as that's where we were going. Marching up & down the stairs until we did it silently (do I do that to my own students?) Things are a lot different in schools nowadays. Teacher's wigs blowing off (did we imagine it?) Mrs.Duchak's dog Ukey & her bringing him to the picnic where she seemed relaxed, casual, and friendly. We all had helmet hair in the 70's...I am looking at our class pic right now. Steven Kurych, are you out there? Mike Lojan, how did you end up in Colorado? Joey Szupa used to make us laugh all the time. I am so happy to find this site. Write me if you have time anybody.
Name: G the "K"
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: with a coffee now
Date: 9/28/2002
Time: 12:55:00 PM
There was two mentions of Fr. Lypyn. I learned to read in HG, but musta' forgot how to sometimes.
About the inscence. There ws no peppermint, like the song. But, I did like the smell.
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 9/28/2002
Time: 12:49:34 PM
Seems there is not much mention of Fr. Lypyn.
Man, that dude was great!
He kept things going good, but, some people didn't like him. I did.
He became a monsignor and died in '84 I think.
Remember how he made ya hold your finger out, and then he would snap the strap on it? It never hurt, but it was scary, at the time.
Then when he dressed up like St. Nicholas (that's a German thing). I got coal every year. He gave us the candy bars anyway. Of course, we ate the candy. My mom got uspet and cried one year, 'INSULTED' that I got coal. Parents just don't understand eh?
Vichnaya pamyat Peter Lypyn.
Name: George
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing: a cool place
Date: 9/26/2002
Time: 10:20:20 AM
Klickers!
While scrolling down the page, Kathy P mentions 'clickers'. I remember them! They were like, 15 cents. I think they also called them 'crickets'.
The nuns would use them as a signal for when to stand, knell, sit, during the service. Up, down, this , that, yadda yadda yadda.
Ok, so does anyone remember the film "Heaven Can Wait"? Donald Sutherland was in it. I don't remember who else. It was a band of rebellious kids, in a Brooklyn catholic school in the 60's.
In the movie, the guys got some 'clickers' going off in the service @ all crazy times. Kneeling, sitting, etc... in confusion, real fast.
Imagine if we had them when Ambrose Synyshyn, the Arch-Bishop would come?
I wish I thought of that then!
Name: Sheila
Email: scm349@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 9/21/2002
Time: 5:53:34 PM
Yes, Debbie is my sister. She now lives down here in the sticks with me. Well,4 blocks from me. She married my husbands best friend.
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 9/19/2002
Time: 12:31:30 PM
Hello Shiela, I use to live across the street from you grandmom. Is Debbie your sister?
Name: Sheila Melnick-Manning
Email: scm349@yahoo.com
Residing: Gaston,N.C.
Date: 9/19/2002
Time: 11:16:52 AM
Any one out there from the Class of 77? Has anyone heard from Annette ? I miss you guys!
Name: joy acri
Email: oceanblue838794@aol.com
Residing: claymont de
Date: 9/16/2002
Time: 12:53:28 PM
just trying to remember some classmates danny stechew whose mother was a teacher,johnny hawrlock,nicki iacona hope everyone is doing good
Name: joy acri
Email: oceanblue838794@aol.com
Residing: Claymont,De
Date: 9/16/2002
Time: 12:49:08 PM
went to holy ghost from kindergarden till 4th grade have not seen anyone since,i ofeten wonder what happened to some of my friends,michelle keiser,barbara helko,ect.. i also remember mother myron and those morning uniform checks,alsosister sofie,i just looked at my old communion pics and was telling my children about some of the people and some of the stories wow old memories,1972 till1976,hope everyone is doing well
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 9/14/2002
Time: 9:30:37 PM
Can all the great Holy Ghost "Kathy / Cathy's" identify themselves?
You'se are all great!
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 9/13/2002
Time: 10:07:12 AM
LOL George K didn't write the last message....
I get E mail direct @ sony7600g@yahoo.com
Name: George K
Email:
Residing:
Date: 9/12/2002
Time: 7:50:19 PM
Hello George, Do you get any e-mails direct? I received another three today. They say Las Vegas pays out better than A.C. Good luck.
Name: George
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 9/12/2002
Time: 10:04:33 AM
Kathy P
You said that they were thinking of gambling near / in Chester. Atlantic City had it, and it was not good.
Wildwood was cool. I was mentioning though, that I lived near / was influenced by the 'gambling' environment.
Hope Chester don't do it (gamble).
Imagine 30 years ago... I graduated Holy Ghost. It don't seem that long.
Name: Kathy P
Email:
Residing:
Date: 9/11/2002
Time: 9:40:07 PM
George, Where did the part about Atlantic City come from? I remember Wildwood on bus trips from the church. Class trips to Washington, and Florida etc
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 9/10/2002
Time: 4:22:39 PM
Kathy P.
I lived in Brookhaven, but went to 7th St. (grandma's house) every Sunday.
Weekly as a kid to Chester. High school years, visited to Chester and Philly a lot.
Gambling and motels? Horrible. Atlantic City got ruined. I lived on LBI from 77 - 92.
Glad it is quiet.
Yer not in Chester either, eh?
Name: Kathy P
Email:
Residing: Pennsylvania
Date: 9/9/2002
Time: 8:45:30 PM
George, All things seem to be quiet in Chester, I still keep in touch with a few people and have heard they are trying to set up river gambling and motels etc. Where did you originally live? I lived at 3rd Street and walked to H.G. LOL
Name: george k
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 9/9/2002
Time: 7:45:55 PM
Kathy P
Yeah things are cool. Hey, what is up in Chester?
