Did Your School Have a Senior Trip?
Marilyn Sue McClintock
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Do you still have your High School Yearbook?
Comments (38)I still have them, but only the senior year is reachable. The others are somewhere in the stacks of stuff in the garage. I have always kept the senior yearbook handy because up until a few years ago, we had a reunion every year. I always wanted to go back and jog my memory about everybody. Then it began to taper off until maybe just those who still lived in the area would get together. My DH and I went to the reunions when we still lived in that area. Years went by; we moved away and later moved back. We went to a reunion then, and when we got to the door where it was being held, I looked in and told my DH we must be in the wrong place . . . there was noone in there except old people! There were more reunions to follow before the numbers dwindled to make it impossible, but we had some great ones, including a group cruise for the 50th "follow up." My senior yearbook is for 1942. Sue...See MoreYour high school wishes for your future....
Comments (19)I recall that in my high school yearbook, under my photo, it listed my ambition and words I live by. The words I try to live by are the same now as they were then....He who is not actively kind, is cruel. by John Ruskin. My ambition was: to be happy. Kind of simplistic, but I am a simple person and I really do believe being happy is something we choose for ourselves, and even though I have had a lot of ups and downs in my life, I can truthfully say that I am very happy. Anyway, that is what I had posted in my yearbook, but as for my life's work....I hate to say that I didn't give it much thought. I wanted to raise horses. I did that. Wish I hadn't. I never wanted to get married and had no plans to have children. I did get married very early on, mainly because my mother wanted me to. She believed I should get married and believed a man should support me. So I got married and I played, and my husband supported me. I didn't have a baby until I was in my mid 30's and I have no regrets about waiting. I only think it made me (not speaking for anyone but myself, so don't jump on me) a better mother. In some ways, having a baby late, was sort of like having a baby and a grandbaby at the same time. I was more settled and secure in myself. I ended up taking care of my mother, who had dementia, until she died in her 90's and then I took care of an elderly former neighbor and friend for 8 years, until he died. I promised him I would, so he wouldn't have to go in a nursing home. I rehabbed wildlife...mainly because I felt sorry for the orphans, and I am good at raising babies of all kinds. (Despite not wanting children...I am extremely maternal.) Now I do anything I want to do. I have no grandchildren. My daughter is secure...doesn't need my help. I wanted a mule. I bought a green broke mule. I need to get used to riding again...so I bought a horse. I plan to raise a mule foal. I plan to start riding again and ride every day for the rest of my life...if at all possible. Gee....I think I forgot the question. I'm sorry. I am happy though....See MoreHow many of you still have your school yearbooks
Comments (41)I have mine and I bought some of my dad!s and mom's books on eBay. After my mom died, I gave them to one of her high school friends, who in turn gave them to the geaneology department of our hometown library. I need to contact the library and offer my dad's books, although I'm not quite ready to give them up. I saw photos of my dad I'd never seen and an ad in my dad's senior yearbook for my grandpa's luggage store. I was in the copy department for all my yearbooks and editor my senior year. Fun reading after all these years. I bought a yearbook on eBay from my high school 26 years before I graduated and was astounded to see how many of the faculty that I knew were on staff back then....See MoreDid You Have to Gather Leaves For School?
Comments (16)Like terilyn, we had to do both a bug collection and a leaf collection as different graded projects for biology class. Rather than wax paper, I think I used clear contact paper to adhere the leaves to the pages of the project. I also think I had about twice the number of leaves necessary for an "A". For the bug collection I had extra bees, wasps and hornets, so a classmate who had a extra dragonfly offered to swap a dragonfly for a couple of bees. I reminded him that the teacher had specifically listed dragonflies (and praying mantises IIRC) as beneficial insects that shouldn't be killed for the project. He responded that he found the dragonflies already dead. I made the swap and transferred his pinned dragonfly to my wax-filled cigar box. A few hours later I heard an odd buzzing noise coming from my box, and opened it to find that the "already dead" dragonfly had recovered and was trying desperately to free itself. I was horrified....See Moreravencajun Zone 8b TX
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