Monday, February 25, 2008

2009: WILLIAM "BILL"PARENT OBIT

TO THOSE WHO WERE HAMILTON STUDENTS BACK IN THE 50'S, BILL PARENT WAS A HOUSEHOLD NAME. IF YOU PLAYED "HOOKEY" FROM SCHOOL, BILL WAS "THE MAN." HE REPLACED "POP" WATSON AS HAMILTON TRUANT OFFICER. BILL AND HIS SISTER ALICE PARENT GOETZ WERE BOTH INCREDIBLE SINGERS. ALICE HAD THE LEADS IN NEARLY ALL OF THE OPERETTAS AT HAMILTON HIGH DURING HER YEARS THERE. SHE WAS MY TEACHER AT KUSER SCHOOL IN THE 7TH GRADE. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CLASS OF '39 AT HHS.
BILL'S MAGNIFICENT VOICE WAS KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE AREA AND I RECALL ONE OF HIS VISITS TO OUR HAMILTON HIGH CHOIR BACK IN THE LATE 1940'S. HE WILL BE MISSED. BILL LIVED IN HIS FAMILY HOME ON ELLWOOD STREET IN HAMILTON RIGHT UP UNTIL RECENTLY, WHEN HE BECAME INCAPACITATED. THE GLOVER FAMILY KNEW BOTH MR. AND MRS. PARENT WAY BACK IN THE 30'S WHEN WE LIVED ON BEAL STREET.

Saturday, February 09, 2008

1909-2009 ONE HUNDRED GLORIOUS YEARS!

WE WILL BE CELEBRATING THE CENTENNIAL OF KUSER SCHOOL IN 2009. IF ANY VISITORS TO THIS SITE HAVE PHOTOS OR OTHER MEMORABILIA FROM KUSER, PLEASE CONTACT ME SO I CAN INCLUDE THEM IN THE KUSER SCHOOL HISTORICAL ONLINE WEBSITE.
thomglo@verizon.net,
Tom Glover, 609-587-2490 (Prior to 1 to 9 P.M. Eastern)
or at the Hamilton Library Local History Collection, Monday - Thursday: 581-4060 XT 4016

2008: LET THE SEASON BEGIN!




I HOPE TO SEE MANY OF MY WEB VIEWERS AT THIS PROGRAM WHICH IS THE FIRST OF NUMEROUS MUSIC/NOSTALGIA PROGRAMS I WILL BE PRESENTING THIS YEAR AT KUSER MANSION. THIS ONE WILL CENTER ON THE ROMANTIC LOVE SONGS WE ALL SWOONED AND DANCED TO, WITH AN OCCASIONAL NOVELTY SONG. MARK YOUR CALENDAR AND I HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE.