I'll Stop the World and Melt with You

Any good high school dating stories?

Maybe you went somewhere with that babe you met at Sunrise Mall? Perhaps you asked that total fox from History class to go to Leatherby's for ice cream. Or maybe it was more of a group thing...a bunch of you spent the day walking around Oldtown Sac. Whatever it was that brings back fun memories (or maybe not so fun?)...do tell...

Everybody's Working for the Weekend!

Most of us had jobs in high school...especially by the time we were seniors. It's funny to look back at some of the places we worked. I know a good handful of us worked at a very politically incorrect place called Po'Folks for example. Our work uniforms made us look like we were on the set of Little House on the Prairie. Once in our little get ups we would spend hours serving people lemonade in mason jars, along with fried okra & catfish. All the while being bullied by some huge guy named Ray. Good times. Ugh.

The cool thing about having friends that worked at food places was when you would stop in and they would hook you up. I know many fast food and yogurt places where the "hook up" was standard. Or, there were the trades. You work in a strip mall for example and would trade ice cream from your place of employment for pizza from the teenagers working across the way.

What about you? Where did you earn your weekend dollars so you had money to buy outfits at Miller's Outpost and Contempo? (ha ha)

Pictured: Kelly Rodgers at MacDonald's on San Juan
(picture hijacked from Andrea Cast's collection on Facebook - thanks A!)

Lost Classmates

Twenty years is a long time, and amidst all the marriages, divorces, kids, jobs and mortgages, we’ve lost some of our fellow classmates.

Some, such as Paula Keith and Brett Bickford, died while we were still at Del Campo. Those losses were tragic and, for many of us, the first time we had to deal with losing a peer.

We may be older now, but it’s still just as hard to hear about the passing of former classmates such as Kelly Henson, who died unexpectedly in a house fire just before our 10-year reunion. Or Darryl Nelson, who battled cancer and lost the fight in May 2007. In addition, the war has claimed a fellow graduate --Army Sgt. Ron Coffelt was killed by a makeshift bomb in Baghdad in July 2007 during his second tour of duty.

As part of our 20-year reunion, we plan to recognize these losses.

We ask that anyone who has a funny story or photo to share regarding Paula, Brett, Kelly, Darryl or Ron to please email it to juliet.farmer@att.net.

We also realize that there may be others we’ve lost, so please let us know if there’s anyone we’ve overlooked.

Thanks,
Julie(t)

(pictured below are Avri (noted below), Darryl, Ron & Paula)

LOST & FOUND
Since the original post, we have also learned the following classmates have passed on as well (hopefully this list will stay short):

Avri Paul - Hodgkins Disease (2002)

Tim Mann - Influenza (2002)

(Thank you to those classmates who have helped us to identify others &/or have provided pictures from members of the Class of 89 who are gone but not forgotten.)

Brave enough to share your most embarrassing high school memory?

Here’s mine, for all the world to see:

It was freshmen year and I was walking towards the halls on the lower quad. I happened to be passing by the JV football team who were hanging out on the brown hexagon tables just outside the cafeteria when a stupid bird crapped on me – right on my forehead. I remember trying to turn my head (away from the view of the gawking football players) and closing my eyes while gritting my teeth thinking “pleasedon’tletthemseethispleasedon’tletthemseethis…” Too late – someone (Jason Smith? Dave Tornell?) yelled, “Temple just got shit on!” and the whole team busted a gut at my expense. I high tailed it down the hallway towards the bathroom. Timme Sherman had been amongst those laughing that day but he did come down the hall to see if I was ok. He knew how horrified I was. Hands down one of my most embarrassing moments in high school - and ever for that matter. Dang blasted birds.

Anyone else brave?!