I graduated in `72. Sorry, the name doesn’t ring a bell. Recall that seniors got big yearbook photos while sophomores (it was 10-12 there, unlike here in IN, 9-12) were just ... underfoot.
Did they do the donkey basketball games while you were there at Oxon Hill? I enjoyed that a lot. They put rubber shoes on their hooves, teachers played students. (On the donkeys hooves, that is.)
After my father’s second all expense paid vacation in sunny, exotic Vietnam we were transferred to Kansas, he went to the CGSC at Ft. Leavenworth and retired in Manhattan, KS (K-state) so my bro’ and sisters and I could all get more edjumicachun.
I’ll have to buy a Tom-Tom or whatever it’s called. I’ve put it off, mebbe cause like most guys I don’t like asking for directions, even from machines!
Yeah, that’s too bad about PG county. Walking through the school I was surprised at how rundown it was: stained ceiling tiles, cracked floor tiles, kids loitering in the halls while classes were being held. And the fact that they needed day care/a nursery for students’ children was a jaw dropper.
The racial per centage flipped. It was about, I’m just guessing, a few black kids out of a hundred when I was there, and the opposite 25 years later.
They had good football teams though, and named the field after coaches Crawford and Kanode. Enough of this wool gathering.
Again sorry I didn’t know your bud. Friendly was a big box school and operating pretty much at capacity when I re-visited. Take care, td
When I went to Surrattsville back in 1971 to 1973, they were well into busing, and it was about even as I recall. Didn’t have any black friends and I remember it was tense and unpleasant.
I walked into the bathroom one day and there were eight black kids smoking a joint. Ever try to walk into a situation like that and take a piss? As I am standing there trying to go, they edged over my way and one of them said “You ain’t gonna tell anyone, are you?”
Hm. A kid I knew who was a “Grit” (like the greasers, high top tennis shoes, cuffed slacks, white t-shirts and greased or short hair...) told me a kid had brought a shotgun to school and fired it in the hallway. I don’t remember that, but that was what he said.
Bah. I hated school, and that wasn’t a good one to go to. I remember the gym outfits were dirty yellow.
Oxon Hill had an excellent band when I was there with Mr. Johnson as director. My sister Joan class ‘71 played the flute.
We recently had a reunion with my 5th grade teacher at Thomas Addison. Driving around a bit, it was scary how much the area had deteriorated.
I vaguely remember the donkey basketball games.
Just curious, when was your Dad at Leavenworth?
I passed that way a few times.