From Sheila:
1) Where did you graduate from and what year?
Um, what?
2) Did u have school pride?
Hmm. I dunno. Did u?
3) Was your prom a night to remember?
I went to two Senior Proms. Once as a sophomore; the other, as a Senior. They were both very icky experiences. So memorable, ah, yesss.
4) Do you own all 4 Yearbooks?
Yes. I even worked on the yearbook one year — junior year, I think. Was that it? Hmm. I’d have to check my yearbook!
5) What was the worst trouble you ever got into?
Trouble? Are you kidding?? I was eerily well-behaved. I was more of a freak than the freaks because of it.
6) What kind of people did you hang out with?
Drama people.
7) What was your number 1 choice of College in HS?
My #1 choice was where I ended up going. It was in Seattle, WA. It was NOT, however, my parents’ #1 choice for me. I bucked family tradition and didn’t go to the college that both my parents and both my siblings went to. My siblings had awful college experiences and I LOVED mine. SO glad I made the choice I did.
8) What radio station did u rock out too?
I honestly can’t remember.
9) Were you involved in any organizations or clubs?
Drama club and yearbook. Tennis team.
10) What were your favorite classes in high school?
Drama. Creative Writing. Spanish, actually. Man, I’m just remembering — I was a DEMON in Spanish! I mean, I won some kind of bizarre countywide competition in SPANISH, for God’s sake!! Who has competitions to see who’s best in SPANISH?? Who CARES??
11) Who was your big crush in High School?
9th grade: Ron B. He was on the wrestling team. He was this big-deal wrestler — made even more of a big deal because his right hand was deformed. It was frozen in a claw that bent down toward his wrist. He told me he’d had a surgery to “unfreeze” it and it worked for a while. Then it just went back the way it was. He seemed fine with it, actually. I remember watching him wrestle and watching his opponents look at that hand of his. You could almost hear them thinking, “Check this out. EASY win. NO problem.” Ron would act all nonchalant. They’d act certain they were going to win. Then Ron would proceed to kick their asses. Ended up 1st in the state in his weight class. Very cool guy. Too cool to be dating me — which I think he eventually realized!
10th grade: Tim S. A junior. A water polo player. Water polo was IT at our school, not football. Our football teams always sucked, but our water polo teams? Fuggedaboudit. We DOMINATED. So he was this dreamy, unattainable, popular guy. I’m not sure I ever spoke a complete sentence to him, breathless as I became at the nearness of him. I may have panted in his general direction. Which didn’t win him over, surprisingly. Months later, one of my best friends was dating him. We were not friends after that.
11th grade: Bob M. A senior. Much more in common with this one — we were both in Drama. He was THE star of our department, really a gifted actor. I remember watching him as Jerry in “The Zoo Story.” In that show, Jerry has an epic monologue where he describes in detail his attempt to poison his landlady’s dog. And listening to this monologue is when I KNEW I loved Bob M.! I mean, he was so believable, you see. And who wouldn’t swoon at a guy who could make you believe that he would poison a helpless dog — I was over the MOON, people! Hahaha. (But also sick.)
I remember he had to kiss me in a show we did — a mere chaste peck, really, and I nearly fainted with love for him! He, it turns out, felt that same way — about someone else. A guy. I was SO naive.
Sighhh …..
12th grade: I’d used up my whole heart on Bob M. the year before. I was too heartbroken to even allow for a crush.
12) Would you say you’ve changed a lot since high school?
(No, I still have a crush on Bob M.) Sheesh!! I hope so.
13) What do you miss the most about it?
I don’t miss much about it, honestly. High School was hard for me. I sometimes still pine for my college years. THOSE were the grand ones for me.
14) Your worst memory of HS?
Other than one of my best friends stealing my crush with her brazen hussy-ness and another crush being GAY??? I don’t know!
15) Did you have a car?
