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#83: February 1, 2011 to February 28,
2011)
Date: 2/28/2011, 4:59 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: State of De.(retired)
Message: Bill : thanks for the Visitation address.
Bruce : I think the nuns' outside contact was minimal, but I'm not sure to what extent.
Date: 2/28/2011, 3:00 pm, EDT
Name: Bob Veazey
Location: Brookemeade Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd & Washington Streets
Schools Att'd: #30, Warner, P.S., U of D.
Employers: Knowles Hobby, USAF, All American Engineering
Message: Harry, thanks for the link to Sunday Star. There is a great example of what a local newspaper should be!
Date: 2/28/2011, 2:17 pm, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: sometimes consciously
Employers:
Message: 1962 telephone directory: Sisters of the Visitation GilpnAv&BancrftPkwy - OL 8-4026
Date: 2/28/2011, 11:26 am, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood(s): N Franklin St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers: Wilm. Finishing.
Message: Is the VIsitation the order where the nuns weren't allowed outside contact? Thanks
Date: 2/27/2011, 9:33 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: State of De.(retired)
Message: One last post from me on the subject of the Visitation Convent : where was it exactly, in 40 Acres ?
Date: 2/27/2011, 8:52 pm, EDT
Name: SharonRae Faulkner
Location: De Beach
Old Neighborhood(s): Browntown/Canby Pk/Boxwood
Schools Att'd: St E's / WHS
Employers:
Message: Thank you Jerry & Maureen
I was pretty sure. When I was 12 I volunteered at Lil Sisters as a Candy Striper. You couldn't volunteer at the hospitals until 14. The residents were very amusing. I remember 1 man who was a pick pocket. The nuns were very nice but when I turned 14 I went to the De Hospital and then to St Francis which was closer to home. I always wanted to see the inside of the Visitation Convent.
Date: 2/27/2011, 7:00 pm, EDT
Name: DAVE CAUFFMAN
Location: HOCKESSIN
Old Neighborhood(s): 25 TH & MADISON ST
Schools Att'd: BROWN
Employers: DU PONT
Message: HAGLEY HAS THE DU PONT CAR IN THE BARN UP BY THE MAIN HOUSE. THEY STILL RUN IT AROUND HAGLEY ONCE A MONTH IT STILL RUNS GREAT.
Date: 2/27/2011, 5:26 pm, EDT
Name: rAY jUBB
Location: kILLINGTON dE.
Old Neighborhood(s): hEDGEVILLE
Schools Att'd: sT. pAUL'S & whs
Employers:
Message: TO ALL: It was definitely Little Sisters of The Poor at 4TH and Bancroft Pky.
Date: 2/27/2011, 3:38 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen Estates
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart 10th & Monroe st.
Employers:
Message: Sharon, You are correct in the location of The Visitation Sisters in Forty Acres. My cousin Sister Vincent [Donna Kelley] was a Cloistered Nun and we would visit her there on special Holidays and events. The Visitation Sisters relocated 1993 to Massachusetts. Donna left the order in late 1980's, still a nun, to teach in a Catholic school in Maryland.
Date: 2/27/2011, 8:49 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Thank you. Someone sent me a picture of the car at Hagley. I just never heard of any car plants other than GM and Chrysley around our area. And of course back then, the area probably wasn't called the Wilmington Waterfront.
Date: 2/26/2011, 3:48 pm, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: when it rained
Employers:
Message: Connie,
I think that you asked about the du Pont car plant on the Wilmington waterfront. There may be information at Hagley library. In the annual car show, I believe they exhibited at least one of the du Pont cars.
Date: 2/26/2011, 10:09 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: State of De.(retired)
Message: SharonRae : I think you are right about the locations of the Little Sisters of the Poor and the Visitation Convent. I confused the two after Danny mentioned the Visitation Convent at 4th and Bancroft.
Date: 2/26/2011, 7:24 am, EDT
Name: SharonRae Faulkner
Location: De Beach
Old Neighborhood(s): Browntown/Canby Pk/Boxwood
Schools Att'd: St E's / WHS
Employers:
Message: I am a little confused. I thought the Visitation Convent was the one in Forty Acres and Little Sisters of the Poor was at 4th & Bancroft.
Date: 2/26/2011, 6:31 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: When we were kids in the mid 40s we often walked to the Rodney Square area for the children's library, the court house, and the post office. I remember seeing huge paintings in the post office and a worker angrily stated that the painter was paid to do it by the government in the make-work programs of the depression.
