Dec 18 2008
Junior High School
Remember when middle school used to be junior high? Seventh through ninth grades, getting their own school, passing the education gauntlet of grade school and into near adulthood. Those were the good old days, no real responsibilities but school, and avoiding the school bullies.
There are people I never saw after junior high, even friends since we were split up into four different high schools in the aftermath.
I thumbed through the annual last night, reading words written nearly 40 years ago and strolling down that particular memory lane for the first time in years.
One picture hit particularly hard, someone I knew since first grade, a friend that had passed on at 45, seeing him as a chubby teenager was really hard to bear.
There were a few that I wonder what happened to, and if their lives turned out like they planned? Are they happy and healthy? Life goes on….
Thomas H. Forthe
