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Today's Featured Biography
Helen Stanford
I only went to EHS for my Senior year. Although I was a newbie 12th grader, the vast majority of the people I knew at EHS, both students and teachers, were really cool. I had a couple of dingy teachers, met a few people I didn't care for too much, but for the most part I enjoyed my final year of high school.
I'd gone to school in Mississippi from the second semester of 7th grade through 11th grade, so of course I felt more loyalty to that school than to EHS (still do, really), but I realized as the years went by that I did get some rewarding experiences and knowledge at EHS.
Primarily, I learned how to type (and I really FLY!) from Miss Flynn, and I learned Spanish from Miss Moore (I think that's how her last name was spelled). Taking Chinese & Russian History with Mr. Meyers was awesome too! Exploring Childhood with Miss Larson was fascinating and very enriching, especially the field trip we made to Children's Orthopedic hospital. I wonder, sometimes, how my "younger" (she was in kindergarten) has fared since I was her "older" way back then. She'd be in her early 30's now, maybe having a family of her own.
One of my favorite classes was Reading, believe it or not. When I learned about this one-quarter class, I asked, So I just come to class for an hour and READ?? Heck, I was always getting yelled at for reading in class any way! I already had an A well before the quarter was over, so the teacher told me just to check in so she'd know I was there, and go to the library or something. Great class, wonderful way to get an A!
Oh yeah, also had Advanced Bio with Mr. Fenton (who was also my driver's ed teacher). Health with Miss Burden (aka Miss B) was intense and difficult (what do you expect in 12th grade, after all?) After all these years, I'd love to thank her for having mercy on us Seniors in there. ALL of us failed Health that first semester. She gathered us all together and basically put the fear of God into us. She pointed out we couldn't graduate without Health! She said she'd let whatever our second semester grade was be our final grade, so for that time I really straightened up my act. Didn't want to go almost 12 years, only to not graduate because I was clowning around in class (and I ain't going into details on THAT one, lol!) Out of 150 questions on the final, I only missed three (and I had to point out to the TA who was grading them that some being marked off as wrong were actually correct).
Any way, those are a few of my memories of my single year at EHS. I go by there sometimes still, when I'm in the old 'hood, just to see, since I can't visit my OTHER high school in Mississippi (that didn't fare too well after Hurricane Katrina hit--got flooded apparently).
Glad I found this site; it'd be cool to go to a reunion some day, now that my information's out there. Assuming I remember any fellow Seniors, that is.
Oh, as for my life now: Getting a new job, just went to Chicago to see my son, my only child, graduate Navy boot camp! Life's going great for a change!
Additional: How in the world could I forget the Folsom Company Prison?? I was the only Senior in Mr. Folsom's speech class, so of course he had to interview me in front of the whole class. If any of you had him for Speech, you'd know! He was great fun though, and I learned a LOT in his class, that I've used in my adult working life (eg, doing presentations... don't forget to maintain eye contact!) When I took Speech in college, I asked the prof if we could use the podium. She said, Of course, as if she was wondering why I'd ask such a thing. I told her, in front of the class, that in high school speech we weren't allowed to use a podium, that it was a crutch. The other students moaned at my lot, lol, so college speech wasn't nearly as tough as Mr. Folsom's class was!
Having been to college, I realize now how excellent some of my classes and teachers at EHS were. Mr Meyers, Mr Folsom and Miss Larson all taught their classes at what I now consider a "college level." For Speech, that's really impressive, seeing as most of the students in there were Sophomores, taking speech early on to get it over with (it wasn't required in Mississippi, nor was Health, so I had to take both in my Senior year up here).
My main gripe was having to take State History... again. I've lived in three states, and had to take state history in all of them. I think there should be some federal mandate that a kid only has to take ONE state history! I hate to admit it, but of NH, MS and WA, WA's is the most boring, lol! Not much history here when you grow up in a house built in the 1700's.
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