A VISIT TO HIGH SCHOOL

Senior Picture ---- 1971



Since I have been "FACEBOOKING" I have been in touch with several of my high school classmates that I haven't seen since graduation in 1971!

Our 40th anniversary from school is approaching (2011) so being the planner that I am, I decided I am going to plan a reunion!!!

Three of the "girls" I graduated with and myself decided to meet for lunch and reunite....we had such a great time, and thankfully they offered to help me with this new project!! ha ha

In anticipation of our lunch, and of starting to plan this event, I called Good Old East High School and asked where I could get my hands on a year book. After getting put through to several extensions, I finally spoke with someone in the library who said they had one I could have . So off I went to this place where I had spent so much time many moons ago!

I parked my car and walked in the front door, where immediately the 38 years of changes hit me in the face..METAL DETECTORS monitored by ARMED (real guns!! ha ha) security officers!!!!

After going through security and signing in three different places in the main office, I was finally given a "HALL PASS."

I made my way to the stairs, and to the second floor ...as I walked down the hallway, I noticed that the hallway monitors of the 60's and 70's were also replaced by armed security officers!!

When I finally got to the library, I noticed it hadn't changed much.... except...... typewriters were traded in for flat screen computers, and it was a lot noisier than I remembered. After I got my year book, I struck up a conversation with the librarian who was a very nice "YOUNGER" woman. I was telling her the way things were during my 4 years at East.

She asked if I was interested in a tour of the building.....I jumped at the chance. Some areas such as the cafeteria, the offices, auditorium and courtyards looked as if time had not passed at all!

One thing I remembered that I always liked about East were all of the common areas....there were little area's throughout the school where you could just go and "HANG." Not so any more. There is a large window enclosed hallway type room in the middle of the school with window seats called the "COMMONS," that is now closed off except for during lunch when the seniors can go there. The rest of the day, it is used as a hallway, again, filled with security.

It was a bitter-sweet experience .......while so many memories flooded back, It was sad at the same time that the East High that I went to was no longer there!