Date: 2/26/2011, 1:04 am, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: State of De.(retired)
Message: A little before the time frame for this site, but related to the Sisters of the Visitation who occupied the Convent at 4th and Bancroft : there was a St. Mary's College on Dela. Ave. between Madison and Jefferson Sts. it closed in 1866, but the Sisters of the Visitation re-opened it as a girls academy in 1868. One of the photos on the link in my previous post is of a large brick building which may either be the college/academy, or the nun's original convent, or both together.
Date: 2/25/2011, 11:45 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: State of De.(retired)
Message: Danny- some info. on the Visitation Convent :
http://www.vistyr.org/
Date: 2/25/2011, 10:28 pm, EDT
Name: Jerry T.
Location: at the shore, de.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Hedwig's, Archmere, U.of D.
Employers: State of De.(retired)
Message: Danny - try this for Brandywine Quarries :
http://www.friendsofwilmingtonparks.org/spri...
Date: 2/25/2011, 7:45 pm, EDT
Name: danny
Location: B Hundred
Old Neighborhood(s): Bancroft pk way
Schools Att'd: St A, St E
Employers:
Message: Here is a very good link to the State of Delaware Public archives digital collection...I have 2 things for the board tonight...First of all I want to here about the Visitation Convent on 4th and Bancroft...They knoced it down when I was 6 or 8, and I would like to see if anyone has any stories, and number 2...I see pictures of a Quarry...it is titled View showing the Brandywine Quarries...It looks very impressive...where was it...near the current experimental station...tyler mcconnel bridge area? Here are the links
View showing the Brandywine Quarries
http://archives.delaware.gov/exhibits/photog...
and general website link...
http://archives.delaware.gov/exhibits/exhibi...
Thank you and have a nice weekend...
Date: 2/25/2011, 11:08 am, EDT
Name: Robert McKelvey
Location: Cape May, N.J.
Old Neighborhood(s): Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, WHS
Employers:
Message: The building may have been the Post Office. That was a big price in 1937, and maybe the Federal Government had that kind of money.
Date: 2/25/2011, 6:48 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Is this what we used to call the courthouse? "1937 A new Federal Building opened on Rodney Square in Wilmington. Previously, it was the site of the McComb-Winchester Estate for which the government paid $500,000."
Date: 2/24/2011, 1:24 am, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: 9th ward
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Monroe
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: And another Thank you to Don Wood for your post of Nov. 5th re: Elizabeth Bacon. Yes, I'd guess that it WAS Elizabeth and my father's memory of his music teacher's name being Margaret is not correct. I appreciate the information and I'm sure my Dad will, as well.
Date: 2/24/2011, 1:01 am, EDT
Name: Danny Stat
Location: Orcas Island, WA
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th ward
Schools Att'd: Harlan; P.S.
Employers:
Message: This is a thank you message for Bill who posted the answer to my father's question re: Elizabeth Bacon, the music teacher at Wilm. High. I revisited this web site this evening and was looking through the old posts to see if anyone mentioned Elizabeth Bacon and discovered that you'd posted an answer on Feb. 5th. I hope you receive this thank you, Bill. I'll relate your information to my father tomorrow when I speak with him on the phone; I'm sure it will make his day to learn about his favorite teacher at Wilm. High. Dad was in the class of 1935 that graduated in Feb. of that year. He still lives in Wilmington and will be 94 years old in June. Thanks again for your help.
Danny Stat
Date: 2/22/2011, 1:52 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen Estates
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart 10th & Monroe st.
Employers:
Message: Ed, I grad from Sacred Heart in 1964. Did any of other family members go to the school in those years? Did you go to the last reunion in the late 90's? There were over 200 that came to it, grads from different years and church members. It was a great time and talking about maybe doing another reunion in the near future, would you be interested, if so let me know. My family moved out the city in 1967 and the school closed 1969. The church was sold to Ministry of Caring but not sure what year. They have the church hall renovated and has a really nice dinning room. Bill Bradley is executive chef and he said make reservations for a dinner dance and they would cater it, maybe a buffet set up would not be too costly. I have a lot of addresses and phone numbers for the last reunion, I could start calling to see who would be interested in going. I will check with Bill Bradley, who is also a Sacred Heart Grad, to make calls to other fellow grads and old church members. I will keep you posted through this blog.
