And as someone who is still, as it was once described for me, in a sort of "homeroom of the mind," after all these years, I find it amazing that people have taken the time to upload junior high school and high school yearbooks from days of old, when knights were bold and the internet wasn't invented.
In much the same way as I flip through old LIFE magazines, enjoying the walk through the sands of time (and getting my shoes all gritty), I love to look at old yearbooks. Even from schools I didn't attend! The pictures, the senior captions - I always wonder how many of those plans really came true - the clothing people wore, the hairstyles, all of it is there for the remembering.
Look at the picture above, from a 1964 yearbook for a high school in Delaware. Can't you just look at those faces and figure out what lay ahead for some of them? Like James Hammond. He probably went on to play some college football (linebacker) and married his HS sweetheart, even coached Jim, Jr. in his rec league football. Debbie Gunning likely became a beautician, and still has great hair. David Gillespie has the look of a guy who had hardly gotten settled on the photographer's little stool when they snapped the picture, and you wonder if there were to be other surprises in his future.
I'm guessing Charles and Deborah Hammond were twins, and spent years wondering why David Hammond came along to bust up their yearbook juxtaposition. Everything about the look on Charles Garey's mug says "car dealer," and we have all been stared down by Joyce Gilmore and her colleagues in the English department at high schools everywhere.
And the man who married Georgia Giltenboth knew exactly how she felt about every issue.
Now, I have to figure out a way to get invited to their next reunion.
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