High School memories

Football games
My sparkly flag girl uniform
Showchoir
Camping trips
The 800 crushes I had

 

double hitter baseball games on Saturday morning

early morning basketball practice

field trips to Chicago

long talks with friends

watching football team play in the Hoosier Dome

pep rallys

 

Student council
bonfires
Paula Abdul
Weekends with friends
Centrifuge
drivers license
prank calling
playing softball
show choir
piano lessons

 

Meeting Wilson Rawls author of "Where The RedFren Grows".

 

Standing up to a guy or guys who didn't act like gentlemen.
Being thankful for the gentlemen who were kind and stood up for me.

 

Platform Shoes

Disco

"Breaker, Breaker 19"

Yearbook

The smell of the lunchroom

lockers

Espanol

The Wilds (Did anyone else throw their stick in the fire?)

Dress check every morning to make sure our dresses were not too short (Small Christian school rules!)

Mood rings

Pet Rocks

Izod Shirts

 

My high school happened to be "lined up" with the East-West runway of the Baton Rouge airport about a mile away---when the commercial planes came in for a landing or were taking off---it shook and rattled the windows and drowned out the teacher's voice(that was the fun part!!)

 

wow I am impressed they had planes when you were in high school

 

Drama and music.
Preppy clothes (sweater vests and penny loafers) during the week.
Quiksilver clothing on weekends.
The "Pat Benetar" look.
Waiting in long lines for Star Trek 2 and Return of the Jedi.
Thursday nights watching the Cosby Show and Family Ties.
Friday nights watching Miami Vice.
Roger Moore as James Bond.
My sophomore religion teacher.
Outings to Bob's Big Boy.
Waiting 2 hours to ride Disneyland's new "Big Thunder Mountain Railroad".
Getting a Disneyland ticket book for $9.25

 

Yearbook and journalism.
Slumber parties.
Taking "Celebrate Life" to Philadelphia and Los Angelos.
Visiting Mexico.
Earl Campbell broadsiding Bevo the bull and moving him 10 yards.
Meeting Bill Shatner.
Bible drills.
Bus Ministries.
Childrens Ministries.
Handbells.
Choir.
Being part of the Bicentennial class.
Honors Classes and the plays, projects and fun that went with them.
My first car.

 

visual arts - drawing, painting, printmaking
Ruby lips
protesting the Vietnam War
cliques
gin and Billie Holliday on hot summer nights
the Smithsonian Museum
Aeschylus, Sophocles & Euripides (thank you, Mrs. Daunte)
Tennesse Williams, Faulkner & Carson McCullers
Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson
LSD
Dostoyevsky
Theater 80 St. Marks
the Museum of Modern Art's sculpture garden
meeting Andy Warhol
Vidal Sassoon blunt cuts
corn chowder at Chock Full O'Nuts
"What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
wit and symbolism

 

Desperatly trying for a flagrant foul for dunking, I was 6' even.
Trying to set the school record in high hurdles.
Trying to drink the Blitz brewing co. dry.
Meeting and competing against Dick Fosbury, (the Fosbury flop) who's school was our nemisis. I high jumped against him from Jr. high. His coaches almost kicked him off the team for jumping his way.
Overnighters at the Applegate river.
youth night at the Methodist Church.
4 wheelin
meeting my wife of 38 years

 

Clapping erasers outside for extra credit

Cleaning blackboards for extra credit

Running errands for teachers for extra credit

Emptying trash drums for extra credit

Patrolling lunch room for extra credit(and food)

Cherry Bombs at Pep rallies

Football coach swearing the team will never go 0-10 again---but yet the theme for the following season is "0 & 10 Once Again!"

Taking field trips to the Planetarium seriously

Taking Algebra tests flippantly

The 2:35pm bell!!!!

Fridays!!

Short school bus ride TO school

Long school bus ride HOME!!!

 

Missing my freshman year because of near-fatal injuries from a motorcycle wreck (I did have a 'home-bound' teacher and got credit in 4 subjects that way).

A pathetic counselor who told me before my sophomore year that Advanced Algebra and Geometry were the same level course. I opted for AA and flunked it, and the teacher recommended I take 'Introductory' math the next year, but I took Geometry and made all A's. I later achieved my BS in Mathematics. That counselor BTW was a distant relative.

Being constantly picked on and mocked because I limped and had gained weight during my recovery, and as a result being friendless by choice.

Having nothing-- zilch-- listed by my name in the senior directory of the yearbook (which I refused to buy, did see once).

Making my biggest impressions on, of all people, English teachers. They loved my creative writing and that because any time we had to do reciting of a poem or famous speech, including Hamlet's most noted soliloquy, I made a perfect mark. [I'm sure they didn't remotely realize how much I related to most of these.]

Refusing to attend my graduation.

There are a lot more "memories," of course, but that should be enough to show what my high school years were like.

 

Football 2-a-days
Football games, as starting FB/LB
Baseball, as pitcher-1base
Winning the Golden Horseshoe, a WV history award
Dating gurlzz from other schools
Being hit by a car during my frosh year(My fault)
Making incendiary-explosive devices in friendly competition w/buddies to see whose device could make the biggest hole/fireball in a nearby open field
Busting my first deer while hunting with some teammates(6-point buck)
Bicycling to school in -20 degree weather(2 miles)
My first, and last episode of alcohol abuse(I awoke w/my head on the rim of a public commode...and that was supposed to be HAVING FUN?!?!?
Doing a wheelie on the school parking lot...WITH A CAR!
Being a pinball wizard
Mohican haircut, Beatle hairdo senior year(Looked awful between hairstyles!)
Enlisting in the NAV 2 months before graduating, leaving 2 wks. after graduating
ALL MY WONDERFUL FRIENDS! We made lifetime friendships; not that I'm outta fulltime police work, & moved back to my old 'hood, I git to visit many of'em!
THANK YOU, LORD!

 

Letting a teacher know that we have 26 Amendments ( this was in the 70's) when he said we had 25 and telling him that Thomas Jeferson was the President of the United States when he said otherwise and telling him what page & chapter he could find the information on.
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