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November 15, 2010

Back to My High School Years

I remember I was warned by Jimmy Joe Molar that  that there were there 3 "bully's" that lived just down the street from where I lived and try to manage to avoid them as much as possible. I did  from May until the beginning of our 8th grade year. (just about 3 months)

It was on my way home after my first day of 8th grade that I encountered the 3 Bully's." There was Terry, Mike and another Terry.

I was riding my bicycle home from school down 12th street when about 3 blocks from my house I heard this person yell "Hey kid!" It turned out to be Terry and I soon recognized he and Mike as being in my 8th grade class from school that day. Well to make a long story longer......

I started playing with them soon after that first time we met. I remember one thing about Terry and Mike that I have never forgotten. They had me convinced that they had this secret club and boy I wanted to become a member real bad.

So gullible as I was (and still am) I allowed them to put me through all sorts of initiation things to become a member.......this lasted all four years of high school and on beyond that. The last time I checked at our 45 reunion I still wasn't a member yet!!!! Ha ha

 

 School in Sac City High School

 

I have been writing about the preparation to starting High School in the last couple of Blogs. I will now start this part of the Blog with my Freshman year.

High School Freshman Year

I hope I haven’t confused you too much, but I have lost some of the memories of the early part of High School. I am going to pick some of the things I remember and hope I get them in about the right sequence.

Miss Clark’s Algebra Class

I guess the reason I remember Miss Clark’s algebra class is because algebra did not make a bit of sense to me. What I remember is some of the craziness that was done in her class. I am going to try and tell this without mentioning specific people.

One thing I remember we did was pass notes around for all sorts of things. One I remember was the note that said “everyone laugh at 2:30” Well 2:30 came and everyone laughed. Miss Clark would look up from whatever she was doing and act as if she thought she had done something funny and would laugh with the rest of us.

There were also some (2 or 3 students) that would chew up paper in their mouths and when it was just the right consistency they would throw it in the direction of the blackboard that she was writing on…with her back to us.

The paper wad would splatter all over the blackboard and you know I don’t think she ever got mad. But it made all the rest of us slump down in our seats when she turned around and she would ask one of us to come up and clean off the blackboard.

Writing for the School Newspaper

We had a section in the town’s weekly newspaper that was devoted to the school material it was call the “Sentential”. It had articles written by student writers about all sorts of school related things.

I remember there were two of us that use to write (what we considered) humorous short stories. I remember one such on going article was the adventures of “Tough and Steady”.

Tough and Steady were names that we created from a newly created Television animated cartoon series the “Adventures of Rough and Ready”. This was the very first Hanna/Barbera animated cartoon ever.

We also wrote a mystery man article and would produce silly advertising commercials for fictitious products like “Crinkles Cereal”, “Ipunia toothpaste” and lots more. These were all in fun and we like to write them.

We would get excused from study hall to go to the home economics room to work on the articles and would usually get to try some of the baked products from the home economics classes. All I will tell you is that the other classmate was also named David!

We also wrote many skits that we preformed at various functions but the best was the Homecoming skit night. The skit that we contributed a lot of input to won the “Red Jug Award” for the best skit our Freshman year. The first time in the history of the Red Jug that it had been won by the Freshman Class. (Incidentally we also won it the next three years also.)

Those are a few of the main things that I can remember from my Freshman year of High School.