What High School Did You Go To?

[KellyinAvon]

I graduated in 92 and was supposed to join the Navy via the boost program, but ended up leaving MEPs before signing my life way (didn't trust the recruiter as being honest). Job opportunity was pretty bleak in Alamogordo and my father was seperating from the Air Force, and Salem (hometown) is where he decided to move the family. Crime and drugs were supposed to be close to none (turns out not the case). And honestly after moving around my whole life every couple years, having to make new friends growing up, i just decided to let the grass grown between my feet and just planted myself in Salem.

It's not the area I left in 86 for certain. Salem made the news up here yesterday (although it was the Becks Mill area, Salem in address only) with a defensive gun use.

 

[Creedmoor]

Stuff it, Pops. My generation's running the nursing homes.

I just shot 3 lbs of mud down my pants, your gonna need a garden hose son.

 

[Alamo]

… back in the day when classes weren't weighted, so an A in gym class counted for more than a B in physics, and I took all of the college prep classes without a study hall. It still irks me that I got beat out by people that took nothing but the easiest classes, can you tell?

lol. feel your pain. I was Salutatorian (number 2) in my graduating class - the Valedictorian edged me out by only a little bit, maybe 10ths of a point, for the same reason. I was actually pretty clueless about the competitive aspects of this. It didn’t matter in the long run, nor really even in the short run - college acceptances and scholarships and all that had really already been decided. The last semester of high school really didn’t matter much unless you failed something.

And being Salutatorian I got all the academic glory but I didn’t have to give a speech at graduation.

At least I don’t think I did. Patience0830 do you remember? Crap, I’m getting old.

 

[mom45]

Wow. I thought I at 45 would be around the average age here. Turns out I'm one of the younger ones.

You are old. Stay 29 like me.

 

[BroodXI]

It's not the area I left in 86 for certain. Salem made the news up here yesterday (although it was the Becks Mill area, Salem in address only) with a defensive gun use.

Good shoot for sure

 

[Wabatuckian]

You are old. Stay 29 like me.

Eh. I was 29 once and didn't like it. Then I got old.

Then I chose to not be old.

Now I run a business making supplies that allow folks to gunsmith their own rifles, have a side seasonal business repairing and tuning bicycles, and sub teach at MSD schools whenever I get the time. I take my guitar (usually electric) and play music for the kids if they act right. A couple of my songs ("Grandpa in a 'Vette" and "Happy Song") are pretty popular with the 7th thru 9th graders. Under 7th like anything I play.

I couldn't do any of this at age 29.

Grandma Smith died in 1996. In the years before she died, she made sure that I understood she was in her second childhood, that, at some point, I'd be able to enter a second childhood, too. I'm pretty sure I hit it around three years ago.

I wouldn't ever want to be as old as 29 again. I might have to care about things that don't really matter.

 

[tv1217]

Thornwood High School Class of 2004. South Holland, IL

 

[jamil]

I was 6th out of 676 in my class.

What happened?

 

[Indyhd]

Valpo class of 75

 

[ancjr]

I don't think I went often enough for it to really count....

 

[daddyusmaximus]

Columbus North Bulldogs... 81

 

[cbhausen]

Monrovia (IN) Bulldog, Class of ‘82.

GO ‘DOGS!

 

[jspy5]

Plainfield High School, class of '71.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I wouldn't ever want to be as old as 29 again. I might have to care about things that don't really matter.

"I was so much older then. I am younger than that now."

 

[Dr.Midnight]

Cool. I was in the top ten as well....but there were a whole 36 people in my class.

Bloomington South '91. I might be, and I say this with the utmost humility, the finest 'C' student the Monroe County School System ever produced.

 

[mom45]

"I was so much older then. I am younger than that now."

It's fun being younger than my kids.

 

[rob63]

"I was so much older then. I am younger than that now."

Ben Franklin once wrote a friend that when he reached 70 he realized that the path he was on led to the grave so he reversed course, and having traveled the opposite direction for 4 years he should now be referred to as being 66.

 

[two70]

lol. feel your pain. I was Salutatorian (number 2) in my graduating class - the Valedictorian edged me out by only a little bit, maybe 10ths of a point, for the same reason. I was actually pretty clueless about the competitive aspects of this. It didn’t matter in the long run, nor really even in the short run - college acceptances and scholarships and all that had really already been decided. The last semester of high school really didn’t matter much unless you failed something.

And being Salutatorian I got all the academic glory but I didn’t have to give a speech at graduation.

At least I don’t think I did. Patience0830 do you remember? Crap, I’m getting old.

I started reading your post and at first I was thinking "when in the hell did I post in this thread?", lol! It was the same for me except there were 4 of us separated by a few 10ths of a point and our graduation ceremony was held prior to finals so the final standings weren't set yet. All 4 of us had to give speeches! With 4 speeches and the largest graduating class up to that point (53), it was a much longer ceremony than normal.

Oh, and SHS '99.

 

[tomcat13]

Louisville Butler High School, Class of '73

 

[lrdudley]

I went to the oldest high school west of the Allegheny Mountains that was and is still in continuous operation. Central High School Evansville Indiana. Class of 1967.

Muncie Central Class of 1967. Looks like we are the oldest at this point.