Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    I remember dancing fast dances with girls because at those dances the
    girls clumped together and the boys clumped together (and I was so
    depressed when no one asked me to slow dance!)
    
    I spent my high school years in the Metro-west area.  A lot of couples
    "stayed after school" to spend time together (it was a regional high
    school and they often lived so far apart that's the only way they could
    have time together).
    
    And, talk about lack of class spirit, my most recent high school
    reunion was canceled.  Maybe curiosity will be strong enough for
    everyone to see "whatever became of...." that they'll hold one
    someday....
    
    -Jody
    

>         Dance fast dances with your girl friends because the boys 
>         didn't dance, or you were scared to death to ask them?

Gee, the girls wouldn't dance with me any more than the boys would. I
usually danced alone.  It wasn't till college that I found a shortage of
men to dance and a profusion of women, so that the dance floor was
always fills with big groups of women dancing together.
         
>         Have Sadie Hawkins dances?
 
Yuh.  I asked Aaron Stearns but he had detention that day.  So I asked
David (????) and he said YES, only to change his mind, mere hours before
the dance, and said he was going with Pilar Law.  I still hate high school
boys.  :-)

But, like Jody, I am nowhere NEAR my 25th reunion.  So I'll shut up now.  :-)

D!

    Just because you're nowhere near your 25th, don't "shut up".  I like
    hearing about different memories from different parts of the country.
    
    I know this isn't a heavy topic....but I love to hear from people from
    all over.  I don't travel much...but love listening to all of the
    stories.
    
    Jody--sure hope your class gets with it....I loved my last class
    reunion....I was kind of scared the first time I went....but everything
    went fine.  I come from a small town im Michigan, and we were a pretty
    tight group, all 306 of us.
    
    I was voted "Class Comediene" in a secret ballot, so everyone came over
    to see if I had changed in 20 years.  Of course, I hadn't and we had a
    ball!
    
    "j"

    In Jr. High, the dances were usually all the same.  Girls in one clump
    and boys in another.  One girl or boy from each clump would designate
    themselves "matchmaker" and run back and forth delivering messages of 
    "so and so likes you".  Really stupid.
    
    In high school dances were different, my group of friends (male and
    female) would just clump together and jump around alot (pogo style
    dances were in at the time).
    
    My high school class was quite small (103) and had no coherency at all.
    We didn't have a 5 year reunion (at least I wasn't informed about it).
    My college class might have a 5 year reunion, but I'm not sure if I'd
    go or not, I'm not too into the reunion scene.
    
    As for things we did when younger,  I'd say sending notes to your
    friends was the big thing.  Either pass them in class or drop them in
    their locker.  Signing yearbooks was big, also signing casts when
    people broke their bones (I saved the cast I had on my wrist for a
    while, then my Mom heaved it because it really was gross.  But I will
    never forgive her for 86'ing the bag of notes I wrote in 8th grade, how
    I wish I could read them now!!!)
    
    In high school, the big thing was seeing how weird you can dress, and
    also who could make the greatest find at the local consignment shop.
    Being thrown out of the library for excessive noise was big too, I think 
    I was banned for my entire senior year!
    
    BTW, I was in NH for high school, there was no way you could dress
    weird in NJ and not pay the price.
    
    Lisa

    When I was in high school/jr high (same school where I came from)
    the dress code was abolished.  I didn't own any jeans until then,
    and that was when I was in the 7th grade.
    
    Bellbottoms were the bigies...  And did any of you take a pair of
    tight, tight jeans that weren't bell'ed, open the outside seam at
    the bottom of the leg and sew in a different color or patterned
    piece of cloth to make them bell'ed?  Also the jeans were hip 
    huggers...  And boby suits were biggies too.  
    
    When I was in grade school, if your dress was too short, the teacher
    would take a ruler and measure to see if your dress was more than
    two inches above your knee.  I spent most of my 5th grade sitting on
    the bench for that ofense.  My mother refused to buy me other cloths
    because of this silly rule so then finally I was forced to wear the
    same skirt to school day after day.
    
    During our high school dances, nobody ever asked anyone to go with them
    (as in dates) you just went, wore jeans and everyone in 'your group'
    would dance together.  The big deal we had during dances were sneaking
    in nips.  Or we'd walk to the dance carrying cans of ginger ale, half
    poured out with whiskey added in.  We were crazy kids.......  I think
    kids are smarter these days.  
    
