Judi (Goodwin) Bray

Class of 1963

My brothers and I grew up in Austinburg, Ohio. I went to elementary school through 8th grade. I loved living on 100 acres when I was younger but it got old as I became a teenager. My mom sent me to Andrews School for Girls for 9th and 10th grade. When Austinburg consolidated with Geneva, I came home to go to school.

I loved going to Geneva High School. It was more like having a real high school. I made some friends and had a good time. I enjoyed my classes. I loved hanging out at teen town, girls on one side, boys on the other. Denny Pasqualone and Jimmy Bancroft were the best dancers....

I remember sex education class with Mr. Redlin and how he turned red when talking about certain subjects. I remember my English teacher, Mr. Minton? Milligen? Skinny with dark hair and glasses. After he read one of my poems, he told my mom that there was more there beyond all the big hair.

My senior year my brother, Jerry and I, had French as one of our last classes. We would decide that we didn't want to go sometimes and took off on travels with my mom's car.

I always enjoyed going to Geneva-on-the-lake. I had my first job there in a dart stand making a whopping sixty cents an hour. It was more like I was dodging the darts when drunks would play.

Nancy Souers worked at the Steak place next to Madsen Doughnuts. She stayed at the rooms up on top of the steak house and one night we decided to drive to Cleveland at 2 or 3 a.m. It was a lot of fun and very adventuresome.

I also remember when six of us had a pj party and we decided to drive to Geneva in our pj's. I remember cranking that old Valiant up to 100 miles and ended up in a garage because I burned the pinion bearings out of my mom's car. There we were; all six of us in our pj's at the gas station. I think that Joyce Denington, Carole Phillips, Lynn Magercsak, and two others were with us.

Maybe they can add to this. All in all, I enjoyed my high school experience at Geneva. All through the raising of my boys, I took them back to Geneva-on-the-lake once a summer. My oldest is 35 and he is hooked on Eddie's Grill hot dogs. I was sorry to hear that Mary died recently. She was the poster child for aging. WOW