How sweet it was
for Ethan Allen grads
By Tom Waring
Times Staff Writer
Jean (Ulmer) Gibson lives in northern California and doesn’t like airplane rides, but there was no keeping her away from a reunion of former classmates at Ethan Allen Elementary School.
"I don’t fly, but my eighth grade reunion is worth flying out to," the Sacramento, Calif., resident said. "I wanted to see all my old elementary school friends."
Gibson is among 35 people who graduated from the elementary school at Robbins Avenue and Battersby Street in Lower Mayfair in January 1952. Most of the grads started together in Miss Finger’s morning kindergarten class in 1943.
Their class never had any reunions, and many in the class had not seen one another since graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1956.
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