Fort Hamilton (#2 on the list) is three short blocks from us. I don't see James Madison (aka Horndog High), my alma mater. When I graduated we had a gradauating class of over 1200 and total enrollment near 5000.
Following the 2008 election there are two sitting U.S. Senators, Bernard Sanders (I-VT) and Charles Schumer (D-NY), who are graduates of James Madison. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is also a graduate, as is former Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) and Former U.S. Surgeon General C.Everett Koop.
Justice Ginsburg and Senator Sanders were before my time, I hasten to add. My brother went to school with (and played basketball against) Chuck Schumer.
My grade 12 (senior to you Americans)class in Manitoba north of the 53rd parallel had seven grads (five boys and two girls) plus one guy who came back partway through the year to pick up a couple of subjects. The junior class had 24 including four or five students who were with us most of the way, but failed a course or two the previous year. Needless to say our school didn't have a football team.
Okay, if we're going there. My graduating class in Liberty Hill, Tx LHHS, class of 1968 was 13. I like to hope I graduated in the top 10! Maybe. The graduating class of 1967 was, I think, 3. The class following mine in 1969 was 16, the largest in many years. Also, 1969 was the final graduating class for awile, since LHHS lost its accreditation and it took a good while to get it back. Now their schools are much larger. Our whole school, all twelve grades, had only a few more than 100 students when I was attending. (1956 - 1968)
I've never been to Liberty Hill, but when we used to travel Highway 183 (remember the "Pray for Me, I Drive 183" bumper stickers?) between Austin and Brownwood, I'd see the sign pointing off toward the town.
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Fort Hamilton (#2 on the list) is three short blocks from us. I don't see James Madison (aka Horndog High), my alma mater. When I graduated we had a gradauating class of over 1200 and total enrollment near 5000.
Jeff
Slightly larger than my class, but then Judy's class was under 20.
Following the 2008 election there are two sitting U.S. Senators, Bernard Sanders (I-VT) and Charles Schumer (D-NY), who are graduates of James Madison. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is also a graduate, as is former Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) and Former U.S. Surgeon General C.Everett Koop.
Justice Ginsburg and Senator Sanders were before my time, I hasten to add. My brother went to school with (and played basketball against) Chuck Schumer.
Apparently current enrollment is just over 3,000.
Jeff
My grade 12 (senior to you Americans)class in Manitoba north of the 53rd parallel had seven grads (five boys and two girls) plus one guy who came back partway through the year to pick up a couple of subjects. The junior class had 24 including four or five students who were with us most of the way, but failed a course or two the previous year. Needless to say our school didn't have a football team.
Kent, in Texas there's 6-man football. That's what they played at Judy's school.
Okay, if we're going there. My graduating class in Liberty Hill, Tx LHHS, class of 1968 was 13. I like to hope I graduated in the top 10! Maybe. The graduating class of 1967 was, I think, 3. The class following mine in 1969 was 16, the largest in many years. Also, 1969 was the final graduating class for awile, since LHHS lost its accreditation and it took a good while to get it back. Now their schools are much larger. Our whole school, all twelve grades, had only a few more than 100 students when I was attending. (1956 - 1968)
I've never been to Liberty Hill, but when we used to travel Highway 183 (remember the "Pray for Me, I Drive 183" bumper stickers?) between Austin and Brownwood, I'd see the sign pointing off toward the town.
To be fair, your school would have had more, Bill, if so many hadn't been bringing in the crops.
My class had about 300. I'm pretty sure I was in the top 250.
Yeah, Cap'n, those pesky harvests were a problem.
Mine had 82
If Judy's class were under 20, that's still a good age for graduation!
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