Here are a few high school memories. These photos are not mine. They were taken by alumni from my high school who were able to attend the open house held prior to ripping out anything of value from the building and auctioning it off prior to demolition. The school district built all new schools, and district students will begin attending those schools in the fall. Here are a few photos to take people down memory lane. As with many high schools, the football stadium is paramount, even though we didn’t have a particularly successful football team during my tenure.

There was the auditorium, mostly used a study hall.  Ugh! I don’t remember the walls being like that.

I lettered in three sports, so I spent a lot of time in the gym:

Looking from the other way:

I spent time in two places that profoundly impacted my life other than what I’ve shown so far. The biology lab with Mr. Kerr (he let me work in the back to get me out of that awful study hall environment) and Mr. Rose’s College Prep English classroom, shown here in panorama view:

Where that white board is on the left, we had windows in my day. The chalkboards were on the right hand side and the side the photo was taken from. The murals, from the white board around the room to the right follow:

I helped my friend Holly Lisle paint this depiction of the Canterbury Tales during the 1977-78 school year. I was the apprentice, so she, rightfully, gets full credit:

My locker during senior year was in the second bank of lockers on the right, if I recall correctly.

Some reminisces were posted on the walls:

Mr. Kerr was (and is) a favorite of many, including me. He’s retired now and can be found at the Nature Center in Beaver Creek State Park, volunteering his time and knowledge. Doctor Stockdale taught trigonometry and physics in my day (he was in pursuit of his doctorate at that time), but we loved to get him off-topic and talking about history, because on the subject of history, he was fascinating to listen to. Unfortunately, he died a number of years ago, if I heard the story correctly, of a heart attack after running. Mr. Rose was my junior and senior English teacher. He was a native Texan and a few years after I graduated, he returned home to Texas and retired a couple of years ago after becoming principal of an elementary school for several years. He mentored aspiring teachers from Texas Tech, so I KNOW there are many, many wonderful teachers who came out of the Texas Tech system if he was mentoring them.

I’m sad to see these buildings being demolished (the elementary schools and the middle school, which my siblings attended, are also being replaced). I hope the new buildings will provide many years of useful education for students in the district.

Note: If you have taken these photos, please claim them in the comments area, and I will appropriately credit you. If you wish me to remove the photos and NOT use them, let me know in comments, and I will remove them.  I believe, but am not certain, most can be attributed to Danny Fetty and Lisa Farmer.