Fondest High School Memory on the Peoria.com Forums

My graduation night ceremony at Bradley Fieldhouse.

The day I told them to go f themselves and never went back.. kind of funny that I now work for a school!!

when i was a junior, the kid behind me put gum in my hair. i turned around and spit my gum in his math book and slammed it shut and told him that if he ever did that sh!t to me again i was going to beat his a$$. i was yelling at him! i never got in trouble. the teacher did tell me that next time i would be sent to the deans

Gettin some in the girl's locker room

There are too many... I can't pick ONE.

Maybe the time there was a food fight in the lunchroom and this chick with long farah fawcett hairdo got buttered bread and peanut butter stuck in her hair. I think she became a target when people realized how easy it was for stuff to stick in her hair.

The student who was supposed to play "Pomp and Circumstances" (the march played at ceremonies, such as graduations)played "The Funeral March" instead.

He almost didn't graduate, but clearer heads prevailed and he did.

As each of us walked up on the auditorium stage to get our diploma, each of us handed the priest (catholic high school) one marble. He was confused, but discretely slipped them into his pocket so as not to make a scene.

By about the 20th marble, he looked a little... uneasy... as he looked out at the remaining 280 graduates.

After 4 years of being beat up, picked in, ostracized and hating being the smallest kid in my class, on Graduation night, as my principle handed my my diploma, he said "If I ever see you one street, I'm gonna kick your ass."
I gave him the finger right there on the stage, to the horror of the hundreds of people in attendance and the next week, I lewft for basic training, changing my life forever!

1964-I was in 10th grade, and we had a semi-formal dance. I had been pen pals with a boy from Trivoli for about a year, and he agreed to meet me at my school for this dance. For Christmas that year, I got a red dress, silver heels,and a silver purse. I also got a white faux fur stole. This was all I got that year, and I was so happy to wear that outfit to the special dance for my 1st meet up with a boy. Well, he stood me up, and I was the only one there with no date. I was crying in the girls room and feeling like it couldn't get worse than this. What made this night special was the kindness I received from the senior students, who put this dance on. The girls told me to come out and help them to serve the punch, and were so sweet to me. While I was serving, a senior boy came up to the line and asked to dance. I will always remember how nice they were to a lowly sophmore who was so sad.

1964 - I was born

1978-Being elected the first African-American (although we were refered to as Black, back then)Varsity Football, and subsequently Varsity Wrestling Team Captain, in a majority White Chicago Public High School.

-The One Stop HOME Shop

Seeing the stunned look on his face when I told the symphonic band director that I didn't want to be in symphonic band. Why be a third chair, harmony playing back-up when you can be first chair in the "second" band and pep band? It isn't like I was going to have a career playing the trombone anyway.

My entire junior year when I started taking pics for the yearbook and got to go to all the dances and football games for free. That's the year I fell in love with being on the sidelines at a high school football game with a camera in my hand.

Lily, you brought back a flood of great memories for me with that post, I loved being a shutter bug too.

I forget her name

Walking onto the Football field on Friday nights. Started Varsity as a Freshman, small school but I was the smallest guy on the team. I got to wear the "new design" in water cooled helmets when I was a sophomore. The first year for them that I know of...They were great for the warm night games, once it got cold those water filled pads were anything but comfortable.