Don't be nervous over Rachel... she was a cool singer. Don't know what happened to her.
Stay cool.
Name: george k
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 9/9/2002
Time: 7:45:33 PM
Yeah things are cool. Hey, what is up in Chester?
Don't be nervous over Rachel... she was a cool singer. Don't know what happened to her.
Stay cool.
Name: Kathy P.
Email:
Residing:
Date: 9/8/2002
Time: 5:39:21 PM
Thanks George,now I'm up to date again. I haven't been on the website in awhile. But, its still pretty good. Hope all is well with you.
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 9/8/2002
Time: 3:41:19 PM
Kathy - this is the Rachel Sweet page below (a few ads down) :
http://www.bobbyshred.com/rachelsweet.html
Rachel Sweet is a country type / new wave singer from Ohio. She did 'Stranger in the House' with George Jones around 1979, written by Elvis Costello.
I haven't been back since 1990. I do miss Chester, these pages are great.
Name: Kathy
Email:
Residing:
Date: 9/7/2002
Time: 9:28:42 PM
I was nervous about the Rachel sweet page what was it George? Has anyone been back to mass sometimes its in the rectory now they made a small chapel for the few people that can attend mass during the week. Its a good savings they don't have to heat/air the whole church etc.
Name: Robert A. Myers
Email: robertmyers@udel.edu
Residing: Newark, DE
Date: 9/2/2002
Time: 6:41:35 PM
Hello peaches.
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 9/2/2002
Time: 3:30:33 PM
Cool web page of Rachel Sweet, from the namelss one below. She ain't from Chester, but she's cute
Name: John Boles
Email: jboles@riddlehospital.org
Residing: Boothwyn, PA
Date: 8/23/2002
Time: 8:06:23 AM
Just checking messages. Reading Cathy's message of 7/14/02. Yes I finished 8 years at Holy Ghost in 1966, and I have been working at Riddle since 1977 in Accounting. Still here!! When and where did you work while at Riddle, and when did you attend HGS?
Name: Mike Lojan
Email: arcas98_98@yahoo.com
Residing: Colorado Springs, CO
Date: 8/21/2002
Time: 8:34:44 PM
Hi everyone, Class of 79. I really enjoyed reading the messages and brought out alot of memories. Does anyone remember Sister Michael? She would send me to Siberia..all the time. Would love to hear from the old gang.. really miss everyone... I loved our class we were all friends.
Name:
Email:
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Date: 8/15/2002
Time: 3:35:28 PM
http://www.bobbyshred.com/rachelsweet.html
Name: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Email: George K
Residing:
Date: 8/8/2002
Time: 2:49:03 PM
LOL Myron was my favourite also LOL. NOT!!!
Name: margie tatusko curran
Email: yoyosisters@aol.com
Residing: blackwood,new jersey
Date: 8/7/2002
Time: 8:59:39 PM
I went to holy ghost for 7 long long years. I graduated in 1968. As we all kmow Sister Myron was my favorite. Beleive that one and I!ll tell you another one.
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Date: 8/6/2002
Time: 4:05:22 PM
THOMAS, Jennifer A. (nee Lybush) (Jenny) On July 28, 2002. At Crozer Chester Medical Center. Age 44. She is survived by her mother Maria Komanowska Lybush who lived with her daughter and son-in-law, her husband of 22 1/2 years William D. Thomas, her son William N. Thomas at home, her daughters Michelle D. Thomas at home and Christine M. Thomas at home and her sister Nadia Mace of Upland. She is the daughter of the late Mykola Lybush. Calling after 7 PM Sunday and after 8:30 AM Monday at KANIEFSKI-KENDUS-D'ANJOLELL MEMORIAL HOME, 3900 West 9th St., Trainer, PA. 9 AM Pankhyda Monday at the memorial home. 10 AM Funeral Service Monday at Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church, 3015 W. 3rd St., Chester, PA. Burial Immaculate Heart Cemetery, Linwood, PA. Donations may be made to Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic Church Repair Fund, 3015 W. 3rd St., Chester, PA 19013. The Delaware County Daily Times Location:Primos PA Area Code:610
Name: George
Email: sony7600@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 8/5/2002
Time: 4:17:17 PM
Kathy:
I can still read the Ukranian Russian. I learned how to speak German by going to Berlin Germany many times. My dad was born in Norway, they are both (parents) gone. I have family in Oslo. Spricht deutsch auch?
Uuuuhhhhmmm, the poundings? I remember the incidents, but they don't hurt anymore.
E mail me, for a complete update and to see what yer up to, ok?
Hope yer well - cheers!
Name: Kathy
Email:
Residing: Pa
Date: 8/5/2002
Time: 3:39:18 PM
George, Thanks for your email concerning Jenny, She was my "big sister" in Notre Dame High School. Your Ukrainian is still very good, do you speak? Write? or just remember the pounding you received from Sister?
Name: george
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 8/5/2002
Time: 12:50:26 PM
Kathy:
I am sorry abut Jenny Lybush. She was in my class of 72 at HGS. So young. Vichnaya pamyat.
Name: Kathy
Email:
Residing: Pa
Date: 8/3/2002
Time: 9:51:07 PM
I just heard Jenny Lybush 44 passed away. Its also in the Delaware County Newspaper. Does anyone remember her?
