Think about your SENIOR year in high school:
- Did you know your current significant other? Not even close, although we did find out later that he knew some of my classmates. He's four years older than I am and lived in the next town.
- Make and year of car? Plymouth Valiant. I don't remember the year but it was old because it only cost $400. It was a cool ride with push button gear shift. I called him Prince.
- What kind of job? I worked at the local library all through high school and into the first year of college.
- Where did you live? Just a few blocks from school but they were LONG blocks, up steep hills which I had to walk in rain, snow, sleet, hail - well maybe not snow in California.
- Were you popular? Not at all. At our 40th reunion a few years ago I was surprised that so many of my classmates knew me.
- Were you in choir? Nope.
- Ever get suspended from school? Really? I came from a Catholic grammar school.
- If you could, would you go back? No, although I do wish I had done some things differently back then. Maybe I wish I had done some things!
- Still talk to the person that you went to prom with? Didn't go to Senior Ball. I got my car that weekend so I would have something cool to talk about when everyone else was talking about the Senior Ball. Junior Prom was a family friend who did me a favor.
- Did you skip school? See answer 7! I did do Senior Cut Day but I think they all expected that.
- Go to all the football games? Not a one. Did go to a basketball game where the teachers were playing against the local radio station though. Got my picture in the yearbook that way because they happened to take an angle shot that included the benches.
- Favorite subject? English - just the reading part not the diagramming sentences part - and history.
- Do you still have your yearbooks? Yes, although I didn't get one for my Freshman year. I never look at them though so are they really that important to me?
- Did you follow the career path you planned? Pretty much. I wanted to be a nurse but took the short cut to medical assistant instead.
- Did you have a class ring? Yes. Still have it. It doesn't fit.
- Still close with your best friend? Yes although there were years that we didn't speak as we were busy raising our kids and she lived on the other side of the Bay from us.
- Who was your favorite teacher? Mr. Christman. He looked like Steve McQueen so it was easy to pay attention to him.
- What was your style? I had no style.
- Favorite shoes? Shoes were never my thing either.
- Favorite music? Pop rock. Whatever was playing on KYA radio.
- High school hair? Senior year was short with a bit of teasing to give it some height.
- What kind of cologne/perfume? None. Still none.
- How old when graduated? 18
- Did you play a sport? Hardly unless you call reading a sport.
Sadly, our high school was shut down about 10 years after I graduated. They turned parts of it into a continuation school and part of it into a Gymboree type thing. Now they are talking about selling it so that housing can be developed. No matter what I'll always be a Crestmoor Falcon! How about you? Play along! It is interesting to read other people's high school experiences.
