Second row from top (L to R)
3. June Moberg, 11. Ida Maxey, 12. Frances Kline, 15. Lillian Kaplan, 16. Carolina Ariola, 17. Murial Bengston, 18. Esther Romm.

Third row from top (L to R)
1. Robert Schmidt, 3. Alan Rosenthal, 4. Hiag Saxenian, 5. Raymond O’Connor, 7. Walter A. Jensen, 8. Edward Burnbaum, 9. Alan Jobson, 12. James J. Coughlin,17. Walter Zilinski

Forth row from top (L to R)
2. John Pfister, 4. Ken Rasmussen, 5. Katherine Sullivan, 12. Miriam Zeldman, 13. Janice Thompson, 14. Vincent Krey, 15. Alfred Smith

Second row from bottom (L to R)
5. Stanley Scheiner, 12. Monroe Postman, 14. Carl Kwiatkowski, 16. Charles Salem

Bottom row (L to R)
3. Ernestine Milazzo, 12. Patricia Waldron

(Donated by Aristotle Roussos)

Note: To better understand the times and how things were during  Mr. Roussos school years I asked him to share some of his personal memories. He was kind enough to do this and I share them with you.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I did

                                    

   Memories…..PS125

 My brother Plato preceeded me by one year in  PS125 as we progressed for ten years from kindergargarten through 9^th grade. In our early years, half of the school yard surface was dirt and not fenced but that was changed in the mid 30’s.

 The graduation photo of June 1941 shows 102 students and I’m still in touch With six of them:  Ray O’Connor, Alan Rosenthal (Winter), Walter Jensen, James Coughlin, Frank Stancarone, James Cooley

In 6^th grade we had a great stickball team. A male teacher, in charge of after school activities, organized a tournament. The winners would receive medals. We were inspired..MEDALS!! Our team beat them all-right up to the 9^th graders. But, alas, we never got our promised medals. I’m still trying to get closure on that. Our winning team included Ray Kearney, Phil Condouris, Walter Zilinski, Frank Stancarone. Stickball was the main game by far, followed by basketball , particularly in higher grades.(I wish I could see those guys now.(

We had some good teachers and my favorite was Evelyn Patricia Burns.

    3B  Miss Montibovi                       7A  Mrs  Shefdhotel

    4A  Mrs. E.D.Larsen                      7 B  Mrs  Burns (another one)

    4B  Mrs  Romary                            8A  Mrs C.B.Cluney

    5A  Mr  Mace                                 8 B  MS R.O.Russo

    5B  Miss M.L.Powers                     9A  Mrs Albina K.O’hare

    6A  Miss C.Wallace                        9 B  Miss M.Crowley

    6B  Evelyn Patricia Burns

 I had a few fights. The two most memorable ones were with Timothy Murphy and Tony Santola. As usually happened with kids, we became friends afterwards. I wish I could see them now, also.

 Around 1939/1940, the school was opened at night for older students to play board games or basketball or just to hang around. We younger guys would sneak in by climbing a fence and gaining entrance through a door on 46^th street whose lock we had jammed earlier during school hours. Our fun was to let those in charge see us and chase us. We would leap up a flight of .  stairs, run down a hall way, go down another flight of stairs in one jump. They could never catch us. At that age, we could half-way fly. Once, in an act of sheer bravado and defiance, about four of us ran through the middle of an on-going basketball game in the upstairs gym crowded with spectators......never got caught. Good memories…I chuckle on them. Another amusing activity was to get into the lunchroom/gym on the first floor, climb on top of a basketball hoop, grab hold of a gym climbing rope which a fellow conspirator would swing to you, and then swing away to another basketball hoop. It really was great fun. Sort of like Tarzan.

I was in charge of the hallway monitors in 9^th grade. I wondered why Mr. George Parry, Assistant to the principal, selected me. I think I know but yet wonder a little at times.

 I look back on my ten years at PS125 with fond memories. I think it was a good school then and hope it still is.