Name: George
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 7/31/2002
Time: 1:14:23 PM
Cathy:
George, I remember riding the school bus to HG with you in first grade. Others, you are older then me!!
I am old Cathy - 43 LOL. Who are you? It's been a long time
Name: an old friend
Email: none
Residing: Wilmington Delaware
Date: 7/29/2002
Time: 6:17:46 PM
Is Father Zbyr or his wife still alive?
Name: Bob Felix
Email: RHFelix@aol.com
Residing: Mullica Hill, NJ
Date: 7/29/2002
Time: 4:17:04 PM
Hi Basil
Nice to see that there are still some of us old guys around, LOL. You are correct regarding Fr Zbyr's daughter. My mother informed me of her passing a while ago.
Drop me a line if you get a chance.
Bob
Name: kathy
Email: k.pet@juno.com
Residing:
Date: 7/27/2002
Time: 11:00:03 PM
Does anyone remember Ukrainian classes with Pani Mahaylew or Mrs. Marschalok?
Name: HG'er
Email:
Residing:
Date: 7/27/2002
Time: 1:14:01 PM
Please somebody. Plan a reunion.
Name: Carmen Jones
Email: crjones@cvty.com
Residing: Baltimore, Maryland
Date: 7/26/2002
Time: 10:38:03 PM
Reading these messages have just brought back Memories!!!! I went to HG from '76-'85...I remeber pierogies and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on Fridays, Stations of the Cross during Easter Time, the infamous Annie play, Sunday afternoon music concerts (what was that music teacher's name?), and doing everything we could to get on Sis. Damien's nerves! I remember Mrs. Steciw, Mrs. Bychowski, and Mrs. Garvine. Mrs. K!!!! I was so glad to see you on this site! Anyone from the class of '85 out there??? Hope to hear from you!
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 7/26/2002
Time: 10:20:13 PM
Hi Bill, It was nice to see your e-mail.
Name: William (/////basil) Bijansky
Email: wbijansky@msn.com
Residing: Claymont, Delaware
Date: 7/26/2002
Time: 8:24:52 AM
Hi to the large class of 1956 (13). Glad to hear from some fof the older folks! I remember Sr. Andrea, Sr. Christina and Fr. Zbyr. I recently heard that Taisa Zbyr (I believe oldest daughter) passed away at the age of 52- due to cancer). Ah the Good Old Days.
Name: Walt Luzak
Email: wluzak@comcast.net
Residing: Washington Township, NJ
Date: 7/15/2002
Time: 11:29:49 AM
I did not go to Holy Ghost. I'm just an old acquaintance that was curious as to what happened to Irene Molodowec. Let her know I was asking about her. She should remember me.
Name: Cathy
Email:
Residing: PA
Date: 7/14/2002
Time: 9:51:29 PM
For the person inquiring about :Michael Kupchick resides out in the Pittsburgh area. David Kartachak resides in Aston PA. Iren Moldowdec still goes to Holy Ghost. She is married & has grwn kids 7 a grand baby. Her brother Ihor was killed in an auto accidnet some years ago. John Boles, I worked at Riddle and went to HG but I can't place you. What year were you?
Name: Cathy
Email:
Residing: PA
Date: 7/14/2002
Time: 9:51:08 PM
For the person inquiring about :Michael Kupchick resides out in the Pittsburgh area. David Kartachak resides in Aston PA. Iren Moldowdec still goes to Holy Ghost. She is married & has grwn kids 7 a grand baby. Her brother Ihor was killed in an auto accidnet some years ago. John Boles, I worked at Riddle and went to HG but I can't place you. What year were you?
Name: Class of 1969
Email:
Residing:
Date: 7/13/2002
Time: 9:31:09 PM
I remember Linda Kociuban! Sister Myron made her wash all her makeup off a few times! Mike, I'm glad you and her are still together. True love since way back then. How cool.
Name: ahmed alzahrani
Email: shevchenko2002@hotmail.com
Residing: riyad
Date: 7/9/2002
Time: 11:24:49 PM
SHEVA is the greatest player
Name: Walt Luzak
Email: wluzak@comcast.net
Residing: Washington township, NJ
Date: 7/3/2002
Time: 8:17:52 AM
Anyone know what ever happened to Irene Molodowec ?
Name: Cathy
Email:
Residing: PA
Date: 7/1/2002
Time: 5:20:49 PM
Would have been a 1973 graduate. Left in 7th grade. To answer a where is question: David Kartachak lives in Aston. as for Everyone's favorite sister, Sister Myron she is or at least was hospitalized for a Diabetic infection and is on kidney dialysis. She is in the Fox Chase area the last I heard. No write up in the Ukrainian paper indicating she has expired yet. Allegedly, Barbara Rivera, the priest' secretary claims all the class pictures perrished in a fire in the school. I can can't believe they all did!Not many kids I went to HG with even go to chrch there any more.I don't know how long it will remain open. St. Hedwig' will be closing after the 100th anniversay in a few months. George, I remember riding the school bus to HG with you in first grade. Others, you are older then me!! A reunion sounds like a good idea!!
