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My cousin, Paul Woodbine, and most of his friends went to school in Riverside (Arthur E. Platt; RJHS) and he would often talk about the fun times they had there and about some of the great townie teachers who endured the sometimes uncontrollable onslaught of 1960s baby boomers.

Stanley Traverse (1966) was first time 22 year old teacher at Arthur E. Platt (dynamite, gifted teacher) and got drafted mid-year for basic training. The class felt awful but rejoiced when he returned the following year to teach fifth grade!

At one time, Platt School had a cafeteria and a gym (in basement) that was given over to become a sixth grade classroom when they ran out of class space upstairs.

The kids were a bit wild back then and they would skid-hop down Burnside Avenue on the back of school buses in the snow or run to Red