Now my HS graduating class was about 600 (and it just occurred to me- -that was the size of my graduating engineering school class in college), the HS student body was about 3,0000, and I have a warm fuzzy about it. But, not surprisingly, I moved within a certain group in it. I'm sure many people felt lost in such a large crowd.
But we nerds didn't go after spelling bees- -the State Mathematics Competition and the State Science Fair were THE things. I took a prize one year at the science fair, I don't remember what place or what the project was. Obviously not 1st, or I'd remember that.
The Math Contest was about 6 hours of burning your brain out. In my senior year I took 5th place, which was no mean feat. Unfortunately, 1st place was also at my school, which robbed me of basking in the limelight. Fink! I did, however, get a book of mathematical tables worth about $15 at the time, a decent sum of money.
I made Honor Society too and obviously we didn't have such prudes as your school, because I was caught smoking (OH MY GAWD!) a cigarette later, dudpended for several days, and the Society never demanded its pin back.
In junior high I got in a schoolyard fight and got a paddling. These days the vice principal who did it would probably be jailed for child abuse. I came away from it with a sore butt and a determination to stay out of fights. The little guy could HIT!
We left the house doors unlocked all the time back then. Imagine that. And nothing ever disappeared. Now our doors are always locked when we're away and we have an alarm system.
Times have changed.
Oh. I flat out deny any other rumors you here about my school years. |