Name: John Boles
Email: jboles@riddlehospital.org
Residing: Boothwyn, PA
Date: 6/26/2002
Time: 4:26:31 PM
Joe, the last I heard, Mike Kupchak was living in Western Pennsylvania or Ohio. His Mom and Dad are still in Chester a block from the church......Has anyone heard from Zenio Rondowsky. He finished 8th grade in 1967. He's been living in the Atlanta area since high school...... From the class of '66!.jb
Name: Joe Clark
Email: JClark8472@aol.com
Residing: Lake Worth, FL
Date: 6/22/2002
Time: 5:13:56 PM
I was class of '69. Where is everybody. Haven't seen any new posting on here in a while. Anybody know the whereabouts these days of Bob D'Amato, Walter Wolanski, Dave Kartachak or Mike Kupchak?
Name: Kathy Petryk
Email: kpet@juno.com
Residing:
Date: 6/11/2002
Time: 3:55:38 PM
Great memories David, also erasing around your desk with a pen eraser, clapping the erasers, watching to see if the intercom red light was on, class pictures in the hallway, washing the tables in the cafeteria, kneeling on the floor to see if the uniform touched the floor or it was considered too short, boys hair not touching their white color or it was too long hippy style. May concerts and processions, walking down third street and stopping traffic to get to mass.
Name: David Komonosky
Email: David@16500.com
Residing: Oakland, CA
Date: 6/11/2002
Time: 2:36:48 AM
Class of 1977 - One of the weirdest memories was being designated #38 by Sr Ignatius in 1st Gr. I guess there were too many of us for her to remember by name - and I was only letter "K"! Must have been 60 of us. That, and her formidable plastic whip. I always remember liking the new school bldg because it felt new and 60s modern, which I guess it was - the cornestone said 1962? Also - my daughter's last day of school last week reminded me of that inane custom of having to sandpaper the edges of textbooks at the end of the year to make them look like new again - some wasted energy there!Great site - would like to see more comments. DK
Name: Ryan Gibbs
Email: GIBBY0013@AOL.COM
Residing: Delaware
Date: 6/9/2002
Time: 1:59:11 AM
1984 graduate
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 6/8/2002
Time: 8:33:12 AM
I remember crossing guards like Mrs.Komanowsky, Mrs. Manchin...
Name: MONICA KARTASEVICH (MRS. K)
Email: SUITEE51@AOL.COM
Residing: CHESTER, PA
Date: 6/7/2002
Time: 1:01:03 AM
YOU MAY NOT REMEMBER ME--BUT I BET I CAN REMEMBER YOU!!! I TAUGHT KDG FOR 12 YRS AT HOLY GHOST. I LEFT ABOUT '89/90. ANYONE REMEBER THE PLAY 'ANNIE' WE PRESENTED? THE YEAR WE WENT TO DISNEY WORLD AND EVERYONE CAME HOME WITH CHICKEN POX? PEROGIES ON FRIDAYS? AND THE CLASS TRIPS FOR K-2 TO DUTCH WONDERLAND EACH MAY? AND I WILL TELL MRS. GARVINE (MS.CURTIS) ABOUT THE HELMET-HEAD CRACK--LOL
Name: Stephanie Salo Zahner
Email: Grammy523@comcast.net
Residing: Aston,Pa.
Date: 6/5/2002
Time: 8:38:48 AM
Hello to all from the classes of 64 and 65.Great to see so many have such "fond memories" of Myron. Must admit Holy Ghost was fun,my favorite teacher had to be Fr. Tony the rest were ok. Still see some of the old class now and then Joann,Linda,Cheryl,Oksana and once in awhile Olga think most of the guys have left the country after what Myron did to most of them.Hope to hear from you in the future. Married 3 kids 5 grandkids boy does time fly.
Name: Joe Fedgchin
Email: jfedg@hotmail.com
Residing: Royersford, PA
Date: 5/30/2002
Time: 1:40:17 PM
Bill,
Father Koz and Mrs. Martin, Sister Cornelia... It's amazing we still have our sanity. Glad to hear your Mom is doing well.
Name: Pam Myers Blisard
Email: pblisard@westaff.com
Residing: Ridley Park, Pa
Date: 5/24/2002
Time: 11:58:09 AM
Class of 73
Name: Bob Felix
Email: RHFelix@aol.com
Residing: Mullica Hill, NJ
Date: 5/23/2002
Time: 11:29:51 AM
Joe
Sure wish I did it would be a real collector's item now. Funny you should remember that.
Thanks for the update on your brother.
Bob
Name: Bill Leary
Email: bleary@ladfss.com
Residing: Reno, NV
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 5:59:55 PM
Hey Joe!
Remember Father Kozmoski and that darn paddle he carried around. I remember when he nailed us with that thing! I think you got the worst of it.
Name: Bill Leary
Email: bleary@ladfss.com
Residing: Reno, NV
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 5:58:08 PM
Kathy, My mom is still doing fine as is still able to belt out a tune now and again. I loved my mom and dad's store. I spent many a day throwing a ball against the wall at Fisher Tank. Thanks for asking!
Name: Joe Fedgchin
Email: jfedg@hotmail.com
Residing: Royersford, PA
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 12:44:20 PM
Bob Felix,
Do you still have the TR-4???
Name: Bob Felix
Email: RHFelix@aol.com
Residing: Mullica Hill, NJ
Date: 5/22/2002
Time: 9:57:47 AM
Bill Leary & Joe Fedgchin. Two names I do remember. Don't know if you remember me, lived at 3rd. & Harwick across from the church.
Joe. How is your brother Bob? You are the Fedgchin from 2nd. St. are you not?
