The Where Did You Go To School Challenge

My First Grade School Picture

1963 

My Senior Picture

1975

The Saturday Night Genealogy Challenge this week is "Where Did You Go To School?"  The original post and the links to the other entries can be found HERE.  I am curious what this has to do with genealogy but I guess it is fun for people that share a hobby to get to know one another a little bit so I will play along.

I do not remember the names of the elementary schools I attended.  I know I went to kindergarten when we lived in Kansas City Missouri.  I started first grade there too.  I remember when JFK was shot.  We moved to St Louis, Missouri during first grade and I went to school in Jennings, Missouri.  We lived there during the rest of my first grade year,  my second grade year, and the beginning of my third grade year.  It was a much different area in the mid 1960s than it is today.  During third grade we moved to Decatur, Illinois and I went to school there while it was snowing.  Then we moved again.  I finished third grade in Montpelier, Ohio.  I also went to fourth grade and fifth grade in Montpelier, Ohio.  The summer before sixth grade we moved to a  home in the country outside of Peru, Indiana.   I attended sixth grade at Randall School which was part of the Maconaquah School Corporation.  Randall Elementary was located on Grissom Air Force Base but the school system had experienced a fire in one of their buildings and they were doubling up while a new middle school was being built.  I attended seventh and eighth grade in that new middle school.   I attended my freshman and sophmore year of high school at Maconaquah High School.  My junior year I moved in with my great grandmother who lived in Peru Indiana and attended Peru High School.  My senior year I moved back in with my parents and graduated from Maconaquah High School in 1975.   I moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana and started a program for my RN at St Joseph School Of Nursing after high school.  I quit and moved home.  The next year I attended and then subsequently graduated from Kokomo School Of Practical Nursing in 1977 which was located in Kokomo, Indiana.  I spent the next 38 years taking a class here and there and saying I was going to get my RN. I took classes at Manchester College,  at Lake Michigan College,  and at IUSB.  Then eventually, I turned 50 and decided I better either get busy and get my RN or else quit saying I was going to.  So  I enrolled in Excelsior College which is an online distance learning course and spent the next seven and a half years working through their program.   I graduated from their program in 2015 and passed my boards in May of 2015.   I am probably the only person on earth who took 38 years to earn an associates degree.   But now - I am done with school.  I will be old enough to retire in a few more years.  Any classes I might take at this point in life will not be for credit and will be related to my genealogy interests.