Does anyone remember when there used to be a greenhouse like building attached to the back of the church where they used to pot the plants and stuff? I remember back in the 1970's when I was an altar boy we were never allowed to use those doors and of course we got in trouble because we did. I remember it had 2 doors on either side and the whole back consisted of those thin windows that opened like venetian blinds. Also the monkeneye court is gone now in the upper parking lot, what a great game that was.

I also remember there used to be stairs in the aisles heading down to the altar which are all replaced by ramps now.

And the grave yard back in the woods behind the school seems to be missing, the progress of man....

The greenhouse got taken out when a tree fell on it. I never understood the steps, clearly a violation of the American Disabilities act that they evidently fixed.

Older Wrote:
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> Does anyone remember when there used to be a
> greenhouse like building attached to the back of
> the church where they used to pot the plants and
> stuff? I remember back in the 1970's when I was an
> altar boy we were never allowed to use those doors
> and of course we got in trouble because we did. I
> remember it had 2 doors on either side and the
> whole back consisted of those thin windows that
> opened like venetian blinds. Also the monkeneye
> court is gone now in the upper parking lot, what a
> great game that was.
>
> I also remember there used to be stairs in the
> aisles heading down to the altar which are all
> replaced by ramps now.
>
> And the grave yard back in the woods behind the
> school seems to be missing, the progress of
> man....


I remember the little family plot down the trail behind the lunch room. Remember Mrs. Barton? I think I still have a couple of scars on my head from her yardstick.

Older Wrote:
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> Does anyone remember when there used to be a
> greenhouse like building attached to the back of
> the church where they used to pot the plants and
> stuff? I remember back in the 1970's when I was an
> altar boy we were never allowed to use those doors
> and of course we got in trouble because we did. I
> remember it had 2 doors on either side and the
> whole back consisted of those thin windows that
> opened like venetian blinds. Also the monkeneye
> court is gone now in the upper parking lot, what a
> great game that was.
>
> I also remember there used to be stairs in the
> aisles heading down to the altar which are all
> replaced by ramps now.
>
> And the grave yard back in the woods behind the
> school seems to be missing, the progress of
> man....


Monkeneye deserves its own thread, A game that’s definitely not for you dodge ball kitties

Baller Wrote:
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> Older Wrote:
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> > Does anyone remember when there used to be a
> > greenhouse like building attached to the back
> of
> > the church where they used to pot the plants
> and
> > stuff? I remember back in the 1970's when I was
> an
> > altar boy we were never allowed to use those
> doors
> > and of course we got in trouble because we did.
> I
> > remember it had 2 doors on either side and the
> > whole back consisted of those thin windows that
> > opened like venetian blinds. Also the monkeneye
> > court is gone now in the upper parking lot, what
> a
> > great game that was.
> >
> > I also remember there used to be stairs in the
> > aisles heading down to the altar which are all
> > replaced by ramps now.
> >
> > And the grave yard back in the woods behind the
> > school seems to be missing, the progress of
> > man....
>
>
> Monkeneye deserves its own thread, A game that’s
> definitely not for you dodge ball kitties


WOW! I remember monkeneye was some varation of dodge ball and Mrs. Meiners was into it. Tell me more please!

How about Ms Pender?

Holy smokes Wrote:
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>
> WOW! I remember monkeneye was some varation of
> dodge ball and Mrs. Meiners was into it. Tell me
> more please!

I think Mrs. Meiners taught us the game.

Basically the game is similar to dodge ball except each team has an outer court located on the other side of the opposing team’s inner court but not as wide as the inner court. The outer courts were one parking space wide and the inner courts were 2 or 3. Each side can try and throw someone out or throw it over head to their teammates in the other court. I can't remember all the rules but....

1. If you catch the ball the other person is out.
2. If you get hit then you are out unless it is a bounce.
3. I think that you could get back in if someone catches a ball and brings you back.
4. I also think that you could transfer people from the outer court to the inner court.

Does anyone remember who the old guy was that ran the buses when Holy Spirit had their own, before they sold them? I think he also had the maintenance and janitorial work for that place and another school/church. I think it was before 1974 and he may have passed and they had to be sold. I think he lived close by in that neighborhood behind the school.

