I want to include an incident that happened during high school. This is out of order, but I just thought of it and thought it should be included. When I do the final version, I’ll include it in the right place.
About 2 weeks before I graduated, our senior class went on our famous (or infamous) Senior Trip. We all got on buses and went to Niagara Falls. We stayed in a motel on the Canadian side of the Falls and in 1960, it looked a little different than it does today. But we had a great time. The boys spent most of their time trying to get past the chaperons and into the girls rooms in the motel. We did all of the things every tourist does when they go to Niagara. Unfortunately, about 2 days into the trip, a bunch of the guys found a way to get some beer or liquor. I’m not sure which, but I do know that they got drunk and started tearing up the motel. We got up in the morning and were called together by the teachers and told we were going home early because of the actions of these boys. The owner of the motel was actually kicking us out. I’m not sure, but I think there may have been a bill sent along with the teachers to pay for the damage that they had done. And no, I wasn’t one of them. So, I missed out on a day or so of the trip, but what we did do was fun.
When we got home, a couple days later, the superintendent of Pennfield School system called an assembly of all the seniors. He stood up before all of us and announced that because of the actions of these boys on the trip, that senior trips were being discontinued at Pennfield School. Our class was personally reasonable for closing down the program at the school. I’m surprized the juniors didn’t try to catch us afterschool and beat the crap out of us. Maybe they thought of it, I don’t know.
Dad