Name: Joe Fedgchin
Email: jfedg@hotmail.com
Residing: Royersford, PA
Date: 5/21/2002
Time: 2:49:29 PM
Hey Leary,
I still have nighmares about Mrs. Martin
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 5/14/2002
Time: 2:04:05 PM
Hey Judy! Yer not the daughter of my favourite teacher of all (1st grade in 1965 named Anne) are you?
She is cool.
Name: kathy
Email:
Residing: chester pa
Date: 5/12/2002
Time: 8:38:57 PM
My brother remembers Miss Martin as a fiery teacher and Principal Cornelia, also the corner store across from the school and Fisher Tank. How is your mom Bill she was a beatiful singer etc.
Name: Bill Leary
Email: bleary@ladfss.com
Residing: Reno, NV
Date: 5/12/2002
Time: 1:55:23 PM
Graduated in 1964, then on to St. James. Family moved to Reno, NV in 1966. I have been there ever since. Joe Fedgchin, Terry Matys, Walt Petryk all in my class. Anyone remember Miss Martin? How about Sister Cornelia? Have only been back twice since moving out. Wish I had kept in touch. No e-mail back then. Glad to have found the web site. Hope all is well.
Name: Connie Leary
Email: conlry@aol.com
Residing: Las Vegas, NV
Date: 5/12/2002
Time: 1:50:59 PM
Graduated in 1963. Moved to Reno, Nv in 1966. Moved to Las Vegas in 1988. My parents and brother Bill are still living in Reno. I miss the steak sandwiches and Hoagies. Can't find them out here.
Name: Mike Nardone
Email: Loopy Mike @ aol.com
Residing: Bethel twp.
Date: 5/11/2002
Time: 8:32:32 PM
Hey all Ukes! I went to, etc. Married Linda Kaciuban Rez, but I hung out on third street with Pete Okonski, Mike Beyba, Mike Szupa etc, Wher the heck is Donna Brochet, Nadja and Hilda and Rosa from 6 street?
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 5/11/2002
Time: 12:50:45 PM
Judy: LOL is 'laughing out loud" used to denote humour.
Name: Frank
Email: rnrkiss1@aol.com
Residing: PA
Date: 5/11/2002
Time: 4:27:55 AM
Any one from Sister Damiens 6 grade class. 82/83
Name: Judy
Email:
Residing: newtown square, pa
Date: 5/9/2002
Time: 12:50:19 PM
I'm sorry what does LOL stand for?
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 5/7/2002
Time: 2:32:32 PM
So the old school is still standing. Now it's a church, interesting. LOL, I hope they didn't leave those old pictures up there....mine was terrible. Come to think of it, I ain't no better in real life. Thanks for the memories, this page is cool - cheers to all.
Name: Kathy Kucinski Szaszarowsky
Email:
Residing: Media Pa
Date: 5/7/2002
Time: 1:44:06 PM
After Bobby Felix, I must be the oldest Alumna from Holy Ghost School and up til a few yrs ago, the most active parishioner after Mrs. Wozny, Churchman, Wenchak, Salo, Mudrick,Mrs Steciw, Rivera Nazar, etc... and if you ever go to Holy Ghost functions you'll see the hard working ladies and just a few of the dedicated men left... Just go to the Stations or Holy Thursday or Good Friday to see who is able to walk around the Church...or read the bulletin to see what they have to do that night in Church... We had 2 different days for Stations One in English the other in Ukrainian ........now all they can do is group the both together... if there's a couple of Uke's Fr will have half the stations in English and half in Ukie... Fr Revak is still alive. We all have stories about the school... I'm glad I had Sr. Andrea and Sr. Lawrence and the most wonderful Pastor in the world Fr. Zbyr.....
Name: joe
Email:
Residing: lake worth,fl
Date: 5/5/2002
Time: 11:52:36 PM
kathy, i went to HG for 7th and 8th grade, both years in the new school. i graduated in '69
Name: kathy
Email:
Residing: wilmington de
Date: 5/4/2002
Time: 9:13:08 PM
Hello I think my brother Walt graduated around 1964 so its not the same Walt but it was interesting reading all the notes from Holy Ghost Graduates did you graduate from the old school or new?
Name: joe clark
Email:
Residing: lake worth, fl
Date: 5/4/2002
Time: 2:40:57 PM
walt, i remember mike, he was in my graduating class ('69). im not sure if walter w. had a brother named richard or not.
Name: walter
Email:
Residing: wilmington de
Date: 5/4/2002
Time: 10:37:39 AM
Joe, sorry I'm not, did he have a brother named Richard? My sister went to school with a Richard Wolansky. My Sister works with Mike Rudnyski he remembers you.
Some Pastor news: Msgr John Bura is transferred to St Nicholas in Wilmington De and St Basil in Chesapeake City Md,
Rev Vasyl Bunik will be the new priest at H.G. and St Nicholas in Millville NJ.
Name: eleanor triboletti
Email: etriboletti@earthlink.net
Residing: berkeley, ca.
Date: 5/4/2002
Time: 3:40:52 AM
Interested in getting in touch with other classmates .
Name: Dennis K.
Email: skimonitty@aol.com
Residing: Penna.
Date: 5/4/2002
Time: 3:35:53 AM
I have really been watching this site grow. Went to H.G. K thru 6th [1969]
Name: joe
Email:
Residing: lake worth,florida
Date: 5/3/2002
Time: 6:58:16 AM
walt, are you walter wolanski, my old buddy from 7th and 8th grade???
