Word: yearbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...certain to be, one wonders if any can reach the bar set by 1963's winner, DIANE SAWYER (seen, at left, being congratulated by then Governor George Wallace). We've unearthed Diane's application, which clearly shows that her capacity for hard work took root early. Cheerleader, basketball queen, yearbook editor, school-calendar girl and member of the Young Republicans, Pep, Latin, Quill and Scroll clubs, Diane also managed to enjoy tennis, water skiing, bowling and "when time permit[ted] knitting." Her talent presentation sounds equally ambitious: an "original monologue and song interpretation of Civil War Days entitled 'Five Score...
...bring your high school yearbook, but be careful. If you think it would be a cute conversation piece, then go ahead. But be aware that when your new Harvard friends page through it, they will see that dorky picture of you in the cafeteria with a wad of spinach stuck between your teeth. Then you'll be sorry...
Hoping for a cheat sheet, I looked to the Yearbook, surely the ultimate Cliffs Notes of one's college experience. But there, each senior's picture is accompanied by a name, permanent address, academic concentration, and a list of extracurricular activities, nothing more. Apparently someone decided 50 years ago that what best sums up our college experience is whether or not we participated in intramural sports. But who could possibly care about whether we rowed House crew? Instead, shouldn't it say, to be accurate, "Discovered that her time is hers, and she should never, ever, defer life"? Or perhaps...
...choir room last Tuesday when something very different was walking the halls. By the end of that gruesome day, by the time 15 people had died, her friends among them, she had her yearbook of humanity and integrity signed in blood. As Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris prowled the school with their guns and bombs, this is what the children did: a boy draped himself over his sister and her friend, so that he would be the one shot. A boy with 10 bullet wounds in his leg picked up an explosive that landed by him and hurled it away...
...says Alejandra Marsh, 16. "We went over to someone's house and watched cartoons. We loved Pinky and the Brain and Animaniacs." Fellow students described them as discarded, unwanted "stereotype geeks," who, like the jocks and preppies, had their own table in the cafeteria, their group picture in the yearbook with the caption, "'Who says we're different? Insanity's healthy. Stay alive, stay different, stay crazy...