school – Ruth E. Hendricks

From the Archives Jan 2017

A screenshot of my January 2017 blogpost.

January 19, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: archives, art room, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, school, students 10 Comments

What the Golden Ticket got Charlie

Yes that’s a 5 pound chocolate candy bar!

Charlie earned a one pound chocolate bar for his school fundraising efforts.

And then somehow he got a golden ticket!

He said it was random. A golden ticket was in one of the one pound bars!

Which got him this five pound chocolate bar! (Notice one row is missing)

Roy is ready for his dad to cut up another row for us to share.

December 14, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: candy bar, childhood, chocolate, Columbus OH, family, five pound candy bar, fundraiser, golden ticket, photography, postaday, school, travel 12 Comments

St.Raphael School in Morningside

When I told Steve I went to Morningside neighborhood this morning, to photograph the demolishing of St. Raphael’s school today, he told me that Gene Kelly went to grade school here.

July 15, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: architecture, demolishing, Gene Kelly, Morningside, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, razing, school, St.Raphael’s 21 Comments

Getting to the Point

Charlie’s favorite pencil
or
what a 4th grade boy does to get to the point

June 18, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Columbus OH, grandson, pencil, pencil point, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, school 8 Comments

A Great Answer to #12

From teaching days – June 11, 2013

Here’s an article on the importance of light in photography.

June 10, 2025 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: archives, lighting, photography, photography class, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, school 15 Comments

My Father Taught School in Illinois in the Early 1930s

Throwback Thursday post.

He looks pretty serious.

This is before he went to college.-Universty of Illinois class of 1939.

My father Roy Hendricks teaching in a one room school house in the thirties

May 29, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Photography, vintageTags: education, family, Illinois, one room school, photography, school, teacher, travel 14 Comments

Found While Cleaning

I’ve been retired almost nine years but I saved this student’s handmade card. Looking for signs?

March 22, 2024 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Card, knit on, knitting, photography, postaday, school, student 9 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

Fort Pitt Elementary, where I taught Art, is now closed.

November 28, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Wordless WednesdayTags: elementary school, Garfield, neighborhood, photography, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, school, sidewalk, steps 6 Comments

Did You Ever Own a Metal Lunchbox?

They were banned in schools in the 1970s after parents complained they were used as weapons and caused serious head injuries. Their history is here from the first Hopalong Cassidy box, to the the last of Rambo Sylvester Stallone model.

I had a red Stewart plaid one in third grade that I remember, complete with a thermos. There were no ice packs included, ever.

The Antique Trader attributes the popularity of metal lunchboxes to television.

Take a tour of the museum with this YouTube video if you can’t get to Columbus Georgia.

Allen Woodall’s Lunchbox Museum in Columbus, Georgia…..has More than 3,000 lunchboxes and 1,000 thermoses sit on floor-to-ceiling shelves that line the walls. Others hang from the ceiling

Mr Woodall has written an encyclopedia shown below

You can get a pricing guide if you want to start a metal lunchbox collection

September 12, 2023September 12, 2023 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Allen Woodall, childhood, collection, lunch box, lunchbox museum, metal, metal lunch box, museum, nostalgia, photography, postaday, school, television, vintage 15 Comments

St.Martin’s Day

St.Martin’s Day was celebrated Thursday evening at the school.

First the story of St.Martin was told to the families inside the school. Then the families went outside to see the circle of all the school children. The children carried lanterns they’d made and gathered in a circle to sing. There were candles along the stairs and paths to light the darkness.

Inside where the story of St.Martin was told

A glass jar with colored tissue paper decoupage a tea light at the bottom

“Martin of Tours (died 397) was a Roman soldier who was baptized as an adult and became a bishop in Gaul. He is best known for the tale whereby he cut his cloak in half with his sword, to give half to a beggar who was dressed in only rags in the depth of winter. That night Martin had a vision of Jesus Christ wearing the half-cloak.”

Five years ago I attended another St.Martins Day in Berlin. Here’s that post

November 13, 2022November 13, 2022 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: candle, childhood, Croatia, family, holiday, lantern, Martinmas, photography, postaday, saint, school, St.Martin, travel, Zagreb 7 Comments

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