Belleville Elementary School
What is for school lunch next week for the following week of May 14, 1983?
Principal - Joseph Donnelly
Teachers mid to late 1970’s
Mr Raymond 4th grade - He was known for saying, “Are you asking me or telling me?” when a student answered a question, and he sensed hesitation in his answer.
Mrs Stromquist (Helen?) 4th grade
Mrs Kirpatrick
Eleanor Griffith Doyle
Mrs Smith
Mrs Flynn
Mrs Eaton 3rd grade - She was very strict with grammar and cursive handwriting.
Mrs Puia -Spelling may be wrong.
Mrs Van Amburgh
Miss Fortune
Bart Gould - Substitute
Margaret Gould - Substitute
Facts
In the 70’s the Belleville School had an outside hockey rink. Locate It
Substitute teacher Bart Gould was an incredible chess player and all the kids would line up to play him at the Barrel Of Fun Fair.
Every memorial day we all circled the flag at the front of the school as a 4th grader would play taps in the distance.
Patrol Boy
Patrol Boy, at the Belleville Elementary School. Don’t walk on the grass or you’ll go to the office. That office was Joseph Donnelly’s office. You’re going to Donnelly’s! As a patrol boy you wore an yellow orange belt around your waist with an attached across the chest belt that went over your shoulder. This was about 1978 and I don’t believe girls were allowed to be patrol boys. Hence, the patrol boy name apparently. This must have been some kind of sick school experiment or maybe it was just the 70’s. I remember chasing down a student with a group of other patrol boys who was a known troublemaker. He will remain nameless at least in this conversation RW. Anyway, it seemed like a lynching and Principle Donnelly agreed. We were all brought down the office ourselves and we were the ones who got a good talking to. We all almost lost the patrol boy privilege. I believe it wasn’t long after I graduated from the school in 1978 that the patrol boy legacy went South. Although, the day I received the patrol boy belt, well it was a proud day, a very proud day!
Please add you memories to this school.
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no, they still had a similar system in the 80’s, i was one. i think you had to be a 4th grader, i don’t remember any specific duties other than standing outside, wearing an orange sash, and watching people get on or off the bus…
High School Principle in the 80’s…Emmit Gogin a.k.a “Capitan Cupcake”