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•  A  few things I remember when I attended Warner Junior High School are coming back to me in spurts. First, I remember seventh grade I failed Algebra and tried to change my grade from an “F” to an “A”. Boy was my mother and father hot with me! It seemed simple enough at the time. Now, I’m happy to know I was not the only student who thought they could get away with deceiving her parents.  Now talk about embarrassing, that was an embarrassing meeting with Ms. Wolf my counselor and my Dad!  I think that was the worst year of my school life.  I felt like a criminal, I did a two month stint in summer school that year at P. S. DuPont and that is when I knew I wanted to graduate from P. S. DuPont High and no other high school would do.  Needless to say I never failed another course since and in reality that little white lie also put me on the straight and narrow to be the recipient of the Honor Society for the next two years landing me in the position to be nominated and win the Emily Pusey Warner Award.  I can proudly say my name is displayed with prior honorary students on the plaque that graces the walls of Warner Middle School.  I also was elected to participate in the first Miss Black Teenage Delaware Pageant of which I was one of the ten runner ups. I remember my junior prom, wow that pink gown was a throw back to the 50’s and the platform shoes, please believe me I caught the eye of my date and especially the other young men in my class dancing every dance.  Whew I did not like that fashion statement!  I also remember ninth grade when I was voted President of Student Council.  I was selected to sit on the panel of the Student’s Rights and Responsibilities Council, which was a group of outstanding students who assisted the members of the Delaware Board of Education in creating the first statewide, Student’s Rights and Responsibilities Handbook.  I remember Mayor Mahoney asking me to assist him in his run for mayor. I met the then student of law Senator Biden, Mike Castle and Theodore Blunt and decided my career would be in the field of law. Ninth grade English was my favorite subject, with Ms. King being one of my favorite instructors. I enjoyed my classes and for the life of me can not remember my instructor’s names yet their faces, as I reminisce appear to me one by one. Ladies you have to remember attending home economics with those old ovens and having to bake peanut butter cookies to share with the young men in woodshop. And how about the Swinger sewing machines making those famous A-line skirts and the aprons we needed to wear while cooking. Yes, I was also an athlete. I was captain of the cheerleading squad, captain of the girls’ basketball team and a member of the softball team. Our seasons were not always winning seasons but our spirit was always high.  Our favorite team to play and beat in boys’ touch football and boy’s and girls’ basketball was Bancroft, they were our rivals. I remember sitting next to the windows and watching as I-95 was being built. And watching the trees of the Brandywine Park change with each season, in the Fall their leaves were so many different hues of brown, and in the winter watching them silenced by the snow and ice only to be greeted by vibrant shades of green in the Spring.  Growing up in that area was a wonderful experience.  It was my home and the only place I felt safe. Submitted by Patrina Wallace-Warner Class of 1972
  
• Mr. Richie would write a number of questions on the board each day. We were to copy them and take them home and find the answers and be prepared to answer them orally in class the next day. They were numbered consecutively, starting with #1 in September and by April, we were probably at #467 or so. His downfall, however, was that he always called on students from the roll which was alphabetical, so if today's questions were answered by Brady, Conrad, Crosby, Darling, Davis and Derry, then Drake knew that he would be the first one called on tomorrow! So, we only needed to study the questions on nights that we were next in line. One needed to know two or three of the answers in case a student on the list was absent or did not know the answer. So, you may be called for one before you expected, or maybe the one after. So, as a class, we decided to pull  an April Fool's joke on Mr. Richie. The first one on the list for that day was me! When he called on me to answer #467, I just said "I didn't get that one, Mr. Richie." He made a mark in his roster book and called on the next student in the order, who also said something to the effect of not having done his (or her) homework last night for some reason or another.The fourth or fifth student in the list was Virginia Franzen, an absolutely straight A student since first grade. She also responded with some excuse as to why she did not have that answer. He forgave her! He said that if she didn't have the work done, it had to be for a very good reason. It went on for one or two more and he finally asked "Does ANYBODY have the answer?" to which we all replied "April Fool!" Mr. Richie then said something to the effect of 'Well then, the joke's on you. We will all return to this room at the end of the school day and we will stay until all of today's questions get correct answers." ...and that's why we all hated him! Submitted by Bob Davis-Class of 1953 

• Mr. Frank Martine Heal was our principal. Each morning we had a prayer. The flag was raised on the outdoor flagpole by the color guard and we all recited the pledge of allegiance. At the end of the day, the flag was lowered as the entire student body stood at attention (in the classrooms) while Taps was played on the PA system. Mr Heal's dog, Duke, came to school every day with Mr. Heal and he, too, stood at attention during the morning pledge and while Taps was played at the end of the day. The school had a Graphics Press Camera and the postcard picture was taken by Mr. Heal with that camera.
  He also used it to take pictures of the historical Mason and Dixon stone markers, which had been placed every mile along the Mason/Dixon line. It was a hobby of Mr. Heal to find and record these markers. I wonder whatever became of those pictures? Mr. Heal was a much loved and respected principal. He had a Studebaker when I was in the school but he once told me the story of how "some students" carried his Crosley (similar to today's Mini Cooper) up the front steps and placed it on the upper landing at the front door! I never saw a picture of the car there, though. He said he used to park at the curb, right in front of the steps.  Submitted by Bob Davis-Class of 1953 

• I had Miss Mills for English and 2 years of Mrs. Rains who called all of the Linda's...Linder with an R. I remember that we did not have enough Algebra text books so her plan was to teach 1/2 the class Algebra for the 1st semester and switch to the other half in the 2nd. After 2 weeks she gave up; that was my only two weeks of Algebra. Linda Hudock-Class of 1965