What great things can anyone remember about Cooke..... it was a great school although being part of the January class always meant we had either older or younger classmates with us....or we were split into two levels....except for 8th grade when we asked to be kept together as just us..... it was great for all 26 of us!!!

Hey, Janet, I was one of those that should have graduated in Jan60.  There were always about 9 of us that got put with the older ones and so Nancy Wray and I went to summer school the summer between 6th grades so we could graduate in June with the people we were always with.  That is sooo weird as no one in college ever heard of the split years except those of us in the Detroit school system.

I think that we missed one day of school in 13 years and that was because the heat stopped working and a pipe burst.  When you always walk to school it didn't really matter what the weather was, you went to school.

Cooke was a great school and it had its share of strange teachers that is for sure.  Miss Forman, who collected wishbones, and just what was auditorium really about anyway?  No one had heard of that in college either.  Mister Carter with his always highly polished tassled loafers and as someone noted really bad coffee breath.  Mrs. Raleigh who seemed to not believe in deodorant or it simply didn't work for her.  I really liked her but Pheww!!! 

I thought that it was really cool that the Mr Callard took a year sabbatical and took his family on a round the world adventure.  And Mrs. Walker the other teacher who always wore skirts(sometimes poodle skirts) or skorts.  I guess pants for women weren't in yet.  I remember in 7th grade when Bermuda shorts came into style.  They were wool and we wore the argyle socks and I spent most of the time scratching as apparently I was allergic to wool.  I also remember Middy blouses being the fashion too!  Great times!!!  Life was so simple then.