Days Gone By

• Campus School Reunion 2012

Front row: Bobbe Rozehnal Fimreite, Warren Wolfe, Carol Walker Solberg, Eloise Koch Zenanko; second row: Jim Kelly, Wendy Wall, Karyl Enstad Rommelfanger, Sue Johnson Davis; third row: Ilona Hoover Soderberg, Diane Delorit Jensen, Bruce Peterson; fourth row: Brian Kohl, Larry Houser, Mary McEwen Wilmot, and Hampton Wilmot. Playground Trivia: Mary McEwen married Hampton, the boy who always teased her on the playground!
• Campus School Second Grade 1952-53

This is school year 1952-53 for second grade at the campus school located on the UW campus. Photo by Gene Brown. Front row: left to right: Donny Kazlauckas, Carol Walker, Mary Kelly, Allen Schorn, Bobby Thoreson, Danny Filkins, Dennis Snippen, Bobbe Rozehnal, Carol Benedict, Bonnie Lulloff. Row 2: Miss Ann Dubbe (teacher), Larry Houser, Tommy Belfiori, Karyl Enstad, Billy Williams, Frances Thayer, Judy Brown, Wendy Wall, Lloyd Fritzmeier, Jimmy Jackman, unidentified. Row 3: Tommy Nielsen, Bruce Peterson, Brian Kohl, Laverne Kusilek, Mary Ellen McEwen, Larry Paulson, Eloise Koch, Danny Kay, Warren Wolfe, Mrs. Sharp (practice teacher)

Talk about it

Karyl Enstad Rommelfanger submitted these photos of the 1958 campus school reunion held recently at the West Wind. She is gathering information on the campus school and would appreciate information and photos from any year. Call 920-905-4911 or email her at karylr@att.net. The older photo is their second grade class photo, and she also sent some of her memories of attending the “school on campus:

“Taken on the north steps of the east wing of North Hall — exactly where our second-grade picture was also taken.

“The east wing of North Hall held the Campus School classrooms for roughly 50 years. When the new school was built, it was renamed Ames Lab School, but none of us attended that school.

“Our class was the first class offered pre-kindergarten in 1948. Many of us stayed all ten years in the Campus School, through eighth grade. We were a mixture of “city kids’ and “country kids” and some of our classmates were children of college professors.

“If anyone asked where we attended school, we said that we attended “the Campus School” or that we went to “the college.” Someone talked to me on the street once (we talked to strangers back then) and asked where I attended school. I said that I went to “the college.” I was about 12 at the time, and this gentleman thought I went to college and was very impressed! I had to correct that impression.

“When St. Bridget’s elementary school opened in 1953, some of our classmates transferred there.

“We were all reunited in high school and graduated in 1962 — our high school class just celebrated our 50th reunion, which allowed also for this Campus School get-together.”

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