February 21st, 2006
Your Usual MySpace Survey
- Where did you graduate from and what year?
Charles W. Woodward, Bethesda Maryland, class of 1972. Maybe someday MySpace will let me add it to my schools list. I’ve only asked them about a hundred times or so… - did u have school pride?
Yes, but the rest of the kids called it Apathy Day. I was among the pesky prideful minority. Not ‘Up With People’ delirious, but I liked my school. - Was your prom a night to remember?
Gay kids didn’t have prom nights worth remembering in 1972. - Do you own all 4 Yearbooks?
Oh yes. Still treasured. - What was the worst trouble you ever got into?
I mostly stayed out of trouble in High School. High School was fun. Jr. High was another story. - What kind of people did you hang out with?
I hung out with the stage crew geeks, the VCR crew geeks and the art class geeks. - What was your number 1 choice of College in HS?
Didn’t have money for college, so I never thought much about it. I did eventually go to Montgomery Jr. College. - what radio station did u rock out too?
WHFS. You have to love a radio station with a DJ named Weasel. - Were you involved in any organizations or clubs?
Art Club. Photography club. Film club. Student Newspaper (ironically enough it was named ‘The Advocate’.) And though I wasn’t officially part of the Yearbook team I did a lot of photography for them. - What were your favorite classes in high school?
Art. Science. Photography seminar. Social Studies. Newspaper. I did both cartoons and photography for the student newspaper. - Who was your big crush in High school?
His nickname was Tico… I remember his face and his smile and the way he walked more vividly then I remember most of my classmates. - Would you say you’ve changed a lot since highschool?
I’ve changed a lot. I’ve changed hardly at all. - What do you miss the most about it?
The scene with my friends. Discovering the world when everything you saw was still mostly something you’d never seen or known about before. - Your worst memory of HS?
Getting ridiculed by some teachers in front of the rest of the class for not doing my homework. That happened a lot. - Did you have a car?
No. Rode the bus…rode my bike… Hitched rides with friends. - What were your school colors?
Purple and White. - Who were your fav. teachers?
Mr. Moran (my art teacher). Mr. Ochse (sociology). Mr. Bunday (science). - Did you own a cell phone in high school?
Class of 1972. Class of 1972. Class of 1972. Cell phones? Ha! My home had a dial phone…okay? A party line dial phone… - Did you leave campus for lunch?
No. Not allowed. Some of my friends would but I was a bit of a wuss. - If so, where was your fav. place to go eat?
They usually went to Gino’s. And if you remember Gino’s you probably graduated sometime in the 1970s too. - Were you always late to class?
Never. Well, sometimes. Okay, a lot of the time. Okay, just about always. Occasionally I was on time to class… - Did you ever have to stay for Saturday School?
Not had to…but there there were things the clubs sometimes did on Saturdays. - Did you ever ditch?
Not in High School. I liked High School. I ditched Jr. High sometimes. - What kind of Job did u have?
Burger Chef. And if you remember Burger Chef you probably graduated etc…etc… - When it comes time for the reunion will you be there?
I went to the twenty year one. Seems like they didn’t have a thirty. If they have another I will. But like I said before…we had an Apathy Day… - Do you wish you were still in high school?
No. It’s good to be grown up. It’s good to live in the present. I have a cell phone now. I have satellite TV and radio. I work on the Hubble Space Telescope project and the Next Generation Space Telescope project. I have a house of my own. I can put my cartoons on the web where people all over the world can see them. Cameras are digital and I can develop my images in a computer. I have the Internet, and gay people don’t have to see ourselves through heterosexual eyes anymore. Advertisers and magazines market to gay people. Gay high school kids can take their true love to the prom now. Gay people are seriously fighting for the right to marry. 2006 is a good time to be alive. But some days I wish I could go back to 1972 for a visit.