Name: walt
Email:
Residing: wilmington, de
Date: 4/27/2002
Time: 3:50:12 PM
The old school has been torn down, the "New school" has been sold to a black church. I wonder if they kept our pictures up in the hall way from all the classes?
Name: George K
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 4/25/2002
Time: 12:38:54 PM
Been quiet on this page a bit.
We could have our reunion here.
I haven't seen Chester since 1990 - what is the old school and area like? I laffed about some of the stuff below, but they were some good times
Name: walt
Email:
Residing: chester, pa
Date: 4/9/2002
Time: 9:30:18 PM
I remember get sprinkled/splashed with holy water and all the kids laughing because we really got sprinkled. Easter baskets getting blessed, stations of the cross, sunrise Easter mass, and everything in threes!
Name: george k
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 4/9/2002
Time: 1:35:09 PM
I also remembered the inscense. Loved the smell. As you can see, I am a Holy Ghost graduate by the way I spell LOL.
Name: george
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 4/9/2002
Time: 1:29:43 PM
Whoever asked me about clickers- yeah I remember them. I havent been on awhiel and cool to see the comments.
Name: a friend
Email:
Residing: chester pa
Date: 4/6/2002
Time: 4:55:45 PM
John Boles, Attendence really dwindles over the years. Tuitions weren't being paid etc. They sold the new school, tore down the old and sisters rectory. Do you ever attend mass at Holy Ghost?
Name: walt
Email:
Residing: wilmington,de
Date: 4/6/2002
Time: 4:52:57 PM
How old would she be? The pictures of the outside the church are nice.
Name: John Boles
Email: jboles@riddlehospital.org
Residing: Boothwyn
Date: 4/5/2002
Time: 1:25:22 PM
Regarding Mother Myron, I spoke with someone at the Church this past January, 2002, and they told me that Mother Myron was still alive. I think my source is reliable.
Name: katia
Email:
Residing:
Date: 4/5/2002
Time: 12:52:45 PM
Did Mother Myron really pass away? Last I heard she went to work in New Jersey but that was some time ago. Any idea when or where?
Name: Pat (Patchett) Pilgrim
Email: patpilgrim@hotmail.com
Residing: Aston, PA
Date: 4/5/2002
Time: 7:06:05 AM
The teacher in the VW was Mrs. Culbert. The strawberry blond was Miss Senora. Sister Myron was a tyrant. Everyone thought I was a little brown noser, but truthfully I was terrified of that woman. Seems years later she developed a cancerous tumor that caused her to first lose her sight and then her life. I wonder if it hadn't been growing all along & made her as cranky as she was. Frannie (Curtis) Garvine was always nice to me, but do you remember her old "helmet-head" hairdo? She finally modernized it when she took the class trip to Florida. Does anyone remember the time Mrs. Duchak's hair took on a green tint from a bad dye job? Holy Ghost was some place! every now & then I run into some old classmate. I wasn't catholic or Ukrainian, but I loved the language & studied a little in college. I'm sorry to see the old school is gone.
Name: John Boles
Email: jboles@riddlehospital.org
Residing: Boothwyn, PA
Date: 4/4/2002
Time: 6:10:25 PM
I certainly remember the clickers. They were everywhere! Any altar boys out there? Serving mass was a cool experience for me. Didn't like getting up that early in the morning, and still don't. Father Sagan used to pay us 50 cents per day for serving mass during the summer. First jobs for most people!!
Name: Joe Clark
Email: JClark8472@aol.com
Residing: Lake Worth, Florida
Date: 4/3/2002
Time: 7:49:56 PM
I'm a '69 graduate, although I only went to Holy Ghost for 2 years. I actually kinda enjoyed the place. The school work wasn't too hard and I remember always getting out of class to run errands for Mother Myron. She was a holy terror, but overall I got along with her ok. Made some good friends there: Walter Wolansky, Bob D'Amato, Mike Rudnitsky. Also remember playing "spin the bottle" at Daria's, and making out in Gloria Luzinski's basement with Donna Cello. Boy, those were the good old days. I drove by Holy Ghost in '99 on my way to NY and saw the school had closed. What happened. Last but not least, Diana Mangiapani, I'm back from Australia, I can be reached at my AOL email address now!
Name:
Email:
Residing:
Date: 4/3/2002
Time: 1:40:52 PM
George, Do you remember the clickers? The incense?
Name: George Karlsen
Email: Sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 3/27/2002
Time: 12:44:46 PM
Kathy those Panyees were special. I remember Fr. Sagan, Zbyr (sprinkle baptized me) and Fr. Lypyn - ALL were super cool!!!
Name: Robert H. Felix (Bob)
Email: RHFelix@aol.com
Residing: Mullica Hill, NJ
Date: 3/22/2002
Time: 3:54:28 PM
John
Had forgotten that Father Zbyr's son was Orest. I believe he had 2 daughters also. I Just got a bunch of pictures from mother that actually go back to kindergarten. Have to get them scanned and see if there is some way we can post them here. And yes I do remember Father Sagan, but not Revak. I graduated ten years after you did. We had thirteen in our graduating class, 7 girls and 6 boys.
