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I have heard high school Valedictorians don’t do any better in life, seems to be true, but they are among the top 20%, several of whom DO go in to successful professional careers.

I graduated mid-seventies, no idea of my class rank. Graduation was outside on the bleachers with the auto-shop dropouts doing burnouts just outside the fence 🙂

I seem to recall walking the stage drunk but that weren’t unusual in the ‘70’s.

We had 18 kegs at our graduation party at Vicki Meyers house in west old town
Musta been 350 people their.
It was epic.
All car keys turned into her mom.
No one left till 8 am
Some later, party went on that weekend at other kegga,s.
I didnt go home for 3 days.
Lol!!!


Different day and age....

1957 for me, Shook hands with coach, and shop teacher, got my sheep skin, walked out the door, got in my pickup and went to a rodeo, in Vernal,Utah won the calf roping, third in the steer roping, with my buddy Ben Franklin, 2nd in the bulldog'in , with Ben hazing for me, left there went to Heber city, Utah to next rodeo, never looked back. Rio7

1974 and good riddance!!!

Lot's of fellow students, using that term rather loosely, , I have not seen since that day.

bolo's use to be common in arizona, goldwater wore them.
i still have one from the sheriffs department, with a badge on the locking mechanism.
they were breakaway, so if someone grabbed one thinking they could throttle you, they got a surprise in addition to the felony

Class of 70 Thurston HighSchool, Springfield Or.

We "were" going to have a 50 year reunion this summer.

Maybe it will be a winter class reunion.

Virgil B.

81, quit school a month before graduation, I had gone to the first semester of my senior yr in Littlefield tx, English 4 wasn't required so I didn't take it. it was required in Alice tx, they told me I had to make it up in summer school. I said f-ck that and just went and took the GED test. I was already working wasn't going to waste time in summer school.

‘76. Our class trip was to DC. I didn’t go as 5 days after graduation I flew to AK to begin my life


That went a bit wonky


Can’t recall any grad presents some $10 bills from a few relatives


Mom counted my class the other day 120+ iirc


I had to be in middle to bottom, I didn’t do busy work such as homework & I skipped the last 3 hours of school most of the time my senior year, finally got my first F from doing so. You can imagine my relief when I didn’t have to pen a valedictory speech 🤦🏼‍♂️ Snork


If not for football I might have dropped out

Graduated in 1961. Had already been working a 2nd shift for several months in the lithograph shop at American Can Company, earning enough for my first year of college that fall. Don't know where I ranked in the class of 460 or so, but I did miss out on a couple of awards at graduation because my foreman didn't think that graduating from high school merited an excused absence.

My father drove my mother to mine from the hospital he brought a chair with arms for her to sit in. After, he took her back to the hospital.


My reception was that same evening, coffee at my grandmother's home. Friends of family there. No keg.

I graduated #4 in a class of ~600 in 1980. I worked the summer at a produce market that I started working at when I was 11. I then headed off to college and 5 years later left a mechanical engineer and immediately started working for Royal Dutch Shell retiring a bit over 30 years later. I am a fan of bolos, easy to tie...





My son following his Pop's. Virtual graduation and off to Motiva's Port Arthur refinery.

Born a week before JFK was shot. Class of '82. 434 in my class...no idea what my rank was. I wasn't the most studious, but score a damned near perfect SAT...hungover, IIRC. Took a few years off before getting my degree. Not a reunion type dude. Never been.

My son was born a week before 9/11 and is graduating from the same high school as me, the COVID class of 2020. He's #4 outta 410. Did well on both SAT and ACT, as well as president of a number of extracurriculars, editor of the paper, varsity sports, etc. Could go to damn near any college he wants.
Going to study the law. Kid is driven - he'll be successful because burns inside him. Musta got it from his mother.