The Chronicles of Ricky: 1984 A year of Firsts, first grade and a baby sister

1984

This is the first time did a classmate or a child had died around me and nobody wanted to talk about it. There was a young girl in a wheelchair who I interacting with on a regular basis, I got to push her around and I remember being thanked for being so helpful, but she passed away some time during the school year, I don't remember what issues she had or anything about her, she was just gone and nobody ever talked about her ever again.

This is the first time that I really remember getting in trouble for anything, I was standing in line at the water fountain and there was a little boy in front of me getting a drink and for whatever reason I decided to knee him in the rear end and then he bumped his head inside the water fountain and he started crying and I got in trouble. lol I have no idea why I did this, I'm not sure what else was going on at the time, if I saw this in a movie and thought it was funny. lol I just remember doing it, I can't give you the motivation behind it at the moment, it's been 40 years. lol

I don't remember graduating from Mary M Lynch, or having any type send off to first grade, like we did in preschool.

Summer

🏫 Our Lady of Sacred Heart (OLSH) – Springfield, MA

Diocese of Springfield

Elementary and Junior High Schools

CUMULATIVE RECORD

STEBBINS

Last

Richarう

Louis Jr.

Sex (Circle)

Grade Entered

First

Date ....

Month

Middle

9/5/84

Day

ADDRESS 1.

54 Hope Street

Street

PUPIL'S

BIRTHPLACE

Street

Sprinafield

Town

FATHER

STEBBINS

Family Name

MOTHER

STEBBINS

Family Name

PUPIL LIVES WITH: Both Parenis

Richard

First

LinSerer

Mother

Person with whom pupil lives if other than parent:

Family Name

First

Year

Springfield

Town

Massachusetts

State or Country

Middle Initial

Middle Initiol

Landers

Maiden Name

Father_

Other_

Middle Initial

SCHOOLS PREVIOUSLY ATTENDED

CUR LADY OF THE SACRED HEART SCHOOL

School

Street _ 52 Rosewell Street

Town _

Spfli. Mass.

Mass..

State

Catholic

Religion

Catholic

Religion

Relationship

Religion

City

283-2885

Telephone

Month

Telephone

Day

Year

Machinist

Type of Occupation

Housewife

Type of Occupation

(If working ourside the home)

Type of Occupation Grade Lave

(Including K)

Name of School

State or Country

Dote

Entered

Date

Withdrawn

Reason*

Mary M. Lynch School

Spf1t.

Mass.

9/83

6/84

*(1)

Moved

(2)

Illness

(3)

Parental Wish

(4) Expelled

(5)

Reason Unknown

SACRAMENTS

_DATE

BAPTISM

Day

_CHURCH

Month

Holy Name

Year

CITY, STATE (OR COUNTRY)

VERIFICATION BY

Spf13.,

Mass.

been

Signature

FIRST COMMUNION

Day

198ú

Year

0. 1.5. H.

Apped, sn

Reneé Allite

Signature

Month

Signature

RECORD BY YEARLY AVERAGE

Richard Stebbins PERSONAL AND

SOCIAL

TRAITS

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

ABSENT

TARDY

DAYS

TIMES

RESPONSIBILITY

RESPECT

SELF CONTROL

COOPERATION

THINKING

INDEPENDENT

RELIGION

MATHEMATICS

COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS

PROBLEM SOLVING

ENGLISH

ORAL EXPRESSION

WRITTEN EXPRESSION SPELLING

READING

ORAL READING

COMPREHENSION

SOCIAL STUDIES

HISTORY

GEOGRAPHY

SCIENCE-HEALTH

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

MUSIC

ART

Penmanship

Gen Ax

School Year

19841855/90 NNNNN C8

C 15

731

85 75

8583

10 74

191 1988 4 21 0

1ي 1968 199

19 891990 6

19901991

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200

25.

C DD

C+*

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90-100. A Outstanding achievement; indicates an

exceedingly high quality

of work.

80-89.B

Above average; indicates good progress above the average.

70.79. C

Marking

Code:

60-69 Below average: indicates a great need for effort to meet require-

ments of this grade satisfactorily.

Below 60-F

Unsatisfactory; indicales failure to produce an acceptable quality

CONFIRMATION

Day

Yeor

Signature of Teacher

suratouck

A may of Fetime

September

I was excited to start going to school at OLSH Our Lady of Sacred Heart Catholic school.

I knew my grandfather worked there as a custodian, and I knew my cousins already went there as well Michael and Steven. I was starting first grade and my brother and cousin Joey were starting kindergarten, a family friend Tammy Lynds also went there. It seemed like such a special event, I thought I was going to get closer to God. lol

My sister Katherine was born the 27th

This was an exciting time, I remember driving with my dad and bobby to the hospital and getting to hold Kathy for the first time. My dad dropped us at my aunt Flossie's after this and we got to hangout with the grandma Francis while they got things ready.

there was a family party when my mom got home and I remember bobby running around and then getting in trouble on Kathy in the living-room, I don't know if he really stepped on her or my mom was just over-reacting, but it was still funny. lol

I also got to introduce Kathy to my class, it was celebrated as an event.

October

I got sent to the office a lot in first grade, for talking back too much, because I couldn't sit still. The priest would yank me by my ears, shoved me, pull me by my arms, they'd grab my neck and yank me around and I was thrown down those granite steps in the front a couple of times. The priest would push me up against the wall with their fists digging their knuckles into my chest telling me that I needed to sit still and stop talking. first grade teacher sister Miriam

Well I remember my dad used to force me to eat peas and I hated them and I would almost throw up. Like that at all now I think it was because they were canned and had a funny taste. It was around this time I remember we got an Atari started playing video games and we had our family picnics and trips to New York to Fern Lake and maybe even Batavia to see my grandfather

December

I remember getting Optimus Prime that year at Toys R Us and my brother got shockwave, we got to go to the store ahead of time and let our parents know what we wanted and I fell in love with Transformers at first site, the cartoon was awesome and once I got my own toy, I felt like I was going to save the world. lol

First Grade (circa 1984–85)

You started first grade at Our Lady of Sacred Heart in Springfield, MA, at the old school building all part 2 no pics.
Your first-grade teacher was Sister Mariam all part 2 no pics.
Memories and Incidents

You described yourself as a hyper, curious kid, always asking questions, talking, and having trouble sitting still all part 2 no pics.
You got in a lot of trouble that year, especially for:

Melting crayons on the big metal steam radiators
Doodling all over your homework
Pulling a chair out from under another kid, who fell on the floor (which you acknowledged wasn’t great, but definitely stuck with you)