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WHAT I REALLY KNOW
About School Days
By Rose Marie Majewski-Malmstrom,
Willits, Calif.
To the three R’s—reading, ’rit-
ing and ’rithmetic—I’d add a fourth:
romance.
It was February 1948, my senior
year at Tuley High School in Chicago.
For U.S. History, Ray was assigned to
Miss Deiner. To balance the number of
students, a few of us were transferred
into her class. Ray was feeling mighty
bummed out, as only a 16-year-old
could, that none of his buddies were in
the same class with him. But when he
saw “that little blonde” in the new group, he perked up.
Miss Deiner seated her students alphabetically, and since both
of our names began with M, I was placed directly in front of Ray.
Our first date was in April at the Belpark Theater. We saw Call
Northside 777.
After graduation—and many more movies and chocolate
malts—we decided to get married. Three months later, with
the Korean War brewing, Uncle Sam pointed at Ray and said, “I
Want You,” and my new husband began his military service in the
Marine Corps. Leaving Chicago by train from Dearborn Station in
early December 1950, with the first snowflakes falling, and arriv-
ing two days later in San Diego for boot camp, was a shock.
For the past 60 years we have thought many times of our school
days in Chicago and wished we could thank Miss Deiner for her
classroom seating plan. We recall her smiling benevolently at us as
the semester wore on. She was aware that love was in bloom.
It will be 59 years this September since two kids from Chicago
made their own history by saying, “I do.”
Rose Marie and Ray
Malmstrom, 1952
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