Comments on: Girls, Did You Have the Ugly Phys Ed Uniform?

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:08:21 +0000

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By: Dixie Eifert

Dixie Eifert — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:22:51 +0000

A friend just forwarded these comments about Jane/Ms Towse and the gym suit. I was more impressed what was said about our GREAT teachers (Towse and Womack) As a former student and teacher at CHS, it’s always great to remember positive things about people/things that had an influence in our lives

By: Janet Fenimore Robert

Janet Fenimore Robert — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:31:10 +0000

Libby Koch, I don’t think I know you I am class of 63 but you said Jim Parker is your Uncle and he was a dear friend of my parents. I, too, had some of his paintings that I remember as a child but I can no longer find them. Breaks my heart. I remember what they looked like. One was a little dutch looking girl with long blonde pig tails and the other was of some beautiful purple iris. To this day I love purple iris because of that picture. I was a freshmen in HS when Miss Jane came to teach PE. We adored her but gave her a hard time. Not as bad though as we were to Lucy Ellen! My kids had Jane in HS and I still see her quite often. She is ate up with being Grandma to 3 boys. Love the picture, Ken, thanks!

By: Ken Steinhoff

Ken Steinhoff — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:56:41 +0000

Cory, Thanks for the heads-up about the spelling of Rosanne’s name. I have a follow-up story I’ll post today and I had picked up the bad spelling.

Libby, Miss Towse, whose full name was Lucy Ellen Towse, died Feb. 9, 1992. She was 77.
You can read The Missourian obit here: http://tinyurl.com/TowseObit

By: Libby Koch

Libby Koch — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:44:11 +0000

Thanks Cory….my bad ….she was a good teacher & good friend of my Uncle Jim Parker’s in his young years & after he returned to Cape to the University….he’s still living but I believe Ms. Towse is deceased…some of his art work that he had gifted her, I ran across several years back in an antique store on Broadway…just assuming she is deceased…do you know?

By: Cory Foster

Cory Foster — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:33:39 +0000

Just some picky name corrections…Ellen Towse (not Helen) and Rosanne Hecht (not Roseanne). I can’t imagine that you aren’t featuring those lovely, reversible gym shirts that young men were required to buy…black and orange. Hold that Tiger! Keep up the great work.

By: susan smith

susan smith — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:40:48 +0000

Great photo of Jane Womack and the two gals in their gym suits. That particular model of the
gym suit was not as offensive as the previous one which did look more like what one would
call “bloomers”. Jane Womack is a great gal and is STILL teaching at CHS.

By: Sheila Hopkins Phillips

Sheila Hopkins Phillips — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:16:28 +0000

The picture is great of Jane Womack, Roseanne Hecht and Joni Sue Tickel. Actually, all three “girls” look nice! This version of the required PE Uniform looks cute on these two cute girls. In my four years at CHS (’60-’64), I remember a uniform similar to theirs–really not that bad. Mainly we girls mainly griped about the shower thing, and not wanting our hair and make-up to get messed up.
Sheila

By: Jane Neumeyer

Jane Neumeyer — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:57:19 +0000

I believe this is a photo of Roseanne Hecht and Joni Tickel (1966) and there is no way either of them ever looked anything other than nice, even in the so called hideous gym suits.