76 Wrote:
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> Does anyone remember who the old guy was that ran
> the buses when Holy Spirit had their own, before
> they sold them? I think he also had the
> maintenance and janitorial work for that place and
> another school/church. I think it was before 1974
> and he may have passed and they had to be sold. I
> think he lived close by in that neighborhood
> behind the school.


Mr Ayers was the janitor for a long time but he worked for some other guy that had the contract with HS.

K Wrote:
> Mr Ayers was the janitor for a long time but he
> worked for some other guy that had the contract
> with HS.


Do you know if he had kids that worked/hung out there as well and if they lived in Stone Haven?

76 Wrote:
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> K Wrote:
> > Mr Ayers was the janitor for a long time but he
> > worked for some other guy that had the contract
> > with HS.
>
>
> Do you know if he had kids that worked/hung out
> there as well and if they lived in Stone Haven?


I think Bill Ayers was a ww2 veteran that had grown kids by the mid 70's. I remember inner city black guys that rode the bus to HS to clean the classrooms in the late afternoons worked for the same contractor that Mr. Ayres did.

K Wrote:
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> 76 Wrote:
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> > K Wrote:
> > > Mr Ayers was the janitor for a long time but
> he
> > > worked for some other guy that had the
> contract
> > > with HS.
> >
> >
> > Do you know if he had kids that worked/hung out
> > there as well and if they lived in Stone Haven?
>
>
> I think Bill Ayers was a ww2 veteran that had
> grown kids by the mid 70's. I remember inner city
> black guys that rode the bus to HS to clean the
> classrooms in the late afternoons worked for the
> same contractor that Mr. Ayres did.

I remember a white dark haired janitor that was there during the day who was about 21 or so I guess from around 70 to 74-75. Then in 74 a younger version of him, say maybe 17 or 18 years old appeared and all the kids liked yo hang out with him. Then sometime later in 75 the younger guy disappeared and the teacher finally said that he was in Jail. He showed up in the woods outside the classroom by the Baptist place one day after that and the whole class went to the window. I ran into him later in the 80's and he told me his dad was the janitor and his dad had a black Harley or something. The younger guy is who I would like to know the name of. I also remember being at his house and it was in stone gate and the bike was there but I can't remember exactly which house.
Any help would be appreciated

Shadow Wrote:
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> The greenhouse got taken out when a tree fell on
> it. I never understood the steps, clearly a
> violation of the American Disabilities act that
> they evidently fixed.

Do you know what year the tree fell on the Greenhouse?

76 Wrote:
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> Does anyone remember who the old guy was that ran
> the buses when Holy Spirit had their own, before
> they sold them? I think he also had the
> maintenance and janitorial work for that place and
> another school/church. I think it was before 1974
> and he may have passed and they had to be sold. I
> think he lived close by in that neighborhood
> behind the school.

I think the old guy's last name was Quinn. His grandson(s) worked at the school as maintenance or grounds work I think. One grandson lived in Stone Haven behind the school and his dad had an old Harley you had to kick start. I can’t remember their names though. I remember in 1975 some time they were no longer allowed to work in the school during the day so we never saw them after that.

Ms Pender was smoking hot. Other teaches include Ms Jackson, Ms Flack

Great days

Monkeneye rocked...field day in the back of the school.

Speaking of Monkeneye, does anyone remember the old run down house across the street from the church (on the same side of Braddock Rd, though) that had a pet spider monkey?

As for the game monkeneye, introduced to the sport at Chapel Square in the mid '70's. I believe the PE teacher there was Ms. Mendes.

As I remember, we played on a basketball court...if you got out, you went to the other side of the court, between the out of bounds and the gym wall...as your team that was in threw the ball at the other team that was in, you would catch the ball from out of bounds, and throw it back at the team...basically two sided dodgeball, and yes, I think if you caught a ball, the player that threw it was out, and a player from your team who was out came back in. Bad explanation, but that is what I remember.

Sometimes we played with 2 balls...that is when it got ca-razy.

spider monkeneye Wrote:
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> As for the game monkeneye, introduced to the sport
> at Chapel Square in the mid '70's. I believe the
> PE teacher there was Ms. Mendes.
>
>
Could the teacher have been Mrs. Mandes (MANN-dez) who later taught at Hunt Valley Elementary? She also taught Sex Ed and was famous for describing ejaculate as having the consistency of pudding. She was very funny and a great teacher.

