Your School Classmate Notables... Where Are They Now?

[KissArmy]

I'll start. From my high school class:

Homecoming Queen/Head Cheerleader- stayed in town, married to a nice guy, has a small business. Still a nice person.

Homecoming King- stayed in town, became a successful businessman, father and husband. Still a good guy.

Valedictorian- moved out of the region, is now a Doctor of Bioscience and a renowned professor at a very good university. Still brilliant, apparently.

Class Jock- went on to play college football at a major university. Moved out of the region and died of illness in his mid-50s.

Lover Boy/Guy Who Always Had a Beautiful Girlfriend- stayed in town , married another beautiful girl, then cheated on her, then remarried a woman with two kids of her own. Has six kids and step-kids when I last checked. Has a good business but has gotten fat and is going bald. Still a good guy if you aren't married to him.

Class Slut- stayed in town, married a guy, and apparently found a legitimate profession. Marriage status, current appearance, and current reputation unknown.

Class Bully (left in our first year of high school, however...)- moved out of the region and was arrested in his late 50s for beating the hell out of someone. His mugshot shows he's fatter now but still a fucking psycopath and thug.

Anybody else? How did Karma and life treat your class notables?

[Sir Honkers]

That's interesting.
Homecoming Queen - don't have that.
Homecoming King - ditto
School Captain - has his own financial adviser firm. married two kids
Jock - he was also school captain
class clown - married a gorgeous girl from Norway, has four kids, five grandkids and one on the way. worked in film and TV, then opened his own surf and dive business, now happily retired.

[KissArmy]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

That's interesting.
Homecoming Queen - don't have that.
Homecoming King - ditto
School Captain - has his own financial adviser firm. married two kids
Jock - he was also school captain
class clown - married a gorgeous girl from Norway, has four kids, five grandkids and one on the way. worked in film and TV, then opened his own surf and dive business, now happily retired.

Class Clown's a good one! Doesn't it seem they always go on to do great?

Other notables I can think of, official or unofficial:[LIST] Most beautiful girl
Biggest hot head/most likely to get into a fight
Most annoying overachiever[LIST]

[Reclaimedwg]

I know our homecoming queen was murdered by the boyfriend she was with a year after we graduated.

He shot her in the head before killing himself.

I didn't have any friendship with her and I didn't run in her circle.

But the news of her tragic death was so big, when it happened, someone that ran in her circle called me up to tell me the news, someone that I never spoke to once in High School or knew.

How the heck did she even remember me as being in our graduating class of 507 and how did she get my phone # I will never know.

A couple of my other high school friends said the same thing: they got a phone call from other folks in our graduating class that they didn't know just to be told that L.H. was murdered by her boyfriend.

I and many folks out of our graduating class of 507 who only knew her by name and also didn't run in her circle went to her funeral.

I think I had one class with her and it was gym class back in 11th grade.

I vaguely remember her trying to talk to me, she wasn't flirting, she was just talking and I ignored her because I knew her circle composed of what folks nowadays called the A group: cheerleaders and football players.

I didn't want the football players to come after me. Some of them were assholes and most of them were bullies.

I knew a guy in our class, an indian guy who was a math wiz and he helped a girl in his geometry class with her homework. Her boyfriend was a football player. One day after school about 6 of those stupid jocks got hold of him in the grassy field next to the school and beat him up just because he helped that girl with math in class.

None of them were punished or suspended or expelled by the school. The principal who was white and a redneck and racist didn't do shit.

I hope every one of those 6 jocks are either dead, ended up in prison, or someone bigger and tougher and badder than they were gave them a big taste of their own medicine.

[Mister Fide]

Good thread.
I would have liked to have kept in touch with a lot of my school friends but never did - do not know why.
I guess we all go to the next stage of life - adulthood (jobs/marriage/children).
I moved from hometown to a city (in the same county) 5 yrs after school & despite yearly visits never met any of my friends.
There was one exception though - a beautiful girl (I will refer to her as Linda though that is not her name).
She lived on the same road & we played together when children (though she was not a close friend). We went to the same schools until senior level but still saw her about & slowly realized I was in love with her. However, I was a shy 16 year old & did not ask for a date.
A year after school I started work at a small photographic firm (best job I ever had).
Linda joined the staff shortly after me.
Every day now I would be seeing her gorgeous face & body in close proximity - heaven!
Eventually had a night-out with her at the end of which, when the taxi arrived at her home, she invited me in for coffee. Despite her parents being out, I was a gentleman (or a fool!) & did not try anything.
Then my world slowly collapsed.
Shortly after my 18th birthday, my father died & a few months later the photographic firm closed down. Then I read in the local paper that Linda was getting married!
That was over forty years ago & yet there has hardly been a week when I have not thought of Linda.
She never left her hometown & is a mother of four. Still married to the same guy!
I have never married.

