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In reply to the discussion: An Almost Baby Boomer 50th HS Reunion [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)Only my high-school experience was pretty different: a class of around 1,000 students ... only one of which (because she was a neighbor as well) I've had any contact with in the past nearly half-century. So I don't even know if I want to go.
I remember everything besides the Selective Service talk, perhaps because I was a girl. I remember not having calculators in school yet (they existed, but were exotic and expensive). We had to use slide rules instead. I remember these endless math problems in chemistry class for which I'd do pages worth of long division by hand. Yup, typewriters, slide rules ... and the beginnings of miniskirts. Females were not allowed to wear pants to school. That remembrance of standing out in the cold in a skirt in the dead of winter bewilders me still.
Maybe you were in my class. Who knows.