Here's a pdf showing the infamous Mrs. McCoy. Also shown are Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. Kick. I had Mrs. Meyer for 5th at Holdeman, and Mrs. Kick for 6th at Holdeman
This is good stuff Diane. We are going to have to get a new website when this one is full by the end of this week. It's only June.
Carol, I have some better stuff. What did you do with that necklace I
gave you in the fifth grade? Damn. it cost me about three dollars, that
was a lot of money back then! Plus, My wife Carolyn ( Simburger) told me
later. your only goal was to break me up with Brenda, my first love.
She also said you were a turd! I did like coming over and playing football
with your brothers!!!!!!!!!! Tommy
This is good stuff Diane. We are going to have to get a new website when this one is full by the end of this week. It's only June.
Carol, I have some better stuff. What did you do with that necklace I
gave you in the fifth grade? Damn. it cost me about three dollars, that
was a lot of money back then! Plus, My wife Carolyn ( Simburger) told me
later. your only goal was to break me up with Brenda, my first love.
She also said you were a turd! I did like coming over and playing football
with your brothers!!!!!!!!!! Tommy
lol! Tommy Whatley! Has this been bothering you for 40 plus years?? I can't believe you or one of my best friends back then would say such things about me and I wasn't even around to defend myself! lol! Carolyn and I used to play Barbies all the time. I didn't know the two of you got married. I have thought of her often and wondered where she was. You tell her that that Is absolutely wrong. I'll have to talk to her about that when I see her. lol! I must still have your necklace around here somewhere! :) Yes, I'm sure that was a lot back then. That was thoughtful. We all had a lot of fun in the neighborhood. Ask her if she remembers the time I beat up her brother Joe over something. Mom had to pull me off and sent him home. Ha! Nancy Cramer and I got into it one time too. We were kind of competitive with each other. I guess it was a rowdy neighborhood, but how could it be different with 4 brothers and 0 sisters! Dennis farms in KY, Jim is in ID, Jerry in Glendale and the youngest, John is in ID.
Hope to see you both at the reunion!
Carol
Yes, Tom, the banter is fun. How did the title of this message digress to this?
I too am lol, Carol, at the exchanges. What fun memories.
Tom, I do remember going to the lake with you one, hot summer day. You came to the door to pick me up, with no shirt. My dad answered and said, 'Come back when you have some clothes on', and closed the door. You went to your car, put on a t-shirt, and came back. Like I said, nobody messed with my Dad. He died of a heart attack on the 7th hole of the Ahwatukee golf course (just like he wanted), June 25, 2001.
I have a friend who's 90 year old grandfather LOVED to eat at Bob Evan's (the Denny's of the midwest). It was his favorite thing in the world. He died eating breakfast there.
Yes, Tom, the banter is fun. How did the title of this message digress to this?
Diane, When you gotta go it's time to go, sorry to her that about your dad. Yes, your dad did scare the s**t out of me, I usually tried to come
over when he wasn' around. My dad died in 1999, mom just last Dec.
Tommy
Carol,
You are in big trouble now! When we broke up, you told me you
had lost the neckless. Carolyn and I talked about this a few years
ago, she said you didn't lose it, you just didn't want to give it back!
Carolyn obvious was right again and again, etc. Our 32nd was Wed.
Did you know I originally gave that neckless to Brenda Koen? At
least when I dumped her for you she gave it back. Who knows whom
would of had it next- Maybe Diane Hull LOL. Tommy
He was on the Team to. Hey Tommy do you think there are any pictures of the Campus Shop Mens Wear Team. All you guys had to say was Simburger and mention Joe and it finally all came back to me. Or do you have a way to talk to them anymore??? Please Respond on this one. Or get my email from Larry.
Hey Louie!
Do you happen to remember if my brother, Denny Peyman was on that team? The name sounds so familiar. He was two grades behind, but he was a catcher. I remember dark blue shirts with white lettering -- brain can't quite remember .......
Louie,
Yes, Bernie Simburger, Carolyn& Joe's dad did co-coach Campus mens wear
with Harold Straub. Bernie passed about five years ago. I talked to Joe and he
remembered you, said you were a little fat kid, but I think he was thinking of
Louie Schmitt. Could Schmitt have been on that team also? Back then he was a
little fat kid! Joe doesn't think he has any pictures of the team.
Tommy
I believe that I was Mrs. McCoy’s, favorite student, or her worst nightmare in that ill-fated fifth-grade class at Holderman. That was a tough year for me, as I spent much of it in the principles office. However the principal, even though I cannot remember her name, helped me out a great deal that year. I remember once, toward the end of school Mrs. McCoy was showing slides of her trip to New York. I had been good most of the day and had not caused a great deal of mischief.
I remember raising my hand and telling Mrs. McCoy that I would have enjoyed being in New York, on the Empire State Building so I could have pushed her off. To this day I have always felt bad about making that comment. My junior year at Tempe High, I met and became friends with Mrs. McCoy’s daughter. I even took her to the junior senior prom. Meeting up with her mother again that evening was a real experience. She was definitely not the “mean old witch” that high had remembered from fifth-grade. She was nice polite and very friendly and joked around with me. It was so the past had never occurred. From that day forward I think fondly of Mrs. McCoy.
