Student Homes
Which student homes are no longer be used? Or have bee torn down?
Yup, it was tornado.
I was there when it happened, we were just getting home from Friday Town night, and a storm blew up just before we got home. I remember getting shoved through the door and slamming into the kitchen wall and then all the lights went out. When the lights came back on, half the windows were broken on the first floor, and there was water in some of the light fixtures. There was a big chunk torn out of the roof, and the rain gutter was found a couple hundred yards away sticking straight up out of the pasture.
I liked that place, the spring house and pond were really cool.
I ended up at Midvale, because they had to transfer everybody out after the tornado.
Maple Lawn and Maplewood are two different homes. Maple Lawn was near the golf course. It was also the closest student home to Dairy Queen. I'm not sure when it happened.
I had those poor excuse for human beings too. I spent 2 very long years there
If the tornado in question was in '79. I was there at the time. A good chunk of the roof got torn off
the house, all the windows were broken. There was even water in the light fixtures on the first floor.
If that was the Unit with the pond and old spring house down the hill, I remember it well. It was a
really nice place. I had a darkroom in the basement, since I was a photographer for a good chunk of
my time in S.D. I kinda like the Gallos, they had a cute daughter that was in high school, but would have almost
nothing to do with us :)
The Kelly's have been retired for some years now. Last I had heard they were still in the Hershey area.
Lenape is in Arrowhead. Are the Kelly's still the houseparents at Lenape? Is Naticoke down by Shawnee?
I was in Borderland June 77 to September 77 (they closed the home and we were moved to Crest Lane)
I was also in Valley View (April 76 to December 76)
The other student homes I was in I believe are still in use (Highland, Cloverdale, Fosterleigh & Crest Lane)
Borderland for me back in 71. We had great houseparents - the Helms. They were so human and great to talk to. They seemed to really enjoy their job and that made the attitude in the house great. I was back there once, but they weren't using it as a home at the time.
Intermediate division, was Elmwood. Whew very strict houseparents - the Irwins, Certainly every rule you could ever imagine was there.
I was in Maple Lawn in 9th & 10th grade. I'm not sure when it happened but I was told it got hit by a tornado. The only thing still there is part of the barn and I think the driveway that led to the carport. And that was where all my greatest memories were.
i have no idea. i didnt really talk to anyone in scouts. i think it might have been, but im not sure. i think there were only like 5 kids in the high school that were in scouts anyway.
I guess I just have bad timing. It had new signs and every thing. Was it still a scout home?
they must have just recently stopped using it as a student home cause it was still in use when i was there and that was just three years ago.
I stopped by my old home Bonniemead from 82' to 87'. I thought it was still in use. I was half right, it's now a storage building for the scouts. Our sister house Fosterleigh is the meeting place. I wanted to show my wife my old home but the keeper didn't wont to let me in. So we just walked around. Even that brought back some old memories. Some good some bad but they all make me smile now. I'd like to bring my kids there next year just so they can see it before they tear it down. 
I was only in one student home the whole time i was there... Santo Domingo... We had awesome houseparents. Mr. G would take us to the Hess station in campelltown to get sodas and would ask if we wanted to go for a doobie... i remember when the whole DC sniper thing was going on, i was in the colorguard for marching band and i had my rifle that i spun... he was like, krista, go grab your rifle, we're gonna sit on the side of 322 and you pretend to shoot people out the back... we did some funny stuff.
A few units I was in still exist others don't.
Intermediates: The units still exist ~ Jefferson (National Cluster) and Nanticoke (Arrowhead Cluster)
Evergreen - Still exists (Rancher on 322 and Homestead (?)
Southfield - CLOSED next to the Purcell House and Welcome Center (paired unit Glendale is now the Purcell House)
Union - CLOSED next to the Water Treatment Plant (Rt 39) - FUNNY thing is how now its the township lock up.
Paired home Springdale is another township building.
Clearview - Still exists - Crest Lane Cluster
Yeah.. I caught up with Joe McDonald for the 1st time a couple weeks back at Homecoming. It was the first time I saw him and many others in like 22 years since I left the Milt. I remember some of the other names you mentioned. Mike Truscott.. has a sister my age, they both looked very similiar. Paul Hutnick was small blonde haired kid? Buzza seems like he was a big kid? Mike Fiorillo had a sister my age as well I think.. Mellony?
Spring Mount was the other student home across from Pinegrove I think? Oak Grove was across the soccer/baseball field. I can't tell you how many days I remember playing out in those fields as well as playing hoops on the MAC CADDUM!!! 
.. that is what the Carneys always referred to it as.
I also used to hit golf balls with Mr. Carney over on that field.. he would make a make shift green and a flag to shoot after!
Yeah, Kyle was a good friend. I haven't seen him since we were 13 and it's night and day compared to what he looks like now. I was also good friends with Joe and Paul Hutnick, Wayne Armstrong, Joe McDonald, Terry Parthemore, Mike Truscott, Martin Buzza, Robert Pabon and Mike Fiorillo.
Don you are correct the Carney's were very strict, but I would still choose that house over the lackluster houseparents I had at Canalview. The Edgins were so old when I went to Senior Division and really had no idea what went on in that house. The upper classman pretty much ruled the home. No discipline whatsoever... Don I left for the senior division when you got to the school. I think you may have been in the same home as Kyle Stromberg?
I was @ Green Acres my sophomore year and we had one party. I think I invited my crush Jamie Hollman to attend. She was going out with Rich Troisi I think at the time and others told me I might get my derriere kicked for dancing too close with her! .. Rich and I were cool and he never said a word to me.
The Nipperts were at Green Acres before moving on to Evergreen, now I think they are at the old Milton Motel.. the school bought it and they are now entertaining kids and families that are in town to interview for acceptance into the school. I saw Mr. Nippert on that Saturday at homecoming, he was working over at Founders Hall, but I didn't get to visit with them while I was up there.
isn't that where all the parties were? seems to me that they had a party every month.
Nils, I remember Moldavia. It was just across the circle from us (Pinegrove). The houseparents there were really strict. We had to eat over there a couple of times. I'm glad I wasn't assigned there. And I remember raiding the pantry for cookies all the time! Chocolate chip and peanut butter all night long. Man, I miss those days
Don Richardson - Class of '89 - Pinegrove '83-'84
but it is a brand new built home. I was in Sherman, Elmwood, Limestone, Foxdale, then back to Elmwood for my senior year. the only houseparents that are still there is Elmwood ones, the Mladenoffs the rest quit, or were let go, and the Silars have passed away.
either... I don't think its been around for some time now. I am sure Moldavia... or Mol "slave" ia is still there. I really wanted to walk through that house again and show my girl exactly where this or that happened. There are so many memories that would be triggered if I would have gone through I am sure. Good times and bad... raiding the pantry was always fun! I miss those cookies in those tins!
the student homes I was in are no longer used as student homes (the last I knew anyway):
(Original) Fosterleigh
Meadowbrook - torn down
Vian ?
Broad Acres - torn down
In 1966 they had opened the old senior division home Springcreek. It still had the barn there but it was closed up and we weren't allow in it. The house parents were new and we were all just coming in to the school and we lived there for a year while they were building a new home for us over by Cathiern Hall. We had a creek that ran along side the house and Mr. Knupps helped us dam it up and make a nice swimming hole. One of my first memories there was, I slept near a window and always slept with it open. And it was so cool waking up to the sweet smell of hot cocoa coming from the Cocoa factory. God that was so heavenly