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Re: [ Schools/Education ] OLOF Days
Posted By: Bill Mitchell In Response To: Re: [ Schools/Education ] OLOF Days (Chris Brosnahan)
Date: Sunday, 23 October 2005, at 1:45 a.m.
> I was always in the "B" classes – the
> smart kids that actually worked for
> their grades were in the "A" classes –
> the "B"s were smart but kinda lazy.Actually if that had been the case I would have qualified for the B classes. We were separated into the As and Bs in first grade simply because of First Holy Communion. The slightly older kids were placed into 1A while the slightly younger kids were placed into 1B, since kids in 1A & 2A were the ones that made their Communion each year. That’s why 1A went to 2B and then 3A. 1B went into 2A and then 3B. If you were a B, then your birthday is probably summer or fall, or after May 10 (we made communion on May 10, 1956). They had an age minimum of 7 to make First Holy Communion. Somewhere I remember 7 as the “age of reason”.
After the forth grade they mixed us up, and about half of us were switched that year, one of the reasons was that the nuns were always afraid of us boys forming and joining gangs. I can remember punch ball games, and keep away games, which were always between the and B boys. Rich Sposa was usually the head of the Bs; Joe Tropea was the head of the As. Even after they mixed us up, we’d often play “4A vs. 4B”. Keep Away was nuts, it was basically a ‘no holds bared’ war between two groups, one member of which would have the ball. Winners had the ball when the bell rang.
And how did I know that? Because they tried to throw me out of 1A and into 1B because of a fight I had gotten into the middle of. I think it was between Glenn Batafarano and Jimmy Cavalier (I THINK!) and the nuns went into a fit. They threatened us with the worst thing that they could think of, throwing us into 1B and thus preventing our making First Holy Communion for a year. As a result there was some shuffling between the A and B classes that year.
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