Name: John Boles
Email: jboles@riddlehospital.org
Residing: Boothwyn, PA
Date: 3/22/2002
Time: 2:24:30 PM
Just came upon the old chester site. I read the other comments about Holy Ghost School. Certainly brings back alot of memories. I finished 8 years in 1966. Had 4 years in the "old" school, and 4 in the new building. So that was a long time ago. I'll have to dig out my picture of my 8th grade class. There were 19 of us. I see Joe Komanowsky once in awhile. He lives next door to my Mom. Great information on this site.
I too remember Mother Myron! I saw her name mentioned many times. Did anyone remember Father Sagan or Father Revak (sp). Both are deceased I believe. I do remember Fr Zbry (sp). We lived one block from the school on 3rd street. I used to play with his son Orest. Alot of fun back then!!
Name: kathy
Email:
Residing:
Date: 3/15/2002
Time: 10:31:58 PM
Your welcome George! Thanks for visiting the site again. I'm sure I forgot a few...
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 3/14/2002
Time: 12:14:03 PM
kathy: thank you for mentioning those great ladies..... GOD love 'em!
Name: kathy petryk
Email:
Residing: pennsylvania
Date: 3/4/2002
Time: 11:12:05 AM
Working Bingo on Monday nights, helping the ladies make pierogy, church with beret's, clickers from Sister, St Nicholas, May processions and May fairs. School trips to Washington, Florida, Mrs Felix, Mrs. Billy, Mrs. Kowalek, Mrs Wenchak, Mrs Molodowec, Mrs. Kluka, Mrs. Piece, Mrs. Kupchick, Mrs Komanowsky, Mrs. Malonowsky,Mrs Halko,Mrs Wolner,Mr&Mrs. Stechew,Mrs Okonski,Mrs. Melnyk,Mrs Brochet,Mrs Bernard, Mrs. Rivera, Mrs Lazek, Mrs Szazarowski, too many more wonderful hardworking Ukrainian people!
Name: kathy petryk
Email: k.pet@juno.com
Residing: Pennsylvania
Date: 3/3/2002
Time: 7:11:32 PM
I do remember you as my next door neighbor! Father Zbry, Father Lypyn?
Name: Robert H. Felix
Email: RHFelix@aol.com
Residing: Mullica Hill, NJ
Date: 3/1/2002
Time: 11:29:10 AM
God, don't even know how I stumbled upon this site, but here I am. Memories????????? Wow such memories, some good, some bad. Graduated in 1956! Don't think anyone posted so far even remembers that date LOL. Anyone remember Father Zbyr? or Sister Andrea?
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 2/19/2002
Time: 5:03:24 PM
I remember all the nice 'Pahn - Yees' ladies that made the perogies and lunches. Mrs. Billy, Kowalek, Kluka's... If I forgot any, sorry. You ladies were the gretest!
Name: kathy petryk petrella
Email: kpetrella@juno.com
Residing: Boothwyn pa
Date: 2/14/2002
Time: 10:05:25 PM
Hello to all the old Ukie's the blue and gold. Does anyone remember May fairs and going to mass wearing berets? May processions? Mrs. Curtis? Miss Curtis? Sister Sophie? Sister Anastasia? Miss Rim? Miss Duchak? Pani Mahalew? Mrs Kobryn? Father Lypyn? Peeling potatoes and Onions? Washing the cafeteria tables? Having to use a eraser around your desk to remove scuff marks? Gym in the old school? when Pizza was a slice of break with cheese? Fundraisers? Class pictures? Taras Shevchenko concerts? Class trips to Washington, Florida? Clickers used to tell you to sit, stand or kneel. The paddle in Sister Myron's office? Boys hair cuts for $1.50, uniforms that must touch the floor when you kneel?
Name: George Karlsen
Email:
Residing:
Date: 2/14/2002
Time: 12:22:41 PM
That's Cheers to all
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 2/14/2002
Time: 12:22:05 PM
Jim Babenko - Yeah you were cool from Toby Farms. I remember Lynne Clements from there also - so how is life?
Think of the legacy Myron, and those crazies, left behind- not good. Betcha' they never thought we would be exposing the nonsense for the world to see on the WWW!
I think the teacher that drove the VW was Helen O'Donnell? She had bad skin, straw blonde hair, and was terrible to me, always making mountains out of molehills. She got married back then, wonder how long that lasted?
Her sister, Virginia O'Donnel, was way too cool. Sexy cute red head, beautiful, with great legs. The guy who got her must have been blessed. Miss V O'Donnell couldn't straighten her arms totally due to an accident. You couldn't notice, she told us. Miss Virginia YOU are a happy memory from those years.
Duchak? Huh Bouy.... there's a nasty nasty one. Always pinched her chin with her 2 fingers, like in the war pictures.
Franny Curtis Garvan used to be Myron's little snitch. Such a 'church lady" eh?
Again, look at the legacy they left.
Jim I forgot about the bus incident out the back door, last day of school, June 72. LOL. I saw Mrs. Steciw in 1990 when my mom died. I tell you, Mrs. Steciw was a truly nice lady. I wish her the best also.
This page can be the funniest of oldchesterpa.com - Chhers to all!
