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All you LOVELY Early-Bird ticket-holders!
As an early-bird ticketholder for the Senntenial Gala, we invite you to share your love of Senn this Valentine’s Day! Add to the Sennsational story of Senn High School by giving us a sentence or two on what you loved about Senn. We will publish your thoughts in the Valentine's Day issue of our Senntennial Reunion email. Click on the "Comment" link below to begin.
There were a couple of things I loved about Senn. The first was meeting my high school sweetheart, who later became my husband. The second was the diverse student body and how well we all got along. In fact, my Senn girlfriends are still special people in my life, over 30 years later!
ReplyDeleteLoved being on the Senn News Staff. Have even stayed in touch with some of the staff for over 50 years.
ReplyDeleteThe things I loved at Senn were the great teacherws, the fine friends that I still see today, and the great education that set me on a very successful and satisfying life. Senator Art Berman (retired)
ReplyDeleteIn 1964, I had the good fortune to begin, at Senn High School, what became a 36 year career as a public high school Social Studies teacher. My department chair was Henrietta Miller and my official Senn supervisor was Dan Powell. My real mentor and role model was Elston Elston, who befriended and supported me from almost my first day in the school.
ReplyDeleteAll these years later, and despite my having served at Senn for only the one year--1964-65--Elston and I have kept up an ongoing annual exchange of messages at Christmas time. It is because of that ongoing connection that I even became aware of the Senn reunion being planned for October.
While I am sure all of you associated with this reunion recognize and appreciate how special a human being Elston is, I want to add my praise for her years and years of dedication to all things Senn related in hopes that you will use the reunion event in part to say thanks to her for her years of service to the children of the school, the faculty and staff and the broader Chicago community. She is one unique woman and I am both grateful and the better a human being for having this ongoing relationship with her.
Wish you all the very best for a most successful reunion. It is no accident that Elston's name is really the only name, other than the aforementioned formal supervisors, I can remember from my one year at Senn. She really did prove to be an incredible role model and I hope my career in the classroom reflected, at least in some measure, my respect for her and the manner in which she practiced her craft.
Subject: A Trip Down Memory Lane
ReplyDeleteYesterday Howie Fink and I paid a visit to Senn High. Reason being that we wanted to do some research using the library's extensive collection of past yearbooks. While there we were able to roam the halls viewing the amazing renovations that had been done. Included in the renovations was Senn Hall that was transformed into a state of the art auditorium, that would rival some of the best, solar panels on the roof, new clad windows and...........................an air conditioning system. The landscaping on both the east and west side of the school was very impressive blending in very nicely to the neighborhood. It was apparent that the three principals I came to meet, Judith Hernandez, Rich Norman and (currently) Susan Lofton, have done a great job in keeping the school alive and relevant to the times. The students that we met were very courteous and eager to engage us in conversation. We were also pleasantly surprised when we met a freshman who just happens to be the granddaughter of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
What made it more interesting is that Howie was in law school with Justice Ginsburg at Harvard.
While looking through the year books from the 1930's I found a photo of the football team that included Coach Sal Loverde. I never knew that he went to Senn, let alone that he was on the same team with Fritz Pollard, one of the best athletes that graced the halls of Senn. Fritz's father preceded him at Lane Tech and is noted as being the first African American football coach that was elected to the NFL Football hall of fame (http://fritzpollard.org/). While his father played for Brown University and was All-American, Fritz Jr. played at North Dakota.
Don Ohannes, MA