Schools I’ve Attended

Those Places Thursday
My History

By Don Taylor

I often see articles and blogs that remind readers to write about their own life. Something that several suggest is to write about schools that you have attended. Most people have a few schools, but I have 15 schools that I have attended.  It is more of a book rather than an article or two. Looking back, I have attended seven elementary schools, one junior high school, three high schools, and four colleges. So, I thought I’d examine the school’s history and see what I can remember of my attending.

• 1955 – Scheffer Elementary[1], St. Paul, MN– Kindergarten.
• 1956 – Emerson Elementary, Minneapolis, MN – 1^st grade.
• 1957 – Cambridge Elementary, Cambridge, MN – 2^nd grade.
• 1957 – Franklin Elementary, Anoka, MN – 2^nd grade.
• 1958 – Parkview Elementary, Fridley, MN – 3^rd, 4^th, & 5^th grades.
• 1960 – Spring Lake Park Elementary, Spring Lake Park, MN – 5^th & 6^th grades.
• 1961 – Elizabeth Hall Elementary, Minneapolis, MN 6^th grade.
• 1962 – Jordan Junior High School, Minneapolis, MN 7^th, 8^th, & 9^th grades.
• 1965 – Osse0 High, Osseo, MN – 10^th, 11^th, & 12^th grades.

1. 1966 – Billings Senior High, Billings, MT – part of 10^th grade.[2]
2. 1967 – Mumford High, Detroit, MI – part of 11^th grade?

• 1968 – Graduated from Osseo High School

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• 1974 – Chapman University, Orange, California (Navy PACE)
• 1976 – Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii (Navy PACE)
• 1981 – Anoka Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, MN
• 1984 – Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN

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For each of the schools I attended, I plan to look at the school’s history and see what memories I can jog loose about me and my attending that school.  My guess is that most of the elementary schools that I attended are now gone.

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ENDNOTES

[1] If you had asked me before, I would have said I attended Schaeffer Elementary. Researching for this article I learned it was Scheffer Elementary. I double checked my DD Form 398 – Statement of Personal History. I indicated Schaeffer on mine when I completed it in 1968. Also, the form only included spaces for five schools; I had to continue on another page.

[2] I will need to look closer at this school.  For some reason. I think I went to Central High in Billings but a quick Internet search indicated that would be a Catholic school.  I am sure I attended a public school when living in Billings.