Goofing off and creating havoc, with teachers, in elementary and high school was a real problem for me. Even though I was not a mean or unfriendly person, I would not allow myself to get close to my schoolmates. My fooling around and jokes were a defense mechanism for me, so hopefully no one would learn of my true dilemma. Learning for me was very difficult; I graduated near the bottom of our class and was even told, by one of our famous Tempe High counselors that I would never go to college. However I am a very proud individual, and along with hard work and determination I never gave up. It was not until I was 32 years old that I discovered why learning was so difficult. In 1986 I graduated from ASU with a bachelor of science, in physical geography.
This is the true confession of a class clown, and to think it all started with Mrs. McCoy.
Tommy,
It is hard for me to think of you as a class clown. You always were peaceful and focused on photos, singing or other things of the imagination. Mrs. McCoy must have taught you how to be a 'good boy'!
Straub told me to steal home in that game. Joe would remember me if he saw me. Tempe Daily News wrote me up as Louis Langhi. I think on the Field I still went by Sonny. Louie Schmitt was in my story I wrote. I got Sandy Pizzo mentioned to. I think Louie Schmitt was the better Pitcher. Re-read Ladmos D League Baseball Team. ''I think Joe has some pictures''. I was on the Team 2 or 3 years.
It is hard for me to think of you as a class clown. You always were peaceful and focused on photos, singing or other things of the imagination. Mrs. McCoy must have taught you how to be a 'good boy'!
Hi Vic,
I wasn't the class clown. I actually was a good student and Mrs McCoy,
helped me a lot. I had some sort of a speech problem, and she sent me to
a special Teacher a couple of days a week, I was cured. I think the teacher
hit me on the back of the head with a baseball bat which slowed my brain
down so my talking could keep up LOL. Also, like Tommy Summers said
earlier she was Gentle and kind. Had to put on that mean act to keep
us 5th grades in line
Tommy
I found all my Report Cards and I had Francis R. McCoy for 5th and Chubbuck for 6th. Also Larry Cannon, Brenda Nuttal, Mike Elkins, Whatley, Peyman, Mattoon, Ethington, myself and about 35 others sang in the 6th Grade Choir. If you went to Holdeman ask me if you are on the list. We are part of the 227.
Does anyone remember Cosner Auditorium December 13th, 1962. There is 227 names to include Diane Hull, Gail Vesper, Stan Runnels, Phyllis Cochran. Also pretty much everyone writing on this website is listed on a Book I found. In my Mother's stuff. I do not have time to copy this 227 times for everyone.
I remember the name, Cosner Auditorium. Where was it and what was our connection?
I also remember the song, 'Let there be peace on earth' from my older sister singing it in the choir at McKemy. It brought tears to my eyes, and I was maybe 11yrs. old. I'm such a sucker for those songs. Disjointed memories, but it all sounds familiar.
A Christmas Program Presented
by the
Sixth Grade Choruses Of The
Tempe Elementary Schools
Cosner Auditorium December 13th, 1962
Diane I can not remember anything but singing the song. 'Let There Be Peace on Earth', but we sang 13 songs together. It would be nice if someone could tell us where Cosner Auditorium is for sure?
Larry Canon seems to remember more than I do. Whatley remembers a lot of stuff. Maybe he will surface.
Diane and Larry
In Google- Cosner was at 114 W. 7th Street. It has been demolished. Google brings up Grady Gammage Auditorium now. Cosner must have been a good size building.
Thats it for Today. There has to be a picture of Cosner.
Cosner Auditorium was at Payne Training. OMG, I had forgotten all about that, Louie. About all of us singing there... 1962 was a long time ago now. Any chance you can post the program with the list of names?
While I was not a Payne Training tudent, Cosner Auditorium was, I believe a part of that facility. It was, at least, next to it on the ASU Campus, just on the S. side of 10th St. and across from Tempe Center (S.) It was, also, the sight of Tempe's original Elementery school before other schools were built: Ritter, Mitchell, Broadmor, Thew. ASU took it over in the early '50s. Maybe I'll teach history when I retire. Hell, I'll be history when I retire!
Louie: Google, as it often is, is full of crap! 114 W. 7th St. would between Maple & Ash right behind Joe Selleh's store. Not. I had a lecture class in Cosner my Freshmen year. Meter sat next to me.
I had some liberal arts 101 class there - a lecture class, like yours. And we're all correct of course, about where it was.
I became friends with Nancy Bergman in 6th grade. She spent the night one night and we walked down to the Dairy Queen at Mill and 10th. After we'd had our cones, we got 2 shopping carts from El Rancho and took them to Payne Training. We wheeled up and down the sidewalks and hid when cars came by. I think this is my first real memory of Payne Training and Cosner. We were 11 at the time.
You, Maish, Vesper and 20 others are listed as Instrumentalists.
Also you are right. That would be Maple and Ash. I lived on 9th and Farmer for awhile. I could not remember anything more. I was thinking Cosner would be on ASU some where.
Mystery solved: There were two Cosner structures in Tempe. One was the auditorium over in the Payne Training building; the other was the Cosner house, which is the reference Louie saw on 7th Street.
The old Tempe was really a wonderful place. Funny, I don't remember it being hot. Now when we visit in the summertime, it's overwhelming.
My daughter and I hiked down the Canyon to Indian Garden two summers ago. When we left to start back up at 3:30 in the afternoon, it was 122 degrees. Sorta toasty!
