10 Highschool Memories
1. Our graduating class was so big we had to have our own building in our sophomore year, called the "Annex". It was in this old decrepit building in downtown Baltimore, several miles from the main high school which housed the juniors and seniors. We really developed an attachment to that old building, it was weird moving on to the main school.
2. I remember Mr. Hiller, our oddball guitar teacher. He sang off key but he knew his stuff about playing the guitar!
3. The Ethnomusicologial Society--Mr. Hiller said joining would look great on our resumes and he was right! And basically we were just a roving folk guitar group. We had so much fun with our before-school "coffee houses"
4. I will never forget December 13, 1972: that day, one of our custodians went berserk, stabbed two security guards with a machete, took a girl hostage and barricaded himself in the room next door to our psychology class. When the SWAT team arrived, we had to lie on the cold floor for hours. I could hear the hostage crying and pleading to God to help her and for the man to "get that knife away from her neck". The man sounded crazy and he kept yelling, "There's no God and I'm going to kill you!" He finally let the girl go and the SWAT team blew him away.
5. The seniors had a "lounge" in the cafeteria...made up of smaller cafeteria tables for 4 and only us 12th graders could use it. We felt so cool! It didn't matter that last year it belonged to the seniors and we were so jealous!
6. My psychology teacher would take some of the students to "The Pink Hippo" in downtown Baltimore. I never went but I sure was tempted!
7. When I would play hooky from school, my favorite place to go was the Enoch Pratt Free Library. What a nerd!
8. Our principal was having an affair with our drama teacher!
9. I had to have surgery toward the end of my senior year and missed out on a lot of fun stuff!
10. We wore white formal gowns to our graduation in June, 1973 and it was held at the Baltimore Civic Center.
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