Re: Frost Middle School in Bad Shape
Posted by:
1995hoo
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Date: August 25, 2014 10:37AM
K. Lepto Wrote:
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> Doug Newstrom Wrote:
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> > dfjkajf Wrote:
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> > > I went to Frost in 1988. Probably hasn't
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> > Really? Name one teacher.
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> Mr. Roycroft taught alegbra and you, Doug, were
> quite a baseball player.
The same Mr. Rycroft (David Rycroft) was the head golf pro at the Ospreys Golf Club in Woodbridge until this past winter, when he moved on to take another job with the company that runs the course. I remember quite well the first time I saw him there because I did a double-take thinking, "That guy looks really familiar." Then I saw his nametag and I asked him whether he taught at Frost in the mid-1980s. He said he did and he asked my name, and when I gave it, he said, "Yes, I remember that name, you were an excellent student." To which I replied, "You don't remember me at all!" (I took algebra in the 7th grade and started out well but my grades nose-dove during the second semester.)
I remember the names of a number of teachers from Frost:
Maurice George taught 7th grade gym
Mr. King (don't know his first name) taught 8th grade gym
Mr. Usiskin (don't know his first name) also taught gym
Fred Scango taught shop
Karen Hamilton taught English
Gretchen Mathews taught English (she either got married or divorced because two years later when my brother went to Frost, she was Gretchen Portwood)
Charlotte Duncan taught 7th grade social studies
Martha Kidd taught civics
Kim Cox taught science (she was the young one)
Mrs. Mills taught 7th grade science (she is likely the one K. Lepto was thinking of with the reference to "old and senile")
Keith Barney taught foreign languages when I was in the 7th grade
Irene Zaptin taught Latin when I was in the 8th grade
David Rycroft taught algebra
Jim Allison taught geometry and probably some other math
Jim Andrukonis taught speech and drama (he was big on the "Baseball in '87" campaign....wonder if he's still around whether he goes to Nats games)
Mr. DeGraff and Mrs. Beardmore taught math
I remember Mrs. Mathews teaching English because she talked about liking Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin and a friend of mine said something like, "Damn! Teachers aren't supposed to know who Billy Joel is and she's talking about Led Zep!"
As far as the Frost building not having changed, it was expanded sometime in either the late 1980s or the 1990s. I drove around the back side of Woodson one day looking at the renovations and I noted there had been another corridor added across the back side of Frost. Recall it was shaped roughly like a boxed-off letter "A" (sort of like an "A" you'd see on an early 1980s-era video game). They built something to close off the open end of that "A" (the end closer to Woodson's football stadium).