Plainedge High School Missed Connections

PHS ('77): Loved packard!  I was the morning 'weather man' for a while.  Had to stand outside with a sling psychrometer in freezing temps to get the Relative Humidity.  The Planetarium was aces!

But as usual for Plainedge: idiotic School board (many over the years) made yet another bad decision: demo one of the youngest schools they have and move the JHS to the outer reaches of the district... They were (and still are) manipulative (remember Auserity measures when you don't pass a budget?: bussing #1) jerks.

My God, so much of what you wrote is so true!  Didn't know about Efem Zimbalist..very cool.  The part about Miss Nichols is classic, she was really hot!  She used to hang out at a house near where I live and saw her there when I was trick or treating and stayed at the door WAY too long.  The rumor mill was cranking in 8th grade saying that Mr. Cataldi and her were having an affair and it destroyed his marriage.  the planetarium was the jewel of our district but was completely underutilized.  Whenever I tell people that my Jr. HS has a planetarium, they are in awe.  Still can't figure out why they are tearing down the newest school in the district.  Odd....

"Sure why don't you start with, I can't believe that the school board is even considering selling, let alone allow the demolition of a building that is only 45 years old. Why not ask the current school board, "Didn't you learn from past mistakes, like selling Baldwin Drive, Southedge JHS, and Picken and a 3 story administration building that was paid for?" How efficient is it for a school district to have only 1 JHS, and then locate it on ots northern most boundry? Wouldn't a centrally located JHS like Packard be a better choice?But I digress, this current school board is no better or brighter than when I graduated in '82. Here's some memories, getting a copy of the elevator key and using it to make out with various members of the opposite sex for the 3 years that I was there. Being the first 6th grade class to inhabit the "new" middle school, it was great being a guinea pig. Having Efram Zimbalist the 3rd as a substitute shop teacher, and having one of my astute classmates ask him, "Do you study zimbals?" You can google Mr. Zimbalist to see who his father was. More memories, the G.O. store had a button making machime that would make anything into a button, that went bad real fast. I stated in Mr. Beechers class that the first toilet was invented by a man named Crapper in Flushing ,NY and he took offense to it and gave me detention until he found out that I was kind of right with my facts. Riding my bike to school with my friends, I don't know if they even do that anymore. The juke box in the cafeteria, spending money to hear music,"I wonder who got that money?" Staring at Ms.Nichols all class long and not hear a word she said, then riding my bike past her house hoping to see her wash her car in a bikini. Good luck with your project, hope I've helped."

I met my first love there (wish i could go back). A lot of Great memories there. This district has made many stupid mistakes over the years.

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It's a shame, I have many fond memories of Sylvia Packard. I remember all the times we would throw things down the spiral stairs to watch them go 'splat'! I remember when I dropped an entire quart bottle of that stuff they use to make a puppy pee on the paper down the spiral stairs and it took them almost a year to get rid of the smell. Smoking in the bathrooms, getting suspended for fighting, failing typing class, ahhh those were the days.

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