I kept on waiting on Sunday for the phone to ring at 7 or 8 am and it to be my grandfather saying, "Is the taxi service running? And is there bacon??" It didn't happen. Instead the sweetheart that I'm dating was in the kitchen fixing pancakes for my entire family. Somehow I think my Grandpa would have liked him...after he gave him the third degree of course.
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Bernard Q. Hayton, coach, superintendent at Reavis
July 24, 2004
BY REX ROBINSON
Bernard Q. Hayton started teaching physical education and coaching sports at Reavis High School when it first opened, in the early 1950s. He later became the Burbank school's second superintendent.
Mr. Hayton died Monday of complications from bladder cancer and heart disease. He was 85.
Mr. Hayton, who most recently lived in Downstate Neoga, remained in the south suburban school post until 1977.
"He knew every student in the school by name, what activities they were involved in and how they were doing in their classes," his son Bernie Hayton Jr. said. "I remember him spending hours studying the yearbooks."
Mr. Hayton was born in Stanley, Wis. In 1941, he married Sara Elizabeth Mann. The couple had two boys. In 1945, she died of a heart condition.
A World War II veteran, Mr. Hayton served in the U.S. Army and fought in France and Italy.
He attended Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, where he played football, basketball and baseball. At Eastern, he met and Rosalie Braasch, and they were married in 1946.
After graduating from Eastern in 1947, Mr. Hayton received a master's degree in school administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His first teaching job was at Martinsville High School.
In 1949, the school didn't have a lighted football field, so Mr. Hayton spent a summer erecting the poles and putting up lights so the team could play night games, Bernie Hayton Jr. said. "He did it all by himself," he said.
In 1953, Mr. Hayton moved his family to Palos Heights and began working at Reavis High School, coaching basketball, football, baseball, track and other sports.
He later became chairman of the physical education department, the school's athletic director and dean of boys. About 10 years later, he became assistant superintendent, and in the late 1960s became superintendent.
About three years ago, he went back to Reavis for a reunion.
"He stood against a back wall for about seven hours shaking hands," his son said.
At the reunion, a story was told about Mr. Hayton and a boy with polio. The boy's mother came to Mr. Hayton and said her son needed to come to the school early to use the pool. "My father told her, 'If you come over at 7 a.m., I'll be there to open the pool for you,' " Hayton's son said.
At the reunion party, a man stood up and thanked Mr. Hayton: it was the boy who swam in the pool every morning.
Mr. Hayton's second wife died in 2002. Other survivors include another son, C.A. "Andy" Hayton; a sister, Doris Collins, and three grandchildren.
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Bernard Q. Hayton, coach, superintendent at Reavis
July 24, 2004
BY REX ROBINSON
Bernard Q. Hayton started teaching physical education and coaching sports at Reavis High School when it first opened, in the early 1950s. He later became the Burbank school's second superintendent.
Mr. Hayton died Monday of complications from bladder cancer and heart disease. He was 85.
Mr. Hayton, who most recently lived in Downstate Neoga, remained in the south suburban school post until 1977.
"He knew every student in the school by name, what activities they were involved in and how they were doing in their classes," his son Bernie Hayton Jr. said. "I remember him spending hours studying the yearbooks."
Mr. Hayton was born in Stanley, Wis. In 1941, he married Sara Elizabeth Mann. The couple had two boys. In 1945, she died of a heart condition.
A World War II veteran, Mr. Hayton served in the U.S. Army and fought in France and Italy.
He attended Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, where he played football, basketball and baseball. At Eastern, he met and Rosalie Braasch, and they were married in 1946.
After graduating from Eastern in 1947, Mr. Hayton received a master's degree in school administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His first teaching job was at Martinsville High School.
In 1949, the school didn't have a lighted football field, so Mr. Hayton spent a summer erecting the poles and putting up lights so the team could play night games, Bernie Hayton Jr. said. "He did it all by himself," he said.
In 1953, Mr. Hayton moved his family to Palos Heights and began working at Reavis High School, coaching basketball, football, baseball, track and other sports.
He later became chairman of the physical education department, the school's athletic director and dean of boys. About 10 years later, he became assistant superintendent, and in the late 1960s became superintendent.
About three years ago, he went back to Reavis for a reunion.
"He stood against a back wall for about seven hours shaking hands," his son said.
At the reunion, a story was told about Mr. Hayton and a boy with polio. The boy's mother came to Mr. Hayton and said her son needed to come to the school early to use the pool. "My father told her, 'If you come over at 7 a.m., I'll be there to open the pool for you,' " Hayton's son said.
At the reunion party, a man stood up and thanked Mr. Hayton: it was the boy who swam in the pool every morning.
Mr. Hayton's second wife died in 2002. Other survivors include another son, C.A. "Andy" Hayton; a sister, Doris Collins, and three grandchildren.
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