Notes for: Walter Parker Bodine, Sr.
Walter retired in 1965 from teaching school.
From: Walt Bodine [kentbodine at mindspring.com]
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003
Cc: Bryan K Bodine
Subject: Re: New info on Charles W. Bodine
...Dad [Walter Bodine, Sr.] eventually received his Masters Degree from Columbia, retiring after 32 years of teaching ... beginning with gaining his BA at Lafayette ... My mother, Isabelle Kendrick Bodine, graduated from Penn in '27, with a degree in Education. She had majored in English...
We keep in touch !
Best wishes, Walt B
Here is another message from his son, Walter Bodine:
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From: Walt Bodine [kentbodine at mindspring.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Subject: Fw: BODINE PHOTO 1916 LAMBERTVILLE
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From: Walt Bodine [kentbodine at mindspring.com]
To: Zehd6
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Subject: Re: WALTER P. BODINE PHOTO 1916 LAMBERTVILLE HIGH SCHOOL (Item won on ebay)
Hi Don:
Thanks so much for your kind praise and accurate description of my mother. Yes, that is her, firm but compassionate. She was a sweet mother, and my dad was loved by many. I can remember at his viewing in Nov. 1967, over 400 people paid their last respects to "Professor Bodine". Most of them were former students. When I was a little tot, well before I started school, my dad would take me into his Science Classroom, and I remember being referred to as "Little Pro". I used to ride on his motorcycles behind him on "a buddy seat", with a handle to put my hands around, if need be, and put my feet in the saddle bags. One day, a dog was chasing my dad down around 4th and Orange (in Media, of course), and he went up over the sidewalk and up a bank, almost to the person's porch, and he asked me why I didn't fall off. I replied to him "cause I had my feet (meaning also part of my legs) in the saddle bags.
Dad's viewing in November, 1967, was held in Nelson Rigby's Funeral Home on Baltimore Pike and Jackson Streets in Media. In late April, 1994, my mother's viewing was also held there...
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My dad gave me some excellent advice, some of which I only wish he had followed himself, and that was "go into industry and don't be afraid to move around", both of which I attribute my success to before my retirement in 1991.
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Thanks so very much for sending the box of memorys out to me today, and I will most certainly let you know when it arrives.
This meeting WAS meant to be.
With every good wish, I remain,
Yours very truly, Walt Bodine
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From: Zehd6@cs.com [Zehd6 at cs.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Subject: Re: BODINE PHOTO 1916 LAMBERTVILLE
Hi Walt,
Thank You looking, Something's were never meant to be. It has been a pleasure getting to know you and share some moments in time. You have brought back some fond memories of Chester Heights. Your mother was a great teacher and very firm but compassionate. I do remember I liked your mother as a teacher. She always treated me well. She taught honesty, God and country. I remember having to recite poetry. Poetry was important to her. Not much of that is being taught today. So you have every reason to be proud.
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Sincerely,
Don Zeh.
From Ronny Bodine:
Obituary, Delaware County Daily Times (Chester, Pa.) of 9 Nov 1967.
Walter P. Bodine, 68, a retired Media High School science teacher, died Wednesday at his home, 800 Ridley Creek Road, High Meadow, Middletown. Mr. Bodine retired in 1965 after being at the high school since 1929. He was a graduate of Lafayette College and received his masters degree at Temple University, Philadelphia. He was a member of the Media Presbyterian Church and of the Masons, Lambertville Lodge, Lambertville, N.J., Surviving are his widow, Isabelle K.; a son, Walter P. Jr. of Dearborn, Mich., and two grandchildren.