# Invite 4 current or historical people to dinner, all of whom went to your high school **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594 "2016-04-08T20:15:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/1 "2016-04-08T20:15:12Z")
Here’s my four. Phil Hartman Howard Kaylan (The Turtles/ Flo and Eddie) Patricia Krenwinkel (Manson Family) Trevor Ariza (NBA) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/2 "2016-04-08T20:39:42Z")
Believe me, I am not threadshitting when I say there aren’t four people from the entire 35-odd years my high school existed who would be worth throwing a dinner party for. It was built after World War II for the newly emerging suburbs, and closed when the baby boomer generation grew up and moved away. No professional athletes No politicans, at least none above the local level No notorious criminals No groundbreaking medical or scientific researchers No award-winning novelists No star singers, actors or other types of performers If pressed, I can name a successful executive (at least until he was convicted of stock fraud) and someone who wrote a few sitcom episodes. ---
**Author:** ![WildBlueYonder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WildBlueYonder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildBlueYonder)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/3 "2016-04-08T20:46:51Z")
Magic Johnson lived right down the road from our high school when I was there but he was bused out of the neighborhood-I think he went to our rivals, Eastern That’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/4 "2016-04-08T20:51:57Z")
My dinner party would be a whole bunch of NHL players! One of which probably overlapped with my time at the school. I’m going to head home from work and look for Jay Bouwmeester in my yearbook! I kinda thought he looked familiar. Too cool. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/5 "2016-04-08T20:55:39Z")
I had Spanish with [Harris Barton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_Barton). [These guys](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Chaps) wrote [Homestar Runner.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestar_Runner) [Ryan Seacrest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Seacrest) is some kinda TV personality. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/6 "2016-04-08T21:05:51Z")
[Dana Sparks.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005451/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1) Dinner for two will be fine with me. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/7 "2016-04-08T21:06:26Z")
You didn’t say they had to be famous people. So I’ll pick my dad, and a couple of the people I went to high school with, and I guess we’ll invite [Vachel Lindsay](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vachel_Lindsay). ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/8 "2016-04-08T21:14:20Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > Believe me, I am not threadshitting when I say there aren’t four people from the entire 35-odd years my high school existed who would be worth throwing a dinner party for. It was built after World War II for the newly emerging suburbs, and closed when the baby boomer generation grew up and moved away. Same here. 23 year history. Most notable [Brendan Eich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich) Creator of JavaScript [Bill Green](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Green_%28sprinter%29) Olympic sprinter(400) [Gregg Rolie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Rolie) co-founder of the bands Santana, Journey and Abraxas Pool. [Ron Jones](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Jones_%28teacher%29)(faculty) creator of [The Third Wave social experiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Wave_%28experiment%29) ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/9 "2016-04-08T21:25:45Z")
> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > My dinner party would be a whole bunch of NHL players! > > One of which probably overlapped with my time at the school. I’m going to head home from work and look for Jay Bouwmeester in my yearbook! I kinda thought he looked familiar. Too cool. He’s there! 2 years behind me, but I do remember him. Mostly because he was awfully tall. ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/10 "2016-04-08T21:25:54Z")
[Anna Kendrick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kendrick) Actress [Bob Marley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Marley_%28comedian%29) The comedian, not the musician [Ryan Flaherty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Flaherty) Orioles player [Wilbur R. Ingalls, Jr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_R._Ingalls,_Jr.) He was an architect who designed the technical high school I took a class at. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/11 "2016-04-08T21:36:20Z")
The conversation will be rather eclectic at my dinner party. [Joan Baez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baez) [James Fallows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Fallows) [Michael A. Rogers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Rogers) [Brian Billick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Billick) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/12 "2016-04-08T23:44:22Z")
The closest I can come (that I know of) is the public high school I attended, that was about five miles away from the private school that young Barack Obama attended (about ten years later). No matter, he’s invited to dinner anyway, but I expect he’ll have to send his regrets. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/13 "2016-04-09T00:12:55Z")
Interesting. The only ‘name’ I know is Jim Jarmusch (film director), who went to school at the same time I did. Knew him (casually) from speech team activities. Odd sort of a duck, even then. Otherwise, looking at a couple of sites, I’m left with some pro football players of minor note and Albert Kingsbury, who had a number of inventions/patents in the 1920’s-30’s. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/14 "2016-04-09T00:19:57Z")
Ten percent of the boys (5/45) who were in my graduating class have already committed suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/15 "2016-04-09T00:20:44Z")
Music. Barbara Mandrell Sports. Willie Banks Thad Bosley Willie Buchanon Chris Chambliss Charles Dimry Lee Guetterman C.R. Roberts Jose Perez Joe Salave’a Bill Sandifer Junior Seau Gary Thomasson Terry Vaughn Roberto Wallace Sam Brenner Brian Schwenke Larry Warford I cheated, I looked it up. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/16 "2016-04-09T00:21:39Z")
The known people would be known to locals, not internationally. There are mainly politicians (_sigh_). I would include: [Julia de Burgos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_de_Burgos) [Willy Rodríguez](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultura_Prof%C3%A9tica), from Cultura Profética [Carmen Cruz Soto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Yul%C3%ADn_Cruz), current mayor of San Juan [Alexandra Lúgaro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_L%C3%BAgaro), independent candidate for governorship, and the one in the list I most disagree with But mostly, I’d be cool just meeting Julia. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/17 "2016-04-09T00:50:32Z")
Mine is sad. All the notable grads are athletes, Hoagy Carmichael, and two people in my graduating class, one of whom was actually my one of my best friends, and the other of whom was a family friend. I don’t want to invite Hoagy Carmichael, and I don’t want any athletes, so I’ll invite Meg and David. Then, I’ll skip over to the other side of town, where in the graduating class of 1985 of the sister high school in my town (there was Bloomington High School North, and Bloomington High School South. I went to South) was Josh Bell. So, we have these: **Meggin Cabot David Shuster Joshua Bell** No one else from North is really famous, except more athletes, none of whom are familiar to me, so I’ll pick **Freda Love** , who is a musician, and was famous enough to be in bands with Evan Dando and Juliana Hatfield, and was also in my class. So we’ll have own own special little reunion. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/18 "2016-04-09T00:53:16Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > The closest I can come (that I know of) is the public high school I attended, that was about five miles away from the private school that young Barack Obama attended (about ten years later). No matter, he’s invited to dinner anyway, but I expect he’ll have to send his regrets. Wait a year. He’ll have some free time. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/19 "2016-04-09T02:13:25Z")
Jack Benny Jerry Orbach Connie Brazelton Jim Bittermann Most of the people listed in the Wiki article on the school were ball players of some variety. Bleah. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594/20 "2016-04-09T02:26:26Z")
Charles Addams (cartoonist for _The New Yorker_, most famous for _The Addams Family_) Virginia Apgar (created the Apgar score for assessing health of newborns) Kevin Feige (President of Marvel Studios) Kevin Kelly (founder of _Wired_ magazine) CMC fnord! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/invite-4-current-or-historical-people-to-dinner-all-of-whom-went-to-your-high-school/751594.md?page=2)