Yes. It was a used Ford Country Squire station wagon — you know, the kind with the elegant wood side panels? Clah-ssy. I shared it with my older sister. Well, that is, until I rear-ended some poor old man and basically totalled the thing. A station wagon! I TOTALLED a STATION WAGON! Luckily, the old man survived — somehow.
16) What were your school colors?
Ghastly orange — yes, ORANGE — and white.
17) Who were your fav. teachers?
Mr. Hagan. Mr. Mentas.
18) Did you own a cell phone in high school?
They didn’t exist — thank GOD.
19) Did you leave campus for lunch?
I think sometimes — during senior year.
20) If so, where was your fav. place to go eat?
The Yogurt Mill. The building used to be a pizza place called “The Leaning Tower of Pizza,” so you can imagine what it looked like. Really good frozen yogurt — which I always ate quickly because I thought the place was gonna collapse on me.
21) Were you always late to class?
Never.
22) Did you ever have to stay for Saturday School?
Nope.
23) Did you ever ditch?
No — except for “Senior Ditch Day.” I lived on the edge, man.
24) What kind of Job did you have?
Cashier at Costco.
25) Do you wish you were still in high school?
Does ANYONE answer yes to this??? Puhleazze.
All right. Anyone else care to share?
Well, I’ll bite –
1) San Antonio, and let’s just say it was a long time ago…
2)Yes, I did – until they went co-ed in the ’80’s, then I lost all respect
3)No, but the Winter Dance, which the srs. gave for the jrs. was, b/c that’s when I met my future husband.
4)Yes. The first two had the coolest burlap fabric covers, my sr. one went back to tacky vinyl. I was peeved.
5) I once had to go to Saturday detention, but as it turned out, the real culprit was someone else with the same surname and first intial. I was a total goody two-shoes, as trouble never looked like much fun.
6)My high school was tiny – there were 64 people in my class. I hung out with the class leaders, but sort of on the periphery.
7) the one future hubby was attending, I’m sorry to say. Not that it wasn’t an excellent school.
8)Can’t remember
9)All-star hockey player, Latin Club, intramural sports team (no choice on that one – the whole school played), editor of the literary magazine sr. year.
10)Latin and English. I won some sort of UIL award for Latin in 10th grade. I was also the Latin and English medalist Sr. year. I was the class go-to gal for help with your English
paper.
11)I went to an all-girl’s school, so crushes were not a huge deal. When we were srs., we all needed dates to this dance we were giving for the jrs., so we asked one of the dorm parent dads, who was also the athletic coach, to get us blind dates from his former fraternity at a local university. Mine was the first one to call and arrange to pick me up. So, I’m crammed into a phone cubicle with ten other girls listening in, hissing “How does he sound? Does he sound cute?”
I got off the phone and announced that the voice might be all he had, but if not, he was really cute. (As it turned out, he got the voice from his dad, a well-known sports announcer for CBS.)
So, he picks me (looking totally adorable in my red velvet dress) up and we hit if off immediately. only one of the other couples ever even went out again. We got married 2 years later and now have four kids and one grandchild.
Thanks, Coach!
12) How pitiful if one hasn’t. Still, when I went back for a reunion, everyone still had that core personality they had back then.
13) Unlimited time to read and the recognition for what I was good at.
14) Saturday school – see #5
15)No
16)Purple and white
17) Mellard, Dawson, Cullen and Crowe. Side note – a lot of our teachers were retired military, due to the bases in S.A. We had lots of Cols. on staff.
18)Oh, please…not only did I not have a cell phone, we didn’t have calculators, videos, CD’s or DVD’s. We had a microwave in the snack bar and that was cutting edge. Moving in involved your dad getting a hernia from carting around all your boxes of vinyl records.
19. No, not allowed
20)N/A. But on Friday nights a bunch of us would dress up and go to a local steak house to eat.
21)Never
22)See 5
23)No- where would I have gone?
24) didn’t have one
25) I have very fond memories, but NO
Yay, Sal! “Thanks for playing”!