because it took nine to ten of us to tackle Eddie “Pot Licker” Peyton, who weighed in at 170 pounds in eighth grade. I won a bushel basket of marbles on the cinder and red dog-surfaced school playing area at the back entrance of the school. Mike Lesnett and I were the best marble shooters during the warm months each spring from third to eighth grade. Softball and baseball were my best sports. As a fourth grader I was asked by Mel Henderson and Chuck McMillan to play with the eighth graders at the annual school picnic at the lodge in South Park. Our parents brought the food and we stayed from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on this special Friday. S. W. Koenig, the vice president of Duquesne Brewery, gave me a dollar for getting a hit in our annual game. His son Bobby and I were friends. We loved to play at his house with a pool table and swimming pool. We were in Boy Scouts together also. Mick Mall’s father organized the baseball team—the Washington Terrace Reds—consisting of seventh and eighth graders from Clifton and McMillan Schools. The Reds easily defeated teams from Bethel, Bridgeville and Mt. Lebanon. I remember Clifton as a three-story building with classrooms on the second and third levels, along with Principal Baker’s office. An auditorium and bathroom, along with a coal furnace, were on the first floor that opened onto a large play area. I particularly remember the auditorium where my father made a lot of props and projects for the school’s PTA. It was there I performed in Hansel and Gretel and Mulligan’s Magic. Clifton’s graduating class of 1944 is what I enjoy remembering today—Clifford Evans, Wanda Daughtery, Jim Greenawalt, Bob Koenig, Dale Langley, Barbara Lenfesty, Grayson Lesnett, Mike Lesnett, Eddie Peyton, Honey Lou Price, Richard Rea, Howard Schroeder, Emily Sumner and me, Ed Harmon. ■
Clifton School—First and Second Grades, 1939 Jean Emerick, Pearl Ellis, David Daughterty, Bill Roberts, Helen Warnick, Joan _____, Lucille Dixon, Emily Barkand, Bernice Janciar, Grace Carlisle, Billy Carothers, Bob Jones, Jack Cooper, Billy Lynch, Jimmy Barron, Bobby Barron, Audrey Philips, Faye Haynes, Paton Rogers, Richard Eliis, Grant Johnson, Joan Durham, Stella ________, Wanda Carson, Florine Orient, Myra Ostoff, Billy Godwin, Norman Fife, June Cameron, Barbara Lenfesty and Patsy Hilliard
Clifton School—Sixth Grade, 1941-1942 Billy Carothers, David Daugherty, Jack Cooper, Jack Martin, Bob Jones, Dwight Daugherty, Louis Minella, Emily Barkand, Grace Carlisle, Lucille Dixon, Beatrice Minella, Audrey Philips, Bernice Janciar, Kenneth Reardon, James Dean, Tommy McLean, Jimmy Barron, Bobby Barron, Myra Ostoff, Frank Montone, June Cameron, Norman Fife and Billy Godwin
Clifton School—1932 Roland Bellingham, Oliver Degleman, Russell Dublin, William Knowles, Ernest Lesnett, Lawrence McCool, Jack Northwood, Richard Schneider, Richard Staley, Clem Staley, George Yeckel, George Seifert, Alvin Deiss, Fred Coder, Elmer Dixon, Donald Host, Alexander McLean, Edward Oelschlager, Calvin Stelley, William Whittlinger, William Stevens, Charles O’Donnell, Mildred Barkand, Hilda Carlisle, Gretchen Johnson, Jacqueline Malone, Janie Marshall, Thelma Messner, Nancy Philips, Betty Jean Rittenour, Jane Warnick, Moris Meding, Catherine Nortone, Grace Sumner, Jean Sutton, Claranna Heaps, Rose LaBelle, Josephine Maneigne, Evelyn Beekert, Eleanor Carlisle, Nancy Cameron, Veronica Harkens, Mary Eleanor Henderson, Lucille Stahalman, June Von Horn, Jane Priestley and Mary Mancegne Fall 2002
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