Loose Strings From The Past

Tag: Y Teens in the fifties

  • CAMPING

    I am not a camper.  Ken once told a friend, “Her idea of roughing it is having to walk across the street from the motel to eat breakfast.”  (Yes, there was a long-ago time when hotels did not have restaurants or complimentary breakfasts.) Betty Walden and I were recently reminiscing about a camp out in…

  • CLUELESS

    Ken and I were both teaching in Fort Worth at Rosemont Junior High (now Middle School) during the 1957-58 school year.  One of my assignments was co-sponsor of Y Teens, a girls club under the guidance of the YWCA.  I was to help a veteran teacher who had sponsored the group for several years.  I…