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Fellow classmates

Folks that came out of the blue and checked out my blogger already

Mark Zoole
Miriam Zoole
Deborah Zoole-Israeli
Lori Lipkind
Kent Moss

These are the ones I can remember

From Kidnergarden

Leslie Zerman
Heidi Leisman
Kelly Leisman
Lori Lipkind
Scott Kluesner
Kent Moss
David Kelvin
Carol Mena
Miriam Zoole
Richard Wolfe
Eric Brody
Mike Poole

From 1st to 6th grade
Robin Kanefield
Paul Brown
Mike Poole
Richard Chasnoff
Lionel, black kid
Marc, Russian kid

Fellows from other classes

Scottie Tallman
Felicia Moss
Lisa Kelvin

Teachers!

Stories to tell about these teachers ????

Baron, Martz, Ross, Devaney, Schlamb, Hertzline, Principal Baughman, Musician Hess, Coach Bruce, Coach Probst, Custodian Cleo

1st Grade Pizza Party at Shakey's

Left to right: David Kelvin, Kent Moss, Eric Brody, Carol Mena, and who?????

Kent Moss and the Bunny Slope

By Eric Brody

Kent was my best man at my wedding. However I was not his best man. He made a big mistake. In every wedding I've been to in which I was not the best man, the groom get divorced. My cousin Gene, my college friend Brian (twice), and Kent.

The moral here ? If you want me to be in your wedding - make sure I'm the best man!

Here's a great story about Kent when he came to California during my college years. We went skiing in Big Bear. He never went skiing before. As we got up on the ski slope, here's how the conversation went after we got on the ski lift.

"Is this the bunny slope?"
"Yeah"
"Are you sure?"
"Yeah....don't worry, we can get off at the first stop."
"Wait...the first stop is over there....we're going up this steep mountain.....Argghh....oh shit...this isn't the bunny slope..."
"Ahhh....oh well...fuck the bunny slope!"


We went up to the very top of the mountain and he looked down the steep ravine and said "Oh shit..." while I was laughing. And guess what ? He learned to ski really fast and did just dandy!

Kent Moss - 7 Errors in one inning.

Last night, our second baseman Keith made 5 errors on the men's softball team. The records number of error is held by my best friend Kent Moss on his Uncle Tennebaum's 5th grade team - 7 errors!!!!!

Unbelievable!!!! That team was a disaster from day one. #1 draft pick John Halkempt never really showed up or wanted to play. Another guy was beaned by Craig Brown first game of the season and never came back. I was shockingly summon to pick the season opening game and bombed out. He never gave me a chance to settle down and try again until the last game of the season. Instead it was his son Adam day in and out (In every team I played on, the son always pitch more than he should.) He picked a girl named Joy who the guys always made fun of me because they wrote how I went over to console her as a good teammate in the newspaper. She wasn't very good.

I think Uncle Tennebaum never coach another game after that.

The Russian Kid....

In 6th grade, a Russian kid named Marc came to our class. This was his fourth country and his fourth language and he couldn't speak English well. At first the kids gathered around and helped him out. The teacher commented how proud she was in helping him adjust.

Unfortunately things took a turn for the worst. When the class was in session, he would be asked to play by himself in the back. The other kids got jealous that his classwork was too easy (1st-2nd grade level) and he got too much free time. They started picking on him in class and in recess. He couldn't defend himself. One time, he went to the teacher to complain. The teacher was clueless to what was going on and couldn't understand him and his English very well so the same kids who were picking on him went up to him in front of the teacher asking him what was wrong and pretending to try to help him out.

When I asked a friend why he picked on him and he said because it was fun. Another friend of mine told me later on that he didn't picked on him and I told him bullshit. There was only one kid who didn't pick on him and treated him decently as I tried to. To this day, I'm very fond to remember that and consider him to be a true friend in heart - That kid was David Kelvin.

The only regret is while I didn't pick on him and treated him decently, I didn't stand up for him fearing peer pressure. Today, I led the kid's service at the Temple and we talked about torah portion on "Loshon Hora" and how we have to watch our tongue and not speak bad about others. When I asked all the kids what should you do if someone was saying bad things about other kids, my daughter's hand shot up. She said "We should tell them to knock it off and stop picking on them and treat them nicely." I smiled. We can't change the past, we can always learn from it and try to teach our children's not to make the mistakes we made.

PT's Club

Someone told me someone from Hilltop works at the PT's show club. I don't know who it is but here's the weblink:

http://www.ptsshowclub.com/

You can get a freebee pass right here if you want to visit:

http://www.ptsshowclub.com/clubs/stlouis/centreville/freebees.html

Also it's supposed to be couple friendly whatever that means....

Lori Lipkind

When I was in kidnergarden, Lori Lipkind was the first girlI ever kissed. She was the shortest one in theclass and I was the tallest in the class. What a circus pair we made ! I can't remember much except the two following incidents - the first one went something like this - we were in class and Lori said kiss me and I said "ok" and all the girl cheers. The second incident was in the playground. All the girls gathered me and Lori together after I chased mean Paul Brown away from the girls and we had some kind of wedding or something. I kissed her and the girls cheered on.

As years went by, I got taller and taller and Lori didn't grow much and turned out to be really short. Then she moved on and I infrequently saw her here and there at Jr. high and high school.

The guys used to laugh and tease me about her. When I was young, I was embarrassed. But then when I was around 15-25 years old, I would just say "Har de Ha ha ha..." and then "I sure did!" David Kelvin told me a few years back that he ran into her somewhere and she was a hot looking chick to which I replied "Now you know why I kiss her and all you stupid bumblefucks just do it laugh."

I saw her name on the Ladue high school bulletin and hoping to get her story on what happened in kidnergarden as well as find out how tall she is now. Maybe we'll hear from her, maybe not....stay tune. same bat time, same bat channel...

I hate Coach Probst

By Eric Brody

Over 30 years later, I still think about how much I hated Coach Probst. I remember he would always throw me out of gym class and send me to the principal office. One time, he said we were going to field hockey and I said "Field Hockey is for girls!" He pointed his finger and told me to get out of here. Another time, Kluesner and Tallman were playfully fighting each other. I stepped in to break it up and Probst sent me to the Principal's office despite my protest that I was just breaking it up. Whenever we did laps, he would call people out to sit down and I would always be the last person to be called to sit down. One day, I just stopped running and said "Screw this!" He yelled "Get to the principal's office"

The end came when my Dad, the PriPublish Postncipal, Coach Probst, and I had a meeting in the Principal's office. I kept arguing that he was out to get me and he kept saying nobody was out to get me. In any case, he stopped picking on me thereafter.

Years later when I went to high school, Probst was the assistant baseball coach there on the same team my brother played on. My brother said he was an a-hole and quit the team along with more than 1/2 of the players. They ended the season with just 10 players on the team.