I have many fond memories of Miss Flannelly from her tenure at Claremont High School, and in years afterwards, when she came to our reunions, as fun and enthusiastic as ever. It's sad to bid good-bye to yet another respected and admired part of my past. I can only say that she lives on as part of the fabric that made up the CHS Class of '61. RIP, Miss Flannelly.
Ms. Flannelly was by far the most influential person in my high school life. She taught me two things:
1. Be accountable for one's actions, no matter what
2. Every person has worth
she saw who was hiding inside, and expected her to shine out. I spent my entire life believing in the girl Ms Flannelly knew was there. I am eternally grateful that she crossed my life. I was blessed enough to tell her thNk you as an adult. Ms. Flannelly gave me an opportunity to make something of my life.
Ah...Miss Flannelly...was so kind to me as a new student arriving my mid-Senior year at CHS. I'll always remember her kindness and support. Farewell, Miss Flannelly, you will always be remembered for the kind person you were.
Without blame or judgment, I always find the different perspectives on a person intriguing. My experience with Miss Flannelly was not of a person who supported me. She screened me out of a scholarship opportunity, perhaps because she thought me less deserving economically due to my having such high grades. I did, but I came from a single parent family, and we were always just getting by. I don't think she realized that. The group to which I applied for the modest scholarship fortunally requested to see all the applicants for the scholarships so I was considered. Her screening me out was bewildering and painful to me. I am glad that others had encouragement and positive interactions with her. I trust that her bigger commitment was always to the eccouragement of the students she connected with. So, it's good to hear of the ways in which she encouraged and supported the students at CHS.
Miss Flannelly made a big impact on my life, in a somewhat roundabout way. At the beginning of my senior year she took a look at the colleges I was applying to, and told me in no uncertain terms that I wasn't going to get into any of them, despite my academic record, if I didn't show more diversity in my outside interests, and that in particular it was important that I should be on a varsity sports team. Since the only choices that semester were football and cross-country running, and it was completely evident to me that I wouldn't make it onto any level of football team, I decided to go out for cross-country (not actually knowing before that point that CHS had a cross country running team). Never having been exposed before that in a PE class to running more than 1 lap around the track, I imagined that my chances were pretty low for making the team, but was pleasantly surprised that I was less hopeless relative to others at longer distances. Since that point, running has continued to be an important part of my life for the last 50+ years. Although I'm still not super fast at it, and nowadays do more of my running off trails on orienteering courses rather than on roads or tracks, it has been an ongoing pleasure that I might well never experienced if it hadn't been for that push back in the fall of 1960. At this point, I'm not that sure that it made any difference in where I got into college, but it did make a very positive change in my outside-the-job enjoyment! She clearly saw a gap in my interests that I had been unaware existed, and did something about it.
![Catherine Kit Flannelly [Dean Of Girls & Teacher/Girls' Pe] (Longe Stewart)](/000/6/4/9/9946/yearbook/Catherine-Kit-Flannelly-Dean-Of-Girls-TeacherGirls-Pe-Stewart-1961-Claremont-High-School-Claremont-CA.jpg)
Betty Dawn Shaeffer (Skov)
I have many fond memories of Miss Flannelly from her tenure at Claremont High School, and in years afterwards, when she came to our reunions, as fun and enthusiastic as ever. It's sad to bid good-bye to yet another respected and admired part of my past. I can only say that she lives on as part of the fabric that made up the CHS Class of '61. RIP, Miss Flannelly.
(Dail) Ruthi Dworak-Crockett
Ms. Flannelly was by far the most influential person in my high school life. She taught me two things:
1. Be accountable for one's actions, no matter what
2. Every person has worth
she saw who was hiding inside, and expected her to shine out. I spent my entire life believing in the girl Ms Flannelly knew was there. I am eternally grateful that she crossed my life. I was blessed enough to tell her thNk you as an adult. Ms. Flannelly gave me an opportunity to make something of my life.
Ruth (Dail) Dworak
Sue Clanton (Holtz)
Ah...Miss Flannelly...was so kind to me as a new student arriving my mid-Senior year at CHS. I'll always remember her kindness and support. Farewell, Miss Flannelly, you will always be remembered for the kind person you were.
Marcia Harrington
Without blame or judgment, I always find the different perspectives on a person intriguing. My experience with Miss Flannelly was not of a person who supported me. She screened me out of a scholarship opportunity, perhaps because she thought me less deserving economically due to my having such high grades. I did, but I came from a single parent family, and we were always just getting by. I don't think she realized that. The group to which I applied for the modest scholarship fortunally requested to see all the applicants for the scholarships so I was considered. Her screening me out was bewildering and painful to me. I am glad that others had encouragement and positive interactions with her. I trust that her bigger commitment was always to the eccouragement of the students she connected with. So, it's good to hear of the ways in which she encouraged and supported the students at CHS.
Marcia Harrington
Eric Smith
Miss Flannelly made a big impact on my life, in a somewhat roundabout way. At the beginning of my senior year she took a look at the colleges I was applying to, and told me in no uncertain terms that I wasn't going to get into any of them, despite my academic record, if I didn't show more diversity in my outside interests, and that in particular it was important that I should be on a varsity sports team. Since the only choices that semester were football and cross-country running, and it was completely evident to me that I wouldn't make it onto any level of football team, I decided to go out for cross-country (not actually knowing before that point that CHS had a cross country running team). Never having been exposed before that in a PE class to running more than 1 lap around the track, I imagined that my chances were pretty low for making the team, but was pleasantly surprised that I was less hopeless relative to others at longer distances. Since that point, running has continued to be an important part of my life for the last 50+ years. Although I'm still not super fast at it, and nowadays do more of my running off trails on orienteering courses rather than on roads or tracks, it has been an ongoing pleasure that I might well never experienced if it hadn't been for that push back in the fall of 1960. At this point, I'm not that sure that it made any difference in where I got into college, but it did make a very positive change in my outside-the-job enjoyment! She clearly saw a gap in my interests that I had been unaware existed, and did something about it.