    I went to school in Hopkinton, Ma and graduated with a class of only
    96...
    
    Anna
    
    

    re .5, I went to high school two towns over in Mendon, Mass. (My
    mother went to high school in Hopkinton, Ma, graduated 1931!)
    
    My 25th reunion, if they have one, will be coming up in two yrs.
    
    I remember wearing plaid, wool, box pleated skirts, with white blouses
    with peter pan collars, and button down sweaters.  On gym days we
    all wore white sneakers and white crew socks all day with our skirts.
     (which seems so ludicrous to me now)  I remember girls teasing
    their hair in the girls room to see how high they could get it.
     We weren't supposed to wear skirts that were so short that when
    you kneeled down they didn't touch the floor.  Girls could not wear
    pants or jeans to school.  Boys couldn't wear jeans, their hair
    couldn't be long enough to touch their collars and they couldn't
    have moustaches or beards.  Girls who wore extremely short skirts,
    a lot of make-up and had excessively teased hair were considered
    "tramps."  At dances girls always danced fast dances with girls
    in a big group.
    
    Lorna
    

    I went to my 25-th last year and had a blast.  I attended a girls high
    school.  We wore uniforms.  The whole group I hung around with attended
    the reunion.  We were the group that had the most fun in high school
    and
    we had the most fun at the reunion.  I danced all night.  When they 
    kicked us out of our place we found a place that was still open.  We
    discovered a high school reunion there and all (not our husbands of
    couce) crashed it.  We had a ball there - but left when we discovered
    it was a 10-th and people started having trouble placing us.  We
    never discovered what high school it was.  Good thing our husbands 
    are all good sports.  But then, I guess it follows that we would marry
    good sports.  I see some of my gang all the time.  Others I see only
    rarely.  But when we all get together, it's as if time has stood still.
    We are all the same people we were in school - people wise.  No one is
    surprised about how any of us turned our or what we are doing now.  I
    was on the committee and was amazed to discover that everyone thought
    of
    me as a rebel.  I thought I was rather quiet and reserved.  I guess
    this
    was interpreted as resolve and self assurance.  I did have a rather
    strong sense of 'how things should be'.
    
    We rolled our uniform skirts up to walk to and from school - but kept 
    them long in school.  We wore plaid pleated or a-line skirts, oxford
    shirts and pandora cardigans to dances.  We danced with boys more often
    than not - but didn't let a lack of boys keep us from dancing.  We
    always danced all night.  We were all in the glee club, national honor
    society.  We did the school plays and were on the prom/semi-formal
    committes.  When wer were senoirs, they brought in some woman who
    'finished' us.  We thought it was pretty funny at the time, but knowing
    ones way around receiving lines and forks and spoons can come in handy.
    I was the first to have my ears pierced (this was the early 60's) and
    always wore an elks tooth (I no longer remember why) with my uniform.
    We went to coffee houses to listen to folk music.  We attented college
    mixers when we were old enough to drive to them.  The other students
    considered this shocking (the early 60's were tame) but they were a lot
    more fun than high school dances.  Most of us had long hair - it drove
    the nuns nuts.  Mine was(is) curley.  It was a cross to bear back then.
    
    I was a junior when JFK was shot.  We were in music class.  We were
    devistated.  I had met him a few years before that and had a chance to
    shake his hand and mumble something forgettable.  His death changed me,
    I looked at things differently - with less optomism.
    
    No one got friendship rings.  If someone went steady (a state of
    affairs that most of us considered to be confining) they received
    a class ring.  No one ever went steady with any one who was not old 
    enough to have a class ring.  The ring was rapped with tape and worn
    on the ring finger of the left hand.  Being pinned was much better.
    This required a fraternity man of course.
    
    Most of us didn't want to be tied down.  A few married in their early
    20's.  Many more waited 'til their late 20's.  Some of us waited 'til
    our 30's.  And one of us (one of the most outrageous)  waited until
    40.  When we talk about our men she always adds "and there were many".
    
    We had such a great time, we plan to get together again soon.

    Re: .7, gosh everything you said was exactly what I went through!
    
