Germantown High School * Philadelphia, PA. * Class of 1957

Bruce Brodman

Memories of GHS

***My memories of GHS have faded into an amorphous warm feeling. It took the web page, with the many mentions of Mr. Krimins, for me to realize that I had him for algebra 3 and 4 followed by solid geometry (that in reality, turned out to be analytical geometry). I am fairly sure that at one time I had Miss Duffy as a home room teacher. ***During my years at GHS I took part in no extra circular activities. This, in part, was due to a strange set of circumstances, while I was a student at GHS my father was a principal in the Philadelphia School district (this was my deep dark secret). Unfortunately, he reinvented himself as an educator, later in life, when he owned two drug stores. He had a B.S. in Pharmacy and went back to school and got a B.S. and M.S. in Education. When I entered the tenth grade we still had one faltering drug store that I had to work in, after school, until 9:00 pm. ***In general, my experiences at GHS were rewarding and pleasant. I don’t remember having any life altering interaction with the teachers but maybe that was because I had an in-house educator.