Name: Jim Babenko
Email: Bmej2000@home.com
Residing: Pa
Date: 2/11/2002
Time: 12:32:43 AM
Well, lets see now, Holy Ghost! Those were some interesting years! Went there for 8 years, getting paroled in 1974! Ha! Seriously though, I look back on those years quite fondly. Yes, it is true, Mother Myron was indeed a terror, but we all survived it. I remember being dragged around by my earlobes more than once by our dear Mother! I got plenty of other memories I'd like to post on here, but for now I'll just try and recall some of the teachers during my stay there. Any members of the class of '74 correct me if I'm wrong. Grades 1 and 2 I really can't remember right now. 3rd grade was Miss Rim, 4th was Sister Sophie (very nice), 5th was a dude named Mr. Bernardo, or something like that(strange guy), he was replaced midyear by a very cool teacher, and I forget her name, but remember her driving a volkswagen! 6th was Mrs. Duchak(remember all the reports due!) 7th was Miss Curtis(very cool)and 8th was Mother Myron!! She was actually much nicer as a teacher than she was as a principal. Anyway, I think this site is pretty cool, always fun to go down memory lane! Oh, and Carlson, I remember you taking off out the back door of the bus on the last day of school one year! Poor Mr. Steciew! Ha! Be well all!
Name: Diane
Email:
Residing: Oakton, VA
Date: 2/6/2002
Time: 9:23:59 PM
You guys are sooooooo right! That Mother Myron was something else. I remember watching her dance to Oklahoma!! What a hoot!!! She had a mean streak in her to beat the band.
Name: George Karlsen
Email: Sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 2/5/2002
Time: 2:46:09 PM
Boy, did Myron strike a chord, or what? Tammy & Daria said it right. I got over that stuff after 8th grade, however, it is fun to reminisce. I must say, I am not catholic anymore though. I betcha Myron ain't in warm purgatory though LOL. Best wishes to all! George
Name: Tammy M. Long Degand
Email: moonchild713@charter.net
Residing: Altoona, Pa
Date: 2/3/2002
Time: 12:44:02 AM
Went to school here after St. Anthonys closed. Not sure of the year and I know I did not finnish out 6Th. grade.(transfered out) I do Remember MOTHER MYRON!!!!!!! Now I was always told nuns were the brides of Christ! Well this woman must have been the bride of SATIN! The things I seen this woman do to kids were sheer abuse. I seen her grab a kid by each ear and smash his head on the black board, I also seen her BEAT a girl all the way to church on a holy day, The girl was not sure why we were going to church and asked why and that is what she got! SORRY this woman did not belong around children! I think and wonder to this day why she had to be so angry and hatefull. I'll never forget her I hope now she is sorry for how un happy she made so many kids. Hey if you want to send me hate mail fine! BUT that nun was EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: Daria Maleckyj Rustark
Email: dariarustark@hotmail.com
Residing: Boothwyn,Pa
Date: 1/31/2002
Time: 10:30:51 PM
Since my family was the ONLY ones living on a farm, Sr. Myron would always harrass me and my sisters if we missed mass,"are your cow's mooing?? Is that why you missed mass?? Fond memories of getting out of class to peel onions(as I was the expert) and potatoes for pierogies. And the festivals and the concerts!! We loved to get out of class.
Name: Saundra "Sandy" Conklin
Email: helenekc@yahoo.com
Residing: Kent County, Maryland
Date: 1/27/2002
Time: 11:40:25 PM
I went for about 4 years, was a cheerleader,I left in '79. Now living in Maryland with two children (boy and girl).
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 1/22/2002
Time: 1:30:16 PM
Just saying hello and wondering...cool page, and life has been pretty alright also. Myron!?!?! Oh puhleeze. Evil Woman by the band Crow/Blue Cheer comes to mind
Name: George Karlsen
Email: sony7600g@yahoo.com
Residing:
Date: 1/22/2002
Time: 1:28:44 PM
Just saying hello and wondering...cool page, and life has been pretty alrighjt also
Name: Jennifer Cordes (LoGiurato)
Email: jroselo@att.net
Residing: West Chester, PA
Date: 1/2/2002
Time: 12:06:35 PM
I went to school at Holy Ghost from K-6th grade. I would have graduated with the 1988 class. I would love to get in touch with people who were in my class.
Name: Carol Tatusko Simpkins
Email: arthursmom@yahoo.com
Residing: Boothwyn, PA
Date: 12/31/2001
Time: 8:04:02 AM
Went to Holy Ghost for 8 years. Graduated 1969. I've lived in Idaho, Tennessee, and Florida and am now back in Pennsylvania. Most memorable nun: Mother Myron!!!!!!!
Name: James MacColl
Email: jjmaccoll@prodigy.net
Residing: Bear, DE
Date: 12/4/2001
Time: 4:56:09 AM
I went to Holy Ghost from K through 6th. I left a year before the school closed. My mother was a teacher and I have some good memories of playing tag in the hallways with the McFarlands and the Tacchis whose mothers were also teachers.
Name: Julie Parker-DeNight
Email: jde572001@home.com
Residing: Ridley Park, PA
Date: 11/25/2001
Time: 9:50:18 PM
graduated from Holy Ghost in 1972. only went there for 2 years. anyone else from 72?
Name: Joe Clark
Email: JClark8472@aol.com
Residing: Lake Worth,FL
Date: 11/15/2001
Time: 7:27:07 PM
I only went to Holy Ghost for 2 years, but remember that time fondly.Hope everyone I knew there is doing well.
Name: Diane Hawrylak Mangiapane
Email: PCMangia@MSN.com
Residing: Oakton, Virginia
Date: 11/12/2001
Time: 6:20:28 PM
1969 graduate of Holy Ghost; employed in Wash., DC for the Federal government; married with three calicos. Favorite teacher: My Mom - when she taught us all to sing for the May Festivals!!!!
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