JoanJ
2 posts
Nov 16, 2009
10:32 AM
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Does anyone remember Coach Bob Specht; Bob O'Keefe and Miss Ormsby and where they may be 50 years later?
Last Edited on 16-Nov-2009 10:34 AM
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Denise
488 posts
Nov 18, 2009
5:07 PM
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Do you know if Miss Ormsby ever married?
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Denise
489 posts
Nov 18, 2009
5:15 PM
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There are several Robt. Spechts listed throughout the area. Here is one in Geneseo that is listed as 65+:
Robert G Specht
home
13695 N 2250th Ave
Geneseo, IL 61254-8309
(309) 944-6197Age:65+
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Dale55
2 posts
Dec 05, 2009
11:47 AM
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Mr. O'Keefe was at Tampico High for the same four years that I was. (51-52 through 54-55) It seems to me that he went somewhere in Central Illinois. I have a vague remembrance that later he was appointed to a fairly high up job in Springfield. Social Security Administration maybe? Don't accept that as absolute fact, my memory certainly could be faulty on this. Coach Specht came to us in my Sophomore year and I'm fairly certain that my Senior year was also his last year in Tampico, so that would be a stay of three years. I know that he was from Chicago originally. He told us that enough times! Plus there was the Chicago Ball/16 inch Softball games in PE. That's something I eventually carried over to my own years as a PE teacher. Somehow I had a remembrance of him leaving the state, perhaps for California? The Illinois High School Association site gives his coaching records for both basketball and football for those three years, but more importantly, there are no records listed for him at any other Illinois school. That could mean that he got out of coaching (I think that unlikely) or that he went to another state. Pure conjecture there.
Last Edited on 5-Dec-2009 8:50 PM
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Dale55
3 posts
Dec 05, 2009
12:29 PM
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From the Gazette, September 19, 1951 Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. O'Keefe moved Sunday into the William Strike house recently vacated by Gordon Garland in the northeast section of town. Mr. O'Keefe is the new English teacher and assistant coach at the Tampico high school. Their furniture is coming from Los Altos, Calif., where he was attending Stanford U.They have been visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Calnan of Clinton, Iowa.
Last Edited on 5-Dec-2009 8:52 PM
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