Date: 2/21/2011, 9:12 pm, EDT
Name: Ed begley
Location: Santa Fe Texas
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Adams St
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart and WHS
Employers:
Message: Maureen,Sorry wife maiden-name was Lamborn.
Date: 2/21/2011, 8:11 pm, EDT
Name: Ed
Location: Santa fe Texas
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th and Adams
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart,WHS
Employers: Avisun-amoco-BP haha
Message: For Maureen Dunning,
I went to SHeart from 45 to 1953. Trying to place your name no bells went off sorry.Also most of my wife family went to Sacred Heart Ruthann,Pat and Lois.Can you recall any of them.PS my brother Jim went there also.
Date: 2/21/2011, 2:25 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen Estates
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart 10th & Monroe st.
Employers:
Message: Judy, I remember the member cards for A's . I also remember seeing Cat On The Old Tin Roof, with Paul Newman and Liz Taylor. My mom went through the roof when she heard they let us kids in to see it, we were forbidden to go there after that. We went to the Ritz on Delaware Ave. between Jackson and Adams St. instead. Matinee only cost 25 cents on Saturday and 5 cents for a Charm Lollypop, it lasted through 2 movies and cartoons, you really got a bang for your buck!
Date: 2/21/2011, 10:48 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: very good ones
Employers:
Message: I just found the ad on the net! It's on youtube under clark cinemint ads for their chewing gum.
Date: 2/21/2011, 10:45 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: very good ones
Employers:
Message: Does anyone else remember the Clark Cinamint Shuffle ads? I never could learn that shuffle!
Date: 2/20/2011, 11:01 am, EDT
Name: Judy
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): 123 N. Monroe St.
Schools Att'd: Mary C. I. Williams
Employers:
Message: Just found my card from the Ace Theater for the
Young Timers! Anyone who used to be a member?
Date: 2/20/2011, 4:56 am, EDT
Name: webmaster
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): Woodlawn Flats
Schools Att'd: Lore
Employers:
Message: Don't forget to check out oldwilmington on FaceBook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Old-Wilmington...
Date: 2/17/2011, 5:19 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen Estates
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart 10th & Monroe st.
Employers:
Message: Fred Comegey took a great pictures of my husband Ed and his teammates in 1974 high school All Star Team. Fred climbed up top of the basketball ring to take one of the pictures of the team. Ed was a star player for Mt. Pleasant high school in the 70's and he had his pictures in the news journal sports page and write ups, they called him the Jolly Green Giant. He played one year on U OF D basketball team and then played for Ball State in Indiana for 3 years, it paid for his degree. Fred Comegey's had a lot to do with Ed getting into college, so to say Ed is thankful to Fred is a given!
Date: 2/17/2011, 9:37 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Mario - I saw it this past Sunday. He must be a very brave soul to climb up that thing on the Delaware Memorial Bridge.
When you were at the museum, did you see that tall yellow smoke stack? I can see the general area where it originates but can't figure out what business or whatever it was at.
Date: 2/16/2011, 8:12 pm, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: several
Employers:
Message: Thanks for the post from Dr. Munroe, Mr. Pentangeli. The teacher mentioned, Kate Cannon, was my grandmother's aunt. My grandmother's father was once the chief at Liberty Company and she usually referred to him as 'Cap' [captain]. He went on the paid department in 1921, when it started I thnk, and retired from it later. I really enjoyed this.
Date: 2/16/2011, 7:12 pm, EDT
Name: frankie pentangeli
Web: http://mmunroe.com/Munroe%20JAM/Writings/Tales%20Of%20My%20Father.pdf
Location: wawaset park
Old Neighborhood(s): canby park
Schools Att'd: good ones
Employers: GM
Message: I got this from this web site..
http://mmunroe.com/Munroe%20JAM/Writings/Tal...
When we lived on Market Street near Thirtieth, my father
would take me to what came to be called Price’s Run, especially to see a local team
named for the area, Eastlake. The great local pitcher of the day was Hawk Hayes, but he
was not on our team. After we moved to West Twentieth Street, our neighborhood
diamond was in Brandywine Park, atop Monkey Hill, at Eighteenth and Van Buren. The
home team was the De Molay Alumni and the star players included Jekel McDaniel, a
catcher, and Clarence Lynn, a powerful outfielder. My friend James Hallett sold
snowballs at these games. They were made of shaved ice (he had a big chunk on his
express wagon) onto which he poured the flavoring a customer requested. “Hokey,
pokey, snowballs!” was the vendor’s cry.