[bigtrain45]

I just have one. I went to an all-boys Catholic HS in a suburb of DC. One of my classmates, a quiet guy who was not in any of the cliques, became a priest and was on the list of known child molesters recently released by the Archdiocese of Washington.

[bigtrain45]

Originally Posted by Mister Fide

Good thread.
I would have liked to have kept in touch with a lot of my school friends but never did - do not know why.
I guess we all go to the next stage of life - adulthood (jobs/marriage/children).
I moved from hometown to a city (in the same county) 5 yrs after school & despite yearly visits never met any of my friends.
There was one exception though - a beautiful girl (I will refer to her as Linda though that is not her name).
She lived on the same road & we played together when children (though she was not a close friend). We went to the same schools until senior level but still saw her about & slowly realized I was in love with her. However, I was a shy 16 year old & did not ask for a date.
A year after school I started work at a small photographic firm (best job I ever had).
Linda joined the staff shortly after me.
Every day now I would be seeing her gorgeous face & body in close proximity - heaven!
Eventually had a night-out with her at the end of which, when the taxi arrived at her home, she invited me in for coffee. Despite her parents being out, I was a gentleman (or a fool!) & did not try anything.
Then my world slowly collapsed.
Shortly after my 18th birthday, my father died & a few months later the photographic firm closed down. Then I read in the local paper that Linda was getting married!
That was over forty years ago & yet there has hardly been a week when I have not thought of Linda.
She never left her hometown & is a mother of four. Still married to the same guy!
I have never married.

That took a lot of courage to share and I sympathize with the pain you've carried all these years. I hope you've found some personal satisfaction, either in a job or hobby, and that you've received at least some of the love you deserve.

[KissArmy]

Originally Posted by wildtig2013

I know our homecoming queen was murdered by the boyfriend she was with a year after we graduated.

He shot her in the head before killing himself.

I didn't have any friendship with her and I didn't run in her circle.

But the news of her tragic death was so big, when it happened, someone that ran in her circle called me up to tell me the news, someone that I never spoke to once in High School or knew.

How the heck did she even remember me as being in our graduating class of 507 and how did she get my phone # I will never know.

A couple of my other high school friends said the same thing: they got a phone call from other folks in our graduating class that they didn't know just to be told that L.H. was murdered by her boyfriend.

I and many folks out of our graduating class of 507 who only knew her by name and also didn't run in her circle went to her funeral.

I think I had one class with her and it was gym class back in 11th grade.

I vaguely remember her trying to talk to me, she wasn't flirting, she was just talking and I ignored her because I knew her circle composed of what folks nowadays called the A group: cheerleaders and football players.

I didn't want the football players to come after me. Some of them were assholes and most of them were bullies.

I knew a guy in our class, an indian guy who was a math wiz and he helped a girl in his geometry class with her homework. Her boyfriend was a football player. One day after school about 6 of those stupid jocks got hold of him in the grassy field next to the school and beat him up just because he helped that girl with math in class.

None of them were punished or suspended or expelled by the school. The principal who was white and a redneck and racist didn't do shit.

I hope every one of those 6 jocks are either dead, ended up in prison, or someone bigger and tougher and badder than they were gave them a big taste of their own medicine.

Wow, what a sad outcome. Just goes to show that the Queen Bees and Alpha Males of our youth weren't invincible... something in your Queen's head told her to settle for that monster.

Some of my classmates were also murdered, but they weren't among the "popular" kids. But they were nice, unassuming, and didn't deserve what happened to them.

One of my classmates was murdered before we even graduated. He was a cab driver in the evenings and one of his fares killed him for what little cash he was carrying. He had the same name as one of the guys in my class who was officially recognized as a "class notable" in our yearbook. The teacher overseeing the yearbook made a mistake and submitted the picture of the murdered boy having the same name. So our yearbook ironically showed, as a "class notable," the quiet, murdered boy who none of us knew. The real "class notable" boy with the same name wisely didn't complain. He, like all of us, was sickened once he found out about the other boy's murder.

[haroldeye]

Well out of a class of 30 boys we have,

A Bishop,
A Judge
The head of a leading British Company and now Government advisor'
The head of a much respected Professional body.

[pharoahegypt]

Only one of note I can add here that would interest anyone... Is the class oddball who spent most of his time in a dream world, writing stories, and being laughed at... But he now has the last laugh... He's an award winning script writer for none other than longest running UK serial drama, Coronation Street. Chris Fewtrell is his name if you choose to look him up. I always liked him fwiw, though don't even watch the soaps these days.