Ok, does anyone remember this? Ab'so'lutely hysterical! I think it was 66-67 (our junior year). Yeah truly, not kidding here! Three guys (can't remember who, but definately 'Jocks'), carrying this one guy (maybe Mark Ridley??) high up over their shoulders, so we could see him in the upper windows of this study hall room!
Seriously! While the guy being carried (who had filled his mouth with water from the drinking fountain), acted like he was swimming, with his arms (the breast stroke:) and spouting the water out of his mouth, like a fish. I could not stop laughing, the whole room was, as the teacher flew out of the room to chase them down and we all roared in hysterical laughter.
I think it was around the same week that the assistant principal threatened to suspend me for three days for wearing a mini skirt and black & white high top tennis shoes to school. Luckily, I brought a change of clothes. A "sweet little", appro' blouse ( tiny blue flowers) and some "sweet little" matching navy blue Keds tennies and then rolled my "mini" skirt (not!:) back down to the appropriate length ("just above the knee a touch!). SO I was able to change and keep myself outa hot water, by the skin of me teeth...(gosh I guess I just loved being in hot water! : )!
I could not help it, it was just SO darned fun to make folks laugh! If I had stayed in Mich. no doubt I would have ended up at Mark's Comedy Castle (instead I became a teacher! Ha! But not for long, the other teachers thought I was just Sooo "out there". Oh yeah, 'Michigan out there' (the best kind!)
Sigh....dem da days! Uh...on second thought...dees da days! Yeah...time to go fly some more airplanes off the Astoria tower! Grin.
I would like to thank everyone who worked on the planning and putting the reunion together for a wonderful week-end. It took a lot of time and effort and I can say you really pulled it off. It was great to see everyone and hear what was happening with them. And for all the guys that came from out of town, you are real "Vikings", corny I know but I had to say it.
Again thank you for a great party!! Now who is going to start on the next one?
Joan Cherre Deming "69"
Hearing "Ten points," "Five points," "No points!" in the hallway between classes as the boys rated students walking by
Head Varsity Football Coach Dave Smith's critical welcome to the Class of '68, and the class spirit that coalesced in response and the successes that followed
Norman Snead, the spirit of the Class of '68, who went on to become an NFL quarterback
The Annual Can Drive, which totaled 10,273 cans of food, 5,017 collected by the senior class
The infamous junior/senior egg fight on November 2, 1967 (a non-sanctioned school event), which started behind Keith Elementary School and evolved into drive-by egg attacks throughout Union Lake, into Westacres, etc.
The seniors showing mercy with a temporary cease fire during the egg fight when junior Chuck Baldwin's glasses were knocked off in the darkness
Mrs. Marsh turning the tables on students at the height of the squirt gun craze by taking a hidden squirt gun from her top drawer and drenching her math class
Honor passes
Basketball open gym on Saturday mornings followed by a Finnish sauna in Milford
The Homecoming Court - Queen Cheryl Hewitt and attendants Michele Rossier, Brenda George, and Sue Savich
The Walled Lake yearbook (Viking), school newspaper (Leif), school magazine (Variety), and literary magazine (Touche')
Teenage night clubs: "The Mump," "Hullabaloo," "Raven Gallery," "Grande Ballroom," and the bands playing in them, including "Brownsville Station," "The Rationals," "Frost," and "Savage Grace"
An unknown (wild) crop of marijuana found in a field next to George Fuhst's house and burned by the police
R&M Department Store prom special - $9.88 tuxedo rental - included white shirt, cuff links, suspenders, bow tie, cumberbund and studs
The Senior All-Night Party at the high school and keeping it going at Kensington Park the next morning
Somebody painted a big red "N" on the football field before the Pontiac Northern Football Game?
Green Lake dances!!
A hot lunch cost $.40 in the cafeteria?
Getting caught smoking meant you were expelled?
The girls were thin without Weight Watchers?
Nylons were held up by girdles or a garter belt?
Everyone listened to WKNR?
You went to the show but didn't watch the movie?
Top Songs from 1968:
Tighten Up - Archie Bell & the Drells Judy in Disguise (With Glasses) - John Fred & His Playboy Band (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding People Got to Be Free - The Rascals Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin Green Tambourine - Lemon Pipers Cry Like a Baby - Box Tops Mony Mony - Tommy James & the Shondells Yummy, Yummy, Yummy - Ohio Express The Horse - Cliff Nobles & Company I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
:: :; all the guys had hair ! sorry mike. -- --Althea Haskell's Hair Do you remember Althea Haskell's fall? (That's her fake hair). How many of you knew how she kept it up nice and high on her head?
Hey Jude - Beatles
All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding
Mony Mony - Tommy James & the Shondells
Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
White Room - Cream
Sympathy For The Devil - Rolling Stones
Revolution - Beatles
