Changing schools, she became a Mingo forever

PATRICIA A. (GOSS) FLECK

Chief Logan High School

Class of 1974

I remember September 1968. I absolutely did not want to go to school. It was the frst day of 7th grade and I had been dreading it for months. I had no issue with going to school, it was that school. Chief Logan Jr./Sr. High School.

Ever since my parents bought a lot in Pleasant Acres and started to have our house built in March of ‘68, I knew I would have to switch schools. Prior to building there, we lived in Lewistown Borough and I was a Panther. Now I would have to become a Mingo. No way! (I’m now ashamed to admit the terrible time I gave my parents. I was a brat)!

But as September approached, I knew I had no choice. I was very apprehensive, scared and I’m sure I shed a few tears the morning of the frst day of classes.

What I was most fearful of, was that I wouldn’t make friends, wouldn’t know anyone, wouldn’t be accepted.

That fear lasted less than a week. What I didn’t realize, was that a lot of the other kids didn’t know each other either. We were coming together from several elementary schools; Burnham, Highland, Yeagertown, Decatur and East Derry among others. What I also didn’t realize until years later, was that we would form a very strong