Bob Bach to retire

[MU/Panther]

http://www.jsonline.com/entertainmen...274535751.html

Former voice of Marquette Basketball

[Mark Miller]

Enjoyed his calls of Marquette games.

And he's a Francis Jordan graduate. Never knew that.

[MulliganMusings]

Bob did the play-by-play back in my day (79-83) and he was outstanding. Never understood why MU changed but I'm sure there's a story.

[TedBaxter]

Where was Francis Jordan High School located?

[Nukem2]

Where was Francis Jordan High School located?

68th & Burleigh. It was housed in barracks which were originally home for the junior high of Mother of Good Counsel Parish. Jordan was closed in the late 60s due to finances. Jordan played its games at Divine Savior HS, a girls HS ( both schools were run by the Salvatorians ). I saw Jim Chones play there against Jordan.

I went to MGC and went to junior high in those barracks, which were rather dilapidated.

[Phantom Warrior]

Actually, the building was used again in 1970-71 and 71-72. It, along with the 68th Street Elementary School right behind it, became the first "model school" in MPS. At the time it was known as Peckham Annex/68th Street Open Education School. It housed only seventh graders that lived in the Peckham Junior High district. Eventually, it was renamed Jackie Robinson Middle School near the end of 1972.

I know this because I taught in the building those two years and was one of a handful of teachers at Peckham who helped create the open ed school. I was in my mid-20s, and I still had hope for urban education.

For the record, the Francis Jordan building was a dump. It's hard to imagine that it was actually a high school at one time. I think they tore it down a few years later, but I'm not sure.

[TheSultan]

Out of curiosity, where was Notre Dame high school in Milwaukee?

[Phantom Warrior]

If memory serves, it was on the South side, somewhere in the vicinity of 5th Street or 6th Street in the Lincoln Avenue or Beecher Street area.

[russguss]

On S 5th Str... Just North of Mitchell... Next to St Stanislaus Church...now a Grade school... It was Woodland school for a time..

[TheSultan]

Thank you both. For some reason I thought it was on the near west side off Hawley Road. Maybe I was mixing up Stanislaus and Sebastian.