Jane Hindman Koehler

Posted on: Jun 16, 2022 at 10:42 AM

I would love to have a group from our area meet. Plenty of places in the area and we have a clubhouse and pool here in our Maples Community Woodstock. It is directl northeast of the Courthouse (I can see the jail from my window so you could check it out sometime i.e. the clubhouse - not the jail.

Carla wanted to work in the JC library. She asked me to go with her for moral support when she spoke to the librarian, Mrs. Gum. After accepting Carla, Mrs. Gum asked me if I would like to work there too (at 75 cents  an hour). . Tht was the beginning of my almost 50 year caree ras a libratrian.I received a masters degree in library science (now information science) and worked in a career that I loved. It all started with Carla. By the way, I know she was a professor of ,ibrary science in California.     Jane Hindman Koehler 

I sat next to him in Miss TeWinkle's first period class our senior year.  Every day (well, maybe he missed one) he asked me for a pen, pencil or piece of paper.  One day, Miss Te Winkle heard the exchange and just shook her head. I like him because he was so funny. As I recalled, Miss T was not amused ! 

As a "west-ender," I often road the good old Belleville bus with Mary. Yes, she was shy. Once, we went to St Louis together on the bus.  She was afraid that we would be lost and never find our way back.  I can remember meeting her a few years later when I was back in Belleville on college break and she showed me a picture of her toddler son.  She was so proud.     

Wear a maroon tie when you come to Court.

I believe the teacher's name was Hallie Eubanks. I can remember thet she did get married - to our amazement. I did not get an A in typing, however.

We have probably passed one another in the halls of the Court House. I am a Court Appointed Advocate in Judge McIntyre's Family Court. Small world.

As I was thinking about Judy, I remembered that she was the one who told me President Kennedy had been shot.  I was working in the Junior College Library when Judy came in.  She asked if I had heard the news about Kennedy.  I remember thinking, "That can't happen... presidents don't get assassinated in this modern time."   A few minutes later Lenora Kriege, who taught history just across the hall, came into the library with a grim expression and confirmed that it was true.  When I think of that day, I also think about Judy.    

Judy and I often rode the old Bi-state bus together.  We were "west-enders."  She was a lovely young woman.

Jane Hindman Koehler