Reply #50: Sports, music and academics

[noonwitch]

Sports-we had a great hockey team that dominated state-wide. Our basketball and football teams were always competitive and we won our share of district championships. We also made it to the state semi-finals in football my junior year (1980), where we got killed by Dearborn Fordson.

I was in Orchestra, and we were a top-rated orchestra. We always received top ratings at the festivals, and were very highly ranked one year in the state festival. More kids from my school were in the city-side orchestra that you had to audition for than from any other school around. Our band was good, but our director at the time was a dick.

We had good academics, even if they had to compete with football for funds. My dad started an academic boosters club there the year after I graduated, he was so disgusted with the imbalance (he sold janitor supplies to the district and attended board meetings). I had some great teachers at my high school, even if they had to use old textbooks so that the football field could get new stands, or if they needed to rent a helicopter to dry off the field after a rainy day, to avoid cancelling a game.