# Where did you go to high school?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 4, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411 "2004-10-04T02:09:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 15
### Author:  [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2004, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/281 "2004-10-13T04:18:09Z")
Williamsville East High School
Williamsville, NY
Class of 87
I’m surprised how interested I am by seeing all the different names of high schools and towns, I always knew I was fixated on names, but I hadn’t focused on school names before.
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### Author:  [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2004, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/282 "2004-10-13T19:05:16Z")
See, many Canadians don’t go to high school. They just go right from grade school to the NHL, or seal hunting. Looks like **matt\_mcl** , **Declan** , **Ms MacPhisto** and I were the only ones who made it…
Denis Morris HS
St. Catharines, Ontario
Class of '87
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### Author:  [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/283 "2004-10-13T19:37:26Z")
Monrovia High School
Monrovia, California
1999
Incidental fun fact: One of the Manson killers, Leslie Van Houten, graduated from my school in the sixties! :eek:
> [@MiniMoose](#):
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> La Canada High School
> La Canada, CA (L.A., in the valley)
> Class if 2003
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> A very rich republican bastard hs, but I made up for it by going to UC Santa Cruz, which was recently rated the most stoned college campus.
Heh. I was in band the year some sophomore transferred from La Canada and joined our sax section. He REFUSED to wear the Monrovia letterman jacket, and continued to wear his La Canada jacket till he graduated. He was beat down many-a-time. But DANG you guys had a kick-ass gym! (competed there often in colorguard)
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### Author:  [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2004, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/284 "2004-10-13T19:52:16Z")
> [@Eman\_Bruin](#):
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> Whoa, never thought I’d see another Sundevil here…
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> Mt. Carmel High School, San Diego CA, 1995.
Well, if we’d stayed in San Diego (instead of moving to Virginia) when my husband retired from the Navy, then my kids would have gone to Mt. Carmel – they both went to Black Mountain Middle School. Did you know Jonathon or Jason Secrist? They were our neighbors and went to Mt. Carmel. Nice boys… Jason must have graduated around '97, I think, and Jonathon a year or two after.
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### Author:  [@Eman\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eman_Bruin)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2004, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/285 "2004-10-13T20:07:08Z")
> [@](#):
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> Well, if we’d stayed in San Diego (instead of moving to Virginia) when my husband retired from the Navy, then my kids would have gone to Mt. Carmel – they both went to Black Mountain Middle School. Did you know Jonathon or Jason Secrist? They were our neighbors and went to Mt. Carmel. Nice boys… Jason must have graduated around '97, I think, and Jonathon a year or two after.
Sorry, those names don’t ring a bell.
Doesn’t help that I went to Wangenheim Middle School, not Black Mountain.
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### Author:  [@Phelan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phelan)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2004, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/286 "2004-10-13T20:14:07Z")
Senator Oconner, Toronto Ontario
1994
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### Author:  [@MiniMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MiniMoose)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2004, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/287 "2004-10-13T20:17:44Z")
> [@Yamirskoonir](#):
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> Heh. I was in band the year some sophomore transferred from La Canada and joined our sax section. He REFUSED to wear the Monrovia letterman jacket, and continued to wear his La Canada jacket till he graduated. He was beat down many-a-time. But DANG you guys had a kick-ass gym! (competed there often in colorguard)
That is a PERFECT example of how LC kids are! You know our band hardly ever won any award when I was there (or the football team, for that matter).
Yeah, the gym’s pretty cool. Have you seen the new one? circa. 1998?
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### Author:  [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2004, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/288 "2004-10-13T21:23:22Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#):
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> I’m sure you’ve heard ever manner of joke on this one, but was your mascot the steel-belted radial?
Heh. The Falcons.
After two years at the tastefully-named Litchfield Middle School (named for former Goodyear C.E.O. Paul W. Litchfield), I moved on to Firestone High. I was by no means the only Goodyear kid who chafed under the name – especially since by then (or soon after) Firestone left Akron while Goodyear stayed.
–Cliffy
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### Author:  [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/289 "2004-10-13T21:47:28Z")
Ichabod Crane Central High class of 2001.
