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, two high schools, and four colleges. Add over a year of Navy training and work-focused training, I have had quite a varied education.  In the following articles, I examine schools attended, what I can remember about them, and in some cases what happened to the school.

• 1955 – Scheffer Elementary[1], St. Paul, MN– Kindergarten – 1955.
• 1956 – Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary, Minneapolis, MN – 1^st grade – 1956.
• 1957 – Cambridge Elementary, Cambridge, MN – 2^nd grade – 1957.
• 1958 – Franklin Elementary, Anoka, MN – 2^nd half of 2^nd grade.
• 1958 – Parkview Elementary, Fridley, MN – 3^rd, 4^th, & 5^th grades.
• 1961 – 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 School, Osseo, MN – Most of 10th grade
• 1965 – Mumford High School, Detroit, MI – part of 10^th grade.
• 1966 – Osse0 High School, Osseo, MN – 11^th, & 12^th grades
• 1968 – Graduated from Osseo High School

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• 1969-1972 – Navy Education, BEEP, ETA School, ETC School (KY-7)

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• 1974 – Chapman College, Orange, California (Navy PACE) (USS Kitty Hawk)
• 1976 – Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii (Navy PACE) (NAVCAMS EastPAC)
• 1981-1982 – Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, MN
• 1983-1986 – Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN

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1987-2011 – Schools I’ve Attended – Work Schools

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ENDNOTES

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