How many do you know?
Well, I know all of them..cause that is my class . :)
( I am on the last page..second from the left.. bottom row.. )
**wished I had that skin tone now.. instead of all the wrinkles :(**
We were the first class to be from Howard Pirates.. to North Elk and I believe the last.. as they changed it again to South Elk..
The class of 72 was still North Elk, but the class of 74 was West Elk. I don't know just when it was changed.
Sounds like the school board may have been directionally challenged.
;D
Yes, Teresa I thought you would know of them. The reason I have that clippling is my cousin's son is the one in the upper right corner and I do know a few of the other ones.
Actually the reason for the change of name was because Howard High School and Severy High School were unified and called North Elk. Moline High School and a part of Grenola were unified and called South Elk. I think Elk Falls was already a part of Moline schools. Longton schools are called Elk Valley now. A couple of years later, North Elk and South Elk were unified and called West Elk. I think it was at this time that the new school was completed. First and second daughters graduated from Severy High School, 3rd daughter graduated from North Elk in 1972 and fourth daughter graduated from West Elk in 1974.
The firas class to graduate from the new high school on the high way. Was 1979 even though they did'nt go to that school. I think 1980 was the first year to go to school there all year.
Then West Elk was in the old high school building. I couldn't remember just when the building was completed.
Quote from: Dee Gee on July 30, 2007, 04:11:26 PM
Yes, Teresa I thought you would know of them. The reason I have that clipping is my cousin's son is the one in the upper right corner and I do know a few of the other ones.
Alan?
Alan got me through American History..bless his heart. Plus we were "kinda" onry too in some of the classes.. :-\
We had North Elk High School from 1971, 1972, and 1973. Those are the "lost" years. My class, 1972, has a class reunion every five years. Sometimes we have quite a few classmates and sometimes, (like this year), we have very few. This year it rained, so I think it kept alot of people away.
I went to a large high school (plain old North High School) in Omaha. I can't imagine the difference in our experiences. Our graduating class had 450 students. About 70% of those students were black. It seems like 80% of those were drafted and went to Viet Nam. And it seems like most of those didn't come back, including the vast majority of my friends.
For those reasons, I just can't bring myself to go to a reunion. I still have friends up there that said one reunion was all they could take once they figured out the group dynamics. It is very sad. I have been back to the school itself. It has changed a little. It is still a big brick pile. It is now a magnet school, and is almost certainly better for that, although it seemed a good school when I was there.
The surrounding area has actually improved since the early sixties. There were two people still working in the office that had just started while I was there, at that time 30 years earlier. They both remembered me. I don't know if that was good or bad. Still, knowing there were people that would never come back bothered me greatly.
I would guess there is every chance that the experience I describe may apply to Howard, and Moline, and the rest of the area during those years. It may even have been worse, because the classes were smaller and everyone knew everyone. I hope that we can honorably disengage from our current conflict, and avoid new ones, so that the classes of the last few years can avoid the sad feeling that I have in the halls of North High. I want them all home safe.
Sorry for getting serious. Sometimes I can't help myself.