Some memorable non-educational escapades recalled by me when I was a former student at Eight Square School, include cinch belt dropped in privy and stuffing grass in a first graders underwear.

Elasticized cinch belts must have been in fashion during the early 1950s otherwise I wouldn't have been traumatized when my gold clap white belt fell deep into the bowels of the privy.

The event didn't occur during recess or lunch time, but during study hours when privileges to the outdoor necessary enclosure were permitted to one student at a time.

Pehaps I imagined mother would be upset with my recklessness, at any rate the truth had to be revealed for surely my younger sister would tattle.

The incident was reported to teacher Martha Kahler Neufer who in turn recruited Warren Fenstamacher to resolve the situation. Necessity was the mother of invention when it came to the method of extraction. A coat hanger attached to roping was lowered to "fish out" the item.