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This is actually my fifth grade class, not the fourth
grade class referred to in the story. However, the Wilmette
public schools had a practice of keeping all the students
together in the same class all the way from fourth through sixth
grades, so almost every one of these kids was also in my fourth
grade class.
Here's a bonus for you: How many readers can name all the people
in their fifth grade class, even with the help of a picture?
Here they are:
Back row: Joe Loundy, Duncan McDougall, Martha Seifert,
George Fields, Larry Beckman, David Coolidge, Marty Magera (who
sent me the picture), Doug Mitchell (referred to later in my story),
Lola Werhane (the teacher, who was a flaming redhead), Carol
Simpson
Middle row: Landra Butterfield, Sue Nichols (in front of
Landra), Judy Norcott, Lynne Merrin, Tom Casterline, Bill Stillwell
Tom Pickard (my best friend who lived three doors down the
street), ME!, Carole Deutsch
Front Row: Marilyn Swartz, Diane Rice, Barbara Dosher,
Terry Townsend, Nancy Herring, Susan Myers
April, 2009 update: I know for a fact that three of these people
are dead. David Coolidge is the CEO of a venerable Lasalle
Street financial institution, Doug Mitchell is a senior
acquisitions editor for the University of Chicago Press, and
Marty Magera worked for Underwriter's Laboratory for many years
and is now retired. I recently learned that Duncan McDougall is
a professor of business at a college in New Hampshire, currently
enjoying a Fulbright in Romania. The rest I don't know about.