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### Author:  [@Yamirskoonir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yamirskoonir)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2004, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/290 "2004-10-14T04:00:48Z")
> [@MiniMoose](#):
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> That is a PERFECT example of how LC kids are! You know our band hardly ever won any award when I was there (or the football team, for that matter).
> Yeah, the gym’s pretty cool. Have you seen the new one? circa. 1998?
Yup - tre cool! Don’t feel bad about your band…OUR band came in next to last consistently, in the lowest division, since we went through band directors like tissue paper. Our colorguard used to take 1st until we lost our instructors to Arcadia 'cause we paid 'em diddly squat. Arcadia’s band/guard now regularly wins national and world competitions. :smack:
Ya know, re-reading your post triggered another memory:
I once dated a guy who had gone to La Canda circa '97-'98. He was a drug dealer at that time. In fact, he made more money dealing there than he later did on the streets of Pasadena, owing to all the rich white kids who had nothing better to do than get high with mommy/daddy’s money. Still sound like an accurate LC description? 😃
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2004, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/291 "2004-10-14T22:06:17Z")
> [@Eman\_Bruin](#):
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> Whoa, never thought I’d see another Sundevil here…
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> Mt. Carmel High School, San Diego CA, 1995.
The feeling’s quite mutual, I’m sure. 🙂
I went to Meadowbrook MS and was attending Mt. Carmel when RB High opened. If I was younger, I would’ve been routed there instead.
Haven’t been back to visit since when you were a Freshman (at the latest), though I suspect some things may have changed less than I imagine…
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### Author:  [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/292 "2004-10-14T23:26:02Z")
San Gabriel High School
San Gabriel, CA
Class of 1961 (See? I really am a geezer!)
I was a band geek (trumpet player) and editor of the high school newspaper, _ **The Matador.** _.
Famous people from San Gabriel include General George Patton and Roberta “Jymme” Shore. (Jymme was in my class, but Patton was gone before SGHS existed. I didn’t know him. 😉 ).
Go Matadors!
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### Author:  [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/293 "2004-10-14T23:30:53Z")
South Lakes High School, Reston, VA, class of '94. (And I _really_ hope none of my fellow Dopers are classmates, because I’d like to think nobody remembers me as I was.)
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### Author:  [@BethCro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BethCro)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2004, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/294 "2004-10-14T23:35:06Z")
Tulsa Memorial, class of 1983.
Hundred bucks says nobody else from my class will pipe up.
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### Author:  [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/295 "2004-10-14T23:42:57Z")
Esquimalt Secondary School, class of '94
It’s since renamed itself “Esquimalt Community School,” and has the new school motto printed on its flashy new sign:
“Education every day, for the every day world.”
No, the space between the second “every day” is not a typo – that’s how they have it :smack:
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/296 "2004-10-15T02:56:42Z")
Plano Senior High School, Plano, Texas. Supposed to be Class of '89, but, well, lack of credits is an obstacle to graduating. I did get my GED that same year, so I guess it counts.
I’m holding out on reunions until I’m rich and famous and can tell them to go f–k themselves.
Robin
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/297 "2004-10-23T21:13:55Z")
> [@Ringo](#):
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> I didn’t realize you’d done the same thing I did (senior year at Lamar - which was right next door).
Yep. It was hard to tell which one of us wanted the other gone, me or SJS. Now that I look back on it, I was a total fool for not sticking it out one more year, but what the hey.
See ya at the HouDope!
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/298 "2004-10-23T21:43:38Z")
Regiopolis-Notre Dame, Kingston, ON, class of 1990.
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### Author:  [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2004, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/299 "2004-10-23T21:49:59Z")
I graduated from Arlington High School in Freedom Plains NY in 1982. I spent most of my high school career at a different school in upstate NY however.
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### Author:  [@cadolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cadolphin)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2004, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-you-go-to-high-school/267411/300 "2004-10-24T07:32:05Z")
**John Marshall High School** , Los Angeles, CA Class of '75
hmm, wonder how it happens that out of all these people on this board, no one else has gone to the same high school or universities I have attended.
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