Gen X Wrote:
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> spider monkeneye Wrote:
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> >
> > As for the game monkeneye, introduced to the
> sport
> > at Chapel Square in the mid '70's. I believe
> the
> > PE teacher there was Ms. Mendes.
> >
> >
> Could the teacher have been Mrs. Mandes (MANN-dez)
> who later taught at Hunt Valley Elementary? She
> also taught Sex Ed and was famous for describing
> ejaculate as having the consistency of pudding.
> She was very funny and a great teacher.


You are correct, sir. Also, I believe her son was in school at the time, a one Steve Mandes?

Grew up near Holy Spirit, played in the woods around the church all the time. The people with monkey were the Roger's, I think. Girl about my age was Samantha if memory serves right. The monkey got loose one day and got electricuted on the power lines on Woodland Way. She used to walk the monkey around the neighborhood all the time.

I'll be damned...I googled monekeneye, and the the fifth response down was for a group of Chapel Square Elementary peeps.

I saw people that I hadn't seen or thought of since the mid '70's.

Apparently, Chapel Square was a hot bed of monkeneye, perhaps the world epicenter.

Monkeneye

Oh what a feeling to catch a ball thrown by a 6th grader when you were in 4th or 5th, you were king for a minute. Then in the next game they would bounce that ball off your head so hard Tweety birds were flying in circles above it.

Good luck playing that game in school any more.

Kings Park Wrote:
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> Monkeneye
>
> Oh what a feeling to catch a ball thrown by a 6th
> grader when you were in 4th or 5th, you were king
> for a minute. Then in the next game they would
> bounce that ball off your head so hard Tweety
> birds were flying in circles above it.
>
> Good luck playing that game in school any more.


Mrs. Mieners was the queen of mokeneye.

Perth ct Wrote:
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> Kings Park Wrote:
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> > Monkeneye
> >
> > Oh what a feeling to catch a ball thrown by a
> 6th
> > grader when you were in 4th or 5th, you were
> king
> > for a minute. Then in the next game they would
> > bounce that ball off your head so hard Tweety
> > birds were flying in circles above it.
> >
> > Good luck playing that game in school any more.
>
>
> Mrs. Mieners was the queen of mokeneye.


See above-I believe that it was Mrs. Mendes. And yes, you are correct, she was a strong advocate of the sport, operating out of Chapel Square Elemntary in the mid '70's.

Also, switching gears from Monkeneye momentarily...the kid from Into the Wild grew up near Holy Spirit. That would be one Christopher McCandless. Lived towards Mantua, possibly.

Shadow Wrote:
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> The greenhouse got taken out when a tree fell on
> it. I never understood the steps, clearly a
> violation of the American Disabilities act that
> they evidently fixed.

Does anyone know when the tree fell on the greenhouse attached to the back of the church and if there might be any newspaper articles that covered it?

Im going to assemble a scrap book of memories from attending HS and that greenhouse was a big part of some of my memories.

It must have been some time between 1976 and 1981

Thanks

Monekeneye, haven't thought about that in years. Mrs Meiners always had bad breath.

I thought James Craig Summers was involved in some evangelical church. How common is forcible sodomy in religion?

Or, is there some ecumenicalism going on with these people and Summers' Harvest Bible Chapel?

K Wrote:
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> 76 Wrote:
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> > Does anyone remember who the old guy was that
> ran
> > the buses when Holy Spirit had their own,
> before
> > they sold them? I think he also had the
> > maintenance and janitorial work for that place
> and
> > another school/church. I think it was before
> 1974
> > and he may have passed and they had to be sold.
> I
> > think he lived close by in that neighborhood
> > behind the school.
>
>
> Mr Ayers was the janitor for a long time but he
> worked for some other guy that had the contract
> with HS.


Mr Ayers chewed a pouch of red fox chewing tobacco every day for like 20 years.

I heard some bad stuff happened to altar boys there.

I have enjoyed the new gloy holrs in the confessionals, really speeds up the process.