Tag Archives: High School

Don’t Share Senior Yearbook Photo

Graduation pictures - True story about high school photos

Protecting your personal information and your identity is paramount, especially when many people are home on their computers and hackers prey on unsuspecting victims. The Better Business Bureau recommends that if you have shared your senior high school information, to check the security of your accounts. Watch out, scammers or …

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High School Football Practice with coach

My 1964 Mercury Comet was moving right along doing 60 on the Schuylkill Expressway, heading toward Haddonfield, New Jersey, from Manayunk, Pa. It was a clear, bright sunny day in May of 1967, with very low humidity and cloudless sky. I was on my way to an interview for the …

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Rebuilding Patriotism

When you coached at our high school, you were not assigned a homeroom, so in 1986 after retiring from head football coach, it was SOP that I was assigned an  11th-grade homeroom for the first time in 10 years. On the first day of school, usually the first activity  of …

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1971 Paul VI High School Football Team: United by the Impossible Dream

This true sports story inspired by the 1971 Paul VI High School football team. _______________________________ Sometimes while sitting doing nothing in these retirement years, our minds wander, and at times, recall events from the past that make us all tingly inside. I had one of those moments yesterday. These moments …

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Good old fashioned football attitude

Football player sitting in locker room

Let’s go! Everyone on the bus!!! That was my command as I sat down behind the wheel of the 29 passenger school bus and proceeded to drive the Gloucester Catholic High School football team to a practice field about 5 miles from the school. Our camp before school began this …

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Saved By A Friend

-- Author Unknown (Considered to be a true story)

One day, when I was a freshman in high school, I saw a kid from my class walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying all of his books, and I thought to myself, "Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? He must really be a nerd."

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