DONNA MOORE COOLEY
Donna Moore grew up in the Nottingham Green neighborhood of Newark and attended John R. Downes Elementary School. She graduated from Newark High School in 1976. At the age of 22 she moved to Alaska, where she still lives today.
Segment from e-mail correspondence:
Behind our house was John R. Downes School where we all went to elementary school and behind the school was "the creek". We used to go back there and spend all day playing, jumping off a rope swing into the creek, riding our bikes along the web of paths we created, or just hanging out.
In high school we hung out with the "Binns Boys" (from the Binns neighborhood). I'm not sure how it all got started but the Vassar Dr. girls had a thing for the Binns Boys.... [They] had a "bad" reputation and "Born to Run" was our theme song. They took care of us and we all remain close friends to this day.
Like most of us, "Ya never know what cha got til it's gone." I didn't appreciate Newark when I was growing up there. It was a great place to grow up.
Source of information:
Cooley, Donna Moore. E-mail correspondence on April 5, 2009 with students in Veness' Geography 315 class (Spring 2009).
