JOSIE SCOTT

By request, here's what I remember about Josie.

Josie was the twin sister of fellow graduate Julie Scott. Although they were not identical twins. In fact, I personally didn't know she even existed until we were in 6th grade. But she did go to school at Magee. So how I didn't know about her is a mystery to me.

Josie is someone that I don't think I ever really had any meaningful contact with. We weren't in the same circles, to be sure. From what I saw, she seemed to carry herself with an air of superiority - like she thought she was better than a lot of the people on the lower end of the social scale - people like me. I loathed attitudes like that.

See my Jennifer Andersen post in the January archives for basically my only confrontation with her. It wasn't a positive one.

I don't recall any specific incidents with Josie. But I do know that on the rare occasions that we were both together at the same time (as in a group project or something on a given day) she seemed to have utter contempt for me. I couldn't joke around with her or anything. She was all business. And she had no time for me. Now if someone a little "higher up" wanted to joke around with, she was fine with that. To me, that's rude.

About the only other memory I have of her is from around 8th or 9th grade. She moved into an apartment building on Mishicot Road, right across the street from the cemetery. I had a friend who lived in the apartment right below theirs. For whatever reason, one night I decided to take all the garbage bags that were on the curb, and throw them in the street - in hopes that a car would run into them. Why? Who knows. Such is the senseless mind of a troublemaker. Some cars swerved through the maze. Some cars hit the trash dead on. The fun came to an end when I looked up in the window and saw Josie staring at me. I was sure that she would call the cops. If she did, I never knew about it. I simply left and went home.

Josie was heavily involved in school activites. I believe she was president of the student council (or whatever it was called) during our senior year. Hell, she was probably president all four years.

After high school, I can only assume that she went onto school somewhere. Eventually she married, and is now known as Josie Matuszak. I don't know if they've been blessed with children. But she appears to work for a credit union in Madison.