“Two of us taking an early interest in geography.” – Matt Lyons “I guess we haven’t changed much.” – Karen Carr “Another favorite memory is proposing classes and getting student teachers to teach them. English history, comparative ideologies… I also seem to have missed the rules of English, and a lot of the science concepts …
Author Archives: Karen Carr
Writing
” Sitting on the rug in Janet’s room, and writing in my day book. I was writing a story about a Fish Show, but I couldn’t pronounce the “sh” sound, so when I asked her for help spelling certain words, she had no idea what I was talking about. I said, “a fish show, like …
The Office/ Ruth Kahn
“Ruth Kahn was the defacto principal at East Hill. She really was the one to go to when I needed anything. Dan did a lot of the custodial functions. We couldn’t have managed without Ruth.” – Roberta Wallitt “I remember feeling like Dan Lee and Ruth Kahn were sometimes our ambassadors to the outside world, …
Cooking
“There are several things that happened at East Hill that people I’ve mentioned them to often don’t believe. Having access to the darkroom is one. Chickens in the basement is another. Also unsupervised access to baking in the kitchen (although I do recall when a rule was imposed that all baking had to at least …
East Hill Newspaper
“Other people, particularly Pat Evans, were more involved in the production of the newspaper printed at Glad Day Press.” – Bill Mutch “…printing the school newspaper” – Rex Nordheimer “The hand-drawn ads are also great. I assume those are real ads that kids sold to local businesses.” – Matt Lyons “Yes, there were teams of …
Print shop
“When we got the donation of the little hand press and cases of movable type many kids were unexcited by the process…so laborious that all you could manage to type set were short poems. Some of them took fire when we tried printing something more mundane and practical…wine labels. I still have one: ]Homeshine Moonbrew, …
Reading/the library
“Margaret Goode’s smile !!!!” – Bill Mutch “Reading “1984” and “Animal Farm” with an English group” – Anonymous “My main favorite memory is the library – getting to go when there was free time, snuggling into those old couches, and working my way from one shelf to the next.” – Leela Fireside I learned to …
Art Room
“The Art room has special memories for me. I was not a good student in elementary school. I was slow to learn to read but was also bored just sitting all day. Coming into East Hill and having the freedom to choose what I wanted to do was a remarkable opening for me. I think …
Wood shop
“Mr. Woolen’s wood working club was also special. The first year of East Hill he offered this after school in the basement of the boarding house he lived in up the hill from the school. We paid for materials but he offered us his guidance and use of this tools. He had only hand tools …
Music
“My earliest memory is of John Bailey teaching “Sloop John B” to a bunch of us sitting in a circle.” – Anonymous “Here are the words to Louie the Rat, written, as it turns out, by a friend of my father’s. I regret to say that I don’t know the person’s name. My best guess …