    I also went to an ALL GIRLS high school.  My graduating class was
    only *32* students back in '69.  I'll never forget the look on the
    nuns faces when we graduated.  As we were leaving the church our
    town's ALL BOYS school was in full representation chanting 
    "The Girls of '69"!  The nuns almost died!  It was hysterical. 
    They were running around like a pack of penguins going, "Shoo, shoo,
    shoo", to the boys.  
    
    We've had a class reunion EVERY 5 years and I've always been involved
    in some way or another in the organization of the event.  We've
    always had a super time.  We've never included our husbands (only
    because pre-event surveys indicated that the husbands did not want
    to attend), and it has always been a wonderful time.
    
    We wore uniforms at our school, box pleated skirts, peter pan collar
    white blouses, navy blue blasers, and a tie!  Of course the traditional
    navy blue hose or knee socks and penny loafers (shined or else!)
    I remember the nuns use to make us kneel on the floor and if our
    skirt did not touch (not breeze by, but **touch**) the floor we were
    in big trouble.  Once we left the school property, we would roll
    up the waistband till they were a proper 2-3 inches above the knee.
    
    I stopped rolling up my skirt in my senior year, really was too much
    trouble to keep the hemline even, so I just gave up.  
    
    When I think back to all the rules and regulations we actually adhered
    to, and what few rules and regs we have for our own children today,
    I wonder which generation was/is better off?  
    
    I don't resent the way I was raised, just wished I had had a little
    more liberty.  But that's an entirely different note.
    
    This subject has been fun!

    I went to HS in Metrowest also, Natick to be exact.  This big thing for
    us was "plushbottoms". These pants were hip-huggers with huge bells at
    the bottom.  Also thick mocassins were in; the kind of leather and has
    a large buckle in the side.
    Also belts that had ends/tassles that hung to our knees. 
    And lest we forget the tops that snapped in the crotch....how else did
    they stay tucked in with hip-huggers!!
    
    We had school dances with local bands.
    
    We started the first all women ice hockey team for Natick.
    
    Our song for the prom was "Stairway to Heaven"....whose wasnt!!
    
    Thanks for the note....it brought back some memories!!
    
    
    Judy
    

Gee, this all makes my HS class of '70 look pretty social...
There were some clumps of either gender -- females usually
dancing, males talking sports/cars and trying to look cool --
but they were often outnumbered by the couples on the floor.
Maybe it was because the school was so small (300 total,
78 in my class) and because school was the only social life
we had.  If we weren't going out with someone at the time,
we'd hook up with an "unaligned" group and swap dance partners.

We had dress codes, but nobody paid a whole lot of attention,
teachers or students.  Jeans were OK because that's all a lot
of kids had, and skirts ranged from long to short, loose to
tight.  At least a couple of guys had shoulder length hair,
but mostly it was about collar length.

There was a constant whirl of kids going steady -- the
average steady relationship lasted about two weeks,
soon to be replaced by the "real thing".  8^)
Dances, basketball games, and "pahties" were the big
events, with a prom thrown in for good measure.

I just sent in the check to my 20th reunion committee --
we've had a reunion every five years, and about 35 - 40
people from the class came each time.  We get a little more
comfortable with each other (and with ourselves) each time.
I guess I got pegged as a kinda straight bookworm in HS.
At 10 years, Lanny said, "By J***s, I thought you'd be some
kinda brain surgeon, but, ya know, you're right down ta earth!"
At 15 years, Mike said, "By J***s, who woulda thought that we'd
be sittin' here suckin' down a cuppla P.B.Ah's together."

Who knows what they'll say this year...

Ron (G.V.H.S. Class of '70 -- Go Bucanners!)

    
    This is timely for me...my 10 Year Class Reunion is tonight!  Well, the
    formal one is actually tomorrow (cocktail attire, down in Galveston)
    but tonight we're all supposed to informally gather at a club in our
    hometown, Baytown.
    
    I was pretty sure I was going to skip it, but my best (school)friend
    talked me in to going tonight.  I'm a little relieved to read all the
    positive responses here...maybe it won't be bad!
    
    Sure wish I had gotten my hair done last week, and lost that ten pounds
    I suddenly see...
    
    
    Anita