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Date Posted: 21:55:39 06/19/02 Wed
Author: mph
Author Host/IP: 68.56.34.168
Subject: Re: New Topic: Sallie Jones Elementary School
In reply to: Jenny Ash Mulligan 's message, "New Topic: Sallie Jones Elementary School" on 21:03:47 06/17/02 Mon

>Hello All - How's this for a new topic? Sallie Jones
>Elementary School on Cooper Street. It was asked
>earlier how many of us went there, through all our
>years to high school. I moved to PGI the summer of
>1960, before school started (1st grade) and before
>Hurricane Donna.. Mike H. I didn't realize you had
>just moved there too! Anyway, wondering how many of
>us were together all twelve years, I am guessing more
>than we realize!
>
>Went looking out there on the www for a little info
>about Sallie Jones, this is what I have found out so
>far. The school was established in 1956 and has
>currently has an enrollment level of about 700
>students. There is a web page out there, but it looks
>like it is under construction...
>http://www.ccps.k12.fl.us/Schools/SJE/HomePage.htm
>Anyone else know history of the school? I did find
>that in 1937 Miss Sallie Jones elected superintendent
>of Charlotte County schools. Served 16 years.
>Introduced lunch rooms. Retired 1953 after 32 years as
I started first grade in Punta Gorda. Kindergarten was in Gainesville, but my brother Dick was Peggy Desguin educated when he came to Sallie Jones. We lived across the street from Kathy and Jeff Hindman (Joyce and Wilina)in the Wall Garden on the corner of Booth and Olympia. Sallie Jones'[ house was on the north west, caticorner. That house was later lived in by Bernie Mosley and family, and then by Judge Archie Odom and family and as the Brown Pelican Gallery. Her house is now razed, but I have the stair case, a window and some columns in the house I built next to my folks out on Burntstore Road.
The Wall Garden is now the emotional and drug rehab, emergency intervention center next to the physical work out center for Charlotte Regional Medical Center. All the Hindmans are gone from that corner. The funeral homes are still just around the corner and up the street. The side walks we trapesed to Sallie Jones School are still there in some fashion, there is now a light at Carmalita, and the school and cafatieria are still basically the same. The school buildings and layout are about to change; the entrance to the two story main building will be on Naranja. The existing buildings will be torn down (you can have a piece as a momento, send me your request and I'll coordinate it). The eucalyptus trees we planted on arbor day, in what year? 62, 63? are big and coming apart and being taken down. I remember ice in the ditch there near the trees, not when we planted but around the same time.
Who else had Ms. Pennington for first grade? Do you remember when the hair treatment was not right and she had green hair? For a couple of days? She spanked me one time when I did not deserve it might be why I'm reminding everyone of that hair thing. She has a very nice audobon sponsored, county donated, park named after her in Port Charlotte between Midway and Peachland just north of Sheehan.
MPH and >an educator. Also, I read in an article that "In
>spring 1904, the local school's second grade had a
>nature study course and a pupil Miss Sallie Jones,
>brought her cat to school to be studied by the class."
>Sallie must have made quite an impression...
>
>Any, I'm digressing here.. question was how many of us
>went to Sallie Jones and on to Jr High and High School
>together?

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Re: New Topic: Sallie Jones Elementary School -- mph, 21:59:14 06/19/02 Wed