Sometimes Dad and I went to another part of the city to see a crucial game in the annual
contest for the league championship. The Kentmere Red Sox, with a star pitcher named
Hughey Hageman, and a home field in Rockford Park, was often our team’s main rival.
On some glorious occasions Dad took me to Philadelphia to see a big league game. By
boat (on the Wilson Line—a 2½ hour trip) or by train (on the Pennsylvania Railroad),
with trolley cars furnishing local transportation at both ends of our trip, we had a grand
outing that my father seemed to enjoy as much as I did....
Date: 2/16/2011, 6:11 pm, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: several
Employers:
Message: Kentmere Red Sox. The Delaware Sports Museum is part of the Blue Rocks complex. They might know something about the team.
Date: 2/16/2011, 5:13 pm, EDT
Name: Mario
Location: delaware city
Old Neighborhood(s): brown town
Schools Att'd: brown
Employers: dupont
Message: :P :P Did everyone see Fred Comegeys has something at the Delaware Art Museum? I have always admired his work. :P :P
Date: 2/15/2011, 9:08 pm, EDT
Name: Joe Pasquale
Location: Little Italy
Old Neighborhood(s): Little Italy
Schools Att'd: Lore-Bayard-Brown Voc..
Employers: self -retired..
Message: Talking about the good Priests...we had many at ST.ANTHONY'S...Father Tucker..Father Robert just two of the many great ones we had ...We also had Father Trainer of ST. PATS and ST. MARYS..Another great Priest...It's a shame that a few bad people ruin it for all the good ones...But life goes on and we will overcome......
Date: 2/15/2011, 2:53 pm, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood(s): N. Franklin St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers: Wilm. Finishing Co.
Message: Pat, this goes back a few years and the memory is a bit hazy, but I appreciated Father Paul and Father Gervease (SP?) at Sacred Heart. When I became an altar boy Father Paul gave me a small bible with his good wishes written inside. After one Saturday night service He invited me and the other altar boys serving that night to the basement for a cold coke, while he had a beer and visited with us. Unfortunetly, I doubt that would happen today with all of the worry about priests. Once again - different/better times!
Date: 2/15/2011, 2:34 pm, EDT
Name: Pat LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 23rd and Tatnall
Schools Att'd: St. Pat's, Ursuline, Goldey-Beacom
Employers: duPont
Message: Bruce, Al and Maureen: Thank you. I am sure we who grew up Catholic in Wilmington have many stories of the good priests and the sacrifices they made for us and our families. To name a few: Monsignor Lynch of Christ Our King, Father McDonough of St. Patrick's, Father Birkenheuer of Sallies, etc. Would love to hear some more stories of the good priests who definitely were in the majority.
Date: 2/14/2011, 3:16 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen Estates
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart 10th & Monroe st.
Employers:
Message: Pat L, Yes you are correct about the good priest in the Catholic church, they are also victims.
Date: 2/14/2011, 3:05 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen Estates
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart 10th & Monroe st.
Employers:
Message: I went to 1st. grade in the last year of St. Paul's old school, and the downstairs bathrooms looked like a dungeon , it was so scary going down there. I think my teacher was Sister Jean Marie, may be spelling her name incorrectly, but she was really sweet. The next year the new school was finished and went there for 2nd. and 3 rd. grade. I still can smell the newness, bright sunny rooms with light wood desk and furniture. We moved from 2nd and Franklin to 9th and Jackson St. and went to Sacred Heart. I have so many memories of St. Paul's, so sad to hear they are closing. The church hopefully stays open for the people who still live there, it is their only lifeline to normal community living that they can depend on. Sacred Heart closed in 1969 when the split of our neighborhood due to 95 being built.
The schools that are being closed may have to do with low enrollment and not enough money to keep it going. The diocese being sued has a lot to do with the future closing and no fault to our people or the victims, it is just sad! I really hope when all the cover up comes out finally and those who choose to turn a blind eye are held accountable. I Pray that it helps heal the wounds for some of the victims. I am just so very sad for all who are suffering! Like I said in my last log, there are going to be more victims that will be suffer due to all this, it will get worse before it gets better. :-(
Date: 2/14/2011, 1:06 pm, EDT
Name: Robert McKelvey
Location: Cape May, N.J.
Old Neighborhood(s): Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, WHS
Employers:
Message: Bruce,
We only used the pen and ink for once a week spelling test as far as I recall. We did use special narrow tablet that was made for ink. Penmanship and neatness was stressed. Once that the pen dropped to the floor, the pen point would dig into the paper and ink would spatter. Connie, One boy did put a girl's hair braid in the ink well.
Date: 2/14/2011, 11:18 am, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood(s): N. Franklin St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Springer Jr. High
Employers: Wilm. Finishing, Diamond cab
Message: Bob,
I remember at Sacred Heart the desks had the holes for ink, but by the time I got there we were made to use the ink pens with the ink cartridges that screwed into the pen. They still made a mess and most boys had ink stains on their white shirts. Whoever had the idea to have grade school kids use ink pens needed to learn one word - pencils!
Date: 2/13/2011, 4:10 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: I remember those pens. I also remember how one boy got into trouble for taking a ball point pen to class. We HAD to learn how to write with those messy quill pens.
Date: 2/13/2011, 9:16 am, EDT
Name: Robert McKelvey
Location: Cape May, N.J.
Old Neighborhood(s): Happy Valley
Schools Att'd: #24, Warner, WHS
Employers:
Message: School supplies to bring to school in the 30's and '40's, any old timers remember the dip pens? We kids had to supply the stylus that held the penpoint, chamois pen wiper and ink blotter. The blotter always seemed to advertise Blue Coal. The notorious ink eraser that made a hole in the paper, and the india ink that stained the fingers for days. Any old people remember?
Date: 2/11/2011, 1:04 pm, EDT
Name: Al Minne
Location: Temecula
Old Neighborhood(s): Lancaster Village, Sherwood Park II
Schools Att'd: Lore, Oak Grove, A.I. DuPont H.S., Conrad
Employers: F&M Scientific (Now HP Avondale), Spitz Laboratories,
Message: BRUCE: I second that!
Date: 2/11/2011, 11:19 am, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St.Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Roy I remember the Burger King in that block very well. On numerous Ocasions we were sent there because of the black element in our City causing
trouble. They(blacks)finally closed it down. Don't remember a McDonalds, not saying there wasn't one, just don't remember one.
Date: 2/10/2011, 11:19 pm, EDT
Name: Roy C Pollitt
Location: Punta Gorda FL
Old Neighborhood(s): Gordy Estates, Woodbine
Schools Att'd: Krebs, Forwood, Brandywine High
Employers: WILM, WAMS, WNRK
Message: Jody ---- the Kentmere Red Sox sounds more like a team than a league. Sounds vaguely familiar. I remember two teams vividly ----- Parkway and Brooks Armored Car. The latter was loaded with ex-major leaguers such as Harry Anderson and Ray Narleski.
Date: 2/10/2011, 11:16 pm, EDT
Name: Roy C Pollitt
Web: http://21stCenturyTrivia.com
Location: Punta Gorda FL
Old Neighborhood(s): Gordy Estates, Woodbine
Schools Att'd: Krebs, Forwood, Brandywine High
Employers: WILM, WAMS, WNRK
Message: I remember eating in the Burger King on Market Street (between 8th and 9th, I think) back about 1964. Does anyone know if there was a McDonald's downtown? For some reason my aged mind says that there was one out near the Warner Theater ... but I wonder.
Date: 2/10/2011, 7:24 pm, EDT
Name: Jody
Location: wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): rockland
Schools Att'd: kentmere
Employers:
Message: Does anyone remember the Kentmere Red Sox a semi pro baseball league?
Date: 2/10/2011, 8:21 am, EDT
Name: Bruce
Location: Sugar Land, TX
Old Neighborhood(s): N Franklin
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart
Employers: Wilm. Finishing Co., Diamond and Yellow Cab
Message: Pat,
Thanks for the good news about Father McSweeney. It's good to hear something positive on the site instead of the current body count in Wilmington and other bad news.
Date: 2/9/2011, 8:19 pm, EDT
Name: Pat LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: St. Pat's, Ursuline
Employers: duPont
Message: Just a note about a good priest. My Mother told the story about the Rev. James McSweeny, pastor of St. Patrick's Church in the 30's and 40's. The parish men were out of work. My own Dad was just working three days a week at Bancroft. It was a hard winter. Father McSweeny MORTAGED the church in order to put coal in the cellars of his parishoners. Funny you don't hear these stories these days. It seems to be all about the bad priests who prey on the altar boys. Don't get me wrong. I am not saying this doesn't happen. However, I feel that we are somehow forgetting that there are GOOD priests out there. I shall always remember the good Father McSweeny.
Date: 2/9/2011, 11:44 am, EDT
Name: Bob D.
Location: Still Wilm
Old Neighborhood(s): Forty acres, Browntown
Schools Att'd: Sallies Notre Dame
Employers:
Message: Phyllis, you graduated from Ursiline in '56? Do you know what happened to Lennie Kirk. I think she graduated in '58.
Where do you live now? widowed??
Date: 2/8/2011, 6:34 pm, EDT
Name: chuck wilson
Location: bear
Old Neighborhood(s): hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St Paul's and WHS
Employers:
Message: Yes it is a shame that St Pauls has to close. I was in the first class to graduate from the present school. Great memories. SAD SAD SAD
Date: 2/8/2011, 4:47 pm, EDT
Name: Joan H
Location: N. Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Rodney
Schools Att'd: St. Pauls & WHS
Employers:
Message: Ah, memories...That must have been Monsignor Lee hearing their confessions! Seem to remember him repeating every sin we confessed, in a very loud voice!
What a shame that the school is closing, there were some great Nuns and Priests there, and we did get an excellent education way back when.
Date: 2/8/2011, 3:14 pm, EDT
Name: jim rambo
Location: mexico
Old Neighborhood(s): 3rd and Connell
Schools Att'd: Bayard/ Conrad H.S.
Employers:
Message: Looks like St. Paul's is calling it quits. What a shame for the community. My earliest memory of the old Church was when my buddies from the corner wanted to convert me to Catholic. ( I think I was the only non-Catholic for blocks around) They took me with them to sit outside the confession booth while they did confession. The harsh tones coming from the booth by the priest convinced me that I would remain a non-Catholic. I could get all of that at home!!
Date: 2/8/2011, 9:10 am, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: Don't forget - the lawyer gets about 1/3 of the payout.
Date: 2/8/2011, 1:04 am, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: Your right M.K.D. All the money, blood, sweat and tears the thousands of Parents put into the development of these fine schools ruined by a couple of demented priest and those that, as you say, turned a blin eye towards their actions.
Date: 2/6/2011, 7:48 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen Estates
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart 10th & Monroe st.
Employers:
Message: I am sorry for my last post, it should have been posted on the blog. :-(
Date: 2/6/2011, 7:40 pm, EDT
Name: Maureen Kelley Dunning
Location: Llangollen Estates
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th & Jackson St.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart 10th & Monroe st.
Employers:
Message: Ray, It is such a shame all the schools that are closing due to all the priest who molested the young students and altar boys. There are so many victims due to the evil priest and it is is now snowballing to our parish churches and schools. Now our children will suffer for this because they will not get a good Catholic education because of closing. All the money our hard working people put into building and supporting these schools is all gone. It is going to the victims who do really deserve the money, I don't by any means believe they should not get the money. I hope all the info. comes out soon who was really responsible for the cover up, we need to know who helped cover it up and or turned a blind eye, they will be held accountable in the end.
Date: 2/5/2011, 3:42 pm, EDT
Name: Bill
Location: Delaware
Old Neighborhood(s): 4th & Harrison
Schools Att'd: several
Employers:
Message: Ray:
Someone asked about this lady in November, I think.
Elizabeth C. Bacon
The lady who would later serve as a music teacher for many years at Wilmington High School was born in Milton, Delaware on September 1, 1888. Her father was Thomas Robinsion Creamer of Pennsylvania and her mother was Sarah Virginia Andrews of Maryland. Mr. Creamer was a Methodist Episcopal preacher. The family had nine children of whom eight survived. Her sister, Virginia, also served as a teacher in the Wilmington schools for a time. Her first marriage was in 1918 to Josiah Bacon, a Delaware born shipfitter. She later married William D. Stafford, who owned an auto exchange in the 300 block of N. Scott Street in Wilmington. He passed away in 1958 at 69. She remained at their home in Claymont until her death at age 72. On August 30, 1961, she was pronounced dead on arrival at the St. Francis Hospital after suffering a heart attack. She was buried with Mr. Stafford at Lawncroft Cemetery just over the Delaware line in Pennsylvania.
Date: 2/5/2011, 2:33 pm, EDT
Name: Bob LaFazia
Web: http://www.delawareallstatefootball.com/Father%20Burns%201.jpg
Location: Wilmington, De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Union Park Gardens, 3rd and Clayton st. gang :-)
Schools Att'd: Lore, Bayard, Wilmington High, West Nottingham Acad. West Chest.
Employers:
Message: Going back to Father Burns...Francis X. Burns...the guy that use to seperate couples at the St. E's dances:-) Well, he married me and my lovely wife Kitty, 51 yrs. ago, soooo we're legally not married right? Just kiddin', below is a photo of our marriage, April 18th, 1959...alter boy on right side of Mr. Burn's, (deceased) is our nephew Joey Pennell, (deceased also, City Police Capt.) Click on photo: http://www.delawareallstatefootball.com/Fath...
Date: 2/5/2011, 12:37 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers:
Message: The Teacher I remember was Elizabeth Stafford and I graduated in 53. I also vaguely remember her name being Bacon, now whether that was rumor while I was in High School or whether the second marriage took place while I was there I don't know.
Date: 2/5/2011, 11:59 am, EDT
Name: Susan
Location: New London, PA
Old Neighborhood(s): Monroe St., Brown Town, Suburbs Kirkwood Hwy.
Schools Att'd: Sacred Heart, Stanton, Dickinson
Employers: Wilm Dry Goods, Penney's, Almart
Message: This is great! :D I love this site, great old photos, very nostalgic. I was born in 52 and lived on Monroe St. from birth till we moved to the burbs with a 6 months stay on Brown St., the house with a lot of garages. I can remember some things so clearly. I'd love to share some memories maybe find some childhood friends.
Date: 2/3/2011, 2:51 pm, EDT
Name: Ray Jubb
Location: Killington De.
Old Neighborhood(s): Hedgeville
Schools Att'd: St. Paul's & WHS
Employers: WPD & DuPont
Message: You folks talking about St. E's as we called it, well I
talked to my Son Last night and he had just come from a Parish Meeting and told me he found out that
St. Paul's is closing down this year and probably St. E's will be closing next year due to the 3 million dollars the Parish has to pay to this guy Vai for being molested by a Priest. Sad sad situation.
Date: 2/2/2011, 5:09 pm, EDT
Name: Connie
Location: Wilmington Suburbs
Old Neighborhood(s): Brandywine Village
Schools Att'd: George Gray
Employers:
Message: There's still a Serpe's bakery in Elsmere. Re 'dancing too close - they used to separate us at the Y-teens at the dances, too.
Date: 2/2/2011, 3:16 pm, EDT
Name: Phyllis
Location: Wilmington
Old Neighborhood(s): 10th and Jefferson and 4th and Broom Sts.
Schools Att'd: Ursuline Academy
Employers:
Message: I well remember FR. Burns. I graduated high school in 1956 and regularly attended St. Elizabeth's dances. He would separate couples if he thought they were dancing "too close".
Date: 2/2/2011, 11:42 am, EDT
Name: Bob D
Location: Pa
Old Neighborhood(s): Richardson Park
Schools Att'd: St Mathews, sallies ('57)
Employers:
Message: Priest at St Elizabeth's WAS Fr Francis X Burns and he was the "chaparone" at the dances. He once heard a girlfriend of mine's Confession and when she said one of her sins was "heavy petting" 4 times, he asked her "Did you spill his seed?" I believe he had no good in his mind even when he was pastoring. Senior girls at St Elizabeth's hated him in the 1956, 1957, 1958 era. I would love to hear from folks from then.
Date: 2/1/2011, 9:17 pm, EDT
Name: Patricia (Stillwell) LeVan
Location: Port St. Lucie, FL
Old Neighborhood(s): 9th Ward
Schools Att'd: St. Patrick's, Ursuline
Employers:
Message: Was up in Cocoa Beach this week visiting an old Wilmington friend who was down for a while. Went to church on Sunday and noticed a Delaware car in the parking lot next to me. Turned out it was a fellow by the name of Serpe who said he had owned a bakery in Elsmere some time back. Lives in Rehoboth now. Seems to me that I saw some nostalgia about Serpes bakery on this site a while back. Told him I had left Wilmington in 1961 when I got married and remembered The Three Little Bakers being there. He said he had a good relationship with the Three